Fair point, but the JCB, fork-lift, jack etc., is doing the work by proxy, i.e. you are not in intimate contact with the load in the way you are with this suit. If a JCB fails you'd have to be unlucky to be underneath the load. If this suit fails, you WILL get the load dumped on you.

I wouldn't want to be lifting something heavy if one of those suits broke and dumped the entire weight of the load on me.

I suspect you know the answer and are just trying to avoid it, but let me explain. George Bush being photoshopped to look like a monkey is a personal insult implying he is as intelligent as a monkey. Michelle Obama being photoshopped to look like a monkey is a personal insult because it is implying her race makes her equal to a monkey. The former isn't racist, the latter is.

I'm not a business person, but it seems slightly (actually totally) insane to try and kill off the part of your market which is actually growing. "What? We are making more money out of rentals than we used to? We have to put a stop to this." Bizarre.

"I think some people forget that there is an endless amount of freely playable, listenable and viewable content on the web...."

I think they are well aware of it, and want to nip it in the bud by effectively outlawing it and restoring their position as the only distributors of content. While they might be genuinely concerned about piracy, I think they also realise that this is also a prime opportunity to make a land grab for all internet content.

"Just works" as in I plugged in my new printer and nothing obvious happened. "Bugger", I thought and started piddling around. After a few seconds it became apparent that rather than nothing happening, Ubuntu had detected the printer, got the drivers and set it all up for me - it just hadn't bothered to tell me it had done all this. The printer was ready for use with absolutely no input required from me.

That's how I like things to "just work".

Or "rm ~/.bash_history" after you've done your business. There are always at least a couple of different ways of doing things with Linux.

I really do not like the way that most news outlets say that "file sharing" is illegal. It's not. Sharing *copyrighted* files is but in itself, the act of sharing isn't. The distinction is an an important one as producers of open source and even some musicians use sharing to their advantage, but it seems to be getting increasingly lost in the noise.

The danger is that the credibility of these new models will be eroded over time with the repetition of the general concept that sharing is wrong.

The first Space Pirates? Hardly...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/spacepirates/

I've bought network stuff from

http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.html

in the past. I'd recommend them. They also do systems.

And this has been scored as a troll because...?

"...you are not allowed to cycle on public footpaths in the UK"

Yes you are. The Highway code says "You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement" but doesn't mention footpaths. A pavement is adjacent to the road (so it will have been done by Google already), a footpath isn't.

So you are happy with Windows? Cool. I was just putting my point of view forward and pointing out that when it comes to operating systems, one size does not fit all and no OS is perfect.