How long ago were you using FiOS? I wonder if they were using the Freescale MSC7120 chip for the residential side, or if they still are in many places. I had the "privilege" of working on that chip, and it was a complete disaster. Most of the code written to support that chip at the driver level was there for the sole purpose of detecting when a hardware bug locked the chip up, and resetting it. A book could be written about what a management fuck-up the creation of that chip was.

I lived for a couple years recently on a duplex property; I had ComCrap and the other resident had FiOS. He was constantly having to go reset the outside box for his connection, while my cable connection almost never had problems.

But somehow, over in Europe where most stuff seems outrageously expensive to us Americans, people can get high-speed internet connections to their homes for a fraction of the price we Americans are paying.

Maybe, but I did have to take the drug test. Then again, this was 15 years ago, so things may have changed since then. Intel's a very different company these days, now that Craig is gone.

Yeah, lots of people liked the Transformers movies too. And lots of other people actually liked the SW Prequels.

Too late now. Thanks a lot, Disney.

Perhaps, but all those were actually pretty good.

I think this might be a bit simplistic, as demographic groups are far more complex than just educational background (which you've lumped together into only 5 categories, without any regard for the field of study: someone with a "theological degree" or a degree in "metaphysics" (WTF?) is not equivalent to someone with a degree in engineering, mathematics, or liberal arts. Someone with a degree from some wacky diploma mill or a "Christian college" is not the same as someone with a degree from an Ivy League or from a well-respected state university.

There's some other big demographic factors here which are pretty important: age range, and religious affiliation (if any). Certain generations tend to vote certain ways, and religion hugely affects voting too.

So you'll take 1 stinking turd instead of 3 rotting turds?

I prefer NO turds at all, so I'll just stay home and watch Netflix or just go on a walk outside.

Exactly. And he had a lot of other help; I read somewhere that his (now ex-)wife helped edit the script for ANH to keep it from having the same shit dialog that the Prequels had. And of course ESB and RotJ had other writers and directors. Lucas had a few good ideas for an overall story, then other people came in and cleaned it all up and gave us Episodes 4-6. The Prequels are what you get when Lucas has full control of everything, and the result is crap, some nice ideas, but overall crap.

What blind spot? What are you talking about? And what is this link you posted? It doesn't go anywhere, or have a valid URL, it just says "http://".

What are you talking about? Shatner never directed a Star Trek movie. Although I have sometimes wondered why the Star Trek franchise went straight from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I guess someone at Paramount forgot how to count. But that's OK, IV and VI were both good movies.

I liked the first JJ ST movie better than the SW prequels (1 and 2, never saw 3).

I still didn't like it enough to bother watching his second ST movie. And considering I used to be a big ST fan as a teenager, that's saying something.

One shitfest being better than another shitfest just isn't enough to get me to spend time or money watching a movie.

The Kardashians is more decent than Lucas's shitfests, but I'm not about to spend my time watching the Kardashians.

Oh please.

THX-1138 was an enjoyable film, but it had no dialog! That's the #1 complaint about Lucas's scripts: he can't write dialog worth a shit. THX didn't have any, except a few weird lines ("I'm an android!"). THX was all about visual effects, nothing more. And it did well with that. It really didn't have much of a plot, and certainly no dialog worth speaking of.

JJ's Star Trek movies were lame, and they cut out everything that made ST great: the intellectualism and consideration of social issues, instead of just having mindless violence and action like most other modern movies.

Just read the Timothy Zahn books and ignore everything else.