At first it was kind of weird, but now when I see people attached to their phones, I realize that it really sucks your time away and doesn't particularly increase your productivity or happiness.

I'm not particularly impressed about foregoing email - it's very unneeded.

As far as Stallman goes: it would be very impressive if he did not use the internet, period. But not using the web, but still using Lynx... IDGI. Is it a symbolic protest against... um... graphics?

I posted in the original story that I did not think the OP qualified for the upgrade?

Yay for me or something?

But it wouldn't work for Weaver gettin' paid.

Maybe that's why I like it. It's like the Mickey D's of Sci-Fi.

Maybe we should start putting up fliers in Ft. Lauderdale that look like this:

Roy Krause, CEO Spherion Corp.
Ask me about Melissa Amschwand.

Maybe we should start putting up fliers in Ft. Lauderdale that look like this:

Ask me about Melissa Amschwand.

Mr. Mark W. Smith
Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Exec. VP

Mr. William Grubbs
Chief Operating Officer, Exec. VP and Head of Commercial Staffing and Professional Services Unit

Mr. John D. Heins
Chief HR Officer and Sr.

Ms. Loretta A. Penn
Chief Service Excellence Officer and Sr. VP

...well, you get the idea.

On the other hand, it would be cool to see a scene where you see John and Cameron waking up in bed together and nothing else is said.

But I guess Ron Moore isn't writing this show. Oh well.

What would you be doing if you were 17 year-old male with a hot humanoid robot that obeys your commands?

Really, seriously, the show needs to address this.

Customers will make mistakes. That's fine. But it's very important that airlines not let people on planes that they don't have tickets for.

You thought they were fake?

Nooooooooo.

Sigh.

Please don't abuse this service!!! It's not for people who "forgot" to fill out a passport application or renewal. It's supposed to be for emergencies. Or for when you did fill out a passport application and never got a response from the very messed up and slow passport processing.

As in, three of us beam to the Grand Canyon, spend the day and come back. And we all spent the day together - and all have completely different versions of what happened.

It was very interesting.

There is kind of a strange standard regarding such a stance. If he was openly anti-semitic or racist, wouldn't that be a show stopper for most people? You would just say: Sorry, no thanks, you're not going to be accepted by mainstream society.

But hatred towards gay and lesbians doesn't receive quite the condemnation.

I will simply not buy or support anything he is involved with. Period. And I have to ask Steve Feldman: would you work with some who made racist or anti-semitic comments? How is this different?

Actually, The Karate Kid, Part III, again starred Ralph Macchio. You're thinking of The Next Karate Kid, the fourth film in the series.

Actually, Karate Kid, Part III again starred Ralph Macchio. You're thinking of The Next Karate Kid, which was the fourth film in the series.

Therefore, Cheer is good and wise. Thank you, Cheer.

I wrote and complained. In their written response, they accused me of making up the story and enclosed a refund check that had under the endorsement a statement saying I wouldn't sue them.

It was all very confidence building.

"His name is Yu?

"Don't even try it. They've all been done."

- um, why do we need to be safe from the protesters? Are they going to chant us to death?

Well said.

The customer had some weird expectations and is not that credible in my opinion. What Consumerist reader would expect that someone in email customer service is going to be able to have someone in phone customer support call you?

When has that ever happened?

What Consumerist reader would think that "a serial number could be sent in advance?"

When has that ever happened?

In addition, getting technical support for a product is always much more difficult. I'm afraid some of you are misinterpreting what I wrote. I agree that it sucks, but if you give up this easily when having problems with software, you won't be getting much software.

Overall, based on the OP's post, I would bet with about 95 percent certainty that she did not properly follow the directions regarding what software qualified for the upgrade.

Also: Why did the customer WAIT for days and days for answer from email. Why didn't she use the live chat she mentioned? Wouldn't most of us looked for a phone number if it was obvious their email system wasn't providing a reply?

I can't believe this got by Bushco. I suspect they just don't understand what it is the Reserve is doing.

Private industry is often unwilling to put in place certain safeguards for consumers, and when your much beloved deregulation leaves us with the majority of banks owned by less than a dozen financial institutions, choices for the consumer becomes very limited. This is when some rules are helpful. Believe it or not, you might have noticed that when left to its own devices, the banking industry tends to keep going bankrupt. This happens a few times every century in our country and the consequences are painful.

As people like you are wont to say, if you don't like it, vote with your feet. Move away to another country.