Why, that's a nice gift horse, mind if I take a look at it's teeth?

Laptops with 3G aren't new, but now that Apple is (maybe) planning on adding a 3G capable radio chipset (to add to the bluetooth and wifi 2.4/5GHz radio chipset), it's just bringing "more problems"?

Well, if you don't want to use it, that's fine, but I would be happy with a laptop which is able to talk to the world outwith the confines of my home or work wifi networks.

Does anyone find it amusing that after all the ridicule the French heaped on Americans for electing Bush that they went and elected somebody even worse?

I know, cutting people off from the internet is so much worse than torture.

3. Amount/Substantiality - well, most people I know torrent the whole film, not just 5 minutes of it, so...

Nonsense. I only ever download between 64kB and 4MB of any film at a time.