The Glade 4.0

My god are even the palace guard comedians turning on the president?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism ... From-Media

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Jon Stewart is a political comedian. He thrives on stupidity in government. When asked if he was happy that Bush's term in office was up, he implied that Bush had been a goldmine for comedians, and would be a hard act to follow for his successor. It shouldn't surprise anyone that he goes after amusing gaffes by Obama's administration.

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Does this count?

Supreme Court says you can violate a patent by planting a seed

Except that for the past 5 years he has not gone after those gaffes.

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That's true. It doesn't make him NOT a B.O. knob-slobberer.

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They are.. a little. Not enough to be a problem. Texting while driving is a major hazard. Talking on the phone while driving is somewhere in between. The reason the radio is a minor hazard is that except for the sort of idiot that constantly channel-surfs, you don't spend much time actually operating it.



Talking on a phone is not less distracting that toddlers. Toddlers are annoying when screaming, but you don't have to actually do anything; they can just sit there and fuss. Talking requires you to pay attention to what's being said to you and what you're saying. Texting is worse because you have to look at the screen, and not just a quick glance; you have to stare at it.

That's where the line is - is the distraction momentary (as in one or two seconds) or continuous, does it take the eyes off the road, does it require driver interaction, and is it something that the driver necessarily needs to do in order for the vehicle to be useful? If you can't take toddlers in the car, what good is it? conversely, you pretty much never NEED to text while driving.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Also it is interesting that Stewart's criticism is not that what O did was wrong per se, but rather that it gives ammo to conspiracy nuts.

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And yet, apparently, studies have shown that having a conversation while driving is equally distracting and dangerous, regardless of whether you're holding a phone to your ear, using a handsfree bluetooth link through your car, or talking to a passenger in the car. So why are we picking on some types of distraction and not others?

(I picked "screaming toddlers" because parents, and especially mothers, seem genetically programmed to being made distraught by the sound of very young children crying. Personally, it very well may be the most distracting sound I've ever heard. It's difficult to think of anything else while a child is crying.)

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What studies would those be?

The factors I listed are what increase the degree of distraction. They aren't important because they're different types; they're important because they increase the degree by adding more components or time. A study that claims a momentary, minor distraction, or one that doesn't divert the driver's attention from the road is just as dangerous as one that completely takes their attention off driving is just flat wrong.

You pretty much have to have passengers in a car, and there's no way to stop people talking to them. We can make reasonable efforts to get people not to talk on the phone. There's no reason we should avoid "picking on" certain kinds of distraction. We don't need to be "all or nothing".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'd heard them before on the news. Conveniently, when I searched, wiki links the studies in its sources..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_pho ... ree_device




Note that this also means a conversation with a passenger would pose the same risk.

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They're wrong - not in the sense of the mental effort, but of the decrease in safety.

If you have a hand off the steering wheel, you're less in control of the vehicle. In some situations (basically any time you don't need to maneuver more than a lane change) this doesn't matter, but if you have any sort of need to turn or suddenly maneuver, you're in far less control of the vehicle.

This technically doesn't mean the driver is more mentally distracted, but it does reduce their overall ability to respond to driving conditions.

As for the handsfree thing, there's no point in regulating it. How would you ever tell if someone was using one while driving? It's no more practical or reasonable than trying to prevent people from taking kids in the car or talking to a passenger. People using the phone in their hand can be seen doing it.

There's also the fact that while talking on the phone doesn't take more attention than talking on handsfree, dialing does. Voice dialing, on the other hand, does not take the eyes off the road. Again, if these people say that taking your eyes off the road, especially for more than a momentary glance, is not more dangerous than other types of distraction, they're on crack.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

A conversation with a person in the car will often stop during high traffic concentrations, and I suspect having another set of eyes in the car along with a conversation partner decreases some of the risks of accidents (driver less likely to nod off, alerted to potential hazard)

I keep reading this thread title as "Your Daily Dose of Tranny".

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THANK YOU!!! I figured I was the only one who read it that way.

Perverts.

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Primary cause of motor vehicle accidents in the United States: distracted driving. Primary cause of driver distraction in the United States: other passengers in the same vehicle.

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Not to mention tranny is hate speech these days. People get glitter thrown on them for being insufficiently supportive and tolerant of transgenders. I therefore move that Stathol and Dave have their avatars changed to very glitterrific ponies as punishment.

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Hesitant to actually change my avatar due to the collective aneurysm from some members

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Holy shitsnacks!

Just another element to hide.

Misleading synopsis Farsky


per the article they're harassing the officers.

The "harrassment" only involves attempting to get in front of the officers (I think they said at lest 20 feet in front) to prioritize parking meters in their current path.

That's called being effective, not harassment.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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In addition, since when did heckling become something you could sue over?

"Oh noes, they were mean to the parking attendant! Better shut them up."

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It's basically a "he said, she said" argument right now:



If anyone did those things to any of you during your work time, I can guarantee you'd be up in arms about it.

Hostile work environment?