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T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM
An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile has launched a new 3G data card in the UK, and banned users from using it for VoIP or instant messaging applications." From the article: "Lock cast doubt on the sustainable viability of a mobile operator banning VoIP from its network. 'I think that eventually, if there's customer demand for this, it will happen," Lock said. "Other organizations will come along allowing VoIP. Who do you think is going to win?'"
First off, my point was more about you not being on topic and that you chose to use the forum as a chance to rant about your personal musical tastes for no apparent reason. From your tone I get that you don't care how anyone else feels about the time they spend online nor about how you may insult other people's tastes, especially in places where they aren't expecting that kind of thing. If you want to spew about that kind of stuff, there are plenty of other forums where people are looking for that.
As far as it being just your 'opinion', I think it's at best just lazy, and at worst plain rude, when people say insulting things and then fall back after the fact saying 'it's only my opinion'. You could take some explicit responsibility for your statements. Saying stuff like 'that's drivel' is being provocative. Saying 'I think it's drivel' is a bit easier for others to accept as 'only your opinion'.
Another thing I like to point out in these kinds of things is that, yes, maybe right now you wouldn't choose to listen to Help, or I Wanna Hold Your Hand or whatever. But I was 7 years old when Help came out in '65, and to me and others probably up to 15 years old or so, it was radical compared to what else was happening in the Pop musical domain (e.g. Petula Clark, Sonny and Cher, Herman's Hermits etc.). The Stones and The Who were still a bit ahead of me at that time. Dylan was listenable, but I probably didn't understand how important it was. At that time if you played Miles Davis or Coltrane, I probably would have giggled and said it sounded like noise. So try to put yourself in a context. I got introduced to the Beatles via that early groundbreaking Pop and then grew up waiting with bated breath as they grew up and I followed them through Rubber Soul, Revolver and then they blazed right past my comprehensibility with with Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. Then we got in sync again with The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be as I was starting to see friends of mine go to war and not return. When they broke up in '70, it was clear to me that something very special was gone. Now I listen to it all, think about what was going on with me and in the world at the time it was being created, and can now see how important it all was in my life as well as the history of music and pop culture.
For someone who choses to quote the Buddha, you don't seem to get what he was trying to teach you.