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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2009
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 11:53 am: |   |
JUST A REMINDER....8 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being
released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales
calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS.... To prevent this, call the
following number from your cell phone:
888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only
take a minute of your time.
It blocks your number for five (5) years.
HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS OR GO TO:
www.donotcall.gov/ |
Stephen Lodge
Wandering Member
Post Number:
144
Registered: 06-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 04:27 pm: | |
Snopes.com says this is not true.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Shadows of Eagles"
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2010
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 05:02 pm: | |
Maybe so, but it won't hurt to register if you have a cell phone. Recently, I've been getting more and more automated calls, some are recorded in Spanish.
I'm going to start reporting them, for whatever good it may do. |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1919
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 05:04 pm: | |
I actually received a couple of telemarketer type calls on my cell phone and I put my number on the "Do Not Call" list right away.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1695
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 08:55 pm: | |
I have never owned a cell phone. There are 4 telephones in the house. If you subtract the outrageous amount I pay AT&T for slow DSL, I pay a flat rate of $3.50 per month for Universal Lifeline Service. As for long distance, I pay one cent per minute to call anywhere in the United States with the phone card I bought from http://www.phonecards99.com. For close associates, I use Yahoo Messenger, which allows me to talk directly via computer without the aid of a phone for as long as I want for free.
Why would anyone want to use a cell phone in a country that is hard wired? Do you enjoy walking around trying to get four bars? In some remote areas the odds of getting four bars on a cell phone are worse than getting three bars on a slot machine, not to mention the joys of recharging the battery at night. I must admit, however, that cell phones are a marvel of technology and they make you look cool. But there is nothing cool about the monthly bill. Superman and Dr. Who settled for phone booths. Why can't you?
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1759
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 09:18 pm: | |
Fred, there are hardly any phone booths or even pay phones hanging on the side of buildings out there any more.
I have a cellphone, but it is prepaid, so I don't have a bill and I don't have to refill the minutes if I don't want to. I usually put about $20.00 a month on it. And it has a lot better reception than the other phones we had with larger chains.
The main reason I have it is that I work from home some days and if I can forward the office phones to a cellphone I'm not tied to the house all day on those days and some days my boss lets me leave early if I can forward the calls. For example, my boss leaves tomorrow for two weeks in the mountains, the kids are out of school and I can take them to the beach and still be able to take calls for the office.
So, that is the reason I have one. Plus, like I said, it is getting more and more difficult to find a pay phone anywhere. So, when I'm not using it for work, I just leave it in the car for emergencies.
Gloria Davidson Marlow
**The Butterfly Game***Shades of Silence***Flowers for Megan**
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Sheila Schmidt
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
795
Registered: 05-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 07:04 am: | |
I am completely attached to my cell phone. I think I would just freak if something happened to it. The main reason is the children. Both the school and the daycare can get me instantly, and that gives me some peace of mind while I'm working. Also my clinic and the hospital can reach me for patient care questions. Carrying a pager and then trying to find a phone to call the ICU used to be a real drag. Plus, pagers only beep (or mine did); my cell phone currently rings with a Waylon Jennings ditty. And, of course, my phone bill is 100% a business expense. There are several friends of mine who don't even have a house phone anymore. They only have a cell phone. They think why pay the local phone company for a number that will just record telemarketing calls during the day when anyone who really needs to get hold of them already knows how to do it. |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2012
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:15 am: | |
Fred,
You're a stone aged kind of guy.
As Sheila states, many of us don't have land lines any longer.
I have one in my office, but none for personal use. Since I have unlimited minutes, long distance is no longer an issue, anywhere, anytime. I don't have to set in front of a cathode-ray tube to talk to anyone.
My son is a CHIP in Calif. He sometimes calls me while he's on the road, doing nothing but cruising.
My wife and I were in Acupulco recently, and my daughter called me there for answer to a question she had that couldn't wait.
I can't imagine how we got along without them before. 99% of the time, quality of connection is not an issue. Remember how well carbon paper worked in a typewriter? We had no other choice then. Enter PC and printer, now look at how easy.
Of course, smoke signals could still work, I guess. |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1924
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:27 am: | |
The only reasons for landlines these days is if your cellphone doesn't get a signal in your house or if you need to connect to the internet over a telephone modem. The issue of "dead" areas for your cell phone exists whether you have a landline or not.
I still have both, primarily because my cable hook-up is new in this area and still has some reliability problems.
I think that Michigan is one of just a handful of states that doesn't permit more than one cellphone to be programmed to the same number. You'd think that they'd be treated much like CB radios where an owner could have a "Base" station with a little more Ooomph.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1171
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 12:27 pm: | |
I do have one somewhere. I only use it for emergencies somewhere between work and home, or isn a store. At work there are phones everywhere, and at home we use a wireless one. Internet is ADSL anyway. |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1697
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 02:51 pm: | |
I am a Neandrathal living in a hard wired cave. In my day, people didn't receive personal calls at work unless there was an emergency. My employer had the unreasonable (not to mention inhumane) expectation that workers should focus on the job.
What? No more phone booths? I guess Superman will have to start stripping in public. Like me, he needs to reinvent himself so as to update his image. Maybe Superman should quit The Daily Planet and get a gig at Chippendales.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2013
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 03:08 pm: | |
When Sup came out of a phone booth, where did he put his one and only blue suit, shirt, shoes, etc.? Did he leave them in the booth? |
Stephen Lodge
Wandering Member
Post Number:
147
Registered: 06-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 04:19 pm: | |
You are not a Superman fan, are you, Bill?
Clark Kent wore the blue and red under his street clothes.
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Shadows of Eagles"
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2014
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 06:59 pm: | |
I mean when he became Superman. Did he wear his civies under his tights? Where did he stick his glasses? (Maybe I don't want to know!
Batman at least changed at home. Jeeze, have a little modesty. |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1699
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 08:28 pm: | |
What does the future hold for the cell phone? Will it give you storage and access to records? Is it evolving into something with internet capabilities? Does two-way video pose any complications? Why can't we charge the batteries by body motion (sort of like the old self-winding Swiss watches)? Will cell phones grow smaller and smaller and eventually become something we implant under our skin?
http://www.fdungan.com/sent.htm |
Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
1179
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 04:54 pm: | |
Does superman wear a permanent tattoo?
I think StarTrek invented the cell phones, (the well known: "beam me up...,") Scotty beamed quite a lot.
My cell phone works fine on communications, but the "beam me up" order does not work.
I don't think that "battery charging by motion," technology would work for me due to the 'motion' bit.
We will all get a chip implanted in our necks containing explosives. When we perform below our regular capacity; they will let us explode. And when you don't pay your phone bill of-course. |
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