My mom had won a new computer through work a few months after the family bought its first computer in 1997 and I set the old computer (a HP running windows 95) up in my room to mostly play sim city and browse the encarta encyclopedia. Then I a girl I liked whom I met at a summer camp gave me her email address and I…

Establishing credit history is rough. I got the ball rolling by getting in-store credit at best buy when I wanted to make a large purchase (read big-ass TV) and had the money to make the purchase. I got the card to buy the TV and had it paid off in no time and got some credit, it's all down hill from there (assuming…

I'm not sold. I don't see where we need more government intervention to correct a problem that was caused by government intervention in the first place. I, as a consumer will not see cheaper prices at the merchants I go to because of the new rules and might have to pay more for my banking. There is a cost for the use…

How does the Tea Party get blamed for this?

I'll second that! Wells Fargo pissed me off so I switched to USAA and haven't looked back. And with the deposit at home/deposit mobile feature, making deposits are actually more simple and less of a pain than going to a local branch. (I also bank with a local bank to have funds at immediate disposal should I need…

I have never had a problem with stores asking for my zip code. In fact, if it leads to having a store planted closer to me because many people from my area travel to shop at a particular place, I'm happy. It's the stores that ask for other information that I have problems with...I politely decline to give the…

Well said indeed! I feel very strongly that we as people are the ones responsible for unmaking this world from the good place God created it to be into the less than perfect place it is today. Likewise we as people have within us the potential to bring about a (much) better world through our actions. The internet…

No one-handed operation...no thank you.

Uncle Rico approves.

It was 2003 when I said goodbye to my first vehicle, a '89 Mitsubishi Montero. I loved that Montero...not even counting a whole bunch of other features, it had a great cassette deck. Its fast forward and reverse would find the track breaks so I didn't have to employ the hit-and-miss technique when finding specific…

Grip tape is handy under the right circumstances. I had an Ovation guitar once that wouldn't stay put on my leg when I was playing sitting down, because of the composite bowl. I put some grip tape on the guitar where my leg supported it and didn't have any more problems. Though I would think that using grip tape on an…

@TheNevinWeekend: What types of population controls are acceptable? Simple birth limits or would mandatory sterilization, eugenics, or refusal of medicine work for you? There's always genocide, it's quick and effective. God forbid an animal dies, but hell what's another human life, there are plenty to spare.

@ThePercontationPoint: You could say that they're using some powerful technology.

When you're based out of Love Field, you have to have some sort of advantage over everyone else.

I live right off an interstate in a rural area, and ATT 3G service is great where I live. However, when I drive up the highway and hit DFW my data speed hits a brick wall, so I ever move back to the city I might switch...until then, I'm happy.

You can have any car you want, as long as it's a Lada.

"raise your fist up into the air, pump the metal sign to the beat of the snare, jump up and down like you just don't care....and rock like the world's gonna end tomorrow"

@woshiernog: And How!

"Well boys this is it, artistic expression, toe to toe with the Ruskies" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

@WestwoodDenizen: That's a matter of preparation, processing, and curing. A pork chop retains much of its natural state whereas ham and bacon are cured in different manners resulting in different flavors and textures. Beef reacts in the same way; look at the differences between a beef steak, pastrami, corned beef, and…