I was referring specifically to credit card agreements. Sure, you can decided not to continue the contract when they change it, however doing so requires you to pay your whole balance off right then and there or you're agreeing to the contract by not being able to pay.
When I was fresh out of high school, I got a credit card and maxed it out within a year. They were in my college breezeway giving out free gifts for signing up. I was stupid and ignorant about the responsibilities of having a credit card. The bank merged with another. I received new terms to which I never agreed. I fell on hard times and couldn't pay my bills. I asked the bank to put me on a hardship program to lower my payments and stop charging late fees and overlimit fees. They refused stating "you're not past due on your payments so we can't do that". Hardship programs were only for people who were 90 days past due or later. I didn't have the money to pay and they hounded me for 8 years after that for defaulting. Though I was ethically justified for doing so.
several years passed and I grew up a lot. I learned about credit and financial responsibility.
When I received new statements from a different bank, one which I had never signed their contract, I was not please and told them I wished not to agree to the terms of the new contract. I was told to pay my bill in full before the thirty days notice of the new contract or else I would be accepting the terms. Eventually my account was merged with yet another bank. I never signed a contract with either of those two banks. I had ethical reservations about doing business with the new bank.
That is the point I was trying to make. I signed an original contract that stated they could change the terms at any time without notice. There was no alternative to that. All credit card applications say that. They sold my account several times and I was forced to do business with companies I didn't want to or like.
If they can change the terms at any time without notice, then it isn't really a contract. It's more like indentured servitude. Since I was young and stupid and indebted to that bank, it was a form of enslavement. They could potentially have changed the terms to a point where I could never have paid off the balance, just milking a monthly payment from me indefinitely. That's why that clause is so dangerous. That's what I want changed. That's what makes banks so predatory.
You must have hefty investments in American industry.
If not, even being a republican is against your interests and the interests of America right now. There is simply no good reason for a middle class citizen to be a republican. They don't share your philosophies anymore. They lied about family values. They lied about fiscal conservatism. They lied about small government. They lied about national security. You must enjoy being lied to.
you're forgetting that citizens of the USA have certain civil rights.
Domestic terrorism as you call it does not fall under the umbrella of "terrorism" legislation. It falls under regular law enforcement.
That's because they are US citizens. The article is about how the civil rights of citizens is being violated by the FBI, who know they aren't supposed to issue NSLs except under dire circumstances. The point is, the FBI has begun using NSLs in lieu of warrants because it just makes their job easier. It's illegal to do what they're doing.
First, the FDA is violating its charter. They're not allowing a company to test its product for a disease that, if present, will kill anyone who consumes it.
The FDA doesn't really have a choice in the long run. Their sole purpose for existing is to keep our food and medicines safe for human consumption. This is a counter-intuitive action.
what a bore. I could barely get past the first level without thinking, wow this sucks! and I was playing with mouse and keyboard.
You can't make a game good with marketing. Since I have gamefly I will probably give GoW2 a try. Though I can't say it seems any better than the first game.
These are actually more closely related to business ethics than anything else.
More developers are calling for the removal of DRM in their games these days. Publishers don't seem to listen or care and that's part of the problem.
I seriously see EA just not listening to customers. They don't care either. EA believes it doesn't need PC gamers. They believe they can be profitable with console titles alone. And more publishers are believing this every day. LucasArts has decided not to publish for PC due to piracy. EA doesn't give a rat's ass about PC gamers not liking DRM. Ubisoft abandoned PC development in favor of porting their console titles to PC. Every day, PC gamers are getting shafted. The whole Tom Clancy's franchise was arcadified to become insanely profitable. LucasArts leaves PC gamers high and dry on "The Force Unleashed" and has the balls to lie about the reasons. DRM is screwing up legitimate owners. SysReqs are no longer clear and openly published. Certain titles are being released in Beta form just to meet cycle deadlines. And, developers are making horrible uninformed decisions about the design of PC games. They just aren't listening to their customers.
I think all publishers should have a digital method of delivery. I should be able to buy online and play without an Internet connection. Steam is wildly successful. DUH!
DRM is bad. It hurts legitimate owners and doesn't phase pirates at all. It clogs up my system. CD/DVD checks are just lame. We've installed the game and now we want to play without inserting a disc. I personally have like 15 games installed right now that I can play at any given time and about 8 require the disc to be inserted. Lame.
I don't buy a game unless I'm going to enjoy it. That may not be the case for less informed customers. They may buy a game not knowing what it is. Let them return it if, it doesn't run on their old and busted machine. Let them return it if there is inappropriate content for their children.
Above all, listen to what your customers want and provide it.
I believe all cell phones should be equipped with emergency failover frequencies to function in the event of an emergency or natural disaster The US government should be maintaining cell equipment to handle overflow calls should the main cell providers be overwhelmed in the event of a natural disaster. The government should have discretion on activating this failover network. Cell providers should be required to pay for the operation of this failover network if it needs to be used. They should not be able to pass costs over to customers. This would function as a deterrent for these providers so they don't oversell their network capacity by a certain amount.
as for computer networks, fiber doesn't go out when it's buried.
I agree with you on all points. I too have integrity and work by the lopsa code of ethics
Unfortunately, my unwillingness to violate that has kept me from advancing in my career. Someone else is always willing to forego ethics for the almighty dollar.
Most pc buyers hate that crapware that is installed on new computers. We all have our preference for apps unless we're completely new to computers, then Linux is for you.
I say stop pushing crapware down our throats to begin with.
completely agreed. Their only legal option is to cancel your account or make you switch ISPs.
Bellsouth did this to me like 10 years ago on DSL. They degraded my connection to a point where I would be lucky if 20% of my packets got through. Their second level support didn't understand what packet loss meant. And so I switched to speakeasy and it kicked ass. I couldn't get speakeasy here, and now couldn't afford it. So comcast was the only option. I'm really pissed that they are choosing to renege on their advertised plan and service agreement which I signed.
I know that bad company is a console game. That's my point. They couldn't get away with microtransactions for PC gamers like they can for console gamers. That's the point. Sorry I didn't post it in neon!
you're on crack. IN9 32X-Max board was a dismal failure in terms of product quality and actual function. Certain high level Abit officials have already made comments suggesting that they knew the boards didn't work when they sold them. Abit RMA'd most of their production runs from that model. Though most of the blame lays on nvidia for a crappy chipset and faulty memory controller design, the real blame lays on the company who wrote the BIOS software and the company who sold it to me.
PC gamers expect their mods to be free and their addons to be high quality.
We don't want to pay for a mod unless it's a polished product.
We certainly don't want to pay for content that was pulled from the product to sell as DLC.
Battlefield: Bad Company is doing this now. PC Gamers don't want to be nickel and dimed to death with the cost of these addons.
In a few cases, the costs of the DLC adds up to twice the cost of the original game. All of this would be free on PC unless it were a separate addon product.
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I was referring specifically to credit card agreements. Sure, you can decided not to continue the contract when they change it, however doing so requires you to pay your whole balance off right then and there or you're agreeing to the contract by not being able to pay.
When I was fresh out of high school, I got a credit card and maxed it out within a year. They were in my college breezeway giving out free gifts for signing up. I was stupid and ignorant about the responsibilities of having a credit card. The bank merged with another. I received new terms to which I never agreed. I fell on hard times and couldn't pay my bills. I asked the bank to put me on a hardship program to lower my payments and stop charging late fees and overlimit fees. They refused stating "you're not past due on your payments so we can't do that". Hardship programs were only for people who were 90 days past due or later. I didn't have the money to pay and they hounded me for 8 years after that for defaulting. Though I was ethically justified for doing so.
several years passed and I grew up a lot. I learned about credit and financial responsibility.
When I received new statements from a different bank, one which I had never signed their contract, I was not please and told them I wished not to agree to the terms of the new contract. I was told to pay my bill in full before the thirty days notice of the new contract or else I would be accepting the terms. Eventually my account was merged with yet another bank. I never signed a contract with either of those two banks. I had ethical reservations about doing business with the new bank.
That is the point I was trying to make. I signed an original contract that stated they could change the terms at any time without notice. There was no alternative to that. All credit card applications say that. They sold my account several times and I was forced to do business with companies I didn't want to or like.
If they can change the terms at any time without notice, then it isn't really a contract. It's more like indentured servitude. Since I was young and stupid and indebted to that bank, it was a form of enslavement. They could potentially have changed the terms to a point where I could never have paid off the balance, just milking a monthly payment from me indefinitely. That's why that clause is so dangerous. That's what I want changed. That's what makes banks so predatory.
I get it, you must be a multi-millionaire.
You must have hefty investments in American industry.
If not, even being a republican is against your interests and the interests of America right now. There is simply no good reason for a middle class citizen to be a republican. They don't share your philosophies anymore. They lied about family values. They lied about fiscal conservatism. They lied about small government. They lied about national security. You must enjoy being lied to.
You cannot sign away your rights. They're guaranteed.
AT&T's clause is unconstitutional as are every similar company's clauses.
The right to bring legal action cannot be signed away. That's like saying that these companies are above the law.
Next to be tested in court, the clause stating "we reserve the right to change the terms of this contract at any time without notice".
If the terms are flexible, it's not a contract. It's like signing a blank check and something we aren't doing.
you're forgetting that citizens of the USA have certain civil rights.
Domestic terrorism as you call it does not fall under the umbrella of "terrorism" legislation. It falls under regular law enforcement.
That's because they are US citizens. The article is about how the civil rights of citizens is being violated by the FBI, who know they aren't supposed to issue NSLs except under dire circumstances. The point is, the FBI has begun using NSLs in lieu of warrants because it just makes their job easier. It's illegal to do what they're doing.
First, the FDA is violating its charter. They're not allowing a company to test its product for a disease that, if present, will kill anyone who consumes it.
The FDA doesn't really have a choice in the long run. Their sole purpose for existing is to keep our food and medicines safe for human consumption. This is a counter-intuitive action.
They've been terrorizing my Internet experience for months now.
I've known that Steam is a DRM platform since I started using it when they first released it.
I don't mind the phoning home for my multiplayer games since I need to play them online anyway.
but for third-party single player games, it doesn't actually require the phoning home if you launch the app from it's own exe
what a bore. I could barely get past the first level without thinking, wow this sucks! and I was playing with mouse and keyboard.
You can't make a game good with marketing. Since I have gamefly I will probably give GoW2 a try. Though I can't say it seems any better than the first game.
I agree that GoW was way overhyped.
These are actually more closely related to business ethics than anything else.
More developers are calling for the removal of DRM in their games these days. Publishers don't seem to listen or care and that's part of the problem.
I seriously see EA just not listening to customers. They don't care either. EA believes it doesn't need PC gamers. They believe they can be profitable with console titles alone. And more publishers are believing this every day. LucasArts has decided not to publish for PC due to piracy. EA doesn't give a rat's ass about PC gamers not liking DRM. Ubisoft abandoned PC development in favor of porting their console titles to PC. Every day, PC gamers are getting shafted. The whole Tom Clancy's franchise was arcadified to become insanely profitable. LucasArts leaves PC gamers high and dry on "The Force Unleashed" and has the balls to lie about the reasons. DRM is screwing up legitimate owners. SysReqs are no longer clear and openly published. Certain titles are being released in Beta form just to meet cycle deadlines. And, developers are making horrible uninformed decisions about the design of PC games. They just aren't listening to their customers.
I think all publishers should have a digital method of delivery. I should be able to buy online and play without an Internet connection.
Steam is wildly successful. DUH!
DRM is bad. It hurts legitimate owners and doesn't phase pirates at all. It clogs up my system.
CD/DVD checks are just lame. We've installed the game and now we want to play without inserting a disc. I personally have like 15 games installed right now that I can play at any given time and about 8 require the disc to be inserted. Lame.
I don't buy a game unless I'm going to enjoy it. That may not be the case for less informed customers. They may buy a game not knowing what it is. Let them return it if, it doesn't run on their old and busted machine. Let them return it if there is inappropriate content for their children.
Above all, listen to what your customers want and provide it.
I believe all cell phones should be equipped with emergency failover frequencies to function in the event of an emergency or natural disaster The US government should be maintaining cell equipment to handle overflow calls should the main cell providers be overwhelmed in the event of a natural disaster. The government should have discretion on activating this failover network. Cell providers should be required to pay for the operation of this failover network if it needs to be used. They should not be able to pass costs over to customers. This would function as a deterrent for these providers so they don't oversell their network capacity by a certain amount.
as for computer networks, fiber doesn't go out when it's buried.
I agree with you on all points. I too have integrity and work by the lopsa code of ethics
Unfortunately, my unwillingness to violate that has kept me from advancing in my career. Someone else is always willing to forego ethics for the almighty dollar.
I am not.
Most pc buyers hate that crapware that is installed on new computers. We all have our preference for apps unless we're completely new to computers, then Linux is for you.
I say stop pushing crapware down our throats to begin with.
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see, now you're just ignorant. VLK copies of windows XP do not require activation. There are legitimate VLK copies of windows XP.
You're just ignoring that.
completely agreed. Their only legal option is to cancel your account or make you switch ISPs.
Bellsouth did this to me like 10 years ago on DSL. They degraded my connection to a point where I would be lucky if 20% of my packets got through. Their second level support didn't understand what packet loss meant. And so I switched to speakeasy and it kicked ass. I couldn't get speakeasy here, and now couldn't afford it. So comcast was the only option. I'm really pissed that they are choosing to renege on their advertised plan and service agreement which I signed.
I don't think my copy came with that EULA! My copy didn't require activation, which was my original point.
I can't cite, it was a conversation I had with one of them. Not allowed to let that cat out of the bag.
I know that bad company is a console game. That's my point. They couldn't get away with microtransactions for PC gamers like they can for console gamers. That's the point. Sorry I didn't post it in neon!
I would love to see that in action. I too signed an unlimited service agreement..
I don't think I agreed to harassment when I installed XP.
It's definitely not in the EULA and most likely a violation of the CFAA.
you're on crack. IN9 32X-Max board was a dismal failure in terms of product quality and actual function. Certain high level Abit officials have already made comments suggesting that they knew the boards didn't work when they sold them. Abit RMA'd most of their production runs from that model. Though most of the blame lays on nvidia for a crappy chipset and faulty memory controller design, the real blame lays on the company who wrote the BIOS software and the company who sold it to me.
PC gamers expect their mods to be free and their addons to be high quality.
We don't want to pay for a mod unless it's a polished product.
We certainly don't want to pay for content that was pulled from the product to sell as DLC.
Battlefield: Bad Company is doing this now. PC Gamers don't want to be nickel and dimed to death with the cost of these addons.
In a few cases, the costs of the DLC adds up to twice the cost of the original game. All of this would be free on PC unless it were a separate addon product.
so true. my first SLI board had to be replaced 4 times before 6 months and then finally died before 6 months time.
It was never stable and always hot. There were severe problems with the memory controller onboard.
I had to apply extreme air cooling to maintain operating temperatures.
a password is a personal piece of information. a CSR's knowledge of your password is a violation of the terms of their privacy policy.
or the simple answer is, have them set it to something simple and change it manually via their web interface later.
you're probably right. They probably put the BGP bug in there in the first place.