Tall Paul wrote:

Let's keep it real Em; as a society we face serious problems, none of which are addressed by harassing brown people. Perhaps you might be more comfortable in Iran, where it has been recently announced that women with suntans will be arrested and punished harshly. That'll teach them brown people! In fact, I'd say this outcry from the ignorant white-trash community is nothing more than selfishness.

All for it TP - but then change the Federal law - open the gates and get rid of the visa program and residency requirements.  i would also propose a Federal program to import imigres from Asia, Africa, Oceana and Eastern Europe as well - we can turn a few super tankers into a few super passenger liners.  Everyone world-wide deserves a shot at the American dream, not just your brown bunnies from down south.

So basically STFU and go back to fapping to the picture thread.

MSG Tripps wrote:

Didn't ole Jimmy Cater give amnesty to these motherfuckers already?

No, that was St. Ronald Of Hollywood who did that.

"The one thing we could do for a country like Mexico, for example, is to stop every illegal immigrant at the border, give him a good rifle and a case of ammunition, and send him back home. Let the Mexicans solve their customary problems in their customary manner".  - Edward Abbey

Dmtdust wrote:

"The one thing we could do for a country like Mexico, for example, is to stop every illegal immigrant at the border, give him a good rifle and a case of ammunition, and send him back home. Let the Mexicans solve their customary problems in their customary manner".  - Edward Abbey

Dusty...I don't understand why you only support open borders for the Mexicans; bring them all - eliminate the costs of issuing passports and visas.  Stop being Xenophobic - everyone deserves a chance.

And I really appreciate that about you.

On another note, but perhaps the same idea, I am the kind of person who does not have to be up to the minute with the latest devices. I don't have a laptop, I don't own an ipod and I don't have a cell phone. I like to carry on actual conversations if I can.

Anyway, my Sous Chef came to work in an excellent mood UNTIL his cell phone died. Not the battery, the phone. He changed the battery but nothing. He checked the connections, he cleaned the posts, he disassembled the poor thing. The distress was palpable. The sense of loss, urgency, betrayal. What was he going to do? How would he survive without his beloved phone? The world HAD ended as we know it. He was still heavily distressed when I left. And really, I was thinking wtf? I mean it's a phone. Big deal. Maybe there is something here I don't understand.

I have yet to own a cell phone.  It's not the tech so much as that all the plans seem so outrageously expensive.  Does anyone know of a sanely-priced BASIC (phone service only) cell phone plan?  (People have told me to use prepaid, but the one time I tried that I was charged something like thirty cents a day whether I used the fucking thing or not.)

George Orr wrote:

I have yet to own a cell phone.  It's not the tech so much as that all the plans seem so outrageously expensive.  Does anyone know of a sanely-priced BASIC (phone service only) cell phone plan?  (People have told me to use prepaid, but the one time I tried that I was charged something like thirty cents a day whether I used the fucking thing or not.)

I have T-mobile prepaid and don't pay for anything but minutes used. When you buy 1000 minutes at a time the normal price is $100, but I often have coupons and promotions for 20% off, so I pay an effective 8 cents per minute, only for time on the phone. Text messages count as one minute. I use about 1000 minutes a year, so the $80 a year is worth it to me.

You can buy kick-ass phones on craigslist for under $20 and they usually come with a bunch of accessories. I got my Walkman phone for that with an extra battery, extra charger, headphones and a 4GB memory card for playing music. I like it because it's small and very durable, something you can't say about those fancy 3G phones.

You will need to buy a SIM card from the T-Mobile store, I think that they run about $20 and will go into any SIM-capable phone.

Like I said, I rarely use mine except when I am traveling. But I drive one car with 280k miles and another that is 38 years old, so having a lifeline on the road is handy too.

DYPH: If your sous chef can't work without his phone, I would begin to wonder how he can concentrate on his job while texting with his friends. Isn't that very unsanitary,  touching your phone all day while also touching food? My (limited) experience in commercial kitchens taught me that they are busy, noisy, dirty, wet, dusty places with a lot going on. Not the best place to be distracted while texting.