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Comment Re:I remember when the phone companies (Score 2) 37

Also, if they found you were using an extra line or a phone not authorized for that line...they'd confiscated the phone cord AND phone!

This was a plot point in an episode of Kolchak The Night Stalker. "The Knightly Murders" (Season 1, Episode 11)

It was based on an actual event which made national news.

Comment Re:alito barrett and thomas dissent (Score 1) 97

"To be fair, both sides have uniformly supported measures to increase the government's control over the citizenry."

The difference is one side doesn't want political or legal oversight of those controls.

Judge: "Release these documents."
Lawyer: "Sure."
Months later...
Judge: "I said release these documents!"
Lawyer: "We are. We're just doing it slowly."
Months later...
Judge: "RELASE-THE-DOCUMENTS!"
Lawyer with headphones on playing a phone game: "Sorry your honor. My boss says I don't have to listen to you anymore. And you don't have the right to put me in jail. Nor any of them in jail. So relax and go with the flow."

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