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A Government Ruling I Can Get Behind
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
11:13:00 AM EDT
Hearing High and Dry -- Radiohead
Thank God:
Striking a blow for cell phone haters everywhere, a government agency on Tuesday said it will keep a rule in place that requires the divisive devices to be turned off during airline flights.
The reasoning behind the decision was technical. But the avalanche of comments the Federal Communications Commission has logged from airline travelers have been nothing short of visceral.
“These days it’s impossible to get on a bus without at least one person hollering into their cell phone, invading the private space of everyone around them,” one member of the public wrote in an e-mail to the FCC. “That’s bad enough when one can get off in 10 minutes. To have to suffer through HOURS of such torture, with nowhere to go and miserably cramped conditions — someone is going to explode.”
Yes, precisely. I think we've all been seated next to the person who is blabbling on the cell phone until the last possible instant, and who flips it open as soon as the wheels touch the ground. These people aren't going to stop talking if they don't have to -- the would blab all the way through the flight and you'd be treated to a neverending one-sided conversation, most comprised of "uh-hu" and "I know," and "right, right." Eventually someone would have to go.
Of course, I'm ambivalent about cell phones anyway. I have one because I'll need one when I'm on my book tour, but at the moment, three people on the planet know the number, and one of them I happen to live with. I think I'll be keeping it that way for as long as possible.
Are you glad people are not going to be able to blab into their cell phones while flying?
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11:13:00 AM EDT
Hearing High and Dry -- Radiohead
A Government Ruling I Can Get Behind
Thank God:
Striking a blow for cell phone haters everywhere, a government agency on Tuesday said it will keep a rule in place that requires the divisive devices to be turned off during airline flights.
The reasoning behind the decision was technical. But the avalanche of comments the Federal Communications Commission has logged from airline travelers have been nothing short of visceral.
“These days it’s impossible to get on a bus without at least one person hollering into their cell phone, invading the private space of everyone around them,” one member of the public wrote in an e-mail to the FCC. “That’s bad enough when one can get off in 10 minutes. To have to suffer through HOURS of such torture, with nowhere to go and miserably cramped conditions — someone is going to explode.”
Yes, precisely. I think we've all been seated next to the person who is blabbling on the cell phone until the last possible instant, and who flips it open as soon as the wheels touch the ground. These people aren't going to stop talking if they don't have to -- the would blab all the way through the flight and you'd be treated to a neverending one-sided conversation, most comprised of "uh-hu" and "I know," and "right, right." Eventually someone would have to go.
Of course, I'm ambivalent about cell phones anyway. I have one because I'll need one when I'm on my book tour, but at the moment, three people on the planet know the number, and one of them I happen to live with. I think I'll be keeping it that way for as long as possible.
Are you glad people are not going to be able to blab into their cell phones while flying?
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If cell phones were banned on planes in 2001... there'd be a slightly-less marred field in Pennsylvania, and the White House would be rubble.
4/5/07 8:43 AM