old_dawg
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Westminster, MD
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Re: Binge drinkers are young & stupid ....
said by amungus  :I think it has more to do with a sense of freedom. Younger people likely enjoy their freedoms, to drink, smoke, and use their phone wherever they want. Who cares. Really. As in a sense of freedom from what?, like responsibility perchance. My former SO had two (supposedly) adult children on her billing plan. She was constantly bickering with them for running over voice and data minutes, as well as trying to get them cough up the $$$ they owed her.
I would care except for the hope that I'll be worm food when their bill (in the larger sense) comes due.
Yup, freedom's grand as long as someone else picks up the tab. 
Or to borrow a phrase from Maggie...
"Socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money."
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Jim Gurd
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Plymouth, MI | reply to sansri88
Nope, I'm not a teacher. |
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jmn1207
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Reston, VA | reply to sansri88
If statistics professors say this, it must be true. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
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Are you a Stats AP teacher? LOL
Our teacher taught us that line on the first day of class. |
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pnh102
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said by ISurfTooMuch :Also, many college students don't get landlines because ... they don't want to get ripped off by university telecom departments ... Man that reminds me of the bad old days of living on campus and paying outrageous amounts of money for using the dorm room landline.
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Jim Gurd
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said by TKJunkMail :... and it is the young that are all wireless. So the below statement makes some sense. "wireless-only households are more likely to contain binge drinkers and smokers, compared with those having landline phones." Yes, but correlation does not imply causation.
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jmn1207
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I'm probably stupid. Would a stupid person be able recognize their own dumbness?
What is the cutoff date to still be considered young? 
40+ born in the 60's is probably on the border. A type of purgatory between young and old.
I wouldn't consider myself to be a binge drinker, either. I'm more of a drunk. One long, slow soak for me. It's not my intention to get drunk, it's just a side effect of quaffing tasty beer or scotch. |
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baineschile
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Sterling Heights, MI | reply to TKJunkMail
I am 27. Dont drink or smoke....and after I moved out of my parents at 19 years old, I have never had a landline. |
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amungus
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And you're an old wiseguy?
I think it has more to do with a sense of freedom.
Younger people likely enjoy their freedoms, to drink, smoke, and use their phone wherever they want.
Who cares. Really.
Besides, landlines ought to be much cheaper by now. Much of the infrastructure has been paid for several times over, and much of the reason more people don't have them is that they realize the costs are inflated.
Landlines are great, sure. They're reliable as can be, sure. Their prices, however, are still insane for anything other than the most basic local only plans.
Long distance charges, especially in state, are ridiculous. Add all the other fees up, and it's far cheaper to just get a good wireless plan.
People, maybe younger ones in particular, would probably much rather spend some extra money on enjoying life, rather than wasting it on paying "Ma Bell" any more money than they absolutely have to.
Oh, that and they know that "the man" is totally full of it  |
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ISurfTooMuch
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Tuscaloosa, AL
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Also, from work, I've observed that many low-income folks are only using cell phones, and smoking is more prevalent among low-income individuals.
Also, many college students don't get landlines because they're on their parents' family plans, and they don't want to get ripped off by university telecom departments, and college students tend to binge drink. The real danger for the phone companies is that, once these people leave college, they likely won't get landlines, meaning the base of landline users is aging and will eventually die off. If the phone companies want to retain their landline business, they need a big change in strategy. Bundling all the features provided by VoIP carriers at a similar price point would be my first thought. |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ |  ... and it is the young that are all wireless. So the below statement makes some sense.
"wireless-only households are more likely to contain binge drinkers and smokers, compared with those having landline phones." |
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