Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/citigroup-warns-customers-it-may-refuse-to-allow-withdrawals-2010-2 The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days. “Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right… Read More »
* Promiscuous people tighten their belts when they’re feeling loose. * Some people don’t care for my programming puns. I take exception to that. He’s no dare-devil, but he’s safe. Today is the last day of your life, so far. Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. * Did Hitler shop at the Home Despot? If it takes… Read More »
Many times I have seen this type of thing, where someone wants to lead (or mislead) another person to a conclusion and the same tactic is used over and over. At first, this may sound insignificant, but when practiced, it creates arguments that are convincing and appear to have proof while the substance of the… Read More »
Proverbs 3:27-38 – Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you. Rebates suck. Let’s face it, it’s a scam that allows someone to advertise… Read More »
Well, I\’ve about had it with these brain-washing episodes on TV, where the attractive chick offers the guy something with corn syrup and the guy says no because it has high fructose corn syrup. The guy sits there and looks like a dufus because he didn\’t know what he was talking about. Then the chick… Read More »
Newsweek Remember the ugly feeling you used to get in the pit of your stomach after 9/11 every time a new video message from Osama bin Laden or his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared on TV? One reason we became conditioned to dread these spectral broadcasts was that the government itself told us to be… Read More »
The reason for so many prime numbers is simply a lack of numbers which are less than the said prime number. While these prime numbers are useful in some cases for things like RSA encryption, they do cause frustration for younger math students because of their stubbornness and obstinence (the numbers, not the students). Prime… Read More »
There is a princliple which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. The principle is condemnation before investigation. -Edmund Spencer