Well, I have to say this has been an interesting discussion full of implicit self-contradictions.
I too hate the imbeciles who use phones inappropriately ... when driving, when doing other things that require their attention, in an obnoxious manner, etc ... all the fault of the imbeciles and not the communications device. I don't blame the communications device. I buy and pay for service of a communications device to enable communications. If I'm not going to carry the device, if I'm not going to use it, I would be wasting my money needlessly, so I have it on and with me most of the time. I only give the mobile number out to people whom I want to contact me immediately or urgently, or when I'm on travel, so unexpected "just saying hello" calls are rare. When it is inappropriate to pay attention to the phone or it would be disturbing to people around me, I disable the ringer and ignore incoming calls. It's pretty simple. If I didn't have it with me and enabled for communications most of the time, then the people I gave the number to for purpose of finding me when it was *necessary* would not be able to rely upon it for communications in need and it would lose the value that I'm paying for. At which point, I would kill the service and stop spending money for it. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
