> and because the seller was a punk and refused to pay return shipping I threw them all away
That's not "punk" -- the seller doesn't want the garbage anymore than you do. Most vendors of inexpensive products don't want you to mail back returns. It's not worth it.
Were you thinking of something like the society mentioned i the article?
> So Mr. Johnson has started a single-issue union organizing campaign, EARN, for Employee Association to Renegotiate Noncompetes, and is collecting signatures at a website, noncompetes.org.
> The goal, Mr. Johnson said, is to create a “pop-up union” that would force EMC to abandon the use of most noncompete pacts.
In the example on the home page, the traffic from Italy to Norway, avoiding Germany, travels across the ocean, which means it bottlenecked through undersea cables, the most thoroughly tapped network links in the world.
This research is of aesthetic interest, not practical interest.