Amazon is clearly a business.

No, it isn't. Anybody can create an organization that sells a dollar for $0.99. That's not sustainable, and that's not a business.

Spending lots of money on PC hardware is pretty silly, as far as I'm concerned. There's more refurbished/used hardware that one could shake a stick at and it's absurdly cheap. Buying expensive PC hardware is like buying really expensive disposable pens: It's a waste of money, usually.

I'd buy one in a heartbeat if they made a model that wasn't so damn big.

Guns.

Neat.

*yawn*

Speak for yourself. I see, on average, one a day, and I know several people that have one. I'd buy one if I liked large cars, but as soon as they come out with a smaller model, I'm buying one, no question.

If you buy a used car, it will run into problems. If you go to a mechanic with even the smallest of problems, they will quote you $500

I think that you perhaps have a lot to learn about cars.

EVERY car has problems. They're mechanical things. Mechanical things break and wear out. If you're smart, and buy reliable things like Toyota Corollas, etc, they have very very few problems. If you're insistent on buying notoriously unreliable cars, then you're likely to have more problems. The idea that new cars are problem-free is absurd, and it's not likely that paying the huge new car price just to avoid paying potential mechanic's fees is a financially smart move, ever.

I don't know what kind of "mechanics" you go to, but I haven't had a +$500 repair in well over a decade. It sounds like you're A. buying bad cars and B. don't know enough about cars to know if a mechanic is ripping you off or not.

It's helpful if you read the fucking article: "We decided to use Rhizobacteria as this was the group specifically mentioned by our science teacher. We used one acidic strain (r.leguminosarum) and one basic strain (r.japonicum)."

The comment was about expecting a new OS to run on year old hardware. My point was that MS's OS's regularly run on 10+ year old hardware without any problem, and that Apple consumers don't see any problem with having to buy new hardware so often.

Wow, I didn't know guys like you still existed! Look, I understand it's frustrating that no chicks will bang you, but that's because you're a douchebag. Hope that helps.

You can't seriously expect a new OS to run well on a one year old iPhone 5S?

That's funny, because I certainly do. But then again, I use Windows so I guess my expectations are a bit higher, in terms of longevity...

Wow, I'm surprised at that. I'm a member of three different credit unions, and none of them charge for stuff like that (if for much at all). Very strange!

The merchant doesn't see the credit card number with modern POS systems, either.

That's partially your fault for using a bank. My credit union contacted me last week and already sent me a new card.

That's what you get for doing business with a bank. Smart people use credit unions.

Part of what makes iTunes so hard to use, in my opinion, was the creation of a completely superfluous extra layer of a "playlist library" or some nonsense. People who use iTunes don't even know where their actual music files. A file system isn't a complicated thing for anybody to use, so I don't really see the point. Of course, all of the nasty memory-leaking hooks it puts into Windows is what got it banned from my company, but I still don't understand why it's so damned complicated to use. I just click on the music files I want to play with Winamp and play them.