Nope. Will not be done. Look, how many times i have to tell you: US does not run on Logic & Reason. It runs on emotions and perceptions. If Logic and Reason were the bedrock, then we would never have had Taser, and never would have a museums on Creationism.
That said, you have to wait until the cops Taser a rich white infant to death and the mother sues the hell out of City and the Taser company because her husband had left her an immense fortune to the tune of $25 million.
At that time, you would see excellent lawyers coming out of woodwork and proving that Taser was to blame.
Until that happens, just wish every morning that you are lucky today, if you escape Taser.
Does that apply to US government itself? I mean does the law explicitly state companies cannot help any government or just non-US governments? If the law says non-US governments only, then the law is a hypocrite. First apply it here, waive off all provisions under guise of security (i mean that's what NSA is for, right? Legalized spying, etc), then apply it universally.
True. I too never read her books. As for the movies, they were not as good as LOTR. LOTR had a tight storyline, clear and the book was good too (although the movie was not truly correct).
All true, but that is the reality. Yes, to be heard you need money. Yes that shuts down the voices of the poor who can express their views only by vote. Like in switzerland, if people vote for congressman's salary, then they suddenly will come to their senses. Throwing money at politicians is liek throwing drugs to a drug addict and expecting him to quit because you threw too much! Absolutely true. But that is how it is. Unless you organise a movement and demand change by vote or money nothing will happen. More likely if you crusade alone and if you are not Rockefeller, then you can expect to be Gitmo'ed or suicided'. Money for service is how it should be. If your congresscritter does what you constituents want in one year, then you authorize him a pay increase. Else no pay.
Ask congress to promulgate such a law...impossible. Your example was perfect: a CEO voting for his own salary. Which is why shareholders should vote for it... but shareholders are too diffuse and own little. a CEO owns a lot and is moneyed. Who do you think the congressman will listen to?
Changing the system from outside is impossible. Changing it from inside has a good chance.
What you have mentioned already exists. Monsanto has seed cops and can sue you even if their seed was blown off a truck and landed in your field, without your knowledge. IP Cops exist at borders. RIAA and MPAA cops are well known for sending notices to universities. Innovation?? What the heck is that? And are you thinking the same thing am thinking? See ya in court.
The solution is not to pool our money Sorry buddy, but these days (for past 100 years), politicians listen to only one sound: The jingle of coins as they pour down in thousands into their vaults. Politicians have no inherent skill like us. They do not posses the skills of a newbie Visual Basic programmer or even a skills to run a Blockbuster rental. Their only skill is to match people with wants to people who have the necessary surplus of the items and taking a cut out of both. Much like the fox who offered to cut up a fish between two otters and ends up with the body of the fish while the two otters end up with head and tail of the fish. That is all the skill they have. And sometimes matching requires changing necessary laws to achieve that. They know they can be irrelavant any minute and hence they know they need to earn as much money as possible quickly. So naturally they have to milk it out of anybody who approaches them...
Elections are minor inconvenience to them. See how Lieberman won easily a second time even though he was close to bush and people hated him...They need money to provide for themselves. They need money to provide for their familes. They need money to get elected again so that they could broker more deals.... Its a self feeding cycle and highly automated.
Lobbyists exist not DUE to politicians. They exist BECAUSE that is the only way to approach politicians.
There are no unselfish good deeds. Period. You want something done, pay for it. Your opponent wants another deal, he pays more than you do...
A politician refusing to accept money and doing only unselfish good deeds is as rare as the life of a water drop on a frying pan heated to 300 Deg. C.
Sorry to burst your altruistic bubble, but that is how the world works and get used to it. My advice: Organize a local chapter or a lobby group, collect money and seek an appointment with your local congressmen. You will see how quickly you can get an appointment when your wallet is doing the talking.
Howabout non-us citizens Non-US citizens aka Aliens interfering in US affairs will be subjected to rendition to eastern europe or worse, Syria. When we send our own citizens to Guantanamo under suspicion, what good are your Alien status going to do?
One Advice: US citizens can donate significant amounts to senators under a pooled fund, and convince senators and congress critters to defeat the bill.
Debt collectors cannot collect it from family members, especially credit card or personal loans taken. Neither can they snatch it from the dead person's estate. Because these types of loans are unsecured as per law, and that is the prime reason why the banks charge so much interest for them. If a bill collector does call and demands (distinction between expectation and demand), payment from family, call the FBI and tell them you are under threat by the Mafiosi. Simple. This type of call is racketeering. Banks know that very well, and that is why you always find such non-payments as NPA.
This is the FBI. NSA and whitehouse alerted us to the email you sent 356 days ago. We want to talk to you. Go outside your front door and get into the black unmarked car. It will bring you to us.
Ohhhh don't pin this on Gates. Not even an idiotic bumbling IT Admin with the IQ of Bush would do such a thing. I mean, even a freshly minted MCSE, flourecent green, knows how to make proper backups. Whitehouse is just bullshitting.
Time to jail the top guys there starting with the VP and 'politely' get the truth out of them.
Exchange may be crappy in many ways, but this is a human action and cannot be pinned as an error on anybody. I mean if the whitehouse can retain jimmy carter's speeches and small writings and notes and publish it to insult him, it can certainly retain 5 million emails.
Tell cheney one of the 5 million emails contain his passcodes to his entitlement of shares and dividends to halliburton, and without them, all his past earnings and future earnings are kaput. You will see the emails appear before Bush takes another vacation.
Let's look 'objectively' at this: 1. Handcoding takes a lot more effort and needs more 'actual' writers than before. So more techies keep their jobs in a recession. Score: Hancoding 1: Dreamweaver: 0 2. Hancoding requires extensive knowledge of all CSS and DHTML codes plus javascript/JScript. So only the really good techies get the job, and not some script monkey. Survival of fittest. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 0 3. Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news. Effort not proportional to returns. As a shareholder, i would sue them for wasting money. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 1 4. Dreamweaver allows preview easily and pretty much automates repeatable tasks. Handcoding requires a Mechanical Turk. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 2
So its a tie. I appreciate NYTimes sticking to manual tasks for an electronic page as an end user and a techie. I hate them for wasting my money as a shareholder.
WTF is Retail Management System? All i know is my local Walmart AND Costco use IBM PoS machines which do not run Windows XP. I mean how come Microsoft suddenly got religion and worries about their SPacks breaking other apps? They did not have this 'wonderful' mentality before! And they certainly did not have this mentality when Vista was released in the wild. And now they worry about a software that is used by less than 0.001% of all XP users? How come? I think they took it down because they forgot to include NSA hooks into it. Iam happy i use Kaspersky and not Symantec.
I have made it easier for them. I store my password to Windows as a Post-It note stuck on my PC's side box. After all, as per our Dear Leader, if i have nothing to hide then why hide it at all! Heil !
My advice is don't ditch him. He has every right to be paranoid with reasons and you have a very good lawyer. USPS is still secure and cannot be intercepted by NSA. After all 15 years ago we didn't use email or chat or any such stuff.
You should be happy your lawyer goes to great lengths to protect your privacy.
MS Outlook with Exchange is a fine product on which many businesses truly rely, and it is almost impossible to match on Linux -- server or desktop There are two different false items: 1. Calling Outlook a Fine product with Exchange is like saying having Hepatitis C is better than HIV. 2. Impossible to match? Dude, Notes is waaay far ahead of outlook. Banks rely on Notes for security, keeping out the pesky worms that seem to infect the weakling outlook. Secondly, on linux there are other email clients far better than outlook.
You seem to be an MCSE saying IBM's decision to compete on price is due to inferior quality. Like saying Microsoft reduced prices on XBox because it genuinely wanted to same customers some money.
We have a system of "checks and balances" That whole crapload went right out of the window after 9/11.
real CEO still has to answer to HR, Legal, Finance, the board of directors, Nope. The real CEO has to answer to Legal only. The board will follow him as long as profits are pouring in, and HR is to keep employees in line, and finance is to pay the CEO $235 million salary when the company is operating at a loss.
The principle here in both cases is: I have all the authority but none of the responsibility. BushCheney have taken corporate law as legal framework for Executive. Meaning CEOs can order wire tapping, approve shoddy products, make bad killing decisions, but still escape responsibility and hide behind the skirts of corporate veil, with the company footing the bill.
Similarly, i can wage an illegal war, imprison and torture anyone i hate, claim to be guided personally by God, issue a "heck of a job" statements, be clueless about gas prices, refuse to assist losing homeowners who lose their homes but support banks by making it easier ti reposses the first home ever bought....
But i can't be sued, or even impeached, since am the executive and am above the law.
Ahhh there lies the rub. If Pelosi did her duty, Bush would be more popular just for being impeached. The press will pounce on pelosi, and probably there would an "incident" requiring suspension of congress... If pelosi did not do her duty [she promised to voters], she would not be reelected after 4 years by which time a democrat resident would be in power, so the whole question is moot. So which path would you take if you were a politician? Loyalty to voters or loyalty to your own cause?
Thanks AC. Who has the time to RTFA and RTFC when he can respond with vehemence and satire against a growing unpopular vice-president and an idotic president who stuffs his head AND a$$ into the sand and refuses to listen to the same people who voted for him.
All is fair in love and war. And with an unpopular, corporate-sponsored war, it is doubly so, hence RTFA and RTFC does NOT apply to anti-neocon tirades.
If this guy was uninvited based on his views I would suspect its because the other side wanted more balance Ahh.. you mean the way ABC brought "balance" to its debate by discussing Britney and other 'useful' things.
Or probably you mean the balanced way in which credit card issuers prevented card victims from testifying to Senate to make sure its not one-sided...
Balanced, my foot. Corporates want the deck stacked for them. Not against them. And they will not hesitate to steal candy from 3-year olds if it will increase their profit.
If all these NSA, FBI, CIA guys keep siphoning off info from my tube, how the hell am i supposed to make full use of the tube? I mean the tube is supposed to be full when it reaches me according to my ISP. And these guys siphon off stuff from my tube. And i get only half the info iam supposed to get.
My ISP says go ask FBI. FBI says, no can't talk about it, because its a state secret. The court says, nope the president has classified it as state secret and hence you cannot sue FBI. And my ISP is wondering when the immunity bill gets passed so that they too can escape responsibility.
And who's left paying for FBI/NSA usage? ME! My money pays for it. And i can't get good service, i can't sue them, and i can't even ask them.
True. The audacity of those congress and senate bastards. After all our Dear Leader has told numerous times, the state secrets is just.. a state secret. I mean even the president can't divulge state secrets because they are a state secret.
Next thing you know those "Representatives" will claim they can hold the president accountable for lying, breaking the law, and violating his oath of office. One of the rights of the president is to mislead the enemy by planting false information. If that is called as lying, then the congress needs to have its head examined. Misleading is not lying. After all i didn't say 'i did not have sex with that woman'. And which congressman is truthful? If these jokers keep pushing for this legislation, then i would have to talk to cheney in "accidently" releasing some NSA videotapes and audio records of some 'spitzer-like' moments of some of our senators.
making a lot of noise attempting to repair a leaking dam, I would send a SWAT team to his house by "mistake" and enjoy the sweet cries of pain he makes...
I seriously hope you were joking, because you have been modded Funny and i think you are making fun of insurance Cos.
Because if you are not, then you raise a terrifying question to humanity: Because 70 years ago, the Reich asked the same question to its citizens: Why should we spend money to care for a handicapped man when that money could be spent to feed and clothe 4 perfect aryan citizens. And the response to it from the reich was overwhelmingly supportive as a result of which over 3 million died not just due to the war. The Reich woke the beast in humans, that was lying dormant since neanderthal age when survival of fittest was the only criteria. So people with genetic defects and birth defects were killed (Hell, Sparta had it, and had bush been born then...).
We grew up and realized that handicapped people too can be successful and contribute much like the man who is still the world's best astronomer and is handicapped in a wheelchair.
Please avoid waking up our beast again. Corporates are the Undead themselves and would love to earn money off our hatred.
but it will mean even higher insurance premiums for insurance companies to pay their CEOs and Board multi-million dollar bonuses and will result in even more patients being dropped when they need treatment.
Ahh... my favorite response. I have time to burn so let me answer this point by point:
Genetic testing will actualy make the market more competive. Hmmm... we were told [by tricky dick] that privatising insurance would enable insurance companies to fiercely compete with each other to provide the 'best' coverage and insurance to us. Tell me, 30 years after we were told that 'truth', why did California rule that dropping coverage for 286 individuals is illegal and why did insurance cos agree to reinstate it? Tell me why even after 30 years insurance companies are still few and gigantic in number and act like an oligopoly?
Best of all tell me, when Mendel did this on jews in the Reich, why did you abhor it at that time, but somehow magically think it is good now? Has something drastically changed? When hitler does it, its plain wrong. But when american insurance do it, it magically becomes correct! Wow!
Insurance companies will fight firecely to get individuals from healthier areas and demographics Hmmm... have you had insurance cos fight over your coverage? Did Blue Shield and State farm 'fight' over who provides the cheapest coverage yet the most extensive? Did State farm provide you a sweetner like allowing pre-existing diseases to be covered for same price?
Insurance is a gambling game Insurance is a profit-making, state-permitted, outcome-known-roulette game played by companies on us. If it were any other company which dropped customers for asking for the contracted party to fulfill its contract, it would have deemed illegal. For instance if i were to continue to deposit my money in BoA as a demand deposit monthly. Suddenly one morning i find i need it. I ask the bank to repay me in cold cash (say $50,000). BoA says am not their customer anymore, and moreover i can't get back the money i paid because i 'asked' for it back!!! If BoA did that, their CEO would be in jail the next day and the Fed would close them down and liquidate it. Insurance cos do it daily.
This is the first good piece of legislation to come out of congress. If Bush does not veto it, this represents the most potent piece of law to benefit customers ever since Social Security.
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Nope. Will not be done.
Look, how many times i have to tell you: US does not run on Logic & Reason. It runs on emotions and perceptions.
If Logic and Reason were the bedrock, then we would never have had Taser, and never would have a museums on Creationism.
That said, you have to wait until the cops Taser a rich white infant to death and the mother sues the hell out of City and the Taser company because her husband had left her an immense fortune to the tune of $25 million.
At that time, you would see excellent lawyers coming out of woodwork and proving that Taser was to blame.
Until that happens, just wish every morning that you are lucky today, if you escape Taser.
Does that apply to US government itself?
I mean does the law explicitly state companies cannot help any government or just non-US governments?
If the law says non-US governments only, then the law is a hypocrite.
First apply it here, waive off all provisions under guise of security (i mean that's what NSA is for, right? Legalized spying, etc), then apply it universally.
True. I too never read her books.
As for the movies, they were not as good as LOTR.
LOTR had a tight storyline, clear and the book was good too (although the movie was not truly correct).
All true, but that is the reality.
Yes, to be heard you need money. Yes that shuts down the voices of the poor who can express their views only by vote.
Like in switzerland, if people vote for congressman's salary, then they suddenly will come to their senses.
Throwing money at politicians is liek throwing drugs to a drug addict and expecting him to quit because you threw too much!
Absolutely true. But that is how it is.
Unless you organise a movement and demand change by vote or money nothing will happen.
More likely if you crusade alone and if you are not Rockefeller, then you can expect to be Gitmo'ed or suicided'.
Money for service is how it should be.
If your congresscritter does what you constituents want in one year, then you authorize him a pay increase. Else no pay.
Ask congress to promulgate such a law...impossible.
Your example was perfect: a CEO voting for his own salary. Which is why shareholders should vote for it... but shareholders are too diffuse and own little. a CEO owns a lot and is moneyed. Who do you think the congressman will listen to?
Changing the system from outside is impossible.
Changing it from inside has a good chance.
What you have mentioned already exists.
Monsanto has seed cops and can sue you even if their seed was blown off a truck and landed in your field, without your knowledge.
IP Cops exist at borders.
RIAA and MPAA cops are well known for sending notices to universities.
Innovation?? What the heck is that? And are you thinking the same thing am thinking? See ya in court.
Politicians have no inherent skill like us. They do not posses the skills of a newbie Visual Basic programmer or even a skills to run a Blockbuster rental.
Their only skill is to match people with wants to people who have the necessary surplus of the items and taking a cut out of both. Much like the fox who offered to cut up a fish between two otters and ends up with the body of the fish while the two otters end up with head and tail of the fish.
That is all the skill they have.
And sometimes matching requires changing necessary laws to achieve that.
They know they can be irrelavant any minute and hence they know they need to earn as much money as possible quickly.
So naturally they have to milk it out of anybody who approaches them...
Elections are minor inconvenience to them. See how Lieberman won easily a second time even though he was close to bush and people hated him...They need money to provide for themselves. They need money to provide for their familes. They need money to get elected again so that they could broker more deals....
Its a self feeding cycle and highly automated.
Lobbyists exist not DUE to politicians. They exist BECAUSE that is the only way to approach politicians.
There are no unselfish good deeds. Period. You want something done, pay for it. Your opponent wants another deal, he pays more than you do...
A politician refusing to accept money and doing only unselfish good deeds is as rare as the life of a water drop on a frying pan heated to 300 Deg. C.
Sorry to burst your altruistic bubble, but that is how the world works and get used to it. My advice: Organize a local chapter or a lobby group, collect money and seek an appointment with your local congressmen. You will see how quickly you can get an appointment when your wallet is doing the talking.
When we send our own citizens to Guantanamo under suspicion, what good are your Alien status going to do?
One Advice: US citizens can donate significant amounts to senators under a pooled fund, and convince senators and congress critters to defeat the bill.
Debt collectors cannot collect it from family members, especially credit card or personal loans taken.
Neither can they snatch it from the dead person's estate.
Because these types of loans are unsecured as per law, and that is the prime reason why the banks charge so much interest for them.
If a bill collector does call and demands (distinction between expectation and demand), payment from family, call the FBI and tell them you are under threat by the Mafiosi. Simple. This type of call is racketeering.
Banks know that very well, and that is why you always find such non-payments as NPA.
This is the FBI.
NSA and whitehouse alerted us to the email you sent 356 days ago.
We want to talk to you.
Go outside your front door and get into the black unmarked car. It will bring you to us.
Sd/-
FBI, Guantanamo.
Ohhhh don't pin this on Gates.
Not even an idiotic bumbling IT Admin with the IQ of Bush would do such a thing.
I mean, even a freshly minted MCSE, flourecent green, knows how to make proper backups.
Whitehouse is just bullshitting.
Time to jail the top guys there starting with the VP and 'politely' get the truth out of them.
Exchange may be crappy in many ways, but this is a human action and cannot be pinned as an error on anybody.
I mean if the whitehouse can retain jimmy carter's speeches and small writings and notes and publish it to insult him, it can certainly retain 5 million emails.
Tell cheney one of the 5 million emails contain his passcodes to his entitlement of shares and dividends to halliburton, and without them, all his past earnings and future earnings are kaput.
You will see the emails appear before Bush takes another vacation.
Let's look 'objectively' at this:
1. Handcoding takes a lot more effort and needs more 'actual' writers than before. So more techies keep their jobs in a recession.
Score: Hancoding 1: Dreamweaver: 0
2. Hancoding requires extensive knowledge of all CSS and DHTML codes plus javascript/JScript. So only the really good techies get the job, and not some script monkey. Survival of fittest.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 0
3. Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news. Effort not proportional to returns. As a shareholder, i would sue them for wasting money.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 1
4. Dreamweaver allows preview easily and pretty much automates repeatable tasks. Handcoding requires a Mechanical Turk.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 2
So its a tie.
I appreciate NYTimes sticking to manual tasks for an electronic page as an end user and a techie.
I hate them for wasting my money as a shareholder.
WTF is Retail Management System?
All i know is my local Walmart AND Costco use IBM PoS machines which do not run Windows XP.
I mean how come Microsoft suddenly got religion and worries about their SPacks breaking other apps?
They did not have this 'wonderful' mentality before!
And they certainly did not have this mentality when Vista was released in the wild.
And now they worry about a software that is used by less than 0.001% of all XP users?
How come?
I think they took it down because they forgot to include NSA hooks into it.
Iam happy i use Kaspersky and not Symantec.
I have made it easier for them.
I store my password to Windows as a Post-It note stuck on my PC's side box.
After all, as per our Dear Leader, if i have nothing to hide then why hide it at all!
Heil !
My advice is don't ditch him.
He has every right to be paranoid with reasons and you have a very good lawyer.
USPS is still secure and cannot be intercepted by NSA.
After all 15 years ago we didn't use email or chat or any such stuff.
You should be happy your lawyer goes to great lengths to protect your privacy.
1. Calling Outlook a Fine product with Exchange is like saying having Hepatitis C is better than HIV.
2. Impossible to match? Dude, Notes is waaay far ahead of outlook. Banks rely on Notes for security, keeping out the pesky worms that seem to infect the weakling outlook. Secondly, on linux there are other email clients far better than outlook.
You seem to be an MCSE saying IBM's decision to compete on price is due to inferior quality. Like saying Microsoft reduced prices on XBox because it genuinely wanted to same customers some money.
The principle here in both cases is: I have all the authority but none of the responsibility.
BushCheney have taken corporate law as legal framework for Executive.
Meaning CEOs can order wire tapping, approve shoddy products, make bad killing decisions, but still escape responsibility and hide behind the skirts of corporate veil, with the company footing the bill.
Similarly, i can wage an illegal war, imprison and torture anyone i hate, claim to be guided personally by God, issue a "heck of a job" statements, be clueless about gas prices, refuse to assist losing homeowners who lose their homes but support banks by making it easier ti reposses the first home ever bought....
But i can't be sued, or even impeached, since am the executive and am above the law.
Ahhh there lies the rub.
If Pelosi did her duty, Bush would be more popular just for being impeached. The press will pounce on pelosi, and probably there would an "incident" requiring suspension of congress...
If pelosi did not do her duty [she promised to voters], she would not be reelected after 4 years by which time a democrat resident would be in power, so the whole question is moot.
So which path would you take if you were a politician? Loyalty to voters or loyalty to your own cause?
Thanks AC.
Who has the time to RTFA and RTFC when he can respond with vehemence and satire against a growing unpopular vice-president and an idotic president who stuffs his head AND a$$ into the sand and refuses to listen to the same people who voted for him.
All is fair in love and war. And with an unpopular, corporate-sponsored war, it is doubly so, hence RTFA and RTFC does NOT apply to anti-neocon tirades.
Or probably you mean the balanced way in which credit card issuers prevented card victims from testifying to Senate to make sure its not one-sided...
Balanced, my foot.
Corporates want the deck stacked for them. Not against them.
And they will not hesitate to steal candy from 3-year olds if it will increase their profit.
If all these NSA, FBI, CIA guys keep siphoning off info from my tube, how the hell am i supposed to make full use of the tube?
I mean the tube is supposed to be full when it reaches me according to my ISP.
And these guys siphon off stuff from my tube.
And i get only half the info iam supposed to get.
My ISP says go ask FBI.
FBI says, no can't talk about it, because its a state secret.
The court says, nope the president has classified it as state secret and hence you cannot sue FBI.
And my ISP is wondering when the immunity bill gets passed so that they too can escape responsibility.
And who's left paying for FBI/NSA usage? ME!
My money pays for it.
And i can't get good service, i can't sue them, and i can't even ask them.
After all our Dear Leader has told numerous times, the state secrets is just.. a state secret.
I mean even the president can't divulge state secrets because they are a state secret. Next thing you know those "Representatives" will claim they can hold the president accountable for lying, breaking the law, and violating his oath of office. One of the rights of the president is to mislead the enemy by planting false information. If that is called as lying, then the congress needs to have its head examined. Misleading is not lying. After all i didn't say 'i did not have sex with that woman'. And which congressman is truthful?
If these jokers keep pushing for this legislation, then i would have to talk to cheney in "accidently" releasing some NSA videotapes and audio records of some 'spitzer-like' moments of some of our senators.
I seriously hope you were joking, because you have been modded Funny and i think you are making fun of insurance Cos.
Because if you are not, then you raise a terrifying question to humanity:
Because 70 years ago, the Reich asked the same question to its citizens: Why should we spend money to care for a handicapped man when that money could be spent to feed and clothe 4 perfect aryan citizens. And the response to it from the reich was overwhelmingly supportive as a result of which over 3 million died not just due to the war.
The Reich woke the beast in humans, that was lying dormant since neanderthal age when survival of fittest was the only criteria.
So people with genetic defects and birth defects were killed (Hell, Sparta had it, and had bush been born then...).
We grew up and realized that handicapped people too can be successful and contribute much like the man who is still the world's best astronomer and is handicapped in a wheelchair.
Please avoid waking up our beast again.
Corporates are the Undead themselves and would love to earn money off our hatred.
Tell me why even after 30 years insurance companies are still few and gigantic in number and act like an oligopoly?
Best of all tell me, when Mendel did this on jews in the Reich, why did you abhor it at that time, but somehow magically think it is good now? Has something drastically changed? When hitler does it, its plain wrong. But when american insurance do it, it magically becomes correct! Wow! Insurance companies will fight firecely to get individuals from healthier areas and demographics Hmmm... have you had insurance cos fight over your coverage? Did Blue Shield and State farm 'fight' over who provides the cheapest coverage yet the most extensive? Did State farm provide you a sweetner like allowing pre-existing diseases to be covered for same price? Insurance is a gambling game Insurance is a profit-making, state-permitted, outcome-known-roulette game played by companies on us.
If it were any other company which dropped customers for asking for the contracted party to fulfill its contract, it would have deemed illegal.
For instance if i were to continue to deposit my money in BoA as a demand deposit monthly. Suddenly one morning i find i need it. I ask the bank to repay me in cold cash (say $50,000). BoA says am not their customer anymore, and moreover i can't get back the money i paid because i 'asked' for it back!!!
If BoA did that, their CEO would be in jail the next day and the Fed would close them down and liquidate it.
Insurance cos do it daily.
This is the first good piece of legislation to come out of congress. If Bush does not veto it, this represents the most potent piece of law to benefit customers ever since Social Security.