10-18-2019, 06:01 PM
(10-18-2019, 01:16 AM)guohua Wrote: @"Ninurta"
Yes, you'll be forced to upgrade to a 4G cell phone, my husband has a friend who has had a 3G flip phone for years and he got the best cell service, in place we couldn't get cell service while out hunting.
Now he is not Happy at all, still has a flip phone but it is 4G and He Hates it!
"Forced to upgrade" is a relative concept. They cannot force me to spend money I don't need to spend in order to upgrade, so they are shit out of luck there. Until they GIVE the phones away (Obamaphone, anyone?) and REQUIRE everyone to have one, then they are again shit out of luck. AND, when that time comes, well, we'll just see how that goes for them...
... but until then, I can live like a cave man of the prehistoric 1990's, without a portable tracking device installed permanently in my hand or back pocket.
As an aside, the hospital we took Grace to for her surgery was a university hospital, a "training facility" for future medical personnel. While she was being operated on, I would occasionally go outside and walk around. I was amazed at the student body during class changes. It looked like a scene from the Walking Dead - all these kids shuffling along watching a little black box in their hand, oblivious to their surroundings.
That was spooky as hell.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’