Honestly, so many people give in that it’s worth it. You’re also talking about the US division of (usually) a multinational, the repair guys are all subcontractors who get paid no matter how many times they come out.

It wasn’t less attractive. Throwing a disk at someone wouldn’t have flown - a lot of people were initially pretty pissed off when software companies started to get rid of printed manuals, and that was YEARS later. If you spent what software cost - which adjusted for inflation was a hell of a lot of money - you…

Yup - and opened / returned boxes weren’t supposed to be resold, which was a HUGE pain in the ass for the retailer. So they’d often have a shrink-wrap machine in the back, and as long as everything was in the box, they’d just re-wrap it.

I prefer this word order.

One way to attack frats is to point out to parents that they could be named in a suit against individual fraternity members if something goes wrong. The national org’s liability insurance (which came into being because insurance companies started to drop frats because of the risk) only covers the members if 100% of…

Let’s face it - the Saudis are freaking out over the possibility of US-Iranian relations improving, and there being a realignment in the region. Soft of the way that Pakistan freaked out a bit when US-Indian relations started to improve. We sure in hell have been looking the other way as the Saudis have contributed to…

Remember, being emotional about a bunch of school kids who were ripped apart by gunfire is NOT OK and has no place in the debate! But being an Ammosexual who freaks out and starts screaming if anyone mentions even the mildest gun control measures isn’t an example of excess emotionalism at all - that’s JUST FINE.

It’s either touching, or a horrifying metaphor about what a marriage can become over time as you imagine the deterioration of the cake.

GenX shifted a bit later over time. It was originally earlier - early to mid-60s through the mid-70s when it was first getting floated as a term. 1970 is too late as a start date. It basically applied to the group of kids who were pretty young during or were born in the late 60’s or early 70s and were past the tail…

God will provide!

The worst thing is - I honestly don’t believe that Ted Cruz believes a word of what he says when it comes to shit like this. He’s a smart guy, and he’s figured out that he can go far by pandering to the worst instincts of his likely supporters, rather than by appealing to the better angels of their nature. He knows…

If they’re going to put it back the way it was, I want an Automat and the Howard Johnson’s back.

This is the same sort of thinking that lead to decades of “urban renewal” that amounted to demolishing tons of working-class and poor neighborhoods to put in housing and shopping for the well-to-do in cities across America. That was a total fucking failure for actual human beings. Worked out great for real estate…

Escalators are terrifying, but at least in a power outage they basically turn into stairs. Unlike elevators, where you sit in a dimly-lit, enclosed casket, suspended in midair as the air gets more and more stuffy, wondering if you’re going to die there.

I take the stairs whenever possible.

See, in other cities, it’s the mayor who knocks around the other guy. So it’s nice to see a city where the mayor isn’t abusing his authority that way!

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/201302…

His brand of awful is just out of step with today’s times. We’ve moved on to a new kind of awful.

I love the “Government doesn’t do everthing perfectly, so it can’t possibly tell anyone to do something better.” Also, I’m a huge fan of the “I’ve got mine, so screw you” school of public policy.

Fiorina helped tank Lucent by orchestrating the making of tons of (shady/ill-advised) loans so that service providers could…

One big difference between us and other developed countries - nobody else expects schools to spend tons of money on sports or athletic facilities. It’s not a “thing”.

August launches the official pre-season for racist rants. The season runs from Thanksgiving to New Year’s.

Clearly someone’s racist aunt is aiming to make a championship run this year.

They’re creepy when they’re empty, horrifying when they’re crowded. When I go - and I do end up shopping there because Stolmen is awesome - but I always come away with some small appreciation of what people suffering from agoraphobia must feel like.