My credit card company wrote to me saying "Your card has Zero Liability Protection", which scared me (what, I have no liability protection?!?), until I read the end of the sentence: "so you aren't responsible for fraudulent activity if you notify us." I would've called that "Infinite Liability Protection" myself... Jim Propp
I think this is a parsing issue, not a number issue. You read Zero (Liability Protection), while they read (Zero Liability) Protection. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
My credit card company wrote to me saying "Your card has Zero Liability Protection", which scared me (what, I have no liability protection?!?), until I read the end of the sentence: "so you aren't responsible for fraudulent activity if you notify us."
I would've called that "Infinite Liability Protection" myself...
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Good point! BTW, I've read that classical Indian mathematics asserted that 1/0=0. Jim Propp On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse@case.edu> wrote:
I think this is a parsing issue, not a number issue. You read Zero (Liability Protection), while they read (Zero Liability) Protection.
Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com<javascript:;>> wrote:
My credit card company wrote to me saying "Your card has Zero Liability Protection", which scared me (what, I have no liability protection?!?), until I read the end of the sentence: "so you aren't responsible for fraudulent activity if you notify us."
I would've called that "Infinite Liability Protection" myself...
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