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I had something unusual happen to me the other day. I wanted to spend a few hundred dollars with a wireless company and they wouldn’t take my money. This was not some kind of weird currency I minted myself either – just hard-earned, good old American greenbacks. So while I kind-sorta get what they’re thinking, I really don’t understand the logic. Continue reading
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We used to have a running joke within my group which surfaced every time more demands were placed on us. “It’s the Internet,” we’d say, “how hard can it be?” As companies have found out with increasing frequency of late, it can be quite hard indeed. Continue reading
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No matter how things turn out, this election will be of historic importance. You can’t sit it out. Do so and, in my mind, you lose your right to complain about anything that your government does or doesn’t do until the next election. Lots of people have given up everything so we have the ability to express our preferences freely. Not to do so demeans those sacrifices.
So vote. Then celebrate that the hysteria, the phone calls, the awful ads and the personal attacks will stop for a week or so until the next cycle begins. Sure democracy is messy but it’s the best we’ve got until someone figures out a better way.
Go ahead – I’ll wait right here!
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