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• Commented on Best Buy Thinks A New AC Adapter Is A Suitable Replacement For Laptop Battery
  I just bought replacement batteries for two computers (a Dell laptop and an HP Pocket PC) from Amazon. Cost $29.99 total, including free shipping. That is three hundred dollars cheaper than $329.99, and it did not involve Best Buy. Overall...
• Commented on Keep Your Shoes On, Please: TSA Rolling Out Speedy Security Pre-Screening Program
  Let me see. I can log into the TSA computer with my forged photo ID and credit card. The ID and card haven't been around long enough to gather a criminal record. I tell the computer a nice bunch of...
• Commented on What To Do When Mercury Hits The Floor
  There is a significant amount of official hypocrisy going on. Back around 1990, a certain University was going to demolish a laboratory building, contents and all, to make way for a newer building. The professor occupying the building was an...
• Commented on At Least 35 People Ill After Drinking Raw Milk
  I had raw milk, fresh from the cow, once. Didn't much like it, but then food prejudices are both strong and irrational. I'm definitely not going to retune my taste buds to like raw milk when Pasteurized is available....
• Commented on Thieving TSA Agent Serves As Reminder To Not Carry $5K In Your Coat
  I would be tempted to say "I had too much radiation when I was in grad school. No scanner. On the other hand, I haven't been properly felt up in years." On the other hand, that would probably get me...
• Commented on Feds Fight Big Tobacco Over Graphic Anti-Smoking Labels
  Labels on everything are getting so verbose that nobody has time to read or pay attention to them. It's like the legal agreement you have to click through to install the program you bought. Besides, the government has been getting...
• Commented on Another Guy Sues Frito-Lay, Says He Wasted $.10/Ounce On 'All-Natural' Chips
  Go easy on the 'complete, honest' labeling demands. Pretty soon our food packaging could become as voluminous and fun to read as that thing you're supposed to read before you install the software....
• Commented on Bus Driver Says He Didn't Order A Side Of Wire In His Chicken Meal
  I can't remember a single time at a fast food place where I got the food before they got the payment. Usually they ask me to pay, and then I wait a couple minutes before the food arrives....
• Commented on Bus Driver Says He Didn't Order A Side Of Wire In His Chicken Meal
  Bloody right! Have you ever looked at the teeth in the skull of Australopithecus boisei? In the Pleistocene, you had an awful lot of uncooked food, and that usually puts up more of a fight. Oh, the figs and dates...
• Commented on Bus Driver Says He Didn't Order A Side Of Wire In His Chicken Meal
  I thought "Steel Spring Surprise" was only a Monty Python joke....
• Commented on Here Are The Tattered Remains Of An Attempt To Mail Some Textbooks
  I had a package go missing. I talked to the post office people. PO: Did you have insurance on it? Me: No PO: Well, what did you expect?...
• Commented on Spirit Airlines Says Posting Full Airfares Is Government's Way Of Hiding Taxes
  Both. It's government, they can raise taxes more than once....
• Commented on Target Asks Vendors To Help Combat Store-As-Showroom Problem
  Newegg is a great place to shop on-line. Micro Center is a great place to shop in person. About two times out of three, I buy the stuff at Micro Center. BOTH places have great service, and good prices, so...
• Commented on Ron Paul Says Senator Son Detained By TSA For Refusing Pat-Down
  If the Senator were heading for Washington and the Senate, the Constitution notes that: "They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective...
• Commented on Micah Sifry: SOPA Part Of "Larger Struggle Over How Expression And Creation Will Be Supported"
  "...SOPA Part Of "Larger Struggle Over How Expression And Creation Will Be Supported" 'Supported' is not the correct word to use in the headline. Try 'strangled', 'controlled', or 'suppressed.' More like the article itself suggested....
• Commented on Ex-McDonald's Employee Records Mouse Stuck In Burger Buns
  Scorn much?...
• Commented on Techniques To Win Disputes With Customer Service Reps
  There is much in what you say, but sometimes the CSR takes so long to answer the phone that you just put on the headset, clip the cordless phone to your belt, and go about your day. If they catch...
• Commented on Techniques To Win Disputes With Customer Service Reps
  I got into a dustup with Wells Fargo, and noted to the representative that it'd solve the whole problem if I simply canceled my account and went elsewhere. And I halfway did that -- took my money to a small...
• Commented on Amazon Does Me A Solid, Pays International Shipping Fees & Gives Full Refund
  The power in Ghana is 220-240 volts, and the TV standard is PAL B/G. Most of the computer electronics I've purchased can handle 220V - it's cheaper to make a power supply 110-240V than to have a separate power supply...
• Commented on Gas Pump Programmed To Say "An American Company. No Terrorist Gas!!!"
  It's more reasonable to label a country as terrorist when it's reciprocal. From the many years I've been hearing cries of "Death to the Great Satan!" a good chunk of the Middle East has blown their right to be considered...
• Commented on What Would You Do If You Found $2,500 In The House You Just Bought?
  I would first check the dates and condition of the bills. (1) If the dates were before the previous owners had the place, I'd keep the money. (2) If the bills had significant numismatic value (unlikely in the circumstances) I'd...
• Commented on Wedding Caterers Served My Muslim In-Laws Not-So-Stealth Pork
  The wars were started by racist America? Bull. Afghanistan, at least, bought and paid for their war on 9/11 -- or shortly thereafter, when they told us no thanks, they were keeping Bin Laden....
• Commented on Obama Administration Counters Chase CEO Statement On Taxing The Rich
  The chief problem with "taxing the rich" is simple: the government will keep lowering the amount of cash it takes to be 'rich'. Sooner or later, they'll come for my retirement savings....
• Commented on Does Accepting A Better Fridge Than The One I Ordered Make Me A Bad Consumer?
  I was involved in something like this once. I was looking at a high-price surge suppressor, and a shelf or two away, I found the same suppressor (only one) at a much lower price. I took it up to the...
• Commented on McDonald's Customer Eats Burger, Punches Cop, While Her Car Burns Up In The Parking Lot
  I don't know whose name is on the registration -- but the odds are good that her name isn't on the payment checks....
• Commented on The Six Million Dollar Man Is Hawking $300 Hearing Aids
  I would disagree on that pacemaker bit. A cochlear implant bypasses non-functional hair cells and gets the signal straight to the nerve. A pacemaker bypasses a non-functional conduction system to get the pacing pulse from the sinoatrial node to the...
• Commented on Deciding The Right Amount To Tip
  In our litigious society, that could be considered blasphemy if you got a good enough lawyer....
• Commented on Make Your Own Soy Milk At Home
  I used to make my own wine and beer at home. It was lots of work for uncertain results; nowadays I buy them....
• Commented on Blue Cross Blue Shield Says Man Should Pay $2,306 To Avoid Dying In His Sleep
  I have one of those sleep-apnea mouthguards. They are *not* the relatively simple things you can buy in sports stores. My dentist had to make casts of both my upper and lower arrays of teeth. Then he sent the casts...
• Commented on Southwest Passenger Uses Craigslist To Track Down Stolen Laptop
  I've had a few interactions with police -- three come to mind. And in every one, the policeman was doing everything he could to avoid acquiring any evidence. No, the first one didn't want the picture I drew of the...