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Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel
theodp writes "TIME interviews 21-year-old Taylor Leming, creator of the 600-member Facebook group I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven't Crashed Yet! While Alaska and Louisiana just became the latest states to pass laws banning text-messaging behind the wheel, Virginia resident Leming is still happily texting away while driving despite some near-accidents. 'Sometimes it just seems easier to text 'Be there in 5' instead of calling,' explains Taylor."
the really effective way to make people drive more careful is to replace the airbag in all cars with a big pointy spike aimed at the driver's head.
Given that at some point the rate of new members signing up will equal the rate that existing members die, calculate the maximum number of members of 'I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven't Crashed Yet!'
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
Idiot: Be there in 5 mins.
CRASH!! BANG!!
Makes sense to me.
I would like to make organ donation compulsory for these people. At least they can be of some use after they crash.
I like the idea of compulsory organ donation, but why wait until after they crash, when the organs might get damaged?
God: That didn't seem like 5 minutes to me.
testing out my trending skills
Driving and calling (even hands free), texting, or doing anything else (tuning the radio, setting up your nav system) for that matter is just dangerous.
My taxi driver the other day was obsessed with his nav system while driving me home -- He was playing solitaire on it. If I had been able to communicate with him, I would have cursed him out.
Put identity in the browser.
The best example yet of this occurred here in Canada. A teenage girl was driving her parents' minivan and got into an accident while texting her boyfriend.....and here is the kicker....HE WAS IN THE BACK SEAT!
But surely if she considers it irresponsible, she shouldn't do it, EVEN if it is not specifically illegal?
Bit of a case of "do as I say, not as I do". And don't call me Shirley.
it took him 10 seconds to decide if he wanted to send the text message. linky
The girl's name is Taylor Leming. This cannot be a coincidence.
Pedant is also a noun.
Text used to be a noun, now it's used both interchangeably as a verb and a noun. So many words in modern English are starting to be used like this.
Verbing weirds language.
I am not a crackpot.
Why couldn't you SMS him? Did you at least try to ask him for a phone number? After all, he's right there.
testing out my trending skills
I don't want to discourage you from being a skeptic. By all means, be a skeptic. ;^) But did you even read what he said? He said, "Canadians". ;^p
testing out my trending skills
http://www.dhbolton.com/articles/diy-emp-generator.html
the site suggests making the entire device DIY, but i think finding a nice titanium alloy tube that is extremely thin, and extremely strong, to propel a shotgun/handgun round pushing a magnet through EMP coils would be easier, and would launch a much stronger, larger EMP shockwave... the ignition chamber can be thick iron, just the tube needs to be extremely thin and long enough, to create the EMP wave. the coils are going to be a real expensive part, because tightly wound coils cost a lot to make. if you doubt me, just consider the development cost of magnetic containment fusion devices... they're in the millions, for conventional magnetic devices, and tens of millions for superconductive super magnetic coils.
besides, i somehow doubt a nail would create enough electrical charge pushed through coils no matter how thin or however tightly wound to create a large enough EMP to kill a cell phone..
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html