I grew up in southern California, and take my family to Disneyland in Anaheim almost every year. Currently at Disneyland, after you buy the entry ticket you can go on as many rides as you want without an additional cost.
Let's say there is a ride you want to go on, but the line is too long. Some rides have fastpass tickets, which allow you to come back to the ride at some future time and bypass most of the line. The fastpass has a time printed on it: "Come back to Pirates of the Carribean between 4:10 pm and 5:10 pm" While you are waiting for your fastpass to become valid, you can wait in line for a different ride, get some food, go to a gift shop, whatever. When you have an active fastpass, you are not allowed to get another fastpass for the same ride or a different ride for a few hours.
What many people don't know about fastpasses is that only the START time matters. In my example, if it's 8 pm at night, I can take the fastpass and still use it. This leads to the strategy of collecting as many fastpasses as possible, then using them whenever you feel like it to skip lines. Although the average number of rides/day at Disneyland is 8 or 9, my family routinely hits 15+, and we have 4 kids.
The hypothesis on the disneyland discussion boards is that this system is designed to help space out the rides and shows for guests, which is good for some types of people, but might be really bad for people like my family who abuse the fastpass system.
You can't default on student loans, and they will not be discharged in bankruptcy. This is part of the problem when people take on these massive education loans - if they cannot pay it back they are totally screwed.
Your income tax refund will be held, wages garnished, etc. etc.
MBNA still offers one time use numbers. You log into their web site, and generate a number. The minimum expiration date is two months out, I think. After the transaction is processed you should deactivate the one time use number, because some people say that merchants can still charge the "one time use" number after the virtual expiration date.
A gift card is probably worse than a debit card, because there is no incentive for any company to protect you. The credit card company still wants your business, the bank might, but the gift card company has already been paid.
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I grew up in southern California, and take my family to Disneyland in Anaheim almost every year. Currently at Disneyland, after you buy the entry ticket you can go on as many rides as you want without an additional cost.
Let's say there is a ride you want to go on, but the line is too long. Some rides have fastpass tickets, which allow you to come back to the ride at some future time and bypass most of the line. The fastpass has a time printed on it: "Come back to Pirates of the Carribean between 4:10 pm and 5:10 pm" While you are waiting for your fastpass to become valid, you can wait in line for a different ride, get some food, go to a gift shop, whatever. When you have an active fastpass, you are not allowed to get another fastpass for the same ride or a different ride for a few hours.
What many people don't know about fastpasses is that only the START time matters. In my example, if it's 8 pm at night, I can take the fastpass and still use it. This leads to the strategy of collecting as many fastpasses as possible, then using them whenever you feel like it to skip lines. Although the average number of rides/day at Disneyland is 8 or 9, my family routinely hits 15+, and we have 4 kids.
The hypothesis on the disneyland discussion boards is that this system is designed to help space out the rides and shows for guests, which is good for some types of people, but might be really bad for people like my family who abuse the fastpass system.
You can't default on student loans, and they will not be discharged in bankruptcy. This is part of the problem when people take on these massive education loans - if they cannot pay it back they are totally screwed.
Your income tax refund will be held, wages garnished, etc. etc.
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In the same wikipedia article, under "Origin of the name", it states:
Some attribute the name to the Roman numerals for four (IV), asserting that there was such a sports league originally with four members.
MBNA still offers one time use numbers. You log into their web site, and generate a number. The minimum expiration date is two months out, I think. After the transaction is processed you should deactivate the one time use number, because some people say that merchants can still charge the "one time use" number after the virtual expiration date.
A gift card is probably worse than a debit card, because there is no incentive for any company to protect you. The credit card company still wants your business, the bank might, but the gift card company has already been paid.
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