If you're bargaining the price of a purchase down, note that the cost of an extended warranty may be negotiable too.

In Australia (Harvey Norman) I was offered a 3 year extended warranty on a laser printer for $50, supposedly reduced from $75. I declined. Some minutes later he offered me the same warranty for $30 and I accepted. The laser snuffed it about 5 months after all warranties expired. :(

I've read that in Australia both the big, legitimate movie distributors and the major TV networks use (or have used) torrents to move programs around, between theaters (with digital projection facilities) and networked TV stations.

I've been wondering for a few years, if OTEC were implemented on a large scale (multiple GW), could this cause localized weather effects?

You'd probably need to implement large scale OTEC in some kind of gulf stream, so that the newly cooled surface water would be carried away and replaced by new warm water. So you'd have a surface plume of colder water maybe tens of km long and wide situated in the center of a large area of warmer water. Could this act as a seed for some kind of major weather event, such as hurricanes, cyclones etc?

Yes, but many varieties are toxic, or become poisonous from eating toxic plants. The snails used for human consumption are farmed on specially prepared food, then extensively purged before being harvested.

Although I was wondering myself if this species was edible. Even if so, you'd probably get unscrupulous people just collecting them off the road side, then trying to sell them as farmed animals.