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Article #236Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY
From: klaatu
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00
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Robert E. Klimkiewicz, Jr. wrote: > > Cary B. O'Brien <cobrien@access5.digex.net> wrote in article > > Dave Barry did a _great_ column on this when the whole caller > > ID thing started. First you pay for caller id, then the other > > guy pays to blank out your caller id. Then you pay more for > > super caller id that he can't block, then he pays more for > > ultra caller id that gets through even if you block it... > > > > 'till the phone company gets all the money to beam messages > > directly into your brain using cosmic ray machines... > > Kinda like radar detectors? =) Um, to make matters worse.... try reading the blurb at the National Institutes for Mental Health @ http://www.nimh.nih.gov/media/pressrel/prmagrec.htm which concerns... "Magnetic Stimulation Studied as Alternative to ECT for Depression" For real! Serious blue-boxers and conspiracy freaks will doubtless be concerned about the possibilities of using amplified ultrasound to overdrive the magnetic coils in the telephone receiver-earpiece and turn people into slightly-deafened braindamaged zombis raedy to buy anything, Caller-ID or not... Cancer from cellphones wasn't bad enough? Yikes! Folks gonna be afraid to have power-lines attached the their new houses soon. Heh - anyone remember the Hugo-winning John Varley story "Press Enter"? -- Be kind to your | When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. neighbors even though | http://www.clark.net/pub/klaatu/ they be transgenic | Now. chock full of uninteresting links. chimerae. |-- Genesis 19:1-13 - Hebrews 13:2 -- ---- INCOMING! http://www.clark.net/pub/klaatu/incoming.html --------- "Sarah Connor?" All UseNet and BitNet postings are copyrighted.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a9ce,8cb9bc158bc4606a X-Google-Attributes: gid10a9ce,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,8cb9bc158bc4606a X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: f4e50,b04b4ce7cb859f48 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4e50,public X-Google-Thread: f5d40,de65f1bbc181ef72,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d40,public X-Google-Thread: 10384c,de65f1bbc181ef72,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10384c,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,b04b4ce7cb859f48 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: f4564,de65f1bbc181ef72,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4564,public From: klaatu <root@earthops.org> Subject: Re: CALLER ID ~~ MYSTERY Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: <3294FE0D.51B527AC@earthops.org> X-Deja-AN: 197961568 references: <56r4jo$qp5@camel1.mindspring.com> <32916610.3149@worldnet.att.net> <3291A297.636C@worldnet.att.net> <572cd6$sik@access5.digex.net> <01bbd80b$5fd5af20$96078fa8@default> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Earth Operations Central, 1486 Harvard Street, #5, NW Washington DC 20056 mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech,misc.legal,dc.general,balt.general,alt.mindcontrol,alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.visitors x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486)