Irrelevant to the discussion, hence the very next sentence after the three words that you quoted.

Wireless is the focus of this article, isn’t it? Data caps on wireless are far more common than landline broadband.

Everyone panics every time carriers try to do anything remotely inventive with data. The argument goes something like this: “Carrier A is doing X. I know that X sounds great, but it’s really not. To understand why X is bad, let’s look at Net Neutrality, which says that ‘all data is equal.’ Since X doesn’t treat all…

I could also see it get extended beyond 2020 to support business users, too, depending on Windows 10 adoption. I’m still moving clients off of XP, and it’s very common for businesses to still purchase new machines with Windows 7 on them (nowadays via Windows 10 downgrade rights).

Absolutely. My parents’ neighbor has chickens, and sometimes I’m lucky enough to get some eggs from them, and they’re just fantastic. Never seen The Country Hen eggs, I’ll keep an eye out.

Lucky! They’re super expensive here in NYC. They’re cheaper out on Long Island, just pricey in the city for some reason. They’re fantastic though - noticeably better tasting than any other eggs that I’ve bought in a supermarket.

Also some brands of eggs. I’m a big fan of Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs, which run about $7-8 a dozen in most supermarkets where I’ve found them in manhattan, but only $5-$6 at Whole Foods.

I would encourage anyone actually looking to visit a casino to understand any game they sit down to play, and understand the math behind it as well. This post is pretty useless to anyone who isn’t very familiar with casinos, and it basically encourages people to just sit at tables where they don’t fully understand the…

We’ve all been offered store credit cards at the cash register, and signing up for one is almost always a bad idea. In a recent study on retail credit cards and their predatory tactics, MagnifyMoney explains why.

I wasn’t sure what you were suggesting. My original comment has never been about this post, it has always been about the idea that the banks are evil for offering these cards. So, naturally, I thought your response was to that, and not to the idea that people should learn how these things work. I’m all for learning.…

So what does that mean exactly? If you have two parties, one misunderstands something that the other offers, the offering party is responsible? That would break contracts and business entirely. Our society wouldn’t function.

Please do explain these “nuanced factors”, this genius white guy is listening.

This is just the classic “people are too stupid to take care of themselves” argument. I have more faith in humanity. If that means that I’m on a “high horse”, then so be it, but I don’t want to live in a world where we accept that we need to dumb everything down because people are too quick to buy things that they…

I have no problem with anyone sharing this information, that’s how people learn. I do take issue with calling these “traps” or painting the banks behind these cards in a negative light. For people who understand what these cards are, they can be a great deal. If you pay on time and within the specified period, you can…

I totally accept that. But when presented with an agreement that you don’t understand, your default answer should be “no”. If your default answer to things that you don’t understand in life is an immediate“yes”, then life is going to be very difficult for you.

That’s a dangerous argument. What if someone is too stupid to not know that they don’t need to buy 15 cars if they can’t afford one? Should someone be “watching out” for them, too? What if they don’t know to read the warning label on bleach? If you can’t assume that humans have the capacity to read things and…

Of course not! But the difference here is that if something were to come up, if I were to find out that I was violating said agreement, I would understand that it was 100% my fault for not reading it. Of course, those agreements rarely contain anything that can cause you any real financial harm if you use the software…

LOL I do not

If you’re too stupid to understand what you’re agreeing to, you shouldn’t be borrowing money.

Most intelligent thing I’ve read on the Internet all day. The media/politicians have a way of skewing our perception of what’s really dangerous, and I really feel that many people are legitimately terrified that they are going to be killed by a gun because of it, when that’s not what the statistics say.