Wrong. You too, need to go back to history class. Using a dominant position to crush competition is pretty much the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
Jeezuz, where do they come up with such patently incorrect notions like this?
You need to study your history, son. Using a dominant position, as in "I have enough cash to crush you 10 times over in a price war..." to drive out competition is the very essence of anti-competitive behavior. The U.S. chip makers screamed bloody murder when foreign chip makers were "dumping" memory here. The railroads engaged in similar things in the early twentieth century. The energy industry is doing it today. Back to school with you.
This is totally normal for ISPs. up-selling, attempts to retain customers at any cost. At comcast it was pressed on our call center tech support guys fairly hard but moreso on customer service reps in the billing/accounts department. at AT&T there was literally a whole department called "the save team" who got financial incentives to retain customers. if you called to cancel, you would be put on the line with the save team. they could get credit for a save if they could transfer a customer back to technical support "oh, our tech guys can fix that problem for you and your service will be fine, plus i gave you a month credit" (or something to that affect). and then the tech staff would get this transferred call about how their printer didnt work. completely unrelated, and after being bounced around and on hold, then being told "uhhh. we cant help you with that", they got right pissed and demanded to cancel again. the save team rep, already got a notch on their saved belt but the customer still quit. it was a corrupt system right to the core:)
Horseshit! The way to keep me as a customer is to deliver good value for my money. Presumably, that means at least delivering what we agreed upon when I signed up. If I call because you're not delivering that, fucking fix it and then give me my month's credit. I will go away happy. But do not, under any circumstances, try hardball tactics to get me to give you still more money for things that I'm now certain you can't/won't deliver. You will only solidify my opinion that you are a bad bet and that I should buy my service from one of your competitors. Hey! Stop laughing. There might be one...
How does getting onto the VPN equate to accessing the secret stuff? Isn't there another layer of security?
That is a good point. OK, they gained a presence on a sensitive network. How is it that they were able to bang around and breach critical systems on that network with no one noticing? No IDS/IPS that would have detected something like that? Or were the systems so poorly secured that breaching them didn't make enough noise for an IDS to notice?
They applied for a permit to get a roof deck; and were asked straight out for a bribe to make it happen, when they refused.... so was their permit. This shit goes on everywhere.
Because it goes on where you are? Provincialism fallacy much?
Yeah? But, but... All those EU countries and their policies are socialist. How could it be possible that socialist policies lead to anything that is better, faster, and more readily available? The free market ensures that where there's a demand, those things are always available to anyone who wants to buy them. Right. RIGHT?
A pretty accurate summary, my friend, but I believe the real issue is more subtle still. It is fair (as in not-at-all-racist) to say that, as a group, this or that race will display this or that trait with greater frequency and/or degree than some other group. Where such statements are supported by the science, this is simply a statement of fact, objective and incontrovertible. It most definitely is racist to say that this or that individual is or has (insert trait here) because he is a member of this or that race.
It is absolutely racist to argue that this or that trait gives this or that group an "unfair" in advantage in this or that pursuit.
The police, who wants to fight piracy which is claimed to be happening by the corporations, go bust servers with neither warrants nor court orders. What exactly are making these claims legit enough to skip due process? Or is due process some sort of privilege that we shouldn't expect them in the first place?
Due process? Who do you think you are? Some citizen with some kind of rights? You are our customers, and you will take what we give you, and like it.
So, by your reasoning, if I private entity does it on the government's behalf, sifting through your private stuff is OK. Have I got that right? And you think that's a good idea? What with the government's recent history of "incentivizing" the cooperation of such companies, and all?
Christ on a crutch...
Yes. Foolish? Sometimes. From your description PCI DSS is going to apply. That means the server and the network it runs on are "in scope". Defending a no-firewall "policy" is going to be a tall order.
These sort of things are legal now. Corporations are people, and people have free speech, and spending money is speech.
More fundamental than that, this is an example of the free market at work. The natural monopolies are "free" to do anything they fucking want to make sure that their monopoly is protected. So shut up all you whining communists. This is a great day for American capitalism. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Oh dear. So many startling assertions. Where to start? This is probably an exercise in futility, but...
East Germany and the Soviet Union really bought into the idea of Socialism: the state owned everything. Private property was outlawed. You could go to jail for making a profit.
The East Germans were so committed to the idea that the state owned everything that they believed they had a right to build an enormous wall to keep the governments property (people) from escaping to the West.
On the flip side, how many hours were wasted the could have been put to better use?
Assuming that one does not count creativity and the cultivation of it's associated skills as "wasted", I am going to say that zero hours were wasted. You don't really understand what's involved in a real RPG, do you.
1,000 out of 4,000,000 tickets makes a 0.025% error rate. That's a perfectly acceptable margin of error.
You need to discriminate between positive and negative error rates in situations like this..
And you need to factor in the time frame, dumbass.
News is news. Selectively publishing only certain stories is always an editorial chore, but using viewers/readers "feelings" crosses the line into something more akin to entertainment. Welcome to the club, Google. You're just like Fox News now.
Encryption is not a crime. Hiding evidence of your crimes using encryption probably is. Being so stupid that you have to rely on that encryption to keep your ass out of jail definitely should be.
Yes, it does include a freedom "from" religion clause. If you take the time to learn anything about the framers of the Constitution, you'll know that they were dead-set against allowing anything invoking divine authority to creep into the system of law and government which they were creating. Not all of them, but most, and that wisdom, thankfully, carried the day.
If you are going to do business in America, then you need to hire Americans. Otherwise don't expect the benefit of doing business in our economy. Don't reap the rewards of safety and US government sponsorship if you aren't going to contribute to our economy by hiring local. Stop being leeches.
Stopping talking like freakin' liberal, ya crybaby.
You see, hiring Americans is un-American because this is 'murican free enterprise at it's finest, making glorious profits for anyone "willing to work hard to get ahead" (TM).
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Wrong. You too, need to go back to history class. Using a dominant position to crush competition is pretty much the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
Jeezuz, where do they come up with such patently incorrect notions like this?
You need to study your history, son. Using a dominant position, as in "I have enough cash to crush you 10 times over in a price war..." to drive out competition is the very essence of anti-competitive behavior. The U.S. chip makers screamed bloody murder when foreign chip makers were "dumping" memory here. The railroads engaged in similar things in the early twentieth century. The energy industry is doing it today. Back to school with you.
This is totally normal for ISPs. up-selling, attempts to retain customers at any cost. At comcast it was pressed on our call center tech support guys fairly hard but moreso on customer service reps in the billing/accounts department. at AT&T there was literally a whole department called "the save team" who got financial incentives to retain customers. if you called to cancel, you would be put on the line with the save team. they could get credit for a save if they could transfer a customer back to technical support "oh, our tech guys can fix that problem for you and your service will be fine, plus i gave you a month credit" (or something to that affect). and then the tech staff would get this transferred call about how their printer didnt work. completely unrelated, and after being bounced around and on hold, then being told "uhhh. we cant help you with that", they got right pissed and demanded to cancel again. the save team rep, already got a notch on their saved belt but the customer still quit. it was a corrupt system right to the core :)
Horseshit! The way to keep me as a customer is to deliver good value for my money. Presumably, that means at least delivering what we agreed upon when I signed up. If I call because you're not delivering that, fucking fix it and then give me my month's credit. I will go away happy. But do not, under any circumstances, try hardball tactics to get me to give you still more money for things that I'm now certain you can't/won't deliver. You will only solidify my opinion that you are a bad bet and that I should buy my service from one of your competitors. Hey! Stop laughing. There might be one...
How does getting onto the VPN equate to accessing the secret stuff? Isn't there another layer of security?
That is a good point. OK, they gained a presence on a sensitive network. How is it that they were able to bang around and breach critical systems on that network with no one noticing? No IDS/IPS that would have detected something like that? Or were the systems so poorly secured that breaching them didn't make enough noise for an IDS to notice?
Troll, eh? I guess some people will just never get sarcasm.
They applied for a permit to get a roof deck; and were asked straight out for a bribe to make it happen, when they refused.... so was their permit. This shit goes on everywhere.
Because it goes on where you are? Provincialism fallacy much?
Remember back when you were 14, what you understood as the Internet was an entirely different thing.
When I was fourteen, there was no such thing as "the Internet", you insensitive clod.
Yeah? But, but... All those EU countries and their policies are socialist. How could it be possible that socialist policies lead to anything that is better, faster, and more readily available? The free market ensures that where there's a demand, those things are always available to anyone who wants to buy them. Right. RIGHT?
It is absolutely racist to argue that this or that trait gives this or that group an "unfair" in advantage in this or that pursuit.
...not to the shrimpers and other commercial fishermen of the Gulf. Sad and alarming, and all, but not news.
The police, who wants to fight piracy which is claimed to be happening by the corporations, go bust servers with neither warrants nor court orders. What exactly are making these claims legit enough to skip due process? Or is due process some sort of privilege that we shouldn't expect them in the first place?
Due process? Who do you think you are? Some citizen with some kind of rights? You are our customers, and you will take what we give you, and like it.
Warmest Regards,
Your Corporate Overlords
So, by your reasoning, if I private entity does it on the government's behalf, sifting through your private stuff is OK. Have I got that right? And you think that's a good idea? What with the government's recent history of "incentivizing" the cooperation of such companies, and all?
Christ on a crutch...
Yes. Foolish? Sometimes. From your description PCI DSS is going to apply. That means the server and the network it runs on are "in scope". Defending a no-firewall "policy" is going to be a tall order.
These sort of things are legal now. Corporations are people, and people have free speech, and spending money is speech.
More fundamental than that, this is an example of the free market at work. The natural monopolies are "free" to do anything they fucking want to make sure that their monopoly is protected. So shut up all you whining communists. This is a great day for American capitalism. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
East Germany and the Soviet Union really bought into the idea of Socialism: the state owned everything. Private property was outlawed. You could go to jail for making a profit.
The East Germans were so committed to the idea that the state owned everything that they believed they had a right to build an enormous wall to keep the governments property (people) from escaping to the West.
[citation needed]
On the flip side, how many hours were wasted the could have been put to better use?
Assuming that one does not count creativity and the cultivation of it's associated skills as "wasted", I am going to say that zero hours were wasted. You don't really understand what's involved in a real RPG, do you.
1,000 out of 4,000,000 tickets makes a 0.025% error rate. That's a perfectly acceptable margin of error. You need to discriminate between positive and negative error rates in situations like this. .
And you need to factor in the time frame, dumbass.
Outdated or not, "bribe" more accurately describes the transaction - "Here's some money. Vote the way I say. OK?"
News is news. Selectively publishing only certain stories is always an editorial chore, but using viewers/readers "feelings" crosses the line into something more akin to entertainment. Welcome to the club, Google. You're just like Fox News now.
Why do we need a climate change bullshit bogey man to get politicians to stop blocking natural progress?
You keep using that word. I do not thing that it means what you think it means.
Encryption is not a crime. Hiding evidence of your crimes using encryption probably is. Being so stupid that you have to rely on that encryption to keep your ass out of jail definitely should be.
Yes, it does include a freedom "from" religion clause. If you take the time to learn anything about the framers of the Constitution, you'll know that they were dead-set against allowing anything invoking divine authority to creep into the system of law and government which they were creating. Not all of them, but most, and that wisdom, thankfully, carried the day.
If you are going to do business in America, then you need to hire Americans. Otherwise don't expect the benefit of doing business in our economy. Don't reap the rewards of safety and US government sponsorship if you aren't going to contribute to our economy by hiring local. Stop being leeches.
Stopping talking like freakin' liberal, ya crybaby.
You see, hiring Americans is un-American because this is 'murican free enterprise at it's finest, making glorious profits for anyone "willing to work hard to get ahead" (TM).
Insanity? Welll, yes. But that's the very definition of good theater, in my book.
If the federal government cannot keep up, then farm it out to private firms who are then audited by the Federal Government.
Yeah. Look how well that's worked out for the pharmaceutical industry.