Using this machine on the pleasure areas of the brain could become far more addictive than any drug around. It also wouldn't have the same medical side effects as other drugs. It's major side effect would be making people 100% non-functional.
I assume torture is defined in the Geneva Conventions. But I wonder if the definition would cover giving this to prisoners and threatening to take it away if the don't talk.
The example you give might be expanable. Your 17 minute call could have started at 3:28:01 and lasted until 3:44:35. Maybe if it's over 16.5 minutes, they bill it as 17 minutes. Having completed the call, you immediately call someone else. It takes you ten seconds to dial and that call begins at 3:44:45. I would expect them to log that call as being at 3:44.
Is it also possible that you made one call and your partner made the other one? Because you checked with him to see if the calls were his, I'm assuming you can't tell from the bill whose call is whose.
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Using this machine on the pleasure areas of the brain could become far more addictive than any drug around. It also wouldn't have the same medical side effects as other drugs. It's major side effect would be making people 100% non-functional. I assume torture is defined in the Geneva Conventions. But I wonder if the definition would cover giving this to prisoners and threatening to take it away if the don't talk.
The example you give might be expanable. Your 17 minute call could have started at 3:28:01 and lasted until 3:44:35. Maybe if it's over 16.5 minutes, they bill it as 17 minutes. Having completed the call, you immediately call someone else. It takes you ten seconds to dial and that call begins at 3:44:45. I would expect them to log that call as being at 3:44. Is it also possible that you made one call and your partner made the other one? Because you checked with him to see if the calls were his, I'm assuming you can't tell from the bill whose call is whose.