Maybe we need to get that chip off your shoulder - it's hurting your reading comprehension skills.

If you'll take a moment to reread what I said, I made none of the assumptions you accuse me of. I was simply refuting your implication that there are no other injustices than the hiring process and that anything else would just be "grand social experiments" based on the idea that some "races are inferior" - which no one else had implied.

No one said anything about inferiority of races. Underperformance != Inherent Inferiority. You look for reasons in society's systems for racial under-performance because you start with the assumption that those races aren't inferior.

See, I had exactly the opposite experience. Comcast worked just fine for me for the entire time I had it - not one outage, not one problem. Never even had to call tech support, and installation went smooth a could be. Then Time Warner came in, and my connection started dropping every night, and my cable TV would go snow (not even the Guide was available) every evening. Contacting TW's tech support is a joke. Their first and second tier are complete incompetent yahoo's who wouldn't know Windows from OS X.

So, as I said in my original and as others have said in response - all the major cable players are shit. My only real point was, Comcast isn't the only one that sucks and you have just as good a chance of having a bad experience with any of the others.

Eh, it's not like Comcast is any worse that TimeWarner. In fact, if you can believe it - cable/internet got a ton WORSE in Southern California when TimeWarner took over for Comcast here. TimeWarner has just as crappy hold times, just as incompetent tech support, and don't worry - when you leave, they'll intentionally charge you for your returned hardware even though you returned it.

I thought the interface was pretty shitty. While I'm all for minimalism and don't really care about having candy gumdrop buttons like Apple loves, the choice of light cyan all over was brutal on the eyes - and that's not even mentioning the start screen only had enough room for about 6 icons with how big and clunky they were. Beyond the stylistic changes they removed, there was very little that was innovative or different. They keyboard functioned the same, but its touch recognition was more dodgy in the demo. Moving around to find recent calls was counter-intuitive. Heck, in the web browser even the icons for the functions at the bottom are cloned straight from the iPhone. This thing has Zune written all over it so far.

Even if this is something to get excited about, the Engadget demo made it seem like a piece of shit. The start screen was clunky and ugly, and it only had enough room for about 4-6 icons before you have to scroll to a new page. The touch recognition was sloppy, often engaging a function when the user was still trying to scroll around. Then they showed the keyboard interface which even further showed off the terrible touch recognition - the guy tried to touch one key and got registered and could barely navigate.

This thing needs some serious refinement. Until then, it looks like another Zune to me.

That kind of rationality only works with individuals, small groups, and/or in the movies. It is not nearly as effective against large-scale mob mentality that has been duped into drinking the Kool Aid and is no longer capable of rational though on its own - such as, say, the Evangelical Republicans or the Obamacrats... I wish you were right and it really was that simple, but alas... look at the state of the USA right now.

But.. but.. Corporations act in my best interest!

What do you mean? We're all perfectly free to act within the interests of the major corporations. :P

This will help the FBI fight child pornography. Won't you think of the children?

You no more have to use Microsoft products than you do Apple products. In fact, at least with Microsoft Windows you have a much greater choice of what hardware you run it on - OS X is only allowed on Apple hardware. The application restrictions on the iPhone are more accepted because that's the status quo for phones - the iPhone isn't the first phone to be closed the way it is, it's generally more open than most phones have been. Apple is more restrictive and abusive with their software and hardware policies than Microsoft ever was. Apple has just done a much better job of keeping it inside the law, and of selling their fanbois their image.

AppleInsider would seem to agree with you (though the data is a little old): http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/23/apples_ipod_touch_sales_double_nearly_on_par_with_iphone.html

...and in other news, water is wet.

That wouldn't have been an atrocious, horrible act that should never have happened in the first place.