On Sun, March 25, 2007 5:17 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lan Barnes wrote: >> industry to drug test everybody and the current crop using credit >> bureaus >> to illegally snoop in our lives. > > I have mixed feelings about the credit bureaus. It seems the people who > are most against them are the people with bad credit. I hate the idea of > them snooping on my life and informing peoples decisions about whether > or not I can buy a house, a car, or even get a cell phone. However, our > credit bureau system is a reputation system. I have done plenty of > business in places without such a reputation system and I can tell you > it is very inconvenient. I like not having to always prepay my cell > phone, getting a cheap phone on a commitment, not having to pay cash up > front for everything such as car and house, and being able to have a > credit card (instant loan) for emergency situations, etc. > >
Ever check your credit report? Ever try to get something false off it? They are unaccountable and they act like it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
