Authenticator app, not just iPhone anymoreFollow

\My main objection to cell phones mainly stems from the fact that when they ring, people tend to forget all about common-effing-courtesy.

I tried making one late last night Furlis, but for some reason I couldn't access the realm page (it was being stupid). Anywho, I'll try again today.

I feel like the fat kid in class with my LG Dare :(

You @#%^ Iphone jocks!

Jury is still out on that one. Study results aren't entirely conclusive, but seem to fall more heavily on the side of showing that a conversation on a hands-free cell-phone actually is more dangerous than a conversation with a passenger in the vehicle.

One study goes so far as to show that traffic became a part of the conversation with an actual passenger, resulting in both passenger and driver backing off the intensity of the conversation when the demands of driving increased. Such responsiveness to traffic doesn't exist on the other end of a cell phone.

Switching from verizon service to... whomever carries Iphone in North Dakota is like trading in your Lotus for a Gremlin.

Verizon just has a huge stranglehold here and by far the best service.

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As compared to conversation with a passenger

The scientific literature is mixed on the dangers of talking on a cell phone versus those of talking with a passenger. The common conception is that passengers are able to better regulate conversation based on the perceived level of danger, therefore the risk is negligible. A study by a University of South Carolina psychology researcher featured in the journal, Experimental Psychology, found that planning to speak and speaking put far more demands on the brain’s resources than listening. Measurement of attention levels showed that subjects were four times more distracted while preparing to speak or speaking than when they were listening.[18] The Accident Research Unit at the University of Nottingham found that the number of utterances was usually higher for mobile calls when compared to blindfolded and non-blindfolded passengers across various driving conditions. The number of questions asked averaged slightly higher for mobile phone conversations, although results were not constant across road types and largely influenced by a large number of questions on the urban roads.[19] A 2004 University of Utah simulation study that compared passenger and cell-phone conversations concluded that the driver performs better when conversing with a passenger because the traffic and driving task become part of the conversation. Drivers holding conversations on cell phones were four times more likely to miss the highway exit than those with passengers, and drivers conversing with passengers showed no statistically significant difference from lone drivers in the simulator.[20] A study led by Andrew Parkes at the Transport Research Laboratory, also with a driving simulator, concluded that hands-free phone conversations impair driving performance more than other common in-vehicle distractions such as passenger conversations.[21]

In contrast, the University of Illinois meta-analysis concluded that passenger conversations were just as costly to driving performance as cell phone ones.[10] AAA ranks passengers as the third most reported cause of distraction-related accidents at 11 percent, compared to 1.5 percent for cellular telephones.[12] A simulation study funded by the American Transportation Research Board concluded that driving events that require urgent responses may be influenced by in-vehicle conversations, and that there is little practical evidence that passengers adjusted their conversations to changes in the traffic. It concluded that drivers' training should address the hazards of both mobile phone and passenger conversations.[22]

Then again, I've seen some of the most horrifically awful drivers ever on a daily basis, living in Seattle. It has to do with the huge amounts of asian and women drivers out here. (Don't get me started on the rant about the trifecta--old asian women drivers...)

I am in Costa Rica visiting my sister's in-laws, and we just got back from a six hour road trip to the beach. We had seven people (including one toddler and one four year-old) crammed into a five person SUV. Over the course of the trip we encountered: landslides that covered the road in mud, waterfalls overflowing over the road and down the cliff on the other side, large unpaved stretches of road with six inch ridges, thunderstorms, watered gasoline in a diesel engine, fog that reduced visibility to 15 meters tops, an overturned 18-wheeler, and no less than three carsick passengers.

So, after that little lump of fun I thought I'd get back to the hotel, kick back, and read a few threads. That tidbit of yours, Furlis, made me laugh my mojito out of my nose and continue laughing until some stranger got worried enough to offer assistance in Spanish.

What do you have again asian women ... because... you know... I'm half asian, and I'm female.

/wench status slowly going further and further away

A vast majority of asian women . . .

Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. I never said that you were a part of it, nor did I imply that anyone here was.

A vast majority of asian women can't drive well. Note that I didn't say all, note that I didn't say, "man, Noc sure as hell can't drive because she's half-asian and a woman!"

Being hyper-sensitive isn't good for you, darling.