I have a low credit score, why? Because I never buy anything with credit, ever. House is paid for, and I buy cars (and everything else) that I can afford now. No credit, ever! That is why it should, if not already, be illegal. I am being discriminated against because I refuse to take part in a corrupt system.
I have lived in the United States all my life and have payed close attention recently to our legal system.
And I still am not entirely sure how our legal system works (besides getting paid).
"Would be fantastic to see them crushed down.....!"
Yes it would.
"FBI lawyers rationalized that even though data brokers may have obtained financial information, agents could still use the information because brokers were not acting as a consumer-reporting agency but rather as a data warehouse."
The FBI now has their own lawyers? What is our previously great country coming to?
'Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?'"
To me the worst part is that, in most areas, these ISP's are "natural monopolies". Being a monopoly, natural or not, completely changes the rules. As bad as the oil companies seem, they are not (as far as I know) going back to the automotive companies and demanding a tariff for allowing the cars to use gasoline. This would be considered "double dipping" at best and extortion as worst case. And the oil companies are considered to be operating in a competitive market. But the communication companies operating in a monopoly environment want to given this special consideration. Consideration not given to a free, open market. Consideration that they themselves wouldn't give to anyone who wants to compete with them (smaller ISP's, communities, etc.)
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I have a low credit score, why? Because I never buy anything with credit, ever. House is paid for, and I buy cars (and everything else) that I can afford now. No credit, ever! That is why it should, if not already, be illegal. I am being discriminated against because I refuse to take part in a corrupt system.
I have lived in the United States all my life and have payed close attention recently to our legal system. And I still am not entirely sure how our legal system works (besides getting paid). "Would be fantastic to see them crushed down.....!" Yes it would.
You have way too much time on your hands
"FBI lawyers rationalized that even though data brokers may have obtained financial information, agents could still use the information because brokers were not acting as a consumer-reporting agency but rather as a data warehouse." The FBI now has their own lawyers? What is our previously great country coming to?
'Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?'" To me the worst part is that, in most areas, these ISP's are "natural monopolies". Being a monopoly, natural or not, completely changes the rules. As bad as the oil companies seem, they are not (as far as I know) going back to the automotive companies and demanding a tariff for allowing the cars to use gasoline. This would be considered "double dipping" at best and extortion as worst case. And the oil companies are considered to be operating in a competitive market. But the communication companies operating in a monopoly environment want to given this special consideration. Consideration not given to a free, open market. Consideration that they themselves wouldn't give to anyone who wants to compete with them (smaller ISP's, communities, etc.)