You gotta love this.

I get my Long Distance carrier bill. It's for a whopping $3.
Usually it's about 6 bucks because I make all my long distance calls with my cell phone and I never got around to getting rid of long distance on my land line.

When there are the few times I use the house phone for a long distance call it's usually quick, I pay no real attention to the bill. It's 5 or 6 bucks, I write a check and forget about it.

So this time I actually decide to read the detailed breakdown of the bill. Here's what it was:

Six calls totalling 57 cents.

The rest was taxes:
State and local taxes 0.27
CA High Cost Fund Surcharge 0.01
CA ULTS Surcharge 0.01
Federal Universal Service Fund 0.19
Fed Telecom Relay & Admin Fee 0.01
Rollback Fee 0.95
Interstate Services Fee 0.99
Total fees and taxes : $2.43

That's 426.316% tax and fee rate.

Who's in charge of this stuff? Can we kill them?

Between this crap and all the other hidden taxes and fees you pay on everything, not to mention the ****** in the government, I wonder what the tax rate on the average citizen REALLY is.

I'm waiting for the big revolution. I'm hoping for serious amounts of adminstrative blood in the streets (and their families too just for good measure).

F'in taxes.

 

Kobi, you should run for president. And yes, you can kill them...but the next person in line will charge the same

 

This has to be the funniest post I have read all week long.

I had to get the wife in here to read this post. We both agree with you,
and yes...PLEASE run for president.

 

I have a dialtone at my house for the secuirty system, and only make free local calls, and the plan is over $20/month through the carrier. Talk about a ripoff.

 

I've never been able to decipher all the fees and taxes on the average phone bill. I think it's a conspiracy.

Vote Kobiashi for president!!!

 

Dude can you get Sprint residential phone services?

If so they have done away with long distance in the continental US. Using cell phone for long distance is so last year. If your calling outside the continental US, the cell phone charges too, so basically it's the same plan as a Sprint cell phone only on a fixed line. Better security and more consistant connection.


BTW landline is one word, but I'm pretty sure you are talking about a "fixed line" or AKA "wireline" a service like a phone company provides.

A landline is a dedicated line. Connecting only two points, useing a single dedicated physical cable. The term is commonly misused to describe conventional telephone network service.
A landline might be used; for example, a military headquarters might be linked to front-line units "by landline" to ensure that communication remains possible even if the conventional telephone network is damaged or destroyed.
As a kid we also had Landline phones in our house connecting everyones bedrooms, much like an intercom. They were a self suffecient internal system and did not utilize phone services.

 

Did PSS-Mag just school Kobi on proper word usage?

 

I had to make sure I was right I had already done my homework. I copied part of it from that page, but the bottum also says:

 

He did, and it is greatly appreciated. You can learn something every day, and I got off to an early start as this was the first thing I saw this morning (on the web that is).

(By the way, it's a good thing I had already had a few sips of coffee before starting up the Mac. Seeing that I was misinformed about something, and that it was pointed out in a public forum, well, I don't think I would have been able to handle the shock. So here's to Starbucks™ French Roast (I ground it myself at home) for saving me from what could have been the start of a really bad day.)

(By the way, (Wow, lot's of parenthetical notes here!!!) I have been known to be wrong before. Yes, it has happened).

That said, I was also "correct" in the sense that I am a part of the lexicon revolution, furthering the development and evolution of the English language. By the way, it's fine when I do this, it's not fine when it's just sloppy use of the language by others, to wit, Hip-Hop slang. That stuff is just wrong.

In my defense I offer:

Apparently it is, however, even the kids at the source you quoted can't get it right. What follows is a clip of the "landline" entry on Wikipedia. As you can see, I searched "land line" (with a space) and it redirected me to "Landline" They then use "landline" as one word in the opening sentence. However, not more than two sentences later they spell it "Land line" with a space. (See Highlights)

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Mag, in your follow-up post you quote the last paragraph under "Dedicated Lines" but left out the last part of the last sentence.

Yup, dominant because trailblazers such as myself, the Lords of Language and Lexicology, if you will, (don't you just love alliteration?) are on the leading edge .

Therefore, while I acknowledge that "Landline" has/had a meaning other than how I used it, I suggest that such use is archaic, and in today's world of wireless, and wi-fi, and cellular, and God only knows what else, "landline" can be defined as the phone that is connected by wire at home.

Tune in later today when Kobi™ tries to cover his *** over some other mistake he will inevitably make.

 

So technically when I have my cell phone plugged into the charger it's a landline?

 

You, my friend, are a God.

 

That is too funny....



I wan't jumping on to kobi about it, I just utilized the opputunity to appear smart for a brief moment utilizing the geekness that I am.... :o

In Kobi's defense yes in slang it is correct, and since the general public recognizes it in the meaning that he intended as slang. Then it was a properly executed communication tool.
I just utilized this medium to educate the masses, so if anyone ever finds them self asking a communicatin expert in any communication field to set up a landline for them; then they will know what he or she means when he or she ask "To where?". You will know that he/she is making fun of you. Now everyone who reads this forum, will get the joke too. (cheers)