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You mean old farts like me who formerly had one but gave it up at end
of contract due to getting a call when I was on the highway at fairly
high speed, pulling over expecting an emergency from home only to find
out some telemarketer had gotten my number and called.
I had about 3 weeks left on my contract and told my provider I would
NOT be renewing - who then charged me a disconnection fee!
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
. . .
You mean old farts like me who formerly had one but gave it up at end
of contract due to getting a call when I was on the highway at fairly
high speed, pulling over expecting an emergency from home only to find
out some telemarketer had gotten my number and called.
I had about 3 weeks left on my contract and told my provider I would
NOT be renewing - who then charged me a disconnection fee!
Can you port out the telephone number in Canada?
In the United States,--
if switching carriers, the port out must occur before the contract with
the losing carrier expires or, if no contract, whilst the service is
still live. One must not contact the losing carrier first to avoid
having them "accidentally" disconnect the account to prevent port out.
I'm about to go through this myself, what with the the new Comcast plan
in which services are no longer bundled but itemized separately with multi-service discounts. I need to get this very high recurring
charge off the Comcast bill. I'll buy another OBi ATA, although OBi
truly no longer exists.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
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Not only is Starmer facing public polling of 90% or more against digital ID, >> but even members of his own party are revolting against the idea. This guy has
the political instincts of platypus.
And how does digital ID even work, anyway? No one ever seems to explain it in
the news reports I've seen. Is it truly digital--, i.e., no physical ID card,
just a digital file somewhere? Or is it a physical card with digital/encrypted
features, like our Real IDs?
I have a strong impression that they would implement the Chinese--
Communist Party system, that use of a smart phone is required for all
social interaction and commercial transaction, too allow the government
to be informed of anyone interacted with and to create full
documentation of all movement.
Just make the chip in the brain, a la The President's Analyst (1967), mandatory. That should work till DNA can be identfied by satellite and
looked up in Penelope's couch database.
If it's the former, how are people who don't have smart phones supposed to use
it? And they *will* have to use it. The way Starmer describes it, it'll be >> illegal to have a job or even buy/sell anything without one.** Surely there >> are loads of people-- most of them elderly-- who don't have smart phones. Is >> the government really going to require every citizen to go out and spend a >> rather largish chunk of money they may not even have to buy a smart phone so >> they can use a digital ID and not be shut out from society?
**This whole digital ID scheme sounds suspiciously like the Mark of the Beast
as described in the Bible, which is sure to throw the religious
fundamentalists into a tizzy.
Revelation 13:16-18 - And the Beast required all people small and great, rich
and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their >> forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark-- the name >> of the Beast or the number of its name. Here is wisdom: let he who has
understanding calculate the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a >> man, and his number is 666.
Has anyone checked Starmer's hairline lately? Maybe for a suspicious
numerically-shaped birthmark? And accepting this 'mark' seems like an express
elevator to hell:
Revelation 14:9-11 - And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud >> voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark, he >> too will drink the wine of GodrCOs anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His
wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy
angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever.
Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image,
or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.
I had about 3 weeks left on my contract and told my provider I would
NOT be renewing - who then charged me a disconnection fee!
Yeah, they will always get their money.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
. . .
Not only is Starmer facing public polling of 90% or more against digital ID, >> but even members of his own party are revolting against the idea. This guy >> has
the political instincts of platypus.
And how does digital ID even work, anyway? No one ever seems to explain it in
the news reports I've seen. Is it truly digital--, i.e., no physical ID card,
just a digital file somewhere? Or is it a physical card with
digital/encrypted
features, like our Real IDs?
I have a strong impression that they would implement the Chinese
Communist Party system, that use of a smart phone is required for all
social interaction and commercial transaction, too allow the government
to be informed of anyone interacted with and to create full
documentation of all movement.
Just make the chip in the brain, a la The President's Analyst (1967), mandatory. That should work till DNA can be identfied by satellite and
looked up in Penelope's couch database.
On Oct 4, 2025 at 8:57:28 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
. . .
Not only is Starmer facing public polling of 90% or more against digital ID,
but even members of his own party are revolting against the idea. This guy >>> has
the political instincts of platypus.
And how does digital ID even work, anyway? No one ever seems to explain it in
the news reports I've seen. Is it truly digital--, i.e., no physical ID card,
just a digital file somewhere? Or is it a physical card with
digital/encrypted
features, like our Real IDs?
I have a strong impression that they would implement the Chinese
Communist Party system, that use of a smart phone is required for all
social interaction and commercial transaction, too allow the government
to be informed of anyone interacted with and to create full
documentation of all movement.
Just make the chip in the brain, a la The President's Analyst (1967),
mandatory. That should work till DNA can be identfied by satellite and
looked up in Penelope's couch database.
Okay, the UK government website says "no one will be forced to carry a digital
ID, which will be stored as a file on smartphones, nor will police be empowered to demand you produce it".
So they are going to require every citizen, even the 85-year-old great-grandma
who can't even work her tea kettle properly, to have a smartphone. It doesn't say what happens if you can't afford to buy a smartphone (and the monthly phone bill that comes with it).