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Comment on jesus and KFC man (2010-08-09 14:19:04)
I rejoice in the sheer *mastery* of the photographer to have captured Our Savior... who brought unto his people the true gift of The Lord, the Double Down sandwich... and some hippy/jedi dude accompanying him.
Comment on ..."ghostly rumble" (2010-08-03 08:54:08)
Actually, DMYTRIW's post is evocative of the emergent alternative to old-fashioned derogatory terms: universal irreverence. This is the same sort of "homophobia" or "racism" espoused in places like 4chan, where people are busy rendering the hurtful, nasty terms used in the past into nothing more than inane background noise, while they move forward to completely ignoring issues of what race or orientation a person may be. Run the "fag" and "nigger" memetics into the ground until they're just words reflecting on the speaker and nothing more. Hopefully they'll figure out that this all works for gender too at some point. :-) This is the future, completely unencountered by McFly in 2015.
Comment on World's worst credit cards (2010-07-22 11:29:51)
The Visa and Mastercard protection bit is news to me... that's pleasant. As for fees, I pay none. One card I have is an Amex with no annual fee, but a requirement to maintain CostCo membership, which I was doing before I obtained that Amex anyway. That's the closest thing to a fee involved. I don't play with paper checks and mailing payments, and as a result, misapplied payments, etc... don't get the chance to happen. Researching cards before signing up obviously pays off in terms of fees. There are plenty of cards with which *you* get paid and they don't, because they're banking on people spending beyond their means and carrying balances, so they don't mess with annual fees and other nonsense, figuring they'll make finance charges. Money in interest bearing accounts is going to earn interest... no surprise there. The few cents interest I refer to is what is generated in a small interest checking account from which I pay the cards on a monthly basis... that few cents would be reduced if every financial transaction was instant, vs. delayed almost a month. I have no illusions that the credit card companies are noble benefactors or that the credit reporting system is designed with our best interests in mind. They're all about playing the numbers, and in such games, the house always wins. On the other hand, a skilled player can watch the rules and decide how to minimize or eliminate risk while gaining a benefit. If I suffered a catastrophe in my life right now, no credit might make me homeless, unable to obtain anything other than emergency medical treatment, etc... my established credit would allow me to weather a storm to a small degree, and see me through, at least temporarily and at great cost in the longer run. I play the game for the financial benefits, because this house's rules *do* allow skilled players to make a little money, and because of the safety net afforded, as flimsy as it may be.
Comment on World's worst credit cards (2010-07-22 08:06:51)
You lose out on the legal protections that were put in place for credit card holders. With a credit card, if someone steals your info and makes fraudulent charges (often they steal it from third parties, not you), the most you are legally liable for is $50, and most credit card companies waive that. With a debit card, no such legal protection exists. If they empty your account with a debit card transaction, and your bank / provider doesn't have some nice perks generously written to cover you in those events, you just lost all that money. As for payments and having money, I just treat my credit cards the way you likely treat your debit card: I spend what I can during the month, not more, and I review the transactions each billing cycle to make sure nothing is off. Then I click to pay in full. Meanwhile, my cash in the bank earned a few cents interest as well, since it didn't go to pay the charges immediately. The credit card companies make $0 from me; I make quite a bit from them in cash back: 1-5% depending on what I bought.
Comment on World's worst credit cards (2010-07-21 21:39:04)
So how about a best cards infographic? I make well over $500/year from just using my cards in place of cash for everything possible. The trick is having enough discipline to spend only what you normally would and to pay it off every month. Bonus is good credit.
Comment on DP audio 3" LCD screen DVD player and more! (2010-07-18 01:34:05)
Hit up eBay and/or SuperBrightLEDs for large arrays of Ir LEDs, or a bucket of loose ones, a blank board, and use an LED calculator on the 'net to figure out the right values of resistors and wiring configuration for your 12-14V operating car voltage. Hit up eBay or DealExtreme or your local Fry's for a simple little flush-mountable RCA video output, 12V powered camera. My guess is you can have all of it under $30. I bought a camera like that in Hong Kong for something around $9 US. Before mounting the cam in a car, make sure it doesn't have an Ir filter: in a dark room, point a TV remote at it and press buttons... if you can see the light, it's good.
Comment on DP audio 3" LCD screen DVD player and more! (2010-07-17 13:37:14)
Fuck consoles... your passenger would get ill just trying to play a game while leaning over and staring at the 3" screen. However, put a big ass infrared LED arrays into fog light sockets on your front bumper and a front-facing camera, and you can has night vision for dirt cheap. Also, USB sockets are one of the greatest advances in car audio in a long time.
Comment on America's Energy Sacrifices (2010-07-14 10:58:16)
Last frame should be NIMBY bitches causing the nuclear power development standstill for the last half century.
Comment on Lol, Rednecks (2010-07-01 16:07:46)
I don't mind the flat black look, and I'm wondering if this provides a degradation to radar bounce...
Comment on Pop-Culture Art Deco (2010-06-19 11:00:58)
Also, the Capacitor is inverted. Still lovely artwork.
Comment on Pop-Culture Art Deco (2010-06-19 10:57:44)
SAUUUUUUUUUCE?????
Comment on airport (2010-06-03 11:05:24)
Ha HA... papers please.
Comment on The last prank (2010-05-13 08:55:30)
what's the movie?
Comment on marijuana - harmless (2010-04-27 10:59:10)
Is anyone really loving the irony of the government propaganda highlighting rather well that the problems related to this drug are the drug war itself and nothing else? I half wonder if the author of this piece is an inside reformer... otherwise they're just entirely clueless... or this is a shop.
Comment on batman snaps babies (2010-04-27 10:32:37)
Wow... that kinda conflicts with Birds of Prey a bit. :-)