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Wednesday, February 1 2012

[14:32:30] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay Apparently I was wrong, and the "value plans" are contracted, but priced similarly to the Even More Plus ("EM+") plans. Something that I learned about the EM+ plans is that apparently most people got them while financing a phone from T-Mobile, where the consumer would put down a subsidized price and then pay off the remainder in monthly increments. This is the part that was exploited to the point that T-Mobile needed to cancel the plan.

Friday, July 1 2011

Forbes on the TSA
[15:21:09] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia “Until 2001, far fewer Americans were killed in any grouping of years by all forms of international terrorism than were killed by lightning, and almost none of those terrorist deaths occurred within the United States itself. Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer, or severe allergic reaction to peanuts.”

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf (Portable Document Format)

It's nice to see articles from publications that Important People read, even if this one's in the blog section:

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/06/30/time-to-close-the-security-theater/