Apparently they trust these people with the guns they are provided with, but not the guns they are born with.

Seems a bit illogical to me.

It's funny how we have these interesting things called "prophylactics" that let you satisfy your psychological needs without actually reproducing...

That you are aware of. Do you overeat? Do you oversleep (or perhaps not sleep enough)? How about stress - how short is your fuse?

There's lots of non-obvious stresses that that can cause. Self-analysis is a developed skill. Knowing what is going on in your own head is harder than you'd think.

So? Have you actually had your androgen levels looked at? It's not a standard test, and wouldn't have been done without your request or should one of the results of having an imbalance prompted him to investigate.

I "feel" the same way as you do. But I did have the test (for other reasons) and I know that my testosterone and estrogen levels are terribly out of balance. I am working on correcting this, because if I don't - I am not going to be a very healthy person in another 10-20 years...

You don't seem to understand that there is a difference between physiological needs and psychological needs.

If it was part of Firefox (it isn't) switching to Seamonkey wouldn't get you anything different...

You fucked up.

Oh, so that time we got t-boned when some moron ran a red light while going 20mph over the limit was somehow the fault of our e-gadgets?

The other driver had no gadgets with him. The light did not just change. We were in traffic as well, so it's not like he had a clear road and we were just suddenly there.

I'd like to point out that this was exactly what I was trying to say.

I was not saying I can multitask while driving. What I was saying, is that I can drop the other tasks when it becomes necessary.

I didn't say that I can! What I actually said, should you care to pay attention to it (maybe you were texting?) is that I can switch the distraction off as soon as it becomes a liability.

In contrast to this, every accident I've been involved in, they were just spacing out or made an error in judgement. No phones were involved.

I think you forgot the accident where your punctuation keys got ripped off the keyboard. Strangely your parenthesis and shift key managed to survive...

I talk all the time when I'm driving.

You know what happens when something comes up that requires more attention? After the event has passed, I ask the person to repeat what they were saying... because I was concentrating on what matters.

I can walk and chew gum. I can even run and chew gum! But I also have the sense to spit the gum out when I get winded...

That's not texting. That's talking.

I don't think it "isn't worth the cost" but I do think it "isn't quite as beneficial"

Is there something bad about raising the standard of living, or providing access to information? Not at all. Is that better than stamping out a deadly disease? Not necessarily, but if the access to information lets those affected manage their own care better (or not get sick to begin with) then it gets very hard to judge.