Crappy argument is crappy. Just change it to: "If someone breaks into my house and fires a gun at me, is it legal for me to fire back?" In most states the answer to that is a resounding, yes.

From OP's post: "Lets say it can perform task X at 1/4 the rate of a manufacturing worker." Therefore you need FOUR times as many robots to produce the same output as one human.

Your analysis leaves out:

• * Cost of electricity to run the robot
• * Cost of repair and annual maintenance
• * Cost of larger facilities to accommodate 4 robots for every (previous) 1 human job station

I suspect it will not be as cost effective as you make it out to be.

I've had to reply to about 7 comments with this same response... The offer (an extension of the contract) specifically defined lifetime as "as long as we exist". Terminating the contract is actually defined IN THE CONTRACT. It's perfectly legal to kill those contracts.

Absolutely. Your contract terms are for the rest of MY life.Your brother's company will have to honor that agreement... and you should review your T's and C's more carefully. Per the way back machine link, the textdrive offer was for the rest of TEXTDRIVE's life. (BTW - I incorrectly said Joyent above... Joyent is actually the new owner)

They do over here too, except this particular offer explicitly defined lifetime as "as long as we exist". Therefore that becomes part of the contract terms.

Whoops! Textdrive no longer exists... but the point remains the same.

Bingo. Wish I had mod points for you. His agreement was with Joyent. I do not believe the new owners have to honor that agreement as Joyent no longer exists.

So does CM9. Search xda for Eyeballer's builds.

Because they slip the "Phone State & Identity" permission in there and Taaa-Daaaa! You now have the cell numbers for all of your followers / can hassle them for donations.

My thoughts exactly. In fact, my old TomTom One used to have a "crowdsource" feature where I could correct the maps and download changes from other users. Their issue with 100% crowdsourced mapping is that it competes with their normal product, and their extended products... and nothing more.

No, parents purchase of Jones Soda would have registered as a high sales volume in the inventory computer and they would have restocked it if they had some available. Your scenario, they just ripped the label off - effectively blocking sales of the item. The inventory computer would see zero (or very few) sales of the item until the product was discarded and it's very likely they wouldn't reorder it.

Is it really rebroadcasting though? Or is it "repeating". There are TV repeaters all over my area due to the hill/valley nature of the terrain.

Substitute plastic tin for metal tin... problem solved, scanners ineffective again.

In all honesty, it can't be much worse than the crap our India "consultants" crank out...