It's horrible sub-standard health care, but still better than what came before.

And when the car breaks down, you find out that the warranty is void because the tires can only be filled with pure N2, and oxygen in the tires voids the warranty.

And, because the warranty documentation is separate from the manual, it doesn't matter if you read and memorize the manual, you'll never see that suggestion/reocmmendation. Other than the silly "return the car to dealer if the tire pressure is low" comment.

In 2001, I was Avaya's first order on SAP (or so I was told at the time). After delivering the wrong thing 3 times, a tech drove to the depot, and physically selected the correct thing, and hand carried it to the site to install. After the install, relatively easy, once the correct thing was there, the bill was wrong. Eventually, they billed us for $12k for a $110k project (after I sent back the first 4 or so bills for obvious errors). So I paid the $12k, and got the "paid in full" response. Never heard anything to indicate they ever found their error.

I've had multiple people tell me it's unethical to deliberately under-pay, but after months of trying to get a correct bill, should I go to collections over a wrong bill or pay one "in full" to stop the harassment of a billing department that can't get the right numbers?

About 5 years later, I heard is was still wrong more than right, though it did get better. It seemed like it would be difficult to get something so wrong. All the wrong parts showed up. Repeatedly. I saw the "order" and the delivery, and there weren't even the same number of items there, so it wasn't a part number mix up.

Why are you arguing this point? Do you believe the USA is the best country on the planet?

Which is why I despair of America. Last Presidential election, between Hudge and Grudge, 98% of the voting public voted for the lesser evil. And thus still voted for evil.

but should NEVER be part of a logical primary key.

I wouldn't say never. The odd case would be in the table held data by the minute or second or the like.

But, i share your adamant stand against it it nearly all cases.

The issue with any traffic engineer, is that there's actually no science supporting traffic engineering. It's voodoo. And if you say that to anyone who deals with traffic, they act like you dessicated their shrine. Sure, some individual parts have science (traffic flow). But when proven false (California flows better than stated, other places worse) they will persist on using the proven wrong models, rather than trying to solve for reality.

A human factors study into lights, and having the colors/flashing change to help improve flow/compliance isn't what they do. "Fuck you, red lights are read and solid" is the closest to a discussion they will have with you.

And when they do "fix" it, they'll charge the hacker with the cost of fixing systems they knew were insecure for 30 years.

The training and SOPs for new processes, at the very minimum. Perhaps new control systems for the "secure" interface, at the cost of billions.

This was not entirely unexpected, given the nature of the data (floating inventory moving through a factory and a warehouse- sometimes it returns to the same location in three dimensional space, but is unique in four dimensions). But it sure would have been nice if they could have given me a scan sequence number as well; a date time field is nice for reporting but should NEVER be part of a logical primary key.

I had to add the time field in to achieve a unique logical key.

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Good people not only permit it, good people vote for it. They want this to come to pass.

I'm looking at the effects for his base. Oh, not the fake base like the poor people in Ferguson who expected him to stop white cops from shooting their children- but his true base, in New York and Chicago, who expect him to relieve them of certain costs of doing business.

That is to say, the base that will provide campaign funding for decades to come. Getting elected is a side job to the eternal campaign.

What you fail to gasp is that the Tyrant, in his Benevolence, has locked up everybody- and is slowly letting out the people who do NOT accept his Tyranny. You've fallen for the lie that Hell is a punishment, rather than a reward.

Would be by running for city council, mayor, and voting.

The idea that a black town would have a white mayor, a white police chief, and a mostly white police force is very strange indeed.