Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

Texting has to be the dumbest thing ever conceived, at least how it is put into practice. What are these telephone goons trying to push on us, and why have people accepted it???

It costs me 15 cents to send or receive a text message.

It costs me 10 cents to talk to someone for one minute.

Let's examine that.

Now, I don't care about 15 cents, or 30 cents, or a dollar, or whatever, (though it would get gay as it started to add up). That's not the problem. The problem is how it's priced. As long as it's not free (or ridiculously cheap, like a penny for 10 texts), I am against it on principle. I hate encouraging these greedy telecom dicks by paying for something that doesn't make sense! People not standing up against retardedness by refusing to pay for it is how stuff like the Cordless Jump Rope is able to continue existing.

From this day forward, I am gonna protest by not texting unless specific situations arise, or until it costs less to text than it does to talk.

First of all, it would take me about an hour to painstakingly tap out via that stupid keypad what I could say in 1 minute of speech, a minute during which I would have the bonuses of interactive back-and-forth, hearing the other person's voice, and the ability to communicate through voice intonation and pitch to convey subtle meanings not available in text.

So they're charging me 50% more to communicate in a way that takes many multiple times the effort, with fewer benefits.

Second, if you are in a position to send or receive texts, then you are also necessarily in a position to call the person to whom you are sending/receiving the text. You are both at your cell phone, so why not JUST FUCKING CALL THE PERSON AND SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY???

It would make sense if (for example), you had your phone but were not near a computer, and another person was near a computer but not their phone, and then you could EMAIL them a text. That I think you CAN do, and that is cool and sensible.

But this tap-tap-tap shit, when there's a goddamn speaker and mouthpiece right there just waiting to be used, goes beyond basic dumbness and into aggressively being dumb. I have watched this one friend of mine sitting there for a fucking hour dicking around with his keypad and smiling like an ass. Hey dude, life doesn't have to be that hard! Just press a button, and you can TALK to her! FUCKING AMAZING!

Thirdly, and this is maybe the biggest one, you can choose not to pick up when someone calls (and thus not incur a charge for the call), but when someone texts you, they've texted you, and you are automatically charged. You can't choose to accept or reject a text, unless you specifically take measures against it!

So, if somebody wanted to be an asshole, they could theoretically just sit there for hours texting me the number 4 (or whatever) over and over again, and run up my bill to infinity.

Gay gay gay!

P.S. None of you will **EVER** have my cell phone number.

[Action Hank]

I have unlimited texting. I'm not going to bother reading your rant, but I'm sure you're happy with your black and white television and phonograph.

[Theldorrin]

You have to pay to receive a text message?

I understand text messaging is cheaper than phone calls in the rest of the world, and it's only in NA that they're not the same.

Whatever. Cellular phones are ridiculously overpriced. You should be paying $1 a month for a basic plan instead of $20.
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[Sporkism]

Sounds like you just have a shitty phone plan.

And there's no way they charge you for receiving a message, ESPECIALLY if there are "no options" to disable it.

[Theldorrin]

Landlines should cost 10 cents a month.
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[YES]

text messages are basically a much better substitute for voice mail as far as cell phones are concerned

As for the pricing goes, well fuck I sorta agree but Im not sure you should be texting that much anyway. Still I see your point

[Action Hank]

Land line should be free with internet.

[YES]

People who dislike Ipods either dont have one or are just in that inevitable margin of opinion on everything. About the only thing I despise is its fuckbag warranty policy, designed almost specifically to keep ipods from being too good to be true

[My Head Hurts 90]

It costs me a nickel to receive a text.

I had to tell my chinky friend to stop sending me stuff like kekkeke and ^_^ 20 times a day or else I was going to murder him.

[Theldorrin]

The real crime is that these government sponsored monopolies are not government controlled.

So basically the phone company could send MHH spam and rake in even bigger profits.
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[Sporkism]

Sprint does send out a lot of spam, which makes me glad that I'm not charged by the text.

God, one time a fucking SPAM message woke me up at 3am because I forgot to turn off my phone, and I was expecting some bullshit about more minutes or ringtones, but all the message contained was "@". Thanks a lot, dicks!

[YES]

Theldorrin, do you like receiving cunnilingus?

[Nickass]

*scouter explodes*

[Big Fagot]

Ace just reduced the planet to dust having the consistency of flour by comparing devices which send and receive (while compressing and decompressing) live audio to phonographs, shadowed in the infinite light of quarter kilobyte ASCII messages.

[Magic Juan]

I don't know why your arm is so sore from being behind your back, Chris, in terms of having to send ***TEXTUAL MESSAGES*** to ur gf

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

The worst thing about a land line (gay phrase) is that I am FORCED to keep mine, because the DSL won't work if I get rid of it, or at least that's what I'm told, and I really believe that it's a lie the hogs tell so that the fuckers can make their money.

[Theldorrin]

It's not true, DSL can work without that, but in many cases the phone monopoly doesn't allow it.

The term is dry or naked DSL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_DSL
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[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

Sons of fucking bitches.

[Big Fagot]

It's funny, because you would actually irrationally pay a higher price to not have the phone, as long as other people didn't realize that was possible.

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

Phone companies I think really are the worst, greediest and most evil of all corporations.

They literally sell air, at an absurd markup.

Fine, factor in all the equipment, repair, setup, and labor costs, but even then what they charge out of the completely made-up realities they create is still beyond rape even if you're careful and shrewd with the bullshit you're forced to buy, and the whole business is geared toward tricking indifferent or less savvy individuals into hard animal rape.