8 Oct
2014
8 Oct
'14
11:07 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:04:45PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, no: they tell me that they are *billed* for each major incident.
There is a legal term that applies to this use case: "extortion"
John
--
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET
sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of
not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being
RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But
the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1908), English-American political writer and activist,
Common Sense, Introduction (10 January 1776)