> "Also, prison rape is virtually unheard of."

Really? That's pretty nice. I always wondered why the U.S. would turn such a blind eye to such treatment in our prisons. Such inaction seems to clearly violate 8th amendment rights. But what do I know. :/

I think you're splitting hairs. The U.S. would "come after you" via the MEXICAN police. I don't think the parent necessarily meant an FBI agent knocking on the door of your adobe and slapping cuffs on you. -,-

> "Sadly, if bottled water companies had enough lobbying power this would probably be a viable reality."

Hmmm, I wouldn't think that would be a problem for Coke (Dasani) and Pepsi (Aquafina)...

> "migrating over to Gmail would be too much of a hassle"

Migrating wouldn't be as difficult if Yahoo supported IMAP. Then again, if Yahoo supported IMAP, there would be less of a reason to migrate.

Microsoft kills products all the time (often times, I would argue, prematurely). This one doesn't surprise me either, since even Google decided there wasn't money in this (as made evident by how much Google Sites sucks).

Anyway, WordPress rocks!

$2,000 to upgrade any business to Windows 7 seems like a bargain. Sadly, in the end, you'll still be running Windows.

I'm fine with it as long as they reduce the capped service fee to something close to the price of dialup.

I was running Vista for about a year on a fairly beefy desktop, and I would have a blue screen almost every day. I dealt with it for a long time out of laziness, but eventually I installed XP. No blue screens now.

Q: Perhaps my hardware was faulty?
A: It's probably poor drivers from the manufacturer, which is not Microsoft's fault.

Response: Well, that doesn't do me any good as an end-user. I just want my desktop to work - I don't care whose fault it is - and Windows XP doesn't blue screen for me.

Does a bias towards off-shoring conflict with Democratic (party) tenets?

I tested hosting one of my domains e-mail on Google Apps for awhile, and I got similar errors as the parent. It got so frustrating I just transferred the mail to another IMAP host.

It seems only to happen with accounts hosted by the free Google Apps (@mydomain.com). My Gmail account (@gmail.com) never experienced this problem. Still, it was a pretty lousy demonstration of their Apps services...