With mustard on, and because that's what Larry pays them to do.

I think it's pretty fair to guess they had some kind of disagreement (about the future openness of java? whether it has a future at all?) but there's some kind of confidentiality clause.

He's speaking in code. The translation is "Ellison's lawyers will feed by balls to the dogs if I don't keep quiet".

(why is "brown people" a part of the parent? It's silly and distracting.

Because nobody - neither you, him, nor me - can be bothered to change the subject line.

Unless the overdraft limit is infinite, it doesn't really make a difference, does it? It just means the 23rd repeated charge will bounce rather than the 17th.

Interest? No credit card charges interest if you pay the balance promptly every month.

And if your bill is several thousand bucks more than you budgeted for, because some company overcharged you 20 times?

And how difficult can it be to get a credit card? I had one in college when I had no regular source of income.

Were you asleep all of last year?

http://www.economist.com/surveys/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=15793116

"Parents must now give their consent before their children under 21 can get a card. "At a time when our economy is in a crisis and consumers are struggling financially, credit-card companies are gouging them," said Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

Noxious as some of the card-companies' practices were, they did allow many more people to hold credit cards. Bankers say the new restrictions may cut the number of credit-card holders by up to 45m. That is almost certainly an exaggeration, but there is bound to be a drop."

If I get hit with a fraudulent charge, they just cancel my card and waive the charges, and issue me a new one. In the meantime, I keep using my other cards. If it's Visa, I might have to sign a declaration listing the fraudulent charges. If it's Amex, they just take my word for it.

Fine - until the person at the other end had a shitty day and they tell you to get bent.

This is why major financial systems are not written in VB.

Except #1 is false, as pointed out by Mikkeles. Now kindly fuck off.

hey, retard... do you know what the word "AND" means?

It means for the overall statement to evaluate as true, both (or all) sub-conditions must evaluate true.

next time you quote me, don't cut off a sentence and change the context.

It's called "lazy evaluation". Look it up.

With quotations it's a well known fact that the longer ago they were invented the truer they are

Incorrect.

For example there was a story written thousands of years ago. It says the Earth was created out of nothing by a bearded man in a white dress and it took him six days. All that happened a few thousand years before the story was written.

Nobody is mad enough to believe that.

It looks like they had tied their bank accounts directly to their Warhammer accounts, without any debit card in the middle.

Mmmm, isn't that how a debit card works?

Not everybody has a credit card, let alone two. It's getting more difficult to get one. Plus you'd still get stung for a lot of interest.

Should learn English. Most of the kids he taught were Mexican, and he was an icon to them.

Or "plato o plomo". That works too.

In Soviet Russia, your friend is 3Jqooq?

Truly an American icon. Or at least a Mexican one.