Except that this cost to the merchant is already priced into the goods that you purchase, so we pay for the points and such ourselves via marginally increased prices. By paying in cash, you are simply paying for a benefit that you don't get to receive (and yes, you are increasing the merchant's profit slightly as well). So while paying cash is a nice way to help a small business out, if everyone moved away from cards, prices of goods would drop slightly and the profit of the small merchant would be the same as it is today (even though they would not be having to pay those pesky fees anymore).

I think alot of you are forgetting what driving without ABS is like. Well maybe not, but my experience on the highway on wet roads combined with following distance of the cars around me backs that up. I'd take a car with ABS acting funny every so often (that I can throw into neutral, via clutch or other) over pure analogue brakes any time.

Regular consumption of 'significant' amounts of water can lead to water intoxication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

You should not try to apply logic or common sense to government regulations. This is the disconnect. As an example, google around for US policy about employees simply viewing wikileaks.

Let me quote the whole sentence:

There are many diskettes. Some of those have defects in areas with compressed archives. There is nothing to suggest that of the many diskettes there are any with defects in areas other than compressed archives.

You failed to parse correctly, the some you quoted is saying that of all the disks some have errors. Not as you suggest which is that of the disks with errors, some have errors in zip archives. The AC was right.

So I have to be honest, I was just as happy with my google voice account (maybe more so, but time will tell) when I could not use it on my iphone. Now you might be asking why, and maybe my use case is not common, but google voice fills a nice roll in my life. 1) Random people at bars get google voice # 2) Companies that require a phone number get google voice # Pretty much my google voice number is like my spam e-mail account. If you got this number, well good luck getting a return call. The ability to make calls from this number is nice if I ever do return a phone call from some random girl at a bar or some company that really wants to talk to me about why I downloaded their white paper. The only other use case that I can see myself taking advantage of is the free SMS, although to be honest, it's more of a pain to let all of my contacts know who is texting them than it is to pay the $5 a month for my SMS plan.

This is true, if you include the system bus, you have 5 nodes which each have to be connected to the other 4 and you get K5. I was simply responding to the statement that: