@sn1per420: Yeah, A Hobson's choice is a take it or leave it choice, while a Morton's fork is a choice between two crappy options in which one has no option to just walk away.

@Justin Culmo: Yep, say goodbye to the cheap balance transfer deals.

Brine your bird beforehand and involve smoke in the cooking process. I like this brine for chicken and turkey: [www.recipezaar.com] . The maple combined with the smoke gives the skin an almost bacon like quality. It's amazing.

Ever since I got a vacuum sealer, I buy meat products in bulk. If I am in a butcher shop where I can buy the something like a primal at a savings and have it cut down for free, I'll do that. If not, I do the butchery myself. I'll even break down whole chickens if I find a good deal. Playing home butcher isn't…

@jsmorley: I still do that with TP, but I found that my family overused paper towels when we bought in bulk. I assume the mass quantity gave it too high of a convenience factor. When we stopped buying it in bulk, we ended up saving more. Perhaps others have had similar experiences.

Hmm... I'm in the Eastern time zone and it's showing people from Cali being on the same time zone.

I've used Pigfoot's builds in the past and they were always great.

Blast from the past! I used to love using LiteStep on my Windows NT 5.0 beta computer. In the end it was probably too much of a time waster though... as was running a beta of NT 5.0, but wasting time instead of studying was my M.O. in undergrad :)

@KORHAL: I fried the control board (I don't know the technical term for it) on a laptop drive once. I borrowed a similar drive from work and swapped out the control board and everything worked great. It allowed me to pull my data and RMA the drive.

VOTE: Ubuntu live CD. It's helped me a few times. Also...

"Oeuvre"... nice diction.

@jonny6pak: ... well I still buy meat in bulk. That's always the cheapest IMO.

@jkrell: I used to buy in bulk so I wouldn't shop as much, but it was actually quite costly. I stopped buying bulk after my wife was laid off and we've been saving a ton. This may not be the case for everyone, but skipping the bulk stores forced us to really take things down to the bare essentials we need for each…

@Zefir: I agree. I hated it at first, but now I use Office apps with much for efficiency and speed than did with Office 2003. I love the ribbon. To each his/her own I guess.

This is probably the foundation of good negotiation skills. If anyone really wants to learn these skills, start researching BATNA and dig as deep as you can. Then practice a lot. Use garage sales as good practice space. You might only be negotiating over a two dollar item, but since there's really not much money…

@AtwaterDeion: Does arguing semantics within one element of the takeaway really matter when the overall emphasis is that users should not be careless with downloading activities?

Wow, this does bring me back to college and tinkering with FruityLoops. Nice app.

A cap would penalize me if I have to re-download something becuase the first transmission had errors. Looking at my past year with Time Warner, I expect that to happen multiple times. Thankfully I'll be switching off them soon.

@KB: No kidding. It's not like anyone was worried about PDF or ODF when they were entering white text on a blue background in DOS. [en.wikipedia.org]

@cisengineer: I don't know if this is what JeanStork is getting at, but Handbrake isn't automated like AutoBrake.