i just spent the better part of the morning chasing down a phone wiring problem. The last of the old heavy gauge copper lines they ran when apparently my house was built just gave out. (The first died about a year after i moved in.) As a bonus, there's apparently a short somewhere in said cabling that was causing serious line noise and the phone to go off hook for hours.
i'll note that the 75' run of unshielded modular lines i ran after i moved in are humming along quite nicely. i'll also note that said unshielded modular lines have nice quick connect terminals that allow me to not have to wrap copper around the junction screw, unlike the older copper lines.
i've got a spare run of new, shielded 4 connector wire i was tempted to run redundant lines to replace the original copper run, but then i remembered that we've got cordless phones and it kinda doesn't matter where the hell i put the central phone. (Now, cordless answering machines? That would also rule.)
Of course, the original lines are proudly stamped AT&T BELL AUTHORIZED USE ONLY which makes me wonder if they inserted a nice, easily degrading component into the lines to make sure that they had repeat customers every 25-50 years or so, but that would be cynical and conspiratory of me. Nice to know that some stuff our fore-fathers did was pure crap.
Ya know, this is turning out to be a great year.
Not sure dentists need to. If they decide they're going to cause you to spend money in your mouth, they pretty much have their say at it.
"Oh, we gotta do X, or it'll be a problem for you later."
"mmmuurrph"
"This won't hurt a bit. Until you see what isn't covered by your benefits. But if we don't do it now, you'll be blind before the week is out."
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They may have been busy inventing the future, back when they did that.