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   Jolly Roger to Ashton Crusher   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   10 Mar 14 15:39:45   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-10, Ashton Crusher  wrote:   
   >   People were having car accidents LONG before there were cell phones.   
   > If cell phones were particularly dangerous the highways would be awash   
   > in blood.  But they aren't.  Think about it. 15 years ago hardly   
   > anyone had a cell phone.  Now EVERYONE has one and a lot of them are   
   > used while driving.  Yet over that same 15 years the accident and   
   > fatality rate has continued is slow reduction with less and less   
   > accidents every year.   
      
   Yeah, and if cell phones and cars were the only things that existed in   
   this world, you *might* have a point. Please read and learn the   
   difference between correlation and causation. It's a very important   
   difference.   
      
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