Okay ladies and gents, here's the scoop. Auto insurance companies are HIGHLY regulated. They are, by law, only able to make a small amount of profit off premium. Usually about 80% of premium made goes immediately out the door back to the policyholders. The other 20% goes to running the business. Money is made off of global market investments. So yes, it is likely that your rates will go down. Unless of the course the sensors on the cars are so expensive that if they were to get damaged in, say, a flood or hail storm, they would be crazy expensive to fix. There are lots of ways a car can get damaged other than accidents.
The Red Cross decided they needed high-power ex execs from places like AT&T who have no idea whatsoever how to run a relief charity. They destroyed the company from the inside out.
M-16? An AK-47? A 100 round clip? There is simply NO reason for military weapons to be in civilian hands.
I'd take the time to point out all the things that are wrong with those two sentences but I've found that gun grabbers who don't actually know anything guns (like you) hate facts and use emotion, only emotion, to advance their beliefs...so I won't bother.
Wow, the guy who's trolling Republicans gets modded as +5 Insightful. I call him out on it and I get modded -1 Troll. For the asshat that wasted his mod points on me, I'm a moderate Libertarian. This place is such a joke.
Some conservatives seem to hate him just for being a smart black guy.
NO! That is an outright lie and you know it. Every time I hear someone make a racial issue out of something that is clearly not a racial issue, I want to puke. You are piece of human trash for perpetuating this B.S.
Yes, it's a knee-jerk reaction. However, our government agencies have done this to themselves. Most of the outrage is probably coming from people who saw "FBI" and "website" in the same sentence and just assumed they did something bad. I can't say I really blame them all that much.
YOU HYPOCRITES! The hypocrisy in half of these posts is incredible. You all freak out when you hear the government is spying on you or some other techy right is being violated, but as soon you hear these people are...GASP...Christians, then it's "I don't give a crap that they purchased the right to use the space, screw their first amendment rights and the horse they rode in on!!!!!!!!!!" Stop cherry-picking when it comes to certain groups' right to assemble and speak. It makes you all look like a bunch of ignorant d-bags.
I thought this was something that spanned across both side of the aisle, I guess I was wrong. However, now that I think about it, it seems like everything, down to what color Skittle is the best, is being made into a liberal vs. conservative these days.
How did the anonymous coward's first comment get modded as funny, but ArcadeMan's rebuttal get modded as a troll? Are/. members biased against web developers?
At least they didn't have Thor get shot to death with an evil black gun whilst defending his homosexual best friend. Comic books need to stay away from politics...far, far away.
Hulu Plus became a non-option for me when they decided to show unskippable commercials in their content. I'm amazed that they had 80 dollars to spend on new content, much less 80 million.
Whoa whoa whoa, back the truck up here a second. You're assuming that because I don't like the president I MUST be a
conservative Republican. Not true, I am a moderate Libertarian, so every argument (and all the name calling) you used that was based on this false assumption
is rendered invalid from the get-go. Now, on to the others:
We, the Americans that are in the far majority, LIKE 99% of Obamacare's provisions.
Are you delusional? There are multitudes of surveys and poles that say the exact opposite.
Stopped invading other countries is not well spun
subjective opinion. It is a real fact. You called it an objective opinion because again, you don't like that we did it.
I wasn't talking about the war part being subjective, I was talking about the, "We stopped insulting every other country" part
being subjective, which it is.
Let me ask you a question. Assume that a president gets elected and institutes a flat tax at 20%, makes abortion illegal,
and makes it legal to conceal carry or open carry any gun - from a pistol to an ak-47. You personally would consider that man a
great president, correct?
Hard to say, I liked Clinton, hated Bush and hate Obama.
President Obama has successfully delivered multiple large victories to the left.
Funny, I thought he was the President of the UNITED STATES, not the President of the liberals.
Yes, if Congress had been more liberal, he could have got more done - but you personally would have hated him even more.
That is WHY you hate him - and also why we love him.
No, I hate him because he's been an incredibly bad president. Just like I hated Bush because he was an incredibly bad
president. Don't tell me why I like or dislike something.
People like you are a huge part of what's wrong with the country today. It's this stupid us vs. them mentality and you've
played right into it. I'm sorry you're a liberal Obama-loving shill. Hopefully at some point you'll start voting and
thinking based on results, not on the party line.
We got a badly implemented form of mandatory health insurance (notice, I said 'health insurance,' NOT healthcare) that further penalizes the poor for not being able to afford it.
2) We killed Osama Bin Laden after Bush failed to do so for 7 years
Yep
3)We stopped insulting every other country and going to war on bad information.
This is purely some well-spun subjective opinion which means absolutely nothing in terms of hope and/or change.
SO basically the only hope and change that occurred was that Bin Laden was finally killed; and it wasn't like Obama had much, if anything to do with that directly. If you rate that as an A- I have some choice real estate to sell you.
The truly scary thing about all this is that you, along with so many others, have actually convinced yourself that he's a good president.
when you treat optional peripherals as though they were as integral as the controller itself. I'd say that hopefully MS learned their lesson but we all know they haven't.
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Okay ladies and gents, here's the scoop. Auto insurance companies are HIGHLY regulated. They are, by law, only able to make a small amount of profit off premium. Usually about 80% of premium made goes immediately out the door back to the policyholders. The other 20% goes to running the business. Money is made off of global market investments. So yes, it is likely that your rates will go down. Unless of the course the sensors on the cars are so expensive that if they were to get damaged in, say, a flood or hail storm, they would be crazy expensive to fix. There are lots of ways a car can get damaged other than accidents.
The Red Cross decided they needed high-power ex execs from places like AT&T who have no idea whatsoever how to run a relief charity. They destroyed the company from the inside out.
It's too bad we couldn't elect a president that promises transparency and who will work to end these practices...
M-16? An AK-47? A 100 round clip? There is simply NO reason for military weapons to be in civilian hands.
I'd take the time to point out all the things that are wrong with those two sentences but I've found that gun grabbers who don't actually know anything guns (like you) hate facts and use emotion, only emotion, to advance their beliefs...so I won't bother.
Don't turn this into some kind of homophobia thing. You're just stirring a pot that doesn't need any more stirring.
Wow, the guy who's trolling Republicans gets modded as +5 Insightful. I call him out on it and I get modded -1 Troll. For the asshat that wasted his mod points on me, I'm a moderate Libertarian. This place is such a joke.
Do you have anything valuable to add beyond trolling?
Normally the antics of Mr. Holder really piss me off. But this? This is awesome!
Some conservatives seem to hate him just for being a smart black guy.
NO! That is an outright lie and you know it. Every time I hear someone make a racial issue out of something that is clearly not a racial issue, I want to puke. You are piece of human trash for perpetuating this B.S.
The easiest, least creative way to get modded up on Slashdot: Bash religion in a post that has nothing to do with religion.
Yes, it's a knee-jerk reaction. However, our government agencies have done this to themselves. Most of the outrage is probably coming from people who saw "FBI" and "website" in the same sentence and just assumed they did something bad. I can't say I really blame them all that much.
YOU HYPOCRITES! The hypocrisy in half of these posts is incredible. You all freak out when you hear the government is spying on you or some other techy right is being violated, but as soon you hear these people are...GASP...Christians, then it's "I don't give a crap that they purchased the right to use the space, screw their first amendment rights and the horse they rode in on!!!!!!!!!!" Stop cherry-picking when it comes to certain groups' right to assemble and speak. It makes you all look like a bunch of ignorant d-bags.
To infer that gun ownership is matter of public health shows that you are bringing YOUR politics into this.
Whoa! Settle down there buddy.
I can walk! But now the only thing I can smell is back sweat.
I thought this was something that spanned across both side of the aisle, I guess I was wrong. However, now that I think about it, it seems like everything, down to what color Skittle is the best, is being made into a liberal vs. conservative these days.
I knew a lot of jobs in China were pretty crappy, but I think this one takes the cake!
How did the anonymous coward's first comment get modded as funny, but ArcadeMan's rebuttal get modded as a troll? Are /. members biased against web developers?
At least they didn't have Thor get shot to death with an evil black gun whilst defending his homosexual best friend. Comic books need to stay away from politics...far, far away.
Hulu Plus became a non-option for me when they decided to show unskippable commercials in their content. I'm amazed that they had 80 dollars to spend on new content, much less 80 million.
...we humans still hunted the crap out of it with absolutely no regard to the future of the species. I'd still say it was our fault.
Whoa whoa whoa, back the truck up here a second. You're assuming that because I don't like the president I MUST be a conservative Republican. Not true, I am a moderate Libertarian, so every argument (and all the name calling) you used that was based on this false assumption is rendered invalid from the get-go. Now, on to the others:
We, the Americans that are in the far majority, LIKE 99% of Obamacare's provisions.
Are you delusional? There are multitudes of surveys and poles that say the exact opposite.
Stopped invading other countries is not well spun subjective opinion. It is a real fact. You called it an objective opinion because again, you don't like that we did it.
I wasn't talking about the war part being subjective, I was talking about the, "We stopped insulting every other country" part being subjective, which it is.
Let me ask you a question. Assume that a president gets elected and institutes a flat tax at 20%, makes abortion illegal, and makes it legal to conceal carry or open carry any gun - from a pistol to an ak-47. You personally would consider that man a great president, correct?
Hard to say, I liked Clinton, hated Bush and hate Obama.
President Obama has successfully delivered multiple large victories to the left.
Funny, I thought he was the President of the UNITED STATES, not the President of the liberals.
Yes, if Congress had been more liberal, he could have got more done - but you personally would have hated him even more. That is WHY you hate him - and also why we love him.
No, I hate him because he's been an incredibly bad president. Just like I hated Bush because he was an incredibly bad president. Don't tell me why I like or dislike something.
People like you are a huge part of what's wrong with the country today. It's this stupid us vs. them mentality and you've played right into it. I'm sorry you're a liberal Obama-loving shill. Hopefully at some point you'll start voting and thinking based on results, not on the party line.
No. Vote Libertarian, Green Party, etc. If enough of us do this eventually it won't be a wasted vote.
1) We got healthcare
We got a badly implemented form of mandatory health insurance (notice, I said 'health insurance,' NOT healthcare) that further penalizes the poor for not being able to afford it.
2) We killed Osama Bin Laden after Bush failed to do so for 7 years
Yep
3)We stopped insulting every other country and going to war on bad information.
This is purely some well-spun subjective opinion which means absolutely nothing in terms of hope and/or change.
SO basically the only hope and change that occurred was that Bin Laden was finally killed; and it wasn't like Obama had much, if anything to do with that directly. If you rate that as an A- I have some choice real estate to sell you.
The truly scary thing about all this is that you, along with so many others, have actually convinced yourself that he's a good president.
when you treat optional peripherals as though they were as integral as the controller itself. I'd say that hopefully MS learned their lesson but we all know they haven't.