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Was that so hard?

The guy elected previously tanked a baseball team and multiple oil companies. He was voted for by all the people who didn't vote for Obama.

By your logic (or rather, lack thereof), no one should be "allowed" their right to vote.

Isn't "CTO" a corporate term? Since when does our republic have corporate leadership?

Screw the floppies, I'm more concerned about the basically open announcement that our government is now fascist, in the most literal sense of the word.

I know a lot of people who flat out refuse to connect their iPhone to iTunes after the whole "iTunes deleting everything off your phone" debacle a few years back.

Giving non-fanbois a $200 credit to the Apple store after your software ate 5 years of grandkid pictures isn't going to make them stop being gunshy.

So basically, what you're saying is that you would be willing to page exponentially more money for a vehicle with exponentially less usability than a standard, non automated car? Based, of course, on the presumption that it operates like a train car, I.e. the occupants at no time would be expected to take control.

P.T. Barnum was right.

The fact that you said "texting and driving is perfectly safe." It's not. Ever. Be a grown up and admit your mistake, or go away. Don't double-down on stupid.

Even hands-free setups have been proven unsafe, as it's not holding the phone that's dangerous, it's the fact that the driver is paying attention to something other than driving.

The fact that you claim texting and driving is safe at any speed indicates that I was correct in my originally assertion - you're trying to excuse dangerous behaviour because you, personally, choose to engage in it.

Not cool. You nor anyone else is so important to society that you get a pass on dangerous behavior.

People who fly drones irresponsibly create a serious hazard to others, so improper drone operation should be a felony too, right? Or people who use their 3D printer to make weapons, ooh, that can be dangerous too, so lets make them felons as well.

Hell, if making a crime a felony is a deterrant, why not go for broke and make all crimes felonies?

Um... many other states have had mandatory interlocks for decades. If anything, California is the state that didn't seem to have a problem letting drunks drive until recently.

I'll bet they were afraid of being called racist.

The majority of those homicides are committed by gang member against other gang members - something like 78% of people killed with handguns have felony records.

So, probably less of a "too many handguns" problem, and more of a "too many gangbangers" problem - one that appears to be slowly solving itself.

Statistically speaking, a douchebag on a cellphone is just as dangerous, if not more so, than a drunk. Methinks you're just excusing the bad behaviours you yourself choose to engage in.

Missouri is the same way, and from what I've seen it's pretty effective - once you've been forced to pay around $2,000/mo for 6 months just getting your car to start, all but the most hardcore alcoholics tend to get the hint.

The serious drunks (like one of my uncles)? Yea, they don't give a fuck, they'll just drive illegally registered vehicles with no license.

I'm guessing it's because the person you're responding to is a selfish idiot themselves, which is why they can't fathom consequences that extend beyond the tip of their microscopic penis.

For the same reason we don't hold automotible makers and sellers responsible - in short, because blaming people other than the perpetrator for a crime is fucking idiotic fascism.

Presumably not, since those are all people who could easily immigrate here under current regulations.