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[Mongrel]

There are two agencies in Canada - Transunion and Equifax. You can get your history report from them for free. The only time there's a charge is if you want your actual credit score. Transunion seems to be better at providing clear information to companies who run checks on your credit, but Equifax seems better at removing anything that shouldn't be on there if you dispute it.

It's a good idea to get a copy of your credit history once in a while anyway. They say "credit checks lower your score", which is true, but only by like 1 or two points (out of a theoretical maximum score of I think 900, with 800 being functionally spotless and only scores below 700-750 or so being problematic in any way). Requesting your credit HISTORY directly from the bureaus should ding nothing unless you do it repeatedly. They say once a year is recommended, but honestly you could probably do it two or three times per year with no effect whatsoever.

[Brentai]

I think what The Punisher has been trying to say is that the "bad credit" excuse from that one institution is complete and utter bupkiss.

[François]

Yeah, that's basically the case. Outside of my one credit card, I've borrowed money twice in my life, and both were instances of government-sponsored student loans, which I have repaid entirely and have paperwork from both the bank and the government to prove it. And with the credit card, well, if I had anything outstanding on that it'd be on a statement somewhere, and I'd have been charged interest.

So, hmm, maybe there's fraud or something. I mean, I know it's not medical bills for sure because we've got sovietized medicine and I couldn't even get near a private care provider if I wanted to. These guys have basically the droid detector at the entrance of the cantina in Star Wars, but it reacts to poor people instead.

In any case thanks for the info Mongrel. I just tried the phone service for Transunion and they don't seem to recognize me, so I guess I'll have to... mail... some forms... that I'll have to print out...

Well. There's another pet peeve I guess. I hope Canada Post has the technology to deliver to companies who haven't left the 20th century.

[Büge]

Castle Anthrax

Sir Galahad = Me
Sir Lancelot = AVG Antivirus
Castle Anthrax = My usual browsing habits

[Shinra]

Websites that have case sensitive user IDs. If you're going to buck a convention, that shouldn't be the fucking one!

[Thad]

Most websites run on Unix-based servers.  In Unixland, usernames are and always have been case-sensitive.

Saying that case-sensitive usernames are "bucking convention" is like saying URLs buck convention because they use forward-slashes like Unix instead of backslashes like Windows.

Now, E-Mail addresses are case-insensitive.  So if a site asks for your E-Mail as your username, then yeah, that should be case-insensitive.  Short of that, though, I gotta go with the devs on this one.

[JDigital]

Case-sensitive usernames are standard on unix, but not on websites. User expectation is different.

[Royal☭]

Yeah, I don't really think backing up a website design decision with "Well UNIX does it" is a compelling argument.

[Disposable Ninja]

So I caught a link to the Escher Girls blog, and I realized something:

This website is really fucking obnoxious. Like, I understand what they're getting at, and their points are valid, and I don't disagree with them. I got that. It's just that this blog's actual, individual contributers are each uniquely abhorrent.

[Thad]

Case-sensitive usernames are standard on unix, but not on websites. User expectation is different.

Users expect all kinds of stupid bullshit.  I don't think expecting them to type their username the same way every time is out of line.  Especially given that it's adjacent to a field that damn-well SHOULD be case-sensitive.

Yeah, I don't really think backing up a website design decision with "Well UNIX does it" is a compelling argument.

I believe the word I used was "convention".

But please, tell me more about this "website design" you speak of.

[Royal☭]

The one Shinra referred to in his initial post? Like, I get that the architecture may be UNIX based, but whatever the website is actually made in probably has the ability to not be case-sensitive.

Speaking of website design, I recently ordered glasses online, and the site gave me the option of doing a guest checkout if I didn't want to sign up for an account. Which I didn't, because I was just ordering glasses off this one glasses website. So once I get to the end of the checkout process, surprise, there's a field for signing up for an account that can't be ignored right before the final submit.

[Classic]

That's actually a pretty slick way to get you to sign up.

[Royal☭]

No it's not. It's the exact same as having never offered me the guest checkout option in the first place.

[Classic]

I said it was a way to coerce you into signing up, not that it wasn't a dick move.
EDIT:
I mean, did you sign up? Or did you give up on your glasses?

[R^2]

It seems at a glance to be a slick way of getting someone to sign up, but in reality it is a slick way of getting people to vow never to do business with your deceptive company again.

[TA]

Faculty that enforce their own syntactic idiosyncrasies.  If it's a style choice, then it's entirely subjective, and you can back your red pen the fuck off.  If it's not a style choice, then it's a matter of substance, of superior usage, with an objectively correct answer, and do you really want to go down that road with me?  Protip: sometimes Strunk and White have their heads up their asses.

Also every asshole who demands APA formatting of citations.

[Disposable Ninja]

My mouse wheel broke. This has drastically affected how I play on my computer.

[Lottel]

If order delivery, know your god damn address.
At least once a day, I arrive to were the address they gave me takes me only to find out there's no house there.  Then when I call and get another address, that's wrong too.

[François]

I was going out to get my mail just now, and I caught the fucker who gets his dog to crap underneath my front balcony, or at least one such fucker. I gave him a stern warning with all the physical presence my 6'3" 230 pound frame has to muster. That said, he looks like he's about 80 years old and I don't have it in me to assault the elderly, plus that seems like excessive escalation. Maybe I should keep like a bucket of water handy and drench him if I catch him again. Or just the dog. It's a yappy little thing, it's not like it'd get anywhere attacking me. Can an old guy die of getting drenched in water? Probably shouldn't try it until next summer. Or at all. Man, I dunno.

Maybe I scared him off already.

Thinkin' about putting a cheap webcam pointed there. Knowing my neighborhood, someone would throw a rock at it.

(I don't know if it seems I'm making too big a deal of this but I basically don't have a yard and all the poop ends up directly underneath my front door and almost directly underneath my living room window so there is the matter of odor.)

EDIT: I just realized I'm sitting here being all "goddamn old people! get off my lawn!"

[Thad]

"One after the next."

How can it be AFTER the NEXT?