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@Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: After reading all of this I can see where you're coming from. If as a customer you have no way of checking mid-month how many texts you've sent then, yes, Verizon should notify someone when it gets to this exorbitant amount. No, they aren't required to do this, but to say they have 'good' service they should do it. This is why I fear bandwidth caps for the internet. I have no way of knowing how much I've consumed until I get the bill.
so what i sent close to this many once (obv not 10k but > 5k) and you just call verizon and they bring it down to a little bit more than the price of the unlimited plan.
as to her grades all i can say is rofl because i get A/Bs and i txt like nonstop. she prob dumb about it and got caught or something......
@Pope John Peeps II: QUIET YOU, I AM THE REAL RYAN BRENNER. I AM WELL SPOKEN AND LOQUACIOUS, BUT NOT TO THE POINT OF MEANDERING CIRCUITOUSLY AWAY FROM MY INITIAL POINT.
@ryanbrenner: Why, Mr. Brenner? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your dignity? Can you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it attention, or fame, perhaps contention, could it be for discord? Illusions, Mr. Brenner, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble Facebooker intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without any meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as Gizmodo itself. Although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as text-speak. You must be able to see it Mr. Brenner, you must know it by now. You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Brenner, why? Why do you persist?
@dbaet: Brenner fights for ALL OF US. Do you not understand. He fights for you, against the forces of darkness. Which I guess is me, actually. STILL THOUGH.
@ryanbrenner: When did facebook hating become such a big thing? I imagine that there is an equal ratio of stupid comments from facebook members to Gawker members. I personally use facebook out of ease, since I'm on facebook to do other things in addition to reading Giz.
Besides, isn't Gawker an online community, perhaps just at a smaller level than facebook?
@Ryan Peavey: The issue is that Gizmodo commenters had to earn their right to post via an ancient and draconian process in which comments were submitted into the ether, read and reviewed by the editors, and approved based on their content. In Ye Olden Days, posts in SMS-speak and the like would not have been approved.
The Facebook login system opened the floodgates for anyone with a Facebook account to post whatever they wanted, however they wanted, without any review process. Since anyone can get a Facebook account, the end result is actually a *higher* number of idiots, proportionally, than we saw from the pool of "approved" commenters.
That's not to say that everyone posting via Facebook is an idiot, but users like Ryan Brenner aren't doing you any favors. You're basically judged by the company you keep, and that company currently brought his stupidity to the top of a thread.
@RaptorCK: Yeah baby. I earned my striped way back in like.... 2004 I think. Though the original Wonkette, by catching a hilarious Bush press conference slip-up and having it be front page material. And since then I've been consistently awesome in every way.
except on jezebel, but whatever... it's JEZebel. yeesh.
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That is total bullshit.
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I don't see why he'd ever buy her a phone again. If she wants one, she can get a job, and pay for her own damn phone.
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as to her grades all i can say is rofl because i get A/Bs and i txt like nonstop. she prob dumb about it and got caught or something......
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RRRRRRRRRRRRRYAN.
RRRRRRRRYAN.
RRRRRRRRRRR.
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"So what? I sent close to this many over the course of one month. (Obviously not 10,000 but more than 5,000!)
I just called Verizon, and they lowered my bill. It ended up costing me slightly more than the price of their unlimited plan.
As for her grades? All I can do is roll on the floor, laughing. I get A's and B's, and I text a lot.
She was probably careless and got caught by her teachers, or something......"
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Just take a little time to look over what you wrote before you hit submit.
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but w/e, like lil wayne says: "I hear you talkin hater but you aint sayin nothin!!!!"
04/09/09
His name was Ryan Brenner
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RYNE RYAN RYNE RYEN.
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I am Ryan Brenner. *stands*
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RRRRRRRRRRRRRYAN.
RRRRRRRRYAN.
RRRRRRRRRRR."
I'm going to be laughing to that all day. Please don't go anywhere, Ryan. You're Dane Cooke's 'Brian'. You make me feel good about myself.
04/09/09
Besides, isn't Gawker an online community, perhaps just at a smaller level than facebook?
04/09/09
The Facebook login system opened the floodgates for anyone with a Facebook account to post whatever they wanted, however they wanted, without any review process. Since anyone can get a Facebook account, the end result is actually a *higher* number of idiots, proportionally, than we saw from the pool of "approved" commenters.
That's not to say that everyone posting via Facebook is an idiot, but users like Ryan Brenner aren't doing you any favors. You're basically judged by the company you keep, and that company currently brought his stupidity to the top of a thread.
04/09/09
except on jezebel, but whatever... it's JEZebel. yeesh.