Not bizarre. It's HP, after all. HP want to unify your printer with everything. "Just ordered some Internet Ham on my Palm, and I'm printing it out of my HP all-in one over Bluetooth. I could scan it back in and fax it to someone else, but that would be Ham Piracy."

The Flainian Pobble Bead is still at parity with itself. 1 Flainian Pobble Bead = 1 Flainian Pobble Bead.

I guess the problem with this, though, is that grammar rules must reflect the reality in which the language is used. You could say that "less" is used to imply "less of" or a similar construction, and just saying "less" is entirely understandable. Enough people say "less" as a synonym for "fewer" in that context that the 'grammar' of what 'looks right' to the person writing it has now been altered so that saying "less polls about cars" seems perfectly acceptable to most (except those who would prefer everybody wrote and spoke in the same way and that language would never change). Prescriptive grammar is futile.

"Y'know, I think he passed through a series of tubes, avionics, hydraulics, fuselage, etc."

I guess the problem with meta-moderation is that eventually you need meta-meta-moderation.

Espresso, but FAST!

I think the issue here is that AOL are essentially in the same market segment as ZOMBO.COM, which does everything AOL does, better.