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I know you've probably heard this before, but don't run up balances on your credit cards. Those rates are high on purpose, because credit cards are designed to be a short-term borrowing tool only. If you need to borrow money for something specific (car, house), your zero balances on your credit cards should result in…

South America?

But if you're paying off revolving accounts anyway, worst case you could just pull the cash back out of your credit card. Of course, you are correct and it is definitely something to consider.

Yes, I did this as well. I took out $6000 to pay off my credit cards. In doing so, I lowered my debt-to-credit ratio under the cutoff, and raised my score into the mid-700s. Plus, it'll be paid off faster and cost me less money per month than if I had continued paying on the cards as I had been.

I was getting pretty close to pulling the trigger on a JSW TDI but if this 6 is good enough, it is tempting. You just know there's going to be first-run woes on the new powertrain, though.

He's saying that the one person manning each bank of 4 self-check-out lanes could have scanned the items of all four lanes faster than the people doing it. So actually they are not saving labor at all.

How to win a Tug-of-war:

Related image since the article mentioned Felix Baumgartner:

Hunter S. Thompson.

If I had to guess, the 4 and 4S are too heavy for this trick to work.

I'll be in the market for a family car next fall, and the diesel 6 will definitely be a candidate. I think it'll be a tossup between that or a Jetta sportwagen TDI.

Some CD-ROM drives read discs at CAV, I believe, so they can claim the "52X" or whatever speed. I forget what the limit is, but at some point around that 50X read speed, you can't spin the disc fast enough without risking failure to read the data at the center at said speed.

One of my coworkers said they don't exchange gifts at all with their family. Instead, everyone goes on a big vacation together every year. At first it didn't make sense; then, she asked me two questions

I had a battery that was bulging just a tiny bit, barely enough to notice, took it in and got a new one (even though the battery itself was still at 95% health and worked fine). It is tough to say if giving them the leeway to make these kinds of calls is good or bad, depends on which way they swing I guess.

Troubling for sure. But, in my experience, they were fairly lenient in the past. If you told them the battery life sucked, and they check it out in their utility and find it is bad, then they'll go ahead and replace. Plus, their quoted standby time is like 200 hours, I don't think my phone ever lasted more than about…

Yeah, those cables do tend to break. It's good they replace them basically no questions asked, although still a pain to have to take them to the store, especially around the holidays.

What I want to know, is does AppleCare+ still cover battery replacement, or does that fall under the $50 replacement?

That is so cool!

Not exactly a nail house, but 1999 Broadway in Denver is built around Holy Ghost church. The developer designed a large scoop in the side of the building to accommodate the existing church.