>> ^Nexxus:

What's wrong with charging for convenience? If you don't like it, go somewhere else or use cash. It's not rocket science. This is a witch hunt similar to toyota with the gas pedals.
If pizza hut raised the price of their pizza by a few bucks, would it make national news and warrant discussion on the senate floor? I think not.


Because if one huge bank does it's likely that the other HUGE banks will do it and then there's a serious problem. Like when you have a monopoly or only 5 media companies in the United States, that's a serious problem.

I agree pull your money out and don't give them anymore business but just having a solution doesn't mean this doesn't warrant discussion or outrage. You can say "If you don't like the TV propaganda turn off the TV." That isn't the answer because you're going to have to deal with people all the time that have been influenced by said propaganda. We're a society, this kinda shit effects all of us when it's on a large enough scale.

>> ^Nexxus:

What's wrong with charging for convenience? If you don't like it, go somewhere else or use cash. It's not rocket science. This is a witch hunt similar to toyota with the gas pedals.
If pizza hut raised the price of their pizza by a few bucks, would it make national news and warrant discussion on the senate floor? I think not.


Because they are charging us $5 a month for what costs them pennies to do. That's what's wrong with it.

What's wrong with charging for convenience? If you don't like it, go somewhere else or use cash. It's not rocket science. This is a witch hunt similar to toyota with the gas pedals.

If pizza hut raised the price of their pizza by a few bucks, would it make national news and warrant discussion on the senate floor? I think not.

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Cool, did not know that. The one we get to hear most often is the ghoti = fish example for unphoneticness of English.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
How about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?

Your point about the sounds shifting is interesting, I've noticed that if I watch a long enough (subtitled!) Dutch movie, by the end I can pick up a few words which are similar or the same as English once a few sounds are changed a little.
In reply to this comment by DerHasisttot:
I've onyl read ballads and such from these periods, I can read middle english Ok, old english: Not really, only if I really get into it and learn some symbols again. Reading frisian is far easier than understanding it by hearing, the same probably goes for swabian. Most of the times you just have to shift some different sounds to certain letters and you've got an approximation of a more standard german.
The northern german intonation (of their dialect) however is hell for me to understand, that's completely different, as you said. Swabian is spoken more softly and sonorant in the back of the throat, whereas northern german sounds 'headier' and nasal to me.

How about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?

Your point about the sounds shifting is interesting, I've noticed that if I watch a long enough (subtitled!) Dutch movie, by the end I can pick up a few words which are similar or the same as English once a few sounds are changed a little.
In reply to this comment by DerHasisttot:
I've onyl read ballads and such from these periods, I can read middle english Ok, old english: Not really, only if I really get into it and learn some symbols again. Reading frisian is far easier than understanding it by hearing, the same probably goes for swabian. Most of the times you just have to shift some different sounds to certain letters and you've got an approximation of a more standard german.
The northern german intonation (of their dialect) however is hell for me to understand, that's completely different, as you said. Swabian is spoken more softly and sonorant in the back of the throat, whereas northern german sounds 'headier' and nasal to me.

While certainly no substitute for a good, traditional, and/or wood oven pizza, this intrigues me. I'd like to actually try one for myself, might even be better than Pizza Hut or Dominoes, but that's hardly an accomplishment.

Ok, I upvote even though I really have seen this bit a number of times

He gets a little harsh towards 20 year old in this, but his great truth, which anyone should take away from it is: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB, and do it well.

If you don't like your current job then spend time looking for one you'd prefer to do, but still do your current job WELL.

I know people who are just like this and it shits me so much, because it's exactly the thing that stops them getting anywhere in life. They don't climb the ladder of success because they never have a good reference, they never show how damn good they can be at the shitty jobs so they get noticed, or come away with a great reference, to move on to the next, bigger, better job and so on.

Being shit at the shit jobs means you'll always do the the shit jobs. Be great at the shit jobs and people Fucking NOTICE. They DO...

My first real job (not counting delivery medicine by bike or working in Pizza Hut) was answering ALL the email an ISP got.. ALL of it, just me handling all complaints, queries, support requests... pretty mind numbing really... but you know what, when I left that company I was a lead client software developer, creating code to run on AT&T's customer's computers nation wide... and then when that company closed up I was recommended on to another company where I work today.

All because I DID THE SHITTY JOBS WELL.

It's a HUGE truth that is really important for doing well in this world, and as Louis points out, there are those who don't get it.

It's pretty cool how you can call Scientists...Evolutionists and dismiss them. I mean I understand you don't want to believe an Evolutionist...by how about the Scientists that developed the concepts that gets your Nascars to go faster? Or the big Plasma tv in full HD you can use to watch your Nascars make another left turn?

I get that you don't want to believe any friggin idiot that posts a video on YouTube. But to reject any sort of expert opinion whatsoever? Just stop going to the doctor...turn off your tv...go outside and make a hut.

I am more impressed by Passivhaus and similar standards which, while not reducing your footprint to neutral, still drastically reduce your energy use without raising your construction costs to such insane heights. Passivhaus standards scale effectively from a crazy hippy hut like this to a large office building or apartment complex.

Well, the British aren't known for their cuisine. Did you know that Pizza Hut puts canned corn on their pizzas in England?

She may be wrong, but she is not THAT wrong.


>> ^djsunkid:

AAARGH! My head is exploding with how wrong she is. SO WRONG. SO WRONG. I can't even deal with this. I'm pretty sure she is trolling pizza experts.

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My father had a hobby store (The Hobby Hut) that sold all that shit: dice, adventure modules, (Monster Manuals & Fiend Folios) die-cast figurines, paint, brushes, etc. He even rented out space in the basement of the store for all those nerds to gather & play their games. I remember going down there one time as a young lad and seeing at least 25 of them sitting at a bunch of folding tables. That must've been quite a campaign.

What is in Plano, Texas other than a lot of FedEx assholes?

"The city is home to many corporate headquarters, including Ericsson Inc., Rent-A-Center, Crossmark, Dell Services, Pizza Hut, Alliance Data Systems, HP Enterprise Services, JCPenney, Frito-Lay, Cinemark Theatres, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Siemens PLM Software."

I stand corrected, it is of the schtuff that many a JG Ballard novel is made of.