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Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech
wolverineinspector writes "Mink, LA is finally getting telephone land lines after the neighbouring communities got theirs in 1970. In the article they also say that as many as 6.2% of US homes don't have phone service - that would mean that 19 million Americans don't have wired phone lines available to them."
almost 90% of the population dont even use ground line phones.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. - Catcher in the Rye
Their first call:
"Hi. Got Skype?"
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Just because 6.2% of people don't have wired phones doesn't mean that the service isn't available to them. A lot of people ditch their wired lines and just use their cell phone.
I'm guessing it's bad credit.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
So much for Canada being the great white north.
Whaaaaaa?
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
"Yes? Hello?"
"Hello! I am calling you to inform you of our wonderful new product line, introduced this week. Would you care to take a little time and hear more about it?"
"WTF ?!?"
"I see. Sorry to have bothered you. Have a nice day, ma'am."
What a waste, every call on the land line is a telemarketer...about 6-10 a day.
At the very least, use it for some fun. Just get an answering machine without a ringer. Here's some ideas to get you started:
1. Record the little error tone that the phone company uses and get a woman to do a really pinched voice, "The number you have called, 555-1234, has been changed. The new number is 555-1234. Please note this change."
2. Get someone to do the voice of an elderly person, "Hello? Hello? You're goana have to speak up sonny, I'm a little hard of hearing. What? You're calling from who?" It helps if you can get a really long recording time.
3. I'm going to assume from your username that you're down in Texas. Just record something really unpleasant happening on a farm to a cow.
4. Fax handshake. For added style points, record a message and record a 300 baud modem sending it in plaintext ala Information Society.
5. Amusing excerpts - for a while I had bits of Deliverence or the introduction to Jesus Built My Hotrod as my message.
6. Same concept as 2, but get an actual little kid. "No, Daddy doesn't want to talk to you. I have blocks. I like them. I make..."
At the end of the month, play back the messages and see if you got any amusing responses. It would be more amusing to hack up a Linux telephony box so you could record their responses as the message plays, but that might be a little too much effort.
---The Federal Communications Commission does not keep track of places without phone service, but a survey released in October found that 93.8 percent of American households had telephones of some sort
Was it a PHONE survey? Please dont say it so..
Maybe.
most folk'll always had a phone, but then again some folk'll aren't cleetus the slack jaws yokel /fiddles
slashdot missed this story by the better part of a week ;) (check the date on it!)
Well of course they would need to have phones. How else would they be able to coordinate with their offshore quilt suppliers?
Green pizza wrote "if you have an old isolated homestead in need of telephone service, you can call up the nearest telco".
If you are in need of telephone service how do you call up the nearest telco?
Does this mean Luke Skkywalker is Amish? IIRC, he was using a portable generator to charge R2D2 when visiting Yoda, but I have'nt seen him plugging the android into a wall.
That's because the droid and generator were both 110V, but the wall current was 220V. Remember, Uncle Owen wouldn't let him go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9810/06/briefs.am/crime.amis h/index.html
So, cocaine is ok because it occurs in nature?
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.