The reason you were accused of hyperbole is that you made sweeping statements that imply your experience is everyone's experience, or at least the common user experience. I'll help you out:

iTunes syncs music just fine for most people. Is there a bug? Probably, but it affects you and some others, but no where close to the majority of iPhone users. iTunes is great on the Mac and shit on the PC, that's no surprise. But if the problem was as widespread as you're describing, people would be rioting in the street. Forget what's happening in Baltimore, it would be like the last scene in Fight Club.

But I need those security vulnerabilities.

I need and demand root access on my phone, and a security vulnerability is the only way to get it. Newer Android releases don't have (yet) known vulnerabilities that will give an owner access to his own devices. I run a slightly-older version of Android 4 where I can use the Towelroot exploit to install su, but newer versions aren't vulnerable. Google ended up hiring the guy who wrote Towelroot to close their security problems, and he's done a fairly decent job.

So yeah, I walk around with a phone that's vulnerable to various problems, all because the fuckwits at Samsung and Google are so hostile to the idea of the owner of a device having control over it. I mitigate that by not storing anything personal/critical on it. If thieves get ahole of my Puzzle and Dragons saved game files or my party pictures that are public anyway, I'm fine with that. We all make tradeoffs. That is mine.

Sure. We do that every day. You think the water you drink is absolutely pure H2O, nothing else in it? You think the organic potato in the ground doesn't have trace amounts of what we might consider poisons in larger doses? We consume up to 50 micrograms of arsenic a day, and some think that very small amounts are a required dietary element in many animals, but lots of arsenic is clearly a poison. Uranium is also naturally found in the soil and sea water.

There is nothing pure about life, nearly everything poisons "only a little bit."

That's why we call them shit countries. The first world should be held to a higher standard.

That's a bit of revisionist history right there.

Boy, you read waaaay into the parent's post and then come out swinging.

Where did the grandparent use liberal as a swear word? Where did he even imply it? The closest might be the "Oddly enough one tends to benefit the strong and the majority group, while the other takes from it" line, but even that is hardly an attack.

Not saying fracking doesn't make things worse, but there have been earthquakes in the Midwest for ages.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in U.S. History happened on the Madrid fault in Missouri.

Really? That's more likely?

That episode was one of several that hurt my brain. You'd have some fantastic writing and character development, and then you'd get an episode like Profit and Lace thrown in there. Or the Vanessa Williams guest-starring on Risa episode. The series could be fantastic, but it was also so amazingly uneven.

Depends on the section of Europe. France has long been leery of Muslims, and the UK is starting to move in that direction as well.

The poster you were replying to is correct, the attackers first targeted the security guide. Upon seeing the shots fired, police providing security returned fire, killing the attackers. Amazing that all they could do was hit the security guard in the leg, though I don't know the distance between them.

Former Senator Barney Frank was interviewed on NPR not long ago. Whatever you might think of him, he had interesting insight of what he saw from the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy marches several years back. He noted that generally, Tea Party supporters worked on the local level, elected their officials, they held rallies where they cleaned up after themselves and held voter drives, informative speeches, etc. He then went to an Occupy protest, which was as sloppy as you might expect, but most telling, he didn't see any sort of voter registration drive, nothing to promote candidates who they liked, no ways to elect people who might drive change. He asked the organizers about this, and they told him that voting, well.. wasn't really "their thing." They'd rather be on the streets and demand action rather than get their guys elected.

And that's when Frank knew that very little would come of the Occupy Movement.

Unfortunately, the Wahabbis got a shit-ton of oil in the mid-20th century, and their philosophy, mostly ignored or suppressed for a hundred years started getting aggressively exported from Saudi Arabia as mainstream. Billions and billions of dollars can do a lot for making a radical mainstream.

And they taste like chicken!

Yup, but the Western countries aren't at war with "All those Muslims." They're at war with specific terrorist organizations. Terrorism leads to more violence, shouldn't be too hard to figure out.