I laughed when I saw that privacy and cell phones, my goodness

• IMPORTANT - drivers licenses for 2008 - me
  • I'd rather ID's were made harder to get so my next - flight lands in one piece, & not MILLIONS!
  • Have you ever been the victim of identity theft? - I have.
    • This will make identity theft easier. Our DMV had the - me
  • Oh, man!!! - Margaret
    • You're more concerned about how much it cost - instead of why this in the first place?
      • No, I think the whole thing is crap - Margaret
        • So call your senators and representatives - and lets see that it doesn't..........nm
  • Falling on deaf ears........and - forever amazed!!!!!! sm
    • Exactly!! I think - Margaret
  • The State of Arizona is opting out. Anyone else's state opting out? NM - not me
    • You have to admire Arizona. - Me
      • Oops, I see this was discussed below. - Me
    • I didn't know that was an option- - Margaret
      • You can opt out if it goes through, but you - will basically be considered nonexistent.
        • Good, does that mean I can stop paying taxes? - nm - XXX
        • Yeah, like when Tom Potter - Margaret
          • I may be wrong, but did not Arizona also - Ruthie
            • arizona, hawaii & eastern time zone area of Indiana - do not participate in daylight savings time..nm
            • Arizona does not participate in daylight savings time. NM - not me
  • I agree completely....government once again - taking away personal liberties!!!
  • I honestly don't see why this is a big deal - Born in the U.S.A.
    • Yeah, and how many instances - Margaret
    • The big deal is your federal government.... - sm
    • I don't have a problem with it either.. - PAMT~MDM
      • Wiretapping is a whole different issue - Born in the U.S.A.
        • I laughed when I saw that privacy and cell phones, my goodness - Judie
    • Look at the bigger picture down the road..... - info about you doesn't stop at this country
      • Did you even bother to read the snopes.com information? - Born in the U.S.A.
        • What does snopes.com have to do with - anything.....this is not rumor, it's a bill ...
          • And not to mention - Margaret
            • Portland Oregon? I think about retiring there - only state with MD-assisted suicide....sm
          • snopes merely has all the facts - not the poster you were responding to....NM
  • So what? What's the big deal? You act like they want to - implant a tracking device or something (nm)
    • You don't think that is next? - Margaret
    • You bet it will be a tracking device......see inside - MsMT
      • My VA license is already a tracking device of sorts - sm - Laura E.
      • Hope you don't have OnStar - if you don't want to be tracked
        • OnStar is your choice......not government imposed - personal liberties are being stolen
          • I am a Libertarian and pretty fanatical about "Big Government" - Born in the U.S.A.
    • If you don't know what the big deal is.... - you need to study up......sm
    • Biblical prophesy will be fulfilled....... - a bad one.......
      • Do you think the ONE world leader has been born yet? If so, who. - Interesting
        • Dalai Lama comes to mind....n/m - not the poster you were typing to....n/m
      • But this is definitely not Bible prophecy being fulfilled - sm
        • How do you figure? - Margaret
        • It all has to start somewhere doesn't it? - Little by little, until we think nothing is bad...
    • You need to look closer at this....it is - absolutely a tracking device.......nm
  • Great! I'm all for it! I want people to prove who they are. - Stop the illegals! nm
    • She wants it repealed, do you? - Jacque
  • I had to have all that when I went to - So?
    • This has nothing to do with identifying illegals...... - only LEGAL citizens of YOUR country....sm
  • Why would you ask - Anita

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Hi!  My church is collecting cell phones as a fundraiser.  If you have an unused cell phone lying around that you would like to get rid of, please let me know!  Just let me know what the brand, model number, phone co used for and I will let you know if that is one that is on the list.  I will pay for the shipping to get it here!

Thanks a zillion!

Both my sons got their own cells phones when they went to college and I suggested they get the prepaid type....When their minutes ran out they were outta luck....They learned to budget their money pretty quickly though.   Both worked and went to school.  It also taught them that there's no such thing as a free ride in this world.   

Hoax or not, the long-term safety of cell phones is still very much in question!  They are not innocuous, and emit harmful electromagnetic radiation in varying amounts.  Just as policemen's radar guns laid in their laps have caused testicular cancer, so the incidence of brain tumors from cell phone usage has also been on the rise. 
That very thing happened to my stepdad, a brain tumor & aneurysm right above his right ear, where he holds his cordless phone constantly.  Cell phone signals decrease fertility of humans & animals alike, & Swedish researchers have proven that they are ESPECIALLY damaging to the brains of children!  Cell phone-using kids are FIVE times more likely to get brain cancer.  I gave mine up over 5 years ago & will never use another one on a routine basis.  This issue is being covered up, but is certain to become the controversy of the 21st century, just as tobacco was in the 20th century.

She got a new cell phone last month and downloaded a bunch of ringtones, even though I reminded her that each one costs money + the transfer fee, which the system prompts you for as we don't have the internet plan for the cell phone (don't do text messaging either).   Well, she ignored the prompts about the 3 cents per kilibite fee and size of the files alert when she accepted the downloads she selected.  To make a long story short..... her bill for her downloads is right at $60. 

She is crying that she has to pay this bill but I'm not working overtime because she ignored my telling her about the costs and accepted the charges.  This will teach her a lesson on responsibility.  She was expecting the bill to be about $20.  She'll be babysitting up a storm this next month to pay this bill!

I was once the personal secetary/traveling companion of a famous female author/lecturer who shall remain anonymous.  My main job was to keep people away from her so she could focus on giving her talks, signing books, etc.  I never in my life saw so many people do such strange things to get to a person just for an autograph or to be able to say they "saw her up close" or "touched her" and all that.  And now with cell phones that take photos -- who knows what people would do to this celeb.  Take pictures of her or her chart, say she told them this or that, etc.  Sell the stuff.  If they keep her away from people, there can be no chance of false rumors and possible law suits, etc. in the future for alleged or proven this and that.

The one I worked for --she and I had to HIDE on many occasions to escape people so that we could eat or even just rest.  It made for a fun and interesting job but as a celeb, you just don't get privacy often.  People follow you everywhere -- it was a pain at times and kind of spooky too to see just how far people would go.  

I can understand all these measures.  I have not kept up with her story; really do not know much about her, but if she is ill these policies sound very good for her.  I would want the same for my former boss if she were still alive.  She'd want it too, believe me. 

When I landed at our place in 2002, I quickly learned I HAD to put up a privacy fence for the safety of my animals as well as the safety of the little kids who visit their grandparents next door, because I found them once too often in the pasture trying to pet the animals, and a hoof to their forheads would have been a very bad thing.

I went to Home Depot and quickly got discouraged at not only the cost of doing it yourself, but the labor and tools required.  I live in New England and the ground is 90% ROCK...try digging a post hole through THAT and have fence posts spaced out appropriately...ain't gonna happen.

So, I called a fence place that was in the phone book.  They came over FOR FREE, measured out what I wanted, sat down with me and a book and showed me what was available, gave me costs, and said "call us when your're ready." 

You bet your bippie I went with the fencing company.  They had 274 feet of 6' cedar privacy fence completely installed in ONE DAY for under $4000 (back in 2003).  They had the guys, the knowhow, and the proper equipment.  I had to go with metal pipes instead of wood poles because our ground is so wet and rocky, and I thought it would be ugly, but it has worked out absolutely wonderfully.  I haven't painted or stained it either, just let it turn that pretty gray that cedar does.

You can see some pictures of it on my website here:
http://www.perin.org/images/specialnelliewinta.jpg 
http://www.perin.org/Webpics/slides/Frogs%20yum.html

Best investment ever...not only for the safety factor, but also for the privacy, as you can see from the photos, even though we have lots-o-land, the neighbors were just too darned close.  Grab your phone book, look up fence installation companies, and at least get those free estimates.    

Today there was a newspaper article by Leonard Pitts.  He wrote about celebrities and their right to privacy.  He specifically talked about Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer and how she knew that info was being leaked by someone in the hospital.  She proved it by withholding some info from all family and friends--that only she and her doctor knew--and the info still got to the gossip rags.  The hospital at first would not release the worker's name due to privacy policies.  Ironic, huh?  She apparently had easy access to the med record since there was a record of her looking at it more than anyone else did.  Eventually the worker was charged but died of cancer before being sentenced. 

Anyway, my question is this:  If an offshore MT did this, could s/he be charged as well, either in their country or ours?  Or would only the MTSO be in some trouble?  I heard an offshore MT a few years back who threatened to release info if she did not get, I believe, an increase in pay, but do not know what the outcome was. 

I have a very dumb question (probably), but I have never used one.  I need to know what a C Phone is and how it works.  Is it similar to a Lanier machine?  I have a Lanier and have used it quite a lot, but I am looking at several positions on the Job Seeker's board and they require a C Phone which I have no experience with.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

I got through one time to vote for Melinda but then, after that - the first phone # said this number is not registered (recording) and the other number(s) said *for a charge of $6.99 you will reach a national directory service* and was sending you to a number like 10115158000.  The numbers last night were all messed up.  I went to American Idol's website and there was NOWHERE to report that the phones (all lines) were all messed up for hours.

So, in my guesstimation, the outcome of the show will be totally wrong/slanted/fixed.

Betcha American Idol has no clue at this point (early a.m. Wednesday) that this even happened last night.