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Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
I don't really understand what point BoingBoing is trying to make with all the weird currencies/commodities. Are you railing against US/Euro-centrism? Even though I do not deal in USD or EUR I do know roughly how much they are worth...
Commented on Miro open video player/client gets a major update
Not a great Ubuntu install experience here... Tried adding it from Synaptics Package Manager, but it only installed 1.2.4 or something like that. When I ran it it recommended an upgrade, hyperlinking to the web-page for 2.5. Following the instructions...
Commented on Verified by Visa: British banks phish their own customers
@25: The "secure message" seems like a good idea - you provide card details, then the bank "authenticates" itself to you by showing your secret message, and finally you authenticate with them by entering your VbV password. However, I can't...
Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
Oops, my post used some less-than signs that got eaten up. "Now, when P R, the wind pushes the cart backward/slower." Should have been: "When P *is less than* R, the wind pushes the propeller forward/faster. When P *is greater...
Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
Okay, here's my guess at how it works, if it works. We have wind-velocity (which is fixed). Call it W. We have the cart-velocity. Call it C. We have the rate of spin of the propeller. Call it S. It...
Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
I agree with the others: the machine in those diagrams could never work, but it doesn't sound like that's what has been proposed. It's clearly connected up the wrong way round. I reserve a little scepticism, but I must say...
Commented on Firefox 3 is out!
Argh. I downloaded the EN-GB version from the proper site, but after installing it said thank you for installing "firefox 3 (release candidate)". It spent ages failing to connect to their server to check for add-on updates. And it crashed...
Commented on Creative Labs licensing ass-hattery
While I agree that Creative Labs are being really stupid here, there seems to be some confusion over what Daniel K actually did. Creative seem to be saying that he took drivers that provided some features and modified those drivers...

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misterfricative commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
Re banks vs credit unions: Almost all of my experiences with various US and UK banks have been either neutral or negative. If I were to list the negatives, we'd be here all day. In the entirety of my banking history, there have been just two [qualified] positives: * A branch manager at Barclays went out of his way to help us track down a lost check for 50 UKP. The next time we went in to see him, we were told he'd been let go. We asked a teller why, and she told us, 'because he was useless'. *...
sarenmithsarn commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
Credit Unions are THE way too go....
happyez commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
Oooo juicy comments. Marvellous these BB posters. ... This reminds me of when I was travelling in the UK, and had opened a Barclays account (in 1990). I was leaving after 5 months, and found out that closing the account accrued a very large fee. Having been told this by the woman with a face expression of nothingness, I then proceeded to take out all the money bar £1, and she was pissed off. Threatened me with this or that, but hell, I could do what I wanted. As she muttered to herself until I got the money, I was...
Brother Phil commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
I did something similar, back when I was young, and £50 was a lot of money. Lloyds cut my limit, and and wrote to say "we've cut your limit and you're over the new one. PS we're charging you £25 for this letter". I repayed the money that I borrowed, leaving the account overdrawn by some £50-odd of accumulated charges, and handed them the torn-up remains of my chequebook and card. Never heard a dicky-bird from them....
kjs3 commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
@#15 posted by apoxia, It's getting really hard to get a mortgage here in NZ. It's suppose to be hard to barrow large amounts of money when there's low prospect of being able to pay it back. We pretty much need 20% deposit now. I'm looking at buying a house within the next year around the $300,000 mark (below the national median house price). That's a $60,000 deposit right there. And my partner and I will need stable jobs - a bit hard to do when both students, especially when my thesis scholarship will run out 6 months before I...

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