es are from friends wanting to bullshit with them. The original use of a pager is long lost in the desire to be cool and fit in. Look at how many 13 to 18 year olds carry pagers at school. All their friends are in school with them (some have dropped out), so they have no legitimate need to carry it, yet they do. It has become a status symbol. I have a pager myself, because I run a business out of my house, work a 40 hour a week job, and don't spend too much time at the house. I have cell service because I get a huge discount since I am a reseller of cell service. If I only worked and stayed at home, I wouldn't have a pager. If the service wasn't so cheap (3 cents a minute), then I wouldn't have a cell phone. I live in Denver (USWest territory), so the following section applies to that phone company (and some others probably). USWest is pushing for more add ons to your normal service because it makes them money. Stop to think about the services they offer. Voice mail? Conveniant, but over one year of paying for it, you could have had an answering machine that would last at least a couple of years. Call forwarding? To what, that pager or cell phone you barely use? The biggest rip off service they offer is Caller ID. I am constantly amazed that the stupidity of the people I deal with in regards to phone service. People go to stores wanting the little caller ID box, and spend from 45 to 90 dollars on a unit with 'the most features'. Half of them go home, plug it in, and bitch at the store because it doesn't work. After they realize they have to have the service from the phone company, they bitch at USWest because they keep getting 'Call Blocked'. It costs them just under 10 bucks a month for the service. On top of that the expensive box. Why? So they can tell who is calling them right? Why does USWest offer another service for FREE that allows a phone subscriber to have ALL OUTGOING calls from their house PERMANANTLY blocked for Caller ID? When I make a call from my place, it is automatically Caller ID blocked. For those who don't call to have that put on their line, they can just hit a three button 'star' code and block it for that call. So the customer paying all the money is not getting what he or she payed for in most cases. If someone is going to take the time to prank call you, do you think they are not going to block Caller ID? Overall, people are paying a ton for these services. Upwards of 25 bucks for the phone bill, 30 for the cell, 7 for the pager, all so they can be reached any time, any where. People are gladly getting ripped off, so they are considered cool, rich, hip, or whatever else. A cell and a pager don't make you cool. They make you a slave to the telecommunications industry. DisordeR =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... = = Internet : jericho@netcom.com (Mail is welcome) = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Chemical Persuasion 203.324.0894 Celestial Woodlands 214.252.6455 = = Goat Blowers Anon 215.750.0392 Hacker's Haven 303.343.4053 = = E.L.F. (NUP) 314.272.3426 Misery 318.625.4532 = = Dungeon Sys. Inc. 410.263.2258 Psykodelik Images 407.834.4576 = = Paradise Lost 414.476.3181 Black SunShine 513.891.3465 = r program exist after SBFMDRV.$Error 0006: BLASTER environment string does not exist.$C16 Chip Set$QR@$8tZYø`r !r `P Xϻ!=!XʸO++ t uA t=!AX" Ps@=ȉ?:**&ĀQR xZYQR  yZYË *u r![Ky,I!؎̀O u ! !]&"؎s ! !8* ++"*I! !WVʸRڋDZ t-‹ADr_ru$