Which is not to suggest that I think they are behaving as anything other than jerks; just that they are being rational about it.

I think we need to fix the regulations.

If you're using fines as if they were general revenue, you're doing it wrong. Don't expect people driving through to pay for your little shit town. That's what property taxes are for.

I suppose my lack of familiarity is due only to the shortage of my disposable income!

My video cards are DVI and HDMI, monitors are DVI and VGA...

We were in talks with Comcast, looking to upgrade the internet connections at our dozens of offices. Things looked great, until they wanted over $9k to run cable to my home office (in a shopping center in the middle of a busy suburb for which they are the only provider). We could have gotten them to drop it, but at the last minute they told us we had to sign 3-year "triple play" contracts for each office.

They are going into one of our mini branch offices. They'll be there between 8AM and noon.

But hey, at least they treat business customers just as crappilly as they do residential customers!

Okay, not really a good thing, but at least its fair. ish.

Alright, they are unrepentant bastards.

What if things had been turned around and it was the bible-thumpers who came out and announced that God was ticked off because we got his planet dirty, so he's going to crank up the heat as a punishment? If you're like me (or the rest of the species), then your first reaction would be, "shut up idiot." Which you would follow up with the assumption that its all part of trying to take evolution out of schools.

At which point the volume of evidence needed to convince you skyrockets.

We aren't dealing with empirical data, we're dealing with people. If you pipe them data in the wrong format they'll reject it and drop any further connection attempt.

Had it been framed in the terms and manners of a conservative argument, and not presented by those whose arguments are dismissed out of hand, it would not be the controversy it is now.

You don't need to be an AV geek to see why Comcast's complaints about Netflix et. all burdening their lines is utter bull.