Churches Installing Cell Phone Jammers

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2004-10-16 10:35pm

I wonder how expensive that will be, hypothetically, of course.

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2004-10-16 10:35pm

Um, Sorry. Scratch that. I read over the cost...

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-16 10:39pm

Heh. About time they did it.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-16 10:39pm

Shit, hit the wrong button.

Now they just need them in movie theaters.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-10-16 10:41pm

If Mexican churches get those,they're not that expensive i guess,and they should be sold everywhere for theaters too

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2004-10-16 11:13pm

Cell phone jammers are a techological solution to a blooming cultural problem; simple lack of courtesy on the part of cell phone users.

Get it into your heads assholes, the people around you have no interest in your affairs.

Quit shouting into the damned phone and quit holding extended conversations in places where you disturb others.

If I had a dollar for every time my meal or other time in public has been disturbed by some loud asshole on a cell phone I could retire early and rich.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2004-10-16 11:17pm

Churches in America put cell phone jammers within their churches.
Churches in Australia put Mobile (cell) phone towers on their churches to make extra money.

I just found that amusing.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-10-16 11:25pm

Mr Flibble wrote:Churches in America put cell phone jammers within their churches.
Churches in Australia put Mobile (cell) phone towers on their churches to make extra money.

I just found that amusing.

WHAT in Australia churches want cell phones ringing in the middle of the sermon

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StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-10-16 11:47pm

Mr Flibble wrote:Churches in America put cell phone jammers within their churches.
Churches in Australia put Mobile (cell) phone towers on their churches to make extra money.

I just found that amusing.

The same is true in America. Lots of churches have cell phone boosters now. I wonder if that will enable the signal to punch through the jamming if used in the same church.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-10-17 12:01am

I want to see movie theaters put mobile phone jammers in, and build the theater so the structure itself helps block the signals from getting into the viewing areas.

If people can't get their phone calls out of the way before they leave the lobby then tough crap.

Anyone remember the days when the only people who had paggers were physicians on emergency call? If those went off in a theater it didn't bother you because you knew it was an emergency.

Before pagers a physician could be called at a theater and an usher would come and get him in his seat.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-10-17 12:58am

I like the idea of having a mobile phone on me so that I can call someone in an emergency. Or someone can call me in one. But erecting some sort of tower to block or jam the signal? What the fuck for? Empower the fucking Cinema workers to throw the jerkoffs out the fucking theatre if their goddamn phone goes off; put up signs, or ads to tell people to observe the courtesy of switching their phone off for a few hours. By erecting some kind of tower to block it for EVERYONE strikes me as excessive in it's reaction. I certainly don't deserve this restriction, because I use my phone responsibly.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-10-17 01:02am

[EDIT] Just to expand on the above, since it seems a prudent question to ask: do these jammers affect ALL signals? Even emergency signals? Could I dial triple 0 or 911 if in America, if the area I am in has one of these jammers installed?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-10-17 03:29am

While I normally find Einhander's big shouting letters annoying, the above post just really cracked me up.

Prozac the Robert · Post by **Prozac the Robert** » 2004-10-17 07:37am

I'll take some for my university please. The other day a girl actually had a mobile conversation in the back of one of my lectures while the lecturer was talking. The lecturer did mock her for it though, so it did at least give us a bit of entertainment.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-10-17 07:56am

Stofsk wrote:I like the idea of having a mobile phone on me so that I can call someone in an emergency.

You survived before your phone didn't you?

If there is an emergency just get up, and walk outside to call.

Stofsk wrote:Or someone can call me in one.

Again, how did you survive before?

Stofsk wrote:But erecting some sort of tower to block or jam the signal? What the fuck for?

To make my moviegoing experience more pleasurable

Stofsk wrote:Empower the fucking Cinema workers to throw the jerkoffs out the fucking theatre if their goddamn phone goes off;

Thats still disruption for me and others.

Stofsk wrote: put up signs, or ads to tell people to observe the courtesy of switching their phone off for a few hours.

They already do. Arseholes still ignore them.

Stofsk wrote:I certainly don't deserve this restriction, because I use my phone responsibly.

But you shouldn't be using it in a cinema at all. This is just ensuring you don't.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-10-17 08:07am

Sharp-kun wrote:
Stofsk wrote:I like the idea of having a mobile phone on me so that I can call someone in an emergency.
You survived before your phone didn't you?

Yes. But the reason why I wanted a phone was caused by a family tragedy, and the weeks of paranoia that gripped me after it (still does, to be honest). For me, I need to feel as though my brother and mother can be reached through a quick speed dial.

But you shouldn't be using it in a cinema at all. This is just ensuring you don't.

No, you're right. I shouldn't. And neither should anyone else. I turn mine off anyway, so it's not like the jammers significantly change my current habits.

I just have a hard time accepting what is essentially a security function from being used in what is essentially a superficial reason. Ok, you want jammers to prevent mobile-phone triggered bombs from detonating, in an area where such events are outrageously and despicably common; I can understand that. Ditto for a House of Parliament, wherein the members should be concentrating on running the fucking country. Putting it up on a Church? Ok, I don't give a shit since I'm not a christian. But a cinema?

...

Ok, so the last time I went to see a movie was some months ago, and I hated it. Ok, nevermind. I don't give a shit.

Actually, one example was a train wasn't it? THAT seems excessive. Maybe I want to call up someone while commuting, and tell them to pick me up at the station in the next ten minutes because that's when I'm expecting to arrive. Oops, can't do it now because jammers are in place to prevent it.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-17 08:37am

Sharp-kun wrote: You survived before your phone didn't you?

If there is an emergency just get up, and walk outside to call.

bad argument. you can say that about anything from televisions over cars to mc donalds restaurants.

Again, how did you survive before?

that´s such a black and white fallacy. just because you didn´t instantly die after you were born doesn´t mean that you were equally safe befor the invention of cell phones.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2004-10-17 09:04am

Speaaking of survival, for those of us in our 30's, how did we survive non "child-proofed" homes as youngn's? Looks like babies these days just hunt for ways to get killed around a home, even with mandated "child-proofing."

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-10-17 11:10am

I'm willing to forgo the theaters with mobile phone jammers if we are legally allowed to punch people in the face for using them during the movie. Well, maybe a punch to the solar plexus would be saffer and get the point across better.

Put the damn thing on vibrate and go to the lobby before answering. Is that so fucking hard?

Is it any wonder why I mostly go to movies during the daytime in the middle of the the week (school is in session and most people are working).

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2004-10-17 11:48am

But you're still allowed to bring pillows for the sermon, right

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Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-17 11:59am

The French have just had their cinemas renovated to accomodate such jammers as the film council has finally got sick of them. Though I doubt the Frogs have to put up with the likes of Trigger Happy TV people.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-10-17 12:11pm

I wonder if the reason churches want to block the signals isn't because of phone calls but because of all the other quiet stuff someone can do with their phone now.

Instead of paying attention to the sermon someone could be text messaging or playing games on their phone all nice and quiet.

Maybe even following a sports event going on during church.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-10-17 03:05pm

Tsyroc wrote:I wonder if the reason churches want to block the signals isn't because of phone calls but because of all the other quiet stuff someone can do with their phone now.

Instead of paying attention to the sermon someone could be text messaging or playing games on their phone all nice and quiet.

Maybe even following a sports event going on during church.

We had a joke about that during the SOCOM Symposium yesterday.

One of the Sergeants had a PDA, and we joked that he'd be playing Tetris during the briefs.

Briefer: "And yes, our Special Forces our doing well against the terrorists."

Sergeant Playing Tetris: (little block doesn't do what he wants it to) "NO, DAMN IT!"