Ford has been doing pretty amazing stuff recently, but Toyota is still king of reliability. I can't imagine why you would think your wife's car should have been recalled, which recall do you think affected it? My Camry was recalled for the "people can't figure out the difference between the gas and brake when panicing", but I never had a single issue with that car.

How would you measure that on a scale?

I was wondering how they determined it was 1000 lbs at roughly 0g, that must be some massive stuff to weigh that much in micro-gravity.

I have only ever heard of that happening once, with Jack Thompson, and that was after repeated lawsuits where he was warned he was out of line, but still kept it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)

It is extremely rare for anything to happen to a lawyer over a case that is filed, even if it is frivolous.

s/bicycl/motorcycl/g

The couple was on a motorcycle, not quite the same thing.

Isn't that Richard Branson?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson

Though Elon seems to have the inventor part down, he doesn't seem to be on the same level of partying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_musk

APK, your story sounds odd. There was probably a reason for MSSE running slow, possibly an infection or some other problem with something the computer was doing.

Many times, it has to do with how the AV is setup. Many of them scan every file as it opens, so when you start Word for instance, every DLL, EXE, whatever get scanned as it is read into memory. The lower priority the AV is, the slowed this scan will be, and the slower your application will run.

I have never had issues with Trend, are you saying that you do? I picked Trend because everything I read indicated it didn't have slowdown issues, I use it at home (the home edition, not the corporate) and game with my machine just fine.

In a spacecraft?