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Does Comcast Hate Firefox?
destinyland writes "Comcast is the largest ISP in America. And they're requiring Internet Explorer for installations — even if you're using a Mac. The Comcast homepage even specifies that the page is optimized for IE 5.5 (which was released in 2000), and 'is not optimized for Firefox browsers and Macs.' With 13 million subscribers, you'd think they could spring for a web developer who could handle multiple browsers. (From the last line of the article: 'I'm afraid to ask how Comcast handles Linux...')"
This is EXACTLY like how the Ubuntu forums handle problems.
"Hi, I had GRUB error 25 at stage 1.5."
"OH! I know! You need to re-install!" "Oh, I know! You must not have the latest version!" "Oh, I know, it must be the Windows OS that never had a chance to load!" "Oh, I know, it must be your faulty hard drive!" "Oh, I know, the CD didn't download properly!" "Oh, I know! The CD didn't burn properly!" "Oh, I know, you must have cluelessly manipulated some ultra-advanced options without knowing what you were doing!" "Oh, I know, you're using a pirated version of Windows!" "Oh, I know, you're making this all up to make Linux look bad!" "Oh, I know, you're making this all up because it's logically impossible to have downloaded the install CD, and yet not have access to a working CD burner."
Full details plus link to car analagy.
I'll probably hit neutral or negative today. I don't care. It's the truth.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
You just don't mean it, but you are.
Nobody was talking politics!
You are offtopic, and your parent is not.
I don't live in the US, but like most of the world population who watches international news, I dislike US policies.
This administration does awful things to people from other countries, but with respect to global affairs, the difference with the other party is quantitaive, not qualitative.
But I don't think that jokes about GWB occur beacuse people hate him (and lots of people do), but because the guy is funny!!!
He says lots of stuff you can make fun of.
Creationists are and endless source of fun.
All the newspeak rethoric about terrorists is fun, too.
Of course, in a pathetic sense of "fun", but it is fun.
And funny is always on-topic, and relevant to the subject. Star wars jokes would be on-topic in this thread, too. That is the way "Funny" works.
We all know everybody makes fun of GWB, it's not a political thing, they are not trying to get you to vote the democrats, it's just that the guy does everything he can to get people to laugh at him!