No, the real fact is I am not brimming with debt. In fact, I have no liabilities whatsoever. I do not have a mortgage, and if I did, it certainly would not be one that I couldn't afford. As other people have said, tracking spending with credit cards is easier. There is a reason why I specifically don't carry cash with me most of the time, because it leaves no record once I have spent it. Ponying up a couple bucks from my wallet doesn't bother me; looking at my credit card statement and seeing transactions that are a necessity put my spending into perspective for me.
You can get by their customer ID process really easily. Call in, give them the subscribers phone number, and if they ask the name on the account, tell them. Doesn't necessarily mean its your name. If they ask for more identifying info, just say you are a flatmate with the subscriber, and you are calling on his behalf because of a problem. I have never had an issue with that.
That was the most retarded shit I have ever read. Just because some people don't pay on time and have a large amount of debt doesn't meant a credit card is a viable option for me. Please, don't ever quote this crap again.
The credit card companies say that claim resolution is handled by Visa and/or Mastercard so they don't control the outcome (but they are profusely sorry) so threatening to cancel your account has no effect either.
I'm confused by this statement. Isn't Visa / MC the credit card company? Or do you have a store branded credit card?
If you bought the Orange Box and already had HL2 and HL2-EP1, you got a "gift" of each one of them, meaning you could permanently give a copy to someone else.
USB keys can go through the washer and dryer, no problem. I have sent my 2GB stick through a complete wash/dry cycle easily 10 times, and it still works fine.
I thought we already "paid" for the internet, in the form of giving a very limited subset of companies a government granted monopoly on the infrastructure to provide said internet.
The field at the beginning and end of each level, as well as in the middle of a few, that destroys all the items when you go through it makes for a great mechanism to make sure you can't get stuck. And its really hard for the character to get trapped. I mean, if you can see two walls...
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista - 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor - 512 Mbytes of System RAM - NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card - 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space Those don't look exactly demanding of a modern PC to me. In fact, my 5 year old PC has all of those covered, albeit barely. Yeah, you wont get 60 fps, but come on, this PC was 900 bucks when I built it. A comparable costing PC now would do plenty fine.
Consider hand-writing recognition, autonomous robotics, and game theory, just to name a few of the narrowest, most-well defined (read:easiest) AI applications. AI works well in none of these - at best, it's so-so (like the 95-98% success rates in OCR).
So, because a technology doesn't achieve 99% or 100% accuracy, anything else being so-so or worse, we should completely abandon it? Even if OCR only has a 50% success rate, that means that it is 50% less work that someone is going to be doing.
Why is it more than a month though? Are you sure you aren't paying for service in the future? This is from my recent cell phone opening. I have never had previous service with AT&T or Cingular, and opened the account on 5/23.
They aren't lending you money at all. Ever notice how your phone bill the first month you sign up is double-ish? Thats because they charge you the pro-rated amount for the remaining billing period, and then next months charge. In reality, you are giving them money for future airtime.
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No, the real fact is I am not brimming with debt. In fact, I have no liabilities whatsoever. I do not have a mortgage, and if I did, it certainly would not be one that I couldn't afford. As other people have said, tracking spending with credit cards is easier. There is a reason why I specifically don't carry cash with me most of the time, because it leaves no record once I have spent it. Ponying up a couple bucks from my wallet doesn't bother me; looking at my credit card statement and seeing transactions that are a necessity put my spending into perspective for me.
You can get by their customer ID process really easily. Call in, give them the subscribers phone number, and if they ask the name on the account, tell them. Doesn't necessarily mean its your name. If they ask for more identifying info, just say you are a flatmate with the subscriber, and you are calling on his behalf because of a problem. I have never had an issue with that.
That was the most retarded shit I have ever read. Just because some people don't pay on time and have a large amount of debt doesn't meant a credit card is a viable option for me. Please, don't ever quote this crap again.
I actually found that most people wanted to practice their English with me when I was in Japan.
If you bought the Orange Box and already had HL2 and HL2-EP1, you got a "gift" of each one of them, meaning you could permanently give a copy to someone else.
I wish I had mod points for you good sir.
Good point, after re-reading mine and parents comments, I conclude I was commenting under the influence of not enough sleep.
No, it doesn't. I'm willing to bet there aren't even 4 flash chips in the ipod. It would take 10 of these chips just to equal your ipod.
USB keys can go through the washer and dryer, no problem. I have sent my 2GB stick through a complete wash/dry cycle easily 10 times, and it still works fine.
No, I meant two snail mails on the same day addressed to me.
Seriously. I have gotten two applications FOR THE SAME CREDIT CARD in one day. Tell me what sense that makes...
I thought we already "paid" for the internet, in the form of giving a very limited subset of companies a government granted monopoly on the infrastructure to provide said internet.
The field at the beginning and end of each level, as well as in the middle of a few, that destroys all the items when you go through it makes for a great mechanism to make sure you can't get stuck. And its really hard for the character to get trapped. I mean, if you can see two walls...
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
- 512 Mbytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
- 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space Those don't look exactly demanding of a modern PC to me. In fact, my 5 year old PC has all of those covered, albeit barely. Yeah, you wont get 60 fps, but come on, this PC was 900 bucks when I built it. A comparable costing PC now would do plenty fine.
Yeah, I was thinking about that after I posted it. Oh well, no edit buttons.
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They aren't lending you money at all. Ever notice how your phone bill the first month you sign up is double-ish? Thats because they charge you the pro-rated amount for the remaining billing period, and then next months charge. In reality, you are giving them money for future airtime.
Chances are you wont fly by a normal commercial flight if you are in dire medical need.
He meant ps3 exclusive with regard to the console release, not the entire game release.
Actually, at best they outright lie, and worst they are circumspect. If they are lying, you at least know what not to believe.
is who gives a shit if this so called "Popularity bubble" bursts? Honestly, will anything be different? Will your wii not work anymore?