It can't be helped if some people are unable to concentrate on two things at once. Others, myself included, are more than capable of texting while driving. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this on my Blackberry as I cruise down the...oh dear God!
Ahhhhhh!!! Ahhhh!!!! I can't feel my legs!
Losing blood. Feeling faint. Can only type. Sentence fragments.
Please mod the parent comment up. Having access to information is only half the problem. Having the ability to make sense of that data is the other half. One can't do everything -- personally travel to Iraq to document the situation there (making sure you first have a background in the cultural and historical issues), study the sciences behind climate change and diagnose your own medical condition.
At some point one has to accept his or her limitations and if one wants to act on data he or she has to consider to the opinions of experts. Now you're back to trusting what someone says.
You can mitigate this by getting a wide variety of expert opinions on publicly available data. However, the problem nowadays appears that the diversity of opinions is diminishing, even on complex issues, as people settle into groups where doctrine is handed to them via heirarchy or peer pressure and consensus is valued over correctness.
If there's any point to my rambling, it's this: lend more value to a group with diverse opinions based on publicly attainable data.
If you don't like it, then don't fly. That's what the terrorists really want, for all of us to stop flying.
Interesting thought. Wonder if the terrorist have thought this through?
The U.S., as a nation, could conceivably get by with a lot less air travel than we currently do. Most people stepping on board are business travellers, and sooner or later the time and cost of air travel is going to cause a number of those businesses to consider what telecommuting can accomplish. Sure, face-to-face contact might be preferred, but often times telecommuting is good enough for the task at hand. Besides, our exisiting telecommuting tools are pretty crappy -- this might be just the motivation to improve on them.
So, what happens then? A dramatic drop in air travel resulting in an equally dramatic drop in fuel consumption. Less fuel purchased means less money in the coffers of certain Middle Eastern countries. Which means less money to the organizations that instigated this whole mess to begin with.
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Smegheads.
Perhaps they're just RICO suave?
Is there a market for super efficient cars that look like tampons with wheels?
I suppose if you drove through a lot of tunnels it might be of interest.
David Hasselhoff ninja looted my Corithian Blue Dragon Armor!
It can't be helped if some people are unable to concentrate on two things at once. Others, myself included, are more than capable of texting while driving. As a matter of fact, I'm posting this on my Blackberry as I cruise down the...oh dear God!
Ahhhhhh!!! Ahhhh!!!! I can't feel my legs!
Losing blood. Feeling faint. Can only type. Sentence fragments.
Must...finish...post.
NO CARRIER
Maybe it's just me, but my spam volume seems to have jumped at least 200% in recent months.
Ah, but my spam volume decreased by 130%. So it all works out, you see?
What, do I just lean against it during the spin cycle?
It's a buyer's market.
Oh, Conker's Bad Fur Day, where are you?
Ok for you, mister. No more "ba-da-dums" after your punchlines.
That joke sucked up its last mod point a few stories ago. The well's dry, friend.
Wow, imagine what he'd do if someone introduced a battery-operated motor scooter with a built-in colostomy bag.
How about Sealand?
I'm hoping for Interplay's adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer. Loved the cyberspace battles.
Please mod the parent comment up. Having access to information is only half the problem. Having the ability to make sense of that data is the other half. One can't do everything -- personally travel to Iraq to document the situation there (making sure you first have a background in the cultural and historical issues), study the sciences behind climate change and diagnose your own medical condition.
At some point one has to accept his or her limitations and if one wants to act on data he or she has to consider to the opinions of experts. Now you're back to trusting what someone says.
You can mitigate this by getting a wide variety of expert opinions on publicly available data. However, the problem nowadays appears that the diversity of opinions is diminishing, even on complex issues, as people settle into groups where doctrine is handed to them via heirarchy or peer pressure and consensus is valued over correctness.
If there's any point to my rambling, it's this: lend more value to a group with diverse opinions based on publicly attainable data.
Your strange idea gives me a headache just thinking about it. Can someone lend me some cache to buy some Bufferin?
On the Internet, no one knows you're opaque.
And if we could just figure out a way to get a couple million pirates of the "Aargh! Treasure" variety we could kiss global warming goodbye!
Wouldn't a pirate be more likely to say, "Ah! Treasure!" or "How nice! Treasure!"? Unless, of course, he dropped the chest on his own foot.
Yes I am...I mean, no, I am not um, I mean...what was the question?
That was Richard Dawson, he was also on Hogan's Heros.
Oh. And now he's some sort of anti-creationist zealot?
V'ger wishes to gib the creator.
Richard Dawkins
What, the guy who used to host Family Feud?
If you don't like it, then don't fly. That's what the terrorists really want, for all of us to stop flying.
Interesting thought. Wonder if the terrorist have thought this through?
The U.S., as a nation, could conceivably get by with a lot less air travel than we currently do. Most people stepping on board are business travellers, and sooner or later the time and cost of air travel is going to cause a number of those businesses to consider what telecommuting can accomplish. Sure, face-to-face contact might be preferred, but often times telecommuting is good enough for the task at hand. Besides, our exisiting telecommuting tools are pretty crappy -- this might be just the motivation to improve on them.
So, what happens then? A dramatic drop in air travel resulting in an equally dramatic drop in fuel consumption. Less fuel purchased means less money in the coffers of certain Middle Eastern countries. Which means less money to the organizations that instigated this whole mess to begin with.
So who wins if we start flying less?
"No, really. I replenish the oxygen on the ship."
Well, now you know better. Hippy.