Isn't it a bit worrying that mobiles have number recognition, games, text services, alarm clocks, and half a million other "useful" things, when the normal home versions can just about manage to make phone calls.

Oh, and about the common household phone: Anyone have a Vista 300? I have one, and it does lots of nifty functions. Huge caller display, shopping center, movie lisings, banking, email, weather, TV news, comedy stuff, and a powerpage thingy that has listings for the entire province.

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Two atoms walk into a bar. One atom says to the other atom:
"I've lost an electron!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"

Big Phone, Little Dick.

Well, in this case it'd be Littlest phone, little dick.
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"...[They've] been so completely dumbed down by the media, by tabloid scumbags, by the Christian "right", by politicians in general, the school, parents who are dumber than their parents were, who are dumber than their parents were, and all of whom think that they can bring up a child just because they got down in bed and had a little sex...well, frankly, here is an audience that knows more and more about less and less as the years go by...We are talking about a constituency...that knows nothing. This is pandemic; terrifyingly, paralyzingly pandemic. They know absolutely nothing."
- Harlan Ellison, on the Media Consumer of today.

Vanquish, DB7, or V8?

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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"

(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

Mustang Class Starship Development Project

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"...[They've] been so completely dumbed down by the media, by tabloid scumbags, by the Christian "right", by politicians in general, the school, parents who are dumber than their parents were, who are dumber than their parents were, and all of whom think that they can bring up a child just because they got down in bed and had a little sex...well, frankly, here is an audience that knows more and more about less and less as the years go by...We are talking about a constituency...that knows nothing. This is pandemic; terrifyingly, paralyzingly pandemic. They know absolutely nothing."
- Harlan Ellison, on the Media Consumer of today.

We use Cantel AT&T "Pay as You Go"....ridiculously expensive rates (75 minutes for 25 dollars), but hey, with our poor credit.....it was surprising we could get a cellular telephone at all.

This phone used to be used for general chatting and/or emergency use, held by whoever was going outside at the time. Then we got the car, so it sorta became our Carphone, running off the cigarette lighter while the battery went neglected. *LOL*

Now we have a cute little 50-watt Power Inverter, which can run the cellular phone and even charge it's battery, anywhere. Not to mention TV's under 10 inches, the old camcorder which doesen't work, my VCR, and my radio. Heh

The one thing I'd change about my phone is that is had no vibra-alert facility. Even though it absolutely EATS battery power.

Vogon: Yeah, there's at least three websites I know off that have different ring tones,
www.dialaring.com ,
www.nokia.com , and there's another one somewhere. Oh yes, the one you gave up above. Nokias only though, thank fuck, some of them really piss the hell out of me.

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Go Mad.
Go Evil.
Just GO.

I got the phone because I was driving the most unreliable car known to man, and it saved my butt MANY times when I could have been stranded somewhere. After I got rid of that car, I kept the phone because I couldn't fathom life without one anymore (especially since I finally gave up my pager!) Anyway... now I look at my phone as a thing of necessity, rather than a thing of luxery. The peace of mind it gives me while driving is the best part... I drive a lot, and I have bad luck. The last accident I was in, I didn't even geto ut of the CAR until I'd made a call on my cell phone. SO anyway.... that's my cell phone story....

And as for how many people have them, in Spokane I'd say about half the population does, but most of my friends don't. Of course, they're all young and poor, but still....

~LOA

That may change, however, when I move. Depending on what the rates are like & the cell nature of State College, I may at some point decide to invest in one. Then I could do away with a hardline completely & maybe go DSL or cable modem.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves, shall we?

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"Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing." ---Smilla Jaspersen

1.) A voice, either male or female, screaming in absolute horror.

2.) A voice, male, reciting passages from Ulysses.

*when I makes tea I makes tea and when I makes water I makes water*

"Excuse me, I have a call."

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20th century, go to sleep.
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R.E.M.
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Read chapters one and two of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Show no patience, tolerance, or restraint.

Then you fail to grasp one of the universal constants of humour. Flat emotionless voices swearing is always funny. Stephen Hawking is a laugh-riot at parties.

There are many more universal constants of humour. For example:
A man wearing pink.
The word "feltching".
Someone who goes to answer the phone when the ringing noise is actually coming from the TV show they are watching.
An old man wearing a skirt.
A heavily accented Indian parent talking to his thickly regionally-accented son. Double if it's a Birmingham accent.
People who say "aboot".
Students who dress themselves completely in leather, have no hair, peircings in every available point on their body; who are vegetarians, pacifists, and help old ladies across the road.
An American accent in an English pub.

Here, in the Netherlands, about 70% of the entire population has a mobile. 88% of the youth between 12 and 18 has one. It's even so worse(?) that I see 9 years old kids on the streets having a $200 mobile. Percentually, the Dutch are worldwide #1 in having a cellular. All my friends have one, and in my family:

- Dad has a mobile, a Nokia 5110
- I have a mobile
- My younger brother has a Trium Galaxy
- My oldest brother has a Sony
- My other older brother has a Nokia 3210

Only my mum has none so far.

Mobile calling in the Netherlands is relatively cheap, I think. In the peak hours, I pay about $0,40 per minute, and in the evening and night it's $0,10. I'm lucky that I'm with the cheapest provider of the country, the four others are slightly more expensive.

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Signature.

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Go Mad.
Go Evil.
Just GO.