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    Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    I think texting while driving is extremely dumb.


    However, I don't see how this law would be remotely enforceable or effective.


    We don't need a law to solve every problem in society.

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    03/20/09

    @Mad_Science:


    We don't need a law to solve every problem in society.


    This is why I identify with libertarians. Less government is better, because, as has been proven time and again, its solutions are so well thought out and executed.


    Government should protect our borders and deliver the mail...and we're not sure about the mail.

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    03/21/09

    @I may have a 35 mile commute with my beater Mercedes: I'm that way in a social sense, but I'm big on infrastructure and incentives to help "steer" economics towards more sustainable and less boom/bust-y behavior.


    So: borders, mail, highways, bridges, dams, and well-executed industry regulation.


    But not the regulation of specific individual behaviors because they're a bad idea.

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    03/21/09

    @Mad_Science: THANK YOU, Mr. Science, for being the voice of reason once again. I knew I could count on you.


    This is why I like having the RCMP up here. Many laws are written in consultation with them, and when laws like this come up, they remind the morons writing them that it is patently unenforceable, therefore moot and toothless, therefore there's no fucking reason to waste our goddamn time writing it.


    I don't text when I drive, not because I'm philosophically opposed to it, but because it's too fucking hard.

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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    Wait 'till they get Gran Turismo for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
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    03/21/09

    @shenanigans: Needless to say.
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    03/21/09

    @Dhillaz:


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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    This is what is wrong with government. There are probably some laws against distracted driving that would cover this, but some idiot politician wants to look like they are actually doing something so they do this. Just another example of fail.
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    03/20/09

    @Triborough: i know buzz thomas, and he is about as far from an "idiot politician" as you can get.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    Okay, first of all, I'm 23 and in IT, so I'm not some old, out of touch, neophyte... but could someone please explain to me the draw behind text messaging.


    To send a text, you have to have a cell phone, for your friend to receive said text, they have to have a cell phone... you both have phones, fucking call them!

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    03/20/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: Well, I text someone when I have nothing to talk about, and just want to say Hi. It basically eliminates those long awkward silences, and allows you to BS. I think that it should be outlawed will driving though.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/20/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...:

    Texting "meet me at pravda at 10.30" is a lot easier than

    - Hello?

    - Hey, what's goin' on, pookie?

    - Oh, nothing, just hangin' out, gettin' mah jerk on...

    - Right on, man! Me too!

    - Aren't you at work?!

    - Sure! I put the "back in 10 minutes" sign up!

    - ...Alright.

    - So, anyway, I'm heading down to Pravda for a couple drinks tonight. You wanna join?

    - Yeah, maybe if you take a shower first.

    - C'mon, man, of course.

    - Alright. 10:30?

    - Yeah. See you there.

    - Later, brah.


    Don't hear what you don't want to hear--send a text.

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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    OH NOEZ!! TXT ME L8TR DRVIN 2 UR PLACE!1!1!
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    So is this Ben Wertigree that took away the preview? This spoiled brat thinks he's the man just because he's the Jalopnintern?
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    It won't do anything to fix the problem.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    This is a great idea since the California law has stopped so many idiots from texting while driving here! *rolls Eyes*
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    Image of 78_elky 78_elky
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    they already do that here in Washington. Everyone still texts and talks on their phones, or holds the phone away from their head and yells at the speaker phone. Or they try to hide the phone and yell at the seat where it is sitting, or any number of other places. This really isn't that helpful, it will not fix "teh stupidz"
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    03/20/09

    @78_elky: This is already law in Louisiana, too. Louisiana. If we can make sense of it, why can't Michigan?
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    What the hell, ticket them. I've seen drunk guys drive better then sixteen year olds hammering away at their iphones.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/20/09

    @lilwillie: The Brewers avatar says you've been drunk and still driven better than said 16-year-old iPhoners.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    I'm overwhelmingly in favor of this if it only prohibits texting while the car is in motion. Stuck in gridlock? Go for it. Crawling at 10 mph? Still no fucking way, I value my bumpers more than you do.


    I need to mount some railroad spikes on the rear bumper of my 240 for some of these people.

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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    HOLYCOW! GONG SO FAST!

    AAAH FUCK!
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    03/20/09

    @Dr.Danger and the Masters of the Jalopniverse: What the fuck are you kids doing on my fucking lawn? Don't look at me when I'm fucking talking to you!
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    03/23/09

    @A promenading performer: I'm a computer
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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    Goddamnit, you guys just got me addicted to Facebook and now I find out that I can't use it on my phone while I'm driving.


    I can't take anymore of this cruel, cruel Jalopniverse.

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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    03/20/09

    @aSoundofSleep hates working in cotomer sevis: It didn't say anything about Facebooking while driving.
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    03/20/09

    @Jo Schmo, Pauljones evil and opposite twin:


    I suppose blogging isn't technically texting.

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    Image of Alex Wright Alex Wright
    03/20/09

    @aSoundofSleep hates working in cotomer sevis:


    Nor is, 'writing a novel'

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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    03/20/09

    @Alex Wright: correct, just don't be reading a novel whilst driving
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    Man, I guess Detroit really isn't the place to be driving while I'm playing Spy Hunter then.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Detroit Lawmaker Proposes Texting-While-Driving Ban, Angers Youth
    Aw, come on. What else am I supposed to do while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for 2 hours? I'm not going back to rubbing one out...nobody can make me.
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    03/20/09

    @pres: read a book!
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