From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 11/14/25 9:59 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Technological solutions work. My cell phone screens out nearly all scam   
   calls; it's weeks between ones that get through to me without being   
   marked "scam likely" before I have to answer, and even those aren't   
   numerous.   
      
      
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   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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