Yes, that is always the reply from the "majority", the often heard "If you don't like it you just can leave" response.
These people ARE considering leaving. They are asking the company to change BEFORE they leave.

If they thought it was a right, they would have involved the government.
WHY do some dumb people seem to equate asking for a change or voicing dissent to a private company as asking for "special" rights?
And because you don't use FB you can't imagine why anyone else would want to. Shocker - other people want do different things than you do.

Odd how people who aren't in the affected group always call it "political correctness", and the people who are in the affected group call it "politeness" or "considerate".

How exactly does this change in policy hurt your tender feelings?

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Things that were true when they first came out have changed. Wow, that NEVER happens with software and hardware. Try keeping up with things.

In the perfect world where you only use systems you understand, the provider of the system is completely forthcoming with telling you how it works, including the limitations and things it can't do. (I suppose Richard Stallman would be the king in that world)

In the real world, sales and PR departments will shriek like banshees on a moonless night if you use the word "limitation" when describing your system.

By the way, do you understand how your city water and sewer systems work? I mean, REALLY understand it?

Not every state is like that. Must be nice.
Maryland is one example of a state where the police run tags at a whim. They used to call it in to dispatch, then they got portable terminals in their cars. On officer I know boasted of how well he could touch type a license plate number into his terminal. Then he got a laptop, and had to relearn how to type.
Many states have plate scanners so the officer doesn't have to take their hands off the wheel.

BINGO - private companies can store things for any "business purpose". They should just go commercial and sell a list of people who regularly drive around Wal-Mart to the Target marketing department for "directed marketing coupons". BTW, see the comment below this one about the guy from Florida being "flagged" by the Maryland State Police because he had a CCW permit in another state. No warrants, no record.

What the hell does license plate tracking have to do with suspected terrorists in Gitmo?

Ugh, not sure what happened with that comment. Last paragraph should be:
The TBO article says nothing about the driver being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.

They don't have enough patrol cars to pull over all the cars on the highway with that combination. They obviously ran his plate, looked at his record, which is probably clean, since he got a CCW permit. After that, would any logic suggest he was a drug mule? The police officers I know say the condition of the car and how the driver acts is more significant than if the driver is a Latino. How they are dressed factors in, too.
The article say nothing about the driver are also usually an being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.

They aren't replicating the DMV records. They are storing data and can map where your car has been driving. BIG difference. When they start giving out tickets because you "obviously" had to exceed the speed limit to be seen at intersection X and then 3 minutes later at intersection Y. Then they will question everyone the scanners saw within 1/4 mile of a murder. They might start pulling over people seen entering gun store parking lots. (Actually, they probably do that already)

Can you read? Slow down and actually look at the letters on the screen instead of using your apparent anti-gun stance to assume he was "waving the gun in the air driving down the highway".

Cause midget is an unacceptable term. My son has dwarfism, and shit like that pisses me off.

It also gives no incentive to be a driver if you don't need to be a passenger. You know, since you already have a car?
I am sure there are a fraction of the existing ride-share drivers who do it to stick it to the man. They are probably the same people who fly to another city and use that ride-sharing setup as a passenger. But then there are the probably a majority of the drivers using it as an income source. So if they have a way to exchange their accumulated and unwanted miles to cash, you are squarely in the service for a fee zone.
Sorry, but outside of hipsters, this would only work if you had some sort of "karma bank" for multiple services and goods. Then the drivers could exchange the karma miles for massages and escorts.

And yet others in the Slashdot crowd chant "use the bug tracking system". Seems like asking for a schedule to fix is part of that system.

I imagine there are more than a few Linux users who know what open-source is, but still don't know every nuance of bug tracking, They just want their stuff to keep working.

Is there any distribution that offers paid-for-support aimed at individual users?