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<p>[quote user="NittanyLion"]</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>zugmann:</strong></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>Seriously?  You are the head of IT and you are dependent upon someone else to provide you with internet coverage? That's like running a pizza shop without dough.</p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>That's not even close a good analogy.  Internet connections are utilities, not raw materials.  Its not like you can supply your own electrical connections.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Sam1:</strong></div> <div> It is hard to understand why most people would need wifi during a three hour train ride or airplane ride.  </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>To do work, reschedule things thrown off by delays, check arrivals and departures, arrange pickups, all sorts of things that you can't do always do until you found out that you're sitting dead on the tracks for 90 minutes.</p> <p>I'm one of those people that's always picking people up at the airport.  They can email me from altitude while they're orbiting waiting for thunderstorms to clear.  They can't call me and say "they're saying we'll be on the ground in an hour." [/quote]</p> <p>I understand your perspective. In this day and age of "now" communication, disconnected even for a short period of time is stressful.  I remember, however, believe it or not, when we did not have smart phones, laptop computers, etc.  And we seemed to get along OK.  If I wanted to know whether my spouses's flight from New York was on time, I called the airport.  </p> <p>Don't get me wrong.  I am as gaget driven as anyone.  I even got a cell phone, and although I would not admit it to my brother, who urged me to get it, I like it. </p> <p>If being able to stay connected whilst traveling on Amtrak is important to its passengers, they should pay for the ability to do so.  Otherwise, the cost is heaped on passengers who don't have the need or can wait until they get where they are going or plan ahead by loading whatever materials they need onto their device before getting on the train.</p> <p>So saith one Penn State grad to another.  I assume that you are a Penn State grad! </p>
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