Like the people of ancient Rome we complain about our conditions and our leaders.
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While we complain about US taxes, we are ranked 69th and it takes us 175 hours per year.
Normally, we complain about lack of inputs on CE devices but if they're all there, what's there to talk about?
The direct result was the kind of dehumanizing experiences we complain so much about customer service hell driven by transaction-minded policies and well-intentioned automation.
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As consumers of consumer electronics, we complain when things change, yet change is exactly what made us all nerds in the first place.
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Today we complain about the temporarily high price of gasoline, but at least we don't have the enervating shortages and gas lines of the 1970s.
We complain because we feel alone and disconnected in our stress.
We complain that the top 1% make too much (and they do) and that the bottom 47% take too much from the government (which they do, too).
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"Europeans complain if we lead and then complain when we don't lead, " former Clinton national security adviser Samuel Berger said in an interview.
Then, when we do complain, it comes out worse than we meant it to.
So can we genuinely complain about government without accepting a lot of the blame?
We can complain about unwelcomed changes through Twitter, Facebook, or even set up a parody site to mock any company that dares to change its logo without our permission.
It's not clear how people manage to score so many good pictures of phones that aren't scheduled for announcement -- much less release -- for months, but who are we to complain?
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New Yorkers love to complain, and there's nothing we like to complain about more than the subway.
We can plead ignorance, mope or complain, or we can see in Hurricane Irene the inspiration for a new energy age.
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Of course, one can argue that we should not complain when foreigners help American taxpayers, especially when the foreigners in question generally share our notions of international commerce.
We don't complain that David used a foreign object against Goliath, do we?
"We can't really complain that the poor are heavier, when what we're donating is our kind of castaways, " she says.
We were a tight group, and we had little to complain about.
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We all like to complain about how defensive medical testing leads to constantly rising insurance premium costs until the person seeking the peace of mind or the early diagnosis a test can produce is you and I or a member of our family.
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Do we sit around and complain and talk to government and beg them to do what they do not have the will to do or do we mobilize and organize and make government respond to the needs of the weak, the poor, the helpless, the homeless of this society?
It is our responsibility to complain loudly when we think the public sector is wasting resources (something we will all have an opportunity to do on November 6).
We've just about had our fill of " world's smallest" gizmos this week, but when it comes to a new development in the battery realm, we certainly won't complain with delivering power in a less burdensome manner.
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At one point, when the room service arrived (after five hours, but this was hardly a time to complain), we realised the extent of the damage inside the hotel - the waiter apologised profusely, explaining that it had be hard to prepare the food as the gas had got into the kitchen.
Instead of writing to your congressman to complain, however, we recommend that you milk these tax giveaways for all they're worth.
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