From today forward, Congress may write laws to state "We intend for this bill to make [some given thing] better." and it shall fall to the Supreme Court to interpret that into reality. Whatever makes it work is within the power of the Supreme Court, as we've seen today. If they can say that the intention was the opposite of the language used, and enforce their interpretation of that intention, they can say anything. Brave new world!

Clearly you misunderstand... US ought to be the top, is the top, and mine was an expression of pride at that fact. Hope this clarifies.

... 'cause: 'Merica! Oo RAH!

This is what happens when any nation takes it upon themselves to try to legislate the internet: mindnumbingly stupid legislation. We edge closer to this trap each day ourselves.

Did they really say "[they] know of no fires in real-world crashes" and then explain how they happened in the same paragraph?

I'm not sure if this applies or not, but it might be worth investigating... you might now be able to close your Verizon account without incurring the (normally ginormous) cancellation fee, as this could represent an unauthorized change in the terms of your agreement with Verizon.

This has been done in years past based on changing fees for SMS and other rate changes. *It might be a stretch, as it is a fee for specific methods of payment vs a fee for a service provided, but you be able to make it work.

Hope this provides food for thought.

This would be more meaningful if we had stats on the number of issues vs. number of phones sold, and comparison numbers for other types of phones. Currently, as suggested above, this could also, easily, be interpreted as "Wow, so few Software issues they ROCK!"

I can call my Dr for appointment this very morning, have an MRI immediately after, and begin treatment this afternoon. All for a $20 co-pay. We've been led to believe that many other nations' citizens have to wait greater than a few hours to get in for many specialists and tests. Also, I know it's easy to think of yours as free, but your taxes pay for it. I do have health insurance, which I pay for along with my employer... and you pay for yours, too... through taxes. All this does is divert Medicare funding ($500B of funding comes from Medicare, which is bankrupt already), raise taxes ($496B of funding is from tax increases/fees), raise insurance premiums (to recover costs of preexisting conditions and mandated coverage for things like Abortion... even in policies for males), and dictate that everyone must now have it. The current version dictates that we must have a $12,000 premium for my family (4) or face $2500 penalties. $12000 is not free healthcare. My current healthcare (example above) cost a total of $10,000, so it would not be good enough. We actually have charities that care for people who need assistance but can't pay for it. That's what we're good at: taking care of our people without requiring government intervention. Our most impoverished citizens have color TVs with cable programming subscriptions, cellular phones, at least one car, and generally more than 900sqft of living space. Try not sound too superior.