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September 17, 2004

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Airplane travel is about to get much, much worse.

 posted by Simon on 09.17.04 at 11:58 AM in the




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What's so bad about that? Just a sign of modern personal convenience. The only problem I see lies in the perception of "personal."

posted by: Eric on 09.18.04 at 10:50 AM [permalink]

Stock trade of the year: short any airline with significant numbers of HK passengers.

Seriously, though, I heard the main objection to phones on airplanes came not from civil aviation authorities, but from the mobile phone companies. Something about the phones jumping from base station to base station too rapidly.

 posted by: Eric Lien on 09.19.04 at 02:56 PM [permalink]

You absolutely correct, Eric.

 posted by: Simon on 09.20.04 at 01:57 PM [permalink]




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