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Comment We need more, smaller ISPs. Not big ones. (Score 5, Insightful) 59

Where I live there is one ISP. Spectrum. The cost of 1Gbit service is $129 a month. The service sucks. It's always having outages.

Where my brother lives, they have both AT&T and Spectrum. Both carries offer internet for $59 a month to his house.

We need more ISPs. More competition. Less mergers.

Comment Re:Be kind, please rewind (Score 4, Interesting) 87

The video tape rental business solved this type of issue by billing customers if they returned a tape without rewinding it.

Add an extra charge to a fare if they don't properly close the door. If the door won't close, they can report a fault to avoid the charge. It'll cut down drastically on the need to hire third parties and completely avoid the need to add automatic door closure systems.

This isn't quite the same. A video tape does not block or impede traffic if you don't rewind it. An autonomous car with it's door(s) open does. For these systems to be successful, they need to be able to self correct for errors, including doors left open.

Comment Re: Should be a sellers class action then!!! (Score 1) 13

Iâ(TM)ve gotten the opposite where a supposedly new item was clearly used/broken/incomplete/wrong and when I send it back they give me a hassle for it like itâ(TM)s my fault they shipped me a piece of crap.

Supposedly they look at return history of the customer to make decisions, but I think its crap.

I do wonder sometimes if the Amazon driver is not the one stealing, and both the customer and seller are getting f***ed.

Comment Should be a sellers class action then!!! (Score 4, Interesting) 13

My business sells on amazon and we routinely get returns from customers where items are stripped of their core parts, someone else's product, or just the package with the contents missing. Amazon does not care. They just ship it back to us and refund the customer.

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