Re: Legality of: Cell-Phone signal blocking

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:10:40 -0400, Straydog <asd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>>>
>> I just hope that when you find the need to use your heart-attack-car-
>> accident-emergency phone, someone else is jamming you!
>
>You are a big jerk.

Excellent retort!  Very thought provoking!  How long did it take you
to come up with that one?

>
>  Think about
>> it.  I am in agreement that there are some
>
>Most people should NOT be ever using a cell phone WHILE driving.

Who is going to decide who can and who can't?  You?  You would never
notice the people who drive and talk on the cell phone successfully,
because they do not get your attention.  Most have hands free devices
so you'd never notice, even if you looked directly at them.  If you
are driving around looking to see if people are on the phone then you
are a bigger hazard to driving than most of them are.

>
>  people who should never be
>> on the phone while driving.  OTOH there are people out there who can
>> handle it, and need to use it to continue to make a living.
>
>The vast majority of cell phone use (more than 99.9%) is for
non-essential 
>social chit-chat and the human race got along fine up until just
recently.

I agree that a large percentage of conversations is unnecessary, but I
doubt it is as large as you say.  Who makes the determination?  You
again?  Maybe most of them are not life threatening situations, but
many of them are situations where it saves money in fuel consumption,
time and more.  (fuel consumption in that a lot of it might be wasted
looking for a pay phone - which is much harder to do nowadays)

>
>> For example, I am a service engineer who happens to work on MRI
>> systems.  How would you like to be the patient in one of those systems
>> when something occurs, that is a simple phone fix, and the person with
>> the knowledge to fix it cannot be reached because some
>> holier-than-thou jerk with a jammer is preventing it?
>
>Because you guys can't think of a better way to deal with a technical 
>problem, in a limited location, where probably no one else is around to
be 
>disturbed by senseless, purposeless, idle chatter?

Do you want to pay 2 or 3 times the cost for a procedure so that
everytime one is performed there is a service engineer on hand?  That
would be great for me, since I am sure my salary would go up, due to
demand!


>
>You can go jump in the lake.

Another thoughtful response.  Sorry I can't do that.  My cell doesn't
work under water.  That might be a good place for you then, wouldn't
it?