A horrible comparison has been drawn in the following AP article about TimeWarner: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A. “You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?” There’s a problem with that statement: lots of cell phone users …
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it’s sad to see a 17-year-old go so violently
I no longer drive a Mazda Protege. It bought the farm – as John so eloquently pointed out – Wednesday on my way to work. So, I was in need a quick replacement. Enter CarMax, stage left. I went after work Thursday, they had something I wanted at a price I was willing to pay. …
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stop trying to make me ‘safe’
Wired’s Autopia has a post this week on the new mandate that all vehicles come standard with a “brake-shift interlock system” to prevent deaths of children putting vehicles in gear accidentally (or on purpose) and then being stuck in a runaway car. I can speak from personal experience that being in a vehicle with no …
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