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If you can't decide what is better for your kid, maybe you shouldn't be a parent.
I'm finding that the most stridently-held views on parenting tend to come from non-parents Everybody else seems to accept that it's an endless series of tweaks, adjustments and highly context-specific compromises
In this case is it the children ?
This may be hard to understand today, but you need to remember that a lot of these kids were already worshiping the devil due to backward messages that satanic heavy metal bands were hiding in their music. It was a tough time to be a kid. I’m just happy so many of us made it through.
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The cell phone company and anyone who offers them money.
I’ll tell you I was at Costco for free.
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Sure, you can send whatever you want... but is there any off-the-shelf solution that can display encrypted messages?
There are a bunch of POCSAG paging products that support their own flavors of encryption. Unication has a few that support AES encrypted messaging. You keyload it at the same time as the rest of the pager setup. https://www.unication.com/alpha-pagers And here's LRS's implementation of encryption on POCSAG: https://paging-systems.readme.io/docs/encryption
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It wasn't until the two-ways that I even kind of wanted one. I remember being at the mall with a group of kids and one of the girls got paged by her mom and we had to go around to find a pay phone for her to check in and I recall thinking 'well that's stupid, I just check in when I get somewhere and when I leave, she's just carrying an annoying reminder to go find a payphone' Once kids started sending little messages…
Collect call with a "I'm on my way home" as the caller. Dad would decline.
My parents likely wouldn't have approved but this payphone conundrum was what lead to me and my friends attempt to build a red box, which never worked well for us but we learned a lot in the attempt!