That's bad, but the real cause of his loss was the contractor who didn't do an adequate job. Has he even attmepted to collect it back from the contractor? Taking the contractor to small claims court would probably be more productive than hating on the bank.

Bravo, and hoo-f%$cking-rah!

Yeah. Acupuncture IS bullshit.

What? No, it was a Starman reference.

The pointis not that she was old, but that McDonalds deliberatly served coffee at a higher temperature than was safe or allowed by health codes, had a known history of such serious burns, and had been paying them off with lowball settlements rather than change their practices. They even said under oath that if they lost they'd still keep serving it too hot.

Ah, the wisdom of youth.

Yes, of course. 40 years old is the new 80 years old. Can you come over and stop my damn VCR clock from blinking Sonny?

Kid, most 40 year olds... you know what? Screw this. Wait 27 years, and then I'll let you know what 40 year olds can do.

I can explain that one.

Your name was saved as a "consignee" for your old work address. This is done to help the computer system to match up a garbled or incorrect address by using the "consignee" or addressee name.

Although your new address was correct on the printed label, the shipper has to also input the address into the system. Many many times, the shipper fails to input the address, or types it incorrectly, or on the wrong lines, or whatever.

So the computer system can't recognize the address, but does recognize the name, which had been stored under your old address, and the package is incorrectly routed to the address the system has saved.

Or the computer doesn't recognize either, and flags it for a person to correct manually; but that person doesn't have the package in front of them (because these corrections take place before the package has arrived at the delivery center) only the computer data, so all they can find is your old saved address. See?

Now, if your old workplace had refused the delivery, then it would have gone to a person who could read the label, see what error was made, correct it, and then report the error and the person responsible, if any, to management.

OK, Keene, what is a worse packaging offense than shipping an empty plastic bag, by itself, in a much larger box? Hmmm?

You're saddened that a blog didn't beat out a major network news organization employing hundreds of reportrs?

I'm sure they're reeeealll sorry to have dissapointed you.

Just like police informants or jailhouse snitches.

"No one ever expects the Spanish Helicopter!"

Geeze; to paraphrase Red Foreman, why do people even watch Mythbusters if they're not going to pay attention?

Mythbusters demonstrated that call phones CAN interfere with airline navigation equipment using unshielded instruments, but also demonstrated using an aircraft on the ground that properly functioning equipment is shielded and unaffected. So, plausible but unlikely.

And as they pointed out, it MAY HAVE ACTUALLY HAPPENED, at least once:
[en.wikipedia.org]
"The government crash report does not mention cell phone activity as a primary cause of the crash, and instead attributes it to pilot error.[9] However, a separate investigation into the cause of the crash showed that the autopilot system malfunctioned at the same time that a passenger's cell phone on board the plane received an SMS message and another received a call. After this information was made public, a number of countries that had previously been reluctant to do so outlawed cell phones on flights (including Switzerland).[10][11][12]"

Most commercial aircraft have heavily shielded and redundant systems, and a navigation system failure in itself can't cause the plane to fall out of the sky. So for cell phones to "crash" the plane would require multiple failures, as well as pilot error. BUT it could happen.

Secondly, Joker is not a scarred, scary looking clown. He LOOKS like a merry prankster.

He doesn't growl menacingly, he doesn't strike threatening tough-guy poses.

He capers, prances, dances, and laughs. While shooting people in cold blood. Using a gun with a "BANG" flag sticking out of its barrell.

Heath isn't playing the Joker. Maybe he's channeling Clown from Spawn, or one of those Joker imitators from the Batman Beyond cartoon. But not the real Joker.

Secondly, the Tim Burton Batman, while MUCH better than what followed was still waay off base. Batman is NOT angsty, or emo. He's too driven, too focused on his obsessive war on crime to mope. His emptions are tightly controlled and channelled. Angst is the opposite of emotional control.

Absolutly correct; schools don't need money, they need better salaries so they can attract better educated teachers, up to date textbooks, better classroom facilities like science labs, school buildings that aren't falling apart, supplies, computers, etc.

Of course, all of that costs money.

"Throwing money at the problem," is no solution. Of course, neither is refusing to spend money where it IS needed.

WTF? Slave labor from Thailand?

I'd rather "spend" my tax money to be used as kindling than to be used to help these people survive.

Forget the myth of someone who's just down and out, and needs a little help to get back on their feet. Those kinds of homeless don't stay homeless for long.

The ones who are out there month after month, year after year, are worthless. They will never get off the streets so long as they can keep taking the handouts from enablers like you.

Being too kind can be cruel.

No, the current food crisis has to do with drought in Australia, and poor crops elsewhere. It's primarily rice which is in short supply, not corn. Corn is a little short, due to diversion to bio-fuel use, but it's not the real problem.

First chickens, now fish? It's a Racist Animal epidemic!!

Ha, HA! I don't HAVE a girlfriend, wife or sister! So THERE!

I'm so lonely....

Requiring those who disbelieve a claim to bear the same burden of proof as those making the claim is a form of dishonest reasoning.

If the problem currently is that vat meat can't be produced cheaply and in quantity, maybe ease it into the market as a low supply luxury item. Make it a desirable luxury by cultivating rare and exotic meats. Lobster. Abalone. Shark Fin. Bears Paw. Monkey Brain. Endangered animals. Ooohhh, or what about cultivating human flesh. Not a whole clone or anything, but just like a thigh, or something. Guilt free cannibalism? It could even be your own flesh. Or would that be creepy?