Yeah. My wife owns a small business. Costs of card transactions are not an iota to her.

She should be allowed to charge more for credit card transactions, because they cost more, but the merchant agreement forbids it.

IMNSHO, anyway.

I highly doubt that Verizon is being charged $2 for every card they run.

Merchant fees for "card not present" transactions (e.g. the merchant isn't physically swiping the cards) are about 22 cents plus 2% of the transaction value. So if you consider a cell phone bill at $100, the charge for the credit card transaction is $2.22.

Granted, Verizon probably has negotiated a better rate, but each transaction is probably costing not much less than $2.

This is a win-win scenario, as the bank makes money via transaction fees, and you make money because the bank is floating you the money for the purchase.

It's not a win for the retailer, who is ultimately paying for your fancy win-win scenario.

More importantly, why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?

You may be completely unaware that a whole bunch of private companies that are not affiliated with Facebook have access to your personal data

Anyone who is unaware of that fact clearly does not understand Facebook's business model.

Yeah, you can get some pretty good VHF/UHF stuff for pretty cheap. I've got a Yaesu VX-8DR quad-band radio, with a 1200/9600 APRS packet modem built-in, and all kinds of other fun features. It was under $400.

I mean, sure, you can spend thousands of dollars on a rig, but you don't have to.

Me as well. I renewed my license about 2 years ago, and am only in my 30s.

Field artillery school, by chance?

The summart still sucks. "Self-cleaning" and "never get[s] dirty" seem to be mutually exclusive to me.

If it doesn't get dirty in the first place, how can it clean itself -- isn't it already clean?

Let me think...

2 android phones, 1 ipad, 1 ipod touch, 2 x86 desktops, 1 sparc desktop, 3 x86 servers, 1 sparc server, 2 routers (not counting the one the DSL is connected to), 1 Cisco IP phone, 1 console server, 2 metered PDUs, 1 PBX, 3 Cisco Aironet APs, 1 TV, 1 Blu-ray player, 1 mythtv box, 1 Wii, and 2 laptops.

That's 26 devices.

Next: do the same thing with lead. I'm sick of seeing it in all my christmas light plastics.

Especially since you were obviously forced to buy them under duress!

The vast majority of amateur rockets are passively stabilized.

Center of gravity above center of pressure.

The pictures on his web site show an APRS transmitter.

Print screen - only copies it to the clipboard? The Mac saves the file right there on your desktop.

I just *hate* that. 99% of the time the reason I am taking screenshots is to develop documentation. In other words, the screeshot is going to be immediately pasted into a document.

When it saves to the desktop, I then have to go find it, open it in some other program, select all, copy, change app, paste, go back to finder, delete file, go back to application, continue writing.

When it saves on the clipboard, I have to just click back to the other application, hit ctrl-v, and continue writing.