The FCC is in control of what a 'right' is when it comes to RF.
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.
Which is very wrong.
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.
Then go to a different theater. If enough people agree with you, then I'll lose business and change my policy. If not, too bad for you.
"It's 2006. I cannot be out of touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours."
No? Ah, well. Then set your Blackberry on vibrate. However, if you're sitting next to me in the theater and you have the backlight on on your Blackberry, that will disturb my enjoyment of the movie. You won't mind if I object to your encroachment on my movie, will you. Perhaps I'll give your Blackberry a nice toss under the seat.
If you cannot be away from contact with others, then stay where you can be in contact. Watch your movies at home.
Why not? And how did you handle this problem before the BlackBerry was invented?
t's 2006. I cannot be out of touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours.Then stay home. That way you won't be far from the toilet, either.
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.
"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.
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.
If you can't, don't go to the movies.
That's funny, It's 2006 and I have a hard time being in touch with the rest of the world for 2.5 hours...
Don't go to the movie theater then. Duh.
Then a movie theater where transmissions are blocked obviously isn't somewhere you should go.
Why?
Are you really into 2006 already? You must be several time zones ahead of me.
I guess you never drive through Wyoming. ;-)
No wonder you're so crabby....you're not getting enough sleep!
Then don't go to the movies.
Amazing, we existed for a few hundred thousand years with phones at all... let alone cell phones... now someone thinks the worlds gonna end if they are out of contact for 2.5 hours.....
No wonder folks have their priorities all out of whack.. they have not time to even contemplate them, because they are too busy having to listen to stupid conversations like "I'm on the bus right now, ok, I just got off, now I'm heading down 5th.. where are you?"
Face it, only the nuclear football HAS to be instantaneously reachable by the President, and since there is only 1 of them... life for you will go on without a cell signal.
Um, in the world the rest of us inhabit, it's still 2005.
Glenn, buddy, you need a life.
I think the theaters have a right to do as they see fit, provided they inform patrons of this situation before they actually buy a ticket.
i'm in agreement with you, tho perhaps for different reasons. i have a child, i have times when i am on-call for work. i don't believe that i should be forced to stay at home because an emergency *might* arise. if an emergency should arise it would be 10x more disruptive for an attendant to try and find me in the theater.
besides, with caller id, you should be able to tell if its an emergency without having to answer.
the biggest problem i have with people and cell phones are the idiots who answer their phones and go "yo, i'm in a movie, lemme holla back atcha" then talk for five minutes anyway, usually saying the same thing over and over.