My first thought was "higher", "lower", "lower", "higher", etc.

Really, who cares?

These days, even small banks have internet banking. I'm far from rich, but I have no problem not having a "local" branch. My bank is nearly 300 miles away from me, has been for years, and has not been an issue, even when purchasing a house. Internet banking and old-school fax machines solve any need to actually set foot in a bank.

As for minimum balances and fees.....again, small banks often don't have those. Get away from the "big" national banks and one can avoid the nonsense.

That's not even considering the idea of small credit unions -- I've never dealt with them, so I can't claim to know anything about them or their practices.

Home page of my personal web space is well under 1k. "This space intentionally left blank."

Yeah, that would be why I specified a version of Winamp. XMMS was decent the last time I could be bothered to use linux on the desktop. Now the desktop is either windows (games) or osx (most everything else) depending on what i'm working on, and the linux machines are remote command line shells.

I don't care about finding lyrics, or album artwork, or "visualizations" or anything else. I just want a music player to play music.

I'm not worried about remote code execution through mp3s since the vast majority of the music I've got is stuff I've ripped from my cd collection. Everything else came from a source I trust (Amazon's store).

This. There's still a hell of a lot to be said for a simple, minimal mp3 player. I'll keep using 2.9.5 as long as it still runs.

You haven't seen what they can charge for updates.

Do you really think people buy 20+ books per order?

Yes. I do, two or three times per year, and have for the last 6 years or so, and a 20+ book order is a hell of a lot more than $25.

I also don't buy ebooks, mostly because the books I want to read aren't available in ebook form.

It has taken less than 45% of the eligible to vote population to elect a president in almost (if not every) election in the US.

If you're going to call others idiots, you might want to make sure you have your facts straight: News of the World was closed down by their parent company; they were not forced to close by any government.

I was referring to the returning plague of the "muscle car" in the US.

And your current bodily fluids are also tomorrow's weather...so they're messing with both the past and the future!

Educated and caring are two different things.

In my case, I simply don't give a rat's ass, and will have the car that's actually fun to drive -- and also still happens to manage 30+ mpg combined highway & city.

Then again, if by "sports cars" you mean the return of ill-handling V8 powered land yachts, you may very well be right.

Dude lives in an apartment, which around here implies that he rents, not owns. So the same thing making PV and other solutions non-starters is the same thing preventing him from replacing his AC.

It's not his to replace.