It's more or less the same, right?

Can't people even get the half-dozen different computer models that Apple makes right?

this does not lead to an increase of cases where the thief invokes the "kill-switch" of the victim first. The problem with people who make laws is that they think criminals have the same line of thinking as them.

Granted, because there was much less "dope" around, people reacted better to less potent anesthetics - but I don't think you can compare it to what you get today in a hospital or with OTC paracetamol-derivates...

I'm not even from the US.
(But where I live, we have "national health coverage", thank you.)

But it's true - corn-starches aren't very good for the overall health.
Nevertheless, teeth need a lot of attention - and sometimes a dentist.

...back then, you only lived to 30, if you were good.

Dentists? Nope
Doctors? Nope
Nationwide medical coverage? Nope
Anesthetics? Nope
Rather Complicated Operations? Yes, surprisingly - but at full consciousness!

A former coworker drove a BMW M3 for 19 months before his former company realized they were still paying the bills.

He had to pay it back, though.

Ironically (maybe unsurprisingly), the "former company" was an audit and accounting firm....

I had the lady on the phone - she was almost flabbergasted ;-)

I moved my mom from SuSE to a Mac. Best thing ever.

The very few support calls I can solve with Teamviewer from work or home.

Windows isn't a system for the casual home-user. It only works reliably when an army of competent sysadmins pamper it daily. There's no point in giving a relative a Windows PC or laptop if you have to maintain it yourself.

I don't get paid enough at work to use Windows - I certainly don't want to play Windows sysadmin for free.

the iPad Mini is a shrunken iPad2. There first had to be larger iPads, to fine-tune the manufacturing.

I don't own any iPad - I'd probably buy an iPad4, rather than an iPad Mini because I currently don't want to carry anything bigger than an iPhone 4S in my pocket - and I see more usage-scenarios for me with the iPad4.

I hope there's still an iPhone 4S-formfactor phone from Apple in two years....

It only takes 10 minutes with kickstart (assuming a minimal install). I use cobbler because it takes care of all the bootp/dhcp stuff.

But the USP of MacMinis isn't size or power-usage - or anything else relevant in a traditional server-setup:

It's OSX.

Maybe port http://nventory.sf.net/ to Rails3 or rewrite in PHP.

I especially like the PERL/Ruby APIs, but the thing is written for Rails2 and would need some refactoring.

I know there's GLPI - but I don't need most of the stuff it provides (and I'm not sure if it would fit our use-cases) and I'd rather want something that can be plugged into existing solutions via APIs...

But you seem to make up for it rather quickly

(insert picture of typical obese American).

Use of RBLs isn't government-mandated.

When customers contact us because they can't receive certain mail, we try to whitelist the IP(s).

When customers complain that they can't send mail to a certain person because our IPs are blacklisted, we ask them to ask their recipients to have our ranges whitelisted. It's almost the only way this is going to work. No point in trying to have someone whitelist our range over the phone in a company with several layers of managers between a helpdesk-agent and a server-operator.
We don't host any spammers, but sometimes accounts get hijacked and spam does get sent from our IPs. When we find out, we stop it.
But still, blacklistings do happen.

;-)
I had to say it.

Dig out the older thread for some useful insight.