I hope you realize that by paying the fee, you also are admitting to be guilty of driving without a license. So on all future job applications you need to check that little box saying you have been convicted of a traffic violation.

The signature on the card must be reasonably close to the signature on the slip they sign.

Mastercard has a nice little web form to report merchant violations. It usually only takes one or two reports to get the merchant in line.

Actually his writeup hits a point I've been struggling with for a while and one that is making me reconsider Linux as my desktop OS.

Is there a diagram editor that works on Linux? I've tried Dia and it seems clunky and lacking. Is there anything out there with the functionality of Visio, but runs on Linux?

I guess you've never gotten a raise and ended up with a smaller paycheck. It happens all too frequently.

It's already happened before (back when you still used film in cameras). Some folks took pictures of their kid in the tub just playing with some kid's toys.

The person at the place that developed the pictures (fox photo I think), call the police and I believe the parents ended up with jail time and had their kid taken from them.

The transaction won't happen unless both parties benefit. It's not an either or proposition.

This model has the advantage that if you just use Word once in a while you can use it without paying the $$$ that you now have to do. Just need it to open that job application. That's just $1.15.

Supplies will benefit b/c more people will be able to afford their product and they'll sell more.

Personally, to me it is worth it to put up with the disaster known as Open Office just to avoid MS. However most people don't have that hangup and will love the new model.

the government owns everything.

Really we should expect to end up in full blown Communism when all is said and done.

Pretty sad ending for the greatest nation in history.