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Re: "The phone is really a 1940s thing."
Reply #15 - Aug 8^th, 2012 at 5:20pm

Mnemonic wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 11:29pm:

The other problem with landline phones is that you get these annoying calls from call centres, often speaking in some foreign accent, trying to sell you a product you don't want. They look you up in the White Pages and give you a blast.

It doesn't tend to happen with mobile phones.

Exactly, there will always be a place for it- just like snail mail- but evolution demands the abiliity to share ideas more efficiently!

*Sure....they're anti competitive as any subsidised job is. It wouldn't be there without the tax payer. Very damned difficult for a brainwashed collectivist to understand that I know.... (swaggy) *

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Reply #16 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 11:42am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 10:02am:

landlines are a thing of the past.

mobiles, viop, skype .......

My physics professor at Uni gave a lecture on why he does not own a mobile phone it comes down to the microwaves they use to send signals to sattelites.

The timed calls with mobiles is a rip off, wait till you are put on hold while waiting for someone and they can become very expensive.

I have a landline with an answering machine to screen calls and no desire to get rid of that for a more expensive phone that operates on microwaves.

I do use the internet for chatting with friends overseas.

Leftists and the Ayatollahs have a lot in common when it comes to criticism of Islam, they don't tolerate it.

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 106611 Melbourne Gender:	Re: "The phone is really a 1940s thing." Reply #17 - Aug 9^th, 2012 at 9:41pm Baron, Mobile phones don't transmit to satelites. They use the mobile phone towers located everywhere in the cities. I don't think small amounts of microwaves are dangerous. You should limit calls to a minute or so otherwise use a landline or skype.
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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: "The phone is really a 1940s thing." Reply #18 - Aug 11^th, 2012 at 10:15am For all their tricks and functions, there is one thing that an old-fashioned land-line can do that a smart-phone cannot. Ever tried to slam the receiver down in the ear of an unwanted caller using a smart-phone? Doesn't work.
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Reply #19 - Aug 11^th, 2012 at 11:23am

Kat wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 10:15am:

For all their tricks and functions, there is one thing that an
old-fashioned land-line can do that a smart-phone cannot.

Ever tried to slam the receiver down in the ear of an
unwanted caller using a smart-phone?

Doesn't work.

You can always simulate it. Record the sound of a receiver slamming down on the keypad unit, then replay the sound of the phone slamming down just before hanging up.

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