I had a G1 when they first came out and I gotta agree. The form factor was really the best. My typing on the slide out keyboard was 2X the speed and comfort than any on screen keyboard I've used since. Also the little scroll knob was surprisingly useful.

My desktop was much, much cheaper than your laptop. I also don't need to be portable and I use it as a media server as well as for general computing tasks and for developing software. It isn't a power machine but it doesn't need to be for my uses. I can (an do) also add many cheap hard drives to it.

Cool, I'll get right on that. Oh wait, I did. To get to the upper end of a healthy body composition for me I had to consume 1300-1400 calories a day. Do you know how it feels to never eat more than 1400 calories a day? Yeah, its miserable. Weak, lightheaded, hungry. I feel fine eating low calorie for a couple days but after that it catches up with you. I weighed and portioned my food. I was obsessed with food all day long, kept thinking about food. I was terrified of eating *anything* in a restaurant or any snacks or baked goods of any kind. I was of course also obsessing about macro nutrients too. Stepping foot into a restaurant was a terrifying experience because I couldn't control the food. I was coming close to developing an eating disorder. And I wasn't losing weight past a BMI of 24.6. (I know BMI isn't great, but I calculated my body fat a couple different ways and the BMI is pretty accurate - remember, I was obsessed). I was also exercising regularly (though I tired extremely fast). I ate like that for over a year and I just couldn't take it anymore. I switched to 1500 calories and I gained 5 pounds. I then stopped calorie counting and I gained 5 more back to my setpoint weight which is mildly overweight. I feel terrible at this weight, physically. I don't gorge myself or anything like that and I am *always* "watching what I eat" and limiting my calorie intake as much as possible without becoming obsessed like I was. People around me have even commented on how little I eat. If I lost 20 pounds I'd be happy. That isn't even a lot to lose. I've been experimenting with fermented foods for gut flora.

I don't know why I gained weight because I was always a perfectly healthy weight and I ate almost whatever I wanted. One day I just started packing on the pounds.

Though I do have a few health issues that have gotten worse in the last couple years.

I was solely a Linux user for at least the last decade. Back when I was on Windows Torrent was the best around. I just switched back to Windows a few months ago for my primary computer. When I downloaded the latest version of Torrent I was shocked at how far it has fallen. I mean it is crappy, bloated, full of ads(?) and the features I used to like are strangely missing or hard to find. I mean... what? Torrent used to be lightweight, I mean, it is in its name for goodness sake - .

Sadly we have very few trained drivers behind the wheel.

Nope.

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinf...

>10 21–35 yr old male moderate drinkers were tested on divided-attention and information-processing tasks at blood alcohol levels (BALs) of 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 mg/dl. All response measures showed evidence of impairment beginning at 15 mg/dl and increasing impairment with increasing BALs. Findings provide no evidence that low BALs improve performance on driving-related skills, as has sometimes been suggested

http://ajph.aphapublications.o...

>CONCLUSIONS: It all states adopted 0.08% legal blood alcohol limits, at least 500 to 600 fewer fatal crashes would occur annually.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...

>There is no evidence of a threshold blood alcohol (BAC) below which impairment does not occur, and there is no defined category of drivers who will not be impaired by alcohol....These more sophisticated studies show that significant impairment occurs at very low BACs ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

>results from the pooled analyses were clear and consistent. Changes in legal BAC limits significantly affected alcohol-related fatal crash involvement for both the SVN and BAC test result measures, and the laws affected drivers at all drinking levels.

What? He/she never said that it was proper or even implied it... He/She was saying it is incredibly improbable and unrealistic anyone would agree to an international consensus to completely give up all forms of extraterritorial jurisdiction.