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Comment Re:Too little and a decade too late (Score 1) 132

I too used to buy a lot from them. It started seeming like all the refurbished items were just open box and all the open box where just DOA. After paying shipping to return DOA stuff a few times I dropped them completely. I'd forgotten they even existed.

Comment Re:While Iâ(TM)d like them to figure out what (Score 2) 129

That's what the pharmacist is supposed to do, at least until they review the customer's prescription history and whether there is a medical waiver (that's not expired) from the physician saying that normal limits can be exceeded. The customer can wait a couple of minutes while the pharmacist does their job. If the review (which shouldn't take more than a minute or two) shows that the algorithm was was wrong they can hand it over. If to many exceptions are being granted then it's the job of the writer of the algorithm to figure out what's going wrong, either the algorithm needs to be adjusted, the pharmacists aren't doing their job correctly, or a combination. It ain't rocket surgery.

Except that's not what's going to happen. The pharmacist will just refuse to fill the prescription if it's flagged. They have no incentive not to just kick out all the flagged ones, and every incentive to do so. I've already seen this when I had a script that was 2 months old. The pharmacist said if it's still a problem you won't have any problem getting the doctor to re-write it. While that's true, I don't really like taking time off work and paying my doctor $100.

Comment Re:buggy whip salesmen (Score 1) 186

My guess is they were told they had to spend the money soonish for equipment and techs, when they currently have close to no current customers with electric vehicles and that's unlikely to change very soon. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one at my local small town Cadillac dealer with a hybrid, I could understand why they would not want to invest until the cars are out there. I understand Cadillacs point though too. If I have a problem that's very technical I have to bring it in on Tuesday because that's when the certified guy is there, and if it's something with the EV then I have to drive 90 minutes to a larger dealer. Cadillac has to fix that problem before they can sell a lot of EV's.

Comment Re:can't help but wonder... (Score 4, Insightful) 277

You can't really blame them for that. The loans were guaranteed, but not against fraud. So they were carrying risk, but not getting paid for it. The easy solution was to not accept anyone they didn't already know.

The logical result of the program was people who didn't need the money were first in line to get paid.

Glad to see Larry Kudlow's wife was able to get paid before the money ran out.

Comment Re: Taiwan (Score 1) 350

Yeah, end of January it was on the news that the factories in China were shutting down because of a virus. I'm not a prepper but I headed straight to the store and loaded up the car. You'd have to be really not paying attention to not know it was serious at that point. That's why it was so frustrating for the next month to hear "Everything's Under Control" when clearly it wasn't.

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