intellectual honesty suggests that the entire computer part of the company suffers from intellectual silliness. MacBook Pro with a huge number of dongles hanging off of it is not a design win for me the consumer. Overpriced hardware that doesn't appear to be any better than the competition. Suggesting that not having ports to connect devices and a lack of simple things like headphone jacks is "brave". IMHO this makes the buyer a ninny!

If you use gmail and chrome there is a extension named mailvelope that is super easy to use. Just saying not all PGP email encryption is hard.

When I was in 4th grade I threw my metal batman lunchbox in pit on a field trip, I wonder if they have unearthed that yet?

Yeah we could have 50 of theses for the price of the iraq war.

the road....

Whats amazing to me is that all of these ISP's would make customers happy and grow their business if they used the money from the boat load of lawyer fees they are going to have to pony up to expand their networks. You want me to pay more, OK give me something more! Remember when business was about making a profit for stockholders and keeping customers and employee's happy. What the hell happened! It's weird, this seems to be one of the various businesses that keep shrinking their level of service and wanting more money for it. The biggest issue is in most places there exists no choice so you have to put up with it. Sucks :-(

Oh that's easy. We are apathetic and generally disinterested in politics until it affects us. Our representatives do not represent the people who elected them in general. I think if you were to randomly go up to anyone is the US and ask who represents them in congress and the Senate most wouldn't have a clue. It cost so much money to get elected that its become common place for companies and special interest groups to pay for said elected official. In my mind I share you're opinion in that these "contributors" want something for their support.

Perhaps making people buy products they already have over and over!