Oh well, at least they didn't pull an Apple and label it "The New Xbox(tm)".

Volkswagen is even worse about that. First they had the old air-cooled Beetle (except it was actually called the "Type 1"), then they had the "New Beetle" (from 1998 to 2011), and now they have the "Beetle" (from 2012 on). So now, to avoid confusion, I have to refer to my 1998 model as my "old New Beetle" and my friend with a 2013 model has to refer to it as a "2012 Beetle" because if he calls it simply "new" people will think it's the 1998-2011 version!

(And no matter what we call it, we'll still get asked "is the engine in the back?")

food like this would likely not contain any fibres

Unless a minute of thought is put in :)
Even the quick and nasty ring pull tin meals in the supermarket near me say things like "contains two serves of vegetables" with the chilli beef, chicken stew or whatever. If such things are not common over in the USA they probably will be soon. Fibre is going to be high on the list in the early stages now since people don't expect to live off twinkies anymore.

Considering even viable nerve cells are being printed that fresh salad may happen - even if it has to be built out of shredded and dried not so fresh salad.

Either way I'm far more interested in the research work that's bringing the characteristics of some of the old tomato varieties into the current varieties that were bred for yield and shelf life instead of taste. It's got to the point that tinned tomato and dried tomato from varieties that are too fragile to ship taste better than fresh ones.

I'm talking about a hypothetical situation where somebody bought Portal but regrets their hypocrisy (re: DRM) now. In other words, a "you're usually not OK with it, but sometimes can't help yourself" thing.

Seriously. I've read several articles and all I could find was it (probably) is running the same AMD hardware the PS3 has. The Kinect is super cheap to make, so that's not adding much cost either.

But your facilities insurance will want more money because you can have exercise-related injuries :)

Any trigger lock which doesn't put something behind/through the trigger itself is definitely garbage. Luckily, there's a number of them on the market with configurable pin holes that let you configure them for a variety of weapons. They're better than nothing! But sure, a crappy lock is the worst. In any case, a revolver can reasonably be locked with a cheap cable lock.

...gun won't register her fingerprint, and the man is enraged by the firearm and clubs her across the head with a blunt instrument. Thankfully, the trauma kills her almost instantly, and she suffers very little.

And neither of us have done any research into which of these outcomes is more likely.

It's still going to be easy to steal and use the weapon. Why? Because the system will, by definition, be easy to defeat. Why? Because the firearm must, by nature, by easy to break down and clean or repair. Nobody will buy a gun they can't strip down and repair unless perhaps they're literally not allowed to do that, and I don't see anyone proposing that yet. Safeties or mechanisms always boil down to something very simple and that means they will be very simple to defeat. Short form, you should assume that even if every firearm has a different system, there will be a defeat procedure in the wild for every firearm's safety, and probably available on whatever passes for the internet by the time a law like this actually passes. More likely you'll see an outright ban before you see a law like this.

Nah. Lots of weapons have had another safety added after their initial design, this is just yet another safety. But all your other points are dead on.

I would worry since that stuff is all around me, but I know from experience that there's no dirt in our soil, just a whole shitload of rocks.

A 2-player game of Dr. Mario isn't incest; it's just playing doctor.

True, it's a debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction. But who brought Windows 8 into the discussion?

If you're OK getting something like Portal, than you've... well, your anti-DRM ideas have their price in some sense. (I'm not trying to criticize here -- mine definitely have their own price -- but just be realistic.) And at that point it's the old joke about how now it's just a matter of haggling over price, as you've established that your attitude is "DRM decreases the value of something" instead of "I won't buy DRM at all." And at that point, who's to say that the console price isn't below the limit?

Or you bought a DRM'd thing during an irrational lapse of judgement.

The consumers (aka, the mindless bleating masses) may repurchase all of their games, but the customers, the ones who are able to make intelligent decisions instead of just blindly accepting everything their corporate overlords throw at them, would just hang on to their 360 consoles in order to play their 360 games, and only purchase new titles for this new system, if they decide they want it.

"Customers" would never have bought a 360 in the first place.

So what you're saying is that PC + DRM and other assorted lock-in = Xbox? I think you should direct your "fuck, you are stupid" comment towards those who actually decide to buy it...