Troll seems a little harsh for this comment. I am a die hard Amazon Prime user but you will find that the identical item that ships without prime is often $3-4 cheaper before shipping and about the same with. The difference though is that Prime is 2 day and the alternative is UPS ground or worse. So no, it isn't free, it is premium shipping discounted but that hardly reads as well on the advert. It also doesn't scale with size. All Prime items ship at a flat rate where UPS ground has variables like weight, size and distance.

The discover card comment is a bit troll-ish but it is probably the least used of the 4 big names out there. However, because I am a cheapskate I know that people on deal websites love discover for the 5% cash back which I think is the best in the industry. Also Costco used to only accept Discover (now AMEX). I'm no shill, i don't even have a discover card.

I was about to type that up myself. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

I asked bruce about this when I had an opportunity to meet him. He said his voice wasn't what it used to be and he has to mix up their set list each night and can only do one or two songs that really push his range. I saw them on the on last incarnation of the 7th son tour and he avoided "only the good die young" in order to do "moonchild" but apparently that changes in each town.

I know when i think of powerful lyrics, my first thoughts go to "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"

Bite the pillow, make no sound
If there's some living to be done
Before your life becomes your tomb
You'd better know I'm the one
Unchain your back door, invite me around

That is some quality writing right there

And beyond being a pilot, he also owns an aircraft maintenance company Cardiff Aviation LTD. My wife works for Boeing in Seattle and he came to tour the facilities for the 787 and check out the new simulators they built for it. She personally escorted him around the few days he was here (after their concert) and said he is about the nicest guy she ever met. I told her to ask him if he was interested in starting a side project with me as an Iron Maiden cover band. He declined the offer. We're both huge fans (since the 80s, we're old). UP THE IRONS!

"...women prefer length..." I feel so lied to.

Agreed. What Amazon has provided me is literally hundreds of hours over the past decade where I don't have to drive around town to find the item I want. I am the problem, if it isn't on Amazon, it doesn't exist to me. I'm sorry it is at the expense of local businesses, I still say that is fair trade for a substantial amount of my life back not sitting in car driving around traffic hell we call Seattle.

Which is great. Like adding a settee to your living room, except bookstores to your city. It sounds like they are doing it backwards though. If I am an amazon customer in France but not in Paris, I want the cheapest price for a book. Why should I subsidize the decorations of the Parisians? You want book stores, make it like Disneyland and just have government owned storefronts to sell books as a facade. It doesn't matter if they turn a profit or not, they are decorations.

Don't go running around with your reasonable and rational arguments. We'll have none of that here on /.

Why I'm replying to an AC is beyond me. My cousin was on the front cover of motorcross magazine at age 6. This is not unprecedented.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8740992

In 2000 I used an Amazon service known as Greenlight.com that was supposed to provide you with a no haggle car buying experience. I had just graduated from college, got married and wanted my first "real" car (at the time that real car was to be a VW Passat). I had never bought a car from a dealership before and the idea of no haggle had a lot of appeal. My experience was a total disaster. I picked our my car, color, options and they connected me with a local dealer that had the vehicle in stock. The model and trim I wanted was popular at the time so inventory was low and the local dealer wanted an additional $500 over the pre-negotiated price. I told them to get bent. $500 over the life of a car loan isn't much but it was the principal of the matter. I got real noisy with Amazon regarding their no-haggle "guarantee." I was blown off but vindicated a few months later when the service was killed. Here's to a better go at it this time. I'm saving my pennies for a Tesla. Amazon also had a state in Kozmo at the time, I hear that is coming back as well.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/consumer/autos/mauto779.htm
http://news.cnet.com/Amazon-invests-in-car-retailer-Greenlight/2100-1017_3-235946.html

To be fair, politicians prefer to be be known as mentally challenged.

Feel free to add "soccer" to that list as well. While we are slandered for using the term in the US, it too is British in origin. It is an abbreviation of Association Football (distinctly different from Rugby Football - rugger), and isn't assoccer because it looks and sounds dumb. No, I've never heard anyone say rugger but then again I wasn't alive in 1889.

http://etymonline.com/?term=soccer

That is an extremely cynical view. What I see in this "sharing economy" is the creation of new market segments. Where I wouldn't consider a hotel for $150 and is the only thing available in the area I need/want to stay, I may stay in an AirBNB for $80. It isn't a lost sale for the hotel, I was never in the market for a $150 room. What this does do is provide greater fluidity to the economy and in turn that person that rented me the room has more money to put back into the system. This is a good thing.

you don't need to bet. he was suspended for 30 days.

"The Taxi and Limousine Commission is moving to suspend Himon’s hack license for 30 days".

http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/08/22/cabbie-blames-cyclist-he-hit-and-bike-lanes-for-midtown-curb-jump-crash/