Frontline - Secret History of the Credit Card (2004)PBS
56 min - Aug 8, 2007The average American family today carries 10 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American banking industry: more than $30 billion in profits last year alone. FRONTLINE examines how the credit card industry became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so powerful.
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MYTHBUSTERS - FASCINATION WITH THE DODO BIRD Pt 10, with Adam Savage. www.HOPE.net
mediarchives
5 min - Jul 24, 2008
Adam Savage Discusses his Fascination with the Dodo Bird at the Last Hope Conference (www.HOPE.net) which took place on July, 18-20 2008 at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
Steven Levy gave the keynote address. Kevin Mitnick, Steve Rambam, Jello Biafra, and Adam Savage of MythBusters were also featured speakers.
The name referred to the expectation that this would have been the final H.O.P.E. conference due to the scheduled demolition of its venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania. The Next HOPE is scheduled for Summer 2010.
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Wacoal Ayumi Hamasaki
8 min - Jul 18, 2008
News about the new image of Wacoal: Ayumi Hamasaki
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Street Fighter Arcade (one credit keyboard play)
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14 min - Nov 18, 2006
--The very first Street Fighter game--
No, this isn't a third-party hack or whatever it may look like, this is indeed the first Street Fighter title by Capcom that made an arcade appearance in 1987 before making it to the Turbo TurboGrafx-CD (PC Engine) as "Fighting Street" one year later.
Unlike its sequels, this one as you can see has special moves that are notoriously difficult to pull off. And I use the keyboard.
I did one earlier but it yielded more evidence of the player trying to pull those moves off, so I did another and also ended up getting a higher score lol.
Other than that, this must also be the first fighting game in the world that has more complex move controls other than the basic punch and kick buttons (that executes the fireball and dragon punch and copter kick moves).
And unfortunately, I did it in just one miserable credit.
Hope you enjoy watching it.
***EXCELLENT English text provided by the Japanese! Be grateful!
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Top 10 Credit Report Killers
5 min - Aug 6, 2007
For Consumers and Real Estate Professionals.
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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2007)
1 hr 30 min - Aug 20, 2008
Author and filmmaker James D. Scurlock takes on the powerful financial industry in an insightful and infuriating documentary about credit card debt in America. As he crisscrosses the United States, Scurlock interviews average Americans whose lives have been ruined by predatory financial lenders. His subjects are from all walks of life--everyone from retired widows in the Midwest, to poverty-stricken Southerners, to two college students who commit suicide due to their insurmountable bills. Scurlock exposes the extortionate rates of the credit card companies, and reveals their practice of preying upon the very people who are least likely to be able to pay their debts. His interviews with a Harvard law professor, debt collectors, and self-help "financial gurus" further expose the shocking corruption within the financial system and the toxic ties between the corporations and the United States government. The subject matter is gripping enough, but Scurlock ups the entertainment value with a pop-music soundtrack and by splicing in archival footage from educational films. MAXED OUT carries an urgent message for the future of America. Scurlock's battle cry is: grab the scissors and destroy your plastic--before it destroys you.
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Get a Free Credit Score and Learn About The New FICO 2008 Score
4 min - Feb 4, 2008
http://www.fastdebtreducer.com Get a Free Credit Score and watch this video report on the new 2008 FICO credit score algorithm. Your credit score is about to change and you need to know how and why. - credit report, fico score, fair issac, repair
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