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    04:02 PM

    In reply to Rejoice! Cellphones Are Safe Again (Until They Aren't)
    Next thing you know it will be safe to be in the same room alone with Blam.
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    03:50 PM

    In reply to A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
    God, it's so annoying when women act like people, instead of just making my dinner and fucking my brains out!
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    01:50 PM

    In reply to Rejoice! Cellphones Are Safe Again (Until They Aren't)
    All in all, I'll continue using my tinfoil hat.
    That until a study reveals the side effects tinfoil has on your brain cells.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    02:29 PM

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: hasn't a report shown that people who wear tinfoil hats have trouble identifying simple facts and a tendency to believe any nonsense they are fed.
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    11:12 AM

    In reply to A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
    Hey guys, word of advice. If you are married, just buy her an iPhone when you get yours. That's what I did. Eliminates most of these arguments. Heck, my wife encourages me to use my iPhone while she's dragging me around the mall. Keeps me entertained so she can shop longer.
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    12:59 AM

    In reply to A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
    If I had an iPhone, this would be the wallpaper.
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    12/05/09

    In reply to A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
    You can't argue with that logic.
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    12/05/09

    In reply to A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?
    Does your significant other always yell at you for busting out your smartphone too much when you're together?

    NO Good going.
    YES You've found a narcissistic egomaniac that lashes out at anyone who does not douse them in attention. I recommend breaking up.
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    Image of Sandeep Murali Sandeep Murali
    12/05/09

    In reply to Nokia to Halve Smartphone Production in 2010, Official Suicide Watch Starts Now
    Nokia has a vice grip on the emerging markets in Africa and Asia. They sell millions of phones in these markets on a WEEKLY basis. They have pretty much perfected the art of making entry level phones for next to nothing and selling them at a decent enough margin that doesn't break the bank for the target consumers in these areas.

    People there swear by Nokias (And Sony Ericssons, to a certain extent) and wouldn't buy handsets from another brand, come what may.

    Concentrating on this segment is EXACTLY what Nokia should be doing right now. This is what makes their bottom-line. The high visibility, low volume, expensive handset market may be making front page news, but for a worldwide giant like Nokia, their largest and most faithful customerbase exists in the other end of the spectrum.

    Judging them by the yardsticks of the smartphone savvy, first world economies is hardly accurate.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to The New Mobile Twitter Site Is Actually, Um, Nice
    Why would I use Twitter's mobile site on my iPhone when I have Tweetie?
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    Image of ManiacFive ManiacFive
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    I'm not sure how it works in the states, could somebody clarify this for me? Using o2 in the UK for an example, if you sign up for a 18 month contract and want to cancel, you'd be expected to pay the amount of monthly line rental x months remaining on contract

    Is the early termination fee Verizon applies a flat fee? regardless of when the early termination occours? Because that does sound like BS to me.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    My only problem with ETFs is from a legal standpoint.

    Penalty fees are not legally permissible. As the motion court (correctly) held in Ayyad v. Sprint, early termination fees are impermissible because they do not constitute liquidated damages.

    If carriers want to claim that ETFs are liquidated damages for subsidizing the costs, then let them prove that in admissible form to beyond a preponderance of the evidence.

    It's not about morality; it's about legality.
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    Image of Badlands99 Badlands99
    12/04/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Then clearly this is a job for the judicial branch, not the legislative branch.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/04/09

    @Badlands99: Most problems can be solved through enforcement of existing law as opposed to creation of new law.
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    Image of Badlands99 Badlands99
    12/04/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Thank you for that refreshing bit of reason in this damp pit of lunacy.

    We already have an insane amount of laws, we hardly need new ones about cell phones.
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    12/04/09

    @Badlands99: Not a problem. Our country seems to think that "judge-made" law is somehow inferior. However, judge-made law often injects a fair amount of reason into vague, ambiguous, or otherwise deficient legislation.

    This is more brightline-philia (a nasty fetish where people think that there needs to be a law to cover every one of life's possibilities). This legislation simply doesn't need to be passed. Basic fundamentals of contract law that have existed for generations can easily be brought to bear on the question of the propriety of ETFs.

    We have judges for a reason: to interpret law, i.e. to take existing law and apply it to a set of circumstances, thereby refining the law.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    Everyone, please raise your hand if you do not want to get involved in this argument. *raises hand*
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    I don't have a problem with ETF's, I just have a problem with them being doubled. If they want to charge $350 they had better be giving away their best smart phones for free. I broke my contract with them when I decided that an iPhone was more important that impeccable phone service, guess what, I paid the fee ($110 due to it going down every month of service) and went about my business. There is no such thing as a free phone, get over it.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Nokia to Halve Smartphone Production in 2010, Official Suicide Watch Starts Now
    I also read that they're going to focus more on producing manual typewriters. Competition in the electric typewriter space is getting awfully fierce these days.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    The carriers have painted themselves into a corner with the subsidy model. There's no question they'd like out of it but none can afford to be first. A law banning ETFs altogether might have the unintended consequence of ending subsidies.

    Despite the risk, I'd like to see it happen. I wonder if a similar desire by VZ is behind the seemingly poor timing of their increased ETFs.
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