This, to me, is a mystery.
There's no mystery to it. Public education in the US was not founded on the principle of educating children, it was founded on the principle of indoctrinating them into being good citizens. The only change has been who gets to define "good citizen."
They didn't say whose life. Clearly, they meant their own. And life is easier and more productive when the sheep are forced to give you more money more often.
Pawn shops are generally much more closely regulated.
Then perhaps they should say that all galaxies appear to spin the same way, rather than clockwise.
(And perhaps they did, but the news idiots "simplified" it for us peons. Hard to tell without reading the story, which is too much trouble.)
The dude is a non-functional autistic
And you're so obsessed with him you're incapable of not talking about him.
So perhaps you're just as much a freak of nature.
If you'd bother to read the article (yeah, that's gonna happen), he didn't sue over accusations of cheating, he sued over being accused of causing someone to commit suicide, based on . . . untrue information.
With rates so high above prime, why do people carry balances?
Because they're living beyond their means. Sometimes, that's someone being foolish, and sometimes, it's someone in a bad spot through no fault of their own, but they feel the need to spend money they don't have.
If a tough spot where you need to bail yourself out at tremendous expense, even personal loans have better rates.
Historically, credit cards are easier to get than personal loans. At times, a lot easier.
If you need to put a large expense on a credit card, finance it specifically instead.
If you can.
There's a lot of companies issuing custom branded credit cards, but they're just reselling products from one of the major companies, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex. (Yes, there's a few other minor players, but they're not especially relevant. And there's in-house credit accounts a major retailers, but those are also not relevant to this discussion.)
They should be putting a big fat button on their installer instead that says "create a local account instead of a ball-and-chain Microsoft account"
There is, at least on Windows Pro. They just label it "I plan to join this machine to a domain" (which you then don't have to do).
Or BSD. Which does have a pretty decent record on security.
Their goal is for the Windows on your hardware to be a thin client, with the actual operating system running on their cloud. They've made that very clear - pay us monthly or you lose everything. They just can't do it yet.
Or, better, never give up your likeness for too little money. Want to use it forever? No problem, royalty for every use, forever.
Never sign a contract that screws you.
Fashion models are generally the same height and size because that is what the originals are (or were, there's a lot more variation these days) made to fit, and putting your fancy, overpriced clothes on a model they don't fit isn't a good ad. But tradition is the most powerful force known to man.
In other words, because they always have.
No different than the tricks used for food ads for decades, like using motor oil as syrup or shaving cream for whipped cream.
It's the same thing they did with real estate. There are entire cities with no one living in them in China. And they know it will turn out that way. They use the pointless construction jobs to inflate their economic numbers, one of many ways they manipulate the reports on their economy.
Torque is cheap.
