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Hell no. As a matter of fact almost all of what is on Internet is perceived to be popular in some form. For some time now i have had problems finding things on Internet, that i knew was there (at least once), and search engines could not find it. I usually could find another way to what i was looking for, not always; or sometimes only days later. Big Internet is becoming stifling censorship in spite of itself.

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That's why I have taken to downloading a page or document that I deem important to have for future reference. Because I've seen that too, just a few months down the road ... "Error 404 - File not found". Just like in the old CompuServe forum days, except there we stored for lack of bandwidth.

In fact, even the US phone system seems to be unraveling a little. There is an increasing number of participants that can no longer be reached reliably. Where you get through on one discount carrier but receive repeated "... cannot be completed as dialed" bounces on another. It seems not all carriers like each other anymore.

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There's only a couple of real networks... all the rest are resellers, and their low prices come with low access priority.

Cheap is as cheap does >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I think there used to be mandatory connectivity in the phone system. That's what seems to have gone out the window. Cheap or not, sometimes when you are on the road you have no choice. Or when people set up phone conferences.

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I've only encountered one place in the US where Verizon had no signal... high up in the Appalachians, Franklin, WV, only me, hillbilly's and motorcycle gangs... and the sheriff was shooting them ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I like fake logs, as they will not burn...

Google destroying the indexing of the old Dejanews was a particularly sad piece of vandalism. The new improved Google groups can seldom find articles posted more than a couple of years back even given a title!

Wayback machine is your friend if the link ever did exist you can get dated snapshots of the early internet. Put an old URL in and marvel:

UK has a train system like that. This tickets only valid on trains from the train operator that you happen to choose on the same track!

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Martin Brown

Verizon is a bit over rated. I spend time in central Virginia and there are lots of places where the phone either won't work or drops calls. "No service" is a bit of a requirement, but there are plenty of places in the US where cell phones just don't work very well.

But I think the conversation was about land lines actually.

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Rick

Yup, or phone numbers in general. The fact that now you cannot reach certain numbers via some carriers but you can via other was unheard of a few years ago. On the Internet that has become "normal" but it shouldn't be the case for phone lines.

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Perhaps, but only because everyone else is so bad.

I was quite surprised on a trip up to Illinois in September. We got routed (cell phone GPS) through the back waters of KY, IN, and IL, on several 2-lane roads and I never lost the data link until I got back to civilization along an Interstate in IL. Of course I lost data connection driving *through* Columbus, OH, a year ago.

It shouldn't be the case on the Internet, either. The Internet was designed to be more robust than that. Then, there's Windows...

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No, has nothing to do with Windows. It's rogue copyright "agency" behavior. For example, a lot of links I send to Germans they end up not being able to see because their "agency" (GEMA) deemed some jingle or whatever on there to be violating copyright (as in their profit turf). Since they are "the law" they can stop whatever they please.

It is plain old censorship, happening in the western world. Then of course there are the various not-so-free countries where it's even worse.

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I'll assume no one here has any recollection of this page from the past. Too bad, it was very well done with several jokes that only the STEM aware would appreciate.

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Yep. I dumped my fax landline, but I still maintain MyFax service ($3.95/month) for dealing with companies that live in the past ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Why that? I have a Brother multi-function machine. It lives on the same phone line as I do. Through the miracles of DSPs and all this good stuff it can sense whether what's coming in is a fax, and then take over. If it makes a mistake I can override it but it never made one in all the years I had it.

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That's a lie (not yours). The claim arises from a finding that most people (62%) who go bankrupt also don't pay their doctors (i.e. have medical bills), along with their other creditors. The number bankrupt

*because* of medical bills is a small fraction of that.

The lie has been widely disseminated until it has become an accepted truth--it even appears in the biggest lie of all, Obamacare itself. (sect. 10106(a)).

Of course that number would be even less if Congress hadn't already run up the cost of medical care with their idiocies.

If your point is that even a small fraction is unacceptable, that even one life saved is worthwhile, then I agree--let's assign four police officers 24/7 to protect each child. If one life's saved, it's worth it.

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James Arthur

Bad idea. One of the cops would see the kid "reaching for her waistband" and they'd all empty their Glocks into her.

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Oh stop being logical, before you're accused of being anti-children.

These guys--libertarian surgeons--are great:

They made their own surgery center. There they do the same procedures they used to do at the hospital for 1/4 or less, with prices on the web. Doctors and patients love it. That's what health care could be. If it cost half of what it costs today just about everyone could afford it, and whatever problems that remained would be made considerably less/easier to solve.

The government bs is mostly why medical care's expensive here--they wrecked it. It's like an auto body shop that charges outrageous prices, then points to their own not-working, outrageous prices as proof they need more government support.

You had some pretty good ideas too.

I know an awful lot about Obamacare--I've studied the damn thing. I wish I hadn't.

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