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I call bullshit!
A lot of places have to go through the same rigmarole you mention but don't have sky high prices.
Take a restaurant for example. You don't seem meals costing 20,000 dollars do you?

reminds me of:
http://slashdot.org/~FictionalAccount/journal

What was the answer?

we have a few of those at the hick town I grew up in. A lot of the magnetic sensors are broken as well.

They are dead , let it go people.

>Anyone remember the times before the scanners?

bah I remember a time when their were no fences around the airport and your parents would park the car on the side of the road and the pilot would wave you to come over so he could show you around the plane while passengers were boarding!

their is a difference though. the police intruding on your privacy to put you away is a lot different then some joe schmoe that wants to be a peeping tom.

The problem is not the editor but the window frame and controls, They are still very bright.
Office has selectable themes but even with a 'dark theme' they are not high contrast compared to a standard high contrast desktop.

Yea everyone that sees my desktop says "what in the world are those colors?" or "what OS are you using?"
I honestly can't see how people use a white BG. It feels like someone is shining a flashlight in your face.

Mostly WIN7 and XP. I made a tool that switches between my high contrast colors and a default color scheme so I can read some text that is black on black. But for a lot of apps there is just no winning. It makes me want to bust out a disassembler and alter the colors manually. I figured people out there would have done that for some of the more mainstream apps.

With a predominately white background it literally feels like someone is shining a flashlight in my face. I made a tool for windows to switch between my high contrast desktop (green text, black BG and blue controls) and a 'normal' color scheme on the fly when I need to read something. I might give these glasses a try, looks like they could help. I knew a guy at an old job that put a hood over his monitor so he could see it better. A lot of older LCD monitors just dont display well with overhead fluorescent light.

kind of like sylvester the cat!

what makes you think this guy wanted attention? some people are just pissed off and really really want to kill some people