Should Verizon be allowed to handle money?
Here is a You Tube video that will let you know just how bizarre the mathematical reasoning is that is used by those who advertise rates and handle complaints.
Yes there is a difference between a dollar and a penny.
Yes there is a difference between half a dollar and half a penny.
But for two tenths of a dollar and two tenths of a penny there is NO difference.
(Totally WACKO)
Why because Verizon wants to bill you $0.002 when they advertised 0.002 cents per KB.
Apparently few at Verizon know the difference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ3Oz5JVKs
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Ralph says:
I remember hearing this billing problem a couple of years ago,
with a more complete introduction. The man was charged for N kb usage (of
something) at a rate *stated* as .002 cents per kb, but he was charged at
a rate of .002 dollars per kb, and could not get the company to admit that
these rates were not the same. To them a rate of .002 settled the matter,
since -- I guess -- it was the number they put in their billing computer
program. Evidently one had to be a very high official to know what was
inside the program. I suspect the rate really was .002 dollars and that
the transition was owing to some advertising executive who thought "cents"
made the rate more attractive. He seems to have been right.
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This article is along the same lines. Some of the first programs cut (we hope) will be math investigations and standardized testing.
ReplyDeleteReform math (like the dollar) is a massive ponzi fraud - somebody else's selfish truth.
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http://www.kitco.com/ind/Wiegand/feb032009.html
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