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Advice to students everywhere: Avoid ACS like you would SARS
If I could, I would declare war on ACS Educational, a loan servicing company. Natalie and I have both had major problems with them in the past. Now, for about the past two weeks, I have not been able to log into my account.
Their error message, which you will note has the word “accessible” spelled incorrectly, directs the user to call them if you believe your inability to log in is an error. (How could it not be, assholes?) Turns out that when you probe the depths of the ACS website there’s nary a phone number to be found anywhere.
Obama and FISA
Senator Obama, you can tap my phone or my wallet, but not both.
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RIP GC
If I can be this sharp at 71, I’ll be happy. Chances are, though, that I’ll be drooling on myself while I wonder what year it is and who stole my sandwich (at all times of the day and night).
iPhone 3G is the new hotness
According to Gizmodo, it’s likely going to be difficult to obtain the new iPhone 3G, especially for those of us with obligations that will keep us from standing in long lines when it becomes available 07/11:
We just talked to AT&T’s President of National Distribution Glenn Lurie, who gave us all the pricing and activation details for the iPhone 3G, which won’t be getting special treatment anymore. It will be using all AT&T’s standard voice and data plans, which means $30 for unlimited 3G data for consumers, $45 for business users, on top of voice. Also, no in-home activation for iPhone 3G—it does require a two-year contract, and it will have to be activated in store (at AT&T or Apple Store), which takes 10-12 minutes, meaning that first day line is going to SUCK.
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4 bucks
At $3 a gallon, Americans just grin and bear it, suck it up and, while complaining profusely, keep driving like crazy. At $4, it is a world transformed. Americans become rational creatures. Mass transit ridership is at a 50-year high. Driving is down 4 percent. (Any U.S. decline is something close to a miracle.) Hybrids and compacts are flying off the lots. SUV sales are in free fall.
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Some things, like renal physiology, are difficult. Some things, like Arab-Israeli peace, are impossible. And some things are preternaturally simple. You want more fuel-efficient cars? Don’t regulate. Don’t mandate. Don’t scold. Don’t appeal to the better angels of our nature. Do one thing: Hike the cost of gas until you find the price point.
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