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Landline phone numbers have been portable since at least the 1970s
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8one6 posted:By recent do you mean 20 loving years ago? Because I was working in Sprint's number portability department for the VoIP cable customers back in 2005 when it could take up to a couple of business days to port a number because teams of assholes like me had to process the requests manually. Yes, fixed line portability became a thing in 2003 but you should know as well as anyone that habits die hard and there’s absolutely still people that think a landline utility transfer is part of the closing process. So yes, technically it doesn’t work that way, but I guarantee there’s also millions of boomers that just hand over a landline number when they move homes.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:13
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Cerekk posted:Landline phone numbers have been portable since at least the 1970s Maybe some carriers did it voluntarily but broadly it wasn’t permitted until the FCC mandate in 2003.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:14
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Biplane posted:Someone telling me after I bought their house that they buried their husband in the flowerbed and want to come over whenever to visit would get a solid and instant no. Maybe they could buy the flowerbed, and transport it off the property. Like that woman who pissed off her landlord by having her awesome garden entirely in planters she could move. Make sure to scatter your spouse's ashes in something you can transport when you sell the house, everyone! Cowslips Warren posted:I'm sorry but only one birthday person can have the month, so you need to wait. Dibsies on September
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Aug 26, 2023 15:14
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Maybe some carriers did it voluntarily but broadly it wasn’t permitted until the FCC mandate in 2003. Before 1984 phone service was a monopoly so this was probably only ever an issue for less than 20 years
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Aug 26, 2023 15:17
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Unless you have evidence the contrary I just do not believe that Ma Bell, the company that wouldn’t even install a nonstandard handset at massive cost to the consumer, would just transfer numbers between addresses no problemo especially with how prefixes were assigned.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:25
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8one6 posted:By recent do you mean 20 loving years ago? Because I was working in Sprint's number portability department for the VoIP cable customers back in 2005 when it could take up to a couple of business days to port a number because teams of assholes like me had to process the requests manually. Thanks for the flashbacks of maintaining a notebook of passwords for every lovely podunk CLEC’s lovely podunk LNP web portal.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:25
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I have a friend who bought a property that has a small graveyard on it (not uncommon in our part of the country). Part of the deed contract was that they had to let the family of the deceased on the property anytime during daylight hours and not dig up or otherwise remove the graves. The realtor explained it all but since the graves are from the early 1800s nobody has visited in at least 50 years but it's possible some genealogy buffs might turn up one day.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:35
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I am realizing I consider the layer in between the two layers of cake to be mostly an adhesive layer and not part of the actual cake description. Like, it would have never occurred to me to be a thing that people care about unless it's something they actively dislike. I bet if the vanilla frosting was brown he would have never noticed. My mom used raspberry jam in between layers a lot, it was good.
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Aug 26, 2023 15:49
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for complaining to my husband about the gifts his parents (my in-laws) give to our kids? It’s Disneyland, right? These are Disney adults.
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Aug 26, 2023 16:02
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Success! your quiz has been completed. Your results: Landline number portability processes and practices over the past 50 years : 0/5, 0%
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Aug 26, 2023 16:28
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Crocobile posted:It’s Disneyland, right? These are Disney adults. Nah, kids love Disney poo poo. I've got 2:1 odds on Rehoboth Beach, 1.5:1 Ithaca/Upstate NY, and 1:1 for Hilton Head and Martha's Vineyard.
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Aug 26, 2023 16:30
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Kids love Martha's Vineyard
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Aug 26, 2023 16:31
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Crocobile posted:It’s Disneyland, right? These are Disney adults. disney dad / grandparents. desantis mom is my guess
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Aug 26, 2023 16:32
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Why are people obsessed with Hilton Head of all places? My grandparents lived there but they had the house before there was even a bridge to the island. Maybe its because they weren't in any of the resorts but I don't see special the appeal over other coastal areas.
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Aug 26, 2023 16:35
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Hilton Head felt like everything was gated/private. I won't ever go back. Kure Beach is way more my speed.
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Aug 26, 2023 16:38
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Shifty Pony posted:Why are people obsessed with Hilton Head of all places? Well, I mean it's Hilton head so it's pretty cool How often do you get to visit a giant head?
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Aug 26, 2023 16:40
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Nocheez posted:Hilton Head felt like everything was gated/private. I won't ever go back. I don't know man this bird looks like it's ready to gently caress someone up: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Pfbf9xvpvr11pYQo7?g_st=ic
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Aug 26, 2023 16:42
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DeeplyConcerned posted:Well, I mean it's Hilton head so it's pretty cool How often do you get to visit a giant head? Its actually shaped like a shoe. Which is guess some folks are into idk I don't judge.
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Aug 26, 2023 16:47
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is hilton head the one that has all the loving plantations?
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Aug 26, 2023 16:55
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Clark Nova posted:is hilton head the one that has all the loving plantations? I Went To Hilton Head and I Didn't Even See a Slave t-shirt, that I could see being an issue.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:05
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Clark Nova posted:is hilton head the one that has all the loving plantations? Nah, it is 30 miles of t-shirt shops and Ohioans. Coming up on 50 years of the people of Ohio swimming downstream to spawn, before returning to their car dealerships and small law offices in the Akron/Canton area.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:05
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:It’s how it worked for decades before the number became portable semi recently (this century even). Safety nightmare lol how young are you to not remember when they’d send out whole rear end phone books with our names, addresses and phone numbers? They weren't hard coded to your address, they were still tied to your account. When you made an account for an address they gave you a new number, not the number that belonged to the previous owner. An address could even have multiple phone numbers if they had multiple lines! Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Unless you have evidence the contrary I just do not believe that Ma Bell, the company that wouldn’t even install a nonstandard handset at massive cost to the consumer, would just transfer numbers between addresses no problemo especially with how prefixes were assigned. I was born in the 1980s and we moved a bunch. It took a few days, but we would get a new number assigned to our phone (which we purchased at the store!). We couldn't transfer numbers to a place with a new prefix but we could transfer if we were moving within a prefix. Handsets weren't hard installed, we always had phone jacks. Bonster fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Aug 26, 2023 17:16
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Slo-Tek posted:Nah, it is 30 miles of t-shirt shops and Ohioans. Coming up on 50 years of the people of Ohio swimming downstream to spawn, before returning to their car dealerships and small law offices in the Akron/Canton area. At least it isn't Myrtle Beach, christ what a tourist trap shithole that place is.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:20
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Unless you have evidence the contrary I just do not believe that Ma Bell, the company that wouldn’t even install a nonstandard handset at massive cost to the consumer, would just transfer numbers between addresses no problemo especially with how prefixes were assigned. From at least when I was born in 1984 until my mom moved out of my hometown in 2006, our landline was the exact same number. That number moved between five different addresses in that period. It was no big deal.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:21
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Slo-Tek posted:Nah, it is 30 miles of t-shirt shops and Ohioans. Coming up on 50 years of the people of Ohio swimming downstream to spawn, before returning to their car dealerships and small law offices in the Akron/Canton area. As someone who grew up in Barberton and married a Canton girl, this gave me a fantastic laugh. Thank you!
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Aug 26, 2023 17:23
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Outer Banks
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Aug 26, 2023 17:26
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Mr. Nice! posted:From at least when I was born in 1984 until my mom moved out of my hometown in 2006, our landline was the exact same number. That number moved between five different addresses in that period. It was no big deal. Did you remain in the same county for all of those moves? POTS Landlines back then would have needed to remain within the same rate center iirc.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:28
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My parents still have a land line because "I've had the same phone number since 1969 and I'm not learning a new one." Like 6 houses across 50 years.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:50
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Can’t you get a landline number ported to a cell phone
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Aug 26, 2023 17:51
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hallo spacedog posted:Outer Banks Oh poo poo I forgot about OB, it's definitely that. I spent years of my childhood thinking "Outer Banks" was a bougie clothing brand.
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Aug 26, 2023 18:07
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Nocheez posted:Hilton Head felt like everything was gated/private. I won't ever go back. and where in the Triad are you from Nocheez posted:As someone who grew up in Barberton and married a Canton girl, this gave me a fantastic laugh. Thank you! oh goddamn it ruin the joke why don't you Modal Auxiliary posted:Oh poo poo I forgot about OB, it's definitely that. I spent years of my childhood thinking "Outer Banks" was a bougie clothing brand. It's a tampon brand
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Aug 26, 2023 18:32
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lol cake chat over the last few pages reminded me of one from ages back (possibly earlier thread) where the BF said all he wanted for his birthday was cake and didn't specify anything else. GF thought he meant "cake" and showed up in a sexy outfit with her rear end out while BF just sat there with a fork looking confused. was a good one that because at the time loads of goons didn't know about big juicy butts being referred to as cake
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Aug 26, 2023 19:21
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Wait is that how cake sitting became a thing? Poor horny girlfriend Poor hungry boyfriend
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Aug 26, 2023 19:26
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Big juicy asses are anathema to goons
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Aug 26, 2023 19:26
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Cowslips Warren posted:WIBTA if I refused to go to an important event for my friend? Clearly just another hymen checking ceremony in Europe this is very normal
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Aug 26, 2023 19:33
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Biplane posted:Big juicy asses are anathema to goons Anassema
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Aug 26, 2023 19:37
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AITA for not bringing my friend to fight night when she hates fighting?quote:Background: since I was a teenager a group of friends and I would go out late to do some activity, get dinner, and then fist fight in a parking lot. It's a great way to blow off steam and some of us like racking up how impressive our bruises can get.
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Aug 26, 2023 20:21
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Rule one of fight night is to not ask AITA about fight night 
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Smdh "should I bring marla to fight club he;lp pls"
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