{"id":1339,"date":"2007-09-20T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T21:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:35:06","slug":"unintended-consequences-predicted-while-you-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences Predicted While You Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roosh body-slams A-Klo’s latest misguided attempt at populism<\/a> – a bill that would regulate cell contract termination fees and otherwise punish cell carriers for providing an inexpensive solution:<\/p>\n

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Why are there termination fees? Because if you haven’t noticed, Amy, a cellular phone, even a very basic one, has an acquisition cost of a couple hundred dollars to the carrier. There is no free lunch and there is no “free” phone.<\/div>\n

The carriers subsidize the handset in exchange for a one or two-year contract. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure everybody knows this.<\/p>\n

That is how carriers have made it possible for virtually everyone that wants one to have one nowadays.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
On the one hand, it’s hard to blame Klobuchar; growing up in a media family, spending virtually her entire adult life in government or pseudo-governmental employ, she probably has not the faintest clue how private-sector companies work.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Which isn’t much of an excuse:<\/div>\n
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So, Amy, what will be the result of your ill-advised and asinine proposal (assuming it has a chance)?<\/div>\n

Termination fees will be traded for higher activation fees and monthly access fees and equipment costs. Much higher<\/em> equipment costs.<\/p>\n

The Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act<\/em>? Even the title sounds asinine.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Being a DFLer means never having to pass a cringe-check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roosh body-slams A-Klo’s latest misguided attempt at populism – a bill that would regulate cell contract termination fees and otherwise punish cell carriers for providing an inexpensive solution: Why are there termination fees? Because if you haven’t noticed, Amy, a cellular phone, even a very basic one, has an acquisition cost of a couple hundred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-money","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76210,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/76210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}