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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    11:54 AM

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    Using a headset is probably not as distracting as holding your cellphone to your ear, but it's still far from ideal driving behavior.

    Now, texting while driving... that's just courting Darwin.
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    Image of MsObsolete MsObsolete
    02:25 AM

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    I'm not so worried about crashing my cell phone.
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    Image of deciBels deciBels
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    We do the same thing in some areas of the facility that I work. There is too much risk of recording or picture taking of sensitive information.
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    Image of archercc archercc
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    You also have to do that when going on the floor of the Senate, although they actually have a salaryman watch them.

    Id assume the House is the same way.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    Why'd they do that, I wonder: [gizmodo.com]
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    12/14/09

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    I'd recommend not using cellphones while driving, period.
    But I know the exact same people that really NEEDS to stop using their cellphones while driving will never respect such a recommendation or even a law if it existed, so AT LEAST people should user speaker systems... not headsets, but speakers.

    It'd be closer to having someone on the passenger seat talking to you.
    Another comment nailed it though: the problem with all the car crashes isn't the cellphone or whatever... it's just lack of common sense from drivers.

    People just don't realize anymore the dangers of driving, and how they are dragging around tons of metal in high speed which requires very little to kill people around.

    And this will never change unless the entire society drastically changes on so many levels that- well, I think we are closer to creating a system that enables cars to crash without killing it's passangers inside than changing the mindset of it's users.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    12/14/09

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    Do empirical evidence and double blind studies mean anything anymore?

    June 29, 2006 -- Three years after the preliminary results first were presented at a scientific meeting and drew wide attention, University of Utah psychologists have published a study showing that motorists who talk on handheld or hands-free cellular phones are as impaired as drunken drivers.
    [www.unews.utah.edu]

    Using a driving simulator under four different conditions: with no distractions, using a handheld cell phone, talking on a hands-free cell phone, and while intoxicated to the 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level, 40 participants followed a simulated pace car that braked intermittently.

    Researchers found that the drivers on cell phones drove more slowly, braked more slowly and were more likely to crash. In fact, the three participants who collided into the pace car were chatting away. None of the drunken drivers crashed.
    [news.cnet.com]

    The studies just go on and on, this is not climate change, this is settled science.
    Anecdotal evidence is for kids.

    I remember the same trash talk about seat belts...
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    I'm surprised the phones make it this far.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    Is anyone else wondering why the hell Rice has three phones in the basket?
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    Image of spannu spannu
    12/14/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Yeah, pretty weird... I can easily think of places to keep at least 6 more of them. Only having three would suggest that somebody hasn't moved on past pockets just yet.
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    Image of superhappyfuntime superhappyfuntime
    12/14/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Haha, I saw that too. Maybe he/she keeps forgetting where he/she put it, and gets a new one, and keeps dropping them in the basket without looking.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    @superhappyfuntime: Hate to break it to you, but Rice is probably a woman, not a man. Most likely it's Susan Rice, the UN Ambassador. [www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov]
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    Wait, John Locke and Hulk Hogan are meeting with the president?
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    Image of The Dude The Dude
    12/14/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I don't know about John Locke, but Hulk Hogan is definitely worth his weight in intellectualism.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    It puts the phone in the basket or it gets the hose again.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    I'll just switch a post it here...wallah! National security...has been COMPROMISED!

    Post its - The root of all evil.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @paulrules: *voila
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    Image of spannu spannu
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Maybe he's a Muslim?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Thank you. I hate that particular bastardization of a word.

    That said, I now have some nefarious ideas with Post-It notes.
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    12/14/09

    In reply to When Meeting the President, Put Your Phone in a Basket With a Sticky Note
    Pardon, but I think you guys covered this last year.
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    Image of SkipErnst SkipErnst
    12/14/09

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    What a stupid red herring of an argument. Just give me my self-driving car already and this whole problem goes away overnight. Sheeesh!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/14/09

    In reply to This Giant Crashed Cellphone Ad Campaign Has Me Confused
    Use a headset and don't be a douchebag driver.

    I regularly drive on the Belt Parkway in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and while going 70 mph in a 50 zone while talking on the phone with a headset. I also talk on the phone while doing 90 in the left lane on the Jersey Turnpike.

    At the same time, I leave stopping distance, regularly check my mirrors, and keep a close eye on the cars immediately around me in case they decide to cut me off.

    If you can't handle doing two things at once, you shouldn't be driving on busy highways at rush hour.
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