As the commenter above you said, people use language differently than how formal rules describe. Is it a kind of capitulation for a formal rules body to change in response? Yes, probably. But so what? If someone doesn't like it take it up with the general population.
LesserAbe
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I have a cousin who is a farmer in the US and also has to have a second job. He probably has millions invested in machinery, but last time I talked to him about it he said for the cost of the equipment to really make sense he needs more land to farm. Right now he has unused capacity.
Tele for "far off", phone for "voice". I think internet calls count as telephone calls. Naturally this chart could not show separate pricing for Internet telephone calls in 1940.
I believe this is a screenshot from "Smarty-pants" and I can strongly recommend the episode "God's Mistakes: How I Would Make Our Bodies Better"
Yeah that's pretty dystopian. Something worse hasn't been done with it probably just because many bad actors haven't been aware its an option.
Interesting that they're attributing quotes to the one guy the whole time in the article, but the quotes are provided using facilitated communication
When your id says you're 100 and you look 21 it's going to cause issues.
You want to get away from ever needing an ID. The wealth you gain from compounding interest should allow you to hire accounting experts who will handle your transactions and hide your wealth among shell companies. I think once or twice you could go with the "this is my child, me Jr" routine, but eventually you need to have some kind of emissary who conducts business on your behalf while you cycle through fraudulent ids and move around every 20-30 years.
Doesn't seem like the exercise was worth people dying for...
Yeah, state of the art may have changed since then, but since you can't see the bite and a test on a human wouldn't show anything until it's too late, the options were either have a lab test the bat or get precautionary rabies shots.
The original post was about how it's cheap to make long distance calls now versus in the past. That's true! In that spirit I don't see any benefit to distinguishing between analog and digital calls. But point taken about the time axis on the chart.