Lots of companies have engaged in this practice over the years. I've worked for a Credit card company in the past, and they did the same exact thing. It's basically preying on the weak. Those who tended to overspend and could never pay off a debt were the most vulnerable to the sales pitch to keep the card open and active. This used to be called the "sub-prime" market, but that term fell out of good graces back in 2004 - 2006 when the word "sub-prime" referred to poor people; which was true. The original intent of sub-prime was to help people with bad / no credit establish a foundation for building good credit. Just like everything else, it got corrupted by corporate greed.
Act all distraught, make it sound like you're sobbing just thinking about it, and explain that you're cancelling the service for the account user who has recently Died.
Any telemarketer calls I've ever gotten I start sobbing and claiming I don't have time for them because I just lost my family to some tragic accident of type . I get an apology and my number is removed from the lists immediately.
. . . because an adult woman was playing an on-line game several hours a day. . . . because it invoked a sense of light-heartedness when playing. . . . because young family members always said I was real silly.
It was a clean screen name, it's what I've used for forever.
I Google the number of licensed drivers in the US (http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-people-in-the-us-have-a-drivers-license).
There are approximately 196,165,666 licensed drivers in the US.
This does not include those people driving around with no license, revoked, or suspended licenses
Of the196,165,666 licensed drivers in good standing we have (we'll round up) 15 deaths and 1,125 injuries
Hmmmmmm decisions decisions decisions. I look at it this way, both are wrong and at fault.
If a corporation forces you to have a CC on file at all times and then allows a 30 minute window of massive funds spending, then they own some responsibility in all of this. Companies want income this is an easy way of doing it, and by placing the info in the EULA as a default action is just a "F U" consumer, we'll do what we want because we've got you addicted to our product. A CYA would be a user setting that is either device wide or insist on the App developers to add a Selectable Option: Must Use Password for every purchase? If yes, then the password must be entered for every freaking purchase, otherwise default to system settings of 30 minute window.
WTF parents. How the hell can you blame a kid for their continuous purchases. Every parent knows that if a kid wants something they will get it. If you give a child a cookie, they always want more, and if you don't hide the cookies and the child knows how to get to them, the child will get them and consume them until they puke and will still continue eating them. How the heck is a cool application that allows you to make a purchase which enhances the game any different. Why is it the big corporations fault for you handing over your phone with either the password already entered for a purchase or telling your kid what the password is? You refuse to engage with your kids, but rather prefer to entertain them with devices that are TIED TO YOUR CREDIT CARD. Quit your bitching, take responsibility for your children's actions, and Parent Your F'ing Kids,
Don't get a Smart Phone. With all the theft of Smart Phones, it appears to me to not be smart to own a Smart Phone.
I am always amazed how much people are willing to spend on a hand held device for making roaming phone calls.
To own a Smart Phone, you've spent the equivalency of a small but working laptop computer, and then pay for it 3 to 4 times over in a given year just to have it be more than a phone.
And they are tracked to death by government and every company in the world who wants to sell you their crap. You're actually paying them to advertise to you.
Point 1, while I agree does happen, more often than naught, doesn't quite fit the topic of discussion. Point 2, you have nothing to compare too.
As a woman, I have seen my own fair share of discrimination, but I know it exists under the surface and I go out of my way to try to prove myself. The study in this article does show a trend of hiring and pay practices in particular fields to show little to no discrimination; however in other fields such as a stock broker, or other high-paying fields, women don't fair as well. The higher up the chain of most companies the more white males see in a position of power and authority.
Granted not all industries are like that, but a majority, and pay discrimination at the beginning of a career is not indicative of the issues of pay disparity that women face the longer they are in a career. This of course, is not easy to break apart to find the one answer, because there is no One answer to this topic.
I have heard that in the past (don't know if it still happens today) that men in positions of authority would hold high level discussions at a Men-Only golf club or a strip club. I know this to be true because I've seen it first hand. These types of tactics by a few close out opportunities for women at the same level to move higher in ranks of their company. So a woman must either report the matter to HR, which always gets out, even though it's supposed to be private; or she must step into those uncomfortable situations, such as going to a strip club, to keep herself in the loop of what's going on in the company. If she's forcibly kept out of the loop, on open dialog then that is clear definition of discrimination which will lead to pay disparity.
When someone is filming out in public and they are making it fairly obvious that they are filming, I have the ability to see this action and avoid being in their scope of frame or I can cover my face from the filming that is on going. This is MY choice to NOT be filmed. It is not a matter of having something to hide, I just don't want to be in your feature video, whether personal or posted on line.
You may have the right to film in public, but I have the right to hide from that filming. It's utterly insane to me to listen to those who don't care whether they are filmed or not to tell me to "Just Get Over It". Why is my right to remain private less important than your need to video everything? Simply put, it is NOT.
If it was OK, then why, through out television history, can people request that media obscure their face on film, but the average Joe can just film me and post it to the world wide web? Why is there a double standard? There shouldn't be.
I don't want to be filmed unless I approve of the filming, and I should have the right of refusal and those with the filming devices should be courteous enough to accept my right of refusal and honor it.
Just because I'm in public, doesn't mean I expect 100% privacy, clearly I can't, but I have a reasonable expectation of limited privacy. I mean if I'm in a bar enjoying a cocktail (or anywhere public for that matter), those individuals that are in close proximity of me are privy to seeing me or hearing my conversation, if I'm being loud enough to be noticed in the sea of faces. But once you film me and posting it, you're taking away my reasonable expectation of limited privacy. You're now making my business available to the entire internet world who weren't in the room. This essentially steals from me the ability to be myself without being monitored by the whole world.
If you still feel like I should just shut up and go away, then you really are oblivious.
I find Anti-Gay legislature to be an awful step in the wrong direction. What would stop a Gay business owner from then refusing to sell to straight people? Shit would hit the fan then.
I understand people have their personal beliefs and prejudices, but to go to such extremes as to put Anti-anything in the laws is just immoral in my humble opinion.
Discrimination is in everyone, some are more extreme than others, but if a potential customer walks into a jewelery store and that person's actions make it look like they are casing the place, doesn't a business owner have the right of refusal of a point of sale, in order to protect themselves. Some would say yes, some would say no. That example is not really the same as an Anti-gay legislature to prevent sales based on open discrimination, but if someone's strong moral beliefs feel that they must protect themselves from a potential customer who is gay, they under that same scenario one would think they have a right of refusal. To me it's a ridiculous perspective, but I'm sure someone will say "See, she gets it."
This is only a point being made for discussion, playing devil's advocate as it were. Talk amongst yourselves.
Where is the child support from the father of the child? Let's not stereo type the girl too fast. For every pregnant girl there is a baby daddy.
I don't necessarily agree with the welfare system, it rewards some laziness and irresponsibility. There are good and honest people who go to it as a last resort, but once on it, it is extremely difficult to get back off of it. Ask anyone who has tried. You're practically punished for trying to be free of it.
But then again how is this any different then the "Black Box" in the car?
Don't get me wrong, I disagree with the Black Box and the GPS tracking. I think that we, as a nation, haven't screamed loud enough at our leadership to tell them to get out of our lives.
Hell, as a nation, we've elected these bastards who have basically told us to Bend over and Take it.
So which company is reporting to whom about who did what on Cyber Monday or Black Friday, or any F---'in day? Is this how much every aspect of our lives is being tracked that in merely a few days we know this statistic at all, regardless of accuracy?
OK, so you write code for a living and only reach out to people when you need an answer to a question.
Sounds like you might need a daily blog / journal. I've seen co-workers post a daily summary of what tasks / actions were worked on and the journal is injected with a few humorous lines of the individual's personal views. This is a form of communication that may suit your style better.
* It provides team members the opportunity to know what your working on, and may encourage them to share ideas or come to you for fresh ideas.
* It allows management the ability to keep apprised of the work your doing without having to bug you while you're in the middle of a train of thought.
* For some colleagues, it will give them an insight in to your personality without you having to hang out by the water cooler.
* It helps you remember what you did so that one day when you have to produce a weekly status report, you've already captured your tasks current and completed.
Communication does not always mean you'll be caught up in political BS at work. Communication builds trust with colleagues. Communication is not a needless skill, but it is a dying art.
You know you're a great communicator when you can basically tell someone to "go to hell" in such a way that they think the idea is theirs and look forward to the trip.
.... has returned to someone in the Judicial system.
It's ridiculous that the government bitches about getting a warrant. GPS is more invasive in my opinion. Because if you are a person of interest and the Govt, feels that you should be tracked, then they slap that GPS unit on your vehicle and they will step onto your property to do it in many cases. So in the event that they're not parked outside your house watching your every move, they don't always know who's driving that vehicle. So in essence, if you lent your car to someone that is NOT a person of interest the government is now tracking the wrong person and violating his/her rights.
As least with a warrant, the request is on papers and the government could back up their tracking with that warrant should the 'person not of interest' have balls big enough to go after the government.
In days long past, humans would go to public executions and would take their children. Beheading are a European tradition if you've ever read anything about history.
As a Society, we bitch and moan, "Oh no, spare the children....". I'm very tired of the buffer the children from real life syndrome. We've raised children who are so buffered that they don't ever see the real world and then when they start to test the waters, there are never any significant consequences.
I'm not saying have a beheading channel on the TV that runs 24/7. But holy hells bells people the world is an ugly place and our morals are all messed up these days. When schools with STUPID zero tolerance policies suspend / expel a student for helping drunk friend to NOT Drink and drive, then the sober one gets the punishment, what message are we sending? I've even heard of kids who skip school to do a little B and E, and the cops won't arrest them, because the act is so minor. Again, what message are we sending?
Today we have flash mob mentality running amok and in part it's because those individual who are on the brink of doing something that they know is wrong judge whether they can get away with it, and if caught, what are the consequences? You've created your slap on the wrist society, by hiding real consequences for real actions (regardless of reasons). When the children see the horrors of the world, most of them don't want that for themselves or the ones that they love, so they may quickly choose not to follow that path.
Next, ladies and gentlemen, it is YOUR responsibility to police YOUR offspring, not a company. And if YOUR child is under the age of 13 then its YOUR fault if they see something they shouldn't on Facebook.
Well. . . based on your expert opinion of "your ignorance is astounding" clearly, there is no point in having a healthy debate. One is not allow to see things from a perspective not your own without being insulted.
Um, by the ages that these two girls are I'm sure that there has been at least one product in their entire life with eggs in it and if neither has had an " allergic reaction to say the egg the virus was grown" by those ages they will more than likely NEVER have a reaction.
Now lets consider for one moment all the people that these two could infect if they contracted any of those viruses. And what if one of their victims dies from that said virus that is EASILY preventable? How is that fair?
It's one thing to be allergic to something and know it will kill you, but an egg virus is rare and these aren't babies who are fresh out of the womb.
All I've said is that with making a decision and standing firmly behind it, there may be repercussions, and they (mother and daughters) should be ready to face those and accept responsibility for that decision they made.
I was once an employee of CGI, and honestly I think they outright steal good income from the people they employee as contractors, but that being said, working on government contracts is ALWAYS a nightmare.
Anyone, and I mean anyone who has ever had a contract position with a company for any project for the US government knows quite well how the US government will ask for the sky but will only pay for a twin engine prop from the 1950s to get the sky.
The US government has never learned how to handle business life-cycles on projects. They start out with vague scopes and extremely intense schedules, they talk in circles and never say what they really want and then once development has started the creep of scope begins and it's not like a snail slowing moving the requirements around, they add thousands and then when the possibility exists that the original schedule will slip, contractors who are project managers are literally crucified for saying a project is at risk.
I speak from direct experience.
I remember when I received a PM role as a contractor on a Government project that was already in dire straits. I asked my manager how I would succeed where he couldn't and he simply laughed and said you won't. I said, "So if I fail I succeed?" and his response was "yes". Well I managed to make a doomed project succeed, but was kicked off the project 1 month before it was completed simply because I communicated that there was a risk that one part of the project would not be implemented from a lack of US Government decision at such a late date in the project. I was crucified for saying that, but only after there was a big meeting and I was asked what needed to be decided on to succeed. I provided 3 options and explained the amount of work. They chose the cheapest in time and workmanship, and then kicked me from the project. It was only because I put my concerns for the project in writing that we succeeded, but in the end my reputation was crushed by the those that feared the US Government.
Today, on my resume, I can in good consciousness say I managed a project to completion, on time and under budget. But given the opportunity to help the US Government again as a contractor, I'd turn down the $ and walk away.
Businesses can't afford to be blamed for the US Government's inability to get its Shit together.
OK so eons ago, there were erotica or hard core sexual books on shelves. And the righteous said ban them, burn them. People fought back, we create an adults only bookstore. Note the ADULTS ONLY part. And then the righteous said, "not in my neighborhood" and got those shut down. This happened around the same time as ADULTS ONLY entertainment places were being told, coverup or get out, until ADULTS ONLY is now only R rated entertainment.
Then comes the internet, now people can, FROM THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME, download and watch / read any smut they want to. Sadly, the industry didn't protect it self and would allow itself to be associated to shady internet "in your face" practices, so the industry has received too much unwanted attention. It's a double edged sword, publicity = sales, but publicity = criticism. The industry has seemly caught on, make it private people will find it if they really want to, it' not that hard.... no pun intended.
Here some writers have some stories to sell, for most of us, sick and deranged, but stories none the less. Now people have paid for copies of these stories to read in the PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME on their OWN devices and some pompous person says "not on my ebook provider".
I am not a proponent for censorship, never have been. I don't like what some people write so I choose NOT TO BUY, READ, OR WATCH it, but I'm certainly not going to stop someone else. What someone else is into is none of my freaking business, no matter how offended by it I may be.
Sadly I'm sure that if one eBook provider becomes the sole provider of everything smut someone will sue the provide or the author for what some other nutjob does wrong in society. I only wish we would enact the same logic with other things we think are bad. Do we punish the bullet manufacturer for the bullets or the store that sold them that are used in a crime? No? We still sell weapons and ammo.
Why then must we censor someone else's work?
I know I know you'll say, because it glorifies incest and rape.... It's sick and disgusting, but have you read books like "Fifty Shades of Gray"?
That story line is about ADULTS choosing to be CONSENTING ADULTS and doing things that are considered illegal in society (domestic abuse), tortured, etc... but they are about consenting adults doing these things.
Incest is disgusting, but shit we read about that in history books. Rape is atrocious, but again we read about that in history books.
Time to ban everything bad or disgusting that ever happened that's ever been written about, whether it's based on fact or someone's fantasy.
Even Disney movies show kids or animal being abducted that's wrong, why aren't we banning those books and stories?
.... and if they get Measles, Mumps, or Rubella while under the age of 18, their mother must pay for all doctors bills 100% out of pocket, including hospital stays.
Also it if can be proven they they infect anyone else, they must pay the doctor bills of those that can prove it.
Legal fees alone in the defense will fix that.
If they get these after the age of 18, then they should face the same expenses as their mother would.
It's time to impeach this president and get rid of our current congressmen / congresswomen and then entire house of representatives. Remove the Obama czars, and get rid of the Fed chair.
Lets wipe the slate clean,
Lets start over and fix this freaking mess of a country.
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Lots of companies have engaged in this practice over the years. I've worked for a Credit card company in the past, and they did the same exact thing. It's basically preying on the weak. Those who tended to overspend and could never pay off a debt were the most vulnerable to the sales pitch to keep the card open and active. This used to be called the "sub-prime" market, but that term fell out of good graces back in 2004 - 2006 when the word "sub-prime" referred to poor people; which was true. The original intent of sub-prime was to help people with bad / no credit establish a foundation for building good credit. Just like everything else, it got corrupted by corporate greed.
Even simpler solution:
Act all distraught, make it sound like you're sobbing just thinking about it, and explain that you're cancelling the service for the account user who has recently Died.
Any telemarketer calls I've ever gotten I start sobbing and claiming I don't have time for them because I just lost my family to some tragic accident of type . I get an apology and my number is removed from the lists immediately.
. . . because an adult woman was playing an on-line game several hours a day.
. . . because it invoked a sense of light-heartedness when playing.
. . . because young family members always said I was real silly.
It was a clean screen name, it's what I've used for forever.
Please lets not forget, that the bible is a collection of stories written by men, not a deity.
Humans have judged other humans for thousands of years, not a deity.
We definitely need to get Government out of marriage business.
I Google the number of licensed drivers in the US (http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-people-in-the-us-have-a-drivers-license).
There are approximately 196,165,666 licensed drivers in the US.
This does not include those people driving around with no license, revoked, or suspended licenses
Of the196,165,666 licensed drivers in good standing we have (we'll round up) 15 deaths and 1,125 injuries
15 / 196165666 = 7.646598054523976e-8
1125 / 196165666 = 5.734948540892982e-6
Geezsus people, an average man could fart and injure / kill more people than that percentage.
Hmmmmmm decisions decisions decisions. I look at it this way, both are wrong and at fault.
If a corporation forces you to have a CC on file at all times and then allows a 30 minute window of massive funds spending, then they own some responsibility in all of this. Companies want income this is an easy way of doing it, and by placing the info in the EULA as a default action is just a "F U" consumer, we'll do what we want because we've got you addicted to our product. A CYA would be a user setting that is either device wide or insist on the App developers to add a Selectable Option: Must Use Password for every purchase? If yes, then the password must be entered for every freaking purchase, otherwise default to system settings of 30 minute window.
WTF parents. How the hell can you blame a kid for their continuous purchases. Every parent knows that if a kid wants something they will get it. If you give a child a cookie, they always want more, and if you don't hide the cookies and the child knows how to get to them, the child will get them and consume them until they puke and will still continue eating them. How the heck is a cool application that allows you to make a purchase which enhances the game any different. Why is it the big corporations fault for you handing over your phone with either the password already entered for a purchase or telling your kid what the password is? You refuse to engage with your kids, but rather prefer to entertain them with devices that are TIED TO YOUR CREDIT CARD. Quit your bitching, take responsibility for your children's actions, and Parent Your F'ing Kids,
I thought Apple also allows a few purchases for x # minutes after the password is entered. I think that was the compromise of no password at all.
Don't get a Smart Phone. With all the theft of Smart Phones, it appears to me to not be smart to own a Smart Phone.
I am always amazed how much people are willing to spend on a hand held device for making roaming phone calls.
To own a Smart Phone, you've spent the equivalency of a small but working laptop computer, and then pay for it 3 to 4 times over in a given year just to have it be more than a phone.
And they are tracked to death by government and every company in the world who wants to sell you their crap. You're actually paying them to advertise to you.
*sigh*
Point 1, while I agree does happen, more often than naught, doesn't quite fit the topic of discussion.
Point 2, you have nothing to compare too.
As a woman, I have seen my own fair share of discrimination, but I know it exists under the surface and I go out of my way to try to prove myself. The study in this article does show a trend of hiring and pay practices in particular fields to show little to no discrimination; however in other fields such as a stock broker, or other high-paying fields, women don't fair as well. The higher up the chain of most companies the more white males see in a position of power and authority.
Granted not all industries are like that, but a majority, and pay discrimination at the beginning of a career is not indicative of the issues of pay disparity that women face the longer they are in a career. This of course, is not easy to break apart to find the one answer, because there is no One answer to this topic.
I have heard that in the past (don't know if it still happens today) that men in positions of authority would hold high level discussions at a Men-Only golf club or a strip club. I know this to be true because I've seen it first hand. These types of tactics by a few close out opportunities for women at the same level to move higher in ranks of their company. So a woman must either report the matter to HR, which always gets out, even though it's supposed to be private; or she must step into those uncomfortable situations, such as going to a strip club, to keep herself in the loop of what's going on in the company. If she's forcibly kept out of the loop, on open dialog then that is clear definition of discrimination which will lead to pay disparity.
When someone is filming out in public and they are making it fairly obvious that they are filming, I have the ability to see this action and avoid being in their scope of frame or I can cover my face from the filming that is on going. This is MY choice to NOT be filmed. It is not a matter of having something to hide, I just don't want to be in your feature video, whether personal or posted on line.
You may have the right to film in public, but I have the right to hide from that filming. It's utterly insane to me to listen to those who don't care whether they are filmed or not to tell me to "Just Get Over It". Why is my right to remain private less important than your need to video everything? Simply put, it is NOT.
If it was OK, then why, through out television history, can people request that media obscure their face on film, but the average Joe can just film me and post it to the world wide web? Why is there a double standard? There shouldn't be.
I don't want to be filmed unless I approve of the filming, and I should have the right of refusal and those with the filming devices should be courteous enough to accept my right of refusal and honor it.
Just because I'm in public, doesn't mean I expect 100% privacy, clearly I can't, but I have a reasonable expectation of limited privacy. I mean if I'm in a bar enjoying a cocktail (or anywhere public for that matter), those individuals that are in close proximity of me are privy to seeing me or hearing my conversation, if I'm being loud enough to be noticed in the sea of faces. But once you film me and posting it, you're taking away my reasonable expectation of limited privacy. You're now making my business available to the entire internet world who weren't in the room. This essentially steals from me the ability to be myself without being monitored by the whole world.
If you still feel like I should just shut up and go away, then you really are oblivious.
I find Anti-Gay legislature to be an awful step in the wrong direction. What would stop a Gay business owner from then refusing to sell to straight people? Shit would hit the fan then.
I understand people have their personal beliefs and prejudices, but to go to such extremes as to put Anti-anything in the laws is just immoral in my humble opinion.
Discrimination is in everyone, some are more extreme than others, but if a potential customer walks into a jewelery store and that person's actions make it look like they are casing the place, doesn't a business owner have the right of refusal of a point of sale, in order to protect themselves. Some would say yes, some would say no. That example is not really the same as an Anti-gay legislature to prevent sales based on open discrimination, but if someone's strong moral beliefs feel that they must protect themselves from a potential customer who is gay, they under that same scenario one would think they have a right of refusal. To me it's a ridiculous perspective, but I'm sure someone will say "See, she gets it."
This is only a point being made for discussion, playing devil's advocate as it were. Talk amongst yourselves.
No Family or Friends to threaten, then no go.... Is this what they mean by "properly motivated"?
Where is the child support from the father of the child? Let's not stereo type the girl too fast. For every pregnant girl there is a baby daddy.
I don't necessarily agree with the welfare system, it rewards some laziness and irresponsibility. There are good and honest people who go to it as a last resort, but once on it, it is extremely difficult to get back off of it. Ask anyone who has tried. You're practically punished for trying to be free of it.
Key thing is "Implied".
But then again how is this any different then the "Black Box" in the car?
Don't get me wrong, I disagree with the Black Box and the GPS tracking. I think that we, as a nation, haven't screamed loud enough at our leadership to tell them to get out of our lives.
Hell, as a nation, we've elected these bastards who have basically told us to Bend over and Take it.
So which company is reporting to whom about who did what on Cyber Monday or Black Friday, or any F---'in day? Is this how much every aspect of our lives is being tracked that in merely a few days we know this statistic at all, regardless of accuracy?
Augh....
OK, so you write code for a living and only reach out to people when you need an answer to a question.
Sounds like you might need a daily blog / journal. I've seen co-workers post a daily summary of what tasks / actions were worked on and the journal is injected with a few humorous lines of the individual's personal views. This is a form of communication that may suit your style better.
* It provides team members the opportunity to know what your working on, and may encourage them to share ideas or come to you for fresh ideas.
* It allows management the ability to keep apprised of the work your doing without having to bug you while you're in the middle of a train of thought.
* For some colleagues, it will give them an insight in to your personality without you having to hang out by the water cooler.
* It helps you remember what you did so that one day when you have to produce a weekly status report, you've already captured your tasks current and completed.
Communication does not always mean you'll be caught up in political BS at work.
Communication builds trust with colleagues.
Communication is not a needless skill, but it is a dying art.
You know you're a great communicator when you can basically tell someone to "go to hell" in such a way that they think the idea is theirs and look forward to the trip.
Good luck.
...US Congressman, Senator, House of Representative, White House personnel...then you'll hear the outcry against it.
Nothing good will come of this, nothing.
.... has returned to someone in the Judicial system.
It's ridiculous that the government bitches about getting a warrant. GPS is more invasive in my opinion. Because if you are a person of interest and the Govt, feels that you should be tracked, then they slap that GPS unit on your vehicle and they will step onto your property to do it in many cases. So in the event that they're not parked outside your house watching your every move, they don't always know who's driving that vehicle. So in essence, if you lent your car to someone that is NOT a person of interest the government is now tracking the wrong person and violating his/her rights.
As least with a warrant, the request is on papers and the government could back up their tracking with that warrant should the 'person not of interest' have balls big enough to go after the government.
In days long past, humans would go to public executions and would take their children. Beheading are a European tradition if you've ever read anything about history.
As a Society, we bitch and moan, "Oh no, spare the children....". I'm very tired of the buffer the children from real life syndrome. We've raised children who are so buffered that they don't ever see the real world and then when they start to test the waters, there are never any significant consequences.
I'm not saying have a beheading channel on the TV that runs 24/7. But holy hells bells people the world is an ugly place and our morals are all messed up these days. When schools with STUPID zero tolerance policies suspend / expel a student for helping drunk friend to NOT Drink and drive, then the sober one gets the punishment, what message are we sending? I've even heard of kids who skip school to do a little B and E, and the cops won't arrest them, because the act is so minor. Again, what message are we sending?
Today we have flash mob mentality running amok and in part it's because those individual who are on the brink of doing something that they know is wrong judge whether they can get away with it, and if caught, what are the consequences? You've created your slap on the wrist society, by hiding real consequences for real actions (regardless of reasons). When the children see the horrors of the world, most of them don't want that for themselves or the ones that they love, so they may quickly choose not to follow that path.
Next, ladies and gentlemen, it is YOUR responsibility to police YOUR offspring, not a company. And if YOUR child is under the age of 13 then its YOUR fault if they see something they shouldn't on Facebook.
Well. . . based on your expert opinion of "your ignorance is astounding" clearly, there is no point in having a healthy debate. One is not allow to see things from a perspective not your own without being insulted.
Have a nice day.
Um, by the ages that these two girls are I'm sure that there has been at least one product in their entire life with eggs in it and if neither has had an " allergic reaction to say the egg the virus was grown" by those ages they will more than likely NEVER have a reaction.
Now lets consider for one moment all the people that these two could infect if they contracted any of those viruses. And what if one of their victims dies from that said virus that is EASILY preventable? How is that fair?
It's one thing to be allergic to something and know it will kill you, but an egg virus is rare and these aren't babies who are fresh out of the womb.
All I've said is that with making a decision and standing firmly behind it, there may be repercussions, and they (mother and daughters) should be ready to face those and accept responsibility for that decision they made.
I was once an employee of CGI, and honestly I think they outright steal good income from the people they employee as contractors, but that being said, working on government contracts is ALWAYS a nightmare.
Anyone, and I mean anyone who has ever had a contract position with a company for any project for the US government knows quite well how the US government will ask for the sky but will only pay for a twin engine prop from the 1950s to get the sky.
The US government has never learned how to handle business life-cycles on projects. They start out with vague scopes and extremely intense schedules, they talk in circles and never say what they really want and then once development has started the creep of scope begins and it's not like a snail slowing moving the requirements around, they add thousands and then when the possibility exists that the original schedule will slip, contractors who are project managers are literally crucified for saying a project is at risk.
I speak from direct experience.
I remember when I received a PM role as a contractor on a Government project that was already in dire straits. I asked my manager how I would succeed where he couldn't and he simply laughed and said you won't. I said, "So if I fail I succeed?" and his response was "yes". Well I managed to make a doomed project succeed, but was kicked off the project 1 month before it was completed simply because I communicated that there was a risk that one part of the project would not be implemented from a lack of US Government decision at such a late date in the project. I was crucified for saying that, but only after there was a big meeting and I was asked what needed to be decided on to succeed. I provided 3 options and explained the amount of work. They chose the cheapest in time and workmanship, and then kicked me from the project. It was only because I put my concerns for the project in writing that we succeeded, but in the end my reputation was crushed by the those that feared the US Government.
Today, on my resume, I can in good consciousness say I managed a project to completion, on time and under budget. But given the opportunity to help the US Government again as a contractor, I'd turn down the $ and walk away.
Businesses can't afford to be blamed for the US Government's inability to get its Shit together.
OK so eons ago, there were erotica or hard core sexual books on shelves. And the righteous said ban them, burn them. People fought back, we create an adults only bookstore. Note the ADULTS ONLY part. And then the righteous said, "not in my neighborhood" and got those shut down. This happened around the same time as ADULTS ONLY entertainment places were being told, coverup or get out, until ADULTS ONLY is now only R rated entertainment.
Then comes the internet, now people can, FROM THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME, download and watch / read any smut they want to. Sadly, the industry didn't protect it self and would allow itself to be associated to shady internet "in your face" practices, so the industry has received too much unwanted attention. It's a double edged sword, publicity = sales, but publicity = criticism. The industry has seemly caught on, make it private people will find it if they really want to, it' not that hard.... no pun intended.
Here some writers have some stories to sell, for most of us, sick and deranged, but stories none the less. Now people have paid for copies of these stories to read in the PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME on their OWN devices and some pompous person says "not on my ebook provider".
I am not a proponent for censorship, never have been. I don't like what some people write so I choose NOT TO BUY, READ, OR WATCH it, but I'm certainly not going to stop someone else. What someone else is into is none of my freaking business, no matter how offended by it I may be.
Sadly I'm sure that if one eBook provider becomes the sole provider of everything smut someone will sue the provide or the author for what some other nutjob does wrong in society. I only wish we would enact the same logic with other things we think are bad. Do we punish the bullet manufacturer for the bullets or the store that sold them that are used in a crime? No? We still sell weapons and ammo.
Why then must we censor someone else's work?
I know I know you'll say, because it glorifies incest and rape.... It's sick and disgusting, but have you read books like "Fifty Shades of Gray"?
That story line is about ADULTS choosing to be CONSENTING ADULTS and doing things that are considered illegal in society (domestic abuse), tortured, etc... but they are about consenting adults doing these things.
Incest is disgusting, but shit we read about that in history books.
Rape is atrocious, but again we read about that in history books.
Time to ban everything bad or disgusting that ever happened that's ever been written about, whether it's based on fact or someone's fantasy.
Even Disney movies show kids or animal being abducted that's wrong, why aren't we banning those books and stories?
.... and if they get Measles, Mumps, or Rubella while under the age of 18, their mother must pay for all doctors bills 100% out of pocket, including hospital stays.
Also it if can be proven they they infect anyone else, they must pay the doctor bills of those that can prove it.
Legal fees alone in the defense will fix that.
If they get these after the age of 18, then they should face the same expenses as their mother would.
It's simple repercussions of one's actions.
It's time to impeach this president and get rid of our current congressmen / congresswomen and then entire house of representatives. Remove the Obama czars, and get rid of the Fed chair.
Lets wipe the slate clean,
Lets start over and fix this freaking mess of a country.