Actually, Uber took advantage of it by offering discounts in the cities affected. I'm pretty sure Uber gained many new customers today.

And heaven help those kids if they had a copy of "GURPS Cyberpunk" sitting on a bookshelf.

They'd never see the light of day again.

It depends. Did they send him a Facebook invitation?

It used to take around 25 button pushes to turn closed captions on or off on U-verse. I'd like to know how they came up with their usage scenarios when designing this that interface.

Thankfully, they've added a shortcut that reduces it to around six button pushes, but still... Why does it only take one button on my DVD player?

You piqued my curiosity.

Apparently, depending on the author, the falling tone at the end of a sentence is called a "terminal fall" (sounds like a coroner's statement of cause of death), "falling terminal" (sounds like a terrorist act), or a "terminal contour". I'm couldn't find a official universal term for it.

I thought the Wikipedia article might have something in the article on intonation, but I was unable to find it.

I recall this actually happening to someone, except it was the phone company that was sending him the bill.

After making multiple attempts to get it cleared up, and starting to receive threatening letters regarding his phone service, he mailed in a check for $0.00.

The problem was cleared up immediately.

My dad got out of the navy after WWII. Several years later he was informed that an audit had revealed that he had been underpaid, and they sent him a check. The check was for twelve cents.

My mom still has that check.

That, and the batter should be allowed to carry the bat with him as he runs and use it as needed.

I'd become an instant fan of baseball.

What are these "sports" they're talking about? Are those done in that rumored land called "outside" that I hear about every so often?

That's what always happens to my cars.

I've lost 5 wives that way so far.

"An armed society is a polite society."

I tried that, but I couldn't get anyone at the table to believe that spotted owl meat looks like little Santa Clauses.

No, your windshield just explodes.

But then you still don't need any windshield wipers!

Um, I hear those sound waves just fine (high frequency sensitive). My dentist had to give up using it on me.

If this sounds anything like that horrid sonic plaque cleaner, I'm going to have to move to my zombie apocalypse survival compound in Montana. Too bad, I was saving it for the actual zombie apocalypse.

They would certainly have better ethics.