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PTT sucks

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Hm, I don't see why this is limited to PTT users- I see people on "standard" cell-phones holding them down and yelling into them, presumably on speakerphone for some reason, and of course, those morons screaming "I'M ON THE TRAIN!!!! NO, THE TRAIN!!! THE TRAIN!!! I'LL CALL YOU LATER, BECAUSE I'M ON THE TRAIN!!!" (This is far more common than one would think)

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I have to agree with you on that. I frankly don't see what the big deal is about PTT. It's not duplex so the quality of the conversation is no better than a walkie-talkie and it's not like it really takes that much longer to find someone on your phone list and hit the connect button to call them outright.

I've seen it used, I work with people who have used it, and I think it's overblown. Not to mention that annoying beep between each part of the conversation makes an already obnoxious yell-fest in public that much more annoying.

I dunno, maybe I'm overlooking some great aspect of it but it's basically the difference between hearing a ring at which point you answer the phone and speak and "Hey man, you there" at which point you answer the phone and speak.

Is the difference in a few seconds on a connection really that significant? Methinks it's desired more for it's novelty than it's practicality.
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Most the people in public that use it are not the business users. They are the Ghetto BOOST people.

To say that they should be banned is pure idiocy and represents the person making that statement.

There are MANY of us that know how to use the Group Private feature and talk on the phone in private. Besides, why the hell would I want YOU hearing MY conversation..

PTT was intended to contractors and workers.. I think that comments like yours is a low class form of communication and should be kept to yourself. You show that since YOU don't like it that it should be banned. I'm glad that your way is the only way.

Do I really think this technology should be banned? No, but banning technology, or it's uses that people are too ignorant to use considerately is well demonstrated and proper.

Good example of this is fireworks. Last year, a woman from somewhere south of Detroit was firing off some three inch shells for her kids, one didn't fire, so she looked down the barrel. I assume the last thing she saw was a spark as her stupidity got her killed in front of her own kids.

You know, one bad apple spoils the barrel.
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So you will ban fireworks because one idiot lacked common sense?

One perfect example of wasting time and money is a fishing license, just because someone lost a few eye balls by not learning to properly cast, means I need to pay 55 dollars a year just so I can fish legally.

I think it's something called common courtesy, if they don't have it oh well you can't enforce your own way of life into someone else. One of the reasons why texting is so popular now, is the ability to send information back and forth without the need to talk, hence there is no rudeness factor in it, as opposed to radio communications.

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No, I still don't agree that one bad apple theory. I believe it's Darwin in action.

"XXXXX should be illegal." Wrong answer.

If everything 'someboday' didn't like becomes illegal then the only thing left are those things which a dominant majority approves of. It would be a bland world of ours indeed. That was sort of the point I was trying to make.

We all should become more tolerant of certain things, actions, etc. (Of any place ever, this group of people has to be THE most INTOLERANT group ever! Just mention cell phones on a plane and see who's opinion matters more - a topic that I have learned to bite my tongue since you can't have a logical conversation with irrational people.)

We may not like certain things, or the way things are, or what they represent, but we leave them be, just as you wouldn't like it when somebody proposes that something YOU enjoy or like "should be illegal."

If every asshole succeeds in making something illegal they didn't like, this world would be bland place as everything with a slight edge would be illegal... We are all trying to much to impose our norms and values on others (well, some more than others - and usually, that group has no room to speak in the first place) and that is simply wrong.

We're quick to condemn others for the wrong world view, religion or tastes and this causes conflict. Sticks and stones will hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me; take it to heart.

Those who spend so much time telling others what they should or shouldn't do.. or how things annoy them really are the ones that, in the end, have NO clue what they are talking about in the first place, and, often, enjoy conflict and being miserable. If you were to eliminate EVERYTHING that this particular type of person wanted eliminated, it would never be enough for them.. something new would "annoy" them.. that person, clinically, actually does need to seek help before they go on pointing fingers at everyone else. This person "type" is one to believe their view is superior to all others..

Off topic and on to yours.. I'd say this.. If I found out that a drive of a public bus could be the authority of what is and isn't allowed on the bus, ie: the type of ring tone, I hate to tell you, I'd be on the phone to the public transit office and wouldn't stop until I had your job.

Sorry to say.. but I highly doubt you have the right to decide what ring tones are allowed and which aren't especially on a 'public' owned property. Now, if you are allowed to dis-allow ALL loud noises, that's one thing, however, your XM.. pfft! it would have to go to

I'm out.

Oh, the PTA sets the rules of what is NOT ever going to be allowed on the bus, the driver is free to deal with whatever distracts him/her from driving. I've got you 10 out of 10 times on the safety issue, if you have my attention, then I can't do my job and that is unsafe.

Bottom line, I am in charge of the safety of 0-110 people at a time, your right to do as you please is surrendered at the door, even if you are the only rider.

That includes PTT. BTW, our system, and most bus systems, have a rule that audio devices can only be used with a headphones, PTT falls under that rule.

Those are the facts based on my seven years of experience.
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