subbes

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  1. Sony Shitshow

    By "cancel" they mean "tell the CC company their card number was compromised in a website breach and ask for a new card with a new number." (Similar to what I got to do last week when someone used my CC number to PayPal a Russian dude $498.) Getting your card re-issued due to fraud should not affect your credit rating since it doesn't indicate a change in your credit line. Canceling your account WOULD affect your rating, as it would reduce your available credit pool (changing your utilized:available credit ratio) and your credit-account-history thing. If you're canceling credit card accounts over this and you're in the USA, that's silly. Call and tell them your number was exposed/stolen in a hack and you need a new card number, instead.
  2. The threat of Big Dog

    NO JOHN YOU ARE THE DEMONS
  3. Portal 2

    Perhaps his good-natured high-energy buffoonery strikes too close to home?
  4. Idle Thumbs Camping

    Oh! Thanks for an image so giant it crashed Mobile Safari.
  5. anime

    Yeah, apart from it being a real person, the timing etc was exquisite for it to be a viral p4 anime teaser.
  6. anime

    A month or so ago a dead body was found hanging from a (Detroit-area?) TV transmitter. Let me tell you, that got a lot of people in /v/ quite excited.
  7. Realningu Japaneseru

    [citation needed]
  8. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    To respond to roles, if you believe the Baby X study and Baby X revisited.
  9. I'm sure Cyborg mice have a mappable button.
  10. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    Not exactly comical, though - more "dispiriting."
  11. Life

    Bohh, you japester.
  12. Life

    That's why I kept my British citizenship when I got my US citizenship: I can still claim to not be one of y'all, should the need arise. Not that British citizenship is much better (thanks, Blair Brown and Cameron. Thairownameron).
  13. Life

    (SNIFFS, SOBS) You... don't want to stay?
  14. Life

    Ahh, probably tinting it with my own experience then - it took my Dad aaaaages to get my family our Green Cards, and he was sponsored by a multi-national corporation. Also my Chinese co-workers are having a terrible time with their I-129s, judging from the amount of "emergency next-day air UPS packages" I've had to send to the UCIS Processing Centers (despite me not being a secretary, sigh).
  15. Life

    D'you need character references for a Visa, etc.? If so, don't ask any of us, we're probably all filthy Socialists.
  16. Japan

    What, you'd let facts get in the way of a terrible, horrible joke?
  17. Life

    Fill the entire plot in with concrete while they're on holiday. That'll show them.
  18. My graphics card has kicked the proverbial

    No, you'd probably end up booting to Windows to do most of your gaming. Unless you're planning to be a Graphic Design Hipster at home as well as at work?
  19. My graphics card has kicked the proverbial

    That sounds like you've done something bizarre to it on top of the card ish. Have you considered reformatting to start with a clean slate or using a bootable Linux distro, to make sure? (Also, the death of my MacBook last year was because I shorted out the logic board by plugging something stupid into the USB port, and it was completely my own fault and not the fault of the Mac. The only reason I didn't get it fixed and continue with it was because I needed a laptop for work in 2 days, and a new logic board would have taken a week or 2 to get installed at my local Mac Repair Cubbyhole.)
  20. My graphics card has kicked the proverbial

    Mm, the minis aren't set up to be AWESOME POWERFUL MACHINES, they're more set up to be affordable.
  21. Life

    Right, thus catching them on fire. There's definitely nothing that can go wrong with this plan of yours!
  22. My graphics card has kicked the proverbial

    Well, if they do refresh the line, you can probably get a refurb old model for cheaper. Refurb Macs are generally cool - my last MacBook was a refurb, and when it died last year it was entirely my fault.
  23. Dude is hella ripped. I think I grew muscles myself, just from the contact high of shaking his hand at PAX-E.
  24. Life

    My hubby - forum user SHammack.