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Comment Re:Don't feel sorry for the parents (Score 1) 370

Typically when giving someone a gift, you don't try it out first before giving it to them; you allow the recipient the opportunity to experience whatever initial setup may be required (even if you have to help them with it).

Unless they're five. I purchased two DSis *new* this year for my kids, 4.5 and 2.5, and you can bet your ass I pulled them out of the box and tested them and set them up before wrapping them. If you're buying something used from GameStop--or hell, anywhere--you need to make sure it works, otherwise you have some 'splainin to do, like, "why doesn't my new DS work, daddy?"

The first thing my boy did was find the camera app and start taking pictures. Once the girl got the hang of her hello kitty game I got her, she was gold.

Comment Re:Look at who they appoint to the SCOTUS. (Score 2) 1576

In 1992 Michigan went to term limits and the results have been a disaster. Our state level politics have become polarized, and no one is willing to work together for the common good, they just want to make a name for themselves so that they can move on to the next step up the political ladder. We have no one in the legislature able to work a reasonable budget or work with the other party because there's just no experience any more in budget writing or politicking.

Comment Re:Ugh. (Score 5, Insightful) 301

Where in the hell can you find (good) beer for $1?

Like I told my father in law, the dollar buys you the fantasy of going and taking a dump on your boss's desk (or quietly peeing in all the corners of the peoples' offices you don't like, and then quitting abruptly). That's all. I know I'm not going to win it, but the fantasy breaks down if you don't spend the dollar. (If you're spending more than $1, though, then you're wasting your money.)

Comment Re:Virgin LG Optimus V (Score 2) 173

I picked up the Optimus V last mother's day for my wife who isn't exactly ... gentle with phones. (Let's just say that she couldn't figure out why she had all these black squares in her gallery--turns out she just throws the thing in her purse w/out turning the damned thing off and has taken many, many pictures of the inside of her purse...) The phone is a very solid phone, and all the prepaid (and contract) carriers have a version of it. Right now, the price is right at about $100, but I've seen them on sale lately for as low as $75.

Verizon can go piss up a rope, AT&T can lick my asshole; the only thing I miss with VM is the ability to roam, but anywhere Sprint has a tower, I have coverage.

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