How low can you go ?

Who said EU, only the bloated country of Danes who seem to think that they can dictate what you do with purchased goods. As for a FSCK'n genius, wow, you've placed yourself high on that pedestal by your illuminating response. As for human rights violations let's look at history and see which country has a longer, bloody and much worse human rights history. Some of the traditional executions carried out by your so-called enlightened country would make a mass murderer queasy.

If you can make them stop talking on their cell phones can you make them just STFU period ? Not allow any conversation on a plane because it might offend some douchebag corn-hole. If someone is yelling say something, if someone is talking on their phone quit fsck'n eavesdropping and mind your own damn business. People are nosey bastards who think things are their issue when they are not. The theatre is a TOTALLY different situation, and hardly should be compared to a plane or bus or any other place 'normal' conversations are on-going.

The US should ban ALL imports from Danish companies, and add a huge tariff to any goods ending up there. Dictating what your customers do with the products they buy from you seems well, unenforceable and ignorant.

Any cites for that so-called fact. MAC's are closed systems with a much more engineered life span than a clone PC. As stated previously no parts to be swapped any failure is the end of life for a MAC. The anomaly of MAC's upswing could be attributed to the absolute lack of any upgrade path.

Very well said. BitCoins resemble company scrip more than any other medium of exchange. They are NOT legal tender thus no-one has to exchange them. If I had mod-points I'd use them for you...very rarely do I see an AC post worth moding up...

Many of the kids today are MUCH more stupid. Go back just 50 to 70 years and kids as stupid as those today got eaten by wolves, killed by disease, or any number of natural Darwinian type deaths. Today we preserve the seeds of our own destruction by ensuring terminally stupid children survive until they can mate with ANOTHER surviving terminally stupid child and produce STUPID SQUARED kids. The movie Idiocracy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ was right on the money.

No I believe in science because the results are reproducible unlike say most religious miracles.

I can conduct most of the grand experiments in history and get the SAME results, not the same with the miracles from the bible. My couple of fish just won't feed thousands...

The theory of relativity, the theory of evolution, the theory of causality, and theory of capitalism, all UNPROVEN, and at this time UNPROVABLE.

Your lack of faith should not be assumed to prove or disprove anything...

That being said I can see why so many people in Texas believe in so-called 'Intelligent Design', evolution skipped them.

We went to the MA-Bell/(insert local phone company here) pay phone that was on nearly every block and dropped a dime in the slot, made a call and wandered on about our business. If you were a drug dealer, or so self absorbed that you could not be out of touch you carried an ancient device known as a pager.

WOW, you are very correct, it has been that long since I was in school that I had completely forgotten the absolute joy at getting a programmable calculator and putting away the slide rule. Dang I feel old now...

Love the quote, thank-you. Asimov and your signature author Heinlein are two of my favorites. On a side note I also collect authors' signatures, and that is hard to do on an electronic version. I've spent countless hours in pursuit of authors and had great luck getting them to sign my books. Like I posted to previous reply, I share around a circle of friends and they also buy books so the costs are shared, with the added benefit of getting to chat at our bi-monthly pen and paper RPG sessions. We've been playing D&D, and Gurps together for more than 20 years now.

If I could find a way to hand the e-book around the my circle of reading buddies it might become inviting but as many books as I offer them, they return so the price is split several ways making the physical book even more attractive. I will stipulate that part of the attraction of a book is a visceral smell and feel of paper.

Ditto that comment. I really hate the fact that HP gets any credit for NON-STOP, Tandems baby, or VAX and Alpha, 2 of the 3 great things that Digital brought forth into this world, the other WAS Alta-Vista. The only thing HP ever did well was printers and that time has LONG since passed...

Note : I spent several years supporting all of the above machines and may be a bit biased.

I've got a Kindle and it is great for magazines, but I still buy hardcopy books. There is something about the smell and feel of a book, not to mention the hand me down effect. My brother, the next door neighbor and the local school library all seem to appreciate getting the books to read for free, and I really like frequenting half-price books, granted the .25 to 1.00 I get back in trade is not much but considering I read 2-3 books a week it DOES add up.
  If the cost of an online book was substantially cheaper than a hard copy I might feel different but it really isn't...