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ElsaElsa Boards Topic: Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses... http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ ElsaElsa Boards Topic: Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses... en Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:54:41 +0000 Chez on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21139 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:07:21 +0000 Chez 21139@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ My internet connection is wireless, but that still has to be connected to a landline. Kashmiri the only difference between ordinary and wireless is how the computer links to the "internet connection box" - basically wired internet uses...well a wire <img src="/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/icon_razz.gif" /> such as an ethernet cable to attach to your computer, and wireless doesn't need that, if your computer (as most do these days) has a wireless card, it will be able to pick up the signal from anywhere within a certain range of the "wireless connection box", (although I currently use an ethernet cable to attach to the internet box because my wireless signal is broken on my computer).  The box itself is still connected to the phone socket via a wire. The only other type of connection I know of is using a mobile phone but as far as I was concerned at least in the uk that is, it seems to be very expensive. As for "cable" kashmiri I've never understood that either <img src="/my-plugins/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/icon_confused.gif" />, have always had basic "terrestrial" tv, and now digital freeview. Anonymous on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21093 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:12:08 +0000 Anonymous 21093@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ chez: wireless stuff I don't understand. or in some people's world: cable, like with TV Daemoness on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21077 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:06:38 +0000 Daemoness 21077@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I have a land line and a cell phone that I have never used yet. It was a promoted as a pay as you go thing, which wasn't really the way it actually is. Pay as you go doesn't mean to me that I should have to have a re-occurring $20+ check in their account monthly. So I don't use it. I got it for the few times I travel. So it looks good in the box but it hasn't travel with me yet. I am not saying I will never use it but I have reservations about it being my only source. Before the economic crunch, I worked GY shift and watched all the younger guys on my crew wired in on every break and even when not on breaks LOL. I was always kind of amazed that they had so much to text to whomever at 3 am in the morning. I am not apprehensive over future shock, I am just a stubborn Taurus. I was on the net earlier than most and have 2 puters. I abhor call waiting and will tell anyone, if they say gimme a sec I have a call incoming, you have 10 seconds. I count that out and hang up. I do not use that feature at all and will not in the future.  I am sure this will sound paranoid or whacked out to some, but here goes. LOL I am not christian but concerning the mark of the devil prophecy etc.. I don't think that people will be forced to be marked or tagged with a microchip. I think the big sale will be, you don't have to pack a cellphone, we can just insert this chip and you can be in contact with anyone you want to. You can do all your banking that way as well and for an added price and monthly payment we will have a retinal insert as well for cruising the net and watching TV. If you get lost in the wilderness we can find you and there is no recharging or being out of range. People would line up in droves saying plug me in!! To me it is amazing that the world actually revolved before society had cell phones. And people just called back if the line was busy or left a message. I am not saying cell phones aren't a great thing, they are in many instances, but to not be able to function without one is bullshit. I live in a little pisspot town and to see people daily driving and yapping into their cellphones amazes me that there are so many hugely important conversations that just HAVE to be made at that time! Who knew this was such a hub of communications! I am so sure of the video footage of the intellectually impaired texting while driving people were discussing life or death situations or philosophizing on the state of world affairs. Ya right. WTF is up that people can't seem to exist without music in their ears or having a conversation either by voice or texting at any time? Is it a way of keeping the mind filled with inane shit so we don't actually have to think? Closing down land lines is sort of ominous to me somehow. It is just the beginning to try and force the holdouts like me to get wired into the system more. I am already wired in enough thank you.       Chez on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21023 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:35:19 +0000 Chez 21023@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I'm a tad bit confused here, if more people are getting rid of their landline, and more people are getting internet in their homes - how do they get on the internet without a landline? jenfullmoon on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21021 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:33:37 +0000 jenfullmoon 21021@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I only keep the land line for Internet/emergencies. What Neith said about corded vs. cordless, especially when we had a weekend-long blackout one winter. Shannon on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-21015 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:14:56 +0000 Shannon 21015@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I dropped the land line about 10 years ago, haven't looked back.  People finally quit looking at me funny about that in the past year or so. I've been carrying 2 cell phones for a few years, too.  Work almost always gives me one, but I have my personal one as well.  So it's not like I've really streamlined the technology or anything.  user on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-20998 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:22:39 +0000 user 20998@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ Ha, SaDiablo,  now it's not even strangers that are dangerous, it's parents! I just saw a snippet about a family who had some bathtime photos of their little kids developed at WalMart. The photo developer got suspicious and called the authorities. The parents had their children taken away because of nude photos of them in the bath. Not to be light about families that molest children. That's horrible. But who doesn't have photos of their kids at bathtime. When they're little. I guess this is off topic, sorry :) surd on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-20787 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:38:49 +0000 surd 20787@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I am not sure whats the reason for avoidance but yes i have pluto in libra and i go crazy when someone tries to get into my personal zone. SaDiablo on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-20776 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:47:32 +0000 SaDiablo 20776@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ "I think the avoidance thing is one part of the Pluto in Libra generation." User, I don't know if Pluto has anything to do with it, I've never thought about it in that respect.  I do know plenty of Libran Plutos (I'm smack-dab in the middle, Pluto @ 14 Libra) and not all of us do this.One thing that I did think of when you mentioned it, though, is that we're the generation that grew up with "stranger danger":  all strangers are perverts and murderers and should be avoided, right?  *laughs*  Everyone I know from our generation is very much "stay the fuck out of MY business," however, which is one reason why I think we're distancing ourselves from actual physical human interactions. Edited to add:  Wow, I just realized how schizo that sounded!  Not all of us do this, but here's the reason we all do it.  *snickers*  Whatever, I'm letting it stand.  *looks at halo* Strawberry Fields on "Death of Landlines (?) and effects on businesses..." http://boards.elsaelsa.com/topic/death-of-landlines-and-effects-on-businesses#post-20745 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:16:30 +0000 Strawberry Fields 20745@http://boards.elsaelsa.com/ I don't watch TV so don't have cable. I have a cell phone which I don't use (it was given to me). I have a landline through which I get my Internet (better service than through the cable). I am "allergic to telephones" so the main purpose of my landline is to connect me to the Internet.