Even if that wasn't the case, they're arguing AGAINST being a "common carrier".

Won't this make them responsible for any of the crap (death threats, libel, etc) that they distribute as part of them being an "information service"?

Since there was nothing along those lines in the credits, and given the lack of respect for the law of the "creator", that is very unlikely. The funny thing (finally) is when it ended it was replaced with the real thing.

I've had similar arguments with telco people. If the DIGITAL part of the system is not dropping (or delaying) packets then there is no problem with the DIGITAL part of the system.

Swapping cables that are not causing dropped/delayed packets for other cables that won't drop/delay packets is useless.

And testing the digital portion is very easy.

If you think you hear a difference, it is probably your imagination or the analog portion on either end.

Letterman is essentially the same as any other talk show. The distinctive feature was Letterman himself.

The Vizard show slavishly copied his mannerisms (eg. walking around with a cup at that start of the show) and the timing of the segments. It was all very strange until I saw an episode of Letterman. Of course someone who ended up being forbidden for running a company for ten years after being caught at insider trading is exactly to sort of person that doesn't care about copying someone else's show that has worked elsewhere. Few people in Australia had seen Letterman back then.
Top Gear however has a wider international reach than most things, it's broadcast just about everywhere on the planet.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone who lives outside the UK actually understand British politics?

Yes. His name is Rupert Murdoch :(

Where I am we had "pornographic rock music". One of the records taken by the police had a track called "doing the shag", which was an instrumental. Meanwhile some corrupt police were deep into a prostitution racket and the state police commissioner was playing out the "street value" drug joke in reality - selling the evidence! He went to jail as did several members of the government at the time.
Be careful when someone plays the morality card and see if you can look behind the curtain to see what they are trying to distract you from.

Do you really think giving your credit card information to a pornography website operator

Whether you like the situation or not you've somehow managed to deny what happened about twenty years ago and led to the widespread use of credit cards on the net that we have today. Ironically the problem to be solved back then was for the pornographers to trust their customers and not the other way around.
Do you really think giving your credit card information to kids on minimum wage is a good idea? Somehow retail operates that way without a lot of fraud despite plenty of people that could do with the money, yet they don't steal it from you.

it always prompts me to let me know i should reboot.

You missed the line about full screen games. The notification presumably happens where you cannot read it, and then the system reboots. Annoying as hell.

His Letterman clone showed that without the others to carry him he was a boring waste of space.
He was the money and connections guy for Fast Forward production and he got time on screen to keep his ego fed.

Yes. Some of the others were very funny. His stuff was pretty well the homosexual version of "blackface" and other unoriginal shit, but he was the guy with the finance so went in the show.

I know it's trendy to argue as if the past does not matter but both companies have a reputation and that is VERY OBVIOUSLY what is being referred to.
Being a fanboy is cute even if it means writing stupid things. Being a "social media worker" paid to write such stupid things is a lot less cute. When the obvious is being ignored it's sometimes a bit hard to work out if the perpetrator should be pitied like a puppy that has pissed on the kitchen floor or a source of anger such as a crackhead who has walked in and is pissing on the kitchen floor.

But you decided to push it a bit more via strawman. Pathetic.

It's certainly limited the usefulness of my win7 partition as a gaming machine when the entire point of having it at home is to run games. You can either disable updates until you decide to get them or have to put up with fullscreen games rebooting without warning. Hence so many systems out there that have not been updated for more than a year.

I wish you'd been more selective about sharing your treasonous 9/11 tinfoil conspiracy shit about the US military killing all the passengers in the jets and the people in the towers.

But the MS guys have been telling us for years that linux is broken because it has that "stupid" command line thing :)
Thanks for the info - good to see it's an easy fix.