Phones are the modern pocketwatch.

Maybe the pythons will get them and be poisoned.

That's great advice. "Commit a felony to find out who's trying to leach off your WiFi." I think there are better solutions.

Come on folks, this are very easy issues to resolve. Don't buy one. You, the consumer, will be deciding whether MS succeeds or fails in this attempt to convert you from owners to renters.

Sorry, my mistake. :)

So, why even bother suggesting it if you feel it's a waste of time?

In the time it took you to make this post, you could have just done it yourself. :)

Buy low, sell high!

Swapping the SIM is a full transfer of all credentials and the phone number itself. No idea about third-party devices capable of using the Verizon network, though.

Nope, the entire "activation" of the phone is on the SIM. Phone number and everything swaps when you swap cards.

All of Verizon's LTE phones use SIM cards. If you upgraded to a 4G phone before the grandfathering of Unlimited plans was revoked (like I did), you can do everything you're talking about and still keep the unlimited 4G plan.

Yep, same boat here. I'll be buying my phones second-hand and just swapping the LTE SIM card over to my "new" ones from now on to keep my unlimited plan.

I did say "almost never," not "never." And that's true. If you look at the preponderance of cases, the vast majority of gun crimes are committed by (stand by for the shock!) violent criminals who are already legally barred from having guns. Barring law-abiding citizens from having them ability to protect themselves against people who already are not allowed to possess firearms but do so anyway isn't helping anyone. Except the criminals.

You can't solve a sociological problem by simply stripping rights away from the people who don't contribute to that problem.

I also absolutely agree that a legal gun-owner who does commit a crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But when has that ever been in question?

Are you suggesting that the police did a better job protecting her? At least the guns were actually there and gave her the possibility of protection.

Right. That's why US soil was occupied by a hostile nation in the 20th century.