We still today have heated debates over abortion rights.

It was ruled on about forty years ago wasn't it? Just because people are still grumbling is no reason to roll back the clock without it going through the courts again.

I've always suspected that the telcos took a huge cut of third party billing. Which of course is why they make it possible, don't call attention to it in billing and play the ignoramus when it comes to the basically fraudulent nature of the whole situation.

The cell carriers are better about removing the charges and refunding multiple months of charges (well, at least 2-3) as well as being able to block them. Qwest was always terrible on our commercial accounts about refunding crammed charges and claimed they couldn't block them.

I'm glad to see the FTC do this and I think they should go so far as to actually ban the practice outright, at least as practiced. If they can do it the default should be "blocked" as a billing status on all accounts. Third party billers with a high degree of fraud complaints should be banned and their names forwarded to the FTC for criminal prosecution.

On the flip side, it seems so lucrative and low risk I wonder how I could get in on the action.

Yeah, don't let dumbasses near them.

Smart quips and Burma Shave aside, I feel that neither you nor I are qualified for this particular Judgeship.

T-mobile refunds the last 2 years of cellphone service to all customers past and present.

That would be fair and just.

you need to learn how to read BADLY.

Wouldn't it be better to learn to read well, than to learn how to read badly?

And it would be good also to learn to write well. Your prior post is utterly incomprehensible.

If the employees are happy about how they're being treated, they'll do the best job they can, because they want to stay with the company. If they're not, they're going to do the bare minimum to stay employed while they look for another job at a better company.

More to the point, if your employees hate you, the urge to harm you in revenge is going to be part of everything they do. There isn't necessarily any calculation, or even conscious decisions, things just start going wrong. People will do their job exactly as told, refuse to notice any deviations from equilibrium while they're still small, and the chaotic nature of life takes care of the rest.

Spoiler: "DRINK MORE OVALTINE!"

When your time reaches 0, your "speed" reaches infinity. That'll be fun to graph.

Physical impossibilities usually are.

Now that you've proposed it, someone's going to hack a language entirely out of smileys.

SQL server is down and the boss is in the elevator coming to fire you is a pretty critical bit of information.

I get all kinds of stats from work and home, the Pebble has a full open API that allows me to do whatever I want. the Samsung crap is closed up tight with not even any promises of opening it up yet.

Most neurosurgeon bots are run on old PacMan arcade motherboards. I though that was common knowledge!

here in the USA I can point you at several buildings that have been "for rent" for well over 30 years and have never EVER been occupied. They were built and then sat there.

All over the USA there is crap like that.

have to actually be ethical and live by the ethics of the entrepreneurs who created them.

Nice optimism. As soon as it's convenient to separate the corporation from its owners (eg, when it gets sued) suddenly the soul's responsibility for the corporation's actions will evaporate again.

Also, I'm not entirely thrilled with Alito leaving open the government to decide what beliefs are "sincerely held".