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Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent
netbuzz writes "More than a quarter of the under-30 crowd has decided you only need one telephone — and it sure as heck does not plug into a wall. The trend towards an all-mobile lifestyle is accelerating, according to a new survey. Besides younger people, lower-income people are also more likely to have cut the cord. And while businesses may be a bit slower on the cell-only uptake, there appears to be little doubt at this point that the traditional landline will be joining rotary dials and party lines as a relic of the telecommunications industry."
Completely offtopic, but I predict that one of the two main parties in the US will be replaced within a decade. I suspect it will be the Republicans, and I fear they will be replaced by the Libertarians. Lookup the history of politics in the US, it has happened many times before.
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They do have their side benefits though, but the major benefit, (for the Powers That Be), is that they are effective in fuzzing people out and dumbing them down just a few more notches so that they are more easily controlled.
It doesn't surprise me that cell phone and wireless technology is being pushed down all our throats. A fully microwaved society is a society which is several steps closer to not even needing totalitarian controls. --When the people are too dazed and misdirected to ever rebel by altering their behavior so that they are not permanently stressed out, tired and sad all the time, who needs Macheovelli?
My current "What the hell?!" is the multinational push to do away with incandescent bulbs in favor of CFLs. Have you seen the EM pollution which come off those things? You probably haven't. Nobody talks about that little aspect of the new magical lightbulbs. The most amazing part is that the companies are trying to sell these to us using the "environmentally friendly" angle. And people are actually buying it! Astonishing. --While it makes great ad copy, doesn't anybody else find it hard to believe GE really cares about such issues? Heck, do they even stand to make much more money, (if any), by selling CFL's than they do incandescents? I suspect the reality is more closely tied to their long relationship with the military industrial complex.
Just think. . . Every home permanently bathed in ambient EM pollution, from cell phones, to computers to the very lights in the ceiling, all eagerly installed by the people themselves. . ! It's genius! It's a fascist's dream come true. --All the little people operating within their little parameters without having to spend any extra money on troops.
Anyway. . , aren't "lower income bracket consumers" generally the same people who shop at Walmart, watch too much TV and feed their kids McFood? That they are adopting the control measures faster than any other group speaks volumes.
-FL