Well, this is what I was taught, and it’s pretty close to what my handwriting looks like now. I’m not sure why it’s more difficult to do it this way than in your second link. Well, for a lefty I’m sure it is, but for a right-hander like myself, the letters just come out that way.
It doesn’t work that way in the US. We still don’t have an easy, cheap way for person-to-person electronic transfers. There’s always wire transfers, but the sending bank charges $10 - $20 to the sender and the receiving bank $10 - $20 to the recipient.
If we want to give money to each other, it’s cash or check. Still. In 2007.
Not only that, but with a standard issue men’s suit you have to wear the whole ensemble to realize whatever aesthetic value there is in wearing the suit. Once you remove your jacket, you’re just wearing slacks, a shirt, and a tie, and you look like a store clerk.
Your altenative is to get a suit that fits. 
Ties are pointless but are pretty much the one fashion thing that allows a man to “show off” in a decent manner.
My bank’s online billpay allows me to have them send a check to anyone, even for a gift. It’s still a check, but it’s free and they write it and mail it and note it in my checking account.
I totally agree with this. I have to have a phone line at my place now just so I can send faxes. I hate that it takes a phone line and I hate that it’s usually long distance and I hate that I have to…
Print the document
Sign the document
Fax the document
File the printed version
And on top of all that, every page ends up looking like shit, worse every time you re-fax.
I COULD print the document, sign the document, scan the document and email the document but that’s just as much of a pain in the ass. And most of the time when I am faxing, email is not an option.
What I hope to see is more availability of the electronic “pen” signing tablets like you find at the checkout. So I can get a PDF, use the pen thing to sign it, and email it back.
Of course, banks would never go for this. Not because it’s complicated but because banks are stuck in 1962.
Just gave myself a handwriting test.
I swore off cursive long ago…or so I thought.
Turns out my handwriting is half print half cursive. Anyone else do this? I guess it’s to have a nice balance of speed and legibility.
I would like to see:
Laser devices on the sideline to detect when a player went out of bounds. It can be as simple as the type that beams across your garage door opening.
Same thing on first down and goal lines. Have it pick up a sensor in the ball itself.
Sensitive GPS on the ball itself, to get accurate spotting.
It’s no longer printed here in Canada. It’s all online now. Perhaps that’s a test for the US?
Yep, all the time. Of course, I can print (quite legibly, too), and my cursive is good enough that a real estate agent used to pay me to hand-address envelopes for her. 
But for personal use, it’s a combo of print and cursive.
That is what “cursive” means here. We’re still taught it, or at least I was when I went to grade school in the early 90s.
That looks like rushed print to me, which is pretty much how everyone I know writes–except that we would’ve gotten verbal lashings if we did that in class in second-grade.
Lots and lots of people don’t even have cable, let alone satellite/digital cable/whatever with the guide button.
Curiously, the “stop going to commercials after every single fucking play” proposal hasn’t seen much success. The problem isn’t football, it’s the commercial culture that’s latched itself onto it in the last couple of decades.
Other than shoes, you mean?
No it can’t. A coach or another player–or, especially, a member of the press–can easily and subtly stick their leg in the middle of the beam before, during and after the play, rendering it useless.
FIFA has been trying that in soccer, and so far it’s a disaster. Granted, American footballs don’t go through as much abuse as soccer balls, but still…
This one sounds pretty good, although again embedding hardware into the ball can get tricky.
That would still require the ref to figure out when the play stopped, which will be as imprecise then as it is now. The way I see it, this just adds one more step and slows the game down more without helping much.
To quote The Scarlet Pimpernel:
“Puff your cuff, drape your cape, embroider those lapels! Be the king of the beasts in pastels!”
Please don’t make blanket statements about the U.S. 
Bank of America, case and point. My parents have transfered money to my account on many occasions, and there is no fee. Generally it is in the bank the next day too. Also, I pay my rent to my landlord via electronic check and they don’t charge me or him anything.
I pay all my bills in this method, and even send money to people.
There is also paypal, but they DO charge a small fee.