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About the dead pixel policy, just ask. They'll know it well.
Versus a CRT that's basically a rear-projection screen, an LCD is a fixed grid of pixels. Each pixel requires three functional transistors to control the colors. A 1200x1024 element has nearly 4million of the buggers and it's more common than not to have a few bad. Sometimes you won't even notice, especially if it's a bad "red" near an edge. If it's a permanent white, or a couple near each other, you might hate it. As you can imagine, they aren't hand-placed or repairable. It's a manufacturing process yield issue. It varies by phase of the moon and supply. If supplies are good then there are usually more good screens in the chain. If supplies are bad, manufacturers tend to drop their standards a bit to fill orders. 9mo ago was worse than now but each supplier presents a unique situation.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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