Re: A simple proposition to fix democracy in U.S.

"Rico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"JoettaB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"rico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> ><snip>
> >> I disagree with your tax credit idea, I do not think
the
> >'state'  (in this
> >> case We the People) owes you the individual anything
for
> >voting. You in a
> >> fashion owe participating to the state as a function of
> >your duty to the
> >> state. That said I would not have the state come out
and
> >make you vote either.
> >> Of course a fair number of people do not register to
vote
> >as a means of
> >> ducking jury duty. A lot of places still pull juries
from
> >the voter pool
> >> rather then drivers licenses. I am indeed in favor of
> >anything to get people
> >> off their lazy butts and down to the polls short of a
real
> >reward (cash, Best
> >> Buy Bucks etc). I would not mind seeing local
government
> >wave bus fares on
> >> election day. that sort of thing. Maybe a weenie roast
or
> >something at polling
> >> places.
> >> At an office I once worked in, we did something like
that,
> >the local election
> >> offiicials had the poll workers hand out stickers to
wear
> >on your shirt if you
> >> voted. Our management catered in lunch for everyone
with a
> >sticker on
> >> Wednesday. In that office, 100% turnout. But of course
it
> >did prove the old
> >> maxum, there is no Free Lunch. I thought it was a
really
> >nice civic minded
> >> thing for them to do. Of course this bunch would do
that
> >sort of thing for
> >> blood drives,united way day etc.; they would bring in
> >lunch at the drop of a
> >> hat (it kept people from leaving the building and if
you
> >know nerds, they
> >> will work if they are near a computer. <g>)
> >>
> >> Talent on loan from Merck
> >
> >Hey, you're not Rico. You're rico with a little r. What
> >happened to Rico with a big R?
>
> Had a hardware failure on the computer that I normally use
for usenet, took
> Dell over 2 weeks to fix it. BTW my next computer will be
coming from
> Gateway or HP. Dell's support in India sucks BIG TIME. If
your problem is
> slighty off the script they have, they cannot handle it
and Dell has no
> process in place to deal with those cases. I invested over
8 hours of phone
> time trying to get them to make a service call that from
day one I said I
> would gladly pay for. On computers anymore, don't just ask
if it is an
> American company, find out where technical support is
located and if it is
> outside the US look at another brand of computer.
>

Agreed. I worked in the computer support industry for years
and years. It isn't the hardware. It's generally the support
that's the issue. Bad support loses business. Dell used to
be fairly good at support. Now.. they aren't. It will
eventually show in their profit margins. BancTech is good,
but hours and hours and hours on the telephone talking with
someone that doesn't even speak English and barely knows a
computer outside of the scripts that are being tossed his or
her way amounts to an unacceptable business practice.

But.... actually, I don't buy pre-assembled computers these
days. My work does. I don't. Too many of the pre-assembled
are either assembled out of country or by cheap prison
labor. I custom build. You should try it, too. Then, you can
select manufacturers with US supported internal
components...it's worked our very nicely for me and costs a
great deal less.


> On the bright side, when Dell finely got the Bank Tech guy
to come out, he
> knew exactly what to do and took maybe 10 minutes. It just
shouldn't be
> that hard to get your Dell computer worked on.
>
> With talent on loan from Merck