Then there should be a combination of carrots and sticks. As with littering in public, there should be fines.

...which is that the vast majority of these scammers aren't in the USA. Rather, they're in countries where corruption is endemic and there are lots of young people facing high unemployment rates. The authorities in those nations turn a blind eye or even condone the fraud. They certainly don't seem overly willing to co-operate with American law-enforcement agencies. Also, the international telco's love all this VOIP traffic. They figure that a criminal's money is just as green and crisp as anyone else's.

Yeah, I guess the Ol' Randmeister was sick the day they taught that in his med school classes.

Zuckerberg is almost wholly self-regarding. If something doesn't affect him personally, it might as well not exist.

'Bye, bye, blackbird!'

They'd rather be rolling coal to overcompensate for their skintag-sized penises.

This. They also do the exact same thing about the rapid increase in diabetes incidence by victim-shaming. They refuse to take responsibility for selling sugar-water.

Fuck off, you Randian lick-spittle. You're either roman_mir or his bondage-buddy.

...the top three stealers of fresh water.

It's interesting to note that, in many circles, Alzheimer's is also referred to as Type 3 Diabetes. One observation is that in dementia patients, neurones have become insulin-resistant.

Most neuroscientists now say the plaques are a symptom, not the cause, of Alzheimer's.

One of your sources is a celebrity-gossip rag? Please stop tossing Rupert Murdoch's salad, dude.

That didn't work so well here in Virginia with Verizon owning the lines and leasing them to Cavalier and the other CLEC's. What happened was that any time there was a work-order or trouble-ticket issued by a CLEC, Verizon would just sit on it for months, ultimately requiring intervention by the State Corporation Commission (Virginia's public utility regulator). The final result is that now Cavalier was bought for pennies on the dollar by Windstream and is entirely out of the residential market. The other CLEC's folded long ago.

This. Also, in light of the fact that California is literally a big dumpster-fire every autumn, you wouldn't be creating ever more housing in a hellscape. Diversifying the geography of the company's workforce is a more sustainable answer.

Right. And since the modern economy is debt-leveraged, you're untouchable for seven years after you declare. You have to rely on the largesse of family and friends for even the smallest of loans unless you want to deal with high-double or even triple-digit APR's.