It seems like you may need to catch up with the times here in terms of phones and fax.

Maybe 20 years ago phone calls and faxes weren't logged, but these days a tremendous amount of phone calls AND faxes go through IP networks via SIP and T.38. Both of which are easily logged.

FAX platforms these days typically do store and forward because of the inherent jitter/etc of IP networks. since you might have to try more than once to get a fax through. Many, many, many faxes are stored 'in the cloud' now just by hitting your send button.

Phone calls over the public telephone network are not secure and never will be as currently designed. Faxes use the PSTN as well and therefore are also not secure.

P.S. I am an IP Telephony Engineer and it's *very* easy to log/capture modify this stuff.

You doubt what, exactly? That masks work?

The cure is worse? Is wearing a surgical mask that much of a big deal that it's better to choose death?

We are talking about ebola(-like) here.

Actually... if we did that every time an airborne virus broke out, we would be in really good shape as a population.

What I'm talking about is.. he literally bet on covid going away. And he kept betting and betting (my cards comparison from the previous post), and doubling down and double or nothing on covid going away ("herd mentality?"). He did kick start the whole vaccine thing, but how much that helped is debatable... groups were already working on vaccines anyway. And then once he was no longer president he was pretty meh about vaccines, but by then all his followers already bought the coolaid and were booing him at the rallies (you can't make this stuff up).

And right-wing extremest as well. Look at all the televangelists that died of covid. ...and nothing of value was lost

The problem is, we started with a shitty situation... you know like the GP mentioned about how the orange actively lead a disinformation campaign against the very vaccine that was created during his administration.

And if we go further back to when the orange man was in power.. he actively downplayed covid and casually mentioned putting bleach or UV inside the body might fix it? I mean come on... we weren't dealt with a good hand to start with here.

Speaking of hands, if you want an analogy to cards... the orange guy went all-in on having a 2 and a 7 without seeing any of the other cards dealt.

He saw the flop of 9, 5, and 10 and then doubled down saying YES WE WILL WIN, borrowed money from his friends. He played a few more rounds and went double or nothing for every single round, continuing to borrow money.

When the final full hand was shown he said the game was rigged but he won anyway. And anyone who doubts him will see the evidence of how badly the game was rigged "very soon".

For commercial they want repeat business. They want to sell as fast as you can buy them.

For Joe and Jane Blow walking in... there's a sucker who will buy the extended warranty born every minute... they could give a shit if they come back ever again.

Actually my root canal wasn't half bad. I was knocked out for all of it and when I came to, my jaw pain was gone

Highly recommended!

And how exactly are we supposed to do the same thing with closed source code? Watch the system calls in the tracer? Or are we supposed to disassemble every closed source platform/app thats part of the chain and check for spurious ports being bound? Or hidden time bombs that might kick off ransomware? In hundreds of thousands of pages of op codes?

Right... I know how that part works as well. But the sheer fact that billing goes above and beyond what the actual service is worth shows you how messed up and broken the system is.

If the facility billed $150, then insurance would pay $75... the fact that they have to overbill to get paid properly is ridiculous.'

And also the fact that in some situations it's less money to pay in cash for a procedure than what it would cost through insurance (depends on the facility). Obviously more money out of pocket to pay for say an ultrasound in cash rather than let insurance cover most of it... but some hospitals will charge $500 cash and $5000 insurance with no rhyme or reason why.

And therein lies the problem. No 'payout scheme' should be described as 'advantageous'. It should be payment owed for services rendered at fair market rates.

You see it all day long... I see my doctor for an 8 minute session to get meds for my bronchitis that's not going away. Looking at the billing... $450 to my insurance? Come on, that's $3375.0 an hour.

Have you read any actual history on this? Or have you just come up with talking points out of the either that have no basis in fact. "Traditionally run by mafia" Are you out of your mind?

*Some* unions have been run by mafia or mafia intermediaries but this is in no way the norm. Check out union formation from the late 1800's and early 1900s. Do some reading on Butte Montana during the copper boom or literally any other place in that time period. Unions were clearly started to represent the workers because the workers were getting screwed every which way. Pay, hours, safety. Safety was a huge issue because companies could give a shit when there was a line of workers out the door waiting to get in and die for the company to make a few dollars a week.

You don't want a way to repair human hearts? I mean.. this is the road we need to go down... try things out in non-humans until it all works well enough for human trials.

Or do you want to get the pre-alpha release to try out yourself?

A metric ton of them. Hell people died of the common cold when it turned into severe bacterial bronchitis. Strep throat can be fatal if left untreated... as well as a variety of many other issues.

You could burn your thumb on the stove and die in the 1800s due to infection.

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