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Except you might not want some kloud-krap outside company storing sensitive faxes for you. To provide stable Internet, one needs some sort of wiring to premises. They can provide POTS over that at virtually no cost, doesn’t have to be a traditional twisted pair.

But if ones use a separate channel for POTS vs Internet which gets priority, it does away with any latency or QoS issues that VoIP has. Example: Verizon FiOS. It’s POTS over fiber, not VoIP since voice doesn’t use an IP network.

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POTS is also very reliable. As in works w/o trouble 99.999% of the time. By design.

Yeah, you can email. But some customers and businesses still work by fax. Not sure why, but that’s the way the world rolls. If you want their business, you have to roll with it.

You can also get a virtual fax, of course, but that usually involves fees.

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If I never sent or received another text message, I’d be a happy man. I’d love to have an auto-response. “Fn call. Ths lne dsnt recv txts u fn mllnil twttr twt”

Real life > Phone > Texting. Too many people think they can hold conversations via texting, and this is irritating as all hell.

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It’s not the service, it’s the quality of the electronics/mic inside the phone. And I choose not to use any service that allows for video conferencing, because people will want me to turn on the camera. Video makes me way too self-conscious. Either talk on the phone, meet in person, or STFU.

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It still sounds like crap compared to a good landline phone. Ideally a 2500-set, designed to last for decades and not sound like you’re talking underwater while drunk.

Personally, given the choice, I’d ditch the cell phone and keep a landline. Even if it’s a VoIP landline. Because, really, who the fuck needs an electronic leash? The trend of needing a personal tracking device with you 24/7 is execrable.

Interestingly, the new LinkNYC terminals mostly provide wifi, but they also do free calling within the US via Vonage. So I could live without a cell, and just check voicemail occasionally from a Link if I’m outdoors, or from my laptop if I’m indoors/working.

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NY doesn’t even rate based on age, only on location. I don’t think that rating only based on a few factors is so bad.

The whole point of ACA is to cover the sick. If their premiums become exorbitant, they’re less likely to get medical help. Downward spiral. Also, the sick are less likely to have a good income to pay exorbitant premiums.

Basically, the previous system was “you need to be already healthy to get coverage.” Insane.

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Genetics are genetics — one doesn’t always need to blame people for falling sick.

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Yes, it has to fit into one of five categories which define % of payment for services and copay. Catastrophic, bronze, silver, gold, platinum. The catastrophic is only available to people in their 20s(?).

It basically got rid of “streetsurance” policies that didn’t actually cover anything.

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I think the idea is that they at least won’t leave automated messages. 4 rings is fine.

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Three words for you all — special information tones. You know the doo-dah-dee sequence before “the number you have reached, EIGHT-SIX-SEVEN-FIVE-THREE-OH-NINE has been disconnected?”

Record this on your voicemail, faintly. Many telemarketers’ robosoftware will think it’s a non-working number and flag the shit out of it. Actual humans will hear your voice over the tone set and still leave a message.

[audio src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IC_SIT.ogg" /]

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Then his real sin was following the religion, not what he did. If G-d didn’t intend us to enjoy sex, he’d have not designed us to enjoy it (vs needing it to survive, like a ferret or a Vulcan).

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Wife probably hadn’t slept with him for years, yet expected him to stay “faithful”. Yeah. Right. Every normal human being has personal needs. The sooner we recognize this as a society, the better off we will be.

He was acting like a normal human with gonads. Nothing evil, bad, or unusual about it.

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Is it any wonder he sought female company from someone who wasn’t a vengeful harpy?

Honestly, I’m not sure why Americans care so much about this stuff. He should show some backbone, and say “impeach me. Dare you.” Then start leaking dirty laundry on everyone else he knows in politics.

Might as well have the biggest scandal possible.

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Of course, every patient is a little different, but, for example, some of these newer agents seem to make the cancer cells go horribly astray very fast in a gastrointestinal cancer patient. Within 3 days to a week of the first infusion, they have managed to cause tumor blockage…

Is there any evidence that the same thing wouldn’t have happened without chemo?

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They say a lot of men die WITH prostate cancer, just generally not OF it.

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