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To sort of piggy back off of your point, I think Harley is headed for the rocks and it all comes down to number 1. Harley has such a concrete demographic and it's been exhausted. The problem is, by catering so hard to that demographic they are not able to get new riders.

To make matters worse, things like electric motorcycles, discontinuing the Dyna / FXR line, and changing from an air cooled engine to a liquid cooled engine is also annoying their diehard demographic.

The only demographic which seems to be growing (though, I'm extremely biased on this) is younger kids who are getting into customizing motorcycles. Not "Orange County Chopper" bikes, but buying old Harleys (or Triumphs or BSAs or Hondas for that matter) and making them into cool choppers or cafe racers or whatever. The problem is, this demographic doesn't give Harley any money. They don't want the Harley branded everything. They want old bikes that they can get cheap aftermarket or NOS parts for and they want to ride those.

Nah, it's a high school. And the reaction really wasn't warranted. He did show it to his engineering teacher before he got nabbed, too. According to the Times,

"When Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., on Monday, an engineering teacher suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers. But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News."

I think the fact that her pay fluctuated from between $90 and $700 is what makes her the "prototypical" user. I'm sure if she had a few high paying weeks, she wouldn't be desperate at the end of the month.

Also, I checked out their website and it seems that you can withdraw all of the money that you have in Even if you need it immediately. And they put a pretty big emphasis on the fact that when you start, you get hooked up with an Even employee to help guide you through your finances and using the app. It isn't just a download and go setup. It seems to me that there is a lot of human interaction involved with actually using it.

I had this bug plaguing me for a while. My WiFi connection would drop every fifteen minutes or so, requiring me to turn off the WiFi and then turn it on again. I was able to fix it by doing a clean install of Yosemite (from a bootable drive).

I saw this, too. If you can get a little deeper into cl, ex. boston.cragislist.org/i/apartments or boston.craigslist.org/search/aap, you get a Microsoft Frontpage site with the title "digital gangster for life".