Actually, there is. The PSTN isn't magic, it has switches, and ports just like the internet. While a call could be routed through another country or telco, those can be handled by the same rules. Do not route telco A to us OR ELSE.
Do you really think an American telco will accept a call without knowing who to bill?
At least do me the courtesy of reading the whole damned post. It wasn't that long. It wasn't even as long as yours. In particular, read the second damned paragraph again and again until you see that I answered your concern before you even raised it AND proposed the solution you suggested.
As for voip, it's on them to either provide proper caller ID or pay the fines themselves (see 1st paragraph) or if they are not in FTC jurisdiction, see 3rd paragraph.
Require real caller ID. It's not like the phone company doesn't know who to bill. Set up *?? to report a do-not-call violation. If a particular number racks up enough of those, launch a full investigation. If the phone company lets a spoofed caller id get through and it is reported to do-not-call, they either figure out who really called or pay the fine themselves.
Before someone complains, allow any extension to report the main number as a caller ID. Allow 3rd parties to use a company's name and number IFF the company signs in blood that the 3rd party is a duly contracted representative and takes responsibility for any violations. Or they can use a reflector to make the calls actually originate from them.
If a foreign phone company won't comply, reject all of it's caller id info and change the id to "caller from [country]" OR just stop accepting calls from that carrier until they change their ways.
We're already to the point that many people don't even bother to answer their phones anymore. If this isn't brought under control soon we'll start seeing cellphones that do internet ONLY. and the telephone will be dead.
I would consider making insulation out of rodent food to be a manufacturing defect. Rodents are everywhere and when they find food, they eat it. This should surprise no one.
Rodent food insulation is right up there with water soluble paint on the list of obviously bad ideas.
Some of the newer soy insulation includes Bittrex (the stuff to make you quit biting your nails) to prevent rodent problems.
Any market where significant value pricing is possible is an unhealthy market. It is the government's job to regulate the market to maintain it's health.
The reason our tax code is so complex is exactly to let the very wealthy weasel out of their taxes. The same forces that will eventually cause UBI can as well remove the dozens of loopholes in the tax code.
So no cop has earned any money? No fireman? How voluntary does it have to be? Does the CEO of a hospital earn any money in your estimation? After all, very few CHOOSE to go to the hospital, but when they need one, they;re over a barrel (literally agree or die).
Does it count when a group of CEOs sit on each other's boards and grant each other huge raises (paid with other people's money)?
How about the money a professional grifter brings in? Does it matter if the grifter is Goldman Sachs?
Perhaps the U.S. authorities should try enforcing the law and apply pressure to foreign phone companies. They're too busy kicking in doors for minor drug offenses here to bother with things that actually affect people.
Yes, it makes perfect sense to all go back to living in a cave in the wilderness since we can't afford a lawyer to look over the T&C for each good and service we need to live in the modern world.
Even a number of lawyers have admitted to not reading or not understanding click-throughs.
Perhaps, what we need is for lawmakers and courts to rule once and for all that slapping people in the face with a wall of text every time they want to buy a pack of gum is unconscionable.
Function of the government can be a problem, but note that much of the dysfunction is monkeywrenching. Vote the monkeywrenchers out (they often proudly identify themselves). But given the state of medical billing and insurance accounting, it honestly can't get much worse.
As for Constitutionality, it isn't explicitly forbidden, and if we're going to suddenly get serious about not doing anything not explicitly permitted, we're going to be slashing a lot of programs.
I understand it just fine. I also understand that if you bias the selection in a particular direction your sample is no longer representative of the population.
There is sort of. Defects are not uncommon shortly after a die shrink. The Celeron started out as a regular pentium that had a defect in one bank of it's cache. So a laser zap disables the bad hanf and a Celeron is born.
For a while, AMD offered 3 core CPUs based on a similar process.
Later on, the defect rate went down faster than demand for the bargain parts so they started zapping perfectly good CPUs to meet the price point.
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Pooping when you need to poop. Why does this seem like such a baffling concept?
Actually, there is. The PSTN isn't magic, it has switches, and ports just like the internet. While a call could be routed through another country or telco, those can be handled by the same rules. Do not route telco A to us OR ELSE.
Do you really think an American telco will accept a call without knowing who to bill?
At least do me the courtesy of reading the whole damned post. It wasn't that long. It wasn't even as long as yours. In particular, read the second damned paragraph again and again until you see that I answered your concern before you even raised it AND proposed the solution you suggested.
As for voip, it's on them to either provide proper caller ID or pay the fines themselves (see 1st paragraph) or if they are not in FTC jurisdiction, see 3rd paragraph.
Require real caller ID. It's not like the phone company doesn't know who to bill. Set up *?? to report a do-not-call violation. If a particular number racks up enough of those, launch a full investigation. If the phone company lets a spoofed caller id get through and it is reported to do-not-call, they either figure out who really called or pay the fine themselves.
Before someone complains, allow any extension to report the main number as a caller ID. Allow 3rd parties to use a company's name and number IFF the company signs in blood that the 3rd party is a duly contracted representative and takes responsibility for any violations. Or they can use a reflector to make the calls actually originate from them.
If a foreign phone company won't comply, reject all of it's caller id info and change the id to "caller from [country]" OR just stop accepting calls from that carrier until they change their ways.
We're already to the point that many people don't even bother to answer their phones anymore. If this isn't brought under control soon we'll start seeing cellphones that do internet ONLY. and the telephone will be dead.
Did apt-get run even after you removed the cron job?
Just tell them it's part of an alien invasion conspiracy.
I would consider making insulation out of rodent food to be a manufacturing defect. Rodents are everywhere and when they find food, they eat it. This should surprise no one.
Rodent food insulation is right up there with water soluble paint on the list of obviously bad ideas.
Some of the newer soy insulation includes Bittrex (the stuff to make you quit biting your nails) to prevent rodent problems.
Any market where significant value pricing is possible is an unhealthy market. It is the government's job to regulate the market to maintain it's health.
The reason our tax code is so complex is exactly to let the very wealthy weasel out of their taxes. The same forces that will eventually cause UBI can as well remove the dozens of loopholes in the tax code.
You mean other than the government granted monopoly, right?
So no cop has earned any money? No fireman? How voluntary does it have to be? Does the CEO of a hospital earn any money in your estimation? After all, very few CHOOSE to go to the hospital, but when they need one, they;re over a barrel (literally agree or die).
Does it count when a group of CEOs sit on each other's boards and grant each other huge raises (paid with other people's money)?
How about the money a professional grifter brings in? Does it matter if the grifter is Goldman Sachs?
It makes no sense to take from someone who earns the money and give it to someone who has done nothing to earn the money.
Now show us some evidence that the people who are getting the most money in our society are actually earning any of it.
Conservatives threatened to slit their wrists with solid gold daggers?
The thing is, they get distracted when driving fully manual cars too.
Perhaps the U.S. authorities should try enforcing the law and apply pressure to foreign phone companies. They're too busy kicking in doors for minor drug offenses here to bother with things that actually affect people.
Yes, it makes perfect sense to all go back to living in a cave in the wilderness since we can't afford a lawyer to look over the T&C for each good and service we need to live in the modern world.
Even a number of lawyers have admitted to not reading or not understanding click-throughs.
Perhaps, what we need is for lawmakers and courts to rule once and for all that slapping people in the face with a wall of text every time they want to buy a pack of gum is unconscionable.
Function of the government can be a problem, but note that much of the dysfunction is monkeywrenching. Vote the monkeywrenchers out (they often proudly identify themselves). But given the state of medical billing and insurance accounting, it honestly can't get much worse.
As for Constitutionality, it isn't explicitly forbidden, and if we're going to suddenly get serious about not doing anything not explicitly permitted, we're going to be slashing a lot of programs.
No. It's just the natural expansion of the observation that countries with "Democratic" in their name aren't any such thing.
As I said, in this instance it's fine. But it also shows that other characteristics of handling can also change OTA.
Yes, I propose to nationalize the lot, much like NHS in the UK.
Let's try something known to work for a change.
How can you even believe you're qualified to discuss Medicare if you don't already know that?
And just in case, I actually answered that question in my last post.
Your homework assignment is to learn how Medicare actually works.
Here's a clue do (some) doctors accept Medicare when they ask what insurance you have or do they work for Medicare?
I understand it just fine. I also understand that if you bias the selection in a particular direction your sample is no longer representative of the population.
There is sort of. Defects are not uncommon shortly after a die shrink. The Celeron started out as a regular pentium that had a defect in one bank of it's cache. So a laser zap disables the bad hanf and a Celeron is born.
For a while, AMD offered 3 core CPUs based on a similar process.
Later on, the defect rate went down faster than demand for the bargain parts so they started zapping perfectly good CPUs to meet the price point.
You'll need some big evidence for the rest of the world's healthcare sucking. Because most sources I have seen rank U.S. healthcare at 26th or worse.
Perhaps we should just not subsidize research for the rest of the world.
There are a number of islands where taxes and government services are near non-existant. Perhaps you should try one.
3 or 4 named out of the dizzying variety of phones out there doesn't really constitute plentiful.