Keep Our Planes Mobile Phone Free
from the peace-and-quiet dept
Even if there is no technology or safety reason for banning mobile phone use in the air, it appears that most people would prefer their planes be kept mobile phone free. A new survey shows that people don't want to deal with having to listen to others yakking away on their phones -- even if they already listen to them yakking away to each other. People just assume that mobile phone chatter would be much more annoying, either because it's always annoying to only hear one half of a conversation or because mobile phone talkers tend to be loud. Many seem to prefer the fact that a flight is "downtime" when they're simply prevented from doing anything that involves being connected. If anything, this seems to say more about how our "always-on" lifestyle is impacting people. They crave time when they're forced to be off, because they know it's the only time when it's simply impossible for them to be on call.
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Loud would be an understatement
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Anyhow, with the limited bandwidth and noise objections the airlines should install instant messaging terminals.
Too bad all it takes is a few loud-Howards to ruin it for everyone.
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Coming from doing R&D and installation on a large scale Carrier Class VoIP (not talking about the miniscule stuff like Vonage or Packet8...real telecom using VoIP), I can tell you that this is pretty much true. One problem we had with the VoIP system was that it was literally too clear, particularly international calls. We had to induce some noise pointed at both ends of the call to keep people from doing the "Hello! Hello! Are you still there?!?!" thing. After mulling over it for a few days on the noise we needed, we were sitting in a switch room and realized that the white noise created by the fans was excellent for the task. We recorded that and it is currently in use in the system today.
Another problem with cell phones is that when the other person sort of fades, the talker feels the need to yell. Major problem since that's not how those systems work. It makes it much more difficult on the microphone and the other end doesn't hear it clearly, just louder.
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So if you are stuck next to a VERY annoying loud cellphone user carrying on a blisteringly inane conversation for hours while you're trying to have some relaxation, you are out of luck.
At a restaurant, if the person is not amenable to toning it down, you can always ask a waiter for another table, on the bus, you can move to another seat...but on a plane you aren't allowed unless there's a significant number of empty seats which rarely is the case.
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Use a mobile phone in a restaurant -- receive a mandatory ticket to Indianapolis, Indiana. Use a mobile phone in a movie theater -- receive a mandatory ticket to Nome, Alaska. Use a mobile phone while driving -- receive a mandatory ticket to Baghdad, Iraq. The punishment, aside from the destination, is that these flights should be packed with other mobile phone users.
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There's also the cellphone countermeasure technique; whip out your own phone (turned on or turned off) and strike up a conversation with yourself, as loudly as necessary, peppered liberally with whatever you feel might make the other guy want to listen to YOUR conversation... sex would make a good topic, for example. Any sentence with the words "Sex" and "Doggie" will do, that kind of thing.
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Skanks on cell phones
I did this EXACT thing about two weeks ago when an obnoxious woman was yelling into her cell phone @ a classy bar.
I had decided I wanted to relax & enjoy a smoke and a drink after an especially rough day @ the office.
This was not going to be the case due to this bitch.
I had had enough and picked up my cell phone and had a pretend conversation discussing how I really wanted to screw the bimbo sitting @ the bar a few seats down from me. I continued on once I realised she was listening and then ended my conversation by telling my pretend receiver that it was a shame her tits looked so saggy or I might have wanted to bang her.
She gave me a disgusted look and while paying for my tab I asked the bartender to send her a " Sloe Comfortable Screw " ...
It was the most enjoyable drink I ever bought for a " Lady " ... and I use that term loosely
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Data Only
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Mobile Phones on Planes
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