I'm still not buying any of them.

ehhh, just google it. Cattle ranching in Brazil turned into one of the biggest causes for deforestation in the Amazon. Cattle themselves are also one of the biggest contributors to green house gas emissions. Seems they put out a crap load of methane, not to mention the oil used to grow the massive amounts of food used to feed them, burned to move that food to them, the additional amount burned to move the cows to the feed lots, then the additional additional fuel used to move the beef to the stores. There is almost as much acreage under tillage to feed cows as there is to feed people. Chickens are on the list too at something like 1.3 billion in the US for meat, not just for egg production. I have to find that link.

That won't take much longer. Let fuel costs keep climbing and it won't be economical to move cattle to the feed lots or transport the beef to the super markets, at least at a price most people can afford. Not a major problem for me, after the gall bladder went, beef and I just don't agree anymore.

Dell, the people who almost weekly ask me about the DVD tray when I tell them the video is bad? Apple on the other hand has repaired everything I have sent them, and replaced my battery out of warranty. After a serially unpleasant email about an issue I had last year, the guy on the phone made my appointment at the store and followed up twice. I am not buying another one because of the whole app store nonsense, and to be honest KDE on whatever distro I'm using today gives me the user experience I want, but I can't fault there support. That and the graphics on the 13.3 are a worse joke than the last go round.

You are, just about every Apple laptop I've owned has gone in once. After that 0 issues.

Ahhh, HP, now there is a company that has made me some serious support money. From 04 to 07 I think every HP laptop must have died. Now the Dell Precision workstations I've encountered from '06 have held up far better than I would have ever believed. Personally my late 2009 MacBook Pro 13.3 has encoded several dozen movies at 100% CPU load for about 40 min each and not crashed once.

Why would you have to upgrade? My circa 2005/6 MacBook is running just fine, (gen 1 core duo), the Core 2 MacBook Pro I have is suffering no issues (2006), and my newer 09 MacBook Pro has no issues. The first two placed with family but I still end up upgrading them.

It might have been better if we (The US) hadn't just sat on our hands and let this nut job take power back in 79/80. If I recall correctly it was the UK which effectively handed him power. He ran Zanu PF which was more or less a terrorist group.

Actually, since they scan your license at most stores now, you can't buy any "D" drugs over your allotted limit. I know, I take 1 12 hour allergy pill every day, and on those silly occasions I thought I should pick them up before I ran out (3 pills left), I was denied my medication. I did once buy them early at "Safeway", but they only required me to sign the book, but unless they take 3 years to audit such things I probably won't be arrested for a few weeks yet. Besides, do you have any idea the amount of those silly pills you would need to buy in order to make Meth? My understanding is that it requires something in the range of a pallet, and while I have no idea how many little boxes with their safety packaging would fit on that (I can't imagine some meth head popping out 1 pill at a time), I do have pallets of computers at work, and that would be a lot. Making a case against a person for unreasonably trying to buy a 1 month supply of allergy medication with a working decongestant would be a bit difficult, and before you get all defensive, 2 bottles of NyQuil would also be a hard case. Especially given how this person did this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn#2007_arrest

Yes, but bear in mind that should anything ever happen such as a game not work, you have 0 recourse. If for instance you upset them they can terminate your account blocking access to all of your games. If say you attempt a charge back on a game that doesn't work and they will not support, they will terminate access to your account and all the software you have bought through them, and then the charge back will be declined. Steam is great.

Actually, if I recall correctly from my bad old days at an Engineering society, there is a nuclear time bomb. This isn't the article from the Environmental Engineering Journal, but I don't feel like paying for that. http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/sabotage_and_attacks_on_reactors/impacts-of-a-terrorist-attack.html

Two hundred million people live in NC, wow!

That is actually pretty rough. $10,000 isn't much when you plan to manufacture 5 or 10 million cables. $210,000 for a 5 million cable run vs. $10,000,000 at $2 per device.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but uhm, dude, I own a Yaris ($14,400 with every feature available) and it came with an Aux port right by the e-brake. Plug a $5 (non-apple or Belkin) cable from the iPhone to the Aux port, hit Aux on the stock stereo and crank up because of the crappy noise insulation on the damn car, and listen. I went high tech/high cost and bought the $29.99 cable at Radio shack that not only charges said iPhone but also allows me to plug in at the same time. I can't wait to trade this car in, it was a mistake. Should have gotten the 4 door, but tried to save money, gas was $4.10 a gallon and it was supposed to get 36/38mpg, more like 29 city and 38 highway.