"99% of OPS TRANSMISSIONS ON THIS SYSTEM ARE DIGITALLY MODULATED AND NOT MONITORABLE USING CURRENT SCANNER TECHNOLOGY. WITH THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT THESE TRANSMISSION SHOULD THEORETICALLY BE MONITORABLE. THE LEGALITY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR THOUGH.
ADDITIONALLY THIS SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF ENCRYPTED DIGITAL TRANSMISSIONS."
I don't use a home phone, I spend most of my time away from home. So I feel a cell phone is somewhat useful. However it does not require me to take your call when you call me. I am still allowed to use discretion. If I don't feel like calling someone back right away, I don't. Having a cell phone doesn't make me instantly accessible to anyone who wants to get a hold of me, it makes me instantly accessible to whoever I want to get a hold of. I control when I use it, and how I use it.
Seriously, when you drive, you pay attention to the road. If you take on the responsibility of doing something else while you are driving that becomes your problem. If you can't multitask and you cause a problem, then frankly you must pay for it. Much like no one made a law that you couldn't cook, watch the kids, and talk on the phone at home because you might knock the pot of boiling water onto your kid when you got the cord wrapped around it. Much like it isn't against the law to change the radio station, or change cd's, or anything else. It becomes something that we need to teach people responsibility. Not a law. Laws don't make things better, or safer, or any of that crap. Responsibility for ones own actions is the key.
I see people everyday that are talking on their cell phones, braking on the freeway for no reason, or cutting someone off, or some other stupid action. I still don't think a blanket law will help that. Laws just complicate life even more. We have too many laws. Everyones quick solution to everything is make a law. Laws don't make the world safe. If you want to make a change, start by teaching your kids.
for some reason telemarketers dont call cell phones, or at least mine. ive got virgin mobile, and it costs nothing to check my voicemail from my home phone.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the responsible organization if such a device got implemented and "El~Kayieeda" got their hands on it while Dick Cheney was driving along in a motorcade........
"Today, The Newly Elected President Was Killed When His Pacemaker Was Shut Off Accidentally By Law Enforcement Officials..."
Either that or a trial lawyer...
I say let an NGO handle the cell phone issue. Too many laws on the books as it is.
Yup! Saw one putting on her eye makeup using both hands and looking in the rearview mirror to do it.
Saw a guy ahead of me,cell phone in one hand, and gesticulating wildly with the other. Unless he either had a midget in his lap holding the wheel or he was driving with his johnson no one was in control of the car.
Now, when I see some idiot using the phone while in motion, which is against the law around here, I routinely hold my hand up to my ear as if it was a cell phone then flip them the bird.
"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."
Good points, but if the call is so important that it must be taken immediately, pull over and devote your full attention to it. That way the call gets the attention it deserves and my safety is not at risk.
"When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all."
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