No, by charging 15 dollars more, they are making it unattainable by the hardest hit and most in need. That is why they think they can charge $15 more- because people are in dire need.
The state, well in combination with the feds, do provide them with it. The problem is that it's not enough fast enough and limiting the amounts either by supply or costs does not get it to them. But why should they expect retailers to do something? Because no one has a right to open shop in any city. Almost all cities require business licenses, registering and/or other government approvals to operate in their jurisdiction. This has been true for a while now- get used to it. It's a cost of doing business in a location.
Hospitals are not underfunded at all. At least not in the US. Just do a google search for not for profit hospitals make large profit. you will find numerous accounts of hospitals making killer jack.
I think ex-cia makes Hanlon's razor improbable. They are masters at getting you to help them without you knowing it. Sometimes they let you know.
During WWII, we did similar stunts to help identify and break the Japanese codes. We would send non-coded messages from base to base and have fighter squadrons on patrol talk about things at certain bases or islands on different days as they patrolled the area. The cross talk between planes would be picked up by the japs listening and then we would listen to their coded radio messages reporting this information to find words in common with what was said. After a few strategically altered messages, we had a good idea of code words for certain islands, positions, and other things that aided in breaking the codes as well as protecting implied targets when they communicated about them. Hanlon's razor would simply suggest our fly boys were loose with details ignorant of the enemy listening. But it was much more complicated then that.
Actually, that cheap gas was replenishing itself magically. FEMA was giving it to gas stations. They truck this in for free in most disasters like this just to avoid increasing costs hardships on the station owners. Most the time, there is a requirement to give it away free to certain people but its what happens.
If the price raises to the point of gouging, that dwindling supply might as well be empty because the people needing it the most wouldn't be able to afford it. So you either ration the supply so everyone can get some or you lock out the poor and only allow the rich to have it. With people charging $100 or more for 5 gallons of gas that should cost less then $20, that would happen quickly.
Here is the problem with gouging. If you raise you price because of the emergency, you are going to deny people who cannot afford your new price anyways. Its already causing shortages because from the crisis stricken perspective, they cannot afford it.
Its not like they are charging a dollar extra for gas to cover costs associated with the emergency, they are charging 15 dollars or more extra because the emergency means people need it badly. If there wasn't an emergency as declared by the state, charging more for gas as the costs rise to the supplier wouldn't be a problem. If there wasn't an emergency as declared by the state, paying an extra fee to get your heating oil delivered after hours wouldn't be a problem. But if the need was because of a widespread emergency as declared by the state, charging more than normal or what can be justified by your costs is not allowed in most areas.
Moron? Maybe. The information needs to get out of the company somehow. It may not be possible to find the original leak, but if the email is out, they likely forwarded it to someone. I think the leaked email was a trick to get someone who thought they were getting away with something to do something noticeable like leaking the email. Why else announce he's watching in such a way to make him appear paranoid and asshol'ish if not to provoke someone.
As for the company specific service, it might already be there if they monitor their employees. also, If they printed the documents and walked out with them as hard copies, most large printers have copies of what was printed with information to what desktop printed them. Pulling that and grepping them with some creative regex expressions might turn some interesting thing up. And being the VP, he can get outside help as well as devoting a significant amount of time and resources to it....
Some of these things might not even cross someone's mind.
Price gouging is raising the price because of a scarcity due to an event considered to be or creating an emergency. The government steps in because the markets can't work and people are subject to necessity that wouldn't otherwise be present in a civilized society.
But you are right, the hospital is the only ones allowed to gouge during an emergency. But this has much more to do with the government involvement in health care then anything. They are the ones who says that $5 band aid they would give you if admitted for a procedure can be billed at $50 in the ER.
Start making mistakes like leaking the email? If they require all their employee email to go through their servers, they can track who forwards it in much the same way as spam filters can scan an email message for spam keywords except they would apply it to outgoing email. This might not catch employees who work from home and use their home's ISP server, but it's likely they use imap for remote email so scanning their outboxes on the server can do much the same.
I've done this for contract information in the past and actually caught someone getting paid commission for sales leads to a competitor who used existing contracts to undercut and swing clients away. This was several years ago manipulating it on the server itself. But Cisco has router boxes that can scan the crap on the fly- as it is being routed, and apply rules to it and take some actions on it. They could likely do it on the switching level as it passes though.
He may have. They probably have something set up on the mail server scanning for a phrase in the outgoing mail to track who gets a copy of it other then who it was originally sent to. Sort of like a reverse spam filter/white list. The people behind the leaks will likely forward the email/memo to others thinking they won't get caught and he's got the identity of who he thinks might be behind it.
He doesn't even have to be sure. Just use this to narrow the search down or start looking for things to fire them over. If they are sending company secrets out, they will likely not be a model employee.
Clearly the military HAS WITHELD information. Damning information. Information that would have made the war less popular, removed support, and ultimately caused us pull out and end the occupation. Oh look. That happened. We even voted in a guy with that platform and didn't vote for the guy who wanted us to stick around getting shot at. But hey, I think I get what you're saying. The military isn't withholding information from the government. Yeah, that's probably more or less true. But the people would still like to know. You know, since this is a democracy, we're supposed to be the ultimate political masters here.
You lose all credibility with this one statement. President Bush created and sighed the SOFA agreement that Obama followed with the exception of renaming a set of non-combat troops scheduled to remain after the official withdraw for training and counter terrorism support. We are not out of Iraq because of anything Obama did. This is fact, you can check it- it happened before we even voted in the 2008 elections.
If you are deluded and do not know this by now, I do not think anything else you say deserves consideration. I'm not even going to bother fact checking it as it seems to be all opinion and your bias along with incorrect information is more then noticeable in it.
lol.. I bet you are right.. I didn't say you were wrong. But I will say the most popular use of it does so in claiming Obama is a liar and that is why certain people like him- because he's a liar.
lol.. Yes, they used a pattern of behavior. and the importance of it which seems you lost completely is that the single act was never claimed to be torture by the MTFE as was stated. If you water boarded someone, it wasn't torture and wasn't prosecuted unless you pulled fingernails off or inserted bamboo shoots under them and beat the prisoner. They did not trial anyone for water boarding, or any other single offense as torture.
Whether water boarding is or is not torture is not what under consideration here. Its whether or not people were trialed and convicted of water boarding. The saying is wrong and inaccurate. John McCain was wrong and inaccurate, politifact is wrong and inaccurate and anyone who repeats the myth is wrong and inaccurate. At no time in US history was anyone connected with the tribunals in the gar east or Nuremberg trials ever charged or convicted of water boarding.
Its like saying Obama isn't the real president because he swore to the wrong oath and ignoring the reality that he did swear the right oath. If you are going to use incorrect information for an argument, prepare for the truth. Now, water boarding may very well be torture, but we certainly didn't charge and prosecute an enemy for it.
I didn't miss it. I didn't miss what I think was an even better concession speech by Romney. It showed a sense of class the administration has been missing over the last 20 years or so.
One of the local news stations said that too. They were puzzled to how it could be called like that too until someone pointed out a few of the larger counties left to report went strongly democrat.
I find it odd that I was marked a troll and flaimbait for pointing that out though. Are Obama supporters really that shallow? Oh well, it doesn't matter.
Actually, I don't think so. They were saying of Obama didn't take Virginia, he would have needed to win ohio. Of course things have changed and it looks like Obama took both now.
Water boarding was listed as one of several activities that they called torture but never was water boarding along considered torture. Politicfact references the MTFE but gets confused as to what torture was. Water boarding alone was not enough to charge and convict someone, they needed several of the activities listed before any of the soldiers were charged for torture. We charged them for a pattern of behavior, not a specific act. We also did so in a post facto way (read unconstitutional) which the justification of it became not charging for the acts but the behavior which somehow made it exempt or something.
They kept the Japanese trials a military tribunal because the only Judge on the Supreme court willing to participate in the Nuremberg trials didn't even have a law degree and he later wrote back about how wrong it was.
Now now.. You don't actually believe that. Like Biden said, they didn't know. They aren't on top of things, no one told them.
Fuck, you act like the commander in chief- the head of the government is supposed to know about these things. Besides, even if they did, it was Bush's fault, he's the one who let 9/11 happen which then required them to pay attention to the calendar and give extra support to these places.
You should look at where the term magic underpants came from. The person who coined the term actually said that in order for Obama to not being wearing them, we would have to believe he is a liar. He also said it was a shame that he like Obama because he was a liar.
So lets see, magic underpants or convinced someone is a liar. It sure is a predicament.
After World War 2, the USA convicted several Japanese soldiers of water boarding American and Allied prisoners of war. The US government hanged them for that crime.
No they did not. Water boarding was listed as activities supporting torture but none of them were convicted for water boarding anyone. You will not find one charge of water boarding against any of the japs or germans convicted of post facto laws
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No, by charging 15 dollars more, they are making it unattainable by the hardest hit and most in need. That is why they think they can charge $15 more- because people are in dire need.
The state, well in combination with the feds, do provide them with it. The problem is that it's not enough fast enough and limiting the amounts either by supply or costs does not get it to them. But why should they expect retailers to do something? Because no one has a right to open shop in any city. Almost all cities require business licenses, registering and/or other government approvals to operate in their jurisdiction. This has been true for a while now- get used to it. It's a cost of doing business in a location.
Hospitals are not underfunded at all. At least not in the US. Just do a google search for not for profit hospitals make large profit. you will find numerous accounts of hospitals making killer jack.
I think ex-cia makes Hanlon's razor improbable. They are masters at getting you to help them without you knowing it. Sometimes they let you know.
During WWII, we did similar stunts to help identify and break the Japanese codes. We would send non-coded messages from base to base and have fighter squadrons on patrol talk about things at certain bases or islands on different days as they patrolled the area. The cross talk between planes would be picked up by the japs listening and then we would listen to their coded radio messages reporting this information to find words in common with what was said. After a few strategically altered messages, we had a good idea of code words for certain islands, positions, and other things that aided in breaking the codes as well as protecting implied targets when they communicated about them. Hanlon's razor would simply suggest our fly boys were loose with details ignorant of the enemy listening. But it was much more complicated then that.
I think what he is saying is that low price creates access to supply which is what is needed in an emergency situation.
No nobel prize needed. just the ability to look at the demand side of things and realize it is more of a necessity other then a desire.
Actually, that cheap gas was replenishing itself magically. FEMA was giving it to gas stations. They truck this in for free in most disasters like this just to avoid increasing costs hardships on the station owners. Most the time, there is a requirement to give it away free to certain people but its what happens.
If the price raises to the point of gouging, that dwindling supply might as well be empty because the people needing it the most wouldn't be able to afford it. So you either ration the supply so everyone can get some or you lock out the poor and only allow the rich to have it. With people charging $100 or more for 5 gallons of gas that should cost less then $20, that would happen quickly.
Here is the problem with gouging. If you raise you price because of the emergency, you are going to deny people who cannot afford your new price anyways. Its already causing shortages because from the crisis stricken perspective, they cannot afford it.
Its not like they are charging a dollar extra for gas to cover costs associated with the emergency, they are charging 15 dollars or more extra because the emergency means people need it badly. If there wasn't an emergency as declared by the state, charging more for gas as the costs rise to the supplier wouldn't be a problem. If there wasn't an emergency as declared by the state, paying an extra fee to get your heating oil delivered after hours wouldn't be a problem. But if the need was because of a widespread emergency as declared by the state, charging more than normal or what can be justified by your costs is not allowed in most areas.
Maybe i should have said medical profession in general. Your pharmacy will mark up pfizer's cost and the hospital will mark that up quite a bit too.
Moron? Maybe. The information needs to get out of the company somehow. It may not be possible to find the original leak, but if the email is out, they likely forwarded it to someone. I think the leaked email was a trick to get someone who thought they were getting away with something to do something noticeable like leaking the email. Why else announce he's watching in such a way to make him appear paranoid and asshol'ish if not to provoke someone.
As for the company specific service, it might already be there if they monitor their employees. also, If they printed the documents and walked out with them as hard copies, most large printers have copies of what was printed with information to what desktop printed them. Pulling that and grepping them with some creative regex expressions might turn some interesting thing up. And being the VP, he can get outside help as well as devoting a significant amount of time and resources to it....
Some of these things might not even cross someone's mind.
Price gouging is raising the price because of a scarcity due to an event considered to be or creating an emergency. The government steps in because the markets can't work and people are subject to necessity that wouldn't otherwise be present in a civilized society.
But you are right, the hospital is the only ones allowed to gouge during an emergency. But this has much more to do with the government involvement in health care then anything. They are the ones who says that $5 band aid they would give you if admitted for a procedure can be billed at $50 in the ER.
Start making mistakes like leaking the email? If they require all their employee email to go through their servers, they can track who forwards it in much the same way as spam filters can scan an email message for spam keywords except they would apply it to outgoing email. This might not catch employees who work from home and use their home's ISP server, but it's likely they use imap for remote email so scanning their outboxes on the server can do much the same.
I've done this for contract information in the past and actually caught someone getting paid commission for sales leads to a competitor who used existing contracts to undercut and swing clients away. This was several years ago manipulating it on the server itself. But Cisco has router boxes that can scan the crap on the fly- as it is being routed, and apply rules to it and take some actions on it. They could likely do it on the switching level as it passes though.
He may have. They probably have something set up on the mail server scanning for a phrase in the outgoing mail to track who gets a copy of it other then who it was originally sent to. Sort of like a reverse spam filter/white list. The people behind the leaks will likely forward the email/memo to others thinking they won't get caught and he's got the identity of who he thinks might be behind it.
He doesn't even have to be sure. Just use this to narrow the search down or start looking for things to fire them over. If they are sending company secrets out, they will likely not be a model employee.
You lose all credibility with this one statement. President Bush created and sighed the SOFA agreement that Obama followed with the exception of renaming a set of non-combat troops scheduled to remain after the official withdraw for training and counter terrorism support. We are not out of Iraq because of anything Obama did. This is fact, you can check it- it happened before we even voted in the 2008 elections.
If you are deluded and do not know this by now, I do not think anything else you say deserves consideration. I'm not even going to bother fact checking it as it seems to be all opinion and your bias along with incorrect information is more then noticeable in it.
lol.. I bet you are right.. I didn't say you were wrong. But I will say the most popular use of it does so in claiming Obama is a liar and that is why certain people like him- because he's a liar.
lol.. Yes, they used a pattern of behavior. and the importance of it which seems you lost completely is that the single act was never claimed to be torture by the MTFE as was stated. If you water boarded someone, it wasn't torture and wasn't prosecuted unless you pulled fingernails off or inserted bamboo shoots under them and beat the prisoner. They did not trial anyone for water boarding, or any other single offense as torture.
Whether water boarding is or is not torture is not what under consideration here. Its whether or not people were trialed and convicted of water boarding. The saying is wrong and inaccurate. John McCain was wrong and inaccurate, politifact is wrong and inaccurate and anyone who repeats the myth is wrong and inaccurate. At no time in US history was anyone connected with the tribunals in the gar east or Nuremberg trials ever charged or convicted of water boarding.
Its like saying Obama isn't the real president because he swore to the wrong oath and ignoring the reality that he did swear the right oath. If you are going to use incorrect information for an argument, prepare for the truth. Now, water boarding may very well be torture, but we certainly didn't charge and prosecute an enemy for it.
I bet you did. i bet you heard everything before it was ever associated with anything bad with a certain person.
I didn't miss it. I didn't miss what I think was an even better concession speech by Romney. It showed a sense of class the administration has been missing over the last 20 years or so.
One of the local news stations said that too. They were puzzled to how it could be called like that too until someone pointed out a few of the larger counties left to report went strongly democrat.
I find it odd that I was marked a troll and flaimbait for pointing that out though. Are Obama supporters really that shallow? Oh well, it doesn't matter.
ABC 6 and CBS 10 from the Columbus Ohio market. why would I watch a national news network to find out about local coverage?
Actually, I don't think so. They were saying of Obama didn't take Virginia, he would have needed to win ohio. Of course things have changed and it looks like Obama took both now.
Water boarding was listed as one of several activities that they called torture but never was water boarding along considered torture. Politicfact references the MTFE but gets confused as to what torture was. Water boarding alone was not enough to charge and convict someone, they needed several of the activities listed before any of the soldiers were charged for torture. We charged them for a pattern of behavior, not a specific act. We also did so in a post facto way (read unconstitutional) which the justification of it became not charging for the acts but the behavior which somehow made it exempt or something.
They kept the Japanese trials a military tribunal because the only Judge on the Supreme court willing to participate in the Nuremberg trials didn't even have a law degree and he later wrote back about how wrong it was.
Now now.. You don't actually believe that. Like Biden said, they didn't know. They aren't on top of things, no one told them.
Fuck, you act like the commander in chief- the head of the government is supposed to know about these things. Besides, even if they did, it was Bush's fault, he's the one who let 9/11 happen which then required them to pay attention to the calendar and give extra support to these places.
You should look at where the term magic underpants came from. The person who coined the term actually said that in order for Obama to not being wearing them, we would have to believe he is a liar. He also said it was a shame that he like Obama because he was a liar.
So lets see, magic underpants or convinced someone is a liar. It sure is a predicament.
No they did not. Water boarding was listed as activities supporting torture but none of them were convicted for water boarding anyone. You will not find one charge of water boarding against any of the japs or germans convicted of post facto laws
Obama hasn't won yet. He needs Ohio and so far, Romney is in the lead with 75% of the vote counted. Not sure why everyone is claiming its over