Interesting observation in regards to cell phones:"When fascism comes to your phone, it will be carrying a guitar and singing like Brittany Spears" (was: Verizon hates you)

On Oct 6, 9:17 pm, "kdt" <scarface...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> http://www.imjosh.com/?p=656

> "Who does Verizon think they are these days? Sony? The latest firmware
> updates to the chocolate series of phones breaks the connectivity between
> Bitpim and the phone. This isn't a case of the update changing the internal
> structure and an unsupported product no longer functioning. This is a
> blatant blocking of the service which, because it allows users to use their
> own ringers instead of paying Verizon $2 for 30 seconds of pop music. You
> will get the error message, "Access to file/directory has been blocked on
> this phone by the phone provider." if you have the most recent firmware. It
> sounds like the folks at Bitpim are working on fixing this, however if you
> haven't gotten the update do not do it! "

Verizon is perhaps the worst of the worst when it comes to shit like
this. That's why I would NEVER buy anything from Verizon, not even
accessories. This is a display of contempt against their customers and
how they treat them as money making chattel (root word: cattle).
Which brings up an interesting ovservation.

Almost all of Verizons cell phone commercials are focused around
music, more than anything else (or they were for a while), Infact,
their phone line up seems to be more music oriented than any of the
other companies (my observation). And of course, we know how much of
an asshole groups like the RIAA have been as of late, and how eager
they are to slap the handcuffs on everybody in advance, just so they
don't illegaly download all of the "la dee das" in the record
companies' music library. Think this may all be related especialy
seeing how Verizon appears to be the most music centric of all the
major US carriers?

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:52:18 GMT, ultimauw@hotmail.com (zeez) wrote:

>On Oct 6, 9:17 pm, "kdt" <scarface...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.imjosh.com/?p=656
>
>> "Who does Verizon think they are these days? Sony? The latest firmware
>> updates to the chocolate series of phones breaks the connectivity between
>> Bitpim and the phone. This isn't a case of the update changing the internal
>> structure and an unsupported product no longer functioning. This is a
>> blatant blocking of the service which, because it allows users to use their
>> own ringers instead of paying Verizon $2 for 30 seconds of pop music. You
>> will get the error message, "Access to file/directory has been blocked on
>> this phone by the phone provider." if you have the most recent firmware. It
>> sounds like the folks at Bitpim are working on fixing this, however if you
>> haven't gotten the update do not do it! "
>
> Verizon is perhaps the worst of the worst when it comes to shit like
>this. That's why I would NEVER buy anything from Verizon, not even
>accessories. This is a display of contempt against their customers and
>how they treat them as money making chattel (root word: cattle).
>Which brings up an interesting ovservation.
>
> Almost all of Verizons cell phone commercials are focused around
>music, more than anything else (or they were for a while), Infact,
>their phone line up seems to be more music oriented than any of the
>other companies (my observation). And of course, we know how much of
>an asshole groups like the RIAA have been as of late, and how eager
>they are to slap the handcuffs on everybody in advance, just so they
>don't illegaly download all of the "la dee das" in the record
>companies' music library. Think this may all be related especialy
>seeing how Verizon appears to be the most music centric of all the
>major US carriers?

If you have a situation where the telecommunications giants
have united, then they're a kind of cabal. If you have a White House
that does it's best to enable this sort of thing (recall Ashcroft and
his proposed "three strikes" piracy rule), then you don't live in a
democracy.