Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!)

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Don

You must live in a "fine" neighborhood to have local drug lords and
pimps!  :-)

Jerry

Don Dory wrote:

> Just a confirmation from my side of the Atlantic.  Just about everyone
> between the ages of 45 and 12 has a cell phone.  In the age group
> between 25 and 12 I don't think they will get a land line which will be
> really bad news to all the grandparents depending on the Bells for
> retirement.  In fact, an acquaintance was in real trouble when he lost
> his company cell phone when he was Riffed out as it was his only phone
> and all his family had only that means of contacting him.
>
> As a status symbol, when the local Drug Lords have three and four cells
> and the Pimps have four or five, I don't think status is the operative
> word.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Ridings
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:58 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!)
>
> I'm just like Nathan. In fact, I didn't even bother getting a land-line
> for my Oslo address. I can be in Africa, anywhere in Europe or even the
> places I go to in the US (Chicago, midwest area) and people can always
> call me on the same number. I would say that around 80 - 90% of all
> 15-year-olds in Sweden and probably Norway too have cell-phones. It's
> just
> the way they communicate now. When that many have one, there's no status
> to it at all.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Usually I agree with your comments, but here I must say that at least
> on
> > my side of the Atlantic, having a mobile phone ceased to be a status
> > symbol of any kind long ago. It is simply an indispensable part of
> > personal life for hundreds of millions of people. I don't even give
> out
> > my fixed phone number anymore (home or office); most of the time when
> > people want to call me, they do not even know which country I am in
> :-)
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > Peter Klein wrote:
> > >
> >  In this respect "digital" joins things like cell phones, PDAs, fax
> > > machines, PCs, Cabbage Patch dolls, hula hoops and oat bran as Stuff
> That
> > > All With-It People Gotta Have.
> > >
> >
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> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Almere, The Netherlands
> >
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> >
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