Posted on 08/08/2015 4:05:43 AM PDT by HomerBohn
I’ll tell you one thing; The number, severity and number of cars involved in accidents encountered in mt daily commute has gone up since the cell phone came along. In 1982 when I started there was a fender bender or sometimes 2, usually on 495. Now we get totaled cars, flipped cars,multi cars (a LOT of them) every damn day.
You’ve forgotten one very important point: everything you’ve listed is a choice. You could save $420/month by forgoing those luxuries.
How about this - the modern smartphone or tablet using microchips and the internet protocol is the single greatest invention in the history of mankind, thus far. It affects the culture, industry, communication and education. It shrinks the globe to the size of Delaware. It’s not even debatable.
I do, my sister have it. Renal cell and thyroid ...l figure ya gotta die of something.
5 - Cell phones have made many other electronics practically obsolete- destroyed buyers choice
Good grief. Imagine the horror when the first company put a table top radio and Gramophone in the same cabinet! And then someone came along and added a television receiver! Does this writer want to go back to candlestick telephones before the days of direct-dial? Let the operator choose your mortician!
I dumped my cellphone in April. Fed up with T-Mobil cutting off my service every other month cuz their system can’t auto-bill pay to an out-of-date plan. I liked my plan and it was a good one so they got rid of it but I was able to keep mine. So they used the auto-cutoff strategy and a $20 reinstatement charge to gouge money for it. Over several years I calculated I’d pay’d over $400 in ‘re-connection- fees. Whenever they called they’d say they’d remedied it and I would be refunded the $20. They never did, not once.
So I’m going w/o cellphone for a while. Until I recoup what was lost to T-Mobil. It just takes a little planning ahead and I can’t take the kids out in the boat but they like the Waverunner better.
Two other factors enter the picture, though both probably involve phones as well. The vast increase in foreign drivers from countries where autos were only for the rich, and the huge growth of DC bedroom suburbs. Moms in mini-vans and huge SUVs chauffering squads of kids to daily activities texting or talking while trying to control kids. They just don’t focus on driving.
Listening to radio traffic coverage, the same locations of accidents are repeated almost on a daily basis. I can gauge the severity bythe number of sirens headed for the nearby hospital.
Thankfully, cars are very good at protecting the occupants, these days. Can you imagine the carnage if we were still driving around with lap belts and no airbags?
I see three fools in that picture.
At a corner near my house there are teens doing huggy kissy in the street fairly often right where cars normally whiz around the corner without seeing around the corner. I have narrowly missed a couple of these fools myself. I am waiting to find out that a couple has been killed at that corner.
Live and let live.
The woman looks like a junkie in those sunglasses.
Using this logic we need to give up our automobiles. They too were revolutionary. Look at the deaths that result from their use.
With benefits come risks. That’s life.
I have the land line and the cable for my computer. No cell phone. No TV- none at all. It would be easy to piggyback on the surrounding wifi sources but I am leery of the security considerations.My son who works on computers in the army keeps telling me I don’t need the land line or the cable and can get all of it for free where I live. I’ll keep the land line even if he convinces me to do the wifi hitchhiking thing for the computer. My phone tends to stay live through hurricanes when cell towers go down and the cable is knocked out.
No Cable or satellite TV, either.
I’m unimpressed with cell phone cameras especially in low light situations. I understand the Apple I phone and a couple other high end Androids have a decent camera, but at $500 dollars no thanks. My $32 LG Volt phone serves me well on a Ting $16 a month plan. My sub $200 canon camera takes amazing photos in any lighting condition. I can live with the inconvenience of having two devices for the major upfront and monthly service fee savings.
A certain very small percentage of people are afflicted brain cancer. All or almost all of them have use cell phones ergo...
That reaction from the officer would seem to indicate that the offending driver is a friend of his, or maybe his son’s boss.
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