The IBM Sure-POS system is extremely old and and extremely popular and features registers and controllers that have to be reloaded via floppy disk. Wal-Mart, Kroeger and Supervalu all use that system in at least some of their stores/banners.

Idaho Power as well. You save $7/month on your power bill if you sign up. This program doesn't interface with the thermostat; just turns off the compressor in your central AC unit for short periods of time 10 to 20 mins.

I almost cured cancer once. But had a tough time with the development cycle so the project was canceled.

Now we're going to have every asshole who causes an accident while texting/eating/shaving/writing a report/all at once will whine "But I'm a supertasker! it's impossible for me to drive distracted!"

The phone was designed to be unbreakable provided you're doing anything with the phone besides using it as a phone. I mean, seriously, how often are people near 10th story balconies? And supposing you did drop it in 20 meters (65ish feet) of water, unless you were just getting ready to go SCUBA diving you're not getting back at all, let alone within the 1/2 hour time limit that's certainly specified in the warranty. And I can't tell you the number of times I was doing a little carpentry, and they only tool that was available to me was my cell phone. For me, from personal experience, an "unbreakable" phone would be able to survive all of the following:

-Repeated trips through the washer and dryer
-Left outside, in all weather, for 2 days
-Abruptly sat on, on a hard bench or concrete ledge
-Stepped on, screen side up or down, on various surfaces from carpet to gravel
-Thrown across the room in anger/frustration
-Left on the dash of my car when when it's 110 outside and 195 in the car
-For flip phones: landing open, hinge side up, then being stepped on

That's the environment it needs to be designed for.

It's not like they looked very hard. According to TFA they only interviewed 20 heterosexual men from the university, then evidently gave up figuring that 20 people was a good representative sample of ...... the first 20 people who responded to their survey, I suppose.

I happen to be a linguistics major, and I don't want the manuscript to ever be decoded. To me, the manuscript is a symbol of the complexity of language and the depth of human ingenuity and creativity. The fact the best minds of the last 100ish years haven't cracked it reminds me that there is always some further mystery waiting to be solved and that we should be leery of anyone who claims to have all the answers.

Say it with me folks: Correlation does not equal causality.

(Emphasis mine)

I take small issue with that there. If your party had a paladin and a bard, the only books you have to have are

1. Players Handbook (paladin rules)
2. Players handbook II (bard rules)

Yes, all those other things are available but by no means required, and are in no way the "core rules" for for two character classes. All the other books contain additional options for these classes (feats, powers, rule options, etc) but in my experience, people rarely use all the options available in the PHB, so why spring for a bunch more? But the books are there for the people who want them.

WoTC is a publishing company. They make money when they publish books and other products/content that people buy, so yes, they are inclined to write as many books filled with as much cool stuff as they think will people buy. If you don't like WoTC or D&D 4e, that's fine, but don't go tossing out false implications like 5 books, 2 packs of minis and a subscription to a couple of magazines is somehow required to play the game when it's not.

the first of almost anything costs a lot more to make than the second. The million dollar price tag includes research into what colors, wavelengths and patterns (or lack of patterns) are the most effective, studies into the way that light interacts with the eye and brain, a few development models as the product is refined, some cash to pay the guinea people as you test it, money spent ensuring that the product meets whatever guidelines the government set forth (weight/portability, sourcing and type of materials, waterproofing, durability, etc) and a host of other costs associated with developing a brand new product. All that's assuming they started with the idea of "a flash light that makes people puke;" If their mandate was "make us a new kind of less-lethal weapon" then there are even more costs incurred as they research, weigh and evaluate competing ideas. To make fun of the company for spending $1m on the device is a little naive; to praise this group for being so much more clever than the contractors in making it cheaply is likewise.

Noooooo, rape used to mean "to take from by force." And while I supposed you can still find it used like that, its modern and primary definition is more along the lines of "the crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse." But thanks for playing Who Wants to be a Rape Apologist!

So, they violently and sexually assaulted the public domain? You demean yourself, your argument and countless victims rape by comparing a business you don't like to forcibly violating someone. Before you start tossing around phrases like "literally raped" why don't you ask one of the women in your life who has has actually, truly literally raped or sexually assaulted if Disney's legal opinion of copyright fairly compares to their experience. Rates of attempted or completed rape hover around 1 in 6 to 1 in 8 so it shouldn't take too long for you find someone that you know and care about who was a victim.

Because there are only four stories: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Himself, Man vs. God/the supernatural.