Unless Nissan ties the sound wire to the ignition, I am CERTAIN that people will find which wire to cut to shut it up.

People who program with passion write the best code because they care.

Now let's be fair to RIAA and the artists. After all, they are human and how else do they all the money to finance their drug habit? I'd say that not only should they charge Apple, they should charge the customer who bought the songs each time they listen. Heck, they should charge any stores that openly displays the album covers. Any shoppers passing by that glances at the CD albums must also pay to be fair.

On the other hand, if you want both heat and light, you can replace the ceiling light socket with a wall mounted electrical heater. It's a win-win.

Yes and No. It is crap. True. But everything else is also crap. Executives are grossly overpaid. Local politicians are overpaid. School board, water board officials are way overpaid. Where I live, a local gardener asks for $25/hr, and an electrician charges $80/hr. Granted, they don't work 8 hr days. But I also personally heard of a few union workers that are under perform, lazy, call sick when they don't feel like it, and make $18/hr plus benefits. While the rest of the nation is struggling to survive layoff, some unions have the ball to call strikes and coordinated sick leaves to bring commute and garbage collection to a halt. Think about the united autoworkers and executives and GM and how me as a tax player has to finance their overpaid, under performed product. They are all crap. But if Microsoft were to offer me crap like this, I will take it.

Short answer. Microsoft loves BS.

$6000 X 12 = $72,000. Depending on the profession and the education degree, that can be a reasonable entry point. Note that Microsoft only has to commit a few months of pay to fully evaluate the potential of these interns before offering a full time position. It makes sense to treat them nicely to create a positive image. Letting this blow out of proportion is a dumb, however.

Wow, are you suggesting GM is powered by imagination and that's why it does not sell? I guess high quality energy efficient Japanese cars must be so lack of imagination that causes them to be selling like hotcakes!

It feels like a special episode of Myth Buster that every end of episode ends with a big explosion in the name of science. Does science and research have to be destructive? What are the potential consequence of the explosion? Who owns the moon? Who gives the right to NASA to blow up a rocket in the moon? What if North Korea wants to performance the same scientific experiment? Will that be acceptable?