in an email to Customer Service. The email included a PDF of my order acknowledgement from Amazon for the same merchandise I'd tried to purchase and been abused by [redacted]'s website for the attempt:
If you read the attached PDF, you'll note I saved a dollar on your price for each of the two units, and got free shipping as well.
Please remind your supervisors that every customer in the world can always vote with his mouse.
Remember, the NSA has people who capture ALL phone calls, etc. etc. The implications, even for non-corrupt politicians, if there are any, are left as an exercise for the student.
"The bottom line is the gain you get. The top line is the gain you deliver in return. If you provide the customer with a buy well worth having, you've taken care of the top line. That doesn't guarantee a profit, but Ford, Edison, Bell, Land, and a host of others have done right by the top line, and everyone was better off because of it. Naturally, the bottom line is important. But there needs to be something on the top line first!"
Rockstar is clearly a top-line and a top-of-the-line company.
Again and again we have been told, "trust us, we know what we're doing," but any evidence is withheld on grounds of "need to know" and "national security."
Trust and verification are siamese twins, joined at the heart. If you cannot get feedback on the results of giving trust, you have no reason to give it in the first place.
Trust is essential for society to function. Without it, conspiracy theories naturally take hold. Even worse, without it we fail as a country and as a culture. It's time to reinstitute the ideals of democracy: The government works for the people, open government is the best way to protect against government abuse, and a government keeping secrets from is people is a rare exception, not the norm.
He doesn't use the word, but given our ideal of government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," the NSA and their allies in the rest of the government are, in fact, committing treason.
This is great! The kit tells every potential whistleblower exactly what to avoid doing so they don't get caught before they tear the government a new one.
Look up John Harvey Kellogg on Wikipedia. It's eye-opening about just how wise and learned people were in the 19th and early 20th centuries, from whence come the quotes used for the image.
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As I commented recently to similar idiocy...
If you read the attached PDF, you'll note I saved a dollar on your price for each of the two units, and got free shipping as well.
Please remind your supervisors that every customer in the world can always vote with his mouse.
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Regulatory Capture By Another Name
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Read the Warning on the Label
Law enforcement of all kind has long forgotten what the Greeks knew.
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Did anybody think this through?
Case 1: Let us assume that the NSA can't crack the market and find out exactly WHO is selling a sploit and WHERE they are.
NSA buys sploit. Pays premium "NOBUS" fee.
Question: Just how does NSA enforce the contract if they can't find the seller OR find out whether seller has sold the sploit to world+dog?
Case 2: Let us assume that NSA CAN crack the market.
Question: Can NSA afford to disappear sellers? After all, if people who sell keep disappearing from the market, there will eventually be no market.
Also, if NSA can crack the market, the sellers might be able to as well, in which case, "Don't sell to the NSA" becomes a new mantra.
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"The value you give."
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Trust *REQUIRES* Verification
Trust and verification are siamese twins, joined at the heart. If you cannot get feedback on the results of giving trust, you have no reason to give it in the first place.
Schneier is right.
He doesn't use the word, but given our ideal of government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," the NSA and their allies in the rest of the government are, in fact, committing treason.
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On the post: German Publishers File Criminal Complaint Against Two News Sites For Mentioning Name Of Unauthorized Ebook Site
Jello Biafra already nailed this one...
-- Jello Biafra
Copyright is a prohibition...
-- Me
Any questions?
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Listing of Sehorne's Apparent Religious Principles
2. What you want is ... well ... God doesn't talk to the likes of you!
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Well, what did anybody expect?
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A Famous Publisher Once Commented On This
Benjamin Franklin
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On the post: Government Considers Dissatisfaction With US Policies To Be A 'High Threat'
Giving Whistleblowers a Free Training Kit!
Call it the Snowden Effect. :)
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Why $200 million dollar movies?
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Memetic Suggestion
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Catch Only the Most Inept?
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My Take On the Response Letter
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We have Hawking and Cerf and the modern era's Lavoisier, Aaron Swartz. Genius is STILL all around. All you have to do is look.
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Re: The Mouseover Quote
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