Yes, as I understand it.

But in reviews it seems that this service is one of the more iffy services and takes upwards of seven days. Still, for us I can put up with a new number for spending less money for more access on the same darn network.

$45 gets you the unlimited everything, $30 gets you IIRC 1000 minutes 1000 texts and 30mb data. Both are not monthly but are for 30 days if you read the fine print. Strait talk is owned by Tracphone, so it's basically their prepaid large user service I suppose. Phones are typical prepaid but look to work, they even have one Samsung smart phone lookin thing.

YEAH!  We really should break away from the country that colonized us, and form our own type of representative government, set our OWN laws and our OWN tax rates!  SCREW ENGLAND!

Oh wait...

I just clap out the candles.  Works just as well, no burn treatment required.

Burning your fingers whilst trying to be cool and snuff out candles is considered clumsy ... and painful.

^ Not a bad idea.  But I think I'll hang onto it.  It suits my needs (phone only) and the only annoyance is that highly visible climbing balance.

Which means if I didn't know about it, I wouldn't care about it.

Which means it's an internally-generated problem. 

Which means I shall have to work some Magick on that....

Oooommmmmmmm.....  I will not care about that balance..... ooooommmmmm....there are worse problems you have, Terry.... oooommmm.... I banish and disperse my concern about it to the Universe..... oooommmmmm.... I shake off the negative energy....ooommmm....

And then I snuff out the candles.  (Blowing them out is considered gauche.)

Terry, 230RN

And significantly, sometime later, in  the Preamble, not to the Constitution, but to the BILL OF RIGHTS, We find....

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Constitution as Ratified by the States
December 15, 1791
Preamble

Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday
the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

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Repeated for truth:

...expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...

And I, like you, wonder how come some of these eastern states, so immersed in the concepts of liberty at the time, have by now so horribly subverted the plain words of the Founding Instrument.

Terry, 230RN

if i were you i would be temped to give that one to a teenager to zero it out(bet it'd be done in a week) and find a new company.

Ever watched the show called "Wrecked"? Available on hulu. Seems like every other episode their was a truck that was stuck under a bridge. They say on the show that Chicago's bridges are mismarked, poorly marked, or marked not at all and this causes some serious problems.

zxcvbob said,

"I have a Virgin Mobile phone; it costs me $5 per month for more minutes than I can use.  Sometimes they waive the $5 for no apparent reason; maybe because I've built up too many minutes and need to burn down the balance a little.  I don't think I've topped it up in about a year."

I got a Go Phone from Radio Shack for Christmas a couple of years ago which I rarely use, and only as a phone. Fifteen bucks a month, but they aggregate anything you haven't used up, so that balance keeps going up and up and they report it to you at billing time.  It's now about $107, but they keep charging the $15 every month.

And if you miss a payment, they get to keep the whole accrued balance.

Darned annoying.  I'd almost not want to know about that balance going up every month, and just pay the $15 once a month, every month, even though I don't use it all.  I don't know or care if "they" can track my movements or the people I call or who call me.

I have no complaints about the service.

i wonder if this will come to affect the hurdles to turning on a cellphone as a bug.