Actually the democrat view is "Give a man a fish so his kids don't starve to death while he learns to fish."

All the better to get a standard. A captive audience will get used to a shitty design as they forget what a non-shitty design looks like..

But without going through annoying changes like that they'll never stumble on that one "Oh yeah, this is much better" change they can patent and make a fortune off of.

You know, it's really insensitive of you to want a product that works nicely when they're only trying to find their way to dominate the industry and get a slice of everyone else's pie.

Oh I know, crazy huh? How could they let this patent get by with the clearly obvious prior art of all those blue LEDs that helped light up gadgets in the 80s.

Not like every consumer product featuring LEDs prior to 1994 or so was using red, green, yellow, and amber because depositing the gallium mix required for the blue spectrum bandgap could only be done on a ruby substrate at the time due to the normal process destroying a silicon substrate, thereby making blue LEDs insanely expensive.

Over 60 CFLs in my place, and over the last 12 years we've has to replace roughly 2-3 a year on average. We even buy the el cheapo walmart brands, whic is probably why we have to replace that many.
Hell our garage is lit by a ring style screw in florescent my grandpa bought over 20 years ago.

I believe you meant to say "At what pint does the brawl start?"

Mainly you just use a bit of empathy.
If someone is waiting on you, doing work you would be doing, then it's a good idea to tip.

Drivers- These guys use their own cars with little to no compensation from the restaurant for gas and vehicle maintenance, half the time going out in weather that prompted you to order delivery instead of getting it yourself, and in most areas they might as well have a big bullseye on them saying "I carry money, come mug me!" Generally a good tip is $1-2 per item delivered. Though when you get your food check it first thing, making sure the order is correct (so the delivery guy knows first instead of getting the call back from the restaurant) and also just to be sure it wasn't damaged or tampered with in transit.
This is a job I have done for pizza hut. It's pretty thankless, you can get some horrible customers (one coworker delivered to a place and was greeted by a 300lb 50 year old lady in see-through lingerie), you spend most of your time on the road trying not to get hit by some idiot driver, and the delivery charge pizza hut adds is used as an excuse to not tip you. Which is completely bogus, pizza hut keeps 75% of the delivery charge to supposedly pay for the bags and signs drivers use, even though they replace them maybe once every 5 years and yet enough delivery fees are taken in a week to replace them all twice over.

Wait staff- As long as they aren't rude then it's a good idea to tip atleast something. Remember that your waitress didn't cook your food, the cooks in the kitchen did. If your waitress is honestly making an effort to give you a pleasant dining experience then they shouldn't be punished because your order was goofed up.
Now if the person is rude, dismissive, and/or lazy then by all means withhold a tip.You do sometimes get wait staff who give preferential service based on looks, gender, race, party size/composition, and/or final bill tally. And some are just plain lazy, expecting that as long as you get some sort of food and they interact with you atleast once then they deserve their 15-20%

Large groups- Tip. As long as they don't completely ignore you then tip. Good waitstaff can bus a normal table in a single trip with just a minute or two, but a party of 10+ is always a long cleanup job. Even worse if you have a lot of kids in the group. Every birthday party I serviced had atleast one little shit who thought it completely hilarious to try the unscrewed cap trick on every salt/pepper/whatever shaker in the place.
If the restaurant has an automatic gratuity then make a judgement if their level of service is deserving of a bigger tip.

Complicated orders- This is more of a service quality indicator than anything any special tipping situation. A good waiter will use a note pad to write your order down and be able to handle a complicated order as well as they would "large pepperoni, thick crust". If they don't write your order down and it comes back wrong, it's their fault for not being prepared. If they do write it down and it comes back wrong then you can generally blame the kitchen.
Just don't punish the wait staff for a kitchen problem.

One final note, if the service is good but the food is bad (low quality, multiple mistakes by the cooks, ect...) then don't punish the wait staff. If you skimp on the tip then they assume you're just an asshole who can be ignored. But if you tip them nicely and tell them what you think of the food it goes a long way towards getting things fixed.

Damn mobile browser, replied to the wrong one.

The IRS has a minimum reporting amount they expect you to make. A bad week with a couple huge parties that stiff you and you can work your ass off for no tips then get irate calls from corporate threatening to fire you.

School busses are the worst. Many coaches refuse to tip (claiming they can't despite the voucher having instructions for doing so), some to be asses, some to save activity budget, and some to later report the tip was paid out of their own money so they can enjoy a $50-100 bonus.

Other groups can be almost as bad. The sunday after-church rush tends to leave you with maybe $5 from that old lady who still remembers what being a waitress was like. But mainly you get nothing from god's flock (because if you were a good christian you would be in church too, because only evil sinners are saddled with low end jobs).
Family with a higher income having a birthday for their angel and his friends, with the 9 year old getting expensive shit and all 20 kids tearing up the place because they can, you'll be lucky if they actually pay their bill instead of bitching at the manager on duty about crappy food and the mess the place is in as they leave (never mind who caused it), and scream trying to demand their food be free.

Infact the only people who reliably tip are the people receiving welfare. The ones who order once a month at most as a huge treat for their kids. The ones who can barely afford food are the ones most generous to others in shitty dead-end jobs.

And i have NEVER seen a politician tip when cameras weren't involved.

Depending on the state you can work 40hr a week and still easily qualify for food stamps. That's not saying food stamps have a high max income limit, but min wage is so far below the poverty line it's a joke.
Hell some states are much worse than others, with laws that allow restaurants to pay wait staff $3 an hour. Yes the difference is meant to be covered by tips, but get a bad schedule or just a stingy tipping crowd (fun fact, the more someone makes the less likely they will tip drivers and waitstaff in low end restauraunts) it's not uncommon to take home an average of $4 an hour for a full work schedule.

Guessing they've got a dedicated acronym guy as part of the PR department.
Tell a congressman you're sending a refrigerator into space and they think they know as much about it as you do, and therefor why should it cost more than $299 at sears? Instant budget cut.

I can, but you won't be able to decipher it without the magic seer stones of Itsajokelaughdamnit.
Those seer stones are also good for translating ancient gold tablets that detail how to create your own religion.

Steve Jobs created UPS technology?

You're missing the point of this advertisement. Only an Enterprise class Intel drive will save your data. All other factors of the test are irrelevant, like the other drives being consumer grade or that all the other drives were beaten with a rubber mallet for 5 minutes before each test while the intel was handled with silk mittens attached to 7 grounding point. And you definitely don't need to pay attention to the fact the power loss with the Intel drive was carried out via software shutdown while the other drives were done by power surging the computer until the motherboards burst into flames.
Nope, pay no attention to that irrelevant information. Just remember that only official certified and authorized Intel drives can protect your data. Now please wait while the next advertisement queues up, which will explain how the Intel drives protext your data with a computer rendering of the drive tucking your data into bed at night before turning off the lights.

China is cashing in on that debt quite often, buying up american businesses and the physical assets associated with.
Trading land for trinkets is a time honored american tradition.

You can't feed pork to hamsters!
It gives them horrible gas...