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phoenix1002 · 06-27-2005, 08:51 PM

You know, as long as people in movie theaters don't talk on their phones in the theater during the movie, I don't have a problem with the brief flash of light their screen might make. While it may be a slight irritation, life's too short to get all worked up about another light that goes on while watching a movie. If its a good movie, I'll be so ingrossed in watching it anyway, chances are I won't even notice.

I think students who leave their cell phones on during class are simply being disrespectful to their teachers and fellow students. Now, if you're talking about a lecture, with 100+ students, and a student has his or her phone on vibrate or silent, and they receive an important call, as long as they can leave the room without causing much of a disturbance, I feel that this is ok. And if a student forgets every once in a while to turn off the ringer, but as soon as it goes off, turns off the phone, this shouldn't be a problem either. We have to be reasonable here-people occasionally forget things. And cell phones are particularly easy to forget about, especially for people who use theirs regularly, because they simply take them for granted, and may occasionally forget to turn them off. But, people who actually take calls during class, in class, are just being rude, and there's really no excuse for that.

I definitely think that talking on cell phones while driving should be illegal unless you're using some sort of hands-free device, whether a headset or speakerphone. While there's probably somebody out there who can drive just as well while speaking on their phone as when they are not, the vast majority of people out there cannot. Someone mentioned earlier that they can count the number of times they have needed to make any sort of drastic maneuver while driving on one hand-same here, but if I had been talking on my phone the one time that I had to swerve sharply, I wouldn't have been able to drop it in time to get both hands on the wheel, and would have ended up halfway into the car in front of me. There are enough bad drivers already, they don't need anything else to distract them. Personally, I think they should just stop making automatic transmissions-its rather difficult to steer, shift, and hold a phone at the same time. And it would probably cut down on the number of SUVs out there, too... but I'm not going to go into that anymore. That's a different rant.

06-27-2005, 08:51 PM	#60 (permalink)
phoenix1002 Psycho Location: lost	You know, as long as people in movie theaters don't talk on their phones in the theater during the movie, I don't have a problem with the brief flash of light their screen might make. While it may be a slight irritation, life's too short to get all worked up about another light that goes on while watching a movie. If its a good movie, I'll be so ingrossed in watching it anyway, chances are I won't even notice. I think students who leave their cell phones on during class are simply being disrespectful to their teachers and fellow students. Now, if you're talking about a lecture, with 100+ students, and a student has his or her phone on vibrate or silent, and they receive an important call, as long as they can leave the room without causing much of a disturbance, I feel that this is ok. And if a student forgets every once in a while to turn off the ringer, but as soon as it goes off, turns off the phone, this shouldn't be a problem either. We have to be reasonable here-people occasionally forget things. And cell phones are particularly easy to forget about, especially for people who use theirs regularly, because they simply take them for granted, and may occasionally forget to turn them off. But, people who actually take calls during class, in class, are just being rude, and there's really no excuse for that. I definitely think that talking on cell phones while driving should be illegal unless you're using some sort of hands-free device, whether a headset or speakerphone. While there's probably somebody out there who can drive just as well while speaking on their phone as when they are not, the vast majority of people out there cannot. Someone mentioned earlier that they can count the number of times they have needed to make any sort of drastic maneuver while driving on one hand-same here, but if I had been talking on my phone the one time that I had to swerve sharply, I wouldn't have been able to drop it in time to get both hands on the wheel, and would have ended up halfway into the car in front of me. There are enough bad drivers already, they don't need anything else to distract them. Personally, I think they should just stop making automatic transmissions-its rather difficult to steer, shift, and hold a phone at the same time. And it would probably cut down on the number of SUVs out there, too... but I'm not going to go into that anymore. That's a different rant. __________________ I'd rather be climbing... I approach college much like a recovering alcoholic--one day at a time...