It's definitely not an easy system to keep on top of, I'll give you that. But it's naive to say "most things can be done without the use of credit," when the major things can not (as others have said, you would have a very hard time buying your house with cash even if you had a suitcase full of hundreds that paid the…

Or trade school (but not for-profit schools).

But you've already built credit based on those past (albeit costly) experiences. If your credit report is in order at this point you'll get a much better interest rate. My fiancee has never carried debt in her life and now her future potential of being able to take out loans is severely limited (you know, like when we…

YOU say it's propaganda to get people to have more babies sooner. I say it's propaganda justifying how childless losers never wanted to father kids anyway, and are going home and taking their balls with them.

Took about 20 minutes I'd say, as others said the Luykx aimed me towards Haarlem, which made me look for recent events in Haarlem (since it looked like you were waiting in line), which led me to a baseball exhibition. Then I looked for Hard Rock Cafes nearby, found the nearest one (and that mentioned leidseplein).…

Well, then they'll tear it down, and the people living in the houses have to deal with the same thing that apartment renters do (if they're renting) or condo owners do (if they own). Plenty of people live in apartments/condos in buildings that are also commercial centers.

Yeah, I can't stand it either, but I think it's a result of Japanese anime directors directing English-language films. Something's just lost in translation I think, where when they hear English they want it to be more drawn out and with more gaps between lines. I think it works better when the dialogue is in Japanese.…

I don't have enough space on my dropbox account unfortunately, whereas I have "unlimited" space on my host.

Designers and other creatives working with clients online:

"The human brain is the most complex computer to ever exist. But it needs to be kept stimulated in order to perform at peak computing capacity. The Matrix was designed to keep the 5% of the brain that responds to stimulus occupied so the network can use the other 95%." - that's no more complex than the explanation…

No, I totally agree. In fact in some io9 article years ago I also posited that future medical technology also passively allows people to age much much slower than they do now, which accounts for time moving forward in the show (as in Fry was unfrozen 13 years ago, and it's 3012 in their world) and yet people don't…

That's exactly what happened, and it's probably my favorite subtle joke (they brought it up in the commentaries I believe)

I have an iPhone4 that I dropped while bicycling recently; the back glass got a spiderweb crack on the bottom left corner and some deep-enough scuffs on the metal band. Also the keyboard misses hits about 15% of the time.

Holy crap, under NO circumstances should you ever buy iHip earbuds. I am FAR from an audio connoisseur (I am actually using 6 dollar earbuds now from the Best Buy impulse buy aisle), and the iHip Nascar-themed earbuds and headphones I received as a free gift for buying a Canon T2i are LITERALLY the WORST I've ever had…

You're right, they would have a hard time in court if they just started arresting people without warning ahead of time, but every lawsuit is like that (decided upon by the plaintiff whether it's worth the trouble). I agree with you that they would not likely win past damages (as I said I think past cons would be…

If you're having trouble cold-calling you might do better asking your family and family friends if they need someone to help out at their business or even something that you could upsell in a resume as though it was real job experience (dog walker, house sitter, driver, computer repair). It sounds like you just need…

It's not something I could do so much that I'd have a hard time explaining to my parents what I did for a living with nothing to show for it, but I'd do it again if I had the time and I needed the money. On a purely statistical level you're more likely to work in a position in porn and get paid to do it (wow that…

Oh I know, I am friends with the guy who played Bruce Banner in the Captain America parody (and have worked on another porn parody myself, but I'm not telling you which one and in which capacity ;)).

They tolerate it now but that doesn't mean they can't rescind that in the future (they're essentially giving an on-the-spot license to use their characters), because they know how important it is for their properties to be promoted by the artists.

Consider it a gift from the IP owners that they're not suing those who are selling those plush toys (though most likely it's not worth their time to even bother, plus you're right the good will probably is worth more), because they're under no requirement to NOT ever sue to remove those from the market.