By which I mean - yesterday, when I tried to ping dumpgodaddy.com, it resolved to that IP but couldn't ping it; today the host name doesn't resolve at all. The DNSTools listing hasn't changed but the DNS TTL could be playing in the equation somewhere.

Not anymore, but it did when I posted that. Curious.

According to DNSTools the domain "dumpgodaddy.com" was reserved for 1 year starting two days ago, but gives no IP address for it. The name resolves to 67.215.66.132, which can't be pinged or accessed via port 80, and is within an IP block assigned to OpenDNS, LLC.

Quite a few HTML entities work, too: for instance, you can use < and > for "less than" and "greater than" symbols.

E.g. all of the following will create an identical link (including the bracketed domain, if the user's settings are configured to show it):

  <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
  <URL:http://example.com/>
  http://example.com/

In that last case, only as long as the character immediately preceding "http" is a whitespace character (or none, at the beginning of the comment). An HTML tag immediately preceding is not considered a whitespace character (even if a whitespace character immediately preceded the tag), which is useful when you specifically don't want it to link; e.g. the trick I used for my 3rd example above (simplest case, a useless tag that is stripped out but prevents it from auto-linking):

  <>http://www.example.com/

Putting the link in quotes, parentheses, <p></p> tags, etc. would also prevent it from auto-linking.

Uh, point obviously being that under SOPA they wouldn't need to buy up hate domains; they could just seize the domain if anyone tried to register one.

Yeah, I was exactly the same and never had a headache and what people told me was, "well, after 3 or 4 days without you'd start getting them".

At least in my case, I didn't after 3 or 4 days without, either.

Is he really that busy, sitting on his thumbs waiting for a shipment to come through customs, that he can't take the time to write one, single, polite form letter and blast it to everyone who's ordered that item informing them of the delay before they get annoyed and ask about it?

And in road rage you'd probably be right, but it wouldn't normally be very damaging to anyone to spend ten or fifteen minutes on the phone with an unhelpful support tech. It's just a waste of your time, which you can presumably spare, but it looks really bad for them.

That's not all there is to it, though. If it "doesn't matter because it's 50%-50%", why won't people switch?

Either the dental office was being heavily subsidized by the government, or it was being heavily subsidized by milking the insurance companies of patients who did have insurance. No way could they afford to see and treat you for €60.

As long as we're sharing personal anecdotes, I've never had a headache due to caffeine withdrawal. I've been told both "maybe you don't drink enough coffee" (like hell) and "maybe you'll have to stop for longer before you get them" (I have).

I do notice the fact that it has less of an effect after habitual use, but that applies to anything. Even chewing gum. Know why it tastes better, if you stick it on its wrapper and chew it later, than it tasted when you took it out the first time? That's why.

Not necessarily - the customers who ask to complain to a manager tend to be the type who weren't going to be satisfied no matter what the rep did (maybe the rep didn't even have the authority to do what the customer wanted), so it doesn't really reflect badly on the rep. In fact, they did their job well: they handled the customer's call quickly, and accomplished all that they were expected to accomplish (i.e. resolved nothing with an incorrigible customer).

That said, I've been told before, flat out, (from a Kodak rep - yeah, I'll name names) that no, I couldn't speak to her manager because "a manger doesn't want to talk to you".

Yeah, as a matter of fact it's the electrolytes in the Roundup which kill the plants (just like in the movie - they just needed to breed plants for resistance, I guess).

For some reason I had been thinking of a pesticide/insecticide where you'd typically want it to dry or settle on the plant's surface to make pests avoid it, but Roundup is a herbicide so obviously it has to be absorbed through the plant's pores.

Because reps are rated based on how efficiently (i.e. quickly) they are able to resolve customers' complaints. Hanging up when your complaint hasn't been resolved makes them appear better than they are; keeping them on the line longer makes them appear worse.

...and pandas are the ones which eat, shoot, and leave.

Or something like that.