Slashdot Mirror
You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What?
smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"
Landlines? Cables? Telephones? WTF! Something from stoneage?
Sorry dude. I own the copper. I fucking put it there. There's a junction box outside the house, and from that point on, it's my property, my responsibility, and occasionally, my problem. If I want ANYBODY else to touch it, I either have to pay them or I need to get line protection insurance. But I don't, you see, because I fucking put it there, and I can handle any problems it throws my way.
Just because it always seemed an annoying, snarky thing to say and I've never got the opportunity to say it: not everybody lives in Australia, and not everybody who reads Slashdot is Australian. Stop being so aussie-centric.
(Roofles. I made myself giggle.)
Sure. It only affects your hunger. I guess that's why one ran over my neighbor with a car thinking he was some of wild animal.
Fucking potheads are WORTHLESS.