Never underestimate the ability of the average American to procrastinate.

They also apparently hired several hundred thousand actors around the country to pretend to sign up at ACA navigation centers, clearly visible so that local newspapers could photograph them.

People who signed up in March won't even get their first bill until the end of April. It's not like employee coverage, where it gets deducted magically out of your paycheck.

Approximately 90% of the folks who signed up by the end of 2013 actually did, in fact, make their first payment on time. The remaining 10% either cancelled policy for some reason before payment (maybe they got a new job?) or just didn't pay (being poor sucks. No tax breaks for them.)

No reason to assume the numbers won't hold for the 2014 people, but it won't be until the summer until we know for sure.

People like you are the reason I had to whine for years for my parents to get me Micro-Machines as a child. Some girls like to play with cars. Some girls like to rip apart computers or code in C#. But they won't know that unless they're given the opportunity to try it on their own.

You left out the part with his landlady helping him go in drag so he could pay the rent. And the magical voice box choker and bits-hiding underwear.

If I read it right, it's capped out at $2500 for four female students. So even if they fill all 25 seats with girls, they're not making any extra bank. It's more likely that they'll be lucky to hit the cap with 4 girls in a class with 20 guys.

Probably because someone forgot they were supposed to have an answer to that email last week.

My mechanic has a great sign: "A mistake on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." I really wanted to make that my email sig when I worked at a help desk.

It's not the working or not working that pisses me off. It's charging $30 for a vial of distilled water that makes me hate all of them.

Homeopathy is great for treating dehydration.

A lot of people uninstalled the browser, apparently, and indicated that Eich was the reason why on the exit survey.

Because I paid $800 for a repaint of my car last fall, and I would like them to have the records of me paying them for it in addition to my own receipts since it came with a four year warranty.

I had one of those. It eventually developed an allergy to Windows XP, so I dropped Ubuntu on it and gave it to a niece to play with.

The hardware eventually will, though. As long as you've taken reasonable backup precautions you'll be fine, but the average user out there isn't running a good antivirus, let alone a weekly backup of personal files.

I'm not worried about the folks on Slashdot. I'm worried about the Maaco shop up the road, which had an XP computer the last I checked. I'm worried about my husband's aunt and the photos of her grandkids. I'm worried about the ATM in the gas station.

That just made my day.

You think about it, but you don't actually do it til it dies. The same can go on for XP. Microsoft isn't saying no one can use XP any more. And you'll still be able to find parts to repair the older PCs for decades, I'm sure. It's just that there always comes a point where the cost of continued repairs is more than the replacement cost. That applies whether it's a computer or a car.

Microsoft did offer an extension of support for commercial hardware running XP, for a price.