The arbiter would rule according to the contract, written exclusively by the company.
Plus it's the company that chooses the arbiter. The arbiter can expect future business from the company and not the customer, so they're always biased in favor of the company.
"We should declare that he who is not with us is against us. We must secure Afghanistan." - British Ambassador John MacNeill, 1839, prior to Britain's first disastrous occupation of Afghanistan
As a friend of mine found out, that doesn't always work.
- He buys a house. - It already has an alarm system. - Which is of little use, given that the police have announced that due to all the false alarms in the city, it won't respond to alarm calls without a human confirming the break-in. - ADT contacts him, informs him that the previous owner had a contract, and he's expected to honor it. - He declines. Not interested. Tells them to stop any monitoring. - ADT declares that it owns the alarm system until the contract is up, and he must let them rip it and all the sensors out. - He declines. He bought the house with all the fixtures. He knows the law; he owns the equipment. Any contract dispute ADT has is between them and the previous owner. - He also disconnects the power to the alarm system. - Weeks later angry police show up at his door. They've had several alarms from his home phoned in and confirmed by ADT, and this was the first time anyone was home when they showed up.
Just because it's not enforceable, that doesn't mean you can't be sued over it.
You could declare "it's not enforceable," and ignore it. But then you'd get a default judgement against you, with the court never considering the merits of the case or whether it was enforceable.
Or you could fight it and win. And still be out tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Courts often work on the "Golden Rule:" Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
[T]he Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.
It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month.
Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.
"Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available." - Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.
Someday we'll look back on this Presidency and laugh. It'll probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but at least it'll still be a laugh.
Re: Sheesh, minion. Internets full of scandal, and you run this?
The US government can use that information to arrest you, lie to the judge and your family about your location, search your house and seize your electronics.... thanks to confirmation bias based on vague data.
If you're not a US citizen they can ship you to another country and torture you for months or years before releasing you with an "er, never mind."
Again, he would've had a good point, if it weren't for all the other accusations and a thorough investigation.
This would not be the first time a group of females got together and lied about someone to fuck their life up.
Again, there's all the other accusations - not just from "a group of females", but coworkers and police officers and more - and an investigation thorough enough to spot a hoax accusation.
For me... all those coming forward should have done so sooner.
A woman accuses an ADA or judge of sexual misconduct. One who has crafted an image with his 10 Commandments and same-sex marriage stands and more as Protector of the Faith and all that is good and holy. In Alabama.
What do you think happens next to that woman?
C'mon. Be realistic.
but I damn sure going to be more suspect of your claim now that the person you are accusing is running for office
Well, sure. But the flip side is that once running for high office, your life gets put under the magnifying glass by both opponents and the press. That's NORMAL. And it's NORMAL for any skeletons to come out of the closet. When a reporter starts hearing the same stories about candidate over and over, they start an investigation. This is the result.
You are not the only person that got fucked, raped, or molested in life.
And....? That doesn't mean that you stay quiet about it when finally given the opportunity to speak out.
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(It's OK If You're A Republican)
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Re: Re: Re: Does it matter...
Plus it's the company that chooses the arbiter. The arbiter can expect future business from the company and not the customer, so they're always biased in favor of the company.
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Re: Re: Are you serious Clark?
"We should declare that he who is not with us is against us. We must secure Afghanistan."
- British Ambassador John MacNeill, 1839, prior to Britain's first disastrous occupation of Afghanistan
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Re: Re: Re: Does it matter
- He buys a house.
- It already has an alarm system.
- Which is of little use, given that the police have announced that due to all the false alarms in the city, it won't respond to alarm calls without a human confirming the break-in.
- ADT contacts him, informs him that the previous owner had a contract, and he's expected to honor it.
- He declines. Not interested. Tells them to stop any monitoring.
- ADT declares that it owns the alarm system until the contract is up, and he must let them rip it and all the sensors out.
- He declines. He bought the house with all the fixtures. He knows the law; he owns the equipment. Any contract dispute ADT has is between them and the previous owner.
- He also disconnects the power to the alarm system.
- Weeks later angry police show up at his door. They've had several alarms from his home phoned in and confirmed by ADT, and this was the first time anyone was home when they showed up.
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Re: Does it matter
You could declare "it's not enforceable," and ignore it. But then you'd get a default judgement against you, with the court never considering the merits of the case or whether it was enforceable.
Or you could fight it and win. And still be out tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Courts often work on the "Golden Rule:" Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
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Re:
You mean other than the endless reporting here of examples where they weren't on our side?
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Re: Are you serious Clark?
That's the point. Many Republicans support net neutrality, so Pai is trying to show the trumpsuckers that opposition is coming from lib'ruls.
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Re: Leadership
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Re: Re: Network Neutrality is just neutral propaganda
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Re: Re: Re:
Canadians are already warned about this when travelling south of the border.
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Before anyone says that he shouldn't have been carrying cash....
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Re: Re: These cops
"Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
- Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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- old saying
We can lower that number if we declare it 'research and development.'
- new response
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Re: Re: Re: Probably your assumption wrong: looks like Trump wants it out.
Trump is nothing like Hitler. There's no way he could write a book.
And his guide book isn't "Mein Kampf." It's Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order."
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Someday we'll look back on this Presidency and laugh. It'll probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream... but at least it'll still be a laugh.
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Re:
I'm not overly offended by the imagery in your post, but...
...the imagined audio for this one is too much.
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Re: Sheesh, minion. Internets full of scandal, and you run this?
If you're not a US citizen they can ship you to another country and torture you for months or years before releasing you with an "er, never mind."
Google can't do that just yet.
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"Cell phone located. Tasking MQ-9 Reaper, armament two GBU-12 Paveway II bombs, two AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles. ETA twenty-seven minutes."
"Defaulting to nearest Verizon device."
The problem was later reported to Verizon customer support, and logged as a probable exploding 3rd-party battery.
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Re: For all your insight...I don't think you get it
er, Can expect to be paid.
Standard practice is for a government official, upon retirement, to find a high-paying job with one of the companies they used to regulate.
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Re: Re: Re: Little details matter.
Again, he would've had a good point, if it weren't for all the other accusations and a thorough investigation.
Again, there's all the other accusations - not just from "a group of females", but coworkers and police officers and more - and an investigation thorough enough to spot a hoax accusation.
A woman accuses an ADA or judge of sexual misconduct. One who has crafted an image with his 10 Commandments and same-sex marriage stands and more as Protector of the Faith and all that is good and holy. In Alabama.
What do you think happens next to that woman?
C'mon. Be realistic.
Well, sure. But the flip side is that once running for high office, your life gets put under the magnifying glass by both opponents and the press. That's NORMAL. And it's NORMAL for any skeletons to come out of the closet. When a reporter starts hearing the same stories about candidate over and over, they start an investigation. This is the result.
And....? That doesn't mean that you stay quiet about it when finally given the opportunity to speak out.
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