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SMS Text Messaging & Youth Debt One
securitas writes "The New York Times' Lisa W. Foderaro reports on the impact of SMS text messaging and resulting debt on America's youth. The predictable but seldom-considered effect of the recently available technology combined with the social role instant messaging and SMS play are leading to bills that youth and parents alike can't afford. 'Many high school and college students accustomed to sending unlimited instant messages on their computers do not adapt easily to text messaging's pay-per-message format, and end up with unexpectedly high bills' ranging from $300 to $800 per month. One school principal says that 'many students were blindsided by costs associated with text-messaging and other features, like customized ring tones"
Who cares ?
These people are idiots and I don't have a grain of sympathy for them. I suppose they'll soon grow up into the sort of adults who land themselves with huge unpayable credit card/loan related debts because they're simply too stupid to understand that you can't spend more than you earn.
Let them rot.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Pedant.
I meant they're mediocre as compared to other "first world" nations.
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The last time I checked our economy was still the envy of most of the world. At least that's what I hear from the millions of Mexicans trying to sneak in.
... escalating quickly to outright murderous use of military weaponry. Note well that that exercise involves the very WMDs which your beloved nation took such an issue with in Iraq.
... anything that doesn't involve brainless right-wing American cheerleading? No? I didn't think so.
Nice right-wing troll; too bad it takes about 3.4 seconds to puncture it.
Sure, the "economy" is a subject of envy. That's why people in a profoundly Third World nation like Mexico sneak over the border, do various menial labor for what are good wages in comparison TO A THIRD WORLD NATION'S WAGES, and send much of that money home to Mexico. Eventually, they do leave, going back to their country, having taken what they need from the only thing America really offers anyone (wages), and live their lives in a real society.
Other than the myopia of "the American economy", the American model is nothing to emulate. It requires vast amounts of bullying
Do you want to discuss the rest of what the "American economy" means now? How about enormous budget deficits? Trade deficits? How about the Dollar-denomination of oil that is starting to change in favor of Euro-denomination? Got anything to say about all that
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]