Deciding how to measure monitors is sort of tricky; what exactly does that 22" refer to? Viewable area, viewable area minus bezel width, or what? This is well known in the monitor world, and maybe it shouldn't be so, but an educated purchaser could probably figure out what 22" meant. (If they said '22" viewable area', that's different.)

In this case, 1080p means something specific, and the product wasn't that. Now it's an absolutely stupid and trivial complaint, but as others have said, if we don't want them taking a mile we shouldn't give them an inch.

I'm aware of the history and, yes, I'm being sarcastic. Except about Florida.

Water being provided by the public sector makes sense for a completely separate reason: it's a thing that is very difficult to define property rights over. Who owns the groundwater under Tucson, AZ? Does your average Jose have the right to drill a well on his land and pump out however much he wants and sell it? What about slurping water out of the Santa Cruz River? (You're probably saying that you've never heard of the Santa Cruz River. That's because it's not there any more -- we poured it all on crops. It's now something of a hilarity among Tucsonans to name things "River X" that are near the dry riverbed.)

Water rights are hard as hell and very difficult to incorporate into a reasonable scheme of private property. Same with radio spectrum, for that matter. Things like food are easy: own some land, plant fruit trees, sell fruit out of truck. Certainty over the solution space doesn't necessarily mean that something should be in the public sector -- farming practices for apples and the design of toilets are pretty well optimized* by this point, but there have been no moves to nationalize the apple or shitting industry.

*The Japanese robo-toilets may disagree.

I notice that you don't list "food" here. It's very much something people need to live, it's on a mostly-free market almost everywhere, and it works just fine.

That's not a bad idea. Could the USA reformulate itself as a confederation with the same legal structure and operations, but with 49 seats in the UN rather than one? (I think everyone would agree that not having Florida represented is in the best interests of everyone except comedians.)

Drag someone off the street and shoot them in the head in plain daylight.

The correct internet term is "pissing in an ocean of piss."

They continually invent new and creative kinds of suck.

They also oversharpen the shit out of it.

The worst is grass, where the blades are close to the limiting resolution. The compression algorithm can't decide whether it's worth it or not to capture the detail in the grass blades, so you either get a smeary mess or holy shit oversharpened artifacts.

Sure, but when I say that my reason for cancellation is I'M MOVING OUT, stop hounding me.

Also, when I call to inquire at my new residence, telling me that your downstream speed is 25 megabytes/sec is a good way to make me ask "Ma'am, do you mean megabytes, or megabits?"

An answer of "Oh, we mean megabytes! Our competition measures their speeds in megabits but we have megabytes, which are eight times as much!" won't inspire confidence.

I don't want them to "reinvent productivity" -- I want them to stop buying other people's things and making them suck (Skype) and stop working hard to make their own things suck (Windows 8).

I thought that's what those x-ray machines were for?

Besides, there is a lot of empty space inside some laptops. If they're worried about someone putting a bomb inside a laptop that won't boot then they should be equally worried about someone putting one inside a laptop that will.

Just because something's constitutional it's not necessarily a good idea, and in a government like ours the decision whether to do it or not ought to lie in the hands of the citizens.

Thank you -- finally a nation that treats everyone with respect, and figures that more information is better than less information since it lets people make more informed decisions.

How is doing electronic voting any more complex to maintain and develop than setting up polling places, screwing around with ballots, etc.?