You're thinking like someone who's talking, and whose words are written on the winds. You need to think like someone whose remarks can theoretically be taken out of context for eternity.

They still sell the ratchets with more clicks. You have to order them. They are not especially expensive. You do have to be careful to get them replaced with like when you break one, but then, they seldom break.

You mean, just like ours? Face it, you're talking about individual differences.

Yes, I don't see why not. A bunch of the stuff that's typically in shampoo has been proven to end up in your head, sometimes in your brain. You will note that I'm using actual shampoo on my head, it's just not made of proven crap.

Ideally the resolution would match the presentation, which is typically 1024x768.

Or, obviously, hack microsoft. It's running Windows for Drones.

Hilariously great idea, you mean. I imagine a spinning globe. Mountains, islands, ranges, whole continents are spawned in response to music. They sink back into the ocean as the globe rotates.

That's nice. It's not bioaccumulative and it doesn't pass through skin as easily as do some of those wonders.

While that is true, it's also an oversimplification to say that they wouldn't have had this technology, competency or manufacturing capability if we hadn't outsourced it to them. It may sound like a blatant excuse for not having any moral or ethical responsibility, but if you don't take a business opportunity then very often someone else will. I've been a consultant and while our mixed on/offshore bids were undercutting local bids we again were being undercut by pure Indian companies, who are capable of hiring high skill/high-but-still-lower cost people on their own. In 1950 only 20% of Indians could read and write and only a tiny fraction was anything like educated, no wonder you'd pay way more for US workers. And communication with India was crap to say the least.

You couldn't stop them becoming literate if you wanted to. You couldn't stop them becoming educated. You can't stop the Internet. They're not by nature stupider than us, given the same opportunities they'll also have high skill workers. And you can't stop the natural progression that after working in junior positions you become ready for more senior positions, Indians are hardly the only ones who have used a job at the helldesk to get experience to do something better. I don't think it is possible for the western world to hold onto such a unique skill set that we can sustain so huge wage differences, it always amazed me that you could get a hair cut for 1/10th the price depending on where you are in the world. Of course it reflects local conditions but it's still the same job as such. Trade will drag the price levels closer and with it the wage levels too.

Nah, they've still got lots of good stuff. They do have non-Craftsman tools which are pure shit. Maybe you meant power tools, those are crap. But Sears is looking very like it's going away...

That's too bad because I'd really like to own a RAV 4 EV one day, but I'm not buying a new car. The instant depreciation is unacceptable. Too bad nearly all cars are made like poop.

It's an example of bad UI design. It is somewhat ubiquitous, but not all cars do it.

That much is true.

Yes there is, and that reason is range. And range isn't cheap. People won't buy the car without lots of range. All the ones who would already bought a Leaf.

How ironic, that really sounds like something slashdotters would want to know about. Stealth website! No wonder we didn't hear about it, the denizens didn't want us to.

So would I, but no religion that is not pushy goes from zero to ca. 2200000000 followers in 2000 years or 1600000000 in 2600 years for that matter. That is of course not to say that every member of that religion is pushy, but it means there's some very strong built-in push to go out and convert non-believers, strong discouragement from abandoning it both religiously and from the society around you usually through required public displays of faith, pushing education and laws based on religious rather than secular reasons and so on. The futility of arguing with "{deity} says so", which has no weight for me yet is absolute truth to others is frustrating. The deep personal relation between you and whatever deity/deities you believe in is none of my concern, not really all those small tribal religions who don't feel like pushing it onto others - which is why they're small tribal religions.

An atheist is not out to save your soul or help you find God or save you from eternal damnation or any of the other reasons religious people try to recruit me to their religion. Some will belittle you but apart from an annoying smugness they'll mostly be overbearing with you, like a child who still believes in Santa Claus. The militantly aggressive atheists are that way because religion has tried to dictate their lives, so they are trying to snuff it out at its roots, it's a defense to an offense. Here in Norway missionaries has become very rare and most find it extremely odd to be walking around pushing religion on people, even Jehovah's Witnesses have stopped knocking on doors. And with that the whole tension level is way down too, if you want to go to church well good for you. It's one non-pushy corner of what is still a very pushy world though.