I see mold in my home every day....I don't see what the big deal is


Note to self ... one of these day's I should do those dishes in the sink.

And What do you classify John McCain's Presidential campaign to be?

And honestly the chances of a tornado hitting that exact same place and causing any sort of major damage is slim.

That's what they said about the Nuclear Facility in "Atomic Twister"

Directly from the Amazon/Kindle Terms of Service (TOS)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200144530

I guess that since they returned the money, the assumed a defacto reverse logic to the terms of their agreement. How many times in logic courses was it emphasized that:
if a then b
does not necessarily mean
if b then a
I guess they missed that lesson

However... further down in the TOS they state (as will be an argument for their defense):

and to be clear, they define software as

Therefore the content (the book) is not defined as software, and therefore the content, in their own words, is OWNED not licensed.

For those who had this book removed, you have been stolen from and should press charges. If someone breaks into your house, takes your PS3, and leaves $400 cash where it was, does that mean they are not stealing?

Many medical options already do, via incentives. My insurance company pays 20% of any gym membership I want to sign up for. I have a friend whose insurance company sponsored a contest for individuals reducing their blood pressure, and he ended up winning a high end exercise bike. They don't typically charge less, but they are actively increasing their "Value added" features to reduce the cost of claims.

MyRate by Progressive (as mentioned in the summary) has been around for quite some time (in select states) and I am a longtime customer. Here is how it works:

You get a computer chip that installs on the ODBCII port on your computer. Every 6 months (when you renu your policy), you pull out the chip, plug it into your computer via USB, and upload the data with your policy renewal request. You can view charts of your driving speeds, times, etc.

Progressive then offers you a discount percentage off of your base premium. They have an explicit policy that utilizing this chip cannot INCREASE your premium, only give you the option of a discount (in other words, we overprice our policy, but give you an option to recoup it if you drive less)

The discounts are as follows:
5% = participation discount
5% = safety discount (stay below 75mph and the discount is yours)
up to 10% = based on driving time / milage.

The 10% is calculated roughly as such.
At the beginning of the tracking period, you are given a 10% discount. then for every mile you drive, that percentage is reduced by a fraction. That fraction (something around 0.0006% per mile) is determined based on the time classification you drive. they have 3 classifications of driving time, low, medium, & high. High are times such as rush hour, and overnight, medium are weekends & lunch hour, low is everything else.

Ultimately, with both the safety discount and the amount I drive, I end up with somewhere around a 16% discount off my policy renewal.

It can be compared to the california policy, but in reality the current offered program seems quite different from the proposal.

Oh, so many responses come to mind...

Burn him at the stake!!!
or
What a resume killer...
or
that peg on the ladder is right between Dilbert and the Garbage man

When many tools required a minimum of 6 characters, I had to switch to 1-2-3-4-5-6 .... it's was hard to remember which password was which, until I bought a new set of luggage that conformed to the new security standards.

The real question is did anyone Not read this with a Shatner voice?

Be careful, that warm and fuzzy feeling is what you get when you're getting pickpocketed

Why are you having people spend money they don't need to?

Gold plated HDMI Cables are just fine.

Unfortunately No. The Homeowner will sue, be AWARDED millions of dollars, the company will file for bankrupsy protection, rebuild under a different name, and the homeowner won't see a penny. Winning a Lawsuit is easy, collecting on it is a completely different beast.

I guess i'm not the only one who saw GNB and thought Goliath National Bank (not Giant)...

They must be typing on an iPhone

Ahh, but they are... Just like you said from the linked comments "Bing stopped acknowledging provider requests."

Microsoft Owns IE, Microsoft owns Bing, IE6 uses Microsoft search options from it's own servers to provide service to third party search engines. They have now stopped providing that option, which I believe is grounds for a violation of their previous anti-trust case.... part of the settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies, part of which was this feature of the web browser.