If competition is down, they make more on profit margin. They may benefit, but the consumer suffers the most since we have no choice but to choose a provider in one or two different companies, and many often times in especially rural areas it's just one provider for cable/internet. If we had more companies that sold cable and Internet, we wouldn't be seeing the problem of ridiculous prices for these services...

A car is a big investment to the younger crowd, any many are finding out that carpooling works better. Why pay all the payments and insurance when you can pitch in a few dollars for gas? Problem solved!

Probably the reason they don't want fingerprint scanners is that its too easy for officials to get a clean print when the commit a crime or felony. I'm sure that the scanners are somehow tied in the law enforcement system...

Why is it that ANY natural disaster, whether it be an earthquake, flood, etc., always drives those prices? The answer: To make up for lost profits during downtime production. That's why too you'll see gas prices go up when a significant tropical system is to hit the U.S.: the anticipation of lost profits. Yes, its a sad world we live in, when money is only thing that people think about..

And this grandma has been buying useless shit since then, one package at a time. Those dentures she bought really do come handy for her though!

Nah, it was the snails that gave a shit when they revealed themselves to the scientists. Then as they say, history is made!

It's true. Since their markup on profits is so high, then even if the iPhone 5 doesn't do so well, it will make up the margin cost with the 5C, which if Jobs was still alive, that phone would've never made it into production in the first place. Even I have to admit, and I'm not a fan of Apple by all means, but without Jobs, their products WILL suffer...

At best they can only guess and estimate what you are...That data goes through so many hands it's amazing that your name is correct! I'm not joking! Just because there's a file on a computer about you doesn't necessarily mean that it's the truth..

In Germany, I understand that they go to school all year long, they do get vacations three times a year, so it's not like they're dogging those kids outright, and they have some of the best scores in all of Europe, if not ranking pretty good in the world. I'll put to you another way: If you can afford private school, then do it and be happy about it. If you can't afford it, tough shit. Either you do home schooling if you can deal with the stress of it, or suck it up and grow a pair and send your kids to public school. To me those kids learn more in the real world than they ever would in a private school. Public school has it's issues, no doubt about that, but they will learn how to real world works and deal with personal issues as they get older and more experience how to handle it. Those kids will be more responsible to others and to their selves in the long run...

Damn man, that was stupid what the customs reps did and I understand it's there job to search if they have any unreasonable doubt, but to search only to find a photo an hour and a half later is ludicrous at best. Talk about bad luck at the border, especially since your family all got sick from food poisoning is a lesson learned for them. In the end, your family got the last laugh when they mocked you. Sorry to hear about the bad experience your family had at the border, but unfortunately shit does happen that's beyond our control at times...

This is to be expected..Hell it was probably by those damn DEA personell who ordered AT&T to do this in the first place, since obviously the government has to listen every damned thing that we say and do!!

WTF is the point of having looser Mary Jane laws in those states if the damn government won't loosen their end on a federal level? Just because pot threatened the hemp industry doesn't mean it's the end of the world dammit! Other countries legalize it and do just fine, and there's very few complaints. Take it to this country to screw shit up that shouldn't have been screwed in the first place!

Not much as he's liable to not even see that 5% taken out of his paycheck. Hell, he will get kickbacks from the very ones he cuts loose! It's a sick, sad world that we live in, isn't it??

Because there's never enough sweat shops and dungeons of work these days!! 12 hours in 100 degree heat is a bitch no matter who works it especially for pennies at a dollar, but hey, its ok cause we get the latest and the greatest phones that the planet has to offer, no??