Which is still annoying. I know it's installing software because I told it to install. I'm the one and only person using the system and I don't need it second guessing me.

First thing? That's the first thing I do after opening a folder on a fresh install of Windows. The absolute first thing after installation is turn of the goddamn User Account Control pop-ups. "You pressed a button, are you sure you wanted to do that?!" That shit makes Clippy look pleasant.

Well, for a few decades now, Republicans have been more and more big-government (which is the exact opposite of the party platform). Generally at the national level though, they seem Democrats win (primarily due to people being against Republicans wanting to legislate the Bible) and their illogical response is to try to out-Democrat the Democrat candidate. Both Republicans and Democrats keep coming under more and more criticism for being too similar while support for third parties (primarily the Libertarian party) grows, but instead of acknowledging that the voters want someone more libertarian minded, they just insult that growing portion of the population and go even more extreme towards the things that Americans dislike.

We seriously need to change our voting laws that allow candidates to win with very low percentages of the vote and also push people to vote for "the lesser evil" instead of their preferred candidate.

Well, seeing how the last few elections, the Republican strategy has been trying to run a Democrat as a Republican (thus ensuring they won't win, because Democrats still won't vote for them and conservative Republicans won't vote for them - as well as driving away moderates), we'll be shouting the same thing at Republicans most likely.

We stop overpopulating the planet and burning up non-renewable resources at an absurd pace? The horror!

Do you know what will happen to her? Not. A. God. Damn. Thing.

I liked Prometheus and have never understood the hate for it. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey, that's a movie you can bash for having a poor / incoherent story line.

I found the MS employee!

Exactly, but the AC wants you to pay that flat fee (like you currently do for internet or phone) PLUS a "per MB" charge on top of it. I was pointing out that it should be either / or, not both (which is double charging).

Sounds more like a reason for people to think before they breed. Far too many people have kids that they cannot support, who then grow up to be unskilled workers (or on welfare) because they never learned responsible behavior from their parents.

That's retarded, why pay twice for the internet? If they want to meter it, then if you use no data in a month, you shouldn't get a bill.

Just because you might do something mildly productive with your time if you didn't have to work for a living does not mean that the majority would. Hell, look at the countless millions who bitch about their circumstances, yet do nothing with their spare time that would improve them (learning new skills, taking a class, volunteering in a position that would help them improve their circumstances, etc). For every person who wrote a useful app / book, you'd have at least 100 just sitting around drinking beer and watching football.

SSSH! You can't interrupt the anti-capitalism circlejerk, even though without the "evil" capitalism, we'd probably still be using horses and buggies and burning fires at night to stay warm while we write a letter with a quill and parchment.

Different? They look like something my six year old nephew drew in MS Paint.

sigh

For the third time, I didn't say that they're currently throttling connections. I pointed out that if they were legally allowed to have various "speed lanes" for a given bandwidth, they would throttle the shit out of everyone (businesses and ordinary customers) unless you paid them huge amounts of money. Not only would every popular website / web-based service be charged massively more for a "fast lane" to their customers, but every end user would be nickled and dimed with "$5/month for access to Facebook" and "$10/month for access to Netflix" on top of their monthly payment for a given bandwidth speed.

This is not "a boogeyman", the ISPs already showed their hand and admitted that they want to do just that - keep your bandwidth the same but throttle your ability to access popular things unless you pay additional fees for a "fast lane".

Congrats on supporting ISP monopolies making the internet too expensive for most people to use. Then again, you're an AC, so you're probably just a dumbass troll.