Only on the original models. Slim has never had this option.

Actually, in a Libertarian world, the fire department would have most likely accepted payment in the range of thousands of dollars, preferably in cash or precious metals such as gold and silver. Although this scenario is plausible in a Libertarian world, it is more of a bureaucratic ideal. Most Libertarians would want repeat business and to prosper financially, while bureaucrats want to avoid freeloaders and liabilities.

What is its price compared to uranium?

You can buy an iPhone without a contract, so your quoted price of $3000 is off. A $200 iPhone w/contract is sold for 3-4 times the unsubsidized price if you really want one without a contract. Still your point is valid for those willing to carry two devices, but your prices are off by a good $2000+.

Then why do they export so many to the Middle East where others do eat them?

or suffer the consequences. It was implied.

Taste was secondary to health concerns in his question. So, yes perhaps the beef becomes less tasty, but we the consumers of beef and beef itself, becomes healthier with the beef on exercise and a grass-fed diet. I would much rather see grass-fed as the dominant food source and pay more. End corn subsidies now.

Although it might seem strange, these are not the first organisms on earth currently living that do not breath oxygen. The implications for life on other planets have already been discussed based on that fact. They live in extreme climates without light and seem to exist off of the rocks they live on. There is also anaerobic bacteria. However, the articles mentions the first multi-cellular organisms that do not require oxygen on earth. There are implications however, they are a different set.

SearchMe is up for sale. Very Apple like. Great for a smaller interface. Combine this with some other licensed technology and you have an Apple home run. Let someone else like Yahoo do all the optimizations and algorithms and Apple can fine tune the interface. Wow, in a month they can be in the search game.

You will need the disc until Microsoft's exclusive agreement runs out. Same for PS3.

My PS3 can stream in 720p when Netflix offers a video at that resolution. Not everything is offered at that resolution (yet?). Otherwise I am in 480p/480i anyways. Secondly, the point is that anything that streams is meant to supplement what comes in the mail. It is not meant to replace it. Things like old TV shows and movies may not have been shot in HD, either. As others have pointed out, not everyone has a HDTV, or at least a their Wii is not hooked up to one. Not everyone has broadband that plays nice with HD bandwidth requirements. Not everyone has a laptop, spare computer, Xbox 360, PS3 or Roku, etc to stream in better resolution. If you have not gathered by now, there are many reasons and points to the Wii streaming. Not to mention that many people (read children, elders & non-technophiles) do not need HD to be satisfied.

Fry: Goodbye, friends. I never thought I'd die like this. But I always really hoped.

Zapp Brannigan: We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.

In the case you present, the profit models need to change. Free music can lead to better more people buying merchandise and going to shows for example. Or pioneering technology like 3D that is too expensive and/or not available and gives an experience that pirating cannot. Ways of profiting are there, they have just changed.