The difference makes itself up quite quickly, hence, if you can't afford the up-front cost, you probably can't afford a new car in the first place, and a lot of people in that situation are too uneducated financially to even begin to understand the benefits of paying more up front instead of getting a lower "monthly payment" that'll cost you a lot more over time, and will jump on that $350 a month because they can "afford" it like they can afford spending $20 on fast food every single day instead of buying a microwave and some groceries and be saving money within a week.

If it takes you that long to pay off a loan under $30,000 (for, e.g., a Prius), then you have no business owning a car at your income level.

You missed the point of the point. Try comprehending it.

Meandering off to ramblemutterstan is a great counter-argument.

Funny how any APU will kick the ass of an i3...

That a million times. Buying books has become a horribly tedious chore, because I have to filter through so much shit.

I think it will be WONDERFUL for everybody. The authors that are dumping trash because self-publishing lets them will stop getting paid for trash. Maybe it will convince them to stop writing (for a very loose definition of "writing") entirely, and I'll actually be able to buy books without spending hours filtering through the moron word spewers.

So yet another major version number and they still haven't bothered to add the many arrow (and other directional) symbols that have been missing...

...says the NC...

All the people who rent servers must have those one-way ethernet cables (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/02/10/0257227/10k-ethernet-cable-claims-audio-fidelity-if-youre-stupid-enough-to-buy-it) then, so that the internet can access the servers but the servers can't access the internet...

It's a great business model. I quite like the nice printed books of artwork and stories I got with older games. Reading that stuff in a PDF is damn boring. Give me a dead tree, please (but remember to plant a replacement).

ISP: Internet Service Provider. They connect your machine to the internet. WTF do you think server hosting companies do, you nitwit?

It is. Just some months ago, flooding from Hurricane Sandy caused massive devastation at the same time as drought was (and still is) devastating parts of California. Apparently this Church of Warminetics knows what they're talking about; you should stop fighting and join them :)

ISPs get plenty of money from spammers. Ever heard of Ecatel?

There are perfectly good shielded ethernet cables that only cost twice as much (e.g. $4 instead of $2).