In article <dabel-1795FA.17245731052007@cor8-
ppp5025.per.dsl.connect.net.au>, says...
> In article >,
> (Steve Pope) wrote:
>
> > Dave Smith > wrote:
> >
> > > What cell phone opponents? I don't remember anyone here being
> > > categorically opposed to cell phones.
> >
> > Cellphone opposition is more prominent in the U.K., where activists
> > routinely topple cellphone masts.
>
>
> Not a very nice thing to do. The masts cause no trouble, it's
> irresponsible *users* of cellphones that cause the trouble. Cellphones
> are very useful devices. My family has five, not counting the second
> one that my daughter carries. We don't "chat" on the phone. We don't
> talk at the restaurant (although we may answer long enough to say that
> we'll call after eating), and I don't talk and drive.
>
> Some time back (before text messaging), some school board member decided
> to make a rule that students couldn't have cell phones at school.
> Certainly, using a cell phone during class is very disruptive. Typical
> of schools, they just banned them entirely. One day there was a natural
> disaster, and power and phone service died at the school. The kids and
> their parents were naturally panicked, since they all knew something was
> wrong but they couldn't communicate. Well, some of the kids had snuck
> cell phones in, and so the parents and kids could assure each other that
> everything was OK and it was just a local thing. At the next school
> board meeting, the rule was amended so that students couldn't use cell
> phones during class, but could bring them.
>
> My nephew, age 15, has a cell phone and takes it to school, despite the
> fact that they aren't allowed. He says that the teachers pay no
> attention to the rule as long as it is used during free time.

I was going continuing ed classes in the period after 09/11/01. We
weren't allowed to bring cell phones but I had to. I was working for the
AG in my state and had to carry it.

The funny part was 90% or more of the professor had cell phones with
them.