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About Me
- Rachel
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- I love being outdoors, playing sports, and doing anything active. I love to sing and dance. I LOVE laughing! I love playing games and hanging out with friends and family.
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
3 comments:
I've already had my fun with these guys--good luck!!!
grrrr... it says I've completed the offer now under status, but I have to refer friends... and five of them have to complete an offer in order for me to get the iPod... is the fact that they didn't say that at first enough reason to try to get the iPod now by calling the authorities? hehe... like I'm gonna be able to get five people to do it!!! grrr... what do you think about them changing their requirements??
It can never be a bad thing to threaten legal action. It only makes costs go up in every way for every person, especially consumers. This is the chain that takes place: company X wants advertising so it contacts Y. Y says it will offer advertising for 1 unit. after 3 months, Y is threatened with 16 lawsuits for misleading advertising. Y contacts X and informs that Y must raise its advertising price from 1 to 1.001 units per ad in order to cover the cost of the potential liability that it faces as an advertiser. (Y must have been new to the business, otherwise those liability costs would have been included in the original price.) X must have advertising and Y is the best there is, so X agrees to pay Y the additional .001 unit per ad. X in turn to cover its increased costs, charges the consumer an additional .01 per sale, thinking that it probably takes, on average, about 10 ads to induce each consumer to buy X's widgets. This scenario is overly simplistic, of course, for the reasons mentioned, but also b/c of the fact that all companies like X and Y would carry liability insurance to protect against the risks of liability on various types of claims, which has already increased consumer costs. Based on all of the foregoing, I recommend suing and threatening to sue as much as possible, as the only possible outcome is to make life much more expensive each day. In turn, a higher cost to maintain a similar lifestyle that we enjoy now, results in more work and less play. While wages maintain constant and prices rise, higher educated people begin to fill formerly unskilled positions. This in turn leads to greater efficiency and higher productivity, which, in the end, puts more money, yet, into the pockets of corporations. So you see, the true effect of litigation is to make everyone work more, earn less, and increase our boss' bottom line. I say do it.
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