The problem HSTS does not solve though is if I can get you to click my link to http://g0ogle.com/ (ok that one is taken but you get the idea) or https://g0ogle.com/.
HSTS won't let me MTIM your request to http://google.copm/ and inject my own content (because it plain text) or redirect you somewhere else because your browser will ignore that you asked for HTTP and do HTTPS and my cert won't pass muster. It will do nothing if I con you with a look-a-like domain. Which thanks those morons at LetsEncrypt I can easily obtain a certificate for gaining my a nice TLS connection that will appear secure in your browser and let me evade a lot of IPS systems and other protections on the network to sever up whatever malicious garbage I want.
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions while the USA continues having one of the highest emission rates in the world.
Why is that? Certainly its easier to not start doing something than it is to stop / give up doing it. Is that fair to folks in China, maybe not but the truth is we can't probably cut emissions enough to appreciable slow, let alone break out of the co2 driven climate change cycle. So we should harm ourselves trying? It would be better to just acknowledge we are going to have to adapt to a changing climate and solve those problems
China and India are still on the up side of the curve
So what you saying is that Trump is exactly correct this about asking us to slit our our wrist while we allow China and India to continue growth and industrialization so they can take the rest of our jobs. Thanks for being so honest.
Well right - and the political left in this country needs to internalize that just as most of the political right does but even more so because it driving absolutely the wrong policy choices on the left.
We can make some efficiency improvements certainly but there is exactly one[1] ultimate driver of environmental degradation and that is human population size per area. We have a birth rate near the replacement rate right now. There is little evidence we would need to get into people's reproductive choices. We can stop population growth by simply putting and end to immigration.
Anyone who cares about having a beautiful green America for their Children and grandchildren needs to recognize this.
Cheap natural gas has been credited with killing coal, which is a dirtier fossil fuel in terms of emissions. But natural gas is a fossil fuel, too, and burning more natural gas than is needed to simply replace coal will result in more carbon emissions.
What stupidity. Nobody is burning more natural gas than is needed and nobody is running coal plants just for fun. If those gas plants are coming online / being utilized to a larger part of capacity and the coal plants are not being idled or shuttered its because consumers want the power! Its not like we are generating electrical potential just ground it out because we think arc-flash is cool!
The issue is the economy grew so despite efficiency improvements emissions grew.
This is the big problem and its really big nasty whole in our FP. Its hard to take anything people like Susan Power or Bolton for that matter say seriously about higher moral callings while we do nothing about the Chinese and would curtail our relationship with them.
Basically I say either we DO something about China for human rights / moral reasons and cut them off or else we need to just stop pretending we are doing anything other than modernized mercantilism.
Basic this is what the Amish do isn't it. They as a community make decisions about what technology is "good for them" and what isn't. They allow some technologies like the telephone to have specific use cases and reject its presence elsewhere.
I am not sure its working out well for them. There are definitely healthy thriving Amish communities but there are also ones that have some really deep problems.
I am not sure 'technology planning' will scale up either into our larger freedom valuing society. Without the ability to forbid others for using technologies people who don't choose to use them will have a terribly difficult time competing. Who is going to be more convincing in the meeting, the guy with brain implant that lets him look up facts etc without pausing or breaking eye contact with those listing or you going in knowing only what you know plus a few written notes and/or having to say excuse me let me check on that and turning to your laptop or phone?
Considering that seems to be common language and inline with the behavioral norms of those who support her. My guess is yes that would be totally cool and nobody would make a peep about it. Meanwhile my account would be suspended.
No I did read. The courts ruled that a politician if they are using FB as a public form can't block users. I have not seen any rules as to if facebook is allowed to prevent people from participation on a public figures page. As near as I can tell that issue was not really addressed; quite possible because the court feels its the same issue. In which case we just have to wait until someone who has had their account terminated by FB, files a suit.
You analogy is better and you make a good point. Lets try this one though.
Suppose you get your self banned from $ARENA for I don't know tampering with the smoke detectors or creating some other safety issues. Three weeks later $CANDIDATE rents the place out and schedules a town hall. Can security at $ARENA deny you entry?
So lets go back to facebook. You have been using your account for phishing and they ban you; but now you want to participate in the online town hall must they reinstate your account - create some sort of limited account where you can only access that one page? What?
I am sorry but no you are the idiot. Trump might be lot of things but there is NOTHING to suggest he would condone mass murder. There is nothing to suggest that anything like what was possible in 1930s Germany could be effected in 21st Century America even if someone had the intent to do so.
You sir are deranged, and utterly lacking in perspective.
You don't seem to understand that the two situations are radically different.
Its not clear to me its "radically different" how/when does facebook become a government agent? Are they charging a fee to politicians to have facebook pages? Could I not argue that facebook (which clearly has got into the business of suppression some view points) does so in order to be friendly with certain politicians?
If a cop asks me to wear a wire and go see if you will sell me drugs that does not get them around the entrapment problem because I am now a government agent; I have the same limits on what I can and can't do to induce you to commit the crime the cop would have. facebook is pretty clearly under intense political pressure to moderate certain kinds of speech, where is the line when we can say they are agent of $POLITIANS campaign?
So you claim its "radically different" I'd argue we'll need to have that claim adjudicated in court.
That is a stupid standard. it would be like saying if you ask me for a ride to the polling place in my private car and I say "No" I am disenfranchising you.
We can't set up standard in which private enterprises have to facilitate political interaction.
The trouble is we are back to a "you know it when you see it" standard.
What if I politely and professionally suggest on Rashida Tlaib facebook page that her policy positions appear to be anti-Semitic and her language seems to be loaded with anti-Semitic dog whistles.
What if I still "politely" go a bit further and ask if she an Arab Nazi sympathizer of which there were and are many?
-See I would say those fair questions for the newly elected representative; others would say its disruptive or even harrasment.
Srsly this probably the correct solution. Because like a lot of posters i don't want someone I don't know entering my garage any more than my house. In fact less probably. I would notice pretty quickly if any of the valuables went missing in the house. I have a lot of valuable tools automotive and woodcraft in drawers and cases that someone could remove and I could go weeks, in some cases months or longer, without discovering they were missing.
Most of the national parks used to be free. There are tollgates now and they do charge except right now during the shutdown because there is nobody to collect the tolls. OOTH I am not at all sure why they don't leave the honor boxes used at lots of less popular locations open. My guess is a lot of patrons would happy continue to pay.
That said I don't agree with a lot of what the Park Service and the USFS do with our parks and public lands. The USFS still does all kinds of agricultural experiments in places that are supposed to be public land. Frankly commercial enterprise should be paying for that and doing it on already private property. Same thing with a lot of our parks. Most (not all) have dual purpose to act both as wilderness preserves and as recreational spaces for people. The thing is large unbroken areas of back country and critical to life cycles of lots of the creatures we are trying to protect. This is incompatible with paved auto trails, and large campsites. Its also not fair I don't think to other Americans to ask them subsides the businesses around these parks.
I was reading an article about how snowmobiles in the western parks and how private enterprise is keeping the trails groomed. That's fine, but why is the Park Service nominally maintaining snowmobile trains anyway? Again I get there has to be some push pull to accommodate the dual use mandate but honestly, the Park Service should probably identify some lower impact areas for things like powered vehicle trails and tell the business look these areas its okay to clear some trails thru if you want to do so and maintain them at your cost. Sell permits (at administrative cost if you want to) just so that we can attach a number to operators and hold them accountable for keeping to the permitted areas and enforce other likely needed restrictions. But but but.. "Bobby's Snow Tours" isnt going to do the work when "Wild Bills Tours" can just sponge off his efforts. BS - I say. Firstly the shutdown is proving that isn't true, and second Bobby still gets to profit of what is public land so I don't feel to sorry for him.
Beyond this I would say the park service ought to engage in the minimal expense of putting in wilderness trails for individuals and (non-commercial) small groups to use for hiking/backpacking because putting in trails and asking even those low impact users to stay on them reduces total impact. It also make search and rescue somewhat possible where as if you just turn people loose in a few million acres good luck finding anyone and good luck with any sort of extraction if that is required. Otherwise they should really let nature have run of the parks, and that includes wildfires (provided we believe they were sparked by natural causes).
Its easy to say that but the truth a bit murkier. Most of us can't work 20-30 hour weeks because we want (I use the term loosely) to consume more services, such as modern medicine that did not exist 60 years ago; oh and fun a full 30 years of retirement too.
So it was a question what would amount to being job sharing and working half a week or earning enough to fund those wants at the cost of displacing someone else; someone else who by the way is being taken care of by the government. The government is funding that care by taking on debt, which is being purchased by the same capitalists employing the remaining workers rather than paying wages and doing more production because the (promised anyway) return is slightly better.
Basically the wealth gap and the debt balloon are just opposite sides of the same coin. I don't know what the answer is but i do know the lefts tax and spend policies will actually make it worse not better. Oh sure you might see some local minimums when markets crash like 2k7 - 2k10 but nothing to change the trend. Meanwhile the rights lets cut taxes and regulations proposals while only talking about cutting programs and entitlements won't work for essentially the same reasons, its just turning the other side of the wheel. I am not even sure these cycles are breakable, and I am not sure its unique to "capitalism" either; this might just be the cycle all societies go thru.
They other reality is this. A lot of those older recordings people are familiar with listening to on vinyl. If that is they way you first head it in your college dorm room, than for you that is how its "supposed to sound" and even in the CD release is more faithful to the actual sound well you will think the vinyl is better.
The bigger issue with recorded music in general is what is the real objective, is it to: 1) Reproduce the sound as it was in the studio most accurately 2) Produce the sound closest to what the artist imagined doing 3) Produce sounds that meet your listening preferences 4) Produce sounds that meet the preferences of the majority of other people listening with you
Until you decided on a specific objective what "better" even means isn't clear and you and I might not even share the same definition.
Perhaps that might be some of it. Maybe the price just got so high the carriers want someone else apple to blame for the sticker shock of their monthly wireless bill, which includes the debt service payment on the phone. All that has changed is they are itemizing it now. It does however shift some consumer irritation. Also keep in mind the carriers wanted to get everyone onto smart phones as quickly as possible because selling data they could price in small blocks and charge overages for was lucrative (and still is) where market forces in the late 90's had already forced them to pretty much offer all you can eat voice. So they had incentive to hide the cost of a smart phone purchase in the 2004 - 2012ish era.
If you walk into the Verizon store though their reps will handle you the same way a car salesmen does. One of the first things they will be trying to tease out of you is if you intend to pay upfront or not. They better ones will avoid asking the question directly but anyone wilth any sales experience at all will find away to ask. The reason is it changes the entire game for them. if you are paying up front they know you are price sensitive. They are going to have to try and sell you on price. They will be searing you toward last years model and etc. This is not their preference but they know its what it will take to close the deal and earn that commission. If they lead with that iPhone X at $1K you will likely walk out the door.
If you are are financing though they now will lead with the higher end models. They will try to convince you that you must simple have features X,Y, and Z and tell you that it would be foolish to cheap out because 6months from now you will regret buying that iPhone 7 because web pages are getting bigger all the time and it will just be way to slow you know.. Then they will figurout how to message the payment, increase the length of loan etc until its something you can 'tolerate'
And that's not something Comcast can really control 100%.
No but it IS something they can make right. If your employees run around promising things to customers then you need to give those things to those customers and than discipline and or fire that employee. Now there are exceptions at the extremes if the employee said something that your typical customer should realize is unreasonable / impossible that is different you got some wiggle room there.
Of course some customers will try and lie, which is why you record the calls and keep at least electronically generated transcripts. Your call center app should be able place prior call transcripts at the finger tips of whatever rep is currently handling the call. Of course those customers that do try to lie are unlikely to file lawsuits etc when they know you have evidence of their attempted fraud/deception.
Its 2019 - this stuff isn't really that hard anymore.
The reason its probably not done thought is because people have to place narratives on everything that happens. The first time someones tree dies prematurely from disease, gets struck by lightning, etc people will imagine it was some judgement on the deceased.
The other issue with your family grove approach is if you great great grandfathers 100 year old oak with its massive root system goes over in a gale it might uproot your recently buried self...
These are not unsolvable problems just things that need to be considered.
Don't buy a 5 series phone. I know the 5 does not and I am not sure about the 5S but the carriers are dropping anything that does not do HD voice next year more than likely. Do yourself a favor and find an iPhoneSE if you want the smaller form factor.
Its not just the dollars though. Its also a question what you are getting at the margin. The reality for a lot of people is that isnt much at this point.
I mean a few people are really excited about facial recognition or whatever but the for the rest of us we are getting a 'slightly faster CPU' and little more storage... Well I don't need more storage, I mean why do want to carry around every snapshot I have taken since 2010? what for? I don't really need a faster CPU. The CPU in the iPhoneSE is plenty to render web pages and push they typical CRUD app around. It will even play most the games I'd want to play on handheld device pretty well.
Its not just the new phones are pricey its that they are not really compelling unless your current phone is very old iPhone 5S or older (which does not do HD voice and won't be supported by the carriers soon) or you bought a bargin unit with limited storage back when 16 gig models were a choice.
The simple SANE responsible action that meets the governments basic mandate to "provide for the common defense" to shutdown immigration from that part of the world.
The state department could grant the handfuls of special case visa to permit the required well known persons limited access to the USA to facilitate the oil trade and the movement of other goods. No VISA for anyone else from the middle east. As far as mid easterners go with foreign passwords they better have a long establish residency in their adopted nation with no criminal history at all or No VISA.
We could enjoy near total safety from international terrorism on the within the US if we just made a little effort to control who gets in here. No need for massive costly unending morally evil military adventures.
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The problem HSTS does not solve though is if I can get you to click my link to http://g0ogle.com/ (ok that one is taken but you get the idea) or https://g0ogle.com/.
HSTS won't let me MTIM your request to http://google.copm/ and inject my own content (because it plain text) or redirect you somewhere else because your browser will ignore that you asked for HTTP and do HTTPS and my cert won't pass muster. It will do nothing if I con you with a look-a-like domain. Which thanks those morons at LetsEncrypt I can easily obtain a certificate for gaining my a nice TLS connection that will appear secure in your browser and let me evade a lot of IPS systems and other protections on the network to sever up whatever malicious garbage I want.
Yes if only there was some method to provide cryptographicly verifiable DNS responses...hmm
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions while the USA continues having one of the highest emission rates in the world.
Why is that? Certainly its easier to not start doing something than it is to stop / give up doing it. Is that fair to folks in China, maybe not but the truth is we can't probably cut emissions enough to appreciable slow, let alone break out of the co2 driven climate change cycle. So we should harm ourselves trying? It would be better to just acknowledge we are going to have to adapt to a changing climate and solve those problems
China and India are still on the up side of the curve
So what you saying is that Trump is exactly correct this about asking us to slit our our wrist while we allow China and India to continue growth and industrialization so they can take the rest of our jobs. Thanks for being so honest.
Well right - and the political left in this country needs to internalize that just as most of the political right does but even more so because it driving absolutely the wrong policy choices on the left.
We can make some efficiency improvements certainly but there is exactly one[1] ultimate driver of environmental degradation and that is human population size per area. We have a birth rate near the replacement rate right now. There is little evidence we would need to get into people's reproductive choices. We can stop population growth by simply putting and end to immigration.
Anyone who cares about having a beautiful green America for their Children and grandchildren needs to recognize this.
Cheap natural gas has been credited with killing coal, which is a dirtier fossil fuel in terms of emissions. But natural gas is a fossil fuel, too, and burning more natural gas than is needed to simply replace coal will result in more carbon emissions.
What stupidity. Nobody is burning more natural gas than is needed and nobody is running coal plants just for fun. If those gas plants are coming online / being utilized to a larger part of capacity and the coal plants are not being idled or shuttered its because consumers want the power! Its not like we are generating electrical potential just ground it out because we think arc-flash is cool!
The issue is the economy grew so despite efficiency improvements emissions grew.
This is the big problem and its really big nasty whole in our FP. Its hard to take anything people like Susan Power or Bolton for that matter say seriously about higher moral callings while we do nothing about the Chinese and would curtail our relationship with them.
Basically I say either we DO something about China for human rights / moral reasons and cut them off or else we need to just stop pretending we are doing anything other than modernized mercantilism.
Basic this is what the Amish do isn't it. They as a community make decisions about what technology is "good for them" and what isn't. They allow some technologies like the telephone to have specific use cases and reject its presence elsewhere.
I am not sure its working out well for them. There are definitely healthy thriving Amish communities but there are also ones that have some really deep problems.
I am not sure 'technology planning' will scale up either into our larger freedom valuing society. Without the ability to forbid others for using technologies people who don't choose to use them will have a terribly difficult time competing. Who is going to be more convincing in the meeting, the guy with brain implant that lets him look up facts etc without pausing or breaking eye contact with those listing or you going in knowing only what you know plus a few written notes and/or having to say excuse me let me check on that and turning to your laptop or phone?
Considering that seems to be common language and inline with the behavioral norms of those who support her. My guess is yes that would be totally cool and nobody would make a peep about it. Meanwhile my account would be suspended.
No I did read. The courts ruled that a politician if they are using FB as a public form can't block users. I have not seen any rules as to if facebook is allowed to prevent people from participation on a public figures page. As near as I can tell that issue was not really addressed; quite possible because the court feels its the same issue. In which case we just have to wait until someone who has had their account terminated by FB, files a suit.
You analogy is better and you make a good point. Lets try this one though.
Suppose you get your self banned from $ARENA for I don't know tampering with the smoke detectors or creating some other safety issues. Three weeks later $CANDIDATE rents the place out and schedules a town hall. Can security at $ARENA deny you entry?
So lets go back to facebook. You have been using your account for phishing and they ban you; but now you want to participate in the online town hall must they reinstate your account - create some sort of limited account where you can only access that one page? What?
I am sorry but no you are the idiot. Trump might be lot of things but there is NOTHING to suggest he would condone mass murder. There is nothing to suggest that anything like what was possible in 1930s Germany could be effected in 21st Century America even if someone had the intent to do so.
You sir are deranged, and utterly lacking in perspective.
You don't seem to understand that the two situations are radically different.
Its not clear to me its "radically different" how/when does facebook become a government agent? Are they charging a fee to politicians to have facebook pages? Could I not argue that facebook (which clearly has got into the business of suppression some view points) does so in order to be friendly with certain politicians?
If a cop asks me to wear a wire and go see if you will sell me drugs that does not get them around the entrapment problem because I am now a government agent; I have the same limits on what I can and can't do to induce you to commit the crime the cop would have. facebook is pretty clearly under intense political pressure to moderate certain kinds of speech, where is the line when we can say they are agent of $POLITIANS campaign?
So you claim its "radically different" I'd argue we'll need to have that claim adjudicated in court.
That is a stupid standard. it would be like saying if you ask me for a ride to the polling place in my private car and I say "No" I am disenfranchising you.
We can't set up standard in which private enterprises have to facilitate political interaction.
The trouble is we are back to a "you know it when you see it" standard.
What if I politely and professionally suggest on Rashida Tlaib facebook page that her policy positions appear to be anti-Semitic and her language seems to be loaded with anti-Semitic dog whistles.
What if I still "politely" go a bit further and ask if she an Arab Nazi sympathizer of which there were and are many?
-See I would say those fair questions for the newly elected representative; others would say its disruptive or even harrasment.
Yes 2019, the return of milk door.
Srsly this probably the correct solution. Because like a lot of posters i don't want someone I don't know entering my garage any more than my house. In fact less probably. I would notice pretty quickly if any of the valuables went missing in the house. I have a lot of valuable tools automotive and woodcraft in drawers and cases that someone could remove and I could go weeks, in some cases months or longer, without discovering they were missing.
Most of the national parks used to be free. There are tollgates now and they do charge except right now during the shutdown because there is nobody to collect the tolls. OOTH I am not at all sure why they don't leave the honor boxes used at lots of less popular locations open. My guess is a lot of patrons would happy continue to pay.
That said I don't agree with a lot of what the Park Service and the USFS do with our parks and public lands. The USFS still does all kinds of agricultural experiments in places that are supposed to be public land. Frankly commercial enterprise should be paying for that and doing it on already private property. Same thing with a lot of our parks. Most (not all) have dual purpose to act both as wilderness preserves and as recreational spaces for people. The thing is large unbroken areas of back country and critical to life cycles of lots of the creatures we are trying to protect. This is incompatible with paved auto trails, and large campsites. Its also not fair I don't think to other Americans to ask them subsides the businesses around these parks.
I was reading an article about how snowmobiles in the western parks and how private enterprise is keeping the trails groomed. That's fine, but why is the Park Service nominally maintaining snowmobile trains anyway? Again I get there has to be some push pull to accommodate the dual use mandate but honestly, the Park Service should probably identify some lower impact areas for things like powered vehicle trails and tell the business look these areas its okay to clear some trails thru if you want to do so and maintain them at your cost. Sell permits (at administrative cost if you want to) just so that we can attach a number to operators and hold them accountable for keeping to the permitted areas and enforce other likely needed restrictions. But but but.. "Bobby's Snow Tours" isnt going to do the work when "Wild Bills Tours" can just sponge off his efforts. BS - I say. Firstly the shutdown is proving that isn't true, and second Bobby still gets to profit of what is public land so I don't feel to sorry for him.
Beyond this I would say the park service ought to engage in the minimal expense of putting in wilderness trails for individuals and (non-commercial) small groups to use for hiking/backpacking because putting in trails and asking even those low impact users to stay on them reduces total impact. It also make search and rescue somewhat possible where as if you just turn people loose in a few million acres good luck finding anyone and good luck with any sort of extraction if that is required. Otherwise they should really let nature have run of the parks, and that includes wildfires (provided we believe they were sparked by natural causes).
Its easy to say that but the truth a bit murkier. Most of us can't work 20-30 hour weeks because we want (I use the term loosely) to consume more services, such as modern medicine that did not exist 60 years ago; oh and fun a full 30 years of retirement too.
So it was a question what would amount to being job sharing and working half a week or earning enough to fund those wants at the cost of displacing someone else; someone else who by the way is being taken care of by the government. The government is funding that care by taking on debt, which is being purchased by the same capitalists employing the remaining workers rather than paying wages and doing more production because the (promised anyway) return is slightly better.
Basically the wealth gap and the debt balloon are just opposite sides of the same coin. I don't know what the answer is but i do know the lefts tax and spend policies will actually make it worse not better. Oh sure you might see some local minimums when markets crash like 2k7 - 2k10 but nothing to change the trend. Meanwhile the rights lets cut taxes and regulations proposals while only talking about cutting programs and entitlements won't work for essentially the same reasons, its just turning the other side of the wheel. I am not even sure these cycles are breakable, and I am not sure its unique to "capitalism" either; this might just be the cycle all societies go thru.
They other reality is this. A lot of those older recordings people are familiar with listening to on vinyl. If that is they way you first head it in your college dorm room, than for you that is how its "supposed to sound" and even in the CD release is more faithful to the actual sound well you will think the vinyl is better.
The bigger issue with recorded music in general is what is the real objective, is it to:
1) Reproduce the sound as it was in the studio most accurately
2) Produce the sound closest to what the artist imagined doing
3) Produce sounds that meet your listening preferences
4) Produce sounds that meet the preferences of the majority of other people listening with you
Until you decided on a specific objective what "better" even means isn't clear and you and I might not even share the same definition.
Perhaps that might be some of it. Maybe the price just got so high the carriers want someone else apple to blame for the sticker shock of their monthly wireless bill, which includes the debt service payment on the phone. All that has changed is they are itemizing it now. It does however shift some consumer irritation. Also keep in mind the carriers wanted to get everyone onto smart phones as quickly as possible because selling data they could price in small blocks and charge overages for was lucrative (and still is) where market forces in the late 90's had already forced them to pretty much offer all you can eat voice. So they had incentive to hide the cost of a smart phone purchase in the 2004 - 2012ish era.
If you walk into the Verizon store though their reps will handle you the same way a car salesmen does. One of the first things they will be trying to tease out of you is if you intend to pay upfront or not. They better ones will avoid asking the question directly but anyone wilth any sales experience at all will find away to ask. The reason is it changes the entire game for them. if you are paying up front they know you are price sensitive. They are going to have to try and sell you on price. They will be searing you toward last years model and etc. This is not their preference but they know its what it will take to close the deal and earn that commission. If they lead with that iPhone X at $1K you will likely walk out the door.
If you are are financing though they now will lead with the higher end models. They will try to convince you that you must simple have features X,Y, and Z and tell you that it would be foolish to cheap out because 6months from now you will regret buying that iPhone 7 because web pages are getting bigger all the time and it will just be way to slow you know.. Then they will figurout how to message the payment, increase the length of loan etc until its something you can 'tolerate'
And that's not something Comcast can really control 100%.
No but it IS something they can make right. If your employees run around promising things to customers then you need to give those things to those customers and than discipline and or fire that employee. Now there are exceptions at the extremes if the employee said something that your typical customer should realize is unreasonable / impossible that is different you got some wiggle room there.
Of course some customers will try and lie, which is why you record the calls and keep at least electronically generated transcripts. Your call center app should be able place prior call transcripts at the finger tips of whatever rep is currently handling the call. Of course those customers that do try to lie are unlikely to file lawsuits etc when they know you have evidence of their attempted fraud/deception.
Its 2019 - this stuff isn't really that hard anymore.
I like that idea a lot actually.
The reason its probably not done thought is because people have to place narratives on everything that happens. The first time someones tree dies prematurely from disease, gets struck by lightning, etc people will imagine it was some judgement on the deceased.
The other issue with your family grove approach is if you great great grandfathers 100 year old oak with its massive root system goes over in a gale it might uproot your recently buried self...
These are not unsolvable problems just things that need to be considered.
Don't buy a 5 series phone. I know the 5 does not and I am not sure about the 5S but the carriers are dropping anything that does not do HD voice next year more than likely. Do yourself a favor and find an iPhoneSE if you want the smaller form factor.
Its not just the dollars though. Its also a question what you are getting at the margin. The reality for a lot of people is that isnt much at this point.
I mean a few people are really excited about facial recognition or whatever but the for the rest of us we are getting a 'slightly faster CPU' and little more storage... Well I don't need more storage, I mean why do want to carry around every snapshot I have taken since 2010? what for? I don't really need a faster CPU. The CPU in the iPhoneSE is plenty to render web pages and push they typical CRUD app around. It will even play most the games I'd want to play on handheld device pretty well.
Its not just the new phones are pricey its that they are not really compelling unless your current phone is very old iPhone 5S or older (which does not do HD voice and won't be supported by the carriers soon) or you bought a bargin unit with limited storage back when 16 gig models were a choice.
The simple SANE responsible action that meets the governments basic mandate to "provide for the common defense" to shutdown immigration from that part of the world.
The state department could grant the handfuls of special case visa to permit the required well known persons limited access to the USA to facilitate the oil trade and the movement of other goods. No VISA for anyone else from the middle east. As far as mid easterners go with foreign passwords they better have a long establish residency in their adopted nation with no criminal history at all or No VISA.
We could enjoy near total safety from international terrorism on the within the US if we just made a little effort to control who gets in here. No need for massive costly unending morally evil military adventures.