Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:07:53 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Technology & Society, or will the landline join the buggy whip?
From: whitroth at 5-cent.us
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Cc: "wsfa" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>    I like my landline too, but I use the cell phone for
> long distance since its cheaper.

How odd - I have national flat rate on all my phones, and have since it
was offered. Of course, until my twins were 18, and went off to college,
my long distance bill before that was a minimum of $40/mo, since I was
living in Texas, and they in VA...

Oh, yeah - and you can't balance *any* cellphone on your shoulder while
you do something with your hands, like make tea....

   mark
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:44:47 -0500
>   whitroth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> "The long slow death of the landline"
>>>
>>> "The CDC reports that more than one third of American
>>>homes are now
>>> landline-free, with six in ten adults aged under 30
>>>living in
>>> households with only wireless phones."
>>>
>>> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/28/the-long-slow-death-of-the-lan.html
>>>
>> With any luck, it won't be near gone before I am. I
>>*hate* cell phones.
>> Esp. since I'm one of the rapidly decreasing population,
>>apparently, who
>> actually MAKE PHONE CALLS and want to TALK TO PEOPLE.
>>
>> A couple years ago, I heard a report on the current/new
>>crop of cell
>> phones. At the end of the `10 or more minute piece,
>>crowing over all the
>> Wonderful Features, they said, "and how about voice
>>quality". The response
>> was that one wan't bad, one was mediocre, and the rest
>>were *terrible*.
>>
>> So the next person who even *thinks* about talking to me
>>about the Wonders
>> of their New Phone, unless the first thing you tell me
>>is "voice quality
>> is better than landlines 90 years ago", and "you can
>>talk on it without
>> entertaining the entire Metro car", I'll tell you that
>>you're paying *way*
>> too much money for a piece of crap that some PR type
>>told you was k3wl,
>> and let's just skip the actual conversation.
>>
>