(May 19, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I see it all the time around here. Fucking pathetic.Same here. I take a bus to work, and it's alarming the number of people who are using a smartphone while on the road (and in New York City traffic, where drivers are constantly taking risks). I can recall one driver holding his phone up directly in front of his own face, apparently in order to read it while somehow keeping an eye on the road. Most idiots have the phone at lap-level, which is dangerous enough since it forces you to take your eyes off the road, but they know that it's against the law to have a phone in your hand while you're behind the wheel. But this guy didn't give a damn.
Not that they're the only ones. I saw one woman using both hands to balance her breakfast while keeping her left pinky on the wheel. While approaching a three-way intersection. I'm just glad I'm moving out of this city.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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