So this. I just made the switch from Frontier to Comcast for my mom. On Frontier she was getting 768k up, 1.5 mbit down and paying something like $90/mo for that "broadband" and phone service. With services consolidated under Comcast she's getting 6mbit up, 90 mbit down and paying $70/mo for tv/phone/internet + equipment rentals, taxes, and extras.
Now Comcast being Comcast their installer fucked up the setup and it took me fighting with 3 different customer no-service call center folks, including 1 "supervisor", and then a drive to a local store to talk to a native english speaking human in person to finally get someone to understand the concept that should the elderly woman living alone with serious medical issues have a problem and her medical emergency button not be able to summon help due to their installers mistakes Comcast might have a serious liability problem and they should probably send a second tech TODAY to correct the problem.
But other than that minor hiccup it's great, infinitely better service than Fontier was providing.
There are costs to sue, depending on the state. While the lawyer may provide their services contingent on a victory there are other costs, depositions, travel, etc, that the plantif must pay themselves. My step mother is bringing a sexual harassment suit against a former employer and she and my dad have had to pay a ton out of pocket over the last 2 years that the case has dragged it's way through the court. And also there is no guarentee that even if they win they will get that full ammount back.
And if you're upset at the cost of health insurance maybe if we didn't charge people ridiculous prices for things the insurance wouldn't be so high. My grandfather needed a catheter recently and occasionally it would get blocked. Part of the unblocking process used a saline solution. First of all he needed a perscription to get it, yes, a perscription for salt water. And second the pharmacist told me the street cost without a perscription and insurance billing was $10 US per quarter liter. So maybe if we didn't charge people $40 US per liter for salt water and other such insanity health insurance wouldn't be so high.
What I find interesting about this case is of all the plantiffs listed only Gamestop and Wal-Mart really possibly did anything wrong. Sony made the Playstation. But all it does is execute instructions on a disc, it has no way of knowing if those instructions depict mass murder or fluffy bunnies hopping through a field. Take-Two made a game, but it's appropriately rated for it's content. Gamestop and Wal-Mart sold the game but for all we know he had a parent with him when he bought it so even in this case possibly nothing was done wrong.
But this is Amerika and it's always someone elses fault, and the someone else is always the one with the biggest pockets.
My stepmother has had a sexual harassment suit going for about two years now. It has probably another year to go before she gets a judgement. This has cost a substantial ammount of money on her part to keep it going. Her former employer hired a known harasser who, surprise, surprise was up to the same old tricks when he got the job where she worked. And when I say known I mean there were several articles written in newspapers about this guy, articles the employer knew about before they hired him. Yet here we are two years later and the case is still snailing its way through the legal system.
But stop the presses! Someone is helping people deprive a multi-gazillion dollar industry with more money then God and more profits then it's ever seen before of a few more bucks! Call out the national guard!... wait, they're elsewhere. Uh... get them a judgement in a few weeks!
I'm am truely disgusted to be an American now days. Screw the people. Screw social responsibility. All bow down before the Gods of Profit, Greed, and Capitalism.
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So this. I just made the switch from Frontier to Comcast for my mom. On Frontier she was getting 768k up, 1.5 mbit down and paying something like $90/mo for that "broadband" and phone service. With services consolidated under Comcast she's getting 6mbit up, 90 mbit down and paying $70/mo for tv/phone/internet + equipment rentals, taxes, and extras. Now Comcast being Comcast their installer fucked up the setup and it took me fighting with 3 different customer no-service call center folks, including 1 "supervisor", and then a drive to a local store to talk to a native english speaking human in person to finally get someone to understand the concept that should the elderly woman living alone with serious medical issues have a problem and her medical emergency button not be able to summon help due to their installers mistakes Comcast might have a serious liability problem and they should probably send a second tech TODAY to correct the problem. But other than that minor hiccup it's great, infinitely better service than Fontier was providing.
There are costs to sue, depending on the state. While the lawyer may provide their services contingent on a victory there are other costs, depositions, travel, etc, that the plantif must pay themselves. My step mother is bringing a sexual harassment suit against a former employer and she and my dad have had to pay a ton out of pocket over the last 2 years that the case has dragged it's way through the court. And also there is no guarentee that even if they win they will get that full ammount back.
And if you're upset at the cost of health insurance maybe if we didn't charge people ridiculous prices for things the insurance wouldn't be so high. My grandfather needed a catheter recently and occasionally it would get blocked. Part of the unblocking process used a saline solution. First of all he needed a perscription to get it, yes, a perscription for salt water. And second the pharmacist told me the street cost without a perscription and insurance billing was $10 US per quarter liter. So maybe if we didn't charge people $40 US per liter for salt water and other such insanity health insurance wouldn't be so high.
What I find interesting about this case is of all the plantiffs listed only Gamestop and Wal-Mart really possibly did anything wrong. Sony made the Playstation. But all it does is execute instructions on a disc, it has no way of knowing if those instructions depict mass murder or fluffy bunnies hopping through a field. Take-Two made a game, but it's appropriately rated for it's content. Gamestop and Wal-Mart sold the game but for all we know he had a parent with him when he bought it so even in this case possibly nothing was done wrong.
But this is Amerika and it's always someone elses fault, and the someone else is always the one with the biggest pockets.
My stepmother has had a sexual harassment suit going for about two years now. It has probably another year to go before she gets a judgement. This has cost a substantial ammount of money on her part to keep it going. Her former employer hired a known harasser who, surprise, surprise was up to the same old tricks when he got the job where she worked. And when I say known I mean there were several articles written in newspapers about this guy, articles the employer knew about before they hired him. Yet here we are two years later and the case is still snailing its way through the legal system. But stop the presses! Someone is helping people deprive a multi-gazillion dollar industry with more money then God and more profits then it's ever seen before of a few more bucks! Call out the national guard! ... wait, they're elsewhere. Uh... get them a judgement in a few weeks!
I'm am truely disgusted to be an American now days. Screw the people. Screw social responsibility. All bow down before the Gods of Profit, Greed, and Capitalism.