http://www.weif.net/rants/ The rants and ravings of an anoyed American. en-us Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:49:00 MDT Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:54 MDT USAA (a.k.a. United Services Auto Association, USA Autogroup, USAA Casualty Insurance, et al), is a very highly rated insurance company operating nation wide, providing a wide variety of insurance an financial services to active and former U.S. military personnel and supporting staff and their families. But what experience can you expect when interacting with USAA? http://www.weif.net/rants/usaa-reputation090730.php Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:06:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/usaa-reputation090730.php The city of Bozeman, MT has mud on its face after a fiasco of requiring usernames and passwords for job applicants, then lying about the policy and how and when the information was used. What does the city need t do to regain trust? http://www.weif.net/rants/bozeman-ethics-090714.php Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:19:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/bozeman-ethics-090714.php The Thought Police in Bozeman, MT Mandate that All Potential City Employees Are Too Stupid to Separate Personal and Professional Lives. http://www.weif.net/rants/privacy-bozeman-090618.php Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/privacy-bozeman-090618.php Texting while driving is a concern, but it is only one form of distracted driving. Passing a law to prohibit this behavior in particular is bad for a number of reasons. http://www.weif.net/rants/illegal-texting-090611.php Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:15:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/illegal-texting-090611.php Traffic enforcement cameras are a bad idea for a number of reasons. In addition to the violations of people's rights, including the right to a fail trial and the assumption of innocent until proven guilty, there is the inability to face your accuser in court. http://www.weif.net/rants/trafficlight-camera-090404.php Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:02:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/trafficlight-camera-090404.php An unreasonable and unnecessary law in Montana, designed to hurt businesses and restrict citizen's rights. http://www.weif.net/rants/montana-clean-air-090330.php Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:35:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/montana-clean-air-090330.php appropriate pay for elected officials to save money and straighten out the economy. http://www.weif.net/rants/elected-payscale-090227.php Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:00:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/elected-payscale-090227.php Good customer service is sales, but sales is often bad customer service. When you put service first, the sales will come along, but when you put sales first, the service can't succeed. http://www.weif.net/rants/goodcustomerservice-081214.php Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:41:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/goodcustomerservice-081214.php Bottom of the barrel support services from Microsoft - in contradiction of their stated policies. http://www.weif.net/rants/badmicrosoftsupport080922.php Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:10:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/badmicrosoftsupport080922.php The threat of nuclear proliferation and the possibility of nuclear weapons getting into the hands of terrorists is not the greatest threat to national security. http://www.weif.net/rants/obama-threat-080810.php Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:57:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/obama-threat-080810.php The Microsoft Genuine Advantage tool is just another piece of spyware or malware, this time distributed by Microsoft to spy on all Microsoft users. http://www.weif.net/rants/genuine-advantage-080413.php Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:15:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/genuine-advantage-080413.php Yahoo!'s support desk auto-reply does not match with Yahoo!'s actual support practices. Rewriting their auto-response so it sets the correct expectation with those users unfortunate enough to have to deal with Yahoo! would probably be a step in the right direction. http://www.weif.net/rants/yahoo-bad-service-080224.php Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:05:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/yahoo-bad-service-080224.php Not only is the proposed do-not-track list a bad idea for privacy online, but there is a much better solution already ready in the web browsers, the browser designers just need to change their thinking about cookies and privacy. http://www.weif.net/rants/cookie-tracking-071104.php Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:18:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/cookie-tracking-071104.php You would think that all the evidence of the benefits of maintaining an opt-in policy for your email marketing, and the drawbacks of maintaining an opt-out policy for email marketing, as well as the ongoing research that continues to support these findings, coupled with laws that require an opt-in policy and practice would have put the nail in the coffin of the opt-in vs. opt-out debate years ago. Unfortunately, some marketers want to be known as spammers and want to bring it up again. http://www.weif.net/rants/opt-in-vs-opt-out-070919.php Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:02:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/opt-in-vs-opt-out-070919.php Blocking ads on web pages is not evil, nor is it theft, nor will blocking ads prevent people from making money on web sites. http://www.weif.net/rants/ad-block-stupidity-070817.php Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:59:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/ad-block-stupidity-070817.php