Don't Bother Me - Stop Bothering Me

If you just starting in the United States, there are couple of things that you need to get familiar with. The things you will be introduced very soon are telemarketing calls and Unsolicited Mail (or Junk mail as we all call it).

Telemarketing calls are simply calls from people and companies that you don't know, but they want to offer you something (most of the time they simply want your money). The best thing to do to prevent telemarketing calls is to register your number in National Do Not Call Registry - https://www.donotcall.gov/.

Junk mail can very fast overload your mailbox (especially if you are on vacation). You can always stop a lot of this junk by opting out. Use Opt Out Prescreen https://www.optoutprescreen.com/ to remove your name from the marketing list that credit agencies like Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion provide to their customers.

You can also pickup a lot of information FTP websites, they even offer free books for consumers.

View or order Consumer Action Handbook:

http://www.consumeraction.gov/pdfs/2010_Consumer_Action_Handbook.pdf

Harry Potter x 3D

Why movie studios want to get more money for inferior movies?

I HATE this late trend of 3Ds that don't deliver anything extra. I only see price for my movie tickets climbing 3 times to $17-$18 and no way to use discount tickets from movie theater chains or AAA.

I really feel that 3d does not bring anything extra to the movies. It is not fair to start charging so much money for the feature. It is also not right to compare the money that the 3d movie earned. Math is very simple... if regular movie for me costs 6.50, I have to pay 3x (~$18) for the 3d.

Office Live

Few new things I uncovered myself from Microsoft:

http://office.live.com - new free online tools like Word, Excel, etc (for some reason we still using Google versions... probably again, failed Microsoft's Marketing machine...)

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive - New SkyDrive (25GB of free space and 5Gb Synced Storage via Windows Live Mesh). I think all of this is a very interesting offering, but again, I doubt many people even know about it.

I think Windows Mesh can perfectly replace Google Docs and systems like Knowledge Tree.

Russians vs NASA

First Russians pressed the "wrong button" and failed to manage the Progress to dock. Now they "broke some gears" inside the Soyuz and were not able to "undock".

Do they even train those people who go on the orbit?