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Sure. Easily found on the Internet without too much trouble:

You given two sources. Which of those two (if either) is the authorized version of the legislation. If neither where do I go to access the authorized version?

Neither is the authorized website.
The State of Georgia's (.gov) website has numerous links to the freely accessible official code. here's one:
http://law.georgia.gov/legal-r...
The Official Code of Georgia Annotated link goes to the official code, hosted by lexisnexis
http://www.lexisnexis.com/hott...

It may imply greed, not lack of trust. Some states give employers a discount on their workers comp premiums for having a "certified drug-free workplace." Here's Georgia's policy, for instance.

First of all, here in Georgia, we are a State in the US of Fucking A!

Secondly, what the fucking Hell does Athletic shoes have to do with Bitcoin?

Pity that they are talking about the country in Eurasia and not the US state. Or that when the state of Georgia seceded from the US it referred to itself as the "Republic of Georgia".

Methinks you should pay more attention to the world around you.

First of all, here in Georgia, we are a State in the US of Fucking A!

Secondly, what the fucking Hell does Athletic shoes have to do with Bitcoin?

Is this so clear-cut? The law says it is: "merchandise mailed without the prior expressed request or consent of the recipient." It does not seem to differentiate mistakes. That is, none of these people ordered a Vita bundle--they ordered something different. Therefore the merchandise of a Vita bundle was mailed without prior request or consent. What was requested was a particular game.

Unless there is prior case law, I don't think anyone can really say whether the particular order (or an identical one taking place in the US) would qualify as "mailed without prior expressed request."

I'm referencing http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title39/html/USCODE-2011-title39-partIV-chap30-sec3009.htm which doesn't have any obligation to the recipient--and expressly says so: "Any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, may be treated as a gift by the recipient, who shall have the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender"

Nothing in this code indicates that you can charge for storage should you return the item, either.

Is there a different law I'm unfamiliar with that you're referring to?

It's actually clear cut the other way. See, for example, this page (I know it's state rather than federal, but it was the first hit on Google and it's late):

If you receive unordered merchandise such as clothing or books in the mail, you may be surprised about your rights. Federal law prohibits a company or organization from mailing unordered merchandise to you and then demanding payment. It is legal to send unordered merchandise if it is clearly marked as a free sample or is mailed by a charitable organization asking for donations...

It is a different matter if the mailing you received was due to a mistake by the company. In these circumstances, Georgia law regarding “unjust enrichment” obligates you to return the item paid for by another customer. The company, however, will have to pay postage and handling or make arrangements to pick it up.

The same thing is in the UCC, which has been adopted in every state. In the case of a shipment that you ordered but which contains non-conforming goods, the seller can notify you of the error and provide the proper goods. They have to pay for return shipment and any storage fees you incurred, but you don't simply get to keep it.

Consider, from a cynical Slashdotter point of view - these commercial laws and the UCC were written to protect merchants and large companies... Do you think they'd really write in a provision that allows a honest mistake by a minimum wage mook in shipping to turn into a windfall?

...a citizen is knowingly disclosing that information to a third party thus losing all of their privacy rights.

What's this "knowingly" bullshit?!

Look it, you know all that paperwork doctors' offices shove under your nose when you see them? I actually read that shit. And, there's only vague - very vague - verbiage stating how information may be shared with insurance companies for payment reasons and with other entities for our care. Nothing specific.

That's it.

But here's the fucking kicker, after helping out a doctor with an IT issue a few months ago, I found about this agency and what they are doing. I never heard about that.

The doc subscribes to it to make sure that his patients aren't doctor shopping, but never the less, it was the first I've heard about it.

HIPAA? Only applies to insurance companies.

And this day and age of the "War on Drugs", the politicization of everything, and a select minority of people out there who don't know when to keep their noses out of other people's business, keeping things private that should be private is a thing of the past, I'm afraid. The genie is out of the bottle.

The worst part is that the GBI (State of Georgia's version of FBI) swat team went to other offices of professors unrelated to the incident and pointed these assault rifles in their face. Talk about overwhelming force.

I don't have a "valid ID" even though I'm on disability.

Receives disability benefits but carries no valid photo ID?

No Georgia EBT card?

Required for "Food Stamps" and other services.

No Veterans Identification Card?

What IDs are acceptable?

Any valid state or federal government issued photo ID, including a FREE Voter ID Card issued by your county registrar's office or the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS)

A Georgia Driver's License, even if expired

Valid employee photo ID from any branch, department, agency, or entity of the U.S. Government, Georgia, or any county, municipality, board, authority or other entity of this state.

Valid U.S. passport ID

Valid U.S. military photo ID

Valid tribal photo ID

Georgia Voter Identification Requirements

http://www.sos.georgia.gov/gaphotoid/default.htm

A Georgia Driver's License, even if expired

You can't do that (the detain part). Unless you place an arrest, and being a civilian that means you had damn well be sure about it.

Note: I've taken the courses and meet the State of Georgia's requirements for unarmed security personnel:
GEORGIA BOARD OF PRIVATE DETECTIVE & SECURITY AGENCIES, CHAPTER 509-3, RULE 509-3.02

I see you could not find one either. Considerung that currently I have at least 4 broadband choices, I find it hard to believe most don't have two.

Actually, from the first site returned by the search: "The FCC says that broadband is available via DSL to 79 percent of local telephone company subscribers, and via cable modem to 93 percent of cable television subscribers." It appears that around 20% would not have DSL as a (presumably secondary) broadband option.

I live in Atlanta and have a few options for broadband but realize that many people are not as fortunate. Here's a study which finds that at the state level about 1/2 have a duopoly and some states arguably have a monopoly: http://www.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_11783501/151286677State_of_Broadband_Competition_in_America_2010.pdf

Either:

1) They will be on welfare, because they gave up as you're predicting or 2) They won't qualify for subsidies anyway

Either way, the system screws over a lot more people than it helps, and we the people pay for their healthcare AND for their insurance.

You seem not to understand how welfare works in the US. My source from google says it stops at 4 times the poverty level, which is the phase out level for the EITC which is the most commonly seen as "welfare". As for as medicaid, it depends on the state. For my state if you have a newborn and a family size of 4, you can make up to $44k and qualify, but the income level decreases as the age of the child increases and by age 6 the income limit is $22k (for a family size of 4). If you don't have children, then you have to qualify as disabled to get medicare (as far as I can tell). So, there is some overlap, but not all overlap.

What, by the way, do you think the fact that everyone has insurance will do to prices? Look back at the housing bubble with everyone's easy access to credit. Replace credit with insurance and home prices with billed charges. The have-nots are an integral part of any capitalist system. If you want to design a system with equity for every single person no matter what, do so. But take care to not blend such a system with capitalism, because it will be rife with corruption and abuse.

You show very little knowledge on what caused the housing bubble. Houses were sitting empty as investments, because for some reason people thought that housing prices would always go up. I have a house that I rent out. I can calculate how much I should sell it for based upon what I can get in rent (the rule of thumb is 1/15 of the price of the house per year). There were houses priced such that they could only get 1/30 to 1/60 of the sale price per year because they weren't buying based upon their worth now, but based upon what they were hoping they would be worth in the future. It was pure speculation and gambling (similar to how derivatives were treated on Wall Street) and when people realized that there was no actual value behind them, then the bubble burst.

But, how does this parallel Healthcare? There won't be a bubble. Sure, demand for Healthcare workers will increase so wages might rise as well, but that will be solved in time as the free market adjusts to it.

So long as the bread and circus tickets must still be purchased with money earned, rather than money willed into existence, there's hope that the system can work. In a world where it is a crime to not buy such things - where the able face prison for what the welfare crowd receives for free - you may or may not get the desired result. But either way, the hospital laughs all the way to the bank, and our tax rolls foot the bill.

I don't consider going to the hospital to be entertainment. I avoid it at pretty much all costs, even though I do have good insurance. You are arguing that people will use more if it is free, but I don't see it. People will use what they need (and mothers will probably use a little more than they need on their children, just to be safe) but I do not believe that people have any incentive to go to the hospital and have a blood test run every week.

Continuing your argument, should we get rid of public schools? Have it so that if you do not make enough money then your kids will not get educated? In this country, we believe that having an educated population is good for the country as a whole. Why is the same not true for having a healthy population?

Btw... the US already lags behind most of the rest of the 1st world in infant mortality and life expectancy. I'm sure proud to be an American.

There aren't a lot of black groups running around Georgia terrorizing and lynching white folk...

Well, they aren't lynching people, per se. There are plenty of "black groups" terrorizing hispanic immigrants in the region I live in, though, since they tend to carry cash and don't arm themselves. Most of the murders happen in Atlanta, which is blacks terrorizing blacks.

116 whites were arrested for murder in Georgia 2007. 411 non-whites were.

639 whites were arrested for robbery, 3101 non-whites.

Even if half of those arrests resulted in acquittals the figures would be ridiculous.

http://gbi.georgia.gov/00/channel_modifieddate/0,2096,67862954_88103906,00.html

And for those of you who are about to blame "racist police officers", don't make an ass of yourself.

http://www.fultonsheriff.org/ (that's the county that Atlanta is in)

I don't "hate black people". I'm just sick of watching this, and hearing about non-existent lynchings.

Presumably the reason you are sticking with a platform that has not really changed much in a decade is because you are too risk-averse to jump to something else.

You must not get out much on the web, especially in a corporate environment.

There are a list of some here: Sites that Make Mozilla Sad

And even more can be found here: Mozilla Reporter Database

But the worst sites are on corporate Intranets or behind logins.

At work I am expected to use Microsoft Project Server Web Access. This archaic piece of trash requires IE because it uses ActiveX. The webby app we use to manage our Outlook/Exchange profile info only works in IE. Our Exchange web access e-mail only provides a crippled interface to anything other than IE.

Then I get this thing in the e-mail about Oracles new web site with a link to a presentation here - but don't open this in Firefox or it will crash! that only works in IE.

I had to repeatedly e-mail certain folks when links with illegal backslashes showed up in links on the department web site. They finally fixed those but there are several apps on the site that require or claim to require IE. (What the hell: here , here, , here and the system that we now have to use to get our pay checks says here (login required) that "Internet Explorer (version 5.5 or higher) is the only supported web browser for Employee Self Service. Using any other browser may affect your ability to gain access." It mostly works but the the help system requires IE.

Then the other day I am trying look up info on my home warranty and I find this part of their site: Aon Home Warranty

So anyway yes they exist. Yes, real people run in to them all the time. And the Firefox community needs to do something to fight back.

Please clarify: Georgia, or Georgia?

Too true, never can trust a man call Georgia. Its the cross-dressing and stetson that are a dead give away.