or just let the 1st gear engaged while depressing the clutch pedal .. if anything goes wrong you'll let go of the pedal and the car just stalls. and with gear still engaged it will be -almost- impossible to move

to his defense well robocop was a human in robot's body.

that would be giving them the benefit ou the doubt. wait if it tuens green and they don;t move stick them witth the ticket (obstructing traffic and texting - not using the GPS though-)

Any time, any company feels it has the upper hand it will be like this of course. A (pseudo)monopoly.

there are those who don;t care (I've seen a lotand alost got run over by one) and there those who at the aproach the intersection slow down and stop if necessary (and I've seen alot more of those on foot and in a car). I for I dont; care if other people care or not, I speed when I can (clear road sunny day) and don't when I can't (snow, rain, traffic ... etc) and from what I have seen on highways a lot of those who "speed" do the same. (about 20-25 Km/h above the limite) From time to time you get an ass hat zigzaging (at around 160-180 km/h) on a not so empty highway (usually I make sur to ne get in their way). no so long ago I got stopped by one of these cops. I disanged the cruise to down shit while going down a hill, the ca sped up, at the end I pressed the wrong button - set instead of resume - it took me like 30 second to relize that, when I was about to correct my error I saw a crazy white -police as it turned out to be- car following me, so close that I wasn't even able to see the reb/blue lights -day time, so no way to know it was a police car- forcing me effectively to keep up my speed. and I got a ticket for that. While the cop got away whith very very dangerous behavious (usually et big ticket if you do it)

they don't make : they fund, "own", sell and buy.

Obscene would a euphemism. For a lot parts they play the quality card, and they are priced slightly above the market price (somehow OK). But the exclusive parts ... they stop short of asking for your first born.

touch/track pads theses days can detect multiple fingers (OSX does it by default and better with little help), the most common "tap" mapping 1 finger : left click 2 fingers : right click 3 finger: middle click.

Which is by far the worst thing ever on a phone/tablet (especially on the phone). I don't know how they -mobile touch screen devices- could have done it differently. But at least they have an excuse - it's a mobile device with a tiny touch screen without a mouse -. select / middle click past is by far the BEST feature on X (which can be ~emulated on OSX with better touch tool, and native with X11 running for X11 application). They've written a book on the art of desktop destroying.

saw by accident the price list on a computer dealer : front pipe exhaust nuts : 11$ a piece and they buy them for ~5$ from the factory.

which is already happening. non stainless steel bolts/studs. if not carefull a 5 minutes job will be a 3 houres job (removing a rusted snaped bolt is no easy task usually)

An other rather obvious case ... The harness that is behind the stock radio/cd. bassically a piece of plastic (3d printable) with wires in it (nothing really special about it except its rather strange form).

what ever the coste of the said mold, his point stands. The mold in question wasn't manufactured for the sake of the replacement parts alone, it was there the day the vehicule was designed therefor the it's cost is alread subsidized/recouped by the sold units of said vehicul model. The dealer only parts are expensive b/c the dealer can charge anything and get away with it (no way of getting the part elsewhere) point in case : the refregerant pipes of a mazda protge (not so long thin tubes of what seems to be aluminium) costs about 200$ a piece and the only way to get them is through a dealer you can get an after market A/C compressor for 250-300$ (which is a way more complicated piece of engenring that contains way more metal(s)) why ? may be b/c the dealer is not the only place where you can get one.

replying to my self :/ the "or" above should be replaced by an "and"

No, remember it is the user (supposedly the lawful owener of the said device) who's doing the copying locally. No body is redistributing anything to anyone. Even better ... said files do not have leave the blocks assigned to them on the device's flash at all : skip them while erasing everything else (forall files in /system if $file != x or $file !=y .... then rm $file).