I have the same thing when people ask me about my TouchPad. "You mean an iPad?" ...sure, kid, now leave me alone.

OMG, Butters didn't LMS. FML :(

Well, I guess you weren't kidding!

You're a Libra asshole? I'm sorry to hear that. You can't change your sign, but you can work on not being an asshole! :-)

This seems to be the new "I'm going to edit your apostrophes/spelling." It's like the internet as a whole just discovered initialisms (I've seen this criticism all over the place recently). No one cares, though. I get irritated when people can't figure out which homonym of "there" to use, or "your," but I find this…

Me either! We're so alike!

I appreciate Scott's position as a film maker, but as a fan, how he wanted the film to be seen is irrelevant. I want to see movies how I want to see them, not how he wants me to see them. So Netflix works just great for me. I appreciate not having to store media, not having to go and get media, the convenience of…

I don't like the ads because they're ambiguous in a way that I think is more negative towards women than they're intended. On second reading I think the goal is to encourage people to be actively involved in moderating the consumption of their friends. I'm not sure how effective this is (probably in opposite…

I appreciate that the slogan is misleading, but then I hardly think that's a problem of OWS alone. I'm even positive that you could probably find hardcore communists in there. I can only describe for you my own experience, much as you've explained yours. Maybe Occupy Portland is different than OWS. Here, people talk…

Regarding the stereotype thing, I'm not sure your rebuttal added much. The Greek root στερεός can mean either "firm" or "solid," because it refers to physical objects (that is, it's analogous to words that denote sturdiness, that resist pressure, etc). But τύπος refers to an impression, like a dent. So a stereotype is…

I find your viewpoint interesting... if you wouldn't deny money sent from God, but would deny your parents, how do you know God didn't influence your parents? That's tangential, and hopefully not offensive. In any event, I fully admit that I have a more collectivistic tendency than most Americans, and I'm okay with…

But we were talking specifically about taxation, and the claim was made that some people are taxed a majority of their income. So far, this hasn't been borne out by any of the data presented.

You know, I've never lived in a state with an income tax. What do the brackets run? Medicare and SS withholding seem like red herrings, at 6.2% and 1.45%, respectively (and SS is only collected on the first $110,100 of income). Likewise, since insurance isn't provided by or paid for by the government I have a hard…

A stereotype need have no basis in fact, and the etymology of the word has no connection to the truth of the belief (it comes to us by French and Latin and means "firm impression"). Many stereotypes are demonstrably false, such as that women are lousy drivers (insurance companies charge men more because we get in more…

This sounds like we're treating OWS as one homogenous group. Those with smartphones must, by some extension, have student loan debt? There are a lot of statistics my university has compiled about student loans - most significantly that over time a greater percentage of reimbursement has been shifted from state funds…

I'm not sure where you're going with this. So you talked to some people who had no concept of what it meant to be in the 1%, and...? The message of OWS is about government policy - or at least, the OWS protestors with whom I've spoken. Bailing out banks (to the tune of $7.7 trillion dollars, we recently found out) who…

I'm not sure why your judgment of them is consequential to the validity of the movement. Is the argument that people who disagree with the political system but who aren't dirt poor aren't allowed to be pissed off? What, exactly, are the ground rules for who is and isn't allowed to protest government malfeasance? The…

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about the protesters as a whole. I find it difficult to have a rational discussion when your argument is based entirely on speculation ("they're protesting things they barely understand," "they're idiotic and useless," etc). While it may be easier for you to dismiss them by…

I guess my only question is... do the 99% have to live like a third world country before they're allowed to protest policies and actions that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest?

But the protests aren't about getting stuff for the protestors. They're about the outsized influence that corporations and the extremely wealthy have on politics... that's where the whole 1%/99% thing comes from. The charge of OWS is that 1% of people wield more influence over politics in America than the other 99%…