To be fair, most Chinese don't live in company dormitories from which they are not allowed to leave and have no creature comforts. Why yes, I have been to company dormitories in China, have you?
Juat because monetary policy is targeted at good profits for Fonterra, screwing the average citizen, and the "primary industry" minister is the Minister of Fonterra Interests doesn't mean there is any relation between Fonterra and the Government.
The American maker didn't specify the regulations he wanted the item to meet, then complained that the supplier didn't read his mind. And that's always the "other guy's" fault.
I've probably eaten better food than you have. How many hats have you eaten at? If you don't know what I mean by a hat, then the answer is probably zero. Just because I don't care to eat doesn't mean I've never eaten good. Where do you live where the markets drive you to over-eating? I've probably been there and eaten at the places you think would "cure" me.
Food is an inconvenience. I'd be happy to never eat again. The top super-power of Superman's I used to envy was that (in some incarnations) he didn't need to eat. But eating the same tasteless slop every day is a close second.
Seems they make this from processed food, not from extracted nutrients. Calories, protein, and vitamins weren't assembled into this, but whole-food was "optimized", but still includes the slop that makes up food.
Why is everyone focusing on kidney? Think of it as a heart donation. Nearly all donations are from dead people, the idea of people donating corneas, lungs, kidneys as live-donors for cash is not what this is about. If I check "donor" on my driver's license, my family can over-rule me when I'm dead. But if you pay my family $10,000 (or a funeral) for my heart, they they will be much less likely to over-rule my declaration.
This isn't about one-kidney homeless people on the streets, but greedy and spiteful people in grieving who don't care if strangers die. Pay them for the dead body, and the adhrence to their principles decreases. And there's no harm to any living person in paying for these organs.
Well, every time you turn on talk radio in the US, you hear about the Jew-owned banks and the Jew-started wars in the Middle-East. For so few Jews left, they sure get around.
Corpratised entities aren't technically private. They're more like non-profit organisations that have to provide a service. At the very worst, they have to turn over their profit to the government.
There is a difference between government-owned corporations (in the US, things like the US Post Office, or ABC, NBN, or Post in OZ), and a government sanctioned private company with guaranteed profits and legal protections (AT&T, insurance). AT&T (from early 1900s to 1970) was a privately held company with privatized profits and guaranteed profit and government funding (USF and other funds paid directly to a private company). The service was worse and prices much higher than post 1996 deregulation, but the additional rounds of deregulation have allowed more predatory practices to succeed (net neutrality being a back-lash to companies harming their customers).
The current take on coops by the Republicans is not colored by the fact they pre-date the Republican party. And yes, a large number of companies started as coops. Some are coops without members knowing. And something like a homeowners association is a social-contract coop-like thing.
Yes, the irony isn't lost on stupid A/Cs. That's what Network Solutions is doing here. Billing someone for a service they didn't ask for, and may not have received.
Coops are technially government. A group of people who agree to a social contract to operate under. It's only "not a governemnt" because the Republicans (members of the "government") have sold the idea that the government is evil, and we need to give them more power so they can fix it with an even bigger government).
The laws are mostly the same in the US, but the courts still rule caveat emptor. The card companies just ask, "did you get the item you paid for?" If the answer is "no" (even if the answer was it broke in shipment) then it wasn't delivered.
Also, in the US, the sellers claim insurance protects the buyer, but the insurance is on the seller. I've had damaged goods once, I started a claim. The seller didn't do anything, so the claim was denied. Why should I pay for his insurance? The whole jacked up prices for nothing is a scam. Most of it should be prosecuted for fraud.
I guess I am spoiled. I grew up in Conservative Texas, where the communist TXU provided power, cheaper and more reliably than anywhere else in the US. Though power in TX went to shit when they privatized. And I got my water from Dallas Water Utilities, again, one of the best water companies in the country (owned by the City of Dallas). If it was government owned, it was superior. When they moved to private, the prices went up and service got worse.
And the funny thing looking back is "conservative" Texas had more of the government owned utilities. And they were good.
Private companies that had capped profits is what brought us AT&T and the insurance industry.
Even if the cahrge is approved, if the seller can't prove the buyer took posession, the buyer will win (had an ebay issue where the seller claimed he sent it and I didn't pay his "insurance" fee so it was lost). I approved the charge, but I didn't take possession of the purchased item, so the reverse was upheld.
Chances are, if you send them a properly formatted invoice for toner, they'll pay it (most companies do). See how much you can get before someone notices. It's no less fair than what they do. Just make sure you have a payment EULA that authorizes the charges.
The real solution for the "natural monopoly" is to have the infrastructure owned by the government, and providers buy service from there. It works great for mobile service in Europe (or did, until privatization took hold, and the assets were sold off below market, and the profits were lost and service got worse.
No, government contractors aren't "private". They are publicly funded and free from prosecution (when's the last time you heard of an overrun being negotiated out in court?). That makes them a government company, like the USPS. Even if the profits are privatized, the company isn't.
the problem is from the government's special treatment of contactors. They should be sued for breaches. And they should lose the right to bid as punishmnet for more mundane errors. But they aren't. They are rewarded for incompetence.
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To be fair, most Chinese don't live in company dormitories from which they are not allowed to leave and have no creature comforts. Why yes, I have been to company dormitories in China, have you?
Juat because monetary policy is targeted at good profits for Fonterra, screwing the average citizen, and the "primary industry" minister is the Minister of Fonterra Interests doesn't mean there is any relation between Fonterra and the Government.
The American maker didn't specify the regulations he wanted the item to meet, then complained that the supplier didn't read his mind. And that's always the "other guy's" fault.
I've probably eaten better food than you have. How many hats have you eaten at? If you don't know what I mean by a hat, then the answer is probably zero. Just because I don't care to eat doesn't mean I've never eaten good. Where do you live where the markets drive you to over-eating? I've probably been there and eaten at the places you think would "cure" me.
Food is an inconvenience. I'd be happy to never eat again. The top super-power of Superman's I used to envy was that (in some incarnations) he didn't need to eat. But eating the same tasteless slop every day is a close second.
Seems they make this from processed food, not from extracted nutrients. Calories, protein, and vitamins weren't assembled into this, but whole-food was "optimized", but still includes the slop that makes up food.
I can cook better than most, borderline cooking show good. Meals are still an inconvenience. I look forward to a cure for sleep, and a cure for meals.
So are all the people arguing with you.
Why is everyone focusing on kidney? Think of it as a heart donation. Nearly all donations are from dead people, the idea of people donating corneas, lungs, kidneys as live-donors for cash is not what this is about. If I check "donor" on my driver's license, my family can over-rule me when I'm dead. But if you pay my family $10,000 (or a funeral) for my heart, they they will be much less likely to over-rule my declaration.
This isn't about one-kidney homeless people on the streets, but greedy and spiteful people in grieving who don't care if strangers die. Pay them for the dead body, and the adhrence to their principles decreases. And there's no harm to any living person in paying for these organs.
Well, every time you turn on talk radio in the US, you hear about the Jew-owned banks and the Jew-started wars in the Middle-East. For so few Jews left, they sure get around.
Corpratised entities aren't technically private. They're more like non-profit organisations that have to provide a service. At the very worst, they have to turn over their profit to the government.
There is a difference between government-owned corporations (in the US, things like the US Post Office, or ABC, NBN, or Post in OZ), and a government sanctioned private company with guaranteed profits and legal protections (AT&T, insurance). AT&T (from early 1900s to 1970) was a privately held company with privatized profits and guaranteed profit and government funding (USF and other funds paid directly to a private company). The service was worse and prices much higher than post 1996 deregulation, but the additional rounds of deregulation have allowed more predatory practices to succeed (net neutrality being a back-lash to companies harming their customers).
The current take on coops by the Republicans is not colored by the fact they pre-date the Republican party. And yes, a large number of companies started as coops. Some are coops without members knowing. And something like a homeowners association is a social-contract coop-like thing.
In their defense, they are Polish (or are we not allowed to make Polish jokes anymore?).
Yes, the irony isn't lost on stupid A/Cs. That's what Network Solutions is doing here. Billing someone for a service they didn't ask for, and may not have received.
I remember from Econ 101 that a "regulated industry" is the preferred way because capitalism deems the profits should be private, and the risk public.
Coops are technially government. A group of people who agree to a social contract to operate under. It's only "not a governemnt" because the Republicans (members of the "government") have sold the idea that the government is evil, and we need to give them more power so they can fix it with an even bigger government).
The laws are mostly the same in the US, but the courts still rule caveat emptor. The card companies just ask, "did you get the item you paid for?" If the answer is "no" (even if the answer was it broke in shipment) then it wasn't delivered.
Also, in the US, the sellers claim insurance protects the buyer, but the insurance is on the seller. I've had damaged goods once, I started a claim. The seller didn't do anything, so the claim was denied. Why should I pay for his insurance? The whole jacked up prices for nothing is a scam. Most of it should be prosecuted for fraud.
Our government is so far from what it should be that it confuses people as to what a government is/should be.
How do we reset it without bloodshed?
I guess I am spoiled. I grew up in Conservative Texas, where the communist TXU provided power, cheaper and more reliably than anywhere else in the US. Though power in TX went to shit when they privatized. And I got my water from Dallas Water Utilities, again, one of the best water companies in the country (owned by the City of Dallas). If it was government owned, it was superior. When they moved to private, the prices went up and service got worse.
And the funny thing looking back is "conservative" Texas had more of the government owned utilities. And they were good.
Private companies that had capped profits is what brought us AT&T and the insurance industry.
That's what the government is supposed to be. Not a group of elite telling the plebes how to live.
Even if the cahrge is approved, if the seller can't prove the buyer took posession, the buyer will win (had an ebay issue where the seller claimed he sent it and I didn't pay his "insurance" fee so it was lost). I approved the charge, but I didn't take possession of the purchased item, so the reverse was upheld.
Chances are, if you send them a properly formatted invoice for toner, they'll pay it (most companies do). See how much you can get before someone notices. It's no less fair than what they do. Just make sure you have a payment EULA that authorizes the charges.
The real solution for the "natural monopoly" is to have the infrastructure owned by the government, and providers buy service from there. It works great for mobile service in Europe (or did, until privatization took hold, and the assets were sold off below market, and the profits were lost and service got worse.
No, government contractors aren't "private". They are publicly funded and free from prosecution (when's the last time you heard of an overrun being negotiated out in court?). That makes them a government company, like the USPS. Even if the profits are privatized, the company isn't.
the problem is from the government's special treatment of contactors. They should be sued for breaches. And they should lose the right to bid as punishmnet for more mundane errors. But they aren't. They are rewarded for incompetence.
OK, I'll bite. How do I stop Experian from holding information about me? File a DMCA takedown against them?