Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep! That's for sure why I haven't had one since around 1995! :-) Jim - http://www.hemenway.com sam wrote: > At my job, it is now a status symbol to NOT carry a cell phone. It has > come to mean that you are too important to be bothered with incessant > phone calls, and that there is an underling who will contact you in an > emergency. > > Sam S > > > > Daniel Ridings wrote: > >> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Almere, The Netherlands >>> >>> e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl >>> Mobile: +31 630 868 671 >>> >>> Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com >>> -- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html