Sure— Google, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter... plenty have turned down big offers and gone on to achieve massive success.

Why was so much contaminated equipment sitting around?

Just one more reason why umbrellas are the goatee-sporting evil twins in the raincoat vs. umbrella dichotomy.

I distinctly remember a TV episode from some decades ago wherein you utilized shark repellent rather than lethal force.

That's pretty irresponsible. Who's going to protect Gotham? And really, if such a device is actually possible to build, won't it come from your own company's R&D labs? And finally, I've followed your adventures for some time, and I can't think of many instances where a light saber would have helped significantly more…

It would also create a virtual monopoly in the industry for "post-apocalyptic movie settings".

Perhaps you're accidentally locked up without food & water and forgotten about for 5 days by the DEA: [www.tampabay.com]

Up next in the App Store & Android Marketplace: Apps that let you create a faux facebook page within the app to get around this.

From teh wikis: "The term 'pizza' first appeared "in a Latin text from the southern Italian" ([en.wikipedia.org])

According to the RIAA, it would have sold for more than 10x that amount if copyright laws still protected it and the pirates making copies were prosecuted.

Great, thanks Sam & Gizmodo— now I really need a $7k tub for my bathroom remodel and have no idea how to pay for it. Kohler— looking for beta testers?

I do the same thing, but I just keep pulling stuff off until I get to the money itself. Hammers are involved. "No, seriously Mr. Officer, I'm just making sure it's a real machine. How do I know it's not completely fake with no actual cash unless I open 'er up and a take a look-see?"

Correct— hypocrisy is not an argument-invalidating fallacy, but it does rather water down the point you're trying to make... e.g., a convicted embezzler decrying the rise of white-collar crime might not be all that persuasive.

If balloon archery target practice became job requirements at the Apple Store, I'd consider some part time work.

I dunno, is it really that bad? I usually add Serial#, MAC Address, ESN, and a random person's SS# to mine.

If one of them has a goatee, watch out— that's the evil one.