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"weezer" <chris212@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> Dear eagle61,
>
> If you are talking via cell phone, then some multi-billion dollar cell
> phone company is getting filthy rich off of your conversation.

off of mine? unlikely. maybe off thousands of people like me. but i'm not 
envious - i'm not into counting other people's money - it's sort of 
non-productive and boring

but as i see it the cell phone gives you the wonderful abily - to be able to 
connect from any place (within reason). it's another degree of freedom. it's 
a safety device. it can be abused of course - but what cannot?

The
> worst part is that people use cell phones to isolate.

quite the opposite - they use cell phones to communicate/connect (it really 
puzzles me that you don't see it - but it's not the first time when i 
observe a phenomenon, my buddy observes it - and then we come to diametrally 
opposite conclusions - sad - somewhat reflects on the ability of people to 
communicate)

 Many people put a
> cell phone to their head and completely ignore the world around them.
> Sometimes they do it while behind the wheel of a car, which is very
> dangerous.
>
> I'm not entirely against people from different cultures all over the
> world becoming closer via the laptop computer. In fact, I think it's
> really cool. Sometimes it bothers me though, when I go into a coffee
> shop and I see ten different people on ten different laptops and nobody
> is saying anything to anyone. Why do people need to leave their homes
> to isolate?

good question - i personally very seldom leave my house. and i do not feel a 
tiny bit isolated - i have the whole world at my fingertips. for the sake of 
argument - we just engaged in a meaningfull (i hope) exchange of opinions, 
even though we prolly live far away

>
> P.S. - My life is going straight into the shitter right now. It's
> difficult for me to make an intelligent arguement for anything, just at
> the moment.

don't go hard on yourself, the argument was adequate

>