Wireless on Jetliners.........I hate this idea!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/12/16/fcc.airtravelers.ap/index.html

IMO, not a very good idea! I really hate it.
Some people don't have the basic etiqutte of using Cell phones. Many times I have seen people in the grocery lines chatting, while the cashier is waiting for them to swipe their card. Then there are those drivers! While on a multi-lane highway, it may matter less, but on inner roads, it causes much frustration. They don't give signals while they turn. There they are sitting like a duck in the middle of the (55 MPH highway) state road #NN waiting to make their left turn. They are too tied up holding the cell in one hand while the other hand is either on the steering or on the stick. I hate those people who don't signal, especially if there is traffic behind you on a two lane road.

Now, its on airlines as well. Imagine five/ten people trying to talk at the same time in a plane!

:roll:

- m

I'm pretty sure that driving whilst holding a phone is illegal pretty much everywhere... Theres even been a [limited and unsuccessful] campaign to ban use of handsfree mobile phones. The main argument being that since the person on the other end of the line has no clues as to what the driver is up to, they will be be unable to pause the conversation the way you would naturally if you were a passenger holding a conversation with the driver. The resultant effect being that the driver is distracted more by having a phone conversation than they would by a direct conversation....

The thing that would be annoying about phones on planes would be the cocophany of annoying ring tones all throught a flight as people from a while variety of timezones around the world try to stay in contact. Do we really need to make in any harder to get to sleep on planes?

Air travel already consists of being made physically very uncomfortable for long periods of time as we get squeezed into place for hours of elbow fighting with our neighbours and knee bruising seat reclining incidents. PLEASE lets not have our ears assaulted by polyphonic polution at the same time!

I thought this post would be about "fly by wire" going "fly by wireless".

That would be shocking

The main problem I have with cellphones in enclosed spaces is that people tend to SHOUT into them.

It leads to a cacaphony of shouting people all trying to make themselves heard over all the other shouting people.

As to people in cars not giving signals, that's not (just) the ones calling on their mobis. I drive about 120km every day and over 10% of cars don't give signals, most of them driven by people who are not on the phone.

I was in an airport one day waiting for my flight. Almost everybody around me took their cell phones and started to talk. I felt I am in a madhouse.

Was in in California? If so your impression was accurate

Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
I was in an airport one day waiting for my flight. Almost everybody around me took their cell phones and started to talk. I felt I am in a madhouse.

Ever commuted on train to work? You would hear that twice a day...
I think worst is when they are shouting in different languages.

Once I was going on train with man whose signal kept getting lost, not only he was yelling in chinese while he had signal, whenever he would loose it he would repeatedly keep saying :"F***ing peice on shit" in english and bang his phone on his neghbour's chair.

Walking up this road, someone walked down it towards me all the time talking to himself as mad men do, with horrible facial expressions. I started to give him a wide berth then realised he was talking on the mobile phone. It was in his pocket and he had a contraption in his ear.

So now we'll have no way to tell the difference between the mad and the really mad people.

Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Once I was going on train with man whose signal kept getting lost, not only he was yelling in chinese while he had signal, whenever he would loose it he would repeatedly keep saying :"F***ing peice on shit" in english and bang his phone on his neghbour's chair.

I saw a brilliant example of the pinnacle of human evolution recently - a girl was talking on her mobile on an open air part of the tube (mostly-underground train system). As the train went underground she lost her signal and looked at her phone in total confusion. She then turned to her friend and said, in all seriousness, "Stupid phone, its lost its signal for some reason"! It was great to see a carriage full of people trying not to laugh out loud, but every time one commuter made eye contact with another they would not be able to stop sniggering.... the poor girl never realised that the whole carriage were laughing at her.

Originally posted by Madhav Lakkapragada:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/12/16/fcc.airtravelers.ap/index.html

Now, its on airlines as well. Imagine five/ten people trying to talk at the same time in a plane!

:roll:

- m

Mobiles in planes, oh the horror, I cannot imagine what your going through. If this is your concern, you must have a lovely life, better then mine anyway which is full of torment. Invest a couple 20 minutes a day to meditate and mobiles on plane will seem like nowt.

Originally posted by Helen Thomas:

So now we'll have no way to tell the difference between the mad and the really mad people.

Yes, absolutely. In fact, the terminally daft can simply purchase an ear-phone, wear it, and then talk to themselves with complete confidence in public places!

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:


Yes, absolutely. In fact, the terminally daft can simply purchase an ear-phone, wear it, and then talk to themselves with complete confidence in public places!

If that's the norm now, the terminally mad will have to come up with something new. Punch the air at the same time or something.

I'm sure you'll come up with something appropriate, Helen. We have faith in you.

Now, now
[ December 20, 2004: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]

I once saw a man sitting on church steps and talking on his cell phone. Makes me wonder, to whom did he talk...

Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
I once saw a man sitting on church steps and talking on his cell phone. Makes me wonder, to whom did he talk...

A Dutch comedian once made a joke that went something like this:
Man walks up to a church with a large sign over the door saying "God is here".
When he wants to open the door he sees a small sign pinned to it saying "I'll be right back".

Wireless on Planet Earth...... I hate this idea!