It's a story about how nerdy things like numbers get pushed aside in favor of non-nerdy things like prejudices and gut feelings.

What? Nazis and neonazis are very strongly anti-pedophile, to the point where they lynch innocent people because they got the address wrong.

The alternative to that deficit is completely destroying the economy. We aren't out of the recession yet, cutting govt spending during a recession amplifies the recession and you get a double-dip like in the UK or the 30s.

Hey, according to the Republicans Obama has been a very meek leader who would never hurt a fly!

7 billion dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to the amounts thrown around for fixing the financial crisis you Americans kicked off.

Bureaucrats need their 18 hours of sleep per day.

Of course they did, it has rounded corners!

Since we don't have Ceefax here I only have experience with Teletext but from what I see old people only use it when they don't have a TV program guide at hand. Also it's so bloated with ads for dubious phone services these days that it's really worthless except as a way of getting subtitles. A newspaper is more detailed, comfier and more convenient (because portable) and often comes with a TV guide as well. And that TV guide covers all channels, not just the one you've called the Teletext up on.

Hitmen? If it was an armed mugging they're armed criminals so sending in the SWAT may be justified. And legal.

Those cameras are designed to get a picture of the driver too. If you want your mug shot on the wall in a police station feel free to pull that one.

If the original owner sells it and then files it as stolen isn't that enough to report him to the police? If you bought a phone and it gets blocked as stolen then the guy who sold it to you committed either insurance fraud or is selling stolen goods. Both are crimes.

Sounds like seek and destroy is the right approach then. Dead men make no robocalls. We can deal with the people who hired them later.

If Osama Bin Laden was worth the effort surely robocallers are too?

When a car is caught by a speed trap and the owner of the car claims he wasn't driving it then he has to say who it was or receive the fine himself. Have that pass through the chain of connections and you'll track someone down. If they don't pay then disconnect them from all connections to the country. Allow each instance to tack a handling fee on if so desired.

Now that you mention it, those robocalls do sound kinda drugged up...