Interesting strategy. I've never done a conversion before. Doesn't it show up as income and risk crossing over the $100,000 limit? I suppose you could control the size of the conversion to keep your income at $99,999?

This is going to be a very narrow window. You have to make enough income to owe enough in taxes to claim the credit, but not enough to disqualify you from the credit. My real income is a bit north of $100,000 but I barely had enough taxes to absorb the $4500 credit for a Niro PHEV.

I'm sorry for your loss, and I'd rather not imagine the guilt of being a cause of so much pain and suffering in your family. Despite meaning well, your post and your experience are irrelevant. There are millions of people who think the same way you thought before you got sick. You aren't going to change their minds any more than anybody else could have changed yours. At most, some people will be slightly confused about why you are now in on the hoax.

I saw this with Tivo recently too. They asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to take over my account because I apparently had a grandfathered $13/mo account rather than the current $15/mo rate. As if that made the device worth its weight in gold and it was my obligation to find a new home for it.

In the end, I just told the sales-lady that at the end of the call she will cancel my account. How long the call took was entirely up to her. Seemed to work, though I don't enjoy being rude like that.

If they are watching, I hope they are impressed by my Firefighter achievement.

I have to go to the DEQ for an emission check every two years in order to get new tags in the Portland area. I can't remember if recording mileage is part of the process. This seems like a low-tech problem that could be solved with a change to a form.

I want some of what this guy is having.

Exactly. Prepaid cell phone service just got 61 cents a month more attractive.

Don't believe the lie that AT&T will always unlock off contract phones when asked. I own an iPhone 3G. This was a hand-me-down from a relative. The phone contract that was connected to the purchase was satisfied nearly two years ago. I am also a AT&T (prepaid) customer. According their own rules, they should unlock my phone, but they denied my request. My guess is that they don't recognize me as the owner.

I shouldn't need AT&T's cooperation to unlock my phone, but as it stands now, unlocking it without their permission is a DMCA violation.

I'm a cheapskate. Because I'm a cheapskate, I don't buy subsidized phones. You pay more for them in the long term,

Jailbreaking is still legal regardless of how the phone was purchased/subsidized. The only thing that changed on January 26th was that unlocking without carrier approval is no longer a valid exception to the DMCA, and is now illegal.

Carriers will generally unlock a phone if you are traveling, even if you are within the contract, which makes their own argument about recovering their subsidy hollow. Network locks are unnecessary, anti-competitive, and diminish the resale value of perfectly good used phones.

Either way, I'm pleased that this petition is on course to qualify for a response.

I've always thought that electric cars should have gas generator trailers available as an option. If you need extended range, you just attach the trailer (purchased or rented), fill up with gas, and off you go. It sort of turns a car into a diesel/electric train.

Pinky and Brain.

I second this. My wife has a iPhone 4S on AT&T using their prepaid GoPhone service. For about $10 a month, she gets 200 texts and 50 voice minutes. Clearly she isn't a power-user, but with the abundance of WiFi available (home, work, Starbucks) she doesn't notice the absence of cellular data.

I have never signed a cell phone contract, so I need some help understanding this. Is there a provision in the contract that says that the carrier can repossess the phone for defaulting on the contract? If not, I don't see how a phone that was resold under contract is stolen goods.