Being a Michigan resident, I can vouch that it's incredibly efficient.

As a plus, I can't remember that last time I saw a bottle on the side of the road. The entire state is basically swept clean by homeless people looking to collect cans for money. They go through trash cans and dumpsters all the time looking for items to recycle. In the end, I think charging 10 cent deposits on all cans is a great thing that helps the environment and people down on their luck.

I hope someday they start to expand the program into all plastic drinking containers and beyond. Right now it's only carbonated beverages and glass drinking bottles.

This just in... your not the american opinion.

Lol... give us what we want for free and you'll be amazed at what cash you won't make.

Do you really blame them for trying to keep a hold on their old business models?

The real problem here is the government spoon feeding them hope by allowing the government to be these companies enforcers. If the government didn't intervene, we'd all be off in a much better / customer friendly world right now.

See, that statement is really stupidly wrong.

Respect can never be earned, it can only be given. Even if Mother Terresa herself walked up to you and told you in great detail everything she's ever done, it's still your choice to give her respect or not. You can never earn respect, that statement is worthless garbage.

Wait... you actually think the Iranian army could hold up against the US military in conventional warfare?

Man, that's the dumbest comment I've seen this week.

You don't even need a torch, I thought about this when I was a kid. All you need is a really strong vice clamped upside down.

This is how Chinese companies generally innovate, they steal the information so they don't have to invent it themselves. We were constantly trained to keep eyes out for people stealing confidential and classified information when I worked on some Air-force Systems. Even back then, we were told the greatest threat was people being bought out by the Chinese, the US government were already dealing with tons of them trying to steal military technology. They are so far behind, they would generally do anything to try and close the gap, since they couldn't invent it quick enough themselves.

lolz... shut up. Jail has always been a place to punish people for any crime the general public decides to create.

This Utopian Jail where only bad guys by your standard are sent too has never existed. Go back to your pot.

What a load of crap.

The end does not justify the means. That mindset just builds a degrading loop of power hunger that corrupts more and more.

I call shenanigans...

Best Buy stopped carding credit customers nationwide about 4 years ago.

This is one move I would never have suspected Microsoft to take. It will be interesting, but it only lasts until 2012. It's hard to believe they would extend it longer.

I wonder how many Russians are going to scramble for non-profit status.

You got served sucka!

The vast majority of time spent in the medical field is routine normal work. Yes there are emergency situations that require you to run off memory, the same exists in every branch of the Military, including the Airforce.

But everyday tasks performed in the Airforce have checklists associated with them. If it can be defined, it has a procedure. There is a real strong sense of excellence and safety in what the Airforce does every day.

Worked on a plane while I was in the Airforce. If a single allen wrench was missing from your toolkit, you had an hour to find it. If it was still missing, the plane you did maintenance on was grounded until it was found

Another funny kid trying to take credit for something he didn't do. Go back to watching hackers.

I just purchased this game because of the Slashdot article.

It brought me to their site, I played the demo and thought it was fun, all though a bit on rails.

Purchased the game for $5 and am downloading it as we speak. Would I pay the $20 that I saw it was running for on steam? No. I'm pretty sure the replay value is non-existent since the entire game seems to be on rails. I will however, toss $5 towards the developers for a chance to play it completely through.

I think if and when games become hosted completely online, giving developers effective DRM, many studios are going to find out that people just don't like their games. Right now piracy is a good excuse for a poor ratio of value to price. I wonder if unbreakable DRM would actually severely drive down the current price scheme as the games not only won't sell at their current prices, but the excuse that piracy is the cause won't be available.