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Theater owners want cell phones blocked
UPI ^ | Dec. 17, 2005 | UPI

Posted on 12/18/2005 7:27:25 AM PST by Kjobs

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The National Association of Theater Owners wants the Federal Communications Commission to allow the blocking of cell phone signals in theaters.

John Fithian, the president of the trade organization, told the Los Angeles Times theater owners "have to block rude behavior" as the industry tries to come up with ways to bring people back to the cinemas.

Fithian said his group would petition the FCC for permission to block cell phone signals within movie theaters.

Some theaters already have no cell phone policies and ask moviegoers to check their phones at the door, Fithian said.

The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association -- a Washington-based cell phone lobby that is also known as CTIA-the Wireless Association -- said it would fight any move to block cell phone signals.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: annoyingpeople; cellphones; emilypost; etiquette; grace; gracious; hollywood; manners; missmanners; pests; theater; theaters
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To: Glenn
It's 2006. I cannot be out of touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours.
Wait. I gotta comment on this one more time. Doesn't sound like you have time to watch the movie. So why go to it? Why do anything else but work? Do you sleep? Make love? Do you have your blackberry on vibrate when you make love? Take a shower.

If you can't take a 2.5 hour break, you have an exceedingly f*d up life, and I feel sorry for you.

41 posted on 12/18/2005 7:55:47 AM PST by samtheman
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To: LibertarianCandidate
So doctors, nurses and other emergency responders should not go to movies. These are the people that don't really cause a problem. We have learned how to minimize disturbances of others. Instead of crying to Uncle Sam, why not just keep an usher in the theater and enforce the rules?
42 posted on 12/18/2005 7:55:48 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Mamzelle
... it was the projector).

Perhaps the projector lamp as well. :)

43 posted on 12/18/2005 7:56:02 AM PST by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: Glenn
I'm sorry. I assumed you knew at least something of which you spoke.

I'm sorry too: I thought this was civilized discourse. If I want to block all RF of every kind on my private property, I should be free to do so. If I want to make a house rule that all males squat on their heels instead of using chairs, I can. It would be bad for business, but that's my problem. I should be equally free to ban bald people, and to mandate that everyone wear a T-Shirt saying, "I'm with stupid." Why are you confused what private property means?

44 posted on 12/18/2005 7:56:33 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Well, I got better...)
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To: southernnorthcarolina
I look forward to the development of pocket-sized, affordable cellphone jammers.

FReepmail me when you've invented it; I'd like one for the house!

45 posted on 12/18/2005 7:56:37 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Dick Cheney never trims his own nails. He simply stares at them until the tips melt off.")
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To: Glenn

Wow, what a great response.


46 posted on 12/18/2005 7:56:45 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: samtheman

"Then stay home. That way you won't be far from the toilet, either."

Ewww! About a month ago, I got a cell phone call from someone I know. About a minute into the call, I hear this noise. It was a toilet flushing! This idiot had called me while he was sitting on the pot.

I hung up, and have blocked his number.


47 posted on 12/18/2005 7:56:45 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: w1andsodidwe

Since 2002 I have been fed up with Hollywood politics. I believe my days of going to the movies are over.


48 posted on 12/18/2005 7:57:29 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: samtheman
If you can't take a 2.5 hour break, you have an exceedingly f*d up life, and I feel sorry for you.

Oh, piss off. You know nothing of my life so STFU, okay? Consider yourself "blocked", girl.

49 posted on 12/18/2005 7:57:32 AM PST by Glenn (What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!)
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To: Glenn

I have all the gadgets, and I know how to use them to work smart, not like a friggin slave.


50 posted on 12/18/2005 7:57:35 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Glenn

"Block my BlackBerry when it is in vibrate mode and there will be discussions. It's 2006. I cannot be out of touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours."

Glenn, you're too important to go to the movies. Please always be available for the inevitable crisis that only you can solve.


51 posted on 12/18/2005 7:58:03 AM PST by John Robertson ( Safe Travel)
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To: samtheman

Perhaps some of these cell phone junkies are hyper-active or deluded about their own self importance. Sounds like they need to chill out or take a tranquilizer.


52 posted on 12/18/2005 7:58:14 AM PST by LibertarianCandidate
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To: Glenn

Talk about witty responses. Your are the Wit of the Day.


53 posted on 12/18/2005 7:58:19 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Glenn

"Do you own a car, Mr. Luddite?"

Witty, indeed. I'll bet he does own a car. I'll bet he doesn't drive it in the theater, though.


54 posted on 12/18/2005 7:58:20 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Tax-chick
"I agree. I was suggesting (for example) a separate performance for the handicapped and/or children, if the performer wished to make the effort."

Good thought Tax-chick and the shame of it is, this artist used to do just that. He would have an afternoon concert for FREE to any school that wished to bring a group. Last week he just left and went home.

55 posted on 12/18/2005 7:58:49 AM PST by Wurlitzer (I have the biggest organ in my town {;o))
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To: Kjobs
Can we make it restaurants too?
56 posted on 12/18/2005 7:59:18 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: John Robertson
Glenn, you're too important to go to the movies.

John, kindly provide instructions on how I should live my life in its entirety. You seem to have all the answers.

57 posted on 12/18/2005 7:59:34 AM PST by Glenn (What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!)
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To: LibertarianCandidate

I think you're right. Some people have gone to using these devices (and I use them all, and enjoy them all and am productive with them all) to becoming addicted to them. And they have all the nervous, annoying and irritating habits of any addict.


58 posted on 12/18/2005 8:00:28 AM PST by samtheman
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To: MineralMan

LOL


59 posted on 12/18/2005 8:00:41 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Glenn
Block my BlackBerry when it is in vibrate mode and there will be discussions. It's 2006. I cannot be out of touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours.

That is your choice. As long as you respect those who choose to go somewhere to be entertained and are not in the mood for distractions, that's cool.

Trouble is, the lowest common denominator types aren't that way which is why we have such wussified traffic laws.

60 posted on 12/18/2005 8:01:07 AM PST by Looking4Truth (Sick and tired of being sick and tired of being screwed over.)
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