I really like the hardware idea. A torn apart hard drive and cd-rom and an old computer with the side off helps people understand that they aren't using a magical black box.

Theyre using a magical black box full of neat-o spinning and buzzing things.

If you're including 3 years of service costs, then the phone only costs $100 or so since it'll be subsidized. And you really need to work that out for yourself. For me, having internet everywhere is worth a lot. I live in a city where I walk around and get lost a lot. If you go to a store and find something is out of stock, your phone can tell you who else might have one, and show you a map of how to get there.

If I'm in one of the large box stores and I can't find a price tag, I just scan the item with my phone and get all the details.

When my internet goes down at home (fucking rogers), I just tether to my phone.

If I need to rent a car, I can arrange a zipcar through my phone, and even honk the horn to help me find where its parked.

There are a million small uses, and to me, they're worth the $30/month I pay for data.

A self-professed pedant who uses the non-word "irregardless"? Turn in your card, it's time to retire.

Then this sounds like the browser plug-in for you!

While true, this completely misses the point of the comment to which you're replying.

+1 funny

I hope you refuse their 'assistance' every time. That's fucked.

It sounds like the breath test already exists. How hard is it to train these dogs?

The equivalent american english idiom is "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted"

+1. I love andlinux. I'd rather have real linux, but andlinux is a close 2nd.

Name a single car that gets its advertised city/highway mileage while operating at 100% output or 200mph. Either one will do.

Timesaving hint: there are none.

That wouldn't be anything new. I jailbroke my iphone4 by going to a website.

Crashes here too on ubuntu 11.04 alpha. I don't see an incident ID anywhere, but here's what it did tell me:

Add-ons: {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}:1.3.3,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.9.1,betterfacebook@mattkruse.com:5.300,{987311C6-B504-4aa2-90BF-60CC49808D42}:2.2,{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}:0.9.7.2,firegestures@xuldev.org:1.6.1,testpilot@labs.mozilla.com:1.0.6,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:4.0b12
BuildID: 20110227020049
CrashTime: 1299277082
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: xxxx
FramePoisonBase: 7ffffffff0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1299093973
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 59
StartupTime: 1299277038
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: https://demos.mozilla.org/
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 4.0b12
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Actually, in terms of cost to keep it functional for that purpsose, there would be a sort of parking meter.

If you energy costs went up, then it must be cheaper for you to heat with electricity than your primary means of heating.

I suggest you purchase electric heaters. Another benefit of heaters over lamp-waste-heat is they can be turned off in the summer.