Circular Reasoning

Our company received a new machine so that we can ring up credit card transactions. The machine didn't work because we don't have a normal phone system to dedicate a dial-up line to the machine. So, the company that sent us the machine gave us the option of hooking it up through the Internet. Great! Let me run out and spend $40 to be able to do that. Now, the company says the machine needs an update in order to use the Internet connection. How does the machine need to be updated? Using a normal phone line. Do you remember the part about how we don't have one of those to use, which is why we are trying to set it up via the Internet? Right.