I'm going to have to pay for this somehow. KKR has a pattern. This will end up costing me in either service or fees.

WHO gets their funding in an annual lump sum. 2020 funding has already been distributed, so the part about defunding during the pandemic holds no water, unless it goes into next year.

Egypt just quit the Internet, those addresses could be reassigned!

The company IT department could not/would not do anything like that - complete incompetance. Thank God the ELH system is farmed out. The PBX only serves to send callers after 5:00 to an old fashioned call center who pages the docs. Patients turn off the call block or don't get the returned call. If you want a more advanced system you can hope your insurance will allow you access to a more botique clinic. Generally everyone around here is served by one of two major health networks who copy each other.

A common answer I've been reading in here is to never answer or block ALL calls with their number blocked (because they are cowards). My wife is a physician, and has our home number blocked - because she is a coward. When returning pages/calls from patients there are a lot of those patients that would love to have our home number, so they could call day-and-night without having to go through the switchboard to get the actual physician on call. You won't get her to return a call until you turn your blocking off.

What if only residential people could get call number blocking, or if business had it taken away after a certain threshhold for complaints. Great idea (pat self on back), but the telcos would never give up the income from number blocking. Congress is too busy taking campaign contributions from corporations to ever give consituants any consideration in a matter such as this.

How about placing an outdated nuclear sub on the sea-bottom near the arctic circle instead of sinking old ship off the warm coasts for coral reefs. It would have to be gutted, then filled with servers and a way to pump glycol in-and-out for cooling, the glycol would be chilled by cool arctic waters. You'd have electricity for as long as the on-board nuclear plant still had fuel. If done off the northern coast of Alaska you'd only need to run a few short fiber links to land. There's plenty of military bases, so connections are established.

I knew a gal in an apartment I lived in (in Phoenix) who once flashed er boobs to a couple of adult males (I missed 'em). The manager called the police and they charged her with a sex crime. I spoke with her about a year later, she was homeless and living on the street or with any guy that would let her stay. After the flashing and sex crime she was thrown out of the apartment. No other apartment in Phoenix would rent to her because of the crime free lease addendums.

How many other stories are there about people getting charged with a sex crime for taking a leak outside?

If this gets enforced strickly, how many people will have to log-off? Is Slashdot considered a social network site?

How is this marked Troll. I mean it was only mildly funny, but not Troll-like.

We only have our experiences to draw upon what we know.

Godforbid someone wants to switch to IP telephony, because we all know that that tech is never going to catch on, and it's a much much better idea to keep paying for old fashioned phone trunks every month than just one nice internet connection.

IP telephony can be great. My experience at ATMI was the CIO wanted it because it was cool. The phone guy would have to prepare the project documents every six months for him to weigh out the cost against the perceived benefit. A giant costs to upgrade a functional digital system, because the Cisco system sounds cool.

There were no usable benefits needed for the corporation. That doesnâ(TM)t mean when they move in a couple years to a new building they shouldnâ(TM)t consider it. But a forklift upgrade from the well running digital system today only gets you some flashy new screens for a couple hundred grand.