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It's not true - I've had no coffee today
Oct. 29th, 2010 08:04 amWah! NPR bloggy finds that steampunk sucks!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/28/130890944/did-steampunk-forget-the-meaning-of-the-word-dickensian
Similarly there is a link in there about how tolkien sucks. Hey - I like both but I also appreciate thinking things through and not whitewashing the past.
I was fighting a bout of depression, and found the cure! I highly recommend that instead of talking to therapists, entering counseling, or taking bigpharm drugs at great expense (which helps the democrats) that you engage in my 2 liquid diet: coffee and alcohol. In that order. I feel great!
I have the theme to the munsters running through my head.
Your fear of texting is a lie! You're living a lie!
I was watching the great classics (powerpuff girls) when the mayor is woken up and bursts "My life is a lie!" It made me think about texting. I'm not scared of texting, not really. Texting, email, porn on the internet is all feared by people who don't use the technology in question.
However, nobody seems to be scared of gps units.
I know when you start a gps unit, it has a don't-sue screen that says not to read it while driving. It's designed solely to be read while driving, but the "don't read while driving, ok?" button makes it harder to sue the manufacturer of the "map to read while driving" if you do so and crash. The silliness is a lie. The follow up problem is there is no reason for the lie - before gps units, and for me to this day, many people use written directions to get places! It's far more difficult to use written directions, yet because a gps is new they are subject to being sued even though they make getting places potentially safer.
Texting is potentially just as easy to do as using a gps. A gps puts up street names and distances, comparable to a stenence of 3-7 words. A text is often a short sentence, and before it was illegal to text, many people held their phone at the wheel where it could be in the line of sight of driving. I have a comparison non-tech gadget in your car that you all use with the same level of distraction - the rear view mirror. Also, while I can't do it as I rarely text, many seem able to text without looking at the keyboard at all. If you can text by pressing buttons without looking at them the way I type, why would that keep you from driving a car? Perhaps the volume of texting some people do, or like me the poor skill at which they do it behind the wheel (I don't but I don't text enough to be fluent) makes it a very bad idea - but we shouldn't have blanket laws based on old bitties fear of new technologies. I don't care if the reason for the crash is texting, reading a map (electronic or otherwise), or petting your cat - if you cause the wreck, you should be liable. These laws to make us "safe" are just the most offensive part of the nanny state and should be withdrawn in favor of more traditional laws, such as liability for accidents caused by failing to pay attention to the road.
I was told kids are fat today for a reason beyond neglectful parents and food - fear. I was told kids don't go out and play anymore for fear of being molested by creeps or killed by gangs (depends on the neighborhood I guess). I'd love to hear statistics about incidents of child molestation, to hear if truly today there are molesters assaulting children on every block usa - but I know that with awareness today such figures may be underreported in the past. Parents don't let the kids out...and I believe it. I used to play as a kid, run around unescorted all over miles of parkland by my house. Could I have been killed or just drowned myself? Sure, but that's just the risk of having kids? Would I let my kid run around today with all the scary news on the news? Do you realize that many parents have safe parties for kids on Halloween instead of letting them outside the house for fear of
Warning - snopes has popups that beat most blockers - a sad abuse of a good site
poison (disproven http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp)
and razors (kinda true http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp) ?
I am in fear of fear.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/28/130890944/did-steampunk-forget-the-meaning-of-the-word-dickensian
Similarly there is a link in there about how tolkien sucks. Hey - I like both but I also appreciate thinking things through and not whitewashing the past.
I was fighting a bout of depression, and found the cure! I highly recommend that instead of talking to therapists, entering counseling, or taking bigpharm drugs at great expense (which helps the democrats) that you engage in my 2 liquid diet: coffee and alcohol. In that order. I feel great!
I have the theme to the munsters running through my head.
Your fear of texting is a lie! You're living a lie!
I was watching the great classics (powerpuff girls) when the mayor is woken up and bursts "My life is a lie!" It made me think about texting. I'm not scared of texting, not really. Texting, email, porn on the internet is all feared by people who don't use the technology in question.
However, nobody seems to be scared of gps units.
I know when you start a gps unit, it has a don't-sue screen that says not to read it while driving. It's designed solely to be read while driving, but the "don't read while driving, ok?" button makes it harder to sue the manufacturer of the "map to read while driving" if you do so and crash. The silliness is a lie. The follow up problem is there is no reason for the lie - before gps units, and for me to this day, many people use written directions to get places! It's far more difficult to use written directions, yet because a gps is new they are subject to being sued even though they make getting places potentially safer.
Texting is potentially just as easy to do as using a gps. A gps puts up street names and distances, comparable to a stenence of 3-7 words. A text is often a short sentence, and before it was illegal to text, many people held their phone at the wheel where it could be in the line of sight of driving. I have a comparison non-tech gadget in your car that you all use with the same level of distraction - the rear view mirror. Also, while I can't do it as I rarely text, many seem able to text without looking at the keyboard at all. If you can text by pressing buttons without looking at them the way I type, why would that keep you from driving a car? Perhaps the volume of texting some people do, or like me the poor skill at which they do it behind the wheel (I don't but I don't text enough to be fluent) makes it a very bad idea - but we shouldn't have blanket laws based on old bitties fear of new technologies. I don't care if the reason for the crash is texting, reading a map (electronic or otherwise), or petting your cat - if you cause the wreck, you should be liable. These laws to make us "safe" are just the most offensive part of the nanny state and should be withdrawn in favor of more traditional laws, such as liability for accidents caused by failing to pay attention to the road.
I was told kids are fat today for a reason beyond neglectful parents and food - fear. I was told kids don't go out and play anymore for fear of being molested by creeps or killed by gangs (depends on the neighborhood I guess). I'd love to hear statistics about incidents of child molestation, to hear if truly today there are molesters assaulting children on every block usa - but I know that with awareness today such figures may be underreported in the past. Parents don't let the kids out...and I believe it. I used to play as a kid, run around unescorted all over miles of parkland by my house. Could I have been killed or just drowned myself? Sure, but that's just the risk of having kids? Would I let my kid run around today with all the scary news on the news? Do you realize that many parents have safe parties for kids on Halloween instead of letting them outside the house for fear of
Warning - snopes has popups that beat most blockers - a sad abuse of a good site
poison (disproven http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp)
and razors (kinda true http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp) ?
I am in fear of fear.
