Posted on 08/08/2015 4:05:43 AM PDT by HomerBohn
If they can track your text, they should not have a problem getting Hilary’s text and e-mails right?
“A couple years ago I was rear ended by a young woman (23) at 45 mph. I was stopped and waiting for a turn. She was texting.”
This is precisely why I am reluctant to ride my motorcycle any more... I miss riding every day, but I don’t want to bet my life on someone that doesn’t give a s##t.
I was a security guard at a beach resort. I watched a group of perhaps 20 young folks walking on the sidewalk past my guard shack. Every one of them had a cell phone to his head. The question occurred to me, “Are they talking to each other on those things? Do they know how to talk without them?”
No. Cell phone use on a park bench is fine. There are social signs that people give off that indicate to me that they are people with whom it would be wholly unproductive to speak. Cell phone use while out and about and backwards caps on heads are such signs.
The license plate on your car and the now ubiquitous plate readers accomplish much of that.
True point about the radiation: cell phones use ever decreasing amounts of power to transmit to save the battery. The tracking is a serious issue, between Stingray equipment and internet spying.
Probably the backwards cap is sign enough.
I'm stuck with a land line because Verizon won't provide you with DSL without also paying for a land line.
I was stopped with my blinker on to turn into my own parking lot at my shop. I braced myself, turned my wheels straight, and took my foot off the brake (there was no one in front of me) when I saw in my mirror that the little mazda coming on behind me wasn’t going to stop. Most of the momentum of the crash was used up by my K-5 Blazer rolling 40 feet or so forward. The two boys in the Mazda made spiderwebs on both sides of their windshield. Their front end was in little pieces scattered about. The K-5 trailer hitch and bumper got some paint on them. I towed the boys’ Mazda out of the street while they stumbled around dazed. That was just before cell phones, though.
Get a lawyer and do what you need to do for a subpeona for both the phone and his phone company’s records. Unless he was just typing a text message without sending it the phone company will know. And the phone itself might have useful info on it unless he does the Full Hillary on it and gets a new phone.
Those very same people probably drive cars, too. Doesn’t mean they got cancer because of it.
I’m referring to the OLD land line phone system which basically is almost nonexistent now. Maybe you’re not old enough to remember it. There were no cordless phones even forty years ago, are you trying to draw a comparison between cordless and cell phones? That doesn’t even compute. There was no caller ID or phone blocking etc. until very recently. The first answering machine I ever saw was sold in 1970, was as big as a large suitcase and cost six months wages for someone with a good job. People often refer to VOIP phone service now as a “landline”. I hardly know anyone who has a REAL landline phone now. It was voice only, nothing else. You will have to admit one thing anyway, you could not take it with you everywhere you go so you couldn’t have young people sitting three feet apart and texting each other as many do now. When young people tell me themselves that they don’t know how to sit and carry on a face to face conversation I have to believe something has changed.
I do agree with you that number five is utterly stupid. Adding features to cell phones does not in any way prevent anyone from buying something that has ONLY that feature such as a camera.
I should have used past tense in that last paragraph of my first reply to you about the land line phone, using present tense makes it sound as if I am referring to what is currently called a land line phone which quite often is not and even if it is a real land line is nothing like the old phone system.
They just sentenced a truck driver in La Crosse Wi to 16 years in prison for crashing into the car ahead of him on I-90 while doing 55 mph. The truck driver was checking his Facebook page when he smashed into the car killing the driver.
I have a cell phone (not a smart phone) which I use about once a month. It has a texting capability which I would have to pay for, so I've never used it.
It is highly amusing to me to see people walk into a restaurant, sit down, pull out their smart phones, and fiddle with the thing while ignoring the other people at the table. My wife and I have seen that scenario many times.
Wouldn't it be better for people to converse and interact with each rather than stare at and fiddle with some electronic object while ignoring their dinner partners? Maybe it's a generational thing.
I almost experienced the same thing about one year ago. I was waiting to turn off a busy highway close to my home when I looked into my rear view mirror and saw a car approaching.
My wife and I hate this turn because it's on a fairly busy two lane highway. I saw the car approaching at a high rate of speed, and it did not brake or move into the by pass lane. As it came near I moved my car ahead about fifty feet.
The oncoming driver eventually must have looked up and braked so hard because his car was turned sideways facing the street I wanted to turn into when he finally stopped. I'll bet he was looking at his cell phone and just saw me at the last moment. If I hadn't moved ahead fifty feet, he would have slammed into me.
So, your cheap phone gives less than impressive photos. Huh, who would’ve figured?
I think it all comes down to common sense and good manners.
Okay, that is pretty far fetched.
#1-#3, pretty much nailed it Can not count how many swerving drivers i have seen thumbing their phone looking down while passing..
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