I couldn't help but read this while hearing the voice of Tom Smykowski...

"Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

You don't get bonus points for "but he survived to feel the impact" on your autopsy report.

No, but if you're already a goner you might as well have some fun with it.

I've decided that if I manage to survive the exit and the falling, I'm going to aim for someone's swimming pool and then yell CANNONBALL during my last few seconds. Hopefully someone is around to witness it.

Even if all of that didn't happen, why didn't Apple or the guy try to call the phone rather than just remotely shutting it down?

I think the parent interpreted it (correctly) as distance from where you are now to your birthplace. He's at work.

Because up here in the Northeast it can easily stay below freezing for a month or more, whether or not it snows.

I second this. I've owned Saabs all my life (900S, 9000CSE, 9-3, 9-5), and do all my own work, including some stuff that does require a hoist (rebuilt the transmission in my 900). The 900 was the easiest car to work on that I've ever seen. You could do brakes and rotors with basic tools in under an hour. And the parking brakes were in the rear, not the front.

As opposed to by accident? I'm with him...I also get crap reception at work, but it seems to be an odd gap in coverage since I can go 200 yards in any direction and get 5 bars. Overall I've been satisfied with AT&T and I've been with them for over 10 years.

Running up your credit cards isn't fraud.

The worth of his time is only relevant if he was trying to sell these for profit.

See, people have these things called hobbies that keep them entertained.

I, for instance, enjoy working on my car. Sometimes it takes me 3 or 4 times longer than it would take a shop. Is it worth my time? Absolutely--it's fun.

Well of course you haven't..the only one that comes close was just announced. The point is that phones are rapidly heading in that direction.