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Comment Re:Damn insurance companies! (Score 1) 548

I selected airlines because they are second on my list. Insurance companies are by far the most evil companies I have ever dealt with. You are basically forced to get them if you buy a home or drive a car. My favorite this is my medical insurance. If you ever read the statement they send you, you will see this crap. You are charged $150 for a procedure your dr says you need. They say the standard price is $100. (How is it standard if every dr. charges more than the standard price) Your 20% portion $20. Insurance Adjustments $77. Insurance company pays $3 (100-77-20). So in the end the insurance company pays $3, you pay $70 ($150-$100 for the overage and $20 for your portion.) So the insurance company makes money by screwing you and the dr. This is also the reason for the increase in healthcare cost. The dr has to adjust his rates to cover their cost and make a profit. So they get $73 on a $150 charge. If it were illegal for doctors to charge uninsured people more than medical insurance companies then we really would not have much use for them. All they do is reduce what we pay, they seldom pay any significant amount for us.

Comment How is it an Ulterior Motive? (Score 1) 508

How is it an Ulterior Motive? Microsoft is a corporation driven by money and profits. They will not do anything to help any one they see as potential competition. We have seen this time and time again. How could anyone not living under a rock, not see this coming. It would be like putting a Nike symbol on a car. It does not make it a shoe and you should know better too. If you believe anything Microsoft has ever done has been for the good of anyone except Microsoft you...... It would not matter what I say there, you would have to be living in your own crazy little world anyway.

Comment Re:Screw'em! (Score 2, Insightful) 330

I do agree that we are to PC, except in the case of what is said about white men. If Sotomayor was a white guy talking about the plight of white men in this country everyone would have been yelling racism. But when you have an openly racist police officer, that is a totally different than just dealing with people not being PC.

Comment Re:Racist cops..... (Score 1) 330

I agree that this does not really fit on /. but I do find it troubling anyway. I think an openly racist police officer should be fired. If not, you get crap like Rodney King on one extreme and OJ on the other. Things like this make it hard to support cops. The youtube videos of police brutality out there don't really help either. I still believe most are good, but I feel as a whole they are worse than the general public.
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Submission + - One Million on Twitter

Stu1706 writes: I am sure a lot of people have seen that Ashton Kutcher has hit one million followers on Twitter. I decided to follow him until he hit a million. I don't really care what he has to say. I just like the idea of a news source outside of networks or newspapers. I know, he is not breaking news but regurgitating it. Kinda like /. Now it seems i cannot stop following him. Twitter will not let me. I can stop following anyone else. I have tried over the last 3 hours to stop following. I know I deserve this. I wonder if others are having this issue or it is just me. I can't blame Twitter for wanting to keep it over a million for at least a day, but this does not seem like the right way to do it.

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