Not only do you accrue interest the second you pull out cash, that money sits behind your other purchases. Say you pull out cash, then a few days later you make a regular purchase on the same card. When you send in a payment, it (typically) goes towards the purchase first, not the cash. To make matters worse, cash usually has a 3 to 5% higher APR.
Lesson? Don't use your card for cash. Advanced lesson? Don't use your credit cards at all.
Legislated ratings on video games...on TV...on books...on radio...on websites (ok, mebbe el tubgirl)
Or how about parents actually do some parenting?
If you let your 8 year old child play GTA, I'm willing to bet you're a horrible parent and your child is going to end up fux0red whether they play video games or not.
I paid 300 bucks for the thing, then get told that the trade in for the color version is to pay another 300 bucks. "If I had just waited" (early adopter mantra, I know) a few months, I could have picked this thing up AND gotten java script support on the thing, AND had a real Palm OS device AND a color screen for the same amount.
I've gone from loving my sidekick to just thinking it's alright. After seeing this device, i'm thinking about a divorce.
When I moved to Chicago, I lived through my sidekick. I was able to pull up mapquest on my phone, find restaurants on citysearch, IM my friends, take crappy little pictures...oh, and i was able to make phone calls too.
Sure talking on the thing looks like I'm talking on a 1980's garage door opener, but functionality is worth the bulky form factor. I see no need for a single function phone anymore. It's just not going to be competitive in the long haul.
$829,900 is assuming that the advertising, packaging and studio fees don't overlap with "the label." I'm sure "the label" would have it's own marketing department, and maybe engineers and recording facilities. These are fees assessed to the band, but do they get the full value of the fee? If the band sells 500,000 albums or 10 albums, does the label send out a proportional amount of "free goods"?
Um, I work for a credit card company and all that person did was make a note on your account that says "this guy wants us to check a bunch of stuff"
You know what happens at the point-of-sale?
*swipe* Thank you for supporting an international megacorporation. Have a nice day, consumer/citizen.
You can tell your CC company to test for DNA, but there's no way they can communicate this to EVERY retailer in the country. Unless you report your card lost, there is nothing that comes up that says "check id". As a matter of fact, it's part of the contract between MC/Visa and the merchant that they *can't* ask for identification. You could legitimately say no. Of course, they will have to call in to the credit card company and THEN ask for the info you specified, but how often do you see a cashier compare the signature on the back of your card with the signature on the receipt?
Anywho, to stay on topic, I freaked about the last 4 digits of the social. Sure, it's easy enough to get elsewhere, but if you want to fraudulate (made up word) my ass, you're gonna have to do some leg work.
Also, if signing up for this petition causes the money to go below 5 bucks, big deal. Hopefully the EFF gets some of this money. It would be using the recording industries ammo against them.
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Gamegirladvance disagrees with you.
Not only do you accrue interest the second you pull out cash, that money sits behind your other purchases. Say you pull out cash, then a few days later you make a regular purchase on the same card. When you send in a payment, it (typically) goes towards the purchase first, not the cash. To make matters worse, cash usually has a 3 to 5% higher APR.
Lesson? Don't use your card for cash. Advanced lesson? Don't use your credit cards at all.
Legislated ratings on video games ...on TV ...on books ...on radio ...on websites (ok, mebbe el tubgirl)
Or how about parents actually do some parenting?
If you let your 8 year old child play GTA, I'm willing to bet you're a horrible parent and your child is going to end up fux0red whether they play video games or not.
Here's an extremely useful URL:
U TF -8&q=photosensitive+seizure
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
I was under the impression that, yeah, it's just a blanket "video games have been known to cause seizures"
I'm wondering how one would go about determining which games are more or less prone to inducing seizures, short of testing on epileptics.
how about you let me buy the game online and i get to download it that instant. meanwhile, you go ahead and ship me said game?
oh yeah, piracy, copy protection, the eventual emergence of a DNA Dongle to prove it's really you.
I think owning a few sparc 5's, submitting an article to slashdot on the revival of the platform, then selling it on ebay works just fine.
Please, you're raping my childhood.
Haven't I read this article before?
Maybe I'm missing something, but what and when did the court tell the FCC to change?
Oh, wait...price wasn't the problem. Shitty music was.
Note to self:
Price was the insult added to injury.
pretty sick
If I hadn't looked up from playing Pokemon Sapphire for a few seconds, I would have missed this comment.
I'm getting kinda pissy about my sidekick.
I paid 300 bucks for the thing, then get told that the trade in for the color version is to pay another 300 bucks. "If I had just waited" (early adopter mantra, I know) a few months, I could have picked this thing up AND gotten java script support on the thing, AND had a real Palm OS device AND a color screen for the same amount.
I've gone from loving my sidekick to just thinking it's alright. After seeing this device, i'm thinking about a divorce.
Sorry, it appears I was mistaken.
The doubleclick guy was supposed to be the Homeland Security Privacy Czar.
In a related matter, it appears that I'm not so lazy after all.
...wasn't the person originally tapped to hold this position the former CEO of double-click (in other words, a pop-up and ad-banner czar by trade)?
Sorry, no links to give. Not only am I at work, but I'm lazy as well.
Amen.
When I moved to Chicago, I lived through my sidekick. I was able to pull up mapquest on my phone, find restaurants on citysearch, IM my friends, take crappy little pictures...oh, and i was able to make phone calls too.
Sure talking on the thing looks like I'm talking on a 1980's garage door opener, but functionality is worth the bulky form factor. I see no need for a single function phone anymore. It's just not going to be competitive in the long haul.
Does this mean I can eat a chimp and indulge in 99.4% cannibalism?
$829,900 is assuming that the advertising, packaging and studio fees don't overlap with "the label." I'm sure "the label" would have it's own marketing department, and maybe engineers and recording facilities. These are fees assessed to the band, but do they get the full value of the fee? If the band sells 500,000 albums or 10 albums, does the label send out a proportional amount of "free goods"?
Um, I work for a credit card company and all that person did was make a note on your account that says "this guy wants us to check a bunch of stuff"
You know what happens at the point-of-sale?
*swipe* Thank you for supporting an international megacorporation. Have a nice day, consumer/citizen.
You can tell your CC company to test for DNA, but there's no way they can communicate this to EVERY retailer in the country. Unless you report your card lost, there is nothing that comes up that says "check id". As a matter of fact, it's part of the contract between MC/Visa and the merchant that they *can't* ask for identification. You could legitimately say no. Of course, they will have to call in to the credit card company and THEN ask for the info you specified, but how often do you see a cashier compare the signature on the back of your card with the signature on the receipt?
Anywho, to stay on topic, I freaked about the last 4 digits of the social. Sure, it's easy enough to get elsewhere, but if you want to fraudulate (made up word) my ass, you're gonna have to do some leg work.
Also, if signing up for this petition causes the money to go below 5 bucks, big deal. Hopefully the EFF gets some of this money. It would be using the recording industries ammo against them.