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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?
Dear Stupid:
When you lose your job to someone in China or Mexico, you can sell the copper wire to help pay for your next McMeal.
Yours In Communism,
Kilgore Trout
No, but you can run token ring over it. Unfortunately, linux doesn't support have token ring support, but if you stick with microsoft (like most of us do) it will work just fine.
Everything is proprietary. The walls that compose rooms to a house should be nothing more than insulation, except for a hinge here and there to conduct the function of a biway door. People that have in-door plumbing are reaping the benefits of a broken pipe and its costs to dig it out. At the most, the floor should have a covy where the wall meets the floor or ceiling; and this only to cary such utility or service. Proprietary things of these transient causes should not be embedded. They will not work out in the long run. Maybe soon, we'll find a reasonable response to all this crap in our houses called a "wall." Should be able to grow a nice shrubbery to subdivide area for one's araingments of domicile. Without a roof, we then could get it watered for free from the precipitation from up in the sky. I like to swing from trees too, by the way. A hammock is my kind of bed.
None answered my question the last time I asked. I know this is a discussion forum on Vintage Games, but I think my behaviours are vintage as far as man has been alive and playing with women.
I've always wanted to ejaculate on a woman's period in a petri dish, wait 3 days, then install the fertilized egg into a chicken egg to keep it under a lamp for 4 months. Will it grow? Inquiring minds would like to know. Also of note, when I get realy randy I would dig a hole in the ground out beyond a line of trees and drop a couple cumwads and burry it: anyone ever see any of those walking tree men, or dendrites as they call them? I can almost swear that these new saplings have ears, maybe from me, and they can't be trusted to keep secrets (as I swore I wouldn't write any of this on slashdot, yet I did!)!
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.)
What are you, fucking rich? Why are you here? Custom built houses, huh. Go back to exploiting your employees and get the fuck off of Slashdot. This is where REAL PEOPLE (workers, not exploiters) gather. You are not welcome here.
You sound gay.
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.