Chicago Family got 23 pounds of credit card apps in a year

[DrumsofWar]

Watch the horror of unbound credit marketing unfold

[Maglok]

And you wonder why your financial situation as a country is... sorta bad.

[DrumsofWar]

Oh don't worry.  We took the entire world down with us so don't feel left out.

[Lavarinth]

Nice.. The many uses.. I could lift weights with that!

[Hercanic]

My opinion: All forms of unsolicited advertising and marketing should be illegal. Phone, mail, door flyers. They don't benefit us in any way like, say, television commercials, and they serve as a mass annoyance to most everyone. Telemarketing wastes my time (last time I had a landline, I literally received 7-10 solicitations a day the first day I got it, and now they're even creeping their goddamn way onto cellphones), junkmail clogs my mailbox and wastes so much paper (I work at a school that currently can barely afford paper for teachers), and door flyers are basically litter left on my lawn (I wonder if I could sue them if I ever throw out my back bending over to pick up their crap).

[Lavarinth]

Sir, you live in a nation that prides itself on accusing companies for the damage done to your back for picking up your crap. Mark my words: Yes we can!

[DrumsofWar]

My opinion: All forms of unsolicited advertising and marketing should be illegal. Phone, mail, door flyers. They don't benefit us in any way like, say, television commercials, and they serve as a mass annoyance to most everyone. Telemarketing wastes my time (last time I had a landline, I literally received 7-10 solicitations a day the first day I got it, and now they're even creeping their goddamn way onto cellphones), junkmail clogs my mailbox and wastes so much paper (I work at a school that currently can barely afford paper for teachers), and door flyers are basically litter left on my lawn (I wonder if I could sue them if I ever throw out my back bending over to pick up their crap).

Actually, they already are.  It's just that the permission to share information is in so many EULAs and User Agreements in everything we use that it's hard to track down exactly whom to sue for the breach for privacy and whom to trust for the actual solicitation.

[chris]

this summer, 5 kr could buy a dollar, when the US currency began rollercoasting, the kroner value nose dived, the result was the value swinging between 5 and 7 every two days until it finally rested at 7. To make things worse, Steam decided to ripoff euro customers and charge game on a 1euro=1dollar echange rate. The result is that video games on steam are now nearly two times more expensive than they were last summer. Considering that retail prices are very high in norway, I simply cannot afford video games anymore. To take an example, RA3 costs 80 dollars on steam, and 70 dollars in retail.