I don't think polar bears or penguins can fly.

Maybe instead of removing the wifi, the school should make available a nice conical tin-foil hat, free of charge, to the children of those parents who request it.

And they could also put a prominent 'D' on the front.

Which seems to be exactly what happened to the nugget lady mentioned in the second post. (Go and actually listen to the call) She paid for nuggets, then McDonalds told her they didn't have them but refused to refund the money. The refusal to refund the money seems to be the reason the lady called 911, and sure seems like theft to me.

Is this a 911 call? Maybe not. But as some people have already said, even when reporting minor thefts they were instructed to call 911.

Maybe he/she meant these poor people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImyK29QLs_A#t=1m21s

Yes, you're correct, Apple too.
I considered mentioning Apple as well, but since they don't seem to be doing it quite as aggressively (given that they relented with expose and restored it in ML) I decided not to risk raising the ire of the fan-bois.
Actually, I was unaware of the Android issues, but I guess it doesn't surprise me.
But yes, it seems to be becoming industry wide. I think that one day history books will refer to "The Great Dumbing-Down" in the same way that they currently refer to "The Great Depression".

I've got a bad feeling about this!

It looks like they have been afflicted with the same "our way or the highway" disease that is ruining Gnome and Windows.

What about fans? Are they not a 'moving part'?

How did they get the bullets in?

unreliable, inaccurate, impractical. But hey, don't let reality rain on your totalitarian parade.

Because the parrots eat 'em all.

twice

In most real world disciplines, things get built according to pre-determined plans that have been used to build the same thing in the past. Go look at some new housing estate, and you will see that every house is the same, or at least is the same as a small set of possible houses. Also with planes and cars, every one of a particular make and model is the same. Hence the time spent building it is mostly taken up with physically hauling around bits of raw material, punching nails through them etc, according to the same design that was used last time, hence the time taken should be about the same as time taken last time.

In software development, if you want a second instance of some program or piece of software, you don't need to 'rewrite' it, you just copy it (or relink it, etc).

This means that every bit of code that you write, you are writing for the first time.

Clever developers will re-use code they have written in the past as much as possible, but all this does is reduce the overall time, which can actually cause estimates to go even further wrong because the "unknown code written from scratch" now constitutes a larger percentage of the overall development effort.

Don't forget the 'uncrop'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU

Write once, run away*

* I can't take original credit for this. I read it somewhere and thought it was very funny.