Mailchimp did it too: http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/

What exactly did you find so subpar? Service from just about any carrier should have been good considering you were in a city with a subway. My experience with world phones in Europe wasn't exactly thrilling. I bought a sim in London and then got to pay 2 pounds per day just to turn it on in Spain. What union/country/territory do you live in who's carriers have seemingly gotten it so right?

I'm pretty sure it's the pictures.

From TFA:

Or you should not buy an iPhone in the first place. Give your money to a vendor who deserves it.

What's preventing you from upgrading to IE8 on XP?

That's a really interesting way of looking at it.

All of the existing Android implementations of Flash behave like this. On my Viewsonic GTablet, Flash 10.2 defaults to loading On Demand (ie you click play) in both the default browser and alternate browsers like Opera Mobile.

Just like Mars, Venus's atmosphere is 96% Carbon Dioxide, which is heavy enough not to get blown off into space by solar wind.

It would just get carried off into space by the solar wind. See: Mars.

The distribution of source code (encryption in particular) is explicitly protected under the First Amendment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States