That was more directed at the people who inevitably immediately respond by saying "but what if it's an emergency?" which therefore prompts "then you can pull over".
I'm still sitting at flamebait, and I'm guessing it's wholly because I said that you never need to answer the phone while driving.
At least then it's not your fault; if someone rams into you when you're parked on the side of the road, it's because they were on the phone.
On the other hand, no one sympathizes with you if you didn't pull over because Tiffani totally went to see Twilight at the theaters and totally saw Jessi there and you just needed to know that while weaving between cars on the highway.
I'll feel safe when no one has arms anymore. Just have 'em lopped off at birth and you get robotic arms attached only after passing twenty seven complicated common sense tests. That way the morons that cause these safety laws to be required don't stand a damn chance of getting voted in to congress anymore. Maybe we can make a similar method for breeding, too...
If you're stupid enough to look at the massive scrap of metal around you, zipping around at 50 miles per hour with hundreds of other massive scraps of metal around your scrap of metal at any given time and decide to put even a scrap of your attention elsewhere, you need to be castrated.
You never need to use the phone while driving. You can pull your ass over to answer the phone, it's not that hard to take an extra 5 minutes to get to your destination. You never need to text while driving. Anyone saying otherwise is arguing semantics. Name one instant where you need to answer the phone while driving without pulling off somewhere and stopping your car that does not involve a Hollywood action movie.
but I'd think they'd have far better things lined up to do than post on slashdot and associate with a bunch of antisocial or socially inept, overweight, middle age nerds.
Because girls by definition are never interested in reading news articles or taking part in discussions? Because nerdy girls want nothing to do with nerdy news? I find it disturbing that you seem to miss that gender hasn't a damn thing to do with interests.
This just in: women use the internet, girls like video games, and not all ladies are running around in checkered dresses to bake in the kitchen.
I can't tell you just how refreshing it is to hear this regurgitated joke 24/7. Really; it simply never gets old. "Lol girls don't play games! At least not real games, anyway; only men can figure out how to work the complicated controls of Fallout!"
It's even more fun when you're majoring in GA&A. The entire class of guys acting just as bad as a bunch of jocks is just a delight, especially when they get into the "girls can't play games" swing of things. Honestly, you guys wonder why you can't get a girlfriend? Try not deflecting the few that are just as nerdy as you.
Sorry to go off on you, but it was just one socially inept nerd away from happening.
Admittedly it was Target, and not a electronics-only store, but we (the workers) wanted to sell the optimum product to the customer. We don't get commission for selling the most expensive stuff, after all. So, we would listen to the entire problem, and then if we didn't know the answer, we'd call one of the other electronic-savvy guys. Usually, there was a camera guy, a tv guy, a radio/phone guy, and then me, the gamer girl. That left just a few gray areas, in which we would look over the box description and see how it fit with their needs. If all else failed, in the most extreme circumstances we would get the manufacturer number and ask them about the product.
Returns are more of a pain to deal with.
Of course, that's just anecdotal stuff. Plenty of stores do give out bonus goodies (or firings) based on total money made per individual worker, and there are plenty of people that just don't anything about electronics but needed a job badly.
1. Vote in politician who promises to better education.
2. Politician warps education to dumb down next generation.
3. Think of the children collapses us all.
4. Average voter stupidly votes in more corruption by the truck full, adamantly believing they have no choice but Corrupt A or Corrupt B.
5. Politicians profit, people suffer.
Therefore, it's our fault, and now we're too lazy and stupid to fix it. So uh, who wants to grab the first torch? I'll follow with the pitchfork. This country needs a good revolution, methinks.
With the introduction of TV, they can scare us all into believing that drugs cause so much violence. With the hiding of history, they can make us forget that prohibition leads to violence.
I'm waging bets that they had to do with copyright, or maybe even dissent. Or, maybe they were to try and rough up the American public, to scare them into thinking that more terrorists were being thwarted.
I'm betting, however, that a lot of them involved a bunch of kids playing video games over the phone. "Yeah, I have to go set the bomb over by the embassy and try to prevent anyone from escaping"; terrorist threat, or 13 year old playing a video game? Oh well, better bash in the door and kick 'em around a bit.
Honestly, I was still a kid when the Bush administration was frolicking around doing this, and I wondered why adults would let anyone do something so corrupt and insanely evil to them.
Hovever - What Exaclty is a phone company supposed to tell the FBI or CIA when they show up with a request from the AG/President? "No, you must get some local judge to ok that"?
When that company wants to open a new office/expand/file tax returns will that "lack of cooperation"
be held against them?
When you fear retribution from your own government for following constitutional laws, your government failed.
Apparently you've never worked at an office. A bulk of computer complaints at such corporations tends to be from a combination of boredom and stupidity. Frankly, it's amazing that the entire world hasn't collapsed given the sheer number of "why can't I watch porn on our secure network??!!!11!!" type of inquiries; now imagine the same average cubicle corp running your internet.
Easiest way to find a free alternative. Most people already pay for TV of some sort on top of internet, so if every single news outlet (including local news outlets and blogs and places like slashdot) started charging for you to view news, people would simply watch the news they already technically pay for. I have no problem paying for new news. The problem with our news is that every outlet runs the same story with their commentary slapped on top.
Wow, that is a new level of ludditism. Now, it's not just interactive conversations that are somehow magically more dangerous if you use one of those evil modern talkie devices. Now, you are somehow being more dangerous listening to music if it is produced by the one of those evil modern talkie devices than if it is produced by the good and holy devices that became popular in or before the more righteous and holy 1980's.
I do so hope that you are being funny. Cellphones. Worse than driving a little drunk. Common knowledge. Sentence fragments. Also, earphones in ears while driving means no hearie the big wailing emergency vehicles or cop cars, or hearing the honking horn. Besides, you yourself are quite the luddite for failing to note that there are these magical things called radios...and CD players...and even MP3 players that jack straight into your car's sound system. Why, there's even this mystical device called "hands free" that you can use with your cell phone. There, your hands are on the wheel and your useless crap is still available.
Now you can use those holy and righteous devices from after the 90's without getting people killed the next time you pile into your SUV.
Kids always feel their privacy is being invaded. For small children, yes the watch is a great idea. However, the families that would purchase such a watch to begin with will want to monitor their child all the way to 18. Meanwhile, the irresponsible parents that do frequently lose their kids in crowded areas won't bother buying such a watch. A lot of pre-teens and teenagers will not be so grateful when their parents start monitoring if they go to a party or not, or if they skip school. Yes, it's for their own good, but being social outcasted by your parents overbearing on you just leads to life being hell.
Whenever someone touts a child tracker, I immediately think of its' real purpose: tracking teenagers.
This is the same era where "kid stealing car" results in people complaining about a video game, though. Parents are ineffective at their job and expect society to help them raise their little brat. When I used to work retail, you'd see no less than three kids wandering alone in the store. One time, there was a little girl wandering around alone ten minutes before the store closed. Parents are irresponsible nowadays, and when something goes wrong they are very quick to blame something or someone else.
I checked the schools. The groups of kids smoking. The larger groups of kids smoking on college campus. Way down, yes, but with adult smokers. "The results come from a survey of 54,301 regular smokers, part of the 2004 and 2006 National Youth Tobacco Survey of nearly 5 million 12- to 17-year-olds." (emphasis mine). Pulled from http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2009-02-12-marlboro-kids-smokers_N.htm. I'll see if I can find some evidence of kid smokers also decreasing, but...I don't think kid smokers have decreased.
So, instead of funding some better early introductions to sex-ed, better science classes, better...everything, we're expecting public schools to waste time telling kids not to burn disks?
I mean, I'll play devil's advocate for a just a second: It didn't stop them from smoking, so why the hell do you think it'll stop them from doing a far easier to do "crime"?!
Couldn't help it; I had a ton of itunes gift cards to funnel through. It says something when it takes me two years to go through about $50 worth of itunes gift cards, though.
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I'm still sitting at flamebait, and I'm guessing it's wholly because I said that you never need to answer the phone while driving.
On the other hand, no one sympathizes with you if you didn't pull over because Tiffani totally went to see Twilight at the theaters and totally saw Jessi there and you just needed to know that while weaving between cars on the highway.
I'll feel safe when no one has arms anymore. Just have 'em lopped off at birth and you get robotic arms attached only after passing twenty seven complicated common sense tests. That way the morons that cause these safety laws to be required don't stand a damn chance of getting voted in to congress anymore. Maybe we can make a similar method for breeding, too...
You never need to use the phone while driving. You can pull your ass over to answer the phone, it's not that hard to take an extra 5 minutes to get to your destination. You never need to text while driving. Anyone saying otherwise is arguing semantics. Name one instant where you need to answer the phone while driving without pulling off somewhere and stopping your car that does not involve a Hollywood action movie.
but I'd think they'd have far better things lined up to do than post on slashdot and associate with a bunch of antisocial or socially inept, overweight, middle age nerds.
Because girls by definition are never interested in reading news articles or taking part in discussions? Because nerdy girls want nothing to do with nerdy news? I find it disturbing that you seem to miss that gender hasn't a damn thing to do with interests.
This is Slashdot, I don't want to piss of a grammar nazi.
;) I won't say a word, but it made me giggle. Anyway, it stands for Game Art and Animation.
But whenever I see something that is nifty combined with the internet, I immediately think "now how will this be used to spam and/or infect people..."
I can't tell you just how refreshing it is to hear this regurgitated joke 24/7. Really; it simply never gets old. "Lol girls don't play games! At least not real games, anyway; only men can figure out how to work the complicated controls of Fallout!"
It's even more fun when you're majoring in GA&A. The entire class of guys acting just as bad as a bunch of jocks is just a delight, especially when they get into the "girls can't play games" swing of things. Honestly, you guys wonder why you can't get a girlfriend? Try not deflecting the few that are just as nerdy as you.
Sorry to go off on you, but it was just one socially inept nerd away from happening.
Returns are more of a pain to deal with.
Of course, that's just anecdotal stuff. Plenty of stores do give out bonus goodies (or firings) based on total money made per individual worker, and there are plenty of people that just don't anything about electronics but needed a job badly.
2. Politician warps education to dumb down next generation.
3. Think of the children collapses us all.
4. Average voter stupidly votes in more corruption by the truck full, adamantly believing they have no choice but Corrupt A or Corrupt B.
5. Politicians profit, people suffer.
Therefore, it's our fault, and now we're too lazy and stupid to fix it. So uh, who wants to grab the first torch? I'll follow with the pitchfork. This country needs a good revolution, methinks.
With the introduction of TV, they can scare us all into believing that drugs cause so much violence. With the hiding of history, they can make us forget that prohibition leads to violence.
I'm betting, however, that a lot of them involved a bunch of kids playing video games over the phone. "Yeah, I have to go set the bomb over by the embassy and try to prevent anyone from escaping"; terrorist threat, or 13 year old playing a video game? Oh well, better bash in the door and kick 'em around a bit.
Honestly, I was still a kid when the Bush administration was frolicking around doing this, and I wondered why adults would let anyone do something so corrupt and insanely evil to them.
Hovever - What Exaclty is a phone company supposed to tell the FBI or CIA when they show up with a request from the AG/President? "No, you must get some local judge to ok that"? When that company wants to open a new office/expand/file tax returns will that "lack of cooperation" be held against them?
When you fear retribution from your own government for following constitutional laws, your government failed.
Apparently you've never worked at an office. A bulk of computer complaints at such corporations tends to be from a combination of boredom and stupidity. Frankly, it's amazing that the entire world hasn't collapsed given the sheer number of "why can't I watch porn on our secure network??!!!11!!" type of inquiries; now imagine the same average cubicle corp running your internet.
Easiest way to find a free alternative. Most people already pay for TV of some sort on top of internet, so if every single news outlet (including local news outlets and blogs and places like slashdot) started charging for you to view news, people would simply watch the news they already technically pay for. I have no problem paying for new news. The problem with our news is that every outlet runs the same story with their commentary slapped on top.
Yeah, the word bribery never had a negative connotation or anything...
Wow, that is a new level of ludditism. Now, it's not just interactive conversations that are somehow magically more dangerous if you use one of those evil modern talkie devices. Now, you are somehow being more dangerous listening to music if it is produced by the one of those evil modern talkie devices than if it is produced by the good and holy devices that became popular in or before the more righteous and holy 1980's.
I do so hope that you are being funny. Cellphones. Worse than driving a little drunk. Common knowledge. Sentence fragments. Also, earphones in ears while driving means no hearie the big wailing emergency vehicles or cop cars, or hearing the honking horn. Besides, you yourself are quite the luddite for failing to note that there are these magical things called radios...and CD players...and even MP3 players that jack straight into your car's sound system. Why, there's even this mystical device called "hands free" that you can use with your cell phone. There, your hands are on the wheel and your useless crap is still available.
Now you can use those holy and righteous devices from after the 90's without getting people killed the next time you pile into your SUV.
Oh I know, I'm just stating that this particular batch of parents believes it's not their responsibility to raise their kid.
So what's to lose?
Kids always feel their privacy is being invaded. For small children, yes the watch is a great idea. However, the families that would purchase such a watch to begin with will want to monitor their child all the way to 18. Meanwhile, the irresponsible parents that do frequently lose their kids in crowded areas won't bother buying such a watch. A lot of pre-teens and teenagers will not be so grateful when their parents start monitoring if they go to a party or not, or if they skip school. Yes, it's for their own good, but being social outcasted by your parents overbearing on you just leads to life being hell.
Whenever someone touts a child tracker, I immediately think of its' real purpose: tracking teenagers.
This is the same era where "kid stealing car" results in people complaining about a video game, though. Parents are ineffective at their job and expect society to help them raise their little brat. When I used to work retail, you'd see no less than three kids wandering alone in the store. One time, there was a little girl wandering around alone ten minutes before the store closed. Parents are irresponsible nowadays, and when something goes wrong they are very quick to blame something or someone else.
And as an addendum: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/150010/teen_smoking_in_america.html 23% of high schoolers smoke. That's uh, that's not good. That's 1/4 of high schoolers smoking...even if it's decreased, I'm not impressed.
I checked the schools. The groups of kids smoking. The larger groups of kids smoking on college campus. Way down, yes, but with adult smokers. "The results come from a survey of 54,301 regular smokers, part of the 2004 and 2006 National Youth Tobacco Survey of nearly 5 million 12- to 17-year-olds." (emphasis mine). Pulled from http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2009-02-12-marlboro-kids-smokers_N.htm. I'll see if I can find some evidence of kid smokers also decreasing, but...I don't think kid smokers have decreased.
I mean, I'll play devil's advocate for a just a second: It didn't stop them from smoking, so why the hell do you think it'll stop them from doing a far easier to do "crime"?!
Actually, no. I happen to enjoy cooking for myself, so I haven't even pandered to them in the sense of having it forced on my ears.
Couldn't help it; I had a ton of itunes gift cards to funnel through. It says something when it takes me two years to go through about $50 worth of itunes gift cards, though.