enthalpy

Thursday, March 22, 2007


I've said it before, it ain't the FAA that wants to keep you from using your cell phone on an airplane. It's the FCC:
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that the agency is considering dropping a proposal that would have lifted the ban on in-flight cell phone use.

The commission began considering removal of the ban in late 2004.

FCC Chair Kevin Martin told reporters after a board meeting Thursday that the wireless telecommunications industry indicated in recent comments to the FCC that mobile phone calls in flying planes would interfere with their networks on the ground.
Now if I only could get the annoying flight attendant to stop saying "please turn off your portable electronic devices that interfere with the plane's avionics, and of course, cell phones must remain off for the duration of the flight." How 'bout a more truthful announcement: "Your cell phone has no capacity to interfere with this plane's avionics, but I have to tell you to turn it off because I'm a defacto agent for the federal government and your I must assist your cell phone company in screwing you like a whore on payday."



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