I wouldn't be remotely shocked if the businesses that didn't receive payments still find it reasonable to ascribe late penalties to their customers and say "Hey, it wasn't our fault your payments were late".

Wait, you mean this isn't a conspiracy to ban obese transexuals?

Personally I loved Skyrim to death, at least for the first 6 months, but Fallout NV I found lackluster and rather boring, then got (IMO) too difficult with some of the critters. Maybe I was spoiled at that point by the enchanted items I had gotten used to in Skyrim, I was at a very high level there. But all in all, NV didn't really hold my interest much, it seemed a little too spartan. So I got Oblivion, which was okay. I'm burnt out on gaming now, it ate up too much time, but it was fun while it lasted. Though word of a new Doom made me take notice, that definitely brings back good memories (Doom 1 and II, not 3)

I thought that was rather humorous too.

Bing, there it is, the $10 "cognitive dissonance".. that didn't take long either. We're on a roll today.
Better question: how often do we have to see irrelevant posts that serve only to promote a poster's favorite hate obsession? Simply put, this happened in India, not the US. It would seem all roads of negativity lead back to the US. It gets old, that's all.

Wow, that didn't long for the irrelevant anti-US swipe, just 5 posts. This has jack-squat to do with the US, you know. Isn't this brown-skinned people oppressing other brown-skinned people? Can't deal with that truth though, so let's make an obligatory mention of the "evil" US.. And if you'd care to look at real statistics, cops don't routinely kill "innocent" people; incidents have occurred, yes, but it's certainly not a matter of policy or even general practice. The media might have you think otherwise, but they promote the hell out of sensational dirt, it's good for their bottom line, which is all they really care about.

I bet there's a deleted scene in the upcoming Antman movie you might want to see..

I thought he meant to give it a ring, but didn't leave a number. :-p

Now cue the "grammar nazi" remarks... but we're just having a little silly fun.

Thank you sir

Indeed... it's the world's loss. I always thought he was one of the best (if not the best) classic Draculas I'd ever seen, and he was brilliant in all his roles.

I need to find those.. I've read most of the books.

Well, I wouldn't call it doing business with them, I just wanted to be able to post on their forums and make comments on articles, but yeah, it's a pain in the arse.
I would assume it's their way of combating spambots but they're too heavy-handed with that approach.

The only problem I've run across in using your own domain for email is that some places won't accept an email address using an "unknown" domain when creating an account. Case in point, Guitar World magazine, apparently they'll only accept accounts with an email from an ISP, or from Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail. It took me a few attempts to figure that out, because they won't even tell you why they won't send a registration activation email to that address.

They suck, but for Internet, Verizon is no better. I can't even get FIOS where I am, I have DSL, and it's increasingly not cutting the mustard. I can't stream HD for one thing, but every year it just seems slower and slower.
The only other viable alternative for decent broadband then is Comcast.. between a rock and a hard place, essentially.

In regards to cable TV, Comcast service has gone down the toilet. 150 channels of crap, and while I need to time it to be sure, it seems like the commercials to program ratio is getting pretty darn close to 1:1, at least on certain channels, like SyFy. Then there's the way they screwed up OnDemand. Some of the few shows I actually like aren't on premium channels, they're free, like Vikings, Salem, or Supernatural.. but if I want to watch an episode from the last season, I'm lucky if it's there.. and if it is, it's only for a price: $3 an episode. A lot of times you can't even get episodes from earlier in the same season.
Lately, they've been airing the hell out of the first Avengers movie, but on OnDemand, it's $5.99, which is kinda funny.

I guess it depends on what they mean exactly by training. If it means the necessary core skills, then yeah, that's a violation. However if they mean to merely familiarize the workers with that specific environment, then not so much. It's 3 months for the training, which is far more than necessary for an orientation, but if it's because the HIBs are getting phased in over 3 months, dept by dept, that may not mean 3 months of training for each new employee.
But either way, that's still a huge insult to injury.