An extra axis may be helpful: The Political Compass

An option would be to provide the customer with 3 figures at the pay point: Retail price ($20); Recommended price (say $10); Average price so far ($X).

I can't speak for everyone, but I certainly don't like to be perceived as stingy -- so I wouldn't want to pay below the average if the average is much less than the recommended price. By showing the average the buyer gets the sense of being watched, even though that isn't really the case. Result: the buyer is more inclined to pay above average.

Assuming everyone behaves similarly to me, the average price is slowly pushed up towards the recommended price limit. As it gets closer, buyers will start paying less than the average, and it will reach an equilibrium -- I'm guessing in the range $6-$8.

The key, I think, is to provide a reasonable discounted recommended price so that people are less inclined to think a low average price is "ok".

It's a bad thing. At one point Garmin ran a "You'll be lost without it" ad campaign. One of the rare occasions when a marketing tagline wasn't total nonsense.

Opera Mini will make your crappy browser problems go away.

Otherwise your points are sort of valid, but you could see how small the screen was and how plastic the keyboard was before you got the phone. So why'd you get it if they were so terrible?

How's society working out for you?

How did your sig still get through?

Depends what you mean by "sexual being." Normal children under the age of 12 definitely exhibit sexual behaviours.

Actually, that's not strictly-speaking correct."Syf" is more accurately slang for "disgusting" in South Africa, due to the word's link with syphilis.

Bizarre. South African slang attaches exactly the same meaning to the word "syf".

Comcast are actually paying you $10 to watch 30 seconds of porn. That's $300 an hour.

The temptation is still there, despite the cuteness. It's the actual killing that the cuteness cuts down on.

FEAR is a marketing tool for the Baby Industrial Complex, and it starts with this umbilical cord bullshit. They'll want you to buy all manner of unnecessary items and services, because you'll think that if you don't your child is surely doomed! Read this amusing article about it