"A Christmas Story" has been a very popular movie since it came out and so a large percentage of us on /. probably do have a clue even if it's not first hand ;)

Dude, get back on the meds! ;)

Have you ever been in Jury selection? While the judge asks preliminary general questions that may disqualify, the lawyers most definitely get to ask questions directly to the potential jurists as well as ask followup questions, and they are each allowed to eliminate a certain number for any reason they want.

I was almost selected as a jurist for an attempted murder trial involving a firearm so the judge asked if we owned guns, were a member of NRA, related to people that are police or lawyers. When I answered some of those in the affirmative, the prosecutor then asked some follow up questions. Granted this was for a state criminal case and the Apple/Samsung was federal civil suit.

I think you have it backwards....

The Grand Parent made assertions, I made refutations

1) Apple ships logic boards with sand in the box
2) "roughly" 2/3 of Macs failing off the line

3) $200 RAM identical to RAM bought for $50 elsewhere (this is the claim I think the post before you accepted as legitimate, as do I)

All with no "qualification" other than saying he had been a tech

I refuted point 1 with my first hand experience and I'll add that since you can declare any board DOA without financial penalty to the repair shop, it's in Apple's financial interest to ship the parts in good order. I used logic to explain how silly assertion 2 is, it doesn't require a business degree to understand. Now please go ASSert yourself away.

You have no clue what you are talking about. No General or Admiral with clearance to SIPRNet is then going to turn around and tell a minion to violate every security procedure and hook up a non secure network to a secure terminal. For starters the DoD was burned too badly by thumb drive based attacks on NIPRNet and so security awareness is much greater now, and secondly I doubt most General's with clearance to SIPRNet even access it themselves let alone your preposterous scenario of wanting to watch NetFlix.

yes, definitely don't sell your current phone to people more than willing to buy it if you feel the need to have the latest, greatest...

Maybe because the lies are in fact "easily spotted"...

Apple does not ship logic boards in boxes with sand in them (yes, I'm a former Apple Tech too), the logic boards are in static bags closed with anti-tamper stickers from the factory, and surrounded by inches of stiff foam.

ummm NO company selling computers on the scale of Apple would be profitable with a failure rate like that, use your brain man!

and that is a massive lie. Now that a Passport is required to travel to Mexico and Canada, about 1/3 of Americans have a current passport or passport card, although it looks like that number is coming down after initially swelling after 2001.

Did we read the same article??? He pulled out the box of "Mementos" and that's when the kid realized what they were there for.

Ahhh, like my Pre with WebOS did a couple years ago... not the best hardware, but loved the OS.

Charlie comes from the Viet Cong communist fighters in South Vietnam, which were called VC or simply Charlie (Charlie from the phonetic alphabet's 'C'.) The North Vietnamese were generally called NVA for North Vietnamese Army. Jerry is simply an abbreviation for German started in WWI but really came in more popular usage during WWII. Jerry-rigged referred to the poorly maintained equipment the German army was using near the end of the war that was kept together with "bailing wire and gum."

It's actually been on the Mac longer than on Windows

Not according to wikipedia...

Ok, replying to myself... He did reportedly say it during the All Things D conference last year. And certainly he should know more about Apple's finances than me, but I still find it hard to believe 150 Million would have made any difference when they had 1 Billion in the bank and more likely it's just an attempt at trying to make the come-back story of becoming more valuable than MS that much bigger.

MS invested 150 million dollars in non-voting shares, but Apple had roughly 1+ billion dollars in cash sitting in the bank at the time. How many days do you think it would have taken for them to blow through the 1 billion dollars? I don't think they were "days away from bankruptcy" and I doubt Jobs ever said that, but if you could provide a reference...