TFA mentions the "blinkies" that often happened to original NES systems, with the design flaw being the spring loaded, zero insertion force cartridge mechanism. TFA also mentions the supposed "solution" which involved taking the cart out, blowing into said cart, reinserting it, and repeating until it worked. I am still amazed how this MYTH has been perpetuated, and that very few seemed to ever figure out that there is a quick, easy, nearly foolproof, and nearly 100% effective solution.

The easy way to solve this issue is to insert the cartridge without sliding it all the way back. When you press it down, you want the outer, visible edge of the cartridge to press against the ledge underneath. By so doing, it would make proper contact and work nearly every time.

Blowing into your cartridges (especially when done by children in the 1980s) was just a way to add extra saliva, mucus, and/or food particles into the mix.

I, for one, welcome our new hacker overlords. Who cares who sees my cell phone records or texts. Besides, you'd have to be stupid to do anything REALLY private over the airwaves these days anyway, what with Bush and Obama both agreeing that warrantless wiretaps are a good idea.

Seriously though, I've done PLENTY of shopping around over the years, and T-Mobile always has the best rates, best coverage, and best customer service out of all the US cellular providers. That might be like calling them a tall midget, but the best is the best. I get 2 lines with completely unlimited calling for less than $90.

If this is real and T-Mobile's networks actually DO get shut down temporarily, then that will just be one less way that I get bothered.

Now how can it be a free retake if you have to pay 35 dollars to get it? Is this the same scam like "Free" Credit Report.com that actually requires you to buy a subscription to their site to get the "free" credit report?

Oh, the report is free alright. They just make you pay to get your credit score.

And I'm sure Microsoft is the same way. The test is free! Oh, you wanted to know if you passed? Well pay up, bitch!

George W. Bush.

The "W" stands for "war criminal".

If you're THAT worried about it and can't control the Google hit, why not adjust your own name for resume purposes? Does the pedophile have the same middle name as you? Are there any professionally-acceptable variants of your first name? Or could you use your middle name instead of your first name?

You could just use an altered name for resume purposes and through the hiring process, and then upon being hired clarify your preferred name, even explaining why.

There are conventional bars in Utah, or at least there are things that look a lot like bars, they just are technically clubs and require you to fill out a form and pay a small "membership fee" to get a drink.

This is only true if either A) the "club" is otherwise totally empty, or B) you are such a complete and total douchebag that nobody would want you to come into the bar. The reason is because there is a provision in this stupid law that allows any club member to sponsor you as a guest, apparently for free. And while I am not a member of any such clubs so I don't know exactly how small the "membership fee" is, I am told that at many such clubs the fee is laughably small. The more exclusive ones (the fun clubs in Park City, for example) charge a higher fee because they can.

I live in Utah, and while I am not a frequent bar patron, I do go on occasion. The first time I went out to a bar after moving here, I was shocked to find out that I would not be allowed to enter without a membership or being sponsored by a member. Then the door girl explained that you just ask anybody to sponsor you, and they will. She asked the next guy in for me. "Hey, will you sponsor this guy?" He replied, yeah sure, like it was an everyday thing.

There are social benefits to this. Since frequent bar patrons have an incentive to become members of their favorite "club", the clubs seem to gravitate a certain type of person far more than in other places I have lived or visited. In other words, the cool clubs really are cool, and are often completely lacking in douchebags which is a welcome change from just about anywhere else in the world.

I may be wrong on this, but I believe if there is an event at the club on any given night, the membership requirement is waived. The dance clubs capitalize on this by hosting "events" every night of the week with a cover charge, so they essentially circumvent the law.

It's unfortunate that the Utah state legislosers play such a tremendous role in perpetuating oddball stereotypes about this state. In reality, most Mormons are very nice people, and most non-Mormon Utahns, in their ever-increasing numbers, do a great job of being non-Mormons.

But lets say that the kids didn't mind people seeing what they did on these machines; how do you think the parents would feel about someone being able to spy on their kid that extensively? I really don't see that going over well at all...

Actually it would be JUST FINE in the PRO-AMERICA parts of America! You betcha! ;-D