That's why I have a recall right now on my Lincoln Towncar for steering rod corrosion that could cause loss of steering. Also why I am number 42 in line with the dealer working on number 3. They have to order the parts one at a time for some reason. At least that is what I was told. So keep on believing that Ford is better... Whatever the voices tell you.

In the meantime, if it does lose steering ability because of this they too will find themselves at the nasty end of a lawsuit.

Wow... Just wow! Methinks someone needs more ethics training...

Well, disregarding the fact that you would have documentation showing the defect was fixed and when, an attorney for the defense should get that email tossed as evidence well before any trial based on the fact that it is the prototype and not the production vehicle. Apples and oranges comes to mind.

"Mental anguish" gets tossed routinely by judges around here. You get reimbursed for real damage only. That may include time, provided you can somehow show that the time it took you to do what was necessary to mitigate the problem should have been spent by the other party, or that other party could have spared you that "expense" of time by simply doing what was right (that includes the time you spend in court for the whole bullshit).

Mental anguish is routinely tossed but punitive damages for willingly committing an act is often awarded. The idea being to punish the wrong doer, usually a corporation, where it hurts them most... In the wallet.

The other alternative for protecting yourself from lawsuits (besides never using the words the lawyers will find) is to delete all copies of all emails, memos, and presentations that are more than 6 months old. I have heard about a company that tries to use this method to reduce its legal exposure.

There's a better alternative... Don't make fucked up shit that has to be recalled to protect people's lives. If a recall is necessary, do it as soon as the problem is identified. Don't wait for years to pass in the typical bean counter fashion in the hopes that less people will be hurt than product sold. Don't cover it up and pretend the problem never existed.

In short, do the right thing and fix the damned thing before more people lose their lives. That is, after all, what we are talking about with most car recalls.

Thank you. I hadn't noticed that.

Is there an upside down to the Union Jack? I seriously can't tell.

I am not the original poster but I think I can answer that...

Those services are no better than hitchhiking since there is no vetting of the driver. Insurance won't stop you from being taken to the woods, beaten, raped, robbed and murdered (not necessarily in that order)... The same goes for the driver. They are not trained what to do in a situation where the passenger may be violent looking to rob them. True cabs are designed to protect the driver as much as possible usually with barriers between the driver and passenger. True cab drivers are trained to take the shortest route from point A to point B especially in cities like London where cab driver training takes years.

As long as you have property ownership, you will never have a true "smart city". Why? Because people will do what they want with their own property and if it doesn't profit them in some way personally then they will not do, or more importantly fund, the things they don't see as immediate personal profit. Cities own the property that is considered "public spaces" and there is no immediate profit for the city in making the changes you suggest for the city government. In fact, there are tremendous costs associated with what you suggest. Good luck getting voters to think long term when they can't even think 15 minutes into the future.

His accomplice, Richard Justin Spraggins, who also pleaded guilty in February, will serve 11-23 months in prison and pay Comcast $66,825. Their operation purportedly cost Comcast $2.4 million, and Comcast claims that the loss has forced them to raise the rates on all their customers. However, the allegedly huge financial loss went undetected until a Comcast customer reported his/her suspicions to Comcast customer service."

So supposedly they lost $2.4 million yet the fine for one accomplice is is only $66,825??? And of course Comcast uses this incident as an excuse to raise the price on everyone including the fool that reported it... I guess the old adage "no good deed goes unpunished" applies here.

And here in WV the MCHM/PPH licorice aroma therapy...

emerge -uD world

Do it right... ;-)

And a third group people are totally forgetting.... Parents and students where the schools has said it will use Twitter to tell them of emergencies. They get the account solely to receive these notices.

*GASP* Whatever did people do before the internet???!?!?

Let's see:

Except for banking.

Brick & Mortor at their local bank. Many still do it this way today given the security nightmare that online banking has suffered recently.

And filing some legal papers.

Again, a trip to the lawyer's office...

Education

That's why God invented schools...

Weather reporting.

NOAA Weather Radio...

Checking commodity reports, which is very important to farmers.

Phone call to broker...

Rapid shipping of design documents to job sites.

USPS/ UPS/ FedEx Same Day Delivery...

Those are just a few I can think of.

Keep thinking since there is nothing that truly requires the internet.

So what's your point?

That a politician is beholden to the corporations? No news there thanks to the conservative Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United.

That corporations do everything they can to decrease costs and increase shareholder value? They are required by law to do this. It is their sole purpose for existence.

That a corporation that pays substandard wages has to be forced to pay a wage that allows their employees to survive? I think it is sad that they have to be forced to do that. They scream they can't get talent when in truth what they mean is they can't get talent on the cheap. If they had their way, slavery and child labor would still be practiced.