Thursday, December 30, 2004

Cell phones okay in flight? WTF?!!!

BTW, BTW = By the Way and WTF = What the FUCK?!!!

I think I heard this on NPR or somewhere, but apparently the FCC or some other stupid government organization is going to allow cell phones to be used in flight.

I'm not sure about you all, but when I get on a plane - I'm already pretty agitated. I've had to tricky parking, traffic, lines at the security counter, and rickety old airport chairs to get onto the plane. Not to mention the people who bud in front of you in the boarding line when their seat is way in teh front anyways.

When I get in my seat, and I'm strapped in, I just want to sleep. I want to close my eyes and relax for the next 2-6 hours. Although this is difficult with the crying baby in front of me, the toddler kicking my chair from behind, the old guy across the aisle hacking up a lung, and my neighbor leaning his fat onto me - I still try to anyways - because its all I can do to reduce my anxiety during flight.

Now, thanks to the brilliant minds in our government - anyone on the plane can place and recieve calls as they wish. Great. Now I get to hear about every fucking business deal and every harrowing gossip piece all flight long. What's worse, is that these people will talk even louder - out of the misplaced belief that they need to to overcome the airplane's droning.

Why did the FCC (or again, some strange flail fuck we call a government organization) allow this? They say that its time that the people had a choice. Have a choice? A recent poll said that 80% of passengers do NOT want this. There was no choice in this. The Flailfuck organiazation does not have the interest of the citizen in mind.

Its like Cuba Gooding yelled, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!!"

Businesses want this. They want their worker's productivity to be up during flights. They want the increased revenue of cell phone calls placced midair which you know will cost more than a Nike workers' yearly salary per call. The lobbyists were effective in changing the FCCs mind. How did they do so? With pure, wwell thought out logic? I doubt it. I'd like to see how much money the Flailfuck's government organization got during the time this change was brought about.

So how do we change it? I wish I could tell you. I'd like to say - write to your representative or some crap like that. But do you really think that one letter holds any weight against 100 bucks coming from lobbyists hands? In this day and age where the right thing depends on teh price - I don't think so.

A fundamental change must occur in teh American public's psyche to even effect any sort of people-first government - we must stop thinking with our wallets and thinking with our morals. That's far and few between - and frankly, I'm a little scared that its too late for us.

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