[ale] Incompetent corporate web sites (was: Ubuntu Linux ROCKS!)

[Thompson Freeman]

On 10/23/2009 02:50:39 PM, Preston Boyington wrote:
> wylde bill wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 14:32 +0000, mmillard1 at comcast.net
> wrote:
> <snipped>
> >> I think there is imperical proof Insurance companies
> work hard to keep
> >> prices down.
> >
> > I agree.  We now have seat-belt laws, car-seat laws,
> even laws which
> > make it illegal for kids to ride bikes or skate without
> helmets, etc.
> > etc.
> >
> 
> I've always been of the opinion that these laws were more
> about
> protecting the coffers than the people.  After all, if a
> person is
> disabled or deceased they can't pay taxes.

You may be correct about the protecting the coffers - as  
paying for the disabled but not dead yet tends to be  
expensive. OTOH, death for most of us is a one time cost,  
and likely to be a fairly limited one at that.