So glad I ditched the iPhone last month. Haven't missed it at all.

Credit cards are evil. All of them. I refuse to participate in the systematic plundering & pillaging of this country's wealth by giant faceless corporate greed. No "reward" is great enough to offset the underlying reality.

@DavidWizard: I hate voicemail. There's no way to disable it, but I got lucky and figured out that, if you never set up your voicemail to begin with, it doesn't exist. Perfect. I don't want voicemail.

No.

@DangerousLiberal: "They're getting your money one way or another. The visa logo on your debit card isn't free."

@Bully: They also charge annual fees and lots of other stuff if you should happen to not be a militant freak about paying your bill the exact moment it lands in the mailbox, whether you're within budget or not.

I wouldn't use a credit card to buy water if my hair was on fire.

Yes! Because, of course, everyone is strictly prohibited from taking control of their own email, as we know.

Today is the day I'm finally ditching my iPhone. Going back to my Motorola Razr for about a month, then to a Samsung Rugby old school phone with no bullshit, no data, no frills or gimmicks. Waited for this day for a long time.

@mokey: I've been dead broke and homeless twice. But I didn't realize we were talking about broke people living in a $50 / month room trying to disguise a MacBook. That's kind of a unique situation don't you think? How many people that are THAT broke, actually have ultra nice stuff they need to disguise? Not many I…

I have a store bought grill that's very similar to that. After owning 5 different gigantic gas grills, it took a hurricane and 4 days of power outage for us to realize that, you know what? Food tastes better cooked over coals on an old school grill than it ever did on a gas grill.

@Mark Lee: Yeah, I solved that one easy: I can't stand earbuds of any kind and never use them. However, it seems to me that the pickpocket would either have to take the earbuds right off your head, or disconnect them from the iPhone, in either case you would be instantly aware of it. So, I have to ask, how did you…

This is some serious paranoia.

@rabiddachshund: If the account is closed and the CC company reopens it without my express authorization, any charges are on them. Sorry, but I'm not paying for that after the account was closed. And they know better, because it's called "fraud".

@olegna: "But to suggest that people who use credit are all materialistic consumer whores living beyond their means ....."

Macbook Pro with some speakers jacked in. Beats a phone / iPod any day.

AT&T dropped the what & the who? "Paging" instructions? I never would've known. I don't leave voicemails for anyone ever, and I never check my own. I probably have 3,000 voicemails in there. Voicemail should go away with the pagers.

@greenbot: "The laptop hunters campaign is a great example."

@Michael Drozdowski: Yeah, it'll work no matter where your library is located, but if your media is spread across multiple drives, you have a problem, because your library is not.

VOTE: Spaces