You can’t even avoid the telemarketers on Mount Everest!

I read today that Nepal Telecom is planning to put cell service on Mount Everest, which means that one of the most severe climates on this earth, you can still get a call asking you to change your long distance provider.  Not that they still do that much but its the first one that came to mind…I think the new equivalent would be that your car warranty is almost up and you need to renew through them.

Seriously, is it really necessary to get service on Mount Everest?  One would think that you would be more task oriented about not fucking running out of air and dying than the need to check your email or voicemail. Aside from that, I’ve got friends that live in the city in Baltimore and DC that barely get service in their own apartments, you’d think we should probably work on the more populated parts of the world first before we try the outer limits. Boulders don’t make phone calls.

Not even the really smart ones.

Another thing that I noticed today is the in Japan the unemployment rate is at its highest point at 4.4% so they’ve begun extreme measures to get it down.  Their solution is to offer a buyout of sorts.  For those of Japanese origin but were born abroad(called nikkei) they’re giving $3,000 to move away.  The first thought that occurred to me is what a great problem it is if you’re unemployment rate just spiked to 4.4%!  Here in the US recent numbers show almost 9% of people are unemployed, in WV its only 7.7%, I assume because we were behind to begin with this recession is only recently hitting us.

Now to the other point…they’re paying off people to leave the country, not that I’m against the idea mind you, I happen to think its a good one, but Japans an island country, I don’t think a paltry $3,000 would do it…now here on the otherhand…

 

What do you all think? Should we be paying off people to leave the country? And what about cell service on Mt. Everest?  There goes my plan of going crazy and starting mountain climbing to avoid the phone…now I just have skydiving.

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Also, special thank you to Freakanomics, I don’t know how to tag properly yet…I got a lot of the information from this on there and it’s a great read if you’ve never seen it before.