Amps are not volts. A radio signal from a cell phone has a voltage component that is why people are talking about wireless power; however to the point, a 3-4 mA radio transceiver in a cell phone operating at nearly 1 GHz is going to travel a lot farther than 3-4 mA operating at less than 800mhz on any kind of wiring or on any kind of PCB.

There is many an order of magnitude more atoms in the tracing on the PCB than comprise the air the radio waves travel through from the antenna on the cell phone to the cell tower. There are even less when we are talking a matter of mm. The more atoms you have to push your information through the more amperage it takes to overcome the resistance and since radio waves are a form of EM radiation they follow similar laws which just appear more complicated.

It is rare for these agreements to even approach 3 cents a minute nowadays, phone cards are proof of that because they usually average about 1-2 cents profit per minute because the competition is brutal. The phone companies are charging sometimes 50 times the amount they pay. So did you get that, MTS is charging 1.33 Canadian and you can get phone cards for around 4 cents a minute US. So around 40,000 minutes of calls which would cost around 1500 bucks US they are trying to get him to pay around 45,000 US or about 30 times cost. Are people really that stupid to still be sticking with a land line when they won't even spit on your asshole before raping you?

I have friends in Georgia, Russia and the Ukraine and I just use a cheap skype router and talk to them that way, it works better than the phone system. 90% of the people under the age of 35 in those countries do the same. So my question would be who were the calls to, who was making them and why can't they charge one of them?

Taking an old 300 watt atx power supply apart to make a variable 0-5v and 0-12v bench power supply for electronics projects will teach you what you will need to know about quality of components if you have a decent DMM, or better a USB scope to see the difference when you switch out caps and other components. An often overlooked problem with cheap power supplies is that bad soldering and cheap PCBs cause the capacitors to work harder to move the same amount of charge. This effects voltage as it relates to capacitance's formula C = Q/V and its integral (dammit give me MathML) sigh read Wikipedia's definition. Doesn't matter how good your caps are if the circuit was soldered by someone being paid slave wages working 14 hour shifts. The real cost of the plenitude of cheap electronics is going to be an interesting story. Besides the obvious horrors of the places of manufacture in Asia and the dumping grounds in Africa where similar autoimmune disorders, cancers and genetic abnormalities are rampant is the story of what happens between those two places. It is not just the disposable aspect that technology plays in our culture that fascinates me but how little knowledge of the design and manufacture of technology is present in the people that purchase it, sell it or even repair it. PC techs without any electronics understanding are the worse, "Who needs an anti-static work area when I can use any flat surface including a pizza box?" and than wonder why they have half a dozen motherboards laying around the house that won't work. /rant If I have the time before Xmas I will post my pics and schematics on my blog. Did it for an EE project. Working on LCDs and circuitry to display voltage and amperage (currently have 4 lobotomized dmm pcb w/ attached backlit lcd doing a reading each.

Doesn't mean you can't work on your upper body. Gaining a pound of muscle in a year will usually shed about 2-3 lbs of fat if you do light aerobic exercise, stretching as well as the weights. I have a 10 and 20 lb dumb bell at my desk and I often do tricep extensions and bicep curls. After about 6 months I could do a 20 lb weight and I have stuck with that for the last 3 years. If you plan on losing weight find a lotion you like and order it in bulk you will thank yourself to save you from the 'losing weight' stretchmarks.