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Comment Re:Terrorism is EXTREMELY RARE (Score 1) 1135

For now, I am going Greyhound...

I'm going on a trip to Houston, Texas next year and looked into a few ways to get there. Flying would be $260 and 5 hours, Amtrak would be $440 and 39 hours and Greyhound would be $200 and 42 hours. If I went Greyhound (or Amtrak) I would have to try and sleep on the bus/train and have an entire carry on bag filled with books to keep me occupied for the trip, but I found something very disturbing in the first paragraph Greyhound's Traveling by Bus page that has made me decide to never use Greyhound.

No reservations are necessary when you travel with Greyhound. If you know the departure schedule, simply arrive at the terminal at least an hour before departure to purchase your ticket. Boarding generally begins 15 to 30 minutes before departure. Seating is on a first-come, first- served basis. Advance purchase tickets do not guarantee a seat.

Now it would completely ruin my trip if I park at the bus station find out my bus is full and I have to wait until tomorrow to catch the next bus. I would drive back to my house, call the hotel and hope I don't have to pay for the first nights stay (which I won't be there for) and go to sleep in my own bed.

But what if that happened at one of my connections?

Maybe I'll get the whole way to Atlanta to find that my next bus is full and I have to either spend the night in the terminal or walk the streets of Atlanta at midnight with my luggage to find a hotel to stay at and hope tomorrows bus will have a seat for me.

For now, I'm still flying...

Comment Re:No, that's not it at all (Score 1) 2058

I don't insure my car. Do you think you have a right to FORCE me to insure it? You don't. Neither do you have a right to force me to insure my house.

If you choose to not insure your car against damages thats your choice. However I should have the right to force you to have liability insurance if you wish to have the PRIVILEGE of using a motor vehicle on government controlled roads. This way when you rear end me because you were too busy texting to notice the light turned red, I don't have to worry about being stuck with a heavily damaged vehicle and a huge repair bill. This now becomes your insurance companies problem which gets passed along to you in the form of higher insurance rates.

Comment California, land of bad ideas (Score 1) 624

The article doesn't say what kids of screens would be used but I'm assuming some kind of LCD. So now every time my car gets a little tap in a parking lot I have to replace it. These also seem like a prime target for jackasses to vandalize, just a little kick and you have to get a new one. I don't think they would like power washers very much either. Whats wrong with stamped and plated metal do you really need more information than a registration number? It would be a better idea to put ads on the signs they use to warn people of accidents and traffic jams when they aren't in use.

Comment Re:Mothers (Score 1) 271

Gun Control: The idea that a woman found raped and strangled with her own panties in a dark alleyway is somehow morally superior than a woman explaining to a police officer how her attacker got that fatal gunshot wound.

Actual T-Shirt seen at gun range.

Does anyone else think that of all of the advocacy and special interest groups feminists are the most hypocritical and can never agree on anything as a whole?

Submission + - BP "top kill" fails 1

oxide7 writes: BP Plc said on Saturday its complex "top kill" maneuver to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil well has failed, crushing hopes for a quick end to the largest oil spill in U.S. history already in its 40th day. It may be another two months before the London-based energy giant can definitively turn off the gusher — a delay that could undermine U.S. President Barack Obama as he faces growing criticism for a perceived slow response to the disaster.
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Submission + - Apple's Rotten Core: Inside The Foxconn Facility (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Robotron23 writes: The Daily Telegraph reports on the ongoing grim situation with Apple's manufacturing workforce in the wake of the iPad's European launch. Twelve suicides this year have occurred from employees jumping off of Foxconn factory buildings. Accounts of life working for Foxconn have emerged from within China including this translated report from an undercover reporter. Two deaths and further attempts have occurred over the past ten days.

Comment Re:Saddened (Score 1) 821

Think of the Children!

They're all fucking potty mouths. You apparently have never heard 5th graders talk to each other when they think there's no adults around. And if you're so offended by $#*!, you can use the V-chip in your TV, or call your cable company and ask them to block the offending channel from you lineup. Then you can be sure your little Timmy won;t ever hear a swear word, except at school, in public, in movies, from his friends, from his teachers and most likely from yourself.

Comment Sample Sizes... (Score 1) 406

The HLDI compared collisions of 100 insured vehicles per year in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and California -- all states with currently enacted roadway text bans. Despite those laws, monthly fluctuations in crash rates didn't change after bans were enacted

if your comparing COLLISIONS of 100 insured vehicles per year wouldn't the crash rate be 100%? I'm assuming they mean numbers of collisions per 100 vehicles. Even so don't you think 100 is to small a sample size when there's tens of millions of vehicles in those areas? I really don't think 100 vehicles is enough to prove anything at all.

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