Thanks, I needed a laugh :)

...And it didn't really work, apparantly. France is only two placed behind the US in GDP per hour worked.

The French still managed to gift the US a statue of liberty if all they do all day is drink wine and speculate about the impending Communist world revolution.

I now realise my life is a hollow void of nothingness and despair without the latest and greatest in phone software. ... Oh no, I really don't give a shit. The phone works and does what I want it to do. If you want to install nightlies every day, more power to you. You're a very, very small minority.

We make lots of money on battery replacement and charging £50 for an extra 8GB of storage.

People want thin phones and having a replaceable battery limits this within phone design constraints. I seriously doubt HTC makes money on the added hassle of RMA'ing a phone, prying it open, replacing the battery, sending it back and doing all the accompanying paperwork, even if the customer pays for it.

^^ This. The camera on my brick-sized Nokia N82 was absolutely fantastic and included a real xenon flash. Best camera phone I ever owned.

I call BS. Both my Desire and One X received plenty updates throughout their life cycles. If operators choose to withhold updates because they're incompatible with whatever crappy bloatware the operator loaded on your phone, then that's not HTC's problem.

A bald eagle swoops down and rips your HTC One from your hands. Now if you had an SD card... Wait, what? All these what-if scenarios are nice to conjure up but looking at sales figures I guess most people couldn't care less about removable batteries and SD cards. I for one can't and I appreciate the added slimness of my One X over my previous, bulky Desire (which did have a removable battery, that I haven't needed to replace in the past 3 years...)

Really? My unrooted One X runs Android 4.1.1. Not bleeding edge, admittedly, but I have received about 4 pushed OTA updates in the 8 months I've had this phone.

Moving to a non-standard work may not be very effective, but it sure saves me time checking access logs. Since I moved to a non-standard port, I've had to deal with maybe 5 attempts a day - which is much better than 50 a day!

Argh. STOLEN, not BROKEN.

Agreed, but if the seeds were bought as a left-over batch (in good faith, possibly) it would be like (unknowingly, possibly) handling stolen goods.

If I buy a video camera from a pawn shop which turns out to be broken, what does that mean for the blockbuster movie I made with that camera?

I think all the selective breeding we've been doing to corn in the past hundreds (if not thousands) of years counts as GMO.

So this would actually have to be dealt with like someone who is handling stolen goods. Right?

Are you saying that sweet corn isn't in fact a GMO?