Thursday, June 12, 2014

Advertising, Privacy, Security, Trust, Identity Theft we Pay For

We pay for our Internet Service, so we should be able to block out / opt out all Advertising period...especially for all the Websites we visit and do business with through our subscriptions and purchases.   

Downloadable programs/apps, which offer you to buy their program in order to opt out from advertisements, no Ads...sure they will get you another way, 3rd party cookies, spyware, adware

How many Internet Users/Shoppers do not like Salespersons to begin with.   We are inundated with Ads on TV, everywhere we go a Sign/Billboard, Newspapers, someone on the street waving a sign 3 Pizza's for #15

The Internet is TOO Busy with Clutter...all vying for the Users Attention, as if we do not know what to buy, or haven't purchased & used products already in our day to day lives.  All the while Costs go up, someone has to pay for the Advertising, its not Free. 


Same of downloading Programs/Apps that install Adware, Malware, Annoyances, Tracking Spyware and you are left trying to get rid of it or uninstalling leaves something annoying behind as a reminder.  Cookies you cannot eat, more like the Carrot hoping you use their shopping cart, without a horse.  Or slogans, "The More You Buy The More You Save" and look at all the Security Breeches of these companies Computer systems and theft of Customer Personal Information and Credit Card information....however all the while they want you to Trust Them, your information is safe with us.


How many sites that we visit, will we spend the time Opting out, if that is even an option.

Major Companies, Banks & Financial Institutions, Credit Card companies, Medical & VA, Government on all levels and we the Consumer/Users are paying the price, flipping the bill.  And look at the difficulty to resolve issues, Contact Us by E-Mail, here fill this online form out....a Phone Number to call, so you can listen to a few Recorded Messages or Options 1-9, sometimes 0, Press 1 for we all know what that recorded message is...and "Your Call Maybe Recorded for Training Purposes or to help Us Better to Serve You or Improve Our Service?


How many minutes or hours will it take to resolve an issue, not of our doing on the phone.  You Call will be answered in the order received, your wait time is 5-45 minutes or longer.
 

We Value Your Service as Customers are important part of our business, our main resource that will make our business succeed or fail.  Customers provide businesses information on the quality of our products and/or services offered.   It is therefore critical to ensure that the business offers Customer Satisfaction.

How Satisfied are we Really, of course Company's Online or in the Mail Surveys, are formatted in away that it never asks the right questions or how you really feel about their product or service.

I wonder if Business Owners, Corporation CEO's, other position titles of high up Administration endure Advertising they do not want, same as the Consumer/Users.  

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Debate over freeing Sgt. Bergdahl

as a Former Marine, Nam Era Vet & Veteran of the Cold War...a President once said, "No nation can negotiate with terrorists. "Terror must be stopped.  No nation can negotiate with terrorists.  For there is no way to make peace with those whose only goal is death." George W. Bush, Rose Garden April 4, 2002

Whatever the circumstances were the day of Sgt. B. Bergdahl's capture, the fact remains 5 Taliban Terrorists Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Norullah Noori, and Mohammad Nabi Omari.   A Taliban army chief of staff, a Taliban deputy minister of intelligence, a former Taliban interior minister, and two other senior Taliban figures...were released in exchange for Sgt. B. Bergdahl.

My biggest concern is that this will jeopardize the lives of Americans, whether in Uniform or Not, as the decision to deal with Terrorist, sends the message America will trade 5 Terrorist for One American.  A Bounty has been placed on American's.

I would like to know how the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) a body of senior uniformed leaders of the Dept. of Defense, who advise our Secretary of Defense, Homeland Security Council, National Security Council and the President of the United States on military matters, would allow this Exchange...and

...that Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The Associated Press as criticism mounted in Congress about releasing five high-level Taliban detainees in exchange for Bergdahl.  The Army might still pursue an investigation, Dempsey said, and those results could conceivably lead to desertion or other charges.

So now turn the Spotlight on Sgt. B. Bergdahl, to skirt around the fact the US President & those who backed the decision to deal with Terrorists, is a slap in every American's face, including Our Veteran's, Active Military, the families of American's who have fought and died for Our Freedom.

and President B. Obama, military service ?

What will be the ramifications of this act in trading high-level Terrorist detainees, who are now in Qatar, whose government has promised to restrict their movements for one year.  Something else hard to swallow or believe.

Will American's look upon it as an act of treason by our own Government.  That the President may have violated laws in place to notify Congress 30 days before any prisoners are transferred from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

And of the Military Active Duty serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, or overseas affect their Mission, themselves Personally (morale & ethics), or even those who were thinking of joining Our Armed Forces, this act in deciding to make the exchange and in carrying it out...hurts deeply and the price American's may pay as a result.