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Title: Vanity - What Is the best way to go for inexpensive cell phones???
Source: tom007
URL Source: http://noone.com
Published: Oct 10, 2005
Author: t
Post Date: 2005-10-10 23:14:34 by tom007
Keywords: inexpensive, phones???, Vanity
Views: 200
Comments: 17

It's here. Everyone I know has cell phones. My daughter is going to be driving soon and that is when I want her to have a cell phone for obvious reasons. A family of four.
From what I hear, the phones are a considerable source of consumer rage - billing issues etc. I would like ours to be as truely "need communications", not the blabbing as we pull out of the driveway device I have seen so often.
Trac phone, pre paid, does any one have an informed suggestion?
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
I bought a pre-paid phone for cash. I gave them a name of someone who isn't me.
I only use it when I'm out of town or on emergencies. I need to buy $20 per quarter of minutes to keep it active. Last I checked I have $42 in the bank.
With a cell phone your every move and call will be placed in your nsa data logs. Your computer can read your cell phone info whether you want it to or not...and vice versa.
I'm not paranoid. They all are out to get me;^)
If you drive on Interstates and toll roads, they'll capture your cell phone signal and info too.

Fred Mertz posted on 2005-10-10 23:22:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
If you drive on Interstates and toll roads, they'll capture your cell phone signal and info too.

Tahnks Fred, but how else can they connect you? Do you mean thay can capture your info if you don't use the phone?

tom007 posted on 2005-10-10 23:30:11 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
You used to be able to take the battery out to not be tracked. Now I understand they all have some sort of internal battery.
I look at cell phones as goobermint tracking devices in addition to being gubmint remote listening devices. Like I said, I ain't paranoid.

Fred Mertz posted on 2005-10-10 23:58:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Fred Mertz, tom007 (#3)
look at cell phones as goobermint tracking devices in addition to being gubmint remote listening devices. Like I said, I ain't paranoid.

That's not the only thing wrong with radio collars.....ooops I mean Cell Phones.
A study by scientists in Finland has found that mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain. The study at Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that exposure to radiation from mobile phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells grown in a laboratory. Nonetheless the study, the initial findings of which were published June 2002, in the scientific journal Differentiation, raises new questions about whether mobile phone radiation can weaken the brain's protective shield against harmful substances. The study focused on changes in cells that line blood vessels and on whether such changes could weaken the functioning of the blood-brain barrier, which prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream.

They also found that one hour of exposure to mobile phone radiation caused cultured human cells to shrink. The researchers believe this is triggered by a response that normally only happens when a cell is damaged. In a person, such changes could disable safety mechanisms that prevent harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream. Radiation-induced changes in the cells could also interfere with the normal death process of apoptosis. If cells that are "marked" to die do not, tumors can form. The study found that a protein called hsp27 linked to the functioning of the blood-brain barrier showed increased activity due to irradiation and pointed to a possibility that such activity could make the shield more permeable, he said. Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink--not the blood vessels but the cells themselves--and then tiny gaps could appear between those cells through which some molecules could pass.
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timetobuildaboat posted on 2005-10-11 5:45:35 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
What Is the best way to go for inexpensive cell phones???

The BEST way is not to get one at all.
You lived a long time without one, we all have.
Nothing pisses me off more than to get behind some asshole driving, and he's doing 35 in a 55 MPH zone because his damn call is so freaking important.
Or at the checkout, when the silly bitch can't put her phone down to write a check, swipe her card, or count cash.
Tom, ya seem like a nice guy. Don't get one. I don't wanna hate ya.

Soda Pop posted on 2005-10-11 12:40:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: Soda Pop (#5)
r at the checkout, when the silly bitch can't put her phone down to write a check, swipe her card, or count cash.

Saw a young lady yesterday backing up her car too fast in a parking lot with, you guessed it, a phone stuck in her jabbering mouth!

tom007 posted on 2005-10-11 18:56:18 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: tom007 (#0)
get a two unit deal from verizon, best coverage IMO.
Then all calls between your two fones are free all the time.
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swarthyguy posted on 2005-10-11 19:08:42 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: swarthyguy (#7)
Thanks, Guy!

tom007 posted on 2005-10-11 19:15:03 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: tom007 (#0)
If for nothing more than emergency use, have someone give you one that they no longer use (everybody is upgrading to the newer, smaller ones).
Don't even activate it. By law (at least in our area) 911 calls have to go thru to the dispatcher regardless if the phone is activated or not.
I know this to be true because the old analog set installed in my old truck will dial into 911.
Our mom drives around with one of my sisters old phones just for this "emergency use".
If it isn't serious enough to make the call to 911, then it can wait...

Brian S posted on 2005-10-11 19:20:59 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: Brian S (#9)
Intresting, thanks B.

tom007 posted on 2005-10-11 19:32:41 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#11. To: Brian S (#9)
If it isn't serious enough to make the call to 911, then it can wait...

There ya go!

Soda Pop posted on 2005-10-11 20:07:50 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#12. To: tom007 (#0)
Cheep cell Phone
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Itisa1mosttoolate posted on 2005-10-11 20:20:03 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#13. To: All (#12)

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Itisa1mosttoolate posted on 2005-10-11 20:24:17 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
#14. To: Soda Pop (#5)
I got on Cingular recently only because my whole family is on it. Free calls (in network calling), no more long distance to pay, no more hunting a public phone to use, (you can't find one anymore). I do not talk while driving (my biggest pet peeve, it should be against the law), eating out, or any of the other annoying things I see people do. Mainly it's for home use and if I get in to a peck of trouble out on the road.
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justlurking posted on 2005-10-11 21:56:40 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#15. To: tom007 (#0)
I dumped my house phone, and we both have a cell. Verizon has given me excellent service.

Jethro Tull posted on 2005-10-11 22:16:33 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#16. To: Jethro Tull (#15)
Thanks JT, got alot to look into.

tom007 posted on 2005-10-11 22:18:35 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#17. To: justlurking (#14)
it should be against the law), eating out, or any of the other annoying things I see people do. Mainly it's for home use and if I get in to a peck of trouble out on the road.

You've got your head on straight.
Maybe we should have an IQ test prior to allowing folks to get a cell phone.
Wonder how many folks with cell phones also are on food stamps/welfare?
What a world.

Soda Pop posted on 2005-10-12 6:32:47 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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