Wow, the crazy is strong with this one... You do realize that Bergen "found" bin Laden in *1997*, when the level of scrutiny on Osama was just a tad lower, right?

I had my spleen removed 10 years ago, but I was just told to get yearly flu shots and to get a pneumonia shot every 5 years.

VZ and AT&T helped to invest in new phones by giving money to Apple and RIM in exchange for exclusive agreements.We're now in a market cycle where people want a good phone that can do everything since coverage is about the same everywhere.Sprint and T-Mobile are screwed because they cater to bottom feeders and now they're complaining. they want the new phones without paying to develop them.

Huh? Where is Sprint complaining? They still get exclusives, and the people complaining are consumer advocates and government anti-trust regulators.

Sprint's answer was to fund the Pre which is still in beta. no wonder no one was allowed to see it before launch.

Yes, and that's why Apple kept the iPhone a secret too, right? In the real world -- beyond your conspiracy theories -- consumers are getting screwed and complaining, and at least someone in government is listening. This has nothing to do with how well Sprint or T-Mobile is doing or who their customers are.

average human body produces about 100g of CO2 per hour (about 40g is from breathing)

...which is less than 1% of the CO2 that a 50MPG car produces while traveling down the highway.

You're right. If it wasn't for teacher's unions, Dan Quayle's stupidity would have remained a secret.

You, sir, are the very definition of the term "tool."

And there are only the tiniest of social programs that the Chinese government spends its money on and pretty much nothing on entitlements which make up 2/3 of the US's federal budget. There is no institutionalized 'somebody owes me' mentality keeping a large number of otherwise able bodied adults out of the workforce.

...and about 2/3 of those entitlements are going to retirees. Let's get those lazy old people off their asses!

"Does anyone else think that $50,000 is a hell of a lot of money to pay for a car?" No, not really. Not for a cutting edge...early adopter technology no.

The question isn't "is it expensive compared to what you get?" The question is "is it expensive compared to what the average family could afford?" Of course you can abstractly say that an office chair that made you espresso and gave you handjobs would be worth $10000, but that doesn't make it affordable. The US median annual household income is around the cost of a Model S. When someone says that it "costs too much," it's not about some retarded class warfare/rich-hating, it's because they have no reasonable way to afford owning one.

What if their child gets indoctrinated into homosexual lifestyle?

Yeah, that's really not how it works...

discharges into lakes and streams

You might want to get that checked out...

...and have no control over volume or what track you're listening to. That's a pretty stunning lack of functionality.

Do you really think that Apple isn't up to the task of adding a 4th, 5th, 6th in a reasonably short period of time?

Of course they could do it, it's just that offering an existing product (OS X for x86) is not the same as offering the more-costly option of porting it to another platform. There's no reason to believe that Jobs' offer would have implied that they were willing to spend the engineering dollars required to port OS X to whatever platform OLPC decides to use.

The GP said that Apple had offered to license OS X to OLPC for their x86 machine. That's a far cry from actually putting in the time, effort, and money required to port it to another platform. It's not that Apple couldn't do it, it's that it's not a trivial or free process. Putting OS X on an x86 OLPC would basically only require writing drivers for any non-supported hardware. Putting some version of OS X or the iPhone OS on an ARM-based OLPC would take a lot more work.

This isn't Mac vs. Windows, it's off-the-shelf vs. custom software. I don't care what they put on the OLPC, it's just disingenuous to pretend that an off-the-shelf solution already exists, whether it's Apple or Microsoft.

Since it is a well-known fact that Apple has had OS X working on an ARM architecture in the iPhone and iPod Touch for nearly 2 years now, it would seem a no-brainer at this point for OLPC to take Apple up on their offer.

OS X doesn't run on ARM any more than Windows XP does. The OS on the iPhone may share code or features with the desktop version, but it's not the same OS, and it's highly tailored to the iPhone hardware. Adapting it to work on an OLPC wouldn't be the same task as installing OS X on an x86 computer.

The problem with wikipedia isn't a lack of experts, it's a preponderance of self-appointed "experts." The place is crawling with people whose only qualification is having way too much time on their hands. The whole hierarchy of wikipedia seems to be populated with people like this.