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• Commented on FTC Finally Permanently Shuts Down Fake News Sites Shilling For Acai Berries
  Now if only they'd shut down that $50/bottle acai juice pyramid scheme that forces me to have no contact with various acquaintances....
• Commented on Beware Of Super Bowl Scams
  "Hey, I know you! We were in the same pyramid scheme!"...
• Commented on Customers Must Sign Waiver Before Eating Hot & Spicy "Pasta Plate From Hell"
  I've signed a waiver before eating ghost chili wings before. Usually it's just a bit of theatrics to psych people out. They gave us fire hats after we finished them....
• Commented on Um, Do I Actually Need To Buy Winter Tires?
  Wow, I guess all my references are dated. I thought it was a Simpsons reference: Wally: Ooh, I know that look, heh. You came in for the free wheel balance and now it's costing you five hundred simoleans. Homer: Six,...
• Commented on Costco, Amazon Top Most-Trusted Company Survey; Comcast Brings Up The Rear
  Yeah, but 4 of the top 10, including the #1 spot are in those industries as well. Maybe those companies being so un-trustworthy is the reason they need regulation now?...
• Commented on Gold's Closes Your Gym, Traps You In Contract Anyway
  Wow, 25 miles is kind of ridiculous. In Chicago terms that's telling people who live in Wrigleyville that they have to go to the gym in Tinley Park (50+ minutes in good traffic)...
• Commented on Gold's Closes Your Gym, Traps You In Contract Anyway
  February in Chicago is no time for running/biking, so unless you hibernate for a few months to burn off the stored fat, a gym is a necessary evil....
• Commented on Audit Stanford Computer Science Courses Online For Free
  If you like free online courses, you may also be interested in http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm . MIT has 2000+ courses online for free. Of course MIT's courses just offer the lectures, notes, exams, and assignments; they don't have the instructor grading your...
• Commented on FICO Sells New Score That Predicts Whether You Will Take Your Medicine
  Sounds more like a cover for: "Our score indicates that you're very likely to not take this OxyContin 'correctly', so we're going to prescribe you aspirin instead"...
• Commented on Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
  It was the bacon picture, wasn't it?...
• Commented on Apple No Longer Requires In-App Subscriptions To Be Best Available Deals
  Apple can tell company A that they'll kick them out of the walled garden if they catch them selling their stuff at a cheaper price elsewhere. I don't like it but that's the nature of a closed ecosystem....
• Commented on DOT Fines Continental For Not Disclosing Fuel Surcharge On Website
  Doh! That's what I get for typing up a comment and then getting distracted for 10 minutes before hitting submit :-)...
• Commented on DOT Fines Continental For Not Disclosing Fuel Surcharge On Website
  I'm assuming they're using rental car math... Cost of gas: $4.50/gal Gas actually used: 2 gallons Gas tank capacity: 12 gallons --------------------------------------------- Gas charge: $54 Assuming a 45% reserve for takeoff/landing/circling, those numbers aren't too far off. The part I...
• Commented on Court Threatens BofA Bank Manager With Jail Over Foreclosure
  The article just said they've incurred the fines, not payed them. Interestingly the house has been damaged long enough for the google satellites to capture it: http://goo.gl/maps/MZdo...
• Commented on Gulf Oil CEO: Gas Should Be Down To $3.50/Gallon By July 4
  Ooh! Can I play? January 2001: $1.40 July 2008: $4.11...
• Commented on Will Women's Clothing Sizes Ever Be Standardized?
  Referring to XL women as oxen doesn't sound too politically correct... /ducks...
• Commented on Netflix Wants To Charge Extra For Multiple Video Streams, Swim In Piles Of Cash
  Don't be ashamed of Hot Tub Time Machine... If Rob Corddry's selling, I'm buying....
• Commented on Ticketmaster To Lower Admission Prices On Poor-Selling Events
  If the extra money is going to the artist/team, I'm fine with this. Maybe it will discourage the massive scalping for popular events if the face value of the tickets is a lot closer to the "free market" price. Granted,...
• Commented on FTC Cracks Down On Fake News Sites Shilling For Acai Berries
  Ugh, I have a friend who got roped into selling the purple menace recently. It's amazing that people will go in to that kind of business without doing an ounce of research first. I guess that's the same business model...
• Commented on Shipping Rates And Info For Over 50 Online Retailers
  My cats love my Amazon Prime membership.. it seems every week or two they get a new toy!...
• Commented on What's The Worst Infomercial Product Ever?
  I bought the Glass Wizard once. With about 200 pounds of pressure and 15 minutes of scrubbing it would clean glass as well as 15 seconds with a paper towel and windex. Really a microfiber cloth will do a much...
• Commented on Need A New Urethra? They Can Now Be Grown In Labs
  Ooh, can we use this to do some "creative" plumbing? full sprinkler head? Spiderman-style wrist shooters? Drain out the bottom of the feet?...
• Commented on Spill Leaves Gulf Of Mexico Floor Covered By Layer Of Oil, Dead Animals
  I thought a layer of oil and dead animals was how food was commonly cooked in Louisiana......
• Commented on Google Chrome's New Extension Lets You Block Content Farms
  Awesome! I've been wanting this feature for years. I hate when you search for something that's been posted to a mailing list, you get a copy of that post from every single web-based mail-list provider....
• Commented on These Ants Taste Like Bacon
  NSFB - Not safe for breakfast....
• Commented on How To Come Clean To Your Spouse About Financial Infidelity
  I assume the talk goes something like this?: Krusty: Are you guys any good at covering up youthful and middle-aged indiscretions? Mr. Burns: Are these indiscretions romantic, financial, or treasonous? Krusty: Russian hooker. You tell me....
• Commented on Get The Stuff On This Checklist Before The Winter Storm Slams Your House
  Where do you get your Yeti-off? it's so expensive at the local stores any time it snows and I haven't found a reliable internet retailer for it....
• Commented on Taco Bell Releases New Statement On Class Action: We're 88% Beef!
  Actually oatmeal can be used to make pretty good hamburger recipes. I like to add oatmeal, egg, diced onion, and a bunch of other stuff to mine. It makes for a lower-fat but still very tasty burger. (Although I guess...
• Commented on Morning Deals
  Also: Woot-Off! in progress...
• Commented on Gallery Of Generic Dr. Peppers
  I wonder where Mr. Sparkle got his doctorate from? Is Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern an educational entity now?...

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