Yes, but it's not just listening. It has to send the tower a keep-alive so the network knows where you are, and calls can be routed to the right tower. Otherwise every cell tower on earth would have to individually broadcast every call made, and wait for a phone, somewhere, to respond.

Plus, carriers gotta be able to charge you through the nose for "roaming" just because your phone is powered on in their airspace :p

Gotta love the stupidity with that URL turning out to be "amazon.com/man-whose-name-wouldnt-author's name/more stuff".

Hey, as a girl on the internets, I take offense to that!

No...
wait...
You're right, I'm actually a guy.

Oh for some +1 Funny mod points...

Okay, so you buy private insurance. What exactly does it get you? All the hospitals, clinics, and labs are free, the drugs are subsidized, and everything else is covered by 'supplemental insurance'. Private insurance would be a huge waste of your money, and the governments' for having to deal with private insurance companies.

Health care is a right up here, not something you have to be able to afford.

Alright, I hereby give you my permission to stop the Gulf Oil Leak. Report back in a week.

That's true, and I agree 100%, but unfortunately people like you and I are vastly in the minority.

Yup, vegetarian here and I agree 100%

They don't produce their hardware, but they do design it. The back of my iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China". In the end, it doesn't really matter who puts consumer electronics together since 95% of the work is the design (by Apple) and making sure they're built to spec (also by Apple).

Who manufactures your Google Nexus One? Was it Google? Nope. But everyone still calls it the "googlephone", and for good reason.

Ooh! Ooh! Can we abandon HTML in favor of HTML5?

Yup, we've been trying to duplicate the stuff for thousands of years, but we haven't been able to crack this stupid Deity's Responsibile for Making the universe scheme...

Maybe those folks on Doom9 will succeed where the Alchemists failed.

You know, it's really only in the US that doctors make an assload of cash... here in Canada they're paid similarly to any other professional (i.e. reasonably). Since this story is coming from the UK, I'd imagine it's similar there too.

But no, privatized healthcare is more cost-effective... *ducks*

I totally misread that URL as "colon clogs" the first time through... Actually, no, that sounds about right :p

That's stupid. What if I only want to look at one page at once? Or I have a second monitor for doing that?

Wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to flow to the size of my screen like anything else, so I can do either?