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Remember back in the 80"s when AT&T was being broken up by the federal government?
I do, My $50 a month landline phone bill is now $12 a month. (yeah,I still have a land line, but that aside...)
Reminds me of this tune that just popped up on a playlist here.
(OK, maybe the popping up of the tune reminded me of the prior cost of landlines ... whatever ....)
American Comedy Network - Breaking Up Is Hard On You (1984)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
(wow, have to really search for this one ...)
Breaking Up Is Hard On You, song lyrics
www.protestsonglyrics.net
...
Do do do,
Down dooby doo down down,
The deal is going down,
Dooby doo down down,
The rates are going up,
Uppy, up, up, up, up, up, up,
Breaking up is hard on you.
Don't take Ma Bell(2) away from me,
I've gotten used to monopoly,
When they divest, then I'll be blue,
Yes, breaking up is hard on you.
This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
Remember when you make a call,
When you get through, no sweat at all,
Now we wait the whole night through,
'Cause breaking up is hard on you.
They say that breaking up is hard to do,
And so they put the screws to you,
Don't say it's fate my friend,
Including breaking up, they're jacking up the rates again.
...
So, the Federal regulation and breaking up of the landline phone companies was A Good Thing?
Yes?
A different viewpoint ...
American science put on starvation diet
www.theregister.com
... To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.
The agency responsible for promoting scientific progress in the US and nurturing national STEM talent has proposed a budget of $3.9 billion, 61.7 percent less than the $10.183 billion sought in FY 2025. Actual budget appropriations tend to differ from the sum requested.
Established in 1950 to advance science and national health, prosperity, welfare, and defense, the NSF carries out its mission mainly by making grants to American colleges and universities and by supporting academic researchers.
"This is a budget of destruction of US science," an NSF staffer told The Register. "Cuts of 65 percent to 75 in science, engineering and education will remove the United States from the world's map of impact, will lead to irreversible damage to American creativity, and destroy our country's GDP." This person asked for anonymity for fear of getting fired for talking to the press. ...
@#10 ... it's a factor in the analysis of "unusual." ...
Yeah, that's a concern I have about this current Supreme Court.
Going back to Justice Alito's pulling in of medieval ~rulings~ to justify his opinion in a case.
imo, that was not A Good Day for the Supreme Court.
But it happened, and I now must abide by it.
So, I have to ask, what factors might a Justice (or Justices) dig out of, imo, irrelevant law to justify an opinion on this particular topic?
Asked differently, the Justices (or one or two of them) seem to be predisposed towards a decision, and they seem to have to scrap the bottom of the legal barrel to justify that opinion that then becomes the Law of the Land.
That is a concern for me.