Ultimately, the industry itself loses out because it creates an arena where a lower perceived value for the service itself cuts across all the vendors.

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We're lookin' to you to spill the beans on picture quality, customer service, uptime, perceived value -- the down and dirty details that can only be found by interrogating others.

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Modern society has amply demonstrated its willingness to abandon its convictions for the sacredness of privacy whenever the usefulness of a service, technology or reward outweighs the perceived creepiness of the associated privacy intrusion.

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Traditional cable service is based on charging based on the perceived value of content HBO costs a lot more than C-SPAN even though they may consume identical amounts of bandwidth.

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Since a segment of the population believes businessmen to be amoral or immoral by nature, the base motivation of profits is tolerable in, for example, the retail, manufacturing, and financial service sectors only as a necessary motivation due to the perceived flawed character of the individuals involved.

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Brent then ranted about his perceived mis-treatment at the hands of police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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On Wednesday evening, the microblogging service suspended the account of Operation: Payback, a group most recently devoted to launching cyberattacks against anyone perceived as an enemy of WikiLeaks.

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