This is the reason why electronic smell-e-mail will never take off.

Imagine your inbox every morning...

I always figured that if something was any good they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Yes, they have to tell you about radical NEW products but the more advertising you see for established products (eg. cars, beers, ...), the more mediocre those products must be. If they really are better than the competition (as claimed), they'd be selling themselves.

The British have been making them since the 18th century for export all over their empire. Quite a few are still in use.

http://miniatures.about.com/od/scaleminiatures/ig/Corrugated-Iron-House/Moody-Gosset-House-Front-View.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_building

I still won't see them, and if they hate their users that much then I probably won't care if they collapse.

Nice theory.

What actually happens is you only ever see ads for something you bought two years ago and have no intention of buying again. Either that or something you looked at once and thought "How can people be so stupid...?" then you spend the next six months seeing dancing adverts for it.

Mainly because it isn't better.

In real tests, all the 'benefits' turn out to be placebo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Controversy

...and how many of them profess to be the "Land of the Free".

Are you 100% sure you know what the people you call do in their free time?

You might be calling a terrorist/pedophile/drug dealer without knowing it.

I agree. A much better long term saving would be to fire the person who signed that plan.

OK, how about an Iceland...?

The people running the country no longer understand it. They're obsolete.

Time to take to the streets and kick them out.

In the scenario presented in the story you could equally use a BIC pen as a blow-gun with a small dart with ricin/botulinum/polonium/whatever in it. Plus security probably wouldn't recognize it if they searched you and found it (unlike a bulky plastic gun with a cartridge in it).

Real humans have imagination/ingenuity. These stories always ignore that.

People pay for them? I gave mine away...on the condition that they came and carried it out of my house all by themselves. Those things are damn heavy.

Inkjets are cheap/easy/reliable?

I had so much trouble/expense with mine I eventually bought a color Laser printer instead. It turned out to be one of the best purchasing decisions I ever made, I would NEVER go back to using an inkjet.

TFA has just been updated saying it's MotoBlur with an automatically created Blur ID - it doesn't even ask you to create an account any more

I guess that was Motorola's way of "removing" MotoBlur from phones - remove the account creation UI, generate the account secretly without any prompting.

Whatever, Motorola deserves to be bankrupted over this. If I was a class-action lawyer I'd be getting in touch with this guy right now.