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Why do your cable boxes completely suck?

Pretty much all of these "Why does X suck?" at Comcast questions can be answered with a simple sentence or two: Because in many places Comcast has no competition, and, even when they do, they're part of an duopoly or oligopoly. They have no competitive pressure not to suck, and they've mostly captured any regulators who are nominally supposed to oversee them.

This can be further reduced "Because they can."

Thanks for providing so much information through your blog. That resource is unlike any other anywhere on or off the Internet.

Also, I find your posts too short!

By the way, anyone interested in this issue should read Daniel Okrent's book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which I wrote about at the link, and Eric Schlosser's book Reefer Madness. Taken together they're powerful indictments of drug prohibition and demonstrate why drugs should be legal and also how they came to be illegal: Racism and fear of (supposedly) sexually aggressive African Americans has a lot to do with the latter.

Why has Godaddy made managing domains, it's core business, convoluted to achieve?

I'm not the CEO, but the real answer is that their goal is to extract money, not provide value.

It's going to be a tough one, and yeah, part of the challenge will be to cover all the information in a readable way. Especially since there's no one best switch type for everyone (although I love Cherry MX Blacks, myself).

Very true. I write a blog about books and culture, and, strangely enough, one of the best-read things I've ever done is this review of the Unicomp Ultra Classic keyboard—about 100,00 people have read it, and I loved it at the time.

But I'm a professional writer and now use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. I like the buckling spring keys slightly better but the Advantage layout is amazing.

Nonetheless, unless you're a professional writer or coder, a ~$70 Unicomp keyboard is way more reasonable than a ~$325 specialized keyboard.