That's about the size of it. The lesson here is that you must provide your services under threat of force from government.

If this law does NOT get passed, it will become commonplace to get sued for turning away business, for whatever reason? Schedule already booked up? Too bad, go to court accused of discrimination. Going on vacation that week? Too bad, go to court accused of discrimination. Don't want to bake a swastika cake for the local neo-nazi ball? Too bad, go to court accused of discrimination.

Please take a look here:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/...

Every block where you see "Amateur" _not_ in all CAPS, Amateur Radio is a secondary use and not the primary licensee. You can see that there are no blocks that are allocated primarily to Amateur use that would be useful to cellular carriers.

420-450, 902-928, 1240-1300 are all government property that Amateurs are allowed to use provided they do not cause interference to the primary licensee.

If government didn't have a use for that spectrum, it certainly would have been sold already - certainly before going through all the trouble to move OTA TV to HD and reclaiming that spectrum.

Seriously, think logically for a minute. If the government could have opened up over 100Mhz of spectrum to cellular carriers by simply displacing a few hams, rather than upending the entire broadcast TV industry, that's the way it would have been done.

Those allocations do not belong to Amateur Radio. Amateur Radio is a secondary use on both of the bands that you mention.

I probably put the decimal point in the wrong place. Why do I always screw up some mundane detail?!?

What parts of it are breakable? Which parts are easy and which parts require moderate effort?

Assume we're talking about the stock Android phone encryption system.

You can't use a phone while driving, but if the manufacturer embeds a similar device in the dashboard, it's perfectly okay. Many newer mobile "infotainment" systems are nightmarishly complex to use and are far worse than a cell phone in terms of driver distraction, but these are a-ok apparently.

Are you kidding? My Armada handles like it's on rails compared to my wife's leaf.

If it was $5000 cheaper, and didn't look like ass.

STREAMS! He crossed the STREAMS!

I grew up on his 80's flicks.

Way too young in this day and age.

My phone is not like a wallet. If someone steals my wallet, they have my ID, credit cards money, and all kinds of information that would help them steal my wealth and / or my identity.

If someone steals my phone, they have, well, nothing - well - unless they can somehow break the encryption on it. I'm not aware of anyone who has been able to steal information off of an encrypted phone, are you?

That's what prepaid service is for. Crooks don't have great credit usually so would be paying up front.

If I'm a carrier, why would I NOT want to sell service to whomever stole your phone?

Since the carriers have no culpability in the theft of your device, the legal fiduciary obligation to the shareholders trumps any perceived moral obligation to you.

So does installing the Ask Toolbar, but I'll be damned if I can find anyone who knew they had consented to installing it...