Ok here is are perfect reasone for the ANTI-TECHNOLOGY
1) This afternoon, I go to the Verizon place to see how long it is until my contract is up. There were people standing, waiting to use 'the machine' and also to talk with customer service agents, not to mention salespeople. So I finally get to ask "when is my 2 year contract over?" Well, there were three women all working the counter, strangely each one represented each body type/height that is common.
I was told "January 08".
My face about came accross the divider. "What?"
"You upgraded your service a month ago to 900 minuites"
"That's right" I said.
She got an uncomfortable posture about her, as if she was caught at something.
"Nobody mentioned that my plan was extended one more year. It terminates this month." I stated, matter of fact firmlike. In the past, Verizon allowed to a customer to change plan with no shift in the contract length. They also allowed one to pay 7 dollar a month for the 7pm-7am feature, where all calls are 'free'.
Things changed without me noticing, to my slight surprise today.
Well she decided to "Forward and email to the manager" about 'my questions'. By the end of it she was asking my number to call tomorrow about when it would be resolved (which is ironic since I've phone service with em).
To that, I gave my WORK phone number and said "Leave the message with my secretary, and I'll call back, or come back".
It was at that juncture that I was calling 'the hand' and was NOT going to let them SCREW me like this. At best, they had a verbal contract. Nothing was mentioned though. I would have never agreed to a year extension. Someone was on the verge of a series of bad looks, and quick, sharp factual talk.
I expect to talk with the manager tomorrow (as I was taking names, three of them at that) if the problem is not solved. I manage things and people for a living.
2) If you want to hop on wireless net, its perfectly legal to do so. The internet is the wild west of the modern era. Laws are rare and nonfocused on net.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=200340
Your big box stores will sell the above linked item. There are two companies usually but the cheaper is just as good. I dont even have a router.
I have this
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3136428#
Dont agree with the review posted.
Basically it plugs into a simple USB port. I point it out the window at at houses down the street. Anyone not using a secured wireless net, I can log onto. Its a bit faster than dialup during 'traffic' hourse, but during the day (when people are at work) and late at night, I've pulled 36mb/s. Thats off USB 1.0, the slow version.
I'd rather have a card that plugs directly in to the computer board, but this USB adapter is on loan right now! Not mine either.
3) Here is a link provided for download for 'free internet phone'
(you know the one that Time Warner tries to get you to 'bundle').....
http://www.freshtel.net/firefly/
(link provided by 'holy yloh', thanks)
.....so get your head sets ready (wireless if you got em').
Its free, and now you know.
Me? Work pays for Nextel and some phone time.
I just like to call the credit card companies and give em a harder time.
"Well if you wont come down on that rate, 'so and so' credit will." and so on.
Maybe some day I'll let in, on how to get over 270 min, 0% cash advance from two credit cards. That's right 0% cash advances for that long.
have fun.
~ISME
Wow I enjoy the internet. Its like a huge book of whatever you want to learn and dont want to learn.
I enjoyed my cellphone, until it became a ratrace. Every phone being outdated withing 1 year, although they make you sign a TWO year agreement to get that wonderfully soon to be outdated phone for free.
Wow I enjoy watching tv. Just select parts of it though. I find with cable tv available all the time, I waste a lot of it.
So this is what I'm doing.
1) My two year deal is up with Verizon this month. I have insurance on my phone, but that hasn't stopped my Verizon phone from breaking three times in the past four years. Its broke right now but funtioning.
When I find the exact day of this month my contract is up ($65 a month), I'm going back to the Verizon store (one of the places that seemingly doesn't want my money, remember). Ending the contract and leaving them with their phone. I dont care what they do with it.
2) What I've currently been doing is leaching off my neighbors wireless internet, for free. If good tv is on I go to a friends house to watch it. Keeps me moving. Hell, everyone seems to have PLENTY of tv they dont use, but pay for.
3) Since the internet is free, I know I can use Internet Protocol to make phone calls with. The equipment to do so is sold everywhere computers are. Its what they call Digital Phone (at least Time Warner does). If I need to use a phone on the go, well, I'm sure someone else is paying for a phone they wont be using 24/7/365.
So the idea here is that I do not need excess, as the majority insists upon. I need exactly a certain amount at a certain time.
What you are reading is how I am saving myself over $150 dollars a month, and still getting the same services, for free.
Why waste???
ISME 
