Would you though? Game Theory would suggest (to me anyway) that any loss possible in the UK is nothing compared to the possible losses in the US. I'd hire nothing but US lawyers too.

Illegal conditions in your EULA in the UK? get your knuckles rapped and correct it - end of story.
Sell a product in the US? prepare for endless lawsuits varying in their stupidity.

Here's Apple, trying to save everybody from lung cancer and all I see are complaints!

If you won't think of the children then Apple have to!

Don't worry, you're not depressed, you're simply a sociopath.

pervert :-P

More seriously, I moved from XP to OS X 10.4, and I've recently tried Windows 7. The control panel is now a complete monster! There are a couple of nice touches but there's plenty of suck too.

1. Are there not areas in the US where there really is almost no choice in your provider?
2. I'm wondering what the correlation is (if any) between people's technical knowledge and willingness to change providers. If you're that willing to insist your machine is fine maybe you aren't the likely person to be the target of their attention because you do actually know what you're doing (hence insisting the machine is fine).

Yet you only post this on slashdot with 13 days before the deadline. You couldn't have posted it here back in May? (the earliest date a post seems to have in your google group).