While in some cases very public, there are no cases there where he was speaking under oath.
So according to this logic, if I tell the police you're stockpiling materials in order to bomb the Pentagon and they raid your house only to find nothing - you can't touch me because I wasn't under oath! Sorry, but that's not how things work, there are limits to freedom of speech [wikipedia]. If it can be shown that Cheney lied about Saddam having WMD's and links to Al Qaeda, he should be held accountable because those statements had consequences.
Cell phones are nowhere near as reliable as land lines, and all VOIP phones are worse. Not only that, but cell phone providers and VOIP providers save money by being unreliable, and there is no evidence that they plan to change their behavior.
I think you know this. That makes your lies fraud, in my opinion.
Yes, we all know that technology never improves and competition in an open market causes products to stagnate.*/sarcasm* Come on! What kind of sensationalist crap is this? Are you seriously saying there hasn't been improvements in cell phone reception or technology? Companies invest millions of dollars into R&D for optimizing their networks - I know because it's what I do for a living. Yes, cell phone towers are expensive to maintain and build. New ones don't get built unless they are needed (IE customers complain that their service sucks) or a company needs to compete with some better network. But the cell phone market is far from a monopoly - a provider can't just ignore competition that has better service. Customers leave. It's called the free market. Saying "cell phones will always be teh suck!" is just plain stupid.
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So according to this logic, if I tell the police you're stockpiling materials in order to bomb the Pentagon and they raid your house only to find nothing - you can't touch me because I wasn't under oath! Sorry, but that's not how things work, there are limits to freedom of speech [wikipedia]. If it can be shown that Cheney lied about Saddam having WMD's and links to Al Qaeda, he should be held accountable because those statements had consequences.
This is the most ignorant statement I have ever read. Why the hell is this moderated insightful?