<![CDATA[Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> Also, dynamite and dogs trained to fetch don't mix.

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]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> In PA, they want to shut down the loan system and most of the computerized databases. From PA Save our Libraries:

Senate Bill 850 cuts deepest of all. Were it to become law, books, DVDs, access to computers, lending between libraries, online databases, programs for kids, and professional staff would be slashed to the bone. The POWER Library databases that schools and public libraries count on would come to an end. There would be no more Keystone Funds for library buildings or improvements. In short, it would be a disaster for Pennsylvanians who need and depend on quality library services.

BytheSea

]]> <![CDATA[Never Pack Your Jewelry In Checked Baggage]]> @BadHairLife: I was going to ask the same thing. If it's so easy to take things OUT of a bag, I don't see how it's that much harder to put something IN. Obviously I don't know the security protocol, but it seems like something that should be cause for concern.

Karita

]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> @Kogenta: My local library charges a fee for the internet access and holds a public donation booksale every yet.

jayphat

]]> <![CDATA[Never Pack Your Jewelry In Checked Baggage]]> @Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Metal detectors puzzle me. Sometimes my underwire bra sets them off, sometimes it doesn't. I've had my watch set it off, and been fine other times. Same with shoes.

What I find most interesting is when I go to court. I'll go through just fine, but if I step outside later on, and go through with the exact same clothes/accessories/things in my pockets, it will buzz. And then there are the times I set it off, and the guard has me go back, and step through two or three times, until the alarm doesn't ring, and they never search me or wave the wand over me. I've never understood it.

Karita

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> My dog hates fireworks. Poor baby, she'll have a long night ahead. :(

DePaulBlueDemon

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrate The Freedom Of Free Sega iPhone Games This Weekend]]> "Verizon customers like myself will have to make do with our smug satisfaction that nothing is really free when it comes to the iPhone, what with the ludicrously priced data plans."

You can stuff your Verizon bullshit up your ass, Phil.

FROM VERIZON'S SITE:
450 minutes + unlimited web and mobile email: $69.99 a month. This does NOT include Verizon's hardly-appealing video application, "VCAST" * This is what they refer to as a "Connect" plan.

FROM AT&T'S SITE:
450 minutes ($39.99) + iphone 3g data plan ($30): $69.99 a month. This includes access to YouTube and any other video app you can download.

Ludicrously priced? Oh, I get it. You don't even HAVE a data plan, do you? Because none of the pathetic phones Verizon lets you use has a decent web browser or any other compelling applications, so what use would unlimited data be to you?

AT&T offers those kinds of phones too. They're called "the free phone that they give old people, small children, and technophobes."

Sorry for lashing out, but you did start it. :p

West Coast Secessionist

]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> @HooFoot: Go and ask the library for a copy of their budget. It should be very clear where the money is going. Generally speaking, almost all of a budget goes to:
1) Materials
2) Staff wages/benefits
3) Technology
Where libraries are generally forced to cut is in the materials and technology budget. They might move from a four year to a six year replacement program on their computers (what we had to do) and cut their materials budget (we cut all but a couple thousand).

Can you tell a difference immediately? Of course not. But after a few years of this (keeping in mind any funding cut is unlikely to ever come back), the materials are in a sad state. I hope you enjoy your Windows 98 for Dummies book, because that is the most recent one you are going to get.

SarcasticDwarf

]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> Close libraries? OK. Build expensive transit system from one of the state to the other, requiring subsidies forever after its built, ending in a city with no cab/ public transportation? HELL YEAH!

I hate our governor with a passion.

jayphat

]]> <![CDATA[Allergy Card Company Sends Useful Things You Didn't Order]]> @trixrabbit: This is so true. I had a hard time in Latin America. Even explaining in Spanish wasn't enough. The disconnect is that the waiters don't know what's in the food unless they are the owners. Many just nod or say yes whether they know the answer or not.

And no, Google translator doesn't work for basic translation half the time. It definitely doesn't work for specifics like food allergies, especially because vocabulary varies a lot from country to country.

mcmunchkin

]]> <![CDATA[Quick, What Is This Woman Doing?]]> The pictures make the device look effective, but what they don't show you is the binder clip under their right ear holding back their neck fat.

wardawg

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> @TechnoDestructo: Funny, my older sisters used the same trick when we'd play The Haircut Game.

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> @BytheSea: But don't forget to apply sunblock on their noses first. To forget would simply be cruel.

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[Never Pack Your Jewelry In Checked Baggage]]> Isn't it possible that her bag was "inspected"? They're supposed to leave a note but, duh, they're not going to leave a note if they took stuff.

BytheSea

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> @I Love New Jersey: It's not usually states that allow or outlaw fireworks where I'm from, it's up to the localities.

jstonemo

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrate The Freedom Of Free Sega iPhone Games This Weekend]]> @Trai_Dep: Oh yeah, and I'm sure MILLIONS of owners of said phones take advantage of that. Remind me again which phones? Android? So, that's one competing phone. Does BlackBerry give away their SDK? Not sure. And I guess Windows Mobile (hahaha).

If you really want to do homebrew on your iphone, writing and using your own apps, i sincerely doubt you're too dumb to figure out how to jailbreak your phone and run whatever you want. Seriously, like 1 minute on Google can get that done.

Not to mention you could also do it without jailbreaking, and get to sell your app on the store and everything for the $100 cost of the SDK. Hardly bank-breaking.

West Coast Secessionist

]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> @henwy: You're simply ignorant of the economics of higher ed. The tokens you mention don't come anywhere close to the true cost of your degrees. Rather, you've been a sponge sucking up the generosity of others.
Which is fine: so have I. But at least I'm adult enough to admit it. And humane enough to be grateful for it. And broad-minded enough to admire how much our country has benefited from these efforts, of which libraries are an integral part.
So we can compare apples to apples, we're talking about Ohio here. Which system are you talking about?

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[Quick, What Is This Woman Doing?]]> @Trai_Dep:

HI-YO!

Yoko Broke Up The Beatles

]]> <![CDATA[Recall Roundup - Pretty Much Everything Is Catching Fire]]> @legwork: [www.metro.co.uk]

[www.cpsc.gov]

humphrmi

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrate The Freedom Of Free Sega iPhone Games This Weekend]]> @cc82: You get what you pay for ;)

West Coast Secessionist

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrate The Freedom Of Free Sega iPhone Games This Weekend]]> @homebrewer302: Yeah, and that's the same as the iphone data plan. The data plan costs 30 bucks, people. That's EXACTLY the same as unlimited 3G data on Verizon.

That also spares us from the retarded $3.99 per megabyte (or partial megabyte) data charge that unsuspecting Verizon users get for using a byte when they accidentally fire up the crappy browser on their phone. Or download a ringtone.

That's right:
Ringtone on Verizon: $3.99
Minimum monthly data charge for using a fraction of a megabyte to download the ringtone THAT YOU PAID FOR: another $3.99

Cost to avoid this data scam: Sign up for "unlimited VCAST" ($15) or a "Nationwide Premium" plan--Costs $30 more than a "standard" plan.

So with Verizon you're screwed either way.

ATT's no saint, but it really pisses me off to see Verizon users cracking wise like they're some white knight. I had Verizon for 6 years. I know their entire scam inside and out.

West Coast Secessionist

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> @I Love New Jersey:

Here, even "punk" (which used to be sold as insect repellent in the Fifties) is banned as "fireworks". Oddly, you can still buy it legally, as long as it is sold as "incense sticks."

teqjack

]]> <![CDATA[Chase Shrinks Credit Due Dates Without Warning, Profiting Off Fees]]> humphrmi You are an idiot. Do you really want to have to watch your back with every transaction you make? I guess you enjoy playing 3 card monty with your bank. Some of us have lives involving more interesting things than constantly monitoring our statements looking for tricks played by the banksters.

PattyCabango

]]> <![CDATA[Live In Ohio? Your Library May Soon Close]]> @Trai_Dep: I have no idea WTF you're smoking but I'd pass it off to the next person in line before the gibbering gets out of control. I benefited so much from the generosity of others? Many of us pay something called taxes, spazzy. People didn't pay for my education out of the generosity of their hearts. It's funded through property taxes, which are pretty damn high around here. As for post-high school, well I paid my tuition for undergrad and I excelled enough that the schools themselves paid me for the masters and PhD. Generosity doesn't play into it. We were mutually scratching one another's backs. I got an education and they got some incredibly cheap educated labor out of it.

henwy

]]> <![CDATA[No, Your Dog Does Not Want To Watch Fireworks And Drink Margaritas At The Beach]]> @JeffMc: Please, people. If your children are unruly, dig a hole for them and cover them securely. It's safest for all concerned.

(and then put potato chips on their nose and wait for the gulls)

BytheSea

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