What products? All of our products are shipped in from China.
Unless we've bottled and are selling arrogance now. We have plenty of that.

Of course! Let the free market decide what we're allowed to eat! It's the democratic way. We'll never fall into that nazi-esque socialist trap where we get to eat what we want and the government provides free healthcare. That would be a terrible way to live. Terrible. I want my employer to monitor everything that goes into my mouth and pay me less if I eat too many Krispy Kremes Sunday morning. It's for my own good.

I just installed both of these on a PC the other day... there's a rather obvious checkbox above where you hit "install" to prevent the toolbar or Chrome from being installed along with Reader or Flash.
Still an annoying opt-out that probably catches people who aren't paying attention (like yourself perhaps?), but hardly a forced, unpreventable install.

The "skin" is still fossilized, but you can see the texture and possibly structure of it. It's not preserved in the way you're thinking. Although, they have found some biological matter preserved in the center of large bones before. T-rex bones, I believe.

A fossil like this is rare and worth a decent amount. Collectors will pay obscene amounts for it, amounts that a museum may not be able to match. So just be happy they loaned it to a museum at all, so at least we can glean some scientific knowledge from it.

Any SCADA/HMI system should be physically isolated from the business LAN regardless of whether it's internet accessible or not. Sounds like a few inherently bad choices were made here if this is true.

I can't wait, if that's true.

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure he was being a bit tongue-in-cheek.

I also don't think the majority of their customers want apps that are going to keep costing us money for new content or forcing ads in our faces.
If I start getting popup ads on my Blackberry, I'll drop it in the toilet.

My god, these countries have no respect for American IP laws at all do they?!

I don't believe they're associating weights with the UPCs you scan. It's merely checking that the weight in the bag has changed when it's supposed to, or not changed when nothing was scanned.
You can test this out next time by scanning an item, and then just apply some weight by pressing with your finger in the bagging area. The "place your item in the bag" message will go away, whether you press hard or soft.
I'll do this if I have over-sized items that won't go in a bag, like a 40lb bag of dog food, and the register does not have a "skip bagging" button.