As compared to the value of Amazon, it's merely a cost of doing business, rounding error. Perhaps someone could work with the state where Amazon is headquartered and take action to revoke their corporate charter. Extreme, most definitely. However, to fine a corporation of Amazon's size with an amount that has little to no effect on the leadership, or their share price makes the whole exercise a joke. Alternately, go after individuals at the top of the corporation (Sr. Leadership, and the Board of Directors) to prove personal malfeasance and send them off to a SuperMax. There's a really messed up part that recalls the episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History entitled "Painfotainment." I guess the real question beneath this dark muse is one of what makes up a sufficient deterrent? At what point do intelligent, but sociopathic individuals deserve the full force and power of the state in its most extreme form? I do not like seeing people suffer, and I don't like anyone make people suffer, but there has to be a way to stop corporations from committing financial and identity rape. Some dumb kid gets 20 years for smoking a joint or robbing $20 from a liquor store. These guys gut the economy, and deprive millions of individuals of a livelihood, and leave their victims open to black hats, including real robbery, not to mention blackmail, and possibly home invasion. At some point there needs to be an honest calculation of the damage done to their victims. I agree with the poster above who said "Make 10 billion fined 1 billion - profit!"

Yeah, now if Amazon could do the same thing with Kindle.

The first 100 million years were the worst. The second hundred million years were also the worst. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

And we've just leveled up. What else could it be?

Perhaps Comcast will use their India support staff to start a new Cold War. As one sage said, "sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

I took my iPhone 6+ to the Apple store in Coronado Mall in Albuquerque. I printed out the page where it specified that my iPhone fell into the correct serial number range and took it with me. I showed it to the person who greeted me, and then to the person doing triage for the Genius (sic) Bar. They told me to come back in two and a half hours so someone could look at it. When the pager message came the wife and I came back to the store where we were told that the phone appeared to be working ok and to call them if the camera went bad. I have two questions: a) Why wasn't the sensor replaced then and there? It's like having a recall on a car and having the dealership tell you that they won't replace the part because it doesn't appear to be broke. I realize that the phone having a blurry camera isn't the same as having the gas pedal stick, but it is still a defect and the phone clearly qualified. b) Why didn't they say it up front vs. the rigamaroe around coming back in two and a half-hours? I expected far better than that from Apple.

For those of you who visited the link, Nasaspaceflight.com has a very well-informed stable of posters, many of whom are professionals in the space industry, and there is the L2 section where you will find much that is not available anywhere else.

A really great source for general battery reviews is the candlepowerforums.com site. Although they're (as the name indicates) all about flashlights, there are a large number of posts and reveiws about batteries and the relative quality of various manufacturers.

I wonder if they'll take bribes and how much one can be bought for?