From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > Except, of course, it's not, in either case.   
      
   I agree about the alleged drug boats.  Why not have the Coast Guard   
   intercept and inspect them?  Innocent until proven guilty.  Or, better   
   yet, allow adults to buy and consume whatever drugs they choose, so   
   long as the drugs aren't mislabeled.  The US is supposed to be a free   
   country.  There have been large numbers of drug overdoses only because   
   the concentration and the composition of the drugs hasn't been clearly   
   and accurately labeled.  Let every CVS sell USP heroin.   
      
   But what about the billions of daily scam calls to unwilling victims?   
   What's the alternative?   
      
   * Every American just has to put up with an interruption every ten   
     minutes, forever?  Or rather until greater automation results in   
     scam calls every ten seconds instead?   
      
   * Americans just have to give up using telephones?   
      
   * America will pay tribute to Modi in return for a promise to leave us   
     alone?  It worked so well for Ethelred when he paid the Vikings to   
     leave the English alone.   
      
   Do you also think the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was   
   illegitimate?  It too was in a sovereign nation without its   
   government's permission.  The loss of useful life caused by the 9/11   
   attacks is far less than the ongoing loss of useful life caused by   
   scam phone calls.  A billion seconds, once, from each of 3000 people   
   is less than a hundred seconds a day every day from each of 300   
   million people, in perpetuity.   
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