Who are you calling "plebs"? I'm offended!

How about an Amiga made with current technology? I think there would be a bigger demand for that than for another thinkpad....

"Insane" is too sane a word to describe this.

Agreed! If you have used a windows PC to install more than 5 programs, you have learned to *ALWAYS* choose custom install. I don't know if I would say that anyone *DESERVES* malware, but choosing to custom install your program will make you better at managing your own computer, and the world needs more of those people.

Sometimes I get an email that says "Sender xxxx would like to recall the following message...", to which I reply, "Yeah, I bet they would!"

Student's who cannot keep track of a single card deserve to miss a meal or two as punishment for not being responsible enough for a simple little card. It's literally your MEAL TICKET.... Don't lose it!

OK, here is the privacy concern: The company sponsoring this now has thumbprints of all the students in the program on record. With the thumbprints, the student can then be impersonated at other establishments that use fingerprints for authentication. Get it? If not, see slashdot articles about fingerprint readers at Disneyland.

A simple magstripe card would have provided the same information, and it's unlikely that it would be used anywhere else.

A better solution would be to stop building planes that have a CYLINDRICAL fuselage when all our baggage is RECTANGULAR!

I guarantee that call will go dead and they won't ever call you again.

Is that a money-back guarantee?

This is South Africa. Feel free to hire an army to take the money back.

Before the iPhone, there really weren't any consumer devices that use the TRRS jack. Nowadays, almost every smartphone supports that. It's only *STANDARD* because Apple pretty much made the adoption of it standard.

What really SHOULD be evil is Gorf! Those Gorfians want to kill us all!

Are you pretending to have Tourette's Syndrome?

This is the HAL-9000 approach.

"I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail. It should then be a simple matter to track down the cause."

Something's not right here....

"Daddy! Daddy! Help!" isn't the response that you would expect from a Goth child. It would be more like "Whatever. We're all doomed anyway...."