TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

You have apparently never been to California, where some of the world's brightest minds believe the most irrational nonsense. That goes double for Silicon Valley, where the unfortunate phrase "drank the Kool-Aid" was coined.

Radioshack is the place where grandma goes when her landline phone stops working.

There is not one single USB 3 device in Radio Shack: neither cables nor flash drives nor anything USB3.

The staff doesn't understand half of what they have in the back, where nerds go for an obscure item for a project.

They will try to sell you an extended warranty on a 5-dollar audio cable.

The coffin has a lot more nails, but I think four is enough to point out.

my fellow atheists, but this seems to be the case! I realize most of the comments aren't 100% serious, poking fun at the Bible belt. But Google Fiber can't even launch in many secular places like San Francisco, for the same reasons we see a move to stop Google Fiber from expanding there. This is all about the telecom/broadband providers trying to stifle a radically cheaper product than what the competition offers or wants to offer. And Google totally kills their bundle model with this offering.

...anyone who has taken a laptop or cellphone on a cold mountain camping trip. But then I read the comments above by those much more learned than me, and I realize I probably don't know what I'm talking about!

I'm sure the Holocaust survivors can offer this guy sympathy.

All those ultra-greedy, conflicting interests dividing up one multi-billion dollar pie? That'll be the day.

That's BBC. CBC is American TV without the content.

It's like ABC, NBC, and CBS. Right now NBC is fail, and in the past it's been CBS and ABC. So right now, Wii U is sucking in sales. In the previous generation of consoles, it was PS3. Nintendo has been the loser and the winner in previous console wars, and their handheld business remains strong. They might slog along through this round, but they'll be back on top again, and one of the other big names will be the laughing stock.

I didn't know that French was the international language prior to WWII! I think that in trying to preserve it, The French and Quebec governments haven't helped, or worse, may have hastened the doom of their culture. English thrives mainly because it an ever fluid and ever-changing language.

I just caught the unintended irony of your statement "I would much prefer to sample a little culture from places like France, than to be forced to watch another idiot action movie out of Hollyweird." It's ironic because no one is forcing you to watch any Hollywood movie. And in fact, if you can post on Slashdot, you have access to nearly every French movie ever made. And yet, you support a system wherein people *are* forced-- forced to pay for the production of films, whether or not they want to see them, or whether they are any good. It would seem as though you have a desire to tell others what they can and cannot watch, even though you don't appear to be watching that content yourself.

There was arguably a time when the arts relied on the state for funding; it used to be extremely difficult to produce and distribute art and performance. But now, thanks to advances in technology, anyone has the ability to handle every aspect, from creation to promotion. Furthermore, you exaggerate to an extreme. A film doesn't have to gross blockbuster profits in order to be made, or even to be profitable. At this point, artists and performers no longer need the government to collect taxes in order for culture to flourish. Now that media is universally democratized in the West, any film or TV show that can't be made is due to a lack of industriousness on the creator's side, or a lack of interest on the public's side.

When people lay down in front of a bus to focus awareness on government misdeeds, disease, crimes against humanity, etc, protesting can be very effective. Through raising awareness, it shocks the complacent and the ignorant into action. In this situation, what can they possibly hope to accomplish? That the employees will leave due to guilt? That 50 employees will be so moved by a brief inconvenience that thousands will flee the city? And furthermore, just how old are these protesters? I ask because I've lived here 35 years and this has always been a ridiculously expensive place. It reminds me of the building of the transcontinental railroad. Occasionally a small group of Indians would damage a section of track. The effect was nil.

...is that you don't know what you have, and you must hire so many people to deal with it that you have no idea who is looking at what, and you can't even figure out who is stealing what. Madness.