He he... I was thinking of Sonny Boy Williams mouth....

Agreed. There are no "smart phones" that provide decent telephony function. Basic phone is one of the worst aspects of these devices an afterthought really. Anybody saying they won't be running many apps should consider just a basic phone and not one of these. I hate my Google phone it sucks. I have a Galaxy Tab though that I use often and I enjoy using the android platform. I bought the device and never installed the SIM. I don't need the SIM as there is no phone functionality on this device. I use it on wifi. It has a bigger screen than my Milestone and gets better battery life.

The system has been in Quebec for several months now. They are using it mostly to find folks who haven't paid their drivers registration. They say they will not use it to find folks with outstanding tickets. The traffic divisions get all the big bucks. It's a real cash cow for the government. It was all over the news here though so there was nothing to really uncover. You can see the equipment and every once in a while I see a provincial car cruising slowly along the shoulder of the road with an array of equipment bolted to the roof scanning. Over here as far as I know though it's not used by local police yet.

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Why do you need to keep your teeth clean to play the harmonica does it affect the tone? Just curious.

If Beethoven were alive today, he'd be scratching on the roof of his coffin...

In those new fangled GUIS you can cut and paste the url without having to type it into the address bar. (-;

I drive a pickup truck. I have no problem turning around to look behind me on the right hand side. When I turn around to look on the left hand side though, the shoulder strap obscures my view. I always wear my seatbelt except when I'm backing up, because I'm more concerned with hitting someone or something behind me than I am about being thrown from the vehicule. How fast do you drive in reverse anyways to not feel safe backing up unless you are wearing your seatbelt? Big difference between I-85 and your own driveway don't you think?

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Lingua mortua non mutationis.

145-225Mhz right smack in the middle of the HAM bands. These are not the frequencies being talked about in the FA.

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you must not have paid much for your smart phone....

In Canada at least, since they've had code free licenses there as actually been an increase of folks interested in obtaining their cw certification. While you may not need it to operate at home, there are still plenty of countries that do require cw and if you want to operate there, then you'll still need it.

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Not evil to store your contacts on the cloud if that's what you intend. Taking a personal contact list with phone numbers, addresses, company etc. etc. without asking however, is evil. There's a big difference between that kind of contact information and a screen name for someone else who has a google account that you correspond with.

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My primary reason for buying a phone was because I needed a phone. I got an android because I wanted a recent model and don't like apple products. All the rest of the stuff available on the android platform was of little interest. I need occasional email and above all a phone. My phone has a 16G SD card in it. I don't need a cloud to store the 50 or so contacts I keep in it. Integration with google had nothing to do about it.

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When I bought my Android phone, the first thing I did was set up my contact list (I don't have many in my list). While exploring I found the Google mail client and since I have a Google account, so I clicked on the client to see how it looked. The first question it asked me was "Do you want to set up your Google account?"
Well, if I wanted to look at the client it was a forgone conclusion so I entered my password and account information. As soon as I had entered this data, google snarfed the entire contact list and downloaded it to their web servers. Names, phone nos and addresses. There was no indication to me about what they were going to do and I certainly would never have done that voluntarily. Google as far as I'm concerned, has already crossed that line. I wiped my phone and created a bogus account and I turned off synchronisation with their servers. After logging into my old account, and deleting (for all the good that does) my entire contact list, I stopped using it.

I don't like being made to feel like prey by anybody even if their motto is "do no evil"

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What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?

One's a bottom sucking scum dweller and the other is a fish.