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   Brent to Joy Beeson   
   Re: The official view on distracted driv   
   04 Mar 14 21:07:33   
   
   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2014-03-04, Joy Beeson  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:31:01 -0800 (PST), Harry K    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> But you conveniently ignore the stone cold FACT that it removes a whole   
   bunch of distracting things for the idiots to play with.   
   >   
   > And you are conveniently ignoring the stone cold FACT that taking toys   
   > away from a person who finds not running over me boring leaves a bored   
   > person looking everywhere but at the road for something to do.   
      
   Which reminds me, by dumbing down driving and making it boring, people   
   are driven to distraction. Instead of driving being what one is out   
   there to do, it becomes a side line and people want to be entertained by   
   something else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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