You are a very negative person. I've never complained about my job or my employer. I'm paid well and I enjoy the challenge. I would like to be permitted to enjoy a movie in a theater while using the tools I need for my job responsibly.
Most theaters today will take no action, especially if your device is on vibrate. If you would like to be permitted to use your device in theaters that have rules against them, then too bad. Surely you comprehend this?
"You are a very negative person. I've never complained about my job or my employer. I'm paid well and I enjoy the challenge. I would like to be permitted to enjoy a movie in a theater while using the tools I need for my job responsibly."
Glenn, you are a profound asshat. And a sissy-lib, I just realized: If someone calls you on some bit of pretentiousness and self-importance that YOU introduce, then you default to, "You're negative!" Do you have one of those "I Hate Negative People!" bumper stickers on your Scion?
And hey, Glenn: If you’re so freaking busy and important, how can you spend so much damned time on FR? Four or five people responded to your statement that you can't be out of touch with the world for 2.5 hours in the exact same way I did, and here you are responding to all of us. Come on, man, you could miss a really important Blackberry message!
I see you have also defaulted to the I'm-untouchably-cutting-edge-technologically-and-you-people-are-all-so-vacuum-tube postiion that presumes we are knuckle-dragging apes who would freak out if exposed to the bright lights and wondrous wonders of a CompUSA, but actually we're really cool about all of it. We understand that we don't want to define ourselves by our gizmos.
You even bet someone they didn't have a cell phone. Glenn, we all have cell phones, we just regard them as what they are: Tools.
And of course you had to revert to calling people Luddites if they don't have a P5 implanted in their rectums, but perhaps you are unaware of a phenomenom identified by anthropologists (actually, I'm not kidding on this): A combination of rote-action feedback meshes with a psychological need to create an addictive state between user and his device.
Or as we call addicted Blackberry users on the street: Crackberries.
(Just one of the things I love about FR: This week's ally was last week's pissing contest opponent. Yo, DogGone: Merry Christmas!)