The movie jumps ahead in short, spiky scenes, punctuated by beautifully edited montages of digitized photographs and newspaper articles, and by Mara, head down in the wind, tearing through Sweden on a motorcycle like well, like a bat out of hell.

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If Netflix simply started offering by-mail rentals of games, that probably would have been something for Gamefly to really fear, but the split of the company between streaming and by-mail makes it a lot less formidable, as now customers have to use a new, separate service for mail rentals, and hell, they might as well sign up for the battle-tested Gamefly at that point, right?

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"Well as an elected Republican I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more, " McCarty writes in the fund-raising letter.

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This is a very useful little tip from a Redditor: if you are lost somewhere in the menu hell of an automated telephone system a few well dropped profanities will lead to the almost immediate attention of a live human being.

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The direct result was the kind of dehumanizing experiences we complain so much about customer service hell driven by transaction-minded policies and well-intentioned automation.

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