This article was a troll. And in fact, you marked my comment -1 Flamebait incorrectly. This legislation not only wouldn't have a chance of surviving, it was never even discussed on the New York Senate floor.
This is why I deleted my old account and swore I wouldn't post here. Until Slashdot has some type of system where I can appeal a moderation, this is just another propaganda site.
In fact there are several other posts here very similar in tone and nature to my post got modded +5. WTF is that about?
Ok, I'll bite again, since I never really post here, and my last one was marked flamebait -1.
There are currently eight pieces of legislation that relate to pedestrian issues in the New York Senate. You can search for these at http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi . Every one of these relate to pedestrian safety. Not protecting cars from pedestrians. So mod me flamebait all you like. It's a sad fact that most people refuse to look at issues through the eyes of the pedestrian.
I serve on a local advisory board for pedestrian related issues. It's my opinion that this law way oversteps. If we're going to ban electronic devices that make crossing a busy street illegal, why not just ban electric wheelchairs?
Being able to hear certainly helps cross the road safely, however, some pedestrians don't hear well or at all. Should we also ban them from being pedestrians. What about the blind?
It is the drivers responsibility to yield to pedestrians. IANAL, but I think this law will eventually fall flat on its face since it contradicts state law requiring drivers to yield to pedestrians.
We had a day long outage in the area where I live from a backhoe last summer. It actually broke an overhead group of fiber lines. Internet was out in the area for several hours.
A couple years before that, a fire in a vault casused by a backhoe operator on break who threw a lit cigarette down caused a day long outage for several thousand people.
Don't assume that all accidents caused by backhoes are the result of cutting lines while digging.
Wendall
Isn't this the equivalent of returning junk mail in the prepaid return envelopes?
It's certainly not illegal, but very effective since it costs the sender money. I don't know how effective this method has been in stopping the amount of junk mail I receive, but see no reason why it wouldn't if more people did so. Same is true for spam, with the exception that software can make it as simple to do as sending the mail to the trash.
Wendall
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This article was a troll. And in fact, you marked my comment -1 Flamebait incorrectly. This legislation not only wouldn't have a chance of surviving, it was never even discussed on the New York Senate floor. This is why I deleted my old account and swore I wouldn't post here. Until Slashdot has some type of system where I can appeal a moderation, this is just another propaganda site. In fact there are several other posts here very similar in tone and nature to my post got modded +5. WTF is that about?
Ok, I'll bite again, since I never really post here, and my last one was marked flamebait -1. There are currently eight pieces of legislation that relate to pedestrian issues in the New York Senate. You can search for these at http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi . Every one of these relate to pedestrian safety. Not protecting cars from pedestrians. So mod me flamebait all you like. It's a sad fact that most people refuse to look at issues through the eyes of the pedestrian.
I serve on a local advisory board for pedestrian related issues. It's my opinion that this law way oversteps. If we're going to ban electronic devices that make crossing a busy street illegal, why not just ban electric wheelchairs?
Being able to hear certainly helps cross the road safely, however, some pedestrians don't hear well or at all. Should we also ban them from being pedestrians. What about the blind?
It is the drivers responsibility to yield to pedestrians. IANAL, but I think this law will eventually fall flat on its face since it contradicts state law requiring drivers to yield to pedestrians.
We had a day long outage in the area where I live from a backhoe last summer. It actually broke an overhead group of fiber lines. Internet was out in the area for several hours. A couple years before that, a fire in a vault casused by a backhoe operator on break who threw a lit cigarette down caused a day long outage for several thousand people. Don't assume that all accidents caused by backhoes are the result of cutting lines while digging. Wendall
Isn't this the equivalent of returning junk mail in the prepaid return envelopes? It's certainly not illegal, but very effective since it costs the sender money. I don't know how effective this method has been in stopping the amount of junk mail I receive, but see no reason why it wouldn't if more people did so. Same is true for spam, with the exception that software can make it as simple to do as sending the mail to the trash. Wendall