I believe you have to pick from one of the sub-optimal choices. For example, I'd generally choose:

"Synergize our cloudification efforts with our web 3.0 design goals and monetize the white space while capitalizing on the resources ability to execute our vision with excellence in virtualization and power our CEO's stock options in internet time."

I had to pick "Trash It" because there was no recycle it. In my area there are fairly frequent (maybe four times a year, sometimes more) events where you can take your old electronics to a parking lot (at places like Orchard Supply, etc.) and drop them off for recycling. There is usually no fee. If you go to one sponsored by a local school there is typically a small "donation". Most are just free. Usually twice a year some company will send out flyers that they are coming by on a certain day and if you leave electronics in your driveway with the flyer taped to it they will take it away for free. I've done both. Last month I dropped off two old Dell XPS P4 machines at one.

Well, in the enterprise space you have a huge catch-22. I deal with this at work all the time. Since Oracle / Sun Java doesn't actually do patches (they just do full versions that introduce new features, break existing code, and deprecate other features), you can't deploy it. You have this trade off of known security vulnerabilities vs. enterprise software that won't work with the new versions. You have banks that require you to run Java versions that are a year old in order to move money. You have vendors whose code won't work with the current version of Java - ever (since they take longer to get their code working on new versions that it takes Oracle to release the next new version). We try as hard as we can to get app owners to test - but every last time we ship a new Java versions apps come out of the woodwork with emergency requests to "stop the push". You can't win. Bust people's critical apps and you lose. Allow machines to get owned by insecure versions of Java? Yeah, you lose there too. Oracle needs to figure out how to do security patches that just fix the vulnerabilities and don't introduce (and remove) features. Until they can do that - yes, it is their fault.

I don't have any way of knowing. Apparently the standard is copyrighted and you have to purchase a copy from the site (or have a subscription). Crazy that things that are supposed to be standards can't be viewed (legally) for free.

When they choose to do business with sweatshops to build their products, they are essentially telling us they don't care enough to dirty their hands with that manufacturing business. They don't want to think about the labor relations aspects. They just don't care that much.

Well, to be fair they do care. They care a lot about their PR - the same as any other company. And it is a lot easier to say, "we audit these external contract companies twice a year and have given them x months to make changes" than it is to say, "oh, yeah, we treat our employees in China and Brazil like crap. You caught us.". It is much better PR to work with these contract companies than to have your own sweatshops.

It also seems to import some from Internet Explorer. I use Chrome, Firefox, and IE. At work, we have IE by default (and I need it for SharePoint), but I use Firefox for most stuff and Chrome once in awhile. At home, I use Chrome for most stuff, Firefox once in awhile, and I had to use IE to do my taxes (for some reason some add-in in Chrome blocked Turbo Tax from working so I used IE). Since I have Chrome sync my settings - it has imported search engines in my list that are internal to my work network. They can't be used at all at home - but there are three of them in my list on this Windows 8 beta machine (as I type this in Chrome). So it definitely brings them along from machine to machine. I've never used them in Chrome at work - so it had to grab them from IE.

If I upload my mind, I'm essentially making a copy of myself, no?

Make sure you have permissions from your parents as they own the copyright on you. Unless they sold them to a publisher.

More seriously, I can see "continuity of experience" as being a form of immortality. As long as the "copy" experiences continuity (whether or not it actually is continuity) then the illusion of immortality is preserved, isn't it? It the "copy" was placed in storage and then "booted" back into a body 100 years later, no time has passed for the "copy" so his perception is that he maybe went to sleep and woke up in a new body.