On 11/3/2013 10:40 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/3/13, 9:56 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:17:33 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

You can get a new iPhone 4S for ninety-nine cents with a two year
contract. I think you can get an unlimited talk, unlimited message, and
a GB of data for around $100 a month and that would be the same for any
smart phone you choose. Multiple phones on the same share plan would be
less per phone.

It is amazing to me that people think $1200 a year for a phone is
cheap.
You just told us you don't even use your phone that much.


I use the email and data (file transfers, downloads, et cetera) more
than I use voice. I checked the other day and I am using about 400
minutes of "voice" a month, more or less. That's more than I thought.

The plan I have allows me to "tether" my laptop to my iPhone where there
is no wi-fi available to me. Several of my clients are in financial
services and for various security reasons have no wi-fi in their
offices, and no "guest" wired account access for visitors of any type. I
sometimes have to make adjustments to deliverables at those offices, and
I need internet access to do it.

I am "privileged" (ha!) to have three other cell phone users and one
cell modem user on my account, all relatives (college students) in
distant states. They "share" my unlimited account. Student subsidies!
But they are much less expensive on an add a line basis.

Also, I was able to get rid of one of our wired home phone lines, for a
savings of about $60 a month.

Cell services in this country are much more expensive than in many other
countries, just as high speed internet is. We 'Muricans don't seem to
mind being gouged on prices.



But you do seem to have a problem paying taxes. Why is that? Don't you
trust the government to spend your money wisely?

On 11/3/13, 9:56 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:17:33 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

You can get a new iPhone 4S for ninety-nine cents with a two year
contract. I think you can get an unlimited talk, unlimited message, and
a GB of data for around $100 a month and that would be the same for any
smart phone you choose. Multiple phones on the same share plan would be
less per phone.

It is amazing to me that people think $1200 a year for a phone is
cheap.
You just told us you don't even use your phone that much.


I use the email and data (file transfers, downloads, et cetera) more
than I use voice. I checked the other day and I am using about 400
minutes of "voice" a month, more or less. That's more than I thought.

The plan I have allows me to "tether" my laptop to my iPhone where there
is no wi-fi available to me. Several of my clients are in financial
services and for various security reasons have no wi-fi in their
offices, and no "guest" wired account access for visitors of any type. I
sometimes have to make adjustments to deliverables at those offices, and
I need internet access to do it.

I am "privileged" (ha!) to have three other cell phone users and one
cell modem user on my account, all relatives (college students) in
distant states. They "share" my unlimited account. Student subsidies!
But they are much less expensive on an add a line basis.

Also, I was able to get rid of one of our wired home phone lines, for a
savings of about $60 a month.

Cell services in this country are much more expensive than in many other
countries, just as high speed internet is. We 'Muricans don't seem to
mind being gouged on prices.





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Religion: together we can find the cure.

On 11/3/13, 10:58 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:31:18 -0500, Hank©
wrote:

For a hundred bucks I get 1450 talk minutes, 1450 messages, and 1.45 gig
of data. It'll take me several month, hell, maybe a year, to use up all
of that.

I may not have used that many minutes on the phone (cell or wired) in
my whole life (certainly for the last 20 years). That is 60 days on
the phone if you never hung up.

Of course I think there are people who don't ever hang up these days.
What the hell do they have to talk about?


This past week one of my clients wanted me to write and add an entire
new section to a brochure we are revising. He was leaving for Europe for
a couple of weeks of business travel and we spent nearly three hours on
the phone discussing it and taking notes while he was at his office,
being driven to BWI, and waiting for his plane. That accounted for 175
minutes, according to my call logger (billable hours, you know).

Apparently that is the price you pay when the work you do is cerebral
and doesn't involve banging nails into 2x4's.

The messages part intrigues me. I have a nephew in his senior year at
University of Chicago who has maintained a 4.0 average (math major), who
racks up more than 2000 text messages a month, virtually all to his
girlfriend at Cal Tech. She also has a very high GPA. If they go to grad
school, I'm hoping they go to the same one so they can move in together
and communicate in more socially satisfying ways.



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Religion: together we can find the cure.

On 11/3/13, 11:29 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 10:40:07 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

I use the email and data (file transfers, downloads, et cetera) more
than I use voice. I checked the other day and I am using about 400
minutes of "voice" a month, more or less. That's more than I thought.

I go months at a time that I never even turn my cell phone on.

I doubt I use 10 minutes a month on my wired phone.



When my clients want to reach me, they want to reach me. I can't
offshore customer service to Pakistan. I have one long-term client
who suffers from insomnia and occasionally calls me after 11 PM, maybe
once or twice a year.

Thanks to computers, cell phones, email, and the internet, I typically
only have to go to downtown DC or Bal'mer once a week. In the 1980's, I
was downtown four days a week or more.



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Religion: together we can find the cure.

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:31:18 -0500, Hank©
wrote:

For a hundred bucks I get 1450 talk minutes, 1450 messages, and 1.45 gig
of data. It'll take me several month, hell, maybe a year, to use up all
of that.

I may not have used that many minutes on the phone (cell or wired) in
my whole life (certainly for the last 20 years). That is 60 days on
the phone if you never hung up.

Of course I think there are people who don't ever hang up these days.
What the hell do they have to talk about?

I use mine a lot for work, but I really don't know why some people need
to be yacking in their car, and worse yet, in a damned store. It ****es
me off when people are clogging up the aisles yammering on their phones.
I was in Quick Trip and a lady had on a full headset, talking away, and
the guy behind the counter told her to take it outside. I loved it!

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:01 -0500, Hank© wrote:

On 11/3/2013 6:11 AM, True North wrote:
SNERK...
Did you actually include yourself with "hard workers" trying to pay back taxes?
You are an amusing little man.


You pay more RE taxes on 1/3 the house, than Harry's wife pays on her
house. Doesn't that just frost your balls?

You may be referring to something Don is in need of. Hell, he can't even answer a question about his
political choices.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:01 -0500, Hank© wrote:

On 11/3/2013 6:11 AM, True North wrote:
SNERK...
Did you actually include yourself with "hard workers" trying to pay back taxes?
You are an amusing little man.


You pay more RE taxes on 1/3 the house, than Harry's wife pays on her
house. Doesn't that just frost your balls?

You may be referring to something Don is in need of. Hell, he can't even answer a question about his
political choices.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

John, is this senility or have you been diagnosed with some other memory
problem? I ask because you keep saying the same thing several times a
day.

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:23:11 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:01 -0500, Hank© wrote:

On 11/3/2013 6:11 AM, True North wrote:
SNERK...
Did you actually include yourself with "hard workers" trying to pay back taxes?
You are an amusing little man.


You pay more RE taxes on 1/3 the house, than Harry's wife pays on her
house. Doesn't that just frost your balls?

You may be referring to something Don is in need of. Hell, he can't even answer a question about his
political choices.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

John, is this senility or have you been diagnosed with some other memory
problem? I ask because you keep saying the same thing several times a
day.

How often have you come to Don's defense? You keep saying the same things, time after time. Does he
need your protection?

Do you have a memory problem?

Don't answer.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

On Sunday, 3 November 2013 15:04:56 UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:23:11 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:



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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:01 -0500, Hank© wrote:



On 11/3/2013 6:11 AM, True North wrote:

SNERK...

Did you actually include yourself with "hard workers" trying to pay back taxes?

You are an amusing little man.





You pay more RE taxes on 1/3 the house, than Harry's wife pays on her

house. Doesn't that just frost your balls?



You may be referring to something Don is in need of. Hell, he can't even answer a question about his

political choices.



John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!



John, is this senility or have you been diagnosed with some other memory

problem? I ask because you keep saying the same thing several times a

day.



How often have you come to Don's defense? You keep saying the same things, time after time. Does he

need your protection?



Do you have a memory problem?



Don't answer.



John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!


Wozzers Johnny, you really have a splinter or something up your butt lately..
I recommend you apply some of your namesake balm to sooth things down....
yes that would be Preparation H.

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 11:12:45 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

On Sunday, 3 November 2013 15:04:56 UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:23:11 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:



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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:20:01 -0500, Hank© wrote:



On 11/3/2013 6:11 AM, True North wrote:

SNERK...

Did you actually include yourself with "hard workers" trying to pay back taxes?

You are an amusing little man.





You pay more RE taxes on 1/3 the house, than Harry's wife pays on her

house. Doesn't that just frost your balls?



You may be referring to something Don is in need of. Hell, he can't even answer a question about his

political choices.



John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!



John, is this senility or have you been diagnosed with some other memory

problem? I ask because you keep saying the same thing several times a

day.



How often have you come to Don's defense? You keep saying the same things, time after time. Does he

need your protection?



Do you have a memory problem?



Don't answer.



John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!


Wozzers Johnny, you really have a splinter or something up your butt lately.
I recommend you apply some of your namesake balm to sooth things down....
yes that would be Preparation H.

Don, I hereby promise that any posts I make to you are sociable.

Can you do the same?

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!