"Low flow? I don't like the sound of that"

One time after they played chicken with me forever, I told them to cancel it, and then two days before the cutoff date they offered me the same service for 75/month for 6 (or 12, I can't remember) months, PLUS a 75 dollar Amex gift card.

Every 6 months I threaten to cancel Time Warner, kept my Cable Internet/HD DVR/HBO service at less than 100/month.

the cop undercover as a drug user trying to buy drugs from a suspected dealer is not guilty of attempted purchase of narcotics.

I totally get what you're saying which (not to diffuse the blame on the studios) makes it all the more ridiculous that Gilliam, who CONTRACTUALLY HAD FINAL CUT as long as he made it 2:05, couldn't take out what you yourself called "a few minutes over the agreed length."

As a director myself I fully support these types of contract clauses. Is it so unimaginable to find 17 minutes from his director's cut that could've been taken out? Those 17 minutes essentially amount to the film tanking at the box office and giving him a lifelong reputation for being an unreliable director.

In general I support studios negotiating a maximum run-time. David Fincher reportedly gets such clauses in his contract in exchange for final cut (as long as he doesn't exceed the runtime). These types of limitations satisfy both parties by letting the studio have assurances that random indulgences in story are kept…

"There aren't all that many practices these days that last 300 or even 30 years, let alone 3,000, and yet that's how long this practice endure."

Yeah, I'm sure the thing retailers want most is for someone to give them unsealed food while they're at their cashier's station where they won't have a place nor time to eat it, and while they figure out how to get rid of it they're gonna get yelled at by the dozen people in line behind you that want to buy their item…

certain retail stores hand out vouchers for specific items and I bet they'd have a maximum purchase limit. If you want that 200 dollar TV from Best Buy odds are the guy crazy enough to be first in line is after it also.

Yes express shipping is part of what you're paying for but honestly I'm more interested in FREE shipping (compared to the 25 dollar minimum). I don't have prime ever since my 1 year free expired, but I found the value most in the free shipping (and if I got prime now, also the free streaming).

The tattoo study is a little misleading, and obviously has a bias against tattoos (I'd never get them myself...maybe? but it definitely makes the assumption that they're something "bad for you.") That the majority of participants wouldn't've gotten the tattoo had it not been free doesn't mean they thought getting a…

A little less than 1000 years left to get it to this: [theinfosphere.org]

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know. I think I'll go for this next year.

Don't worry, you're all going to be fired next year.

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I made the mistake of thinking my otherwise High Deductible PPO plan qualified for an HSA, until I realized I got prescription drug benefits.

Is there actually a page that shows all the free music available at any given time?

This is something I'm debating heavily, though I'm a freelancer so I don't get any employer matches.

Please note, and this is something that almost always gets skipped over regarding HDHPs:

You first need a T-Mobile SIM card to pop into your unlocked phone (or according to the instructions above, you insert the T-Mobile SIM card during the unlocking process). The SIM card is attached to your T-Mobile Account (contract or pay as you go), and has a phone number attached to it. With SIMs, the phone number…