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Fact is, Apple didn’t become the highest market cap company ON EARTH by being kindly, thoughtful tech wizards. The vast majority of those “updates” exist for one reason and one reason only: to inexorably push your current hardware towards obsolescence...the faster the better.

There are around 3.52 billion women on earth. This survey talked to 3,316 of them.

Well, there’s a rumor that he secretly “guest-directed” parts of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. :-) Srsly.

“Star Wars”?

FROM SINFUL CHOICES, duh.

Oh, you’re absolutely right. I was simply conceding re: the OP that I was sympathetic to the emotional reasoning behind it. :-) When it comes to kids and potential risks, let’s face it, rational risk assessment becomes largely moot.

If you read my question, you’ll recall that I conceded the pools point right off the bat. :-) And I only asked about fatality since that’s what the OP seemed to be (understandably) concerned with.

That is called the argument from ignorance, and it’s a classic logical fallacy. Burden of proof is always on the one who asserts something as fact. I have asserted nothing.

Trampolines pose a greater risk of death?

I think for the most part you’d only be left with (non-criminal) torts, maybe something like like Duty to Rescue...maybe? But it’s be sketchy.

Hey—he’s the one getting extra upper-body exercise.

Oh yeah? Let’s do this. I use a cassette deck in my car.

Stop Messing with us.

This has all the hallmarks of an addiction narrative—seduction, dependence, denial, rationalization—presented as a bold, brash essay about the perils of Toronto real estate.

Um...I do that. Most people with a lick of sense do, in fact.

Guess you missed the whole “TIDE theft” kerfuffle/phenomenon?