My company actually does this as a marketing ploy. We add disabled items to our menus for options that don't even exist yet. When customers call to ask how to enable these options, we tell them that they need to buy a future upgrade.
Also, consult your programmers to see if something is possible before just telling the customers "sure, we can do that". I've had to make a hack job program to "trick" our main product into doing something it was not meant to do because of this. As you can imagine, it's no fun supporting crapware like this that I was embarrassed to make in the first place.
I big part of poor voter turn out is the electoral college. For example, I am supporting Kerry, but I am in Oklahoma. In case you don't know, OK is a hard-core Bible thumper state that ALWAYS falls Republican. I'll vote for Kerry, but I know that it will make no difference because OK will go to Bush. Other Dems in OK know this and don't bother voting--same for Republicans who know that Bush will win the state anyway.
There are only like a dozen swing states where a persons vote really can make a difference.
Yes, a lot of people don't vote because they are lazy or whatever, but the stupid electoral college is part of the problem to. It causes some many potential voters to become disenfranchised.
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My company actually does this as a marketing ploy. We add disabled items to our menus for options that don't even exist yet. When customers call to ask how to enable these options, we tell them that they need to buy a future upgrade.
Also, consult your programmers to see if something is possible before just telling the customers "sure, we can do that". I've had to make a hack job program to "trick" our main product into doing something it was not meant to do because of this. As you can imagine, it's no fun supporting crapware like this that I was embarrassed to make in the first place.
I big part of poor voter turn out is the electoral college. For example, I am supporting Kerry, but I am in Oklahoma. In case you don't know, OK is a hard-core Bible thumper state that ALWAYS falls Republican. I'll vote for Kerry, but I know that it will make no difference because OK will go to Bush. Other Dems in OK know this and don't bother voting--same for Republicans who know that Bush will win the state anyway.
There are only like a dozen swing states where a persons vote really can make a difference.
Yes, a lot of people don't vote because they are lazy or whatever, but the stupid electoral college is part of the problem to. It causes some many potential voters to become disenfranchised.
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