@Spaceknight: It seems rather obvious to me, from the Forbes article "Jacobs, for instance, was making $200,000 a year in revenue from sales of virtual goods and services before selling Club Neverdie."

@KamWrex: And that's the point the cloud is a closed system - you (as a user not developer) don't need to know about the servers & protocols etc. you just need to use the cloud.

@9ODrEhfSgrbu: strange, all that in moving in and out made me think of your mum...

@ITIL_Prince: no, no you'll just get smaller

@streeeeetch: ineggscusable!

@jepzilla: Didn't see your reply for a while...

@jepzilla: I can't quite figure out how my scepticism in an undetectable, untestable and wholly unproven theory would make a Luddite or a religious zealot.

@daemonoid: Anthropic, anthropic damnit.

@Skeptical_Geezer: not at all, I quoted "decision" to try to get the point across that I am talking about quantum decisions not the anthropomorphic sci-fi decisions.

@jepzilla: I am certainly not dismissing it casually.

@daemonoid: Replying to myself... how sad. However, to illustrate my point further see Garret Lisi's "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" wikipedia has a synopsis that makes it almost make sense:

Multiverse theory is simply too inelegant to be true, if every "decision" creates a new universe then they would grow at an exponential rate.

@mtfmuffins: Absolutely right there. One of the high end remote control manufacturers purposefully gimp their models to only work with a low number of devices. I know this because I've found a cunning workaround. But it really does leave a bad taste in one's mouth when products are made worse than the sum of their…

@Odin: I believe he may have been referring to BP. Unfortunately he may not realise that 2/3 of their employees are in the US as are most of their board, essentially making them a US company despite their former name.

@laylaholic: The new QOTD is a chance to vote for the RC again - go the tiny plastic beasts!

Twice in three QOTDs I vote for the smart roadster coupe!

damn, why do I always miss the question thread?

@stoke™: I'm sure hell manage Zonderar

In the hope of getting a golden ticket... Where on earth is the Smart roadster / roadster coupe?