Looks like you were looking for what the pro's and con's of AppleCare Plus vs SquareTrade. I've had both on various equipment, however for the iPhone I would go with AppleCare, as this extends tech support on the phone to 2 years vs 90 days without it. Also, should you drop or damage your iPhone, you can walk into an Apple Store and get a replacement on the spot for $50.

Read the guy's facebook.

Then tell me with a straight face that it is reasonable to imagine that he set up some such fakery in order to have an alibi for a trivial robbery.

Why should they care about people using KDE? They should care about people using Gnome 2. I for once really don't know how KDE 3 looks like. Maybe a little like Windows but I'm not sure the screenshots I show where really KDE 3 (or 4 or something else). I'll search youtube.

wouldn't have worked for our purpose. but that's a nice idea

I'm pretty sure Virtualdub can open VOB files.
Then you can set the video to none and the audio to your favourite codec, and save.

My brother and I have a working theory that your typical male, given a choice between sex and probable death, would definitely choose the sex. E.g., while engaging in some typical male activity (making something explode, consuming vast quantities of alcohol, traveling way to fast; take your pick), you become mortally wounded. However, since clearly what I am describing here is a Bruce Willis movie, you are shortly thereafter presented with the opportunity of engaging in sex with a beautiful woman (or, you know, a man, if that's more your style). Do you take it? We're fairly certain that a large percentage of the male population would, and that, in fact, this is the quintessential test of manliness.

Even that's recent - when I went to school the only thing we did was an hour on WW1, and that was just that someone shot Archduke Ferdinand and Britain went to war over it.. which doesn't even make sense (but as a child you don't question, and this was pre-internet and definately pre-history channel so we didn't have any other sources).

And to think I threw out my beloved AEKII a couple years ago in a fit of housecleaning. This would have been brilliant. I liked the Apple keyboard better than the Model M. I always thought the M needed too much pressure. I had to attack the keys on it to get results.