Dell still has AMD Optiplex machines, so I don't quite see where you're going with this...

Given that so many companies don't pay dividends, I can't help but wonder what "investors" are actually investing in? I mean, I'll grant it's not true across the board, but pick any tech company, and if they're making money, it's for the sole purpose of sticking it in the bank. Apple has, what, $100B in the bank? To what end? It's not hard to see why we have this mentality, and why our market is all about finding a bigger idiot.

FWIW, my money says that one day we're going to find that something like the Teamster's pension scandal has happened again.

Ignoring the mind-reading bit, the loss of immortality as the prize does make quite a bit of sense--I mean, listen to the words of "who wants to live forever."

I'm, not disagreeing with your basic point, but the above two statements are mutually exclusive.

"Superior" doesn't enter into it--it's because of NATO.

There are two doors. Each guarded by one guard. Both will tell you which door goes where (one to where you want to go, the other to certain doom), but there's a catch. You can only ask one of them, and one always tells the truth while the other always lies. So you ask one of them "If I had asked the other guard which door was the correct door, which door would he have pointed to?", and whichever door he points to, you take the other one. It's a twisted logic, but there you go.

This is my favorite solution to the problem.

why didn't you switch when you could use ebay as search engine in firefox? or wikipedia? or amazon? or bing? or yagoo?
have you noticed, default is google, and every single engine can be set as default, should you want to.

basically, you're dumb.

I don't think he's complaining about the fact that there are search engine choices, but rather that the biggest new feature in a major version update is "you can use twitter as the default search engine." I mean, seriously, this is Mozilla saying, "We broke all your addons, but in return for the massive inconvenience, we've given you a trivially implemented new feature."

Landing? Shit, ILS approaches are so easy six-year-olds can do them.

I've made exactly one ILS approach in my life (during my PP-ASEL training, my CFI was a little bored and had me try one while we were doing some hood time) and I would never suggest it is something so easy anyone can do it. Even in a C172 moving along at 60kts it was a hell of an exercise (especially since it wasn't briefed before hand). I would have made the runway, but it was an ugly assed approach.

Yes, I'm sure a six year old could be taught to do it. That doesn't make it easy.

My only regret is live sports. I'm a fan of one particular sport that is carried on a cable sports channel, and has virtually no online availability.

This is what you want. Not, strictly speaking, legal, but pretty much every sport you may want to watch can usually be found on the forums, live.

We have a different type of electronic voting. Oregon uses vote by mail, and each person fills out a scan-tron form (something a 2nd grader can do). Not only is there a paper trail, but it is proven technology.

Voting intimidation is eliminated when you vote in your own home and you don't have to deal with crowded poll places. I don't understand why more states don't do this.

You think this is less prone to voter intimidation? It seems that something like, "bring your ballot to Joe's Bar at 2:00PM on Friday. We're going to fill it out and vote for $CANDIDATE, then we're going to drop it in the mailbox. If you don't comply, I'll break your legs," would be a rather trivial exercise.