On 2/20/13 6:37 AM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 2/19/13 6:17 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

Do you really think I am gonna' read any of this? LOL!


Hey, most of your posts make absolutely no sense. Why should your latest
idea of having everyone's cells shut off at 10 mph be any different.

Oh...my wife just messaged me from her iPhone. Her commuter bus, the one
on which is she a passenger and the one that travels at more than 10 mph
except when it is stuck in traffic arrived at her stop downtown 10
minutes late so she probably will be home a littler later than usual.

Under your plan, she wouldn't be able to send such a message.

You're a moron.

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If I were king one of the first commands I would issue is to completely
ban the use of smart phones and their manufacture.
Cell phones with voice-only would be permitted. No texting capability,
no internet access. Smart phones with people walking, driving,
shopping and whatever with a phone stuck under their nose and thumbs
flying on the tiny keyboards would be outlawed.

I think smart phones are having a major affect on how people communicate
and relate to each other, much the same as how people communicate here
in this newsgroup. It's an inward, isolated world without benefit of
real human interaction and body language. Very few of the foul
mouthed, derogatory and insulting comments would be made in this
newsgroup if those involved were physically present to each other.


I also am annoyed by people using their smartphones as computer
terminals while they drive, talk, shop, et cetera, and I wonder if there
ever is any enforcement invoked against those who are fiddling with
their phones while they drive. I know there are laws against it, but
enforcement and citations? I dunno.

On the other hand, there are many legitimate reasons to have access to
email and other applications when you are away from your home or office
computer, and the smartphones prove their value in those instances.

The decline in personal, face to face communications began in earnest
with the advent in the 1980s of bulletin boards and commercial services
like CompuServ. All the smart phones have done in that regard is make
such "communication" more accessible and portable.

I see virtually none of the foul behavior you mentioned on the moderated
boards I frequent for chatting and learning more about boating,
computers, smart phones. I see very little of it on FaceBook, but then,
I do pick and choose my friends there, and if I encounter someone who is
overly aggressive or foul-mouthed or insulting, I just drop that person.
I'm in a couple of affinity groups with literally hundreds of posters
and virtually everyone seems to behave reasonably.

rec.boats was a reasonably pleasant place until the extreme righties
drove almost everyone off. Most of the posters here are righties, and
they've tea-partied the joint. There's less than a handful of us
remaining here who are moderate right to moderate left and in the middle.