@violent peas: Well considering most iPhone use is done while you are either waiting for something else to happen, or engaged in a secondary task, the time is worth nothing because it is being used for something else.

I still have one of the early Leathermans. It is not a great tool for anything, but it is a tool that gets the job done for a lot of things without having to carry around a small toolbox.

@scrapking: Funny thing, my local perspective is identical to yours (Victoria, BC). I know a few people who lost jobs, including my father, though his was related to corporate infighting rather than the economy.

@StaticSignal: #whitenoise

Damn you MM! This is the first collector's edition that I can not pass on!

@boomshakalaka: I am very cheap. And I don't feel the need to be connected 24-7 since I sit in front of a computer 10+ hours a day anyway.

@Wwhat: Very true, there would be implementation details to work out.

@Not sent from my iPad: too busy listening to kidneythieves: In my experience, very few.

@crackel: Jewelers actually do charge more for certain diamonds. You can get ones that are mined in Canada that have a Canadian flag etched in them if they are over .25 carat, and they do cost more, whether it is because they are a slightly different coloration or because they are guaranteed to be conflict free I…

@boomshakalaka: Any specific reason you don't think it is a good reason to buy a WP7 phone?

Depending on pricing and when the new phones come to Canada, Windows Phone 7 may finally convince me to jump on the smart phone bandwagon.

@Ccomfort: I think more expensive gadgets would be a good thing overall. People wouldn't be upgrading their cell phone every year or two. Suddenly it would be acceptable to only have a 56" TV.

@crackel: This is true when only looking at the economic side of it. When the social and moral sides are thrown in it becomes a positive marketing tool for a company to be able to say they manufacture their products at a factory that pays its workers x% more than other factories. As such the price of the device can be…

@SteveDaveMcQueenNumeroDos: Perhaps a single mod shouldn't be able to do a ban.

Could we add posting a NSFW image in a SFW article as an AUTOBAN?

@Brak: Glad you included Ecuador in there. Such good bananas.

@JATEM @ MS: Love the thought, but am currently gainfully employed North of the border and am not looking to move to the Southern side.

Hopefully it will be disk free on the PS3 by the time Netflix gets to Canada this fall.

Can I get a job at Microsoft soon enough to get in on this deal?

@Curves: Do it, it is a great summer job. After a couple summers I can say I have planted hundreds of thousands of trees.