- Spending your lifetime saving for your retirement, and it all disappears once you're about to retire
- Rape

I'm not sure there's a clear choice there.

Anyone with a business can easily rack up $100k in credit card charges a year. I probably do $200k per year between business and personal spend. I take the rewards as airline miles, and I can turn 250,000 airline miles (mile per dollar plus bonuses) into $8 to $10 thousand in international business class airline tickets.

Now, that does mean that whenever I use my card, the merchant is paying 3-4% fee instead of a 1-2% fee if I were not using a rewards card. But since the cost to me is the same, I'll take the rewards.

If merchants want to charge me more for using a credit card than cash, I won't complain about it. And I'll probably still pay the fee - worth the miles and not having to carry cash. I actually don't use cash at all anymore.

T-Mobile offers a cheaper plan with no phone subsidies, and there are plenty pay-as-you-go carriers as well (boost, virgin, etc)

It's not like there are not alternatives out there. Yes, the major carriers generally push subsidized phone purchases with a contract, but there are also plenty of pay-as-you go providers, and T-Mobile even offers plans that don't offer phone subsidy and have lower month-to-month costs.

Most consumers don't care that they don't get to unlock the phone after the contract, because they're going to get a brand new phone on a new contract.

So I would submit that the consumers not only know exactly what they are getting, they also LIKE it!

"cable" is figurative here.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a submarine full of tapes.

Sure, the bandwidth of a surface vessel would be even more, but submarine transport is harder to intercept.

The submitter might as well be David Beckham asking how he can get Victoria Beckham to play soccer with him.

Look, the fact of the matter is, you've been playing video games most of your life, so there's few things that are true for you that are never going to be true for your wife:

1) You started when you were very young. Very young is when most people pick up new interests, and one of the things that makes that interest interesting in their adult lives is that it was part of their young lives. No matter what you do, video games are never going to be a part of your wife's young life.

2) You have tens of thousands of hours of experience. That means even when you encounter entirely new games, you get to apply that experience to the new game. Your wife will have no frame of reference. For example, let's say you tried to introduce her to WoW.... you know what a character level is. She has no idea. You probably played RPGs at some time in the early 90's (or a bit earlier or later depending on your age), she's done it... never.

3) When you're playing with her and your skill level is going to be much higher than hers is. EVEN if you're playing cooperatively, that's going to be frustrating. We're talking basic skills here, like even manipulating a controller, or precise mouse use. Doing activities with someone who is at an entirely different skill level than you - even the simple version of that activity - is rarely pleasureably.

4) Because of 3) your wife is going to have a bit of a learning curve before she can really enjoy a game. That might be OK, *IF* your wife wasn't married with kids. And I imagine at least one of you has a job. By the time she spends an hour or two working on that learning curve, it's going to be time to put the kids to bed or go to bed yourselves and she's just going to think the activity stinks if she never gets past the learning part to the fun part.

And, the laptop is the LAST place you should attempt this. There is nothing that requires a laptop to play that you should try and get a novice gamer interested in. If you can't play it on a phone, it's almost certainly too advanced.

The reality of this is, if you dated this girl before you got married (and I hope you did), and she didn't pick up an interest in video games during that exposure to you, it's not going to happen now.

Maybe you two can play words with friends together.

It is against international regulations to have luggage for a passenger carried on a plane where the passenger isn't flying.

Passenger/bag matching is a bit of a deterrent, but not much of one when we know terrorists are willing to fly planes into buildings, or attempt to blow up planes with bombs in their crotch.

If you don't board they'll pull your bags.

If the bags don't make the flight that you board, no biggie.

It's $0.45. $0.46 come Jan 27.

Anyone who thinks suicide is easy hasn't tried it.

I'm going to prove you wrong, as soon as I find someone willing to click "Submit" once I've done so.

You realize the vast majority of small arms being used by the Syrian revolution came from A) Army defectors and B) Foreign supply, right?

Syria is a civil war with combatants split largely on ethnic lines, with one half of the military fighting the other half. It's absolutely not a case of an armed populace against the military. It certainly isn't an example of an untrained, armed population fighting off the government.

Late to the game, but you're wrong on all counts.

While we can't defeat the Taliban, the Taliban doesn't fight with guns. They fight with IEDs, and beheading people in areas where we don't have enough troops to maintain control.

Arab spring wasn't accomplished with any arms at all. It was accomplished through protest and support of the military.

They know if you give them a test they can walk to someone else who wont.

But then they have to work with a bunch of other people who couldn't pass the test.

I'd seek out employers who tested applicants, as then I'd know the chances I had to work with idiots once hired would be lower.

There are three times as many automobile related fatalities each year as firearms related fatalities:

When was the last time you drove your AR-15 to work?

Even better, there are more people killed with hammers and clubs than with firearms:

Been putting a lot of boards together with .223 rounds?

Also, in Afghanistan

Jesus, really?

In Afghanistan, guns are readily available, but the insurgency doesn't use them. They are essentially useless - that's why the opposition, despite having ready access to all sorts of firearms, instead fights by burying IEDs next to roads.

That's right, even in countries where the insurgency has ready access to guns, they don't use guns.

Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that you can't resist occupation with firearms.

suburbanites are content to allow the poor to continue killing each other while living in squalor.

Well, we certainly don't want the poor killing each other in the suburbs now, do we?