Hands free devices help politicians. By mandating them, politicians look like they are doing something to solve the problem. In reality hands-free or handheld is not the problem, the problem is the mental distraction. To fix THE problem the politician would have to ban the use of electronic devices by motor vehicle operators. This would be a career-ender.
I did. Do you believe that people's TV commercial viewing habits would change if the advertisers could determine who is watching their ads and then complained about the lack of viewers?
Why can't the system have a panel of retired judges look at civil cases before a full trial to ensure it is warranted? If the plaintiff wants to move anyway when told there is not case, so be it. But the loser and the loser's lawyer should have to pay something to the winner. There has to be some meaningful consequence for the losers.
Drug laws, nope.
Gun laws, nope.
Embezzlement laws, nope.
Terrorism laws, nope.
Child porn laws, nope.
Stupid politicians can't run for reelection laws, I'll get right on that one.
The Patriot Act made this SOP at the federal level for anything related to a terrorism investigation. My guess is the same standard will soon apply to child porn investigations.
Under the Patriot Act, FBI agents may issue National Security Letters to obtain comprehensive financial and communications records about anyone, including people suspected of no wrongdoing and no connection to terrorists or foreign powers. To do this, the FBI merely needs to claim the information is relevant to an investigation. Anyone receiving one of these orders is prohibited by law from speaking about it to anyone else, except their attorney. The FBI issues tens of thousands of NSLs each year, most of them directed at U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
Aggregated human intelligence is decreasing while machine intelligence is increasing. Don't believe me? Ask any American under 30 basic questions about government or their elected officials. Ask them some basic science questions.
Then ask them who in hollywood is dating brad pitt or who got knocked out of dancing with the stars last night.
Also ask how many text or use a cell phone while driving.
Sam Seaborn: There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry 'cause we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber 'cause we went to the moon. Mallory O'Brian: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars? Sam Seaborn: Yes. Mallory O'Brian: Why? Sam Seaborn: 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next.
The republicans forced a bill that removed these items from the FDA purview.
Please cite your source. 1994, Clinton was president.
DId you know the Reagan made decisions based on what his wife's psychic said?
Please cite your source. I was aware of claims that Nancy Reagan saw a psychic.
So, why did I bring politics? for a very good reason: with the religious groups taking over the republican agenda, it has allowed all kinds of non-scientific thinking and policies to take effect.
Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat also known as Senator Bee Pollen, could not let the Health Reform Bill go through without a provision mandating that insurers reimburse alternative medicine providers. It was Harkin, you will recall, who was responsible for creation of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), forcing Harold Varmus to resign as head of NIH. NCCAM hasn't found any cures, but it has done a credible job of using rigorous placebo-controlled double-blind studies to demonstrate that one herbal remedy after another is totally ineffective.
Please enlighten us on what news source is not biased? Every professional news source is in the news management business as opposed to the news reporting business.
In our corp environment we need to print lots of stuff that has frames. IE works, FF does not. So senior management requires IE be the default browser. It is also a pain to update FF if you are not a local admin.
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Hands free devices help politicians. By mandating them, politicians look like they are doing something to solve the problem. In reality hands-free or handheld is not the problem, the problem is the mental distraction. To fix THE problem the politician would have to ban the use of electronic devices by motor vehicle operators. This would be a career-ender.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/03/09/1310210
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-500_Bazalt
I was under the impression that congress gave exclusive authority to regulate the communications industry to the FCC.
The path of least resistance to the ends they want is via campaign contributions and scare-tactic(child pron, terrorism, etc) lobbying.
I did. Do you believe that people's TV commercial viewing habits would change if the advertisers could determine who is watching their ads and then complained about the lack of viewers?
Or changing the channel when a commercial comes on?
Why can't the system have a panel of retired judges look at civil cases before a full trial to ensure it is warranted? If the plaintiff wants to move anyway when told there is not case, so be it. But the loser and the loser's lawyer should have to pay something to the winner. There has to be some meaningful consequence for the losers.
Drug laws, nope. Gun laws, nope. Embezzlement laws, nope. Terrorism laws, nope. Child porn laws, nope. Stupid politicians can't run for reelection laws, I'll get right on that one.
Under the Patriot Act, FBI agents may issue National Security Letters to obtain comprehensive financial and communications records about anyone, including people suspected of no wrongdoing and no connection to terrorists or foreign powers. To do this, the FBI merely needs to claim the information is relevant to an investigation. Anyone receiving one of these orders is prohibited by law from speaking about it to anyone else, except their attorney. The FBI issues tens of thousands of NSLs each year, most of them directed at U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
Then ask them who in hollywood is dating brad pitt or who got knocked out of dancing with the stars last night.
Also ask how many text or use a cell phone while driving.
Mallory O'Brian: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars?
Sam Seaborn: Yes.
Mallory O'Brian: Why?
Sam Seaborn: 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next.
- West Wing
It doesn't. It just means that at least 7 million people need to get a life.
Digg and Fark are little more than internet junk food.
Saying atheism is not a religion is like saying zero is not a number.
The IT client support department has no oversight of software projects or production code.
The republicans forced a bill that removed these items from the FDA purview.
Please cite your source. 1994, Clinton was president.
DId you know the Reagan made decisions based on what his wife's psychic said?
Please cite your source. I was aware of claims that Nancy Reagan saw a psychic.
So, why did I bring politics? for a very good reason: with the religious groups taking over the republican agenda, it has allowed all kinds of non-scientific thinking and policies to take effect.
Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat also known as Senator Bee Pollen, could not let the Health Reform Bill go through without a provision mandating that insurers reimburse alternative medicine providers. It was Harkin, you will recall, who was responsible for creation of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), forcing Harold Varmus to resign as head of NIH. NCCAM hasn't found any cures, but it has done a credible job of using rigorous placebo-controlled double-blind studies to demonstrate that one herbal remedy after another is totally ineffective.
Please enlighten us on what news source is not biased? Every professional news source is in the news management business as opposed to the news reporting business.
In our corp environment we need to print lots of stuff that has frames. IE works, FF does not. So senior management requires IE be the default browser. It is also a pain to update FF if you are not a local admin.
If nothing else he could give it to a charity that helps children who have a gift in Math.
Can Gripens be had cheap?
Sue McDs? Will McDs have any filtering?
Not something that was designed 30+ years ago.
In this case you are driving under the influence of an electronic device.
This will not change until campaigns are publicly financed or contributions may only come from registered voters whom the candidate would represent.