Man Silences Yammering Cellphone Talk With Push of a Button

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What's the point? If they stop talking on their cell, they'll just start talking to each other.

Or worse- to you!
Them:"So... hey, where you from?"
You:"Never mind, have your phone back."

Some people talk quietly on their cell. Some people might be talking to someone they haven't seen in twenty years. If I was talking to my fiance who is in the military, someone cut off my call, and he thought I hung up on him, someone's "Jammer" would be jammed somewhere they couldn't reach. I also get calls from the kids at work when they have a question for me. No-call zones, clearly posted, are fine, but it's just as rude to jam someone's signal as it is to talk loudly in a public place. Ruder, even.

I especially hate when someone rides on public transportation, sits behind you, and then starts having a loud, enthusiastic phone conversation, accompanied by spit sprays on the back of your neck. Makes me want to slap them and hurl the phone out the window.

That's why I'm doing what I can to give everyone telepathy so I don't have to listen to them.

Now veerrrrrrr talkink!

Actually, I was stealing a line from Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace. Spoken, appropriately enough, by a mad scientist called Zaroff who has just launched a coup against the king of Atalntis so that his plan of drilling a hole into the mantle of the Earth and drain the ocean into it in order to blow the world up is unhindered (deep breath).

Which is why I don't go out much and needless to say don't employ the same tactics on others. I had one conversation with a loved one - I made sure that the others around were softened not enraged by what I had to say...and that is going to also be the last conversation I have on a cell (yuck) in earshot of others. There's just too much cacophony as is. Silence is a commodity. Too bad it can't be marketed.

They do say silence is golden. Maybe you can start from there.

Ah but can air be seen? Aye. It has no color but what it reflects. And the color of silence is the absent of all colors and reflects only peace and peace is not golden, it is not a color which can be seen with the human eye but only felt with the human heart and perceived with the inner eye of the mind. No gold. No. Something else of a higher caliber and beyond materiality.

They should install these in vehicles so nobody can talk & drive. That's the only thing I can see these devices would be good for.

The people who buy these just to cut people off the phone are on a power trip, who are they to attempt to control someone else?

Why isn't urinating in the middle of the street allowed? Or why isn't public nudity given the go-ahead in public schools? They're public places. It's a free country. Nobody is getting outright hurt by it. Unless you consider that senses CAN be hurt and can be just as painful as direct physical bruising. So as to your question - there doesn't seem to be any rules that would monitor invading someone's privacy, quietude and sense of well-being which is directly in proportion to the amount of non-jarring sounds around them and in light of this - such drastic measures may be required to re-establish law and civility in the land.

I assumed it was a real referrence. (And congrats on being one of the original Who faithful.) I just like the Eastern European garbling of a zippy American expression. I'm sick that way.

Jammers are changing the world -
http://news.google.com/news?client=oper ... a=N&tab=wn

They should be legal, but used responsibly. Too many people use their mobile phones to yatter on and on and on, much to everyone else's annoyance. Switch the jammer on just to disconnect people, then turn it off when the job is done. Hahahaha. I gotta get myself one of those...

That's GREAT!

Awesome reaction!

Free doesn't mean run wild & do whatever the heck you want. Along with free goes respect. Respect goes both ways.