Your experience sounds like the tactics an insurance company will use in an auto accident: they'll offer to pay your medical bills up front. If you're dumb enough to cash the check, they'll turn around and claim they've 'settled your claim' and you get NOTHING MORE FROM THEM. You're right, get a lawyer, go straight to litigation, otherwise they'll use underhanded tactics to screw you.
Fuck off. Your boy Trump acts like a spoiled child 24/7/365 and has for DECADES. People who used to work for him and finally had enough and quit will tell you he acts that way. He's clearly and objectively, based on his pattern of behavior over decades, jealous of Jeff Bezos for being so successful and rich, meanwhile Trump keeps going bankrupt, is corrupt, is a liar and a cheater, etc., documentably so. Try to rein in your Buyer's Remorse for voting for Trump, I know it'll be hard for you with your hysteria..
That's what I want to know more or less, except bigger: How would such a thing affect global weather patterns? Does the Chinese government even give a rat's ass about that? Betting they don't.
Let's see if you're still rolling your eyes when Microsoft manages to lock out any OS from booting other than Windows and has managed to annex the entire Linux community by infiltrating it with it's own people, making anyone who tries to circumvent Secure Boot into a cyber-criminal. The groundwork for this is already being laid, are you really so oblivious?
Oh I see POTUS along with the director of HHS calling out an entire industry for price-gouging everyone is the same as a narcissistic 5-year-old having a temper-tantrum on Twitter against a single company? Bullshit, and your red underwear is showing, pull up your pants.
When the FTC decides it does, not when a narcissistic 5-year-old who managed to get elected POTUS decides it does, because he's butthurt that someone has left him in the dust with regards to being a successful businessman.
Apparently you don't understand what a 'quantity discount' is. Amazon does a shitload of business with a number of shipping companies, and they give a discount to get Amazon's business. They'll go with the lowest bidder like anyone would. Otherwise what you're saying is like saying you should get to buy a candy bar from the grocery store for the same price they buy them for, per unit, when they buy 10 cases of them. That's not how things work.
Regardless of the validity or lack thereof of anything you just said, it is not the job of POTUS to 'rein in' any legitimate corporation, nor is it ethical for POTUS to even be commenting on it. Trump is the one who needs to be 'reined in', hell he needs to be on a short leash, and have his goddamned Twitter privileges taken away.
In Trump's case I wouldn't at all be surprised if he tried to issue an Executive Order to quash any lawsuits against him, since he seems to think those are Magic Wands that can alter reality or something, but I'm sure he would be disallowed by any court in the land to enforce any such order. And, of course, it would just make him look even more ridiculous than he already does.
See, here's the problem: for purposes of what you just said, it doesn't matter if what he said is true or false; he's using his political position (i.e. POTUS) to affect a private corporation. That can't possibly be allowed.
I've already made my own comments on this, but as to what you've just said: I'd say it's 'actionable' simply because he's very obviously using his position as POTUS to affect a perfectly legal, legitimate, and big (read as: good for and significant to the health of the economy of the Country) private business. I've never ever heard of a POTUS doing such a thing. It's got to be an ethics violation at the very least; does Trump hold stock in any competing companies -- or have any vested interest in foreign companies he wants to make deals with? Then it becomes VERY relevant.
1. Since when is it the personal job of a sitting POTUS to 'rein in' any legitimate U.S. based business, regardless of size?
2. Considering Donald Trump's personality, as he demonstrates it to be, I find it much more credible an idea that what he's really all upset about is the fact that Amazon/Jeff Bezos is orders of magnitude more successful a businessman than he is, and Trump is throwing one of his typical temper-tantrums over that fact.
3. Trump claims to want to 'make America great again', and bring back jobs for American citizens from overseas. However intentionally damaging Amazon, who employs at least 341,000 people, will likely cause some of those people to lose their jobs; how is that going to make us 'great again'? (It won't)
4. Meanwhile, the guy who allegedly knows 'The Art of the Deal', and claims to be such a successful businessman, can't even keep things coherent in his own Cabinet, hiring and firing people left and right at a furious pace, and appointing cronies and yes-(wo)men to top positions instead of the people who would be best for the Country as a whole; how the actual fuck can you run the government of ostensibly the most powerful Country in the free world when there is no consistency whatsoever to the people who are making it run?
Seriously, folks, all poking the Trump supporters with a stick aside: this clown has got to go, before he completely wrecks this country.
Of course even if he left office today, it'll still likely take a full decade to repair the damage done to everything -- and we'd be stuck with Mike Pence, which in significant ways would be orders of magnitude worse. Can we just all wish real hard that a meteor falls from the sky and kills them all at the same time?
Can't say I did realize that because I only use Windoze 10 at work where I have no choice, and I wouldn't bother with this nonsense in any case. The whole thing does make me nauseous though. Over the course of my life computers went from something straight out of sci-fi, to a journey of discovery, designing and soldering together my own 8-bit creation, to a whole room full of computing equipment, to practically an appliance, to the hum-drum, boring, locked-down corporate mess that it is today, where they've managed to suck all the fun out of it. I just want Microsoft to get sucked into a black hole and disappear from my Universe so they'll stop trying to fuck it all up by taking everything over.
*yawn* there's nothing more boring than an unoriginal troll. That whole "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" line is older than Last Thursday. LOW QUALITY BAIT; LURK MOAR.
Governments like the communists in China don't seem to understand: The more cameras they install, the more actual criminals will improve at hiding, and the more the average citizen, minding their own business, is made miserable. Even if they implanted GPS, cameras, and microphones on everyone, cradle-to-grave, criminals will find ways to circumvent it all and do what they want to do anyway. Meanwhile, again, the average citizen has more and more of their basic human rights taken away, more and more of their privacy destroyed (until there is none), and the more and more miserable their existence becomes. When will they stop? When people start committing suicide en masse, because the Afterlife has to be better than the Hell they're living in? I feel sorry for the average Chinese citizen. Before too long, farm animals will be treated better than they are.
You suggest we travel down the path to a totalitarian state where I'm denied my God given right to drive just because I get into a few accidents each year.
Yep. Enjoy your Uber, or Lyft, or cab ride, or public transit. No reason the rest of us should have to endure imminent death at the hands of shitty pseudo-intelligent machines just because you're too stupid to learn to drive safely.
The vast majority of accidents can be prevented by reforms in driver education, driver training, and driver testing, which includes more frequent re-testing of drivers, to catch the development of bad habits (requiring remedial education and training), and removing chronically incompetent drivers from behind the wheel permanently. For decades now driver education/training/testing has been chopped down to the bare minimum and the effects are showing. Add to that the influx of new citizens from other countries, who weren't good drivers to start with, and it's that much worse. Also add to that 'safety hawks' cherry-picking their statistics to fit the narrative that humans are incapable of driving safely, plus greedy self-driving car companies wanting to rush their 'product' to market as fast as possible, and you get what we had happen here: DEATH. SDCs need to be removed from public roads, and there needs to be reforms in driver education/training/testing. Situations will dramatically improve after that.
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Your experience sounds like the tactics an insurance company will use in an auto accident: they'll offer to pay your medical bills up front. If you're dumb enough to cash the check, they'll turn around and claim they've 'settled your claim' and you get NOTHING MORE FROM THEM. You're right, get a lawyer, go straight to litigation, otherwise they'll use underhanded tactics to screw you.
Fuck off. Your boy Trump acts like a spoiled child 24/7/365 and has for DECADES. People who used to work for him and finally had enough and quit will tell you he acts that way. He's clearly and objectively, based on his pattern of behavior over decades, jealous of Jeff Bezos for being so successful and rich, meanwhile Trump keeps going bankrupt, is corrupt, is a liar and a cheater, etc., documentably so. Try to rein in your Buyer's Remorse for voting for Trump, I know it'll be hard for you with your hysteria..
That's what I want to know more or less, except bigger: How would such a thing affect global weather patterns? Does the Chinese government even give a rat's ass about that? Betting they don't.
Let's see if you're still rolling your eyes when Microsoft manages to lock out any OS from booting other than Windows and has managed to annex the entire Linux community by infiltrating it with it's own people, making anyone who tries to circumvent Secure Boot into a cyber-criminal. The groundwork for this is already being laid, are you really so oblivious?
bankrupt a casino
I actually LOLed when I read that. =)
Oh I see POTUS along with the director of HHS calling out an entire industry for price-gouging everyone is the same as a narcissistic 5-year-old having a temper-tantrum on Twitter against a single company? Bullshit, and your red underwear is showing, pull up your pants.
When the FTC decides it does, not when a narcissistic 5-year-old who managed to get elected POTUS decides it does, because he's butthurt that someone has left him in the dust with regards to being a successful businessman.
Hot take: Trump might not be very business-savvy after all.
What was your first clue?
Apparently you don't understand what a 'quantity discount' is. Amazon does a shitload of business with a number of shipping companies, and they give a discount to get Amazon's business. They'll go with the lowest bidder like anyone would. Otherwise what you're saying is like saying you should get to buy a candy bar from the grocery store for the same price they buy them for, per unit, when they buy 10 cases of them. That's not how things work.
Regardless of the validity or lack thereof of anything you just said, it is not the job of POTUS to 'rein in' any legitimate corporation, nor is it ethical for POTUS to even be commenting on it. Trump is the one who needs to be 'reined in', hell he needs to be on a short leash, and have his goddamned Twitter privileges taken away.
In Trump's case I wouldn't at all be surprised if he tried to issue an Executive Order to quash any lawsuits against him, since he seems to think those are Magic Wands that can alter reality or something, but I'm sure he would be disallowed by any court in the land to enforce any such order. And, of course, it would just make him look even more ridiculous than he already does.
You can't sue POTUS
Says who? {Citation needed}
Besides, Trump is 100% right.
LURK MOAR.
See, here's the problem: for purposes of what you just said, it doesn't matter if what he said is true or false; he's using his political position (i.e. POTUS) to affect a private corporation. That can't possibly be allowed.
I've already made my own comments on this, but as to what you've just said: I'd say it's 'actionable' simply because he's very obviously using his position as POTUS to affect a perfectly legal, legitimate, and big (read as: good for and significant to the health of the economy of the Country) private business. I've never ever heard of a POTUS doing such a thing. It's got to be an ethics violation at the very least; does Trump hold stock in any competing companies -- or have any vested interest in foreign companies he wants to make deals with? Then it becomes VERY relevant.
1. Since when is it the personal job of a sitting POTUS to 'rein in' any legitimate U.S. based business, regardless of size?
2. Considering Donald Trump's personality, as he demonstrates it to be, I find it much more credible an idea that what he's really all upset about is the fact that Amazon/Jeff Bezos is orders of magnitude more successful a businessman than he is, and Trump is throwing one of his typical temper-tantrums over that fact.
3. Trump claims to want to 'make America great again', and bring back jobs for American citizens from overseas. However intentionally damaging Amazon, who employs at least 341,000 people, will likely cause some of those people to lose their jobs; how is that going to make us 'great again'? (It won't)
4. Meanwhile, the guy who allegedly knows 'The Art of the Deal', and claims to be such a successful businessman, can't even keep things coherent in his own Cabinet, hiring and firing people left and right at a furious pace, and appointing cronies and yes-(wo)men to top positions instead of the people who would be best for the Country as a whole; how the actual fuck can you run the government of ostensibly the most powerful Country in the free world when there is no consistency whatsoever to the people who are making it run?
Seriously, folks, all poking the Trump supporters with a stick aside: this clown has got to go, before he completely wrecks this country.
Of course even if he left office today, it'll still likely take a full decade to repair the damage done to everything -- and we'd be stuck with Mike Pence, which in significant ways would be orders of magnitude worse. Can we just all wish real hard that a meteor falls from the sky and kills them all at the same time?
That's a broad generalization that I can't in all good conscience agree with.
Can't say I did realize that because I only use Windoze 10 at work where I have no choice, and I wouldn't bother with this nonsense in any case. The whole thing does make me nauseous though. Over the course of my life computers went from something straight out of sci-fi, to a journey of discovery, designing and soldering together my own 8-bit creation, to a whole room full of computing equipment, to practically an appliance, to the hum-drum, boring, locked-down corporate mess that it is today, where they've managed to suck all the fun out of it. I just want Microsoft to get sucked into a black hole and disappear from my Universe so they'll stop trying to fuck it all up by taking everything over.
The ones that do have something to hide.
Trollolololol.
*yawn* there's nothing more boring than an unoriginal troll. That whole "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" line is older than Last Thursday.
LOW QUALITY BAIT; LURK MOAR.
No, it really can't.
Facebook has run it's course. It's a giant oak tree that's rotting from within, and it's time to chop it down and move on. #DeleteFacebook
You all realize that, right?
Last year I predicted that Microsoft would try to annex Linux, and now I see I was right.
I'll say it again: It's not real Linux if it runs UNDER WINDOWS. Don't fall for it, gentlemen (Gentoo-men?).
Governments like the communists in China don't seem to understand: The more cameras they install, the more actual criminals will improve at hiding, and the more the average citizen, minding their own business, is made miserable. Even if they implanted GPS, cameras, and microphones on everyone, cradle-to-grave, criminals will find ways to circumvent it all and do what they want to do anyway. Meanwhile, again, the average citizen has more and more of their basic human rights taken away, more and more of their privacy destroyed (until there is none), and the more and more miserable their existence becomes. When will they stop? When people start committing suicide en masse, because the Afterlife has to be better than the Hell they're living in? I feel sorry for the average Chinese citizen. Before too long, farm animals will be treated better than they are.
You suggest we travel down the path to a totalitarian state where I'm denied my God given right to drive just because I get into a few accidents each year.
Yep. Enjoy your Uber, or Lyft, or cab ride, or public transit. No reason the rest of us should have to endure imminent death at the hands of shitty pseudo-intelligent machines just because you're too stupid to learn to drive safely.
The vast majority of accidents can be prevented by reforms in driver education, driver training, and driver testing, which includes more frequent re-testing of drivers, to catch the development of bad habits (requiring remedial education and training), and removing chronically incompetent drivers from behind the wheel permanently. For decades now driver education/training/testing has been chopped down to the bare minimum and the effects are showing. Add to that the influx of new citizens from other countries, who weren't good drivers to start with, and it's that much worse. Also add to that 'safety hawks' cherry-picking their statistics to fit the narrative that humans are incapable of driving safely, plus greedy self-driving car companies wanting to rush their 'product' to market as fast as possible, and you get what we had happen here: DEATH. SDCs need to be removed from public roads, and there needs to be reforms in driver education/training/testing. Situations will dramatically improve after that.
CIVIL WAR.