I have been doing this for years. Every 12 months I call up comcrap and go through the hoops of driving down a price. This year, they changed the game. They are pumping 12 and 24 month contracts HARD. The only discounts the would give us were based on contract rates that had nasty termination charges. Since its…

Good joke. Part of me seems like I should feel bad at it being distasteful, but I don’t. Am I broken?

It took me two years and the cooperation of apple to finally make itunes so awful that she finally took the leap of faith and jumped ship. Now she is sold for life.

I just have to chime in with my “I left itunes, went to google music and never looked back.” I could not be happier.

Today the from bench seat will be making a comeback to support the girth of the more than ample American.

It makes the OS unusable. I know some people never see it but for those that do, it causes me no end of annoyance.

Their job is harder than most industries. I can’t think of another service industry where the customer is pushed to their behavioral limits like aviation. It’s the perfect recipe for the perfect asshole. Nothing even comes close. I almost can’t blame the customer, but the reality they have all voted with their wallets…

The start menu issue was on a clean install of Windows 10.

That’s news to me, but would not surprise me in the least if it were company policy.

Coffee. Starbucks gift cards are great, although slightly more expensive.

My experience is UA flight attendants on long haul flights should have retired 20 years ago. They’re angry and downright hostile to passengers sometimes. Some are so old and frail I hold no confidence in them opening an exit in an emergency. They need to move away from the front lines in my opinion.

Preach on brother or sister. My wife’s install had this great bug, I mean feature, where the start menu would just give up. Randomly it would just not work and the only fix was a reboot. It’s happening to plenty of people and MS wont or cant fix it. I gave up and upgraded to BACK to windows 8 and she’s happy again.

Does this mean those god damn reminders are finally going to go away or will they become even more obnoxious?

Industry insider here. The best way is to just grease the wheels and make it known. Just tell them you appreciate their hard work and you know how difficult their job is. Give them the candy and say this is for you guys, I appreciated everything you do. A little grease can go a long way, especially on flights where…

Or steel wool.

Or steel wool.

Did anyone else read this with Richard Hammonds voice?

I can beat that. After being locked in an agreement with our less than great buyers agent the guy stopped showing us houses all together. We had such a bad relationship with the guy that all I did was tell him the property I wanted to see and if it was vacant he just gave me the lock box code and told me to go in for…

On point number 3 won't you get killed on capital gains taxes when you cash out, making the whole thing a waste of time?

You say you are trying to buy an apartment? I guess you live in a big city. Personally the finance charges on any real estate buy are going to be huge. You would be so much better off putting as much of that money you have towards your real estate purchase, especially if it gets you to nearly 100% paid for. Also pay…

And you won't be there