Because there needs to be some inherent balance between the availability of money and the availability of things to buy with it.

If suddenly there were zillions of dollars lying about, candy bars sold for only $1 apiece would sell out everywhere, and there'd be a huge shortage of candy bars until someone had the bright idea to charge more for them -- enough more that they could handle the demand.

I wonder if this has to do with how long people have used various browsers. People are probably less likely to default at the beginning of a loan than they are several years in, and all of the browsers listed except IE and FireFox have had somewhat recent large increases in use, thus increasing the percentage of Chrome and Safari users, in particular, that are in the first 12 months of their loans -- and thus less likely to have already defaulted.

Or it could be something else entirely, but that seems plausible to me.

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Mark Twain

You know, there is actually a good reason to somewhat restrain expressiveness in programming languages.

I love writing in a nice dynamic language too, because it inevitably means less typing, more doing.

BUT, when I have to read someone else's code, the fact that the types of things have to be explicitly spelled out helps SO much.

This is actually something I've seen as C# evolves. The new 'var' keyword was really originally intended to be used in specific situations where spelling out the full type is tedious and the type is relatively unimportant. Same reason for the new 'auto' in C++. You don't really want to type HashMap.Iterator iter at the beginning of a for loop... it's fairly obvious what you intended, and that's a hideous typename.

But now that the keyword is there, it gets used for everything, and it becomes rather non-obvious when reading someone else's code what all of the types are. It becomes mandatory to have an IDE that will give you type info when you mouseover something, and you have to mouseover everything... because the types are all gone.

It does save keystrokes, and makes it easier to type, but I really prefer having all of the typenames explicitly listed when I need to read something.

Unless you are planning on putting a bunch of BEL chars in your code?

thing is, I have a { key and a } key, but not a [RED] key, nor a [BLUE] key. Which means either memorizing IDE-specific keyboard shortcuts (and then relearning when i have to use a new tool), or lots of clicky-clicky with the mouse, which takes longer and does more damage over time.

Stand Back! I'm going to try SCIENCE! ...

so if you're standing within about 14 feet of the baseline, I might run you down. Seriously. Stand back!

Unfortunately, that's because of sales volumes. If they'll sell 2500x as many "super-mega ultra beyond HD W I D E" screens as they will usable shaped ones, the usable shaped ones will cost a fortune.

One of the ER issues that doesn't exist here is that, in an ER situation, in many cases delaying treatment until verification of ability to pay (either insurance or simply having the money), would cause the death of many patients who do have the ability to pay simply because the 30+ minutes it may take to verify is longer than they would survive. Thus, the only viable mechanism is to start treatment at once, and figure out billing later. Of course, that leads to many huge ER bills that will never be paid (because treatment that the patient can't afford was provided)

In this case, with only one agency doing the lookup, presumably whether the fee was paid or not could be determined in seconds, by an administrator, while the firefighters are getting ready to leave the firehouse.

Because most influential customers don't actually care.

You have a choice: return the game to the publisher and get a refund.

The publisher is required by law to allow you to do this. Their agreements usually even say in the text that you have this right. Either that, or the license must be presented to you (and your agreement obtained) before you purchase the box.

There is a significant amount of precedent out there for this.

They don't have to sell to you under terms you like, they can have only draconian terms if they like. The only requirement is that they can't change the terms after you agree to them, and they have to give you an opportunity to decide not to accept the terms.

Dell, Microsoft, and a handful of others have been sued in the past (and lost their suits), for failure to provide this.

Naturally, pay a $25,000 "license termination fee".

Or a $250,000,000 "improper disposal fee"

U.S. gallons are not the same size as U.K. gallons, sadly. 1.2009 U.S. gallons to the imperial gallon.

And 1.2009 U.S. pints to the imperial pint, as any beer drinker should know :)

oh, college supports free-spirited individualism -- so long as it is the approved extreme left-wing collectivist form of free-spirited individualism performed with in the confines of a campus-approved group of individuals espousing only campus-approved beliefs.