You don't. You could get it with a "boost" converter, but the overall power delivered would be less as it'd waste energy jacking up the voltage.

WTF, no.

The customer is not at fault for giving a reputable company their payment information. It doesn't matter what they're choosing to pay each month - MS makes millions off sneaking additional payments while giving the customer the absolute minimum legally required notification of it.

Nice. They'd billed me for a few months more than I wanted, and I cancelled my subscription completely - but when I went to remove my CC number, every single time, the link on their site to do it was broken and just lead to an error message. So they still have mine, because there was no way to remove it. Crooks.

Why should a reasonable person have to fear that if they give their credit card info to a large, old, reputable company, that company might steal additional payments off it?

Good. Their forced automatic renewal system is bullshit. I hope he nails them to the wall for this. Really - you can do ANYTHING online, with a computer or with a 360, including authorizing them to take your money as recurring payments... but you have to phone them, sit on hold, and justify your decision to a rep to…

That is what I found on my iPhone. I'd never told it to sync, and I was hesitant to press the button, but I followed the directions on this page and found that mine was already off.

I'm in the same boat as yogibimbi. I use the iPhone app regularly, and when I checked my sync settings (I'd never pressed the sync button before) it was off, by default. I double-checked Facebook, but they don't have my number, and the only friends' numbers they have are those that the people entered into their…

You know... I've never synced my contacts with Facebook, so mine is already off. It's off by default, so they only committed this dastardly heist if they somehow hypnotized you to authorize giving them the data in the first place.

Are you implying the game was flawless?

Heh... I don't know! In jr. high, I had to go through something called the "PARTY program" that showed various wrecks caused by drunk drivers. The idea was "never drive drunk," but the evidence was full of stuff like "...jumped the median and killed everyone in this SUV who weren't drinking." I know people who didn't…

Ouch... Yes, I've heard Figmas are notoriously fragile. :/ I'd love to take them out and put them in silly poses, but I'll probably want to sell them some day, and lots of people have beaten me to it!

Yeah, that's the one! Mine is opened, but I do have the box in decent shape

I'm guessing no car, no girlfriend, no kids. Maybe often no rent (living with parents)?

ZUN famously doesn't want Touhou to be overcommercialized - or rather, no one product can be overcommericalized. So because of that, when a big company like Max Factory does a line of figures, they MUST be limited edition. That's why they end up being so expensive and so collectible, even if they're not made by a…

No, we DO need regulation. Peer review is far too easily bought and owned by companies that profit off the products. This is no different from any other FDA-approved product. If the FDA can't do it, then we need a new body better suited to assess the risks.

They're literally idols. Think of it like ancient religious tribes. The legend of these characters gets so built up and glorified, it becomes an obsession. Just as cultures 5000+ years ago sculpted little humanoid figures and venerated them, the tradition continues commercially with plastic statuettes.

You might say that if most people like something, it's not so much a fetish, as it is a "good thing."

I used to be a crazy hardcore otaku. In high school, my walls were completely covered in posters and pinups from mags like Shounen Ace and Newtype. Still, I never got figure collecting, especially the sexy - or pornographic "cast off" figures. It's just too much social kryptonite if you have someone over who isn't a…

I was thinking the same thing. The PR Putin tries to play comes off as very Kim Jong-Il in its absurdity.