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Uh, there is a difference between being a "slave" and a "user."

Most people fall into the sheeple category, hence are slaves...

JT

Jerry Forrester wrote:

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Grumpy AuContraire
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They used to rivet shackles around the ankles of slaves. Now,they just give them cellphones.

I have a "car phone", not a pocket cellphone. I will consider getting a pocket phone when they come out with one that has a built-in answering machine function. Why the h*** should I have MY messages stored on the telco's server, and have to PAY FOR airtime to receive them.

There are times when I'd welcome the convenience of a pocket phone, but I sure don't want it to become a leash, and all too often that's how they wind up.

Gord Richmond

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Gordon Richmond

Just follow fashion, around here you aren't hip unless you get up every morning and attach this plastic thing to your ear and wear it all day. Then walk around as if you were talking to yourself.

Lee

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Lee Aanderud

phone when

h*** should

That's why I have the 'call display' feature only on mine. I can screen my calls, and call back at will if I happen to miss one. Besides, there's no law out there that requires you to answer a ringing phone so I can't really see anyone referring themselves a 'slave' to it. If someone really wants to get a hold of me and I don't answer it the first time, they can always call back.

Craig.

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studebaker8

NOTHING is 'free' these days!!! But my cell-phone is hell of a lot cheaper than my land line which I am going to terminate. My cell phone bill is $32.10 a month including 'call display' and taxes. The plan I'm on allows 100 minutes weekdays and 250 minutes evenings and weekends. This is more than ample for what I need, so consequently, my bill is rarely over that amount. My land line which took a huge jump over the past 15 years is now an astounding $49.96 a month with call display and taxes. (I remember when it was $6.07 a month when you RENTED the phone, the black dial phone being the cheapest.) It may seem surprising, but our phone service changed from government hands to private hands within those 15 years with some de-regulation thrown in. So around here, you are getting 'more' for less with take-it-anywhere cell phone service over the old hard wired land phone, which makes more economic sense to me. It comes down to how YOU use the device, just like a credit card.

Craig

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studebaker8

phone when

h*** should

don't want

You got it Gord.

I don't have to talk to someone while at the supermarket, restaurant, etc. NOTHING is that important.

OTOH, some kind of phone while distance traveling is a plus but I'll shop for or rent one very carefully.

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

The worst thing was that they got cheap. Every teenybopper, housewife, yuppie is playing the contest on just who can be the most annoying.

Regarding your statement above... Back in the 1980's when I was in the pre-press field, the sales/customer rep talked the owner into getting him a pager (another device I detest). At a company function on a Friday evening, he had various people call his work number just so the damned thing would go off...

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

pocket phone when

the h*** should

to receive

...and the rest of us have to endure those stupid ring tones because virtually no one is smart (or considerate) enough to put 'em on vibrate or whatever..

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

My land line is less than $25 per month with unlimited minutes. Plus, it doesn't annoy anyone except for me...

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

The BEST thing the Alberta government did here was privatize the liquor stores. The WORST thing the same government did was privatize the telephone utility.

It's a hell of a mess now when the the former BCTel and AGT formed as one to become an albatross named Telus. The service is now crap, and the prices have only gone up, up up!! I switched to Sprint for my land line about a year or so later when I attempted to pay my Telus bill at a Telus Mobility store. Telus proved to me they don't wany my money when the clerk told me they no longer accept phone bill payments at a Mobility store. (before they privatized, they used to). On the other hand, I can pay my Rogers cell-phone bill at any Rogers Video store anytime. They are more than happy to accept my payment. Sprint Canada, which was slightly cheaper than Telus has now been taken over by Rogers, but I am still going to terminate my land-line since there's no incentive to hang on to it.

Craig

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studebaker8

Wow. Mine was almost $50 here with no options other than unlimited local calls. No long distance service at all. Verizon is teh 5ux0r5. No way was I going to continue paying that when all I used it for was dialing up on my computer, it didn't work half the time (seriously! even at their extortionate rates they probably lost money on me with all the service calls they were doing at my house, none of which ever got the line working properly) and my landlady offered to get a cable modem and wireless hub if I'd split it with her.

nate

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Nate Nagel

I resist the modern world all I can, but its a hard fought battle. Still, I don't have cable/satellite, so I watch a lot less television, and that's a real good thing. The home phone doesn't have any features/voicemail/ answering machine, so if I miss a call, too bad. At my time of life, it's no longer likely to be GOOD news from ANY direction Anyone who really needs to get in touch with me can call my work number--at night on the cheap rates--and leave a message on my voicemail there. I'll get back to them. Troubles and bad news are much easier to face in the light of day.

Since I have this fascination for orphaned and old vehicles-- Studebakers, Kaisers, the Turbo Peugeot, even the gazillion klic Corolla--someday I will get a cell on the "pay as you use all the time and through the nose" plan, and so never ever use it (okay, I'm frugal) except in a real emergency. so far, no matter what, I have never been in a situation that really needed a cell phone. Really, never.

Cell phones are the socially acceptable form of crack cocaine: cheap to get into (maybe) but soooo easy to use and abuse for bigtime bucks, and locally in the Maritimes, Aliant is NOT your friend.

Since I'm retiring sometime in 2007, I got better things to spend money on. As it is, I spend less than $40/month including all my long-distance calls.

Jim Bartley >

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Jim

I couldn't have stated it any better.. Except that I do have an old fashioned answering machine (runs on tape).

JT

Jim wrote:

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karinhall

Hey Karin, you know I luv ya but don't go beatin' a dead horse.

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Jerry Forrester

And yet there are some really "dense" folks on this ng.

WTF has having a computer (that I have total control of and is NOT an imposition on others) have to do with slavery?

Begin.

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

The only "dead horses" here are you two who evicently do not have a clue on parsing a sentence...

JT

Jerry Forrester wrote:

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Grumpy AuContraire

i have t-mobile pay as you go 10 cents a min. you have to buy $100.00 for1000 min. good for a year it is good to have one in a cab in east boston can call up santarpio pizza for a pie and east boston have some great italian sub shops too

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Reply to
karinhall

WTF does having a cell phone have to do with salvery? You use it when you want to and turn it off when you wnat to, just like a computor.

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Jerry Forrester

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