Can't they just install something in EPROM, so when you plug your HD in, it @#%@#*())___

There are plenty of Asian dish washers and restaurant workers, and have kids that are engineers and doctors. Does that count as upward mobility?
Wish I had mod points to adjust the Insightful rating.

Next week, they will sell you an Aquaponics system, with worm shit eating plant, and worm eating fish, for $60K. The first time you take out a fish and eat it, you complete the cycle. For $100K.

$40K can put in a pretty big septic system, with cistern and rain catchment to provide the liquid for flushing. You can probably get a grey water pond out of it as well if you plan it right. Still, a lot of money for a pound of worms.

4$ per flush. That's pretty steep!
And $40K for a pound of warms, sand, and a conveyer system? Must be the new Millionaire tax that France is enacting that is raising the prices.

Back in the old days, there were these things called Station Wagons. People who had more than 2 kids used them to carry stuff and people back and forth.
As time goes on, Station wagons were un-cool as Drive-in makeout sessions gone the way of the dodo. But, people still want to carry their assorted off springs and general excess stuff.
In response, they bought these vehicles that looked like Station Wagons, albeit with a slightly shorter hood, with jacked up suspension, and larger tires. Rather than calling them station wagons, a new term was necessary. So the Sport Utility Vehicles were born. All was well in the kingdom of men.

Really? Tons of people die everywhere. In the grand scheme of things, we all die, with or without medical care. The universe does not give a rats ass about us. There are countries in the world that you can't get medical care unless you pay at the door. There are countries with supposedly universal healthcare, that if you don't pay your mandated premium, that you don't get care.

PLEASE PLEASE buy a real transfer switch. It will only add another couple of hundreds of dollars, but prevents the backfeed from killing the guy trying to fix your power.

Why do people assume that different political point of views means the other folks are less intelligent?

Miranda.

Actually, the Navy decommissioned all the F-14s. So any actively deployed drone is needed more than the F-14....

Oh those Tomcats....

nuf said

Even though I don't qualify as an Apple Fanboy, Steve's impact on the world of computing is felt everyday by all of us.
While Xerox PARC did the original GUI environment, and invented little things like the Mouse, Steve's vision with the Mac changed the computer world. It made computer accessible, influencing Windows and other OSs to make their system accessible to the masses.
Apple, Next, Pixar, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPads.
I believe Steve made the world better.

See, that's exactly what they want you to think. They know you will think that way, therefore, they did it so you wouldn't think that it's them. Of course, you know that they know what you will think that way, so you know not to believe it, and therefore, it is them. Then again......

It's worse than that. What is a "Candy Bar" versus Food item differs in various jurisdictions. Is a Belt Buckle an Article of clothing or not? many state/county/school district has laws on the books on how much percentage they get of all sales tax revenue. You need to override all of that to get to true streamlined tax. A lot of people would cry foul.