Considering they're using iProducts instead of something better and more affordable you have a point.

You mean just like this?

There's no reason they can't block everything from the network end. Host.deny

There's no reason to police what the students do at home either. That's just big brother and between the parents and students.

I used to be like that.

Now I would rather get something new and low power. The money you save by running a Raspberry Pie, an Atom, or some other lower power processor to do an "old system" task in electricity alone vs. an old P4 or Athlon will pay for the hardware in a year or so, Raspberry pie probably less.

Not quite reasonable here, but I see the point. I've had windsheild mount before, it doesn't work out in Texas on every model of vehicle due to the sheer amount of solar energy that comes through the windsheild. I've had phones shut off from heat before while driving towards the sun or having it overhead, eight months out of the year. When the sunds behind me it's fine.

It's why I switched to a CD Slot mount holder, it works great and I don't have to trust a suction cuff, which tends to have issues when you have the kinds of temperature ranges we do.

You have shoulders? Lucky. In Texas they have a "Farm to Market Road" concept which is basically "just like a highway, only we're calling it a Farm to Market road so we don't have to put shoulders on it or provide other expensive highway luxuries. The worst part of my drive is down FM 518, when I get to State Highway 3 I have a shoulder nearly the whole distance and State Highway NASA Road 1 actually has a rarity in the Houston area, a bike lane. All the people of questionable immigration status that bike up and down it still ride on the sidewalk because they're terrified of the traffic.

Because the CD is momentary and sort of out of date at that. The phone requires you to hold the phone to your head for the length of the conversation restricting the use of one hand and the use of your head for road scanning purposes. Changing the CD is also illegal in Texas, not that it's enforced. Unless you're a moron you don't need your hands or to restrict the use of your head to talk to your passenger. I consider using a good headset the same as talking to a passenger, as long as you're not one of those people (of a kind I know) who can't talk and drive at the same time I see little difference.

I got ran over a little less than a year ago also, and yes it was somone running a red light in an SUV. I nearly got hit again six months ago, by a guy in a Lincoln also running a red light.

When I can no longer make posts like this one this guy might have some room to say something, until then he can stuff it.

(BTW, when I made that post I had biked to work less than 5 times total, now it's the standard way to travel)

I said the map one was prickish, I didn't actually address the other issues other than to say it wasn't sporting to get them at a light and yes they're bad drivers because I see what they do from my slow moving rolling observation platform. I'm a libertarian, I actually agree with you on a lot of the pre-crime statements you've made, which is why I didn't dig into the specifics. The point I made was more along the lines "agree with the laws or not the stoplight thing was lame".

Up until just a few years ago you almost always got better gas mileage with a stick. Sticks are also superior at pulling trailers/dealing with heavy loads, though some of the newest automatics are contenders. Race performance wise sticks are faster off the line, but they can lose some advantage between shifts over an auto, all other things being equal they tend to top out at a higher speed.

Everything I mentioned was solid up until a few years ago. In just the past few years automatics have caught up to sticks in most categories, and are often more fuel efficient now, but all of this in the past few years. If your stick is about five or more years old (unless it's a Saturn with their shitty sticks) you've probably got a better vehicle than the equivalently spec automatic. If it's less than five years old, maybe.

I might actually buy automatic next time. For me and my history that's saying something, but being an owner of said Saturn and noticing newer automatics often have more speeds than the stick eaquivalent, and things like the Beetle getting better gas milage in auto regardless of town or highway I might just make the switch.

When I drive I leave Waze up and have a Bluetooth earpiece in. I don't place calls, only receive and I'm not that popular. I don't text, or anything else, the only time I touch the phone is to report where a cop is - Waze is great for that......

Good news is I filled up my tank June 28th and didn't fill it up again until August 29th, almost cleared two months. I don't drive unless I have to. Unfortunately it's not fair to keep track right now, my clutch is out and we cracked the radiator tank towing it home so I'm not playing the time between fillup game at the moment. Yes I'm biking, but keeping track right now is cheating.

I don't P on my handbrake either

(yeah lame, but I really couldn't help myself)

Uhmmm, I don't have P on my gear shift.

Does having P on your gearshift give you an extra break with the law?

I'm not going to get into the rest of it, I'm a cyclist and it amazes me how many people I notice have a phone to their ear while driving, especially in the daytime. Those are bad drivers. Texters are worse, so yeah, do it, but it's more sporting to get them in motion instead of at a stoplight, less they can argue against as well. Getting them at stoplights almost seems lazy.

Leave the map app guys alone. If it's displaying a map I don't care if it's dedicated or not, it's displaying a map, infact the phone could be the safer device, it's maps are updated constantly and they're more likely to have correct directions based on that tidbit, at least in cities like I live in where the map is constatly changing.