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New Bill to Clarify Cellphone Contracts

kp: "The Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007 will require wireless service providers to share simple, clear information on their services and charges with customers before they enter into long-term contracts; a thirty-day window in which to exit a contract without early termination fees; and greater flexibility to exit contracts with services that don't meet their needs."
Ash: ENJOY YOUR NSA-APPROVED TRACKING DEVICE, CITIZEN!
rovar: (a rider to the bill requires that all electronic summaries be stored in the OOXML format)

Richard Dawkins on Christopher Hitchens

The Barefoot Bum: Doubt, faith, certainty and conviction

seti: "To the skeptic doubt is not an attitude of non-conviction. It is rather a tool: It is the process itself of subjecting our beliefs to both logical and sensible scrutiny, and the commitment to accept only those beliefs which pass that scrutiny.
seti: We are convinced because we doubt, because we ourselves have subjected the belief to the scrutiny of reason. Doubt in this sense is the expression of uncertainty: One can be certain of a belief only to the extent that evidence--or even logic--is irrelevant to that belief."
   

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