It's always funny how upset the free market worshiping glibertarians here get when companies pull this shit. It's almost as if corporations don't act for the betterment of society and instead for purely for profit.
A few experiences like this might cause them to question trusting the free market in matters that actually are important, like health care. But no, they'll always freak out and rant about how the free market is always right and anything else is freedom impinging socialism.
Or maybe it's covert operatives and contacts around the world who will get a bullet to the back of the head just so some dumbass can see Hillary "shit her pants".
ps - It isn't pleasant, but denying people is pretty much always cheaper than treating them. As that process goes on, it gets nastier and nastier, but if you're into cost avoidance, you didn't much care anyways. Nothing is cheaper than denying people care, if you go all the way.
We apparently wasted half a billion dollars to stop "dozens" of criminals from claiming benefits. Doesn't seem particularly cheap to me.
It works great in Germany which has a system we could most easily implement - basic coverage through the coverage with private insurance for anything you want beyond that. Which is pretty much the public option the Democrats are pushing for.
What nobody really ever talks about is how great a job the US private sector is doing with health care.
That because while people can cherry pick a few stats ("people survive prostate cancer 6 months longer!") or a few anecdotes ("a Canadian woman came here to get rid of a cyst while mortgaging her house to pay the bills!"), taken as a whole, our health care system is a failure.
The US gov't can hardly do worse than a system that, unless you're rich, produces poorer outcomes for fewer people with longer wait times at a significantly higher cost.
A Romulan from the TNG/DS9/VOY era goes back in time to kill Kirk and blows up the ship Kirk's father is on. His attack becomes the Federation's first encounter with the Romulans and radically changes history.
TNG Era Spock goes back in time and tries to set things back on course.
Is that the downturn in newspapers is coming at the same time as a massive recession. Under normal circumstances, newspapers might have been able to weather the transition to on-line reporting but right now, a lot of them are simply going to die.
For example, the much-speculated on-line edition of the Seattle PI looks like it'll be less an on-line newspaper and more a web portal that'll disappear within a year of the print edition dying.
One of the things I like about Puzzle Quest and Castle Crashers is that failure doesn't have much penalty. Certainly, you have to restart a level or boss fight, but any XP/gold/etc you've acquired stays with you so the "time penalty" is minimized. You may have lost but you've bettered your character in the process and can make another try incrementally better.
# 71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) # 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing) # 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing) # 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
Only 34.1% could NOT correctly say Obama beats his wife!
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
"Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of....We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state."
What she actaully said was ten times more stupid than Fey's "satire".
OTOH, we do have this survey from 2004 where Bush supporters misattributed a slew of Kerry's foreign policy positions to Bush and then expressed their support for them.
You mean by running an automatic machine recount due to the closeness of the race and then accepting a $730,000 deposit to conduct a manual recount, all in accordance with state law?
Of course, there was a court challenge, but the only thing that did was knock a few fraudulent votes off the Republican candidate's total.
It's several orders of magnitude more difficult to rig paper ballots because you have to attack every single precinct. You have to make multiple attacks at different weak points to successfully tamper with the ballots while destroying physical evidence of the alterations.
Whereas with electronic voting, you just have to compromise any one of several points in the process and evidence of fraud is almost impossible to detect. (Unless it's done stupidly.)
While you might be able to influence a very close election by tampering with a handful of precincts, anything larger scale requires an immense amount of corruption around the entire electoral process... and frankly, I don't think it exists anywhere anymore. At least not outside of small municipalities.
As the Bush administration's own investigations proved, vote fraud is practically non-existant these days. Despite the rhetoric, there simply aren't huge numbers of illegal or duplicate voters. Most election fraud these days is related discouraging and impeding legal voters. ie: caging, registration purges, misinformation, etc. And the Bush administration has obviously been reluctant to persue investigations into that...
I can download every credit card transaction without any effort and track my spending. It requires a lot more effort with cash.
As far as the pin stealing thing, you get your money back. Same as a credit card. You go through the same process as if someone stole your credit card.
Your exposure to credit card fraud is limited by federal law. The same is not true for debit card fraud.
And even assuming you're lucky enough to have a bank that does, you're in much different circumstances. With credit cards fraud, you fight to NOT pay money. With debit cards, your cash is gone and now you have to convince the bank to give it back.
how prior to the 2006 elections, the networks justified the tremendous slant of the guests on their Sunday Morning talk shows by pointing out that Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and House.
AT&T Wireless Services was a division of AT&T that split off into its own company, AT&T Wireless Services, in 2001. AWS ate up a few smaller cell companies before being devoured by Cingular in 2004ish.
After Operation Desert Fox in 1998, Hussein's remaining WMD programs were finished off.
It's rather disengenuous to cite quotes from 1998 when he did have WMD programs to justify actions taken in 2003 when he did not have any WMD programs.
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It's always funny how upset the free market worshiping glibertarians here get when companies pull this shit. It's almost as if corporations don't act for the betterment of society and instead for purely for profit.
A few experiences like this might cause them to question trusting the free market in matters that actually are important, like health care. But no, they'll always freak out and rant about how the free market is always right and anything else is freedom impinging socialism.
They're like abused spouses.
that isn't clear from the description: Is this a tool meant to be used internally by the company or is it meant to be used by the general public?
Because if it's the latter, whatever your solution, it better work in every browser and not just specific older version of Opera.
Or maybe it's covert operatives and contacts around the world who will get a bullet to the back of the head just so some dumbass can see Hillary "shit her pants".
Action Comics #0, Zero Hour event tie-in from 1994.
they need to send Knife Guy and Double Shotgun Dude to Afghanistan and this will be all over in no time.
The results speak for themselves.
ps - It isn't pleasant, but denying people is pretty much always cheaper than treating them. As that process goes on, it gets nastier and nastier, but if you're into cost avoidance, you didn't much care anyways. Nothing is cheaper than denying people care, if you go all the way.
We apparently wasted half a billion dollars to stop "dozens" of criminals from claiming benefits. Doesn't seem particularly cheap to me.
It works great in Germany which has a system we could most easily implement - basic coverage through the coverage with private insurance for anything you want beyond that. Which is pretty much the public option the Democrats are pushing for.
What nobody really ever talks about is how great a job the US private sector is doing with health care.
That because while people can cherry pick a few stats ("people survive prostate cancer 6 months longer!") or a few anecdotes ("a Canadian woman came here to get rid of a cyst while mortgaging her house to pay the bills!"), taken as a whole, our health care system is a failure.
The US gov't can hardly do worse than a system that, unless you're rich, produces poorer outcomes for fewer people with longer wait times at a significantly higher cost.
A Romulan from the TNG/DS9/VOY era goes back in time to kill Kirk and blows up the ship Kirk's father is on. His attack becomes the Federation's first encounter with the Romulans and radically changes history.
TNG Era Spock goes back in time and tries to set things back on course.
Which means the programmer doesn't have any confidence in his/her product to declare it finished.
So why would I want to use it?
Is that the downturn in newspapers is coming at the same time as a massive recession. Under normal circumstances, newspapers might have been able to weather the transition to on-line reporting but right now, a lot of them are simply going to die.
For example, the much-speculated on-line edition of the Seattle PI looks like it'll be less an on-line newspaper and more a web portal that'll disappear within a year of the print edition dying.
One of the things I like about Puzzle Quest and Castle Crashers is that failure doesn't have much penalty. Certainly, you have to restart a level or boss fight, but any XP/gold/etc you've acquired stays with you so the "time penalty" is minimized. You may have lost but you've bettered your character in the process and can make another try incrementally better.
# 71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
# 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
# 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
# 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
Only 34.1% could NOT correctly say Obama beats his wife!
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
"Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of....We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state."
What she actaully said was ten times more stupid than Fey's "satire".
OTOH, we do have this survey from 2004 where Bush supporters misattributed a slew of Kerry's foreign policy positions to Bush and then expressed their support for them.
You mean by running an automatic machine recount due to the closeness of the race and then accepting a $730,000 deposit to conduct a manual recount, all in accordance with state law?
Of course, there was a court challenge, but the only thing that did was knock a few fraudulent votes off the Republican candidate's total.
Each voter fills out the ballot with their pen.
The Diebold machines in question are only used for counting.
It's several orders of magnitude more difficult to rig paper ballots because you have to attack every single precinct. You have to make multiple attacks at different weak points to successfully tamper with the ballots while destroying physical evidence of the alterations.
Whereas with electronic voting, you just have to compromise any one of several points in the process and evidence of fraud is almost impossible to detect. (Unless it's done stupidly.)
While you might be able to influence a very close election by tampering with a handful of precincts, anything larger scale requires an immense amount of corruption around the entire electoral process... and frankly, I don't think it exists anywhere anymore. At least not outside of small municipalities.
As the Bush administration's own investigations proved, vote fraud is practically non-existant these days. Despite the rhetoric, there simply aren't huge numbers of illegal or duplicate voters. Most election fraud these days is related discouraging and impeding legal voters. ie: caging, registration purges, misinformation, etc. And the Bush administration has obviously been reluctant to persue investigations into that...
I didn't know Tycho posted here!
I can download every credit card transaction without any effort and track my spending. It requires a lot more effort with cash.
As far as the pin stealing thing, you get your money back. Same as a credit card. You go through the same process as if someone stole your credit card.
Your exposure to credit card fraud is limited by federal law. The same is not true for debit card fraud.
And even assuming you're lucky enough to have a bank that does, you're in much different circumstances. With credit cards fraud, you fight to NOT pay money. With debit cards, your cash is gone and now you have to convince the bank to give it back.
He wants his kids to have enough money to do anything but not enough to do nothing.
That's the earliest I could guess.
how prior to the 2006 elections, the networks justified the tremendous slant of the guests on their Sunday Morning talk shows by pointing out that Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and House.
But after the 2006 elections... well, the slant still exists. Guests are mostly conservative and overwhelmingly white males.
The public has elected a Democratic House and Senate but you wouldn't realize it from the media...
Almost.
AT&T Wireless was spun off by AT&T into its own seperate company. This is what Cingular bought.
However, were he to encounter a game where you play as Romeo, and no matter what you try you and juliet both die, then is it not art?
Planescape Torment. No matter what choices you make, no matter how good or evil you play, you can't escape your fate.
AT&T Wireless Services was a division of AT&T that split off into its own company, AT&T Wireless Services, in 2001. AWS ate up a few smaller cell companies before being devoured by Cingular in 2004ish.
After Operation Desert Fox in 1998, Hussein's remaining WMD programs were finished off.
It's rather disengenuous to cite quotes from 1998 when he did have WMD programs to justify actions taken in 2003 when he did not have any WMD programs.
If one of your resellers is breaking the contract they made with you, you have every right to and should seek recourse against them.
That is not what is happening in these two cases.
You don't have a right to go after people that you have not made a contract with.