People are poor at selecting for some things. You think 4 wheel drive was a primary selection criteria? That may have been what people said, but it was being sold to them on freedom and safety. And interior volume? If people wanted interior volume, they would buy minivans and wagons. They wanted to sit up high. Reptile brain at work.

By Verizon, you mean Sprint, right? The deal was widely publicized.

Then you were an idiot. The only difficult to service part on the original iMac was the power board. The rest was easy; I did warranty service for Apple at the time and loved working on those machines.

iTunes is missing one big feature: you cannot keep your library in lossless and transcode it automatically to lossy when it goes on the player. Oh, the feature is there, it is just grayed out. You can use it with the Shuffle, but with any other iPod, no luck.

Careful, there are jobs on the loose!

Perhaps you mean lose? Read about plenty of common English errors here.

Run conduit back to your main box. When you decide to get an electric car, pull wire into it for whatever needs to be wired up.

Conduit is almost always the answer to future needs. Pulling is a non-issue for short runs once you have a safe tube to put the wire or cable into.

I work for an ISP.

We will happily sell you a DSL line that you can fill 24/7. We do, to a handful of customers.

You won't like the pricing. Wholesale bandwidth is cheap, but not by consumer broadband standards.

You might want to be careful about holding Mercedes up as an example - they had some serious quality problems in the DaimlerChrysler era. They seem to be getting back on track now that they've shed Chrysler, and their bad reliability was still Pretty Good, but they weren't the top-notch quality of the Mercedes of old.