Actually, they should probably START having their techs travel by horseback.

Yeah, I know of someone who had problems. His name: Fu Que.

Yeah, but given Beta Ray Bill's equine appearance, the phrase "I say thee neigh" actually made sense.

I hope your phone doesn't collect anything from THERE! Remind me never to borrow your phone!

Really? We broke record lows just this morning. And our last month has been well below average.

Yes, I realize my above was BS, but so is the "it's hot so it's GW" statements.

I don't have a dryer, but that has nothing to do with GW. My crap dryer broke down twice within a few months. The second time I said "The hell with this", hung clotheslines in my basement, and have been using them ever since. No repair bills, lower electric, and only a small wait time before the clothes are dry anyway.

I'll remember that when everyone has warp drive and energy-to-matter replicators. :-P

Sure, that's what the camera in the vending room is for.

I wouldn't be surprised if some Trekkies don't worship the pointy-eared one too.

So, I guess I can't name the next gas giant "Obama"?

I might not track where my cash goes, but it's easier to track how much I'm spending. If I yank out $100 on Saturday, and I'm broke on Friday, I know without calculating that I've spent $100 that week. If I charge that amount, I actually have to look at my records to see how much I've spent.

At the cafeteria at work, they have a $3 minimum for card purchases. Not much of a problem, since most of their crap is well over $3 anyway, but they do have that min.

She should at least sue Al Gore, since he invented the damn thing!

Probably because we spend more than before?

Productivity is way up since the 1950s. If you were to live according to a 1950's lifestyle including miles driven, size of home, vacation travel, amount of times going out to eat, drop internet, CATV, cell phones etc, you could save an enormous amount of money. Invest it in some index funds or take a dividend growth approproach and you would be pretty rich.

Been there, and griped about it just before I saw your post. My guess is that "Mr Nice" was a bleeping idiot who didn't see the car in the other lane. I'm just glad I held back until I could see it.