We, as consumers, are idiots.

Stop being a consumer. Manufacture what you need. Personally, every time I hear the word "consumer", I think of an infant on a teat. When I think about the degree to which I am a consumer despite my best efforts not to be, I'm ashamed of myself.

So you build your own LCDs from scratch now? I'd love to see your hand crafted motherboard! :P

I travel to conventions, and while many hotels have free wifi, in my experience it's often flakey... And actually some of the nicer hotels (like, say, the Twin Cities Sheraton) charge like 20 bucks a day for wifi. It's because of that, that I got the 3g iPad. I only pay for the dataplan a few months of the year too, so it's not like I have a constant bill for it. I also found that I was thankful I had a 3g iPad last night when I lost power for an hour. My wife and I propped up the iPad onthe smartcover and watched a show on Netflix over 3g. Very, very handy.

Yes. Let's make jokes about bullied kids bringing guns to school.

Because things have turned out so well when *that's* happened.

Facebook DOES support multiple groups of friend -- you can create separate friend lists and subdivide what permissions different sets get.

Because Youtube is totally blocked at my office, and I really want to watch a piano playing cat right now.

Depends on what kind of porn you're watching.

Chrome will support it built in to the new version.

Because you linked to your personal blog which didn't cite your sources while the link on Slashdot's front page goes to an actual news article on the topic?

I'm sorry, it just seems like you're whining that Slashdot didn't plug your site.

Yeesh. She deserves it though.

Cellphones were banned when *I* went there, and I graduated almost 10 years ago.

This is the same guy who tried to get my religion banned from the Military, and somehow he's a Libertarian now?

*rolls eyes*