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[opendtv] Re: 20050803 Wolfsson's Wednesday Words (Mark's Monday Memo)

From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:03:54 -0400

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:

>>    - Vieta is selling a Freeview DTT receiver for use
>>in moving vehicles:
>>http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/07/watch_freeview_.html
>>    
>>
>
>----------------------------------------
>Watch Freeview digital TV in your car
>
>Summer holidays are sadly upon us, leaving the streets
>teeming with the nation's young. It's bad enough trying to
>dodge them out in the open, so I can only imagine the
>horrors of being shut inside a slowly moving vehicle with
>them en route to some child-friendly holiday location.
>Parents everywhere will be praising Vieta for kindly
>developing a Freeview box that works in the car. Digital
>TV on the move should mean you get less interference and
>fewer signal woes. The TDT500C is a black box that you
>can hook up to any LCD in-car monitor. It will also
>integrate with existing car stereo, games consoles and DVD
>players. Pretty much everything you need to ensure that
>you don't have to speak to your children at all during any
>journey. At =A3399.99, it's expensive - but what price
>tranquility?
>----------------------------------------
>
>This is hilarious. At first, when they talked about the
>"streets teeming with the nation's young," I thought they
>were going to get sarcastic about this new toy. All we
>need is young drivers, already hampered by cell phones
>while driving, not to mention music at ear popping levels,
>now also concentrating on watching their TV shows. Just
>what we need.
>
>Or are we to believe that such a stand-alone box cannot
>be placed on the front seat?
>
>Bert
>
They can be placed anywhere you want as can cell phones that also allow 
video.

But we now know from studies that even hands free conversation on your 
cell phone is JUST as bad as having it in your hand so what does that 
say about having a conversation with a friend in the passenger seat 
where you also have a visual??

We now know from studies that a teenager is ten times as likely to have 
an accident if they have three friends in the car.

So how would you solve all this distractions?

Isn't it obvious? Eliminate cars. Funny how no one ever thinks of the 
obvious. Cars kill 50,000 a year and maim how many? Eliminate alcohol 
which accounts for half those deaths and another half million or so from 
related crime and induced stupidity.

Or an even more obvious answer would be to exterminate terminally stupid 
people. That would save a lot of lives.

Bob Miller
 
 
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[opendtv] Re: 20050803 Wolfsson's Wednesday Words (Mark's Monday Memo)
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