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Everyday for my very short route of 1.5 miles from work to home I see texting drivers. I don't like texting much myself, so I don't feel the urge to use the dev
by malkia 12y ago
Everyday for my very short route of 1.5 miles from work to home I see texting drivers. I don't like texting much myself, so I don't feel the urge to use the device for it, and I have now idea what would make these people stop?
- e40 12y agoI walk 2 miles to and from work every day. I can tell you fiddling with phones is rampant along the path I walk. I often see people not yielding to me who are looking at their phones. If I weren't such a defensive walker, I might be dead now.
- Spooky23 12y agoThe other day, I saw an associate who has money problems and kids at home buying shampoo for $10 at CVS... The same shampoo is $5 at Wal-Mart. How do we stop parents from starving resources from their kids by buying overpriced stuff?
- jdhendrickson 12y agoThis is a perfect example of how badly comment quality has degraded on hacker news.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoI read it as some deserved ridicule of malkia's comment.
- Spooky23 12y agoIt's a little satire of how serious issues get dumbed down by Sally Struthers appeals to "think of the children". As I pointed out in another post in the thread, technical controls are last ditch place to enforce policy. You could take the same lame "the children!" Argument and apply it to speeding (why not govern speed in cars?) or food service (make it impossible to undercook an egg) or a thousand other things.
- MarkSweep 12y agoThat's a false equivalence. Someone's bad driving can kill me. Someone's bad purchasing decisions can't ( at least in the short term).