Hot Air » Nick Gillespie http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Should it be illegal to unlock your own cellphone? http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/22/should-it-be-illegal-to-unlock-your-own-cellphone/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/22/should-it-be-illegal-to-unlock-your-own-cellphone/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:21:26 +0000 Ed Morrissey http://hotair.com/?p=245972

$500,000 in penalties and five years in jail?

The answer to that question is another question: who owns the phone? Consumers normally don’t pay retail prices for their phone, but instead pay an artificially low price in exchange for a two-year contract.  But are those prices truly “artificial,” or are the retail prices ridiculously inflated to dissuade the kind of free choice that [...]

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]]> http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/22/should-it-be-illegal-to-unlock-your-own-cellphone/feed/ 60 Reason: Establishment media getting even more establishmenty on Obama, drones http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/08/reason-establishment-media-getting-even-more-establishmenty-on-obama-drones/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/08/reason-establishment-media-getting-even-more-establishmenty-on-obama-drones/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:21:14 +0000 Ed Morrissey http://hotair.com/?p=243492

Switching sides.

The issue of fighting a shadow war against non-state terrorist networks has never been an easy call, not even before 9/11.  When and where to use military force, whether and how to capture terrorists rather than kill them or the other way around, what constitutes a “ticking time bomb” scenario and what it means for [...]

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