People like you are the reason I had to whine for years for my parents to get me Micro-Machines as a child. Some girls like to play with cars. Some girls like to rip apart computers or code in C#. But they won't know that unless they're given the opportunity to try it on their own.

You left out the part with his landlady helping him go in drag so he could pay the rent. And the magical voice box choker and bits-hiding underwear.

If I read it right, it's capped out at $2500 for four female students. So even if they fill all 25 seats with girls, they're not making any extra bank. It's more likely that they'll be lucky to hit the cap with 4 girls in a class with 20 guys.

Probably because someone forgot they were supposed to have an answer to that email last week.

My mechanic has a great sign: "A mistake on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." I really wanted to make that my email sig when I worked at a help desk.

It's not the working or not working that pisses me off. It's charging $30 for a vial of distilled water that makes me hate all of them.

Homeopathy is great for treating dehydration.

A lot of people uninstalled the browser, apparently, and indicated that Eich was the reason why on the exit survey.

Because I paid $800 for a repaint of my car last fall, and I would like them to have the records of me paying them for it in addition to my own receipts since it came with a four year warranty.

I had one of those. It eventually developed an allergy to Windows XP, so I dropped Ubuntu on it and gave it to a niece to play with.

The hardware eventually will, though. As long as you've taken reasonable backup precautions you'll be fine, but the average user out there isn't running a good antivirus, let alone a weekly backup of personal files.

I'm not worried about the folks on Slashdot. I'm worried about the Maaco shop up the road, which had an XP computer the last I checked. I'm worried about my husband's aunt and the photos of her grandkids. I'm worried about the ATM in the gas station.

That just made my day.

You think about it, but you don't actually do it til it dies. The same can go on for XP. Microsoft isn't saying no one can use XP any more. And you'll still be able to find parts to repair the older PCs for decades, I'm sure. It's just that there always comes a point where the cost of continued repairs is more than the replacement cost. That applies whether it's a computer or a car.

Microsoft did offer an extension of support for commercial hardware running XP, for a price.

It also depends on how breakage prone you are with phones. I've never broken a phone, dropped it in water, or had it spontaneously stop working on me, so I don't bother with insurance. Someone who regularly drops their phone on cement will probably want the insurance on an expensive model.

Actually, I'm a married woman wearing a pair of pants that have no pockets right now, and I'm annoyed because I thought they did when I bought them. (They even have fake silky hanging things on the inside - I usually feel around on the inside of pants before I buy them to see if the pockets are fake or real, and the presence of lining material behind them usually indicates they're real but sewn shut for display purposes. Nope! Not this pair. The material is a single layer thick. I don't know why they even bothered. I couldn't even take them back because I took them straight to get shortened after I bought them. Thankfully, the other pairs I bought that day did have real pockets.)

In this particular case, the "aesthetic" appearance of pants that have pocket outlines but not pockets is dumb. Plain and simple. Either have real pockets, or don't even try to pretend and have the front panel of the pants be smooth.

They're also really bad at what they claim to do. They don't work any better than pedometers. They claim to "capture any movement you do" but they are notoriously bad at picking up stationary exercise on equipment. I am probably going to cancel mine because it can't tell that I'm jogging on a treadmill. Oh sure, it picks up jogging on the road just fine, but it thinks that I am just jumping slightly in place when I walk or job on a treadmill.