I'm still raging about the time this security lady tried to pull me aside at the Best Buy checkout in 2009. Fuck you lady.. I still avoid going to Best Buy because of the sour taste you left in my mouth!

I think Anna and Cenk have sand in their vaginas. How would it be any different from Paypal or Google Checkout? You do know google has a checkout right? Facebook wants that action too.

Sounds like someone took the policy about exporting technology to other countries a little too literally.

This is the same law that has Dell have a checkbox at checkout stating that you will not export the technology.

They aren't "banned" in Canada but most grocery stores have instituted a new policy that seems to be working in most cases.

First the bags have been switched from the cheep nylon bags to a stronger plastic bag.
At the beginning of your purchase you are asked how many bags you would like to purchase (10¢ bag).

Most people now bring their own cloth bags just to avoid the extra charges.
Also, as you enter the checkout-line in the impulse buying section, there are cloth bags at $1-2 each

Those that do purchase the (plastic) bags, now have a stronger plastic bag that can be reused next time they come and will be good for several uses.

One drawback for cloth bags is when you are buying meat. Sometimes meat such as raw pork and chicken has "drippings" in the package which drip into the bag and then through to your car. Not only is it messy but unsanitary as you get bacteria everywhere which can be dangerous. (always keep some plastic bags handy or buy some to keep - just in case)


Edit: WalMart is still using the cheap Nylon Bags (Which ad up if you buy groceries from them.) They use a lot of bags (only a few items per bag) because they are so short and not very strong. We can easily come home with 15-20 bags on a $70 grocery trip. Excessive in my opinion.

and remember $70 doesn't buy you many groceries.

Introducing the new Apple iPerson complete with multi touch and volume control, doesn’t it feel good to touch, doesn’t it feel good to touch, doesn’t it feel good to touch.

My world is so digital, I have forgotten what that feels like.
It used to be hard to connect when friends formed cliques, but now it’s even more difficult to connect now that clicks form friends.

But who am I to judge…

I face Facebook more than books face me hoping to book face to faces, I update my status 420 space to prove Im still breathing; failure.
To do this daily means my whole web wide world would forget that I exist. But with 3000 friends online only 5 I can count in real life, why wouldn’t I spend more time in the world where there are more people that LIKE me. Wouldn’t you?

Here it doesn’t matter if I am an amateur person, as long as I have a pro-file, my smile is 50% genuine and 50% genuine-HD, you will need blu-rays to read the whites of my teeth, but im not that focused.

Ten tabs open, hoping, my problems can be resolved with a 1600 x 1700 revolution, this is a problem with this evolution, doubled over, we used to sit in tree tops, till we swung down and stand up right, then someone slipped a disc, now we’re doubled over at desktops.

From the Garden of Eden, to the branches of Macintosh, Apple picking has always come at a great cost.
iPod, iMac, iPhone, iChat, I can do all of these things without making iContact.

We used to sprint to pick and store Blackberries, now we run to the Sprint store to pick Blackberrys, it’s scary.
I can’t hear the sound of mother nature speaking, over all that Tweeting, and along with it is our ability to feel as it’s fleeting.

You would think these headphone jacks inject in the flesh the way we connect, the disconnect, power ON. So we are powerless, they got us love drugged. Like e-pills, so we e-trade, e-mail, e-motion like e-commerce because now money can buy love, for 9.95 a month – click!

To proceed to checkout – click! To X out where our hearts once were – click!
I’ve uploaded this hug, I hope she gets it – click!
I’m making love to wife, I hope she’s logged in – click!
I’m holding my daughter over a Skype conference call while shes crying in the crib in the next room – click!

So when my phone goes off in my hip, I touch and I touch and I touch, because in a world where there are voices that are only read and laughter is never heard or I’m so desperate to feel that I hope the technologic in reverse the universes so the screen can touch me back, and maybe it will, when our technology is advance enough to make us human again.

A nice ripping apart of a retarded video

I just watched it, and it's asinine. He puts words together more because they rhyme and sound 'cool' than actually make any sense.

It's drivel. And as the AA says, he doesn't separate 'Jesus' and 'Religion' at all. If he loves church and the bible and god and jesus then he's loving religion for fuck's sake.

And how can anyone agree with 'Salvation is freely mine and forgiveness is my own, not based on my merits but Jesus's obedience alone'

Huh? So, your merits mean nothing. What you do, what you bring to the table mean nothing? What a fucked up attitude.

The guy in his 'poem' says that he used to be a 'Christian' while getting wasted and having sex and watching porn... but apparently now he's 'seen the light' and doesn't do that stuff.

Instead he's another self righteous dick who thinks that he's found 'the answer' and must tell everyone how he has.

And.. ahem, he has the gall to say in the text under his video (the poem one, not the AA):

Wanna start helping and serving Jesus in a practical way? checkout the company of the watch I am wearing in the video! They give 10-25% of all proceeds to non profits and the bands and faces are interchangeable! http://www.cruxwatches.com

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I didn't realize that adding the tax at checkout was a distinctly American stupidity.
My family owned an ice cream parlor for 10 years when I was a kid/teen. From day one, we included taxes in our prices. A small cone was $1 and a large cone was $1.25. We did the math when it was time to pay our taxes. It made it easier for the customers and it made it easier for us when we were ringing them up.


I believe that is illegal in the states. Small businesses can get away with it, though.


I just checked the NY sales tax advertising laws (http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/publications/sales/pub34_899.pdf) and it seems to be ok to me. You're not allowed to do anything that suggests the tax isn't charged/paid, but we weren't. The price list said that all taxes were included in the listed prices.

Maybe it's different in other states.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I didn't realize that adding the tax at checkout was a distinctly American stupidity.
My family owned an ice cream parlor for 10 years when I was a kid/teen. From day one, we included taxes in our prices. A small cone was $1 and a large cone was $1.25. We did the math when it was time to pay our taxes. It made it easier for the customers and it made it easier for us when we were ringing them up.



I believe that is illegal in the states. Small businesses can get away with it, though.

I didn't realize that adding the tax at checkout was a distinctly American stupidity.

My family owned an ice cream parlor for 10 years when I was a kid/teen. From day one, we included taxes in our prices. A small cone was $1 and a large cone was $1.25. We did the math when it was time to pay our taxes. It made it easier for the customers and it made it easier for us when we were ringing them up.

@JiggaJonson: I'm one of those few who really likes the $1 coins, though I think it's more for their aesthetic quality than any sort of practicality. There's something far more satisfying about holding a coin. Oh, and they're shiny. Oooooh... shiny.

Many thanks for the promote m'dear

In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
*promote

Checkout Part 2 of this video! as soon as the cops are done beating back the students and taking down the offending tents, they group together and back out of the area,like they are in danger, then a sea of students move in and pop up some instant tents with cheers and laughter. It really warms the heart to see the way these kids reacted to the storm trooper wannabees.

This card is the banks idea

It would be more accurate to say it was not any one person's idea but a convenience that both financial houses AND customers saw as a benefit. When debit cards first started to take off, it was not like the public stood up and started screaming in protest at an unwanted, undesired change. Quite the contrary. Debit cards made transactions far more convenient for EVERYBODY. We could now pay for gas right at the pump. We didn't need to carry a big wad in our pockets, wallets, and purses. We didn't need to sit at the checkout and hold up the line writing checks. We could do transactions on the internet. And now today were at the point where we can even run our OWN cards on smartphones with a simple dongle. It's a wonderful change over the days of cash & carry.

You are talking as if they became ubiquitous as part of some massive, evil conspiracy against the public's will. Such language is idiotic and foolish. It started small, and as technology advanced it just naturally filled a huge public demand for ease and convenience. The only problem is that some folks in their ignorance seem to think that 'convenient' should also mean 'free'. Folks who think that need to slap on a dunce cap and sit in the corner until all the stupid leaks out.

And a 'requirement'? Last time I looked I could get my paycheck in cash, take it home, operate strictly 100% 'off the grid' if I wanted. It isn't anywhere near as convenient, but you can do it. No one is 'requiring' you to have a bank account or a debit card. Such a claim is preposterous.

Crikey! Sounds like one g'day of a gryte toym.

I'd totally be there and even almost completed checkout for my Qantas Airlines ticket, but then I realized I need to wash my hair and re-lace all my tennis shoes that night.

You blokes have a Foster's for me! (It's Australian for "beer.")

I was going to say that we have better implementations of this already, like PayPal. PayPal is extremely good for filling in the role of the middle guy with the cash, when you don't know that you can trust someone yet or ever.

Pick good passwords and don't let your computer get compromised. If a website doesn't offer a well-known middle man like PayPal or have qualifications that meet certain banking standards (you can usually find this stuff on their site somewhere) or they can't even encrypt their checkout page: DON"T USE THEM.

Be careful how you deal and what you're doing (worm, bots, trojans, etc...) and you'll be fine.

>> ^nach0s:

Steve has a really great story he performed for The Moth (checkout their free podcast on iTunes) about going on a really awkward date with a stripper/Playboy Playmate/whatever during his Blues Clues time.


Man, glad you mentioned this, as I looked it up and found it on youtube (audio only), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaC-U3w82Wk and it's made me very happy as it's STEVE He's funny, charming, witty... it's great, I like him again now, thanks