If You Must Put A Person In The Washer, Please Don't Set For `Heavy Load' (Trees And Things)

port1080: Re: Not a warning label, but more annoying

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:10:42 EST

Most banks and credit card issuers which trumpet this "pay online and save a stamp" forget to mention they charge an additional fee for doing so.

This may have been true in the past, but none of the credit card companies that I or my wife have

thefadd: Re: processing costs

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:02:57 EST

I think geico might do this but I can't remember exactly at the moment. The ones that get me are the credit cards (not surprising) and the municipalities (again not surprising but only because it's such a huge deal for them to switch to better techn

MayorBob: Re: Not a warning label, but more annoying

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:42:16 EST

"Save a stamp by paying your bill online!" Screw you, buddy! Give me a discount for the processing costs you save with my direct deposit, and I'll start thinking about it.

Too true for online bill paying. Most banks and credit c

gerrymander: processing costs

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:22:18 EST

Give me a discount for the processing costs you save with my direct deposit, and I'll start thinking about it.

Surprisingly, I've found one company which does this: Prudential. I have a life insurance policy with them, and my monthly charges drop

3fingerspointback: Not a warning label, but more annoying

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:27:20 EST

When I get around to opening mail that causes me to write checks (bills, charity), I need to figure out after I'm done which of the envelopes I've stuffed require a stamp. Some envelopes are straightforward about this. Others less so.

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profwhat: Even though we'd all like to..

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:15:08 EST

"Do not eat iPod Shuffle."

Thalia: Strict Liability Has Nothing to Do with the Topic

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:42:08 EST

Strict liability is only available in a very limited set of circumstances, generally when the activity is inherently dangerous. The classic examples are using dynamite in demolition -- even if you did not mean to cause the harm, the activity is so da

wetkarma: Strict liability

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:59:57 EST

It just so happens that I was reading about the concept of negligence as a tort recently and found this explanation on Wikipedia (source of all trivia knowledge) below is perfectly on point