Well, he wasn't just late, he never showed up.

Just to give one example of many: they gave me an 8 hour window for their installer to show up - Comcast will at least narrow it down to 4 hours the day before, but Qwest won't. So I wait at home the whole day, and they never show up. They don't call to apologize or tell me they are running behind and when I call them they aren't even sure where the guy is. It turns out they just massively overbooked they guy. The tone of the phone flunky just made it sound like this was business as usual. The service, once they finally managed to hook it up, was unreliable and slow.

No, in my neighborhood the alternative is Century Link, a.k.a. Qwest. And as much as I despise Comcast they don't come anywhere near the level of awful of Century Link.

And since when has 30% been the threshold? I always thought it was 50% (+/- whatever the margin of error is for your experiment, which is hopefully less than 20%)

Got a speeding ticket in Denver, went to court, I was offered a plea: they had me plead guilty to a broken tail light instead - it carried the same fine (plus court costs) but no points on my license. That's right, they routinely have people (dozens each day) plead guilty to an offense they didn't commit. I took the plea, mostly because to actually fight it in court I would have to come back another day; you don't get to argue your case on your originally scheduled court date.

I hate to respond to a troll, but even if I shared your racism I would realize that the Middle East is not "half the planet" by a long shot, and anything that got the ME would also get Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia, i.e. most of the people on the planet. It's right in the middle of it, that's why it's called "middle" east. At the right angle it might miss one of those continents, but at least 2 out of 3 would be toast.

Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica - published by Nature, not Anonymous Coward.

Perhaps you've heard of a thing called a UPS?

I like my 17 inch MPBs, but they could never get the hinges right, and I think that is why they stopped making them. Both of mine (the first being a G4, the second an Intel from around 2010) eventually had the screen bevel crack near the hinges. Even before that it was impossible to use either of them in a reclining position, i.e. on your back with the laptop up on your knees and the screen pointed somewhat downwards, because the hinges didn't have enough internal friction to hold up the weight of the screen. I've never seen either of these problems on a 15 in MBP.

Except we can't get sodium thiopental in the US. We don't make it, and the EU won't sell it to us because we use it for executions.

Dogs and cats are usually put down with intravenous injections (so says wikipedia).

You assume all the people put to death are actually guilty of the crime. This is certainly not true. Also, as the GP implied, plenty of people who are guilty of the crime don't get put to death. When was the last time you heard of a wealthy well-connected person sentenced to death?

I consider Mexico to be part of North America, as does whoever named the "North American Free Trade Agreement".

Their stock is up and they are selling more than ever?

What would be at the other end of the HDMI cable that is providing internet? Nothing, unless I setup internet on that device as well.