Can You Hear Me Now?

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Joe Sensor wrote:
> S O'Neill wrote:
>
>> Another factor is that the study he refers to was based on police
>> reports, and the evidence of cell phone use was based on the officer
>> asking if they were on the phone. All they proved is that a
>> reasonably smart person would answer "no" to such a question.
>>
>> Studies correlating cell phone usage vs. time of accident told a
>> vastly different story. The Click and Clack Brothers can tell you all
>> about it.
>
>
> I think Motorola's study of preference is the first one.


I did try to skip around that. But you're absolutely right, the cell
phone manufacturers always point to that one.

 

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"play on" <playonAT@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I read that some restaurants and theaters are buying jammers to keep
> cell phones from annoying their customers.
>
Not in the US, where it's illegal to use jammers.

--
Dave Martin
DMA, Inc
Nashville, TN

 

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On 10 Mar 2005 09:07:51 -0500, mrivers@d-and-d.com (Mike Rivers)
wrote:

>To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.

Please instead donate it to any of the many public do-gooder
agencies that can really use them; shelters, etc.

The mining of some weird-ass metal in Africa, to make cell
phones (what can this possibly be? that's so unique) is
contributing to the deaths of many of the remaining gorillas.

Yeah, sounds nuts, but I heard it on the radio. Gotta be true.

And, HANG UP AND DRIVE.

Thanks, I feel better now.

Chris Hornbeck

 

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On 3/10/05 9:25 PM, in article e302315e216c78hm27r5ob8kl7bnbcnhk3@4ax.com,
"Chris Hornbeck" <chrishornbeckremovethis@att.net> wrote:


>
> Yeah, sounds nuts, but I heard it on the radio. Gotta be true.
>
> And, HANG UP AND DRIVE.

PHONE-DRIVING = DRUNK-DRIVING

The tests and trials continue to completely nail this.
When you converse on the telephone in a car, your brain goes into a very
different mode and you CANNOT process visual and aural information beyond
that of a seriously drunk person.

Notice the verb up there is 'converse' ...
Not 'use'
or 'dial'
or 'hold'
Or 'manipulate'...

It's the unique aspect of how we manage a remote real-time full duplex
conversation. Doesn;t happen with one-way-at-a-time things like CB radio
operation.

Phone-&-Drivin'
Lose Your License

 

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On 10 Mar 2005 09:07:51 -0500, mrivers@d-and-d.com (Mike Rivers)
wrote:

>
>Today is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone
>transmission.

I thought this was going to be about megaphones...

But anyway, where did he but his 48V battery?

>To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.

Is this a "Landlines Forever" campaign, similar to Apple having an
"Apple II Forever" campaign when the IIGS was announced? I saw a IIGS
for cheap (a couple of dollars) recently and I didn't even buy it.
About eight to ten years ago I got some good POTS design experience
on my resume, but now I wonder if that was the last thing ever
designed to connect to POTS...

And on another tangent, is this how the "bathroom humor" cut on the
Bohemian Rap CD was recorded?

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"S O'Neill" <nopsam@nospam.net> wrote in message news:8KudnW76deCZiazfRVn-vw@omsoft.com...
> Joe Sensor wrote:
> > S O'Neill wrote:
> >
> >> Another factor is that the study he refers to was based on police
> >> reports, and the evidence of cell phone use was based on the officer
> >> asking if they were on the phone. All they proved is that a
> >> reasonably smart person would answer "no" to such a question.
> >>
> >> Studies correlating cell phone usage vs. time of accident told a
> >> vastly different story. The Click and Clack Brothers can tell you all
> >> about it.


Just don't ask them to fix you automotive problem.

DM

 

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In article <znr1110498131k@trad> mrivers@d-and-d.com (that's me!) writes:

> I've seen more people with a phone to
> their ear back out of a parking space in a lot [without looking]
> than without.

(bad edit)

--
I'm really Mike Rivers (mrivers@d-and-d.com)
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me here: double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

 

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"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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>
> Today is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone
> transmission.
>
> To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.


Actually, talking to a cell-phone repairer, that is actually a major reason
for mobiles being brought in for repair. They decline ...

geoff

 

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"Mark" <makolber@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Actually I read that talking to another person in the car with you is
> not as distracting as talking on the cell because the other person is
> also aware of the traffic and will pause etc when you are about to
> perform some dangerous manuver like pulling in to traffic etc. When
> talking on the cell, the other person is in another world and so are
> you.
>

There is nothing more impolite than a passenger in your car talking at you
while you are trying to concertrate on driving and your phone call ...


geoff

ps and why do people use those embarassingly naff ring tones ?

 

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"Naren" <naren99@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Mike Rivers wrote:
>> Today is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone
>> transmission.
>
> And an adaptation of that device by Edison in 1877 led to the first
> recorded sound ("Hello" on a piece of waxed paper). Yay.
>
> I wonder how good was the fidelity, how much headroom, THD, SD ("sibilance
> distortion"), etc. etc. on that piece of waxed paper...
>
>> To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.
>
> It doesn't flush, trust me.

A lady in pom TV pshyco-comedy Green Room had a non-telephonic 'flushing
problem', and cured it with a ski-pole.

geoff

 

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Lorin David Schultz wrote:


> Studies schmuddies. I don't dial and drive anymore either.


I'm a consciencious driver. Last week I was slowly crawling three
blocks from home, looking for a parking spot, with my daughter riding
passenger side. I pulled the phone from my pocket and called my wife
just to tell her I was almost home...and I went right through a red
light. As if it wasn't there. Completely freaked me out.


Studies schmuddies. I don't dial and drive anymore either.


V

 

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In article <znr1110459785k@trad>, mrivers@d-and-d.com says...
>
> Today is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone
> transmission.
>
> To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.
>

Splash!

 

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"J Warren" <nerraw_nosaj@ieee.org> wrote in message
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> In article <znr1110459785k@trad>, mrivers@d-and-d.com says...
>>
>> Today is the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone
>> transmission.
>>
>> To celebrate, throw your cell phone into the toilet today.
>>
>
> Splash!

Booth One: "Oooooooooh"

Booth Two: "Arrrrrrrrgh"

Booth One: "Oooh, ooooh, ooooh, arrrrrgh"

Booth Two: " Arrr. a , aa,,, urrrrgh, oooh"

Booooth One : "yaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrh-ooomph SPLOSH"

Booth Two: "You constipated too ? Emph ahhhhhh-ooooomph--arrrrgh"

Booth One: In German accent "Az a mattter ov vact, zat voss my vatch"

......Could be adapted to "Zat vas my mobile...."


geoff