People gripe about how hard roundabouts are to use, and I don't see it at all. Maybe it helps that the local ones were laid out intelligently so there's obviously only one way to go in - the entrances are canted to the right so that even the biggest idiot doesn't try to enter to the left.

It was a rare bit of sanity from MoDOT.

Also Intel bribed big OEMs to use their processors instead of AMD's. Dell was an especial example of this: in the K7/K8 days they'd make noise every year or two about how they were considering selling AMD-based systems rather than being exclusively Intel, and those of us in IT who wanted /better/ computers would get very excited, but then Intel reliably came along and gave Dell an even better sweetheart deal on their CPUs, which was probably Dell's objective the whole time.

It wasn't AMD's fault for choosing the wrong market; they'd made a far better desktop and mobile processor than the P4, it was just that Intel was abusing its market position.

Some areas, especially thinly-populated hilly areas and especially out West, really are not well-served.

Can I guess that you live east of the Mississippi in relatively flat terrain?

But we don't have a free market and that's all the government's fault.

I've known an Internet Libertarian or two who basically argued from the premise that all ills were either directly caused by the gov't, or indirectly caused by the government doing something else foolish or malicious, then presented things (I shan't call them facts) to bolster that opinion.

It's very tiring to argue with them.

I recently switched to a Rumor Touch from a more traditional slide-out feature phone. The touchscreen /sucks/, and it's worse since I've used smartphones with proper touchscreens and know what I'm missing.

Two things going wrong here:

1) Using a cheap resistive touchscreen instead of a proper capacitative. Even after calibration it's only got a rough idea of where my finger is, and the scrolling is jerky and slow.

2) Bad UI. Some of it (like looking at missed messages) requires precise finger placement to activate because of a stupid tiny icon. Also the UI in general is busy and poorly organized.

You might argue that this is what I get for getting the "free" phone with my contract and you'd have a point, but the fault is largely Sprint's because their store only had dummy display units (incl. non-functional screens) and I couldn't do a proper test of any of them except the iPhone, which was the only real phone in the whole display rack. If I'd known how fucking terrible this phone's screen was I'd never have bought it and stuck with a physical keyboard instead.

I said "improperly done", idiot.

Filling up my nasal passages with /honey/ does not pass the squick filter.

Except that improperly-done nasal irrigation can kill. There were a couple people in Louisiana who used tap water to irrigate their sinuses, but the water was infected with an amoeba that killed them.

Ought to use distilled water for that at the least.

I'm filing this under "textbook strawmen".

It's a practice known to the State of Utah to be sinful.

Questioning is allowed, nay, encouraged - if nobody ever questions results we'd have religion and not science.

Repeatedly raising disproven talking points is not questioning. Your deliberate ignorance on this point shows that you're not interested in truth, merely in your point of view winning.