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"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical." Arthur C. Clarke
My 2 cents, for what it's worth.
Why oh why would anyone actually buy into the whole insurance game knowing the actual results and outcome? You purchase monetary protection against an accident or an unforeseen event that you will not have the money for because it will cost too much at one time. If that event occurs, the company that you payed for that monetary protection can decide whether they actually have to pay for that event AT THAT TIME no matter what they guaranteed you in the sale of said insurance (check the fine print in any insurance agreement, they ALL say they can disallow for ANY reason deemed sufficient by them).
First, that means you are paying for protection that is indeterminate and apparently based on a monetary amount in that if it is a large amount the company you payed the premium to can say they don't have to protect you. Second, you are paying for protection that, if you know you are going to need it, the company you are paying won't protect you against anyway in that if you are healthy and have a family history that boasts longevity and durability and have no real need of insurance they will insure you but if you have an existing illness or a family history that speaks to future medical expenses they will not insure you.
If this is not organized crime in the form of extortion, what is? Think about it, what is extortion?
Say you own a business and one day a couple of individuals come into your place of business and say to you 'This looks like a nice business. Wouldn't want something to happen to it. We could insure it doesn't happen if you give us a little something each week (or month, or year, doesn't matter) to make sure it won't.' That's extortion, right? Isn't that one of the ways that organized crime starts out? Is this not a perfect example of the way they have operated throughout the millenia in every form of civilization? Is this just a literary device? Really?
Well is it any different when you see a commercial on tv that says 'Your children (grandparents, parents, yourself) are very dear to you right? How would you feel if something happened to them, would your relatives (children, spouse, parents) be protected? We can help insure that they are protected if you pay us so much each month (day, week, year, doesn't matter, they like to break it down to 'pennies a day').' The only miniscule difference is that they are not actively going after you trying to cause these monetary catastrophes that you need them for right? I mean, cancer isn't man made is it? Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon? Really?
Oops, more than 2 cents I think.
First, that means you are paying for protection that is indeterminate and apparently based on a monetary amount in that if it is a large amount the company you payed the premium to can say they don't have to protect you. Second, you are paying for protection that, if you know you are going to need it, the company you are paying won't protect you against anyway in that if you are healthy and have a family history that boasts longevity and durability and have no real need of insurance they will insure you but if you have an existing illness or a family history that speaks to future medical expenses they will not insure you.
If this is not organized crime in the form of extortion, what is? Think about it, what is extortion?
Say you own a business and one day a couple of individuals come into your place of business and say to you 'This looks like a nice business. Wouldn't want something to happen to it. We could insure it doesn't happen if you give us a little something each week (or month, or year, doesn't matter) to make sure it won't.' That's extortion, right? Isn't that one of the ways that organized crime starts out? Is this not a perfect example of the way they have operated throughout the millenia in every form of civilization? Is this just a literary device? Really?
Well is it any different when you see a commercial on tv that says 'Your children (grandparents, parents, yourself) are very dear to you right? How would you feel if something happened to them, would your relatives (children, spouse, parents) be protected? We can help insure that they are protected if you pay us so much each month (day, week, year, doesn't matter, they like to break it down to 'pennies a day').' The only miniscule difference is that they are not actively going after you trying to cause these monetary catastrophes that you need them for right? I mean, cancer isn't man made is it? Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon? Really?
Oops, more than 2 cents I think.
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gary231178
01:24 Aug 29
Was thinking the same, hope you are ok and catch you soon.
CptSpandex
15:40 Aug 28
were you hiding you tart long time no see
Ducard
08:05 Aug 04
Life insurance on your children sounds very wrong. Don't think we have that one.. YET.I like it when stores try to sell extended warranty on goods, another form of insurance that they make more money on than the goods themselves.
It's fun to make the salesman squirm before when you plan to say NO all along.
ABC
07:56 Aug 03
Oh well excuse that last, just checked in for the first time in a week and it was a knee jerk reaction. After listening to the [censored] that the messiah is handing out about his wonderful health care fix I feel even more that it is extortion. But now that I am done with the heavy lifting of the config [censored] on the mods I can get back to updating a few things.
ABC
07:50 Aug 03
Yes they are not guaranteeing physical harm if you do not pay, but it is emotional blackmail towards the weak minded who believe their claims of inevitable financial catastrophe if they don't pony up. This is even more morbidly presented with the life insurance on your child. If that isn't death in a bottle I don't know what is.
CptSpandex
07:46 Jul 30
lol class vid
Ducard
17:21 Jul 29
Uh rofl on the 2 cents.You may have confused the promises of the insurance industry; they don't guarantee nothing will happen they just promise to pay to fix it if something does.
Yes they are lying.
The other lot who proimse nothing will happen if you pay are operating a protection racket.
They are actually the ones telling the truth. Ah the irony.
Both parties of course increase the price on a whim.
ABC
18:24 Jul 21
Banned user and IP, although it will be renewed most likely. Will have to keep checking. Thanks Gary.
gary231178
13:30 Jul 21
Alan i banned sipakom, hes going round e107 sites spamming, done it on the lutonclan one, clanwebdesign and others.
Ducard
10:43 Jul 21
re: "Did he forget his skateboard?"That's not all he will be forgetting for a while, ooh me plumbs!
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At the time I was in the Navy and on that particular warship I had other thoughts but I have committed them to the watery depths that the Waddell eventually succumbed to and I now choose to remember only the good times and adventures I had aboard this proud ship (I do remember the others, at least the ones I can, but now they are funny stories about the willful nature of youth).
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She served the Hellenic Navy for another 10 years making nearly 40 years at sea total.
In addition to that, in the late evening March 17th 1987, she steamed full (all 4 boilers) through heavy fog to be the first ship on the scene to help save the USS Stark. The Stark had been hit by 2 Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi Mirage fighter aircraft and the Waddell faced down 2 more Iraqi Mirage fighters shortly after arriving on the scene. Fire crews from the Waddell, and later the USS Conyngham, struggled to save the Stark from fires and flooding until a 43 man team was flown in from the USS Coontz the next morning.
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