However, asking such a stupid question does epitomize their superiority complex.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak uses a white iPhone 4, which he says he assembled from parts made by a Chinese supplier and deemed to be defective by Apple. The device takes poor-quality photos when the camera’s flash is used, and the white materials make the proximity sensor less reliable, he said.

The white paint applied to the iPhone’s glass causes light to refract. When a white iPhone does surface—likely in the upcoming iPhone 5 incarnation—I expect to see the metal rings surrounding the proximity sensor, camera & LED flash to protrude through the glass.

…to an outsider, the Brittons’ story might seem heartbreaking.

Another son, Trey, was born 11 weeks early and only expected to live moments. Instead, he died six weeks after his birth in 2008, on the same day he was scheduled to receive a liver transplant. Cleared to get pregnant again, the couple was thrilled when Chase was conceived, Britton said. They were eager to give older son Alex, 13, a sibling.

Chase was also born prematurely, and he was legally blind. When he was 1 year old, doctors did an MRI, expecting to find he had a mild case of cerebral palsy. Instead, they discovered he was completely missing his cerebellum — the part of the brain that controls motor skills, balance and emotions.

The only thing heartbreaking is how Heather and David Britton won’t take a fucking hint from nature.

Some ragers say that thinking insulting thoughts about other pedestrians serves as “mental venting”—and makes them feel better. Even if it does provide some momentary relief, such thinking rehearses bad behavior and can make anger a more automatic reaction to these situations, says Dr. [Leon] James.

Thomas Gottschalk announced his retirement on Saturday from the popular German TV show “Wetten, dass…?” (“Wanna bet?”), saying he could not continue as if nothing had happened after a contestant was left paralyzed in an on-air accident.

Gottschalk, 60, has hosted the show – the most popular family program in the Germany – for 24 years. The format, where celebrity guests bet on whether ordinary people can achieve unusual and difficult tasks, has proven an enduring one.

But in December of last year, 23-year-old Samuel Koch attempted to jump over five oncoming cars using spring-powered stilts. He was struck by the fourth car, which left him lying face-down and motionless on the studio stage. He is now paralyzed due to the damage to his spinal cord and neck vertebrae.

This “my child wants a sibling, and I’m going to give him/her” approach rankles particularly because I hear it… constantly. My husband and I opted to stop after our daughter. The reasons vary — he was a happy only child who desperately wanted a daughter, and we got her on our first try; I had a rough pregnancy; and frankly, we’re financially comfortable with one but two would be stretching it. But when people hear we have an only, their first question is: when are you going to “give her a brother or sister?”

Give her? Why should it be up to her? Or Suri for that matter?

Our kids don’t carry our babies. They don’t breastfeed them. Or get up in the middle of the night with them, pay for their diapers and shoes and college. They don’t bear the emotional burden of raising their siblings to adulthood. In short, they have nothing to do with the important issues upon which a decision to have a child are based.