The Telecom Digest for November 05, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 298 : "text" Format
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:11:41 -0700
From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Camouflaged cellphone tower plans for Cupertino CA
Message-ID: <4CD2165D.3020003@thadlabs.com>
On 11/3/2010 4:27 PM, Steven wrote:
> On 11/3/10 3:17 PM, Thad Floryan wrote:
>> Despite the local Cupertino CA residents' fight against the deployment,
>> this is the first cellphone tower plan I've ever seen and I thought it
>> interesting to share with the group. Visiting the following URL will
>> bring up a 7-page, 2.2MB PDF of the proposed AT&T tower facility:
>>
>> http://cupertino.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=14&clip_id=1037&meta_id=53189
>>
>>
> Is it going to be in the shape of an Apple?
Heh heh!
Actually, no. The term "MONOPINE" is used numerous times in the
document to refer to it being camouflaged as a pine tree.
It appears other tree styles are also used depending on the
terrain. Entering "camouflaged cellphone towers" to Google
Images reveals numerous styles, even cactii, which really
surprised me.
One of the funniest was seeing an antenna on the Taj Mahal:
http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/celltajmahal.jpg
Actually, that's a fantasy cellphone tower; 3 more are here:
http://www.unmuseum.org/notescurator/cellphone.htm
:-)
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:44:55 -0700
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Camouflaged cellphone tower plans for Cupertino CA
Message-ID: <wOmdnXht1rRqSU_RnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Thad Floryan wrote:
> Despite the local Cupertino CA residents' fight against the deployment,
> this is the first cellphone tower plan I've ever seen and I thought it
> interesting to share with the group. Visiting the following URL will
> bring up a 7-page, 2.2MB PDF of the proposed AT&T tower facility:
>
> http://cupertino.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=14&clip_id=1037&meta_id=53189
>
This isn't the first of those "trees." They are so phony they stick out
like a sore thumb.
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:07:35 -0700
From: Richard <rng@richbonnie.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Camouflaged cellphone tower plans for Cupertino CA
Message-ID: <vb46d69of3pec7dvamg2v2rn1h5dvkfi1c@4ax.com>
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:44:55 -0700, Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
wrote:
>Thad Floryan wrote:
>> Despite the local Cupertino CA residents' fight against the deployment,
>> this is the first cellphone tower plan I've ever seen and I thought it
>> interesting to share with the group. Visiting the following URL will
>> bring up a 7-page, 2.2MB PDF of the proposed AT&T tower facility:
>>
>> http://cupertino.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=14&clip_id=1037&meta_id=53189
>>
>
>This isn't the first of those "trees." They are so phony they stick out
>like a sore thumb.
Especially when the "plant" them in terrain where trees don't grow
naturally. On the outskirts of Las Vegas, I see a cell tower
camoflaged as a pine tree. But, our climate's so dry that even cactus
won't grow naturally. If you put a cactus plant in your yard, you
have to water it each week or it will die!
Dick
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:02:27 -0700
From: Richard <rng@richbonnie.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Happy anniversary cellphone!
Message-ID: <i0j4d6dd517nsgdoej18dic2jp1s6tv94u@4ax.com>
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:43:47 -0400, Telecom Digest Moderator
<redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>I guess they're right: the memory is the second thing to go. ;-)
The way I heard it:
There ae two thing that you lose when you get older.
The first is your memory.
I can't remember the second.
***** Moderator's Note *****
Ah, but if the memory is the second thing to go, isn't it better that
way? After all, when the first "thing" goes, you can still remember it
for a while ... ;-)
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books
Message-ID: <47cf5511-1d13-4b49-91ca-86db84a3a149@q18g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>
The Phila Inqr reported:
Soon your fingers will do the walking on your keyboard alone. It's the
end of the line for the phone book as we know it.
Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular
publishing of the white pages.
[I presume this will cover both former Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania and General Telephone Company subscribers now under
Verizon; perhaps the Independent phone co's, too.]
For full article
Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/In_green_move_Verizon_pulls_plug_on_white_pages.html
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