If you want to hassle your hotel front desk, I recommend hassling your gas station attendant, coffee shop barista, and grocery store clerk as well. Hassle every single person who ever touches your credit card!

As a general rule, I never buy something the first time I see it in a store. This cuts down my impulse spending significantly. It bothers my wife, as she sees a shiny and wants to buy it and my response is "not today". But, it all makes sense when we are wandering the store a week later and I point out the thing she…

If college was the best time of my life, I would have threw in the towel the day I finished.

Yep, I use service like these already. I prefer it when I don't have to generate an RSS feed, and I really prefer it when I don't need to use something like yahoo pipes to mangle a crappy feed that isn't that useful.

Their existence DOES affect me. I want content. I would love to subscribe. If they wouldn't insist on cluttering my inbox with newsletters and affiliate mail, I'd love to hear what they have to say. Instead of insisting that they be granted access to my email, why note publish what they are offering in the form of RSS.

When I purchased my house, the first thing I did was schedule an assessment. I brought a copy of the appraisal that I got before I purchased the house. The assessor looked at the house for less than 10 minutes and decided my house was worth 25k less than before.

Email newsletters need to die. If a site has recurring content that it would like me to subscribe to, there is always RSS.

The whole point of abolishing tipping would be that servers would be paid a wage which is fair. I don't expect high end restaurant employees to be working for minimum wage. I expect high end restaurants to pay their servers in a way which would attract skilled and qualified servers. A high end restaurant which does…

I've been working for myself for a few years now. Here's what I've learned.

I agree. Forcing employers to pay a minimum working wage would be a good thing. It's really silly... Tips are pretty much cooking the books. It artificially lowers operating expenses and gives customers a false price tag.

I'm not blaming victims. It isn't worth the abuse. Stop enabling victimizers.

It doesn't matter how much you need a job and you need the money, you shouldn't be working for an employer who engages in illegal activities. Contact your local labor board and fix it, or find a job where your employer isn't going to take advantage of its employees.

I agree, the minimum wage does need a bit of help. If you work full time, you should be able to support yourself without any govt assistance.

If you want to run a restaurant with better service than a greasebomb diner, then you should pay your servers more than minimum wage. If your food is good and your service is good, you will have no problem charging the right amount to pay your servers wages.

Servers are guaranteed a minimum working wage, just like the cooks. If their wage+tips do not meet the federally mandated minimum wage, then the employer is legally obligated to cover the difference.

If you are going to leave a bad tip, you really should talk to the manager about it. I've met numerous server (my wife tends bar) who are horrible at their job and are entirely clueless as to why they consistently get poor tips. Nobody ever told them they were bad at their job.

Servers are guaranteed a minimum working wage, just like everyone else. If a server's wage+tips do not meet the minimum wage, then the employer is legally obligated to cover the difference.

A better approach than leaving cash (which has a whole mess of problems of its own) would be for servers to not work with employers who take money which is rightfully theirs to pay for operating expenses which are the responsibility of the business owner.

This confuses me. Why do the "Natural" guys always have chemical sounding food extracts like MCT. I thought the whole point of the paleo thing was unprocessed food...

A very vocal group of Minecraft server operators are whining like small children that their noxious money making tactics aren't allowed anymore. I've read the changes and I think they are great. Mojang wants all players to exist on a level playing field. Server operators are worried that people aren't paying for…