That’s a nice amount. Maybe the Ukranians can also test that microwave anti drone weapon the US has.

This is how you end up with laws mandating paper cards with pricing information.

Get it out the door

The vote difference in Georgia was less than 12K votes…

I’m betting more that the excess mortality of republicans was easily 12k more than democrat excess deaths during Covid… The more hardline/republiQan/Nuts, the more anti-mask and prone to risky behavior during the pandemic, the more excess deaths… especially at the beginning with the OG (die-in-the-intensive-care-hooked-up-to-a-vebtilator) variant.

Excellent proof of why these systems should not exist under these conditions. Apparently it’s poorly managed and governed

Yup, same here.

Or in locations people don’t want to live… cause no jobs, or other reasons.

Was he wearing a track suit? Or maybe he had soaked his uniform in gasoline… Jezus.

Sure… mostly they do… but then captains are drunk, maintenance is poor and the insurance declines to pay… or drags that out through court for 2 decades… meanwhile governments have to foot the bill. The examples are endless unfortunately.

If the cargo is a few million barrels of oil now the problem of the government who’s shores it threatens… you don’t really care do you?

Yeah, and I read that the byproduct of nuclear power generation is plutonium which can also be used as a Hiroshima style nuclear weapon, not in the megaton range but probably enough to get the point across.

I wonder if they will now find the Emperor has no clothes.

Back to the original point… Phones are not provider locked. That’s not allowed. It’s a predatory practice.

Who said personal funds. Are you arguing slippery slope or moving the goal posts?

Here in the Netherlands they don’t allow carrier locking and still sell on these installment plans.

They are 2 separate services (telecom & financing) and thus cannot be linked at sale. That’s not an issue… why would it be different in the US?

I don’t know if this will be a big issue for small businesses. But in any case where there is construction of multiple companies in a structure to separate profits and losses for fuckery with taxes and fines, I think I would also be OK with that whole structure being seen as one entity and treated as such.

The billionaire class however is uniquely adept at this kind of fuckery and wield an ungodly level of power, only surpassed by governments. And I think governments need to be careful that these assholes don’t get too much power… so it’s high time they take them down a peg… or 10.

Shipping companies setup separate LLC’s for their ships so of they have an accident the ship goes bankrupt and they keep their profits shielded… that kind of stuff is bullshit

OK so you buy the phone on a payment plan… and credit check. Then once it’s paid off it should be unlocked.

Wha? The guy I responded to said the customers now pay full price up front. If a device is bought it should be unlocked.

Additionally giving away a phone for a determined time contract means that the company is technically giving you a loan and it should be on your credit record, require the company to do a proper credit check and be allowed to give out loans.

Bottom line, it’s predatory and should not be allowed. Noone is advocating giving 1000 dollar phones for free… it was a strawman you stuck me with… but I don’t want it.

They have ballistic missiles and plenty of nuclear materials. If the nuclear materials are weapons grade is doubtfull but not impossible