It isn't the use of "black" or "african american" that offends. It's the content of your message. People are smarter than you seem to be giving anyone credit for. Alternatively, we could all live in your world where black people are evidently crazy enough to snap on you if you offend their delicate sensibilities, by…

Again, straw man argument. No one was going to take issue with you saying "black" instead of "african american." Hell you could have said it on national television and you still would have been fine. I hear black used all the time in the media, and it seems to be a personal preference which wording to use more than…

You're still not really connecting with the dynamics of the majority/minority relationship. Your neighborhood or town may well be mostly "minority," but that doesn't mean that roles are reversed. If the culture at large supports a specific majority/minority dynamic, that can still play out even if your local…

I really don't think it's a "flaw in our society" (and if even if it was, why are you perpetuating the problem then?) As someone else pointed out, you're really making a straw man argument here. If you had said black it's extremely likely no one would have commented about your use of the word, because it isn't…

I bet it was stellar comments like this that netted you that star.

@FaceTimeSmoke: I'm not sure you're reading these comments correctly. No one made the point that a group has to be a minority everywhere to...well actually I'm really not sure what kind of point you're trying to make with those numbers. Being minority/majority is a relative thing that completely depends on your…

@FaceTimeSmoke: Uh dude, it's okay to say black. You need to get out more.

@Dukenukemx: AT&T has said that they factored in the cost of replacement handsets into the total cost of the acquisition. So presumably they'll be offering current T-Mo customers some kind of break if it all goes through.

I've never understood why DT wanted to get rid of it so bad. It just doesn't seem like they want to be involved with the US market in an active capacity.

T-Mobile USA has been profitable for years with a consistent subscriber base...?

They weren't: T-Mobile has been consistently profitable and has had a steady subscriber base. Deal with it? Uh, what's wrong with customers not being happy about this?

And that's exactly the problem. Especially for us no-contract Even More Plus users. It'll be very different, and we'll either have to switch carriers or move to a much more expensive plan still on AT&T&T.

If history is any indication, I won't be able to keep my current plan for long if at all. Grandfathered plans have a limited lifetime, and for those like myself on contract-free Even More Plus...well there really isn't a contract to grandfather-in. Keeping T-Mobile's plan-structure in place would effectively mean AT&T…

And that's not the whole story of why most T-Mobile users are so bummed about this. You may have have been given great customer service, but part of what makes T-mo T-mo are cheap contact and contract-free plans. So even setting aside coverage and CS, T-Mobile is much more affordable than AT&T.

There are damn good reasons why 34 million of us weren't on AT&T before. Ugh.

Nuclear power IS fairly commonplace though. There are 440 nuclear power plants worldwide providing approximately 14% of the world's electricity, and we've been using them for more than half a century. Coal plants impart more radiation into the surrounding environment than do nuclear plants as well. There are…

That wasn't really my point. Read the box, check reviews if you have to, and buy a better CFL. A bulb being CFL has nothing to do with how much light it produces. Florescent lights have been around for decades, it isn't as if they just figured out much light they make.

But that "equivalent wattage" is meant to equate to the light output. What else would it mean? There are only 3 measures that really matter for a bulb: wattage, light output, and temperature. On traditional incandescents wattage serves double duty, referring to both power draw and what you can expect the brightness to…

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People who can think ahead and realize that $50 is less over the course of the bulb's life than replacing incandescents and often CFLs. No one should be making financial decisions based entirely on what is more expensive at the moment without regard to the long term costs. It also just isn't true that the light is not…