Jyn

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Removes the window title bar, and puts close, minimise and maximise on the address bar instead.

Free stuff for me please! I'll put it in my iPhone! (...oh, wait...)

Pull the casing, the casing comes off, leaving the exposed innards plugged into a live socket.
The kids weren't even allowed to handle the adapters or plug anything in themselves (seriously overprotective risk-averse parents.)
These things came apart on second or third use, by adults who don't generally break everything they touch.

I'll say again, though, that the adapters were crappy and unsafe, but the DSes are real DSes. Which leaves me to wonder how many of these "counterfeit" DSes the customs people are seizing are real overseas DSes repacked with UK adapters. I'm very sceptical that there's a cartel of electronics counterfeiters out there that's making working DS Lites.

I don't know about that... A friend of mine bought DSes for her kids, and they came with some really crappy adapters that broke apart when you tried to pull them out of the wall, leaving exposed metal.

I don't think those DSes were fake, so much as reboxed overseas limited edition colours, with 3rd party adapters swapped in. The adapters were really crappy though, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear about that kind of thing being boxed in with counterfeits.

Further, the term you're referring to, Jerry-built, dates from the late nineteenth century.

No it isn't. Jury rigged is a term which dates from the 17th century, and referred to lashed up repairs to sail rigging.

Amazon are selling MP3s of white noise, and other colors.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010S6L3G/ref=dm_sp_alb

As many people have not the slightest interest in closed captioning, I think that possibly you're speaking without authority for quite a lot of people there.

Does it come with a shotgun to repel the undead hordes who've realised that you're in possession of a fully functioning bathroom?

It's got to the point where I wouldn't know how to go about getting a "standard" edition. To my mind, a "special" edition implies the existence of a "standard" edition, for the special edition to be more special than. I recall when Pirates of the Carribean came out, I could only find a "2 disc collector's edition". I decided to keep an eye out for any other editions that came out. Two years down the line, and still the basic edition that you'll get if you order it from Amazon is the "collector's edition". Sure, they've bundled in a third disc now, in some attempt to boost sales among the fans who thought "collector's edition" meant "the edition for collectors", and now find themselves re-buying a package that insultingly even has the original 2-disc package in it, plus another disc in a slipcover, but to this day, I've not seen a 1 disc "just the film, no extras" edition. THat'd be the one for the real collector of rarities.