Distract that annoying guy in meetings who always asks inane questions with a video of bunnies and kittens playing, while the rest of the group gets the real presentation. Another plus: he'll get reprimanded for smiling and giggling while you are showing revenue is down 20%.

So does this imply that in Brazil anyone who owns a wall is now liable for anything an anonymous kid spray paints on it? Are paper manufacturers liable for anything some kid jots down in class about how big his teacher's ears are?

You are right - companies like those are a bit more aggressive in their investments. Perhaps they saved money having to build out a new power substation or power plant? And don't forget one other thing companies pay huge money for - publicity!

Can't they just copy another school? This seems like a wheel that doesn't need ot be reinvented. They could just go ask the University of Minnesota ... oh, wait, what was I thinking? Badgers can't go asking Gophers for help.

How lazy are we? I never understood how turning or pushing a button is too much work. Maybe we are all just too exhausted after stashing our 96 oz. sodas and super size fries into the cup holders?

This woman chose to address her problem not by calling Verizon for help, not by contacting her school for help, did not contact Dell for help. (She called Dell before she got her laptop trying to change it to Windows but was persuaded against that - that is wrong but for other reasons).

In short, she chose not to solve her problems, but to blame someone else.

I wish some other journalist will investigate this story to find out the real story. This story is not very deep on details why she didn't ask for help. But it does make for a good venting thread :-)

Our current leaders thinking of building more nuclear power plants while telling Iran that they can't also control their own energy destiny with their own nuclear power plants is a little two-faced. We should gain expertise in large-scale wind and solar and then sell that technology to them. Everybody wins - US is off foreign oil, US sells more technology broad, Iran gets clean energy production, the environment is better off, US-Iran relations are better, and there are no nukes hiding out there.