http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/ You will probably want some waders, a pickaxe, and one of those hats with a light on it before you go in here. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:39:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-99946 Cellphones Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:35:48 +0000 http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/#comment-99946 Everything has consequences. Let's take for example the internet. It can be helpful to learn new things and explain things that we want to understand about. On the other hand, it can be used to spread malicious information or used to deceive people. The same things go for cellphone. The more you get hooked to it, the more you put less value on the human touch. Everything has consequences. Let’s take for example the internet. It can be helpful to learn new things and explain things that we want to understand about. On the other hand, it can be used to spread malicious information or used to deceive people. The same things go for cellphone. The more you get hooked to it, the more you put less value on the human touch.

]]> http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-60836 Eric Bergen » Unable to assess risk part 2 - plastic pen tops Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:31:07 +0000 http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/#comment-60836 [...] In perfect timing with my unable to asses risk series a family wants to have plastic pen tops banned because their teenage son died choking on one. Banned. Really? You want to ban something because out of the millions of plastic pen tops your child was the one unlucky one that choked on one? Insane. I understand you’re upset and you want to get revenge for your sons death. First you can’t take revenge on an inanimate object. It won’t make you feel any better. Second there are millions if not billions of these caps floating around and one person has died. They may get plastic pen tops banned but I bet the will still drive while talking on a cellphone. [...] [...] In perfect timing with my unable to asses risk series a family wants to have plastic pen tops banned because their teenage son died choking on one. Banned. Really? You want to ban something because out of the millions of plastic pen tops your child was the one unlucky one that choked on one? Insane. I understand you’re upset and you want to get revenge for your sons death. First you can’t take revenge on an inanimate object. It won’t make you feel any better. Second there are millions if not billions of these caps floating around and one person has died. They may get plastic pen tops banned but I bet the will still drive while talking on a cellphone. [...]

]]> http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-55120 Luke Hollins Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:31:10 +0000 http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2007/10/15/unable-to-asses-risk-part-1-cellphones/#comment-55120 On top of huge penalties I think they should legislate cellphone jammers as a standard part in vehicles. On top of huge penalties I think they should legislate cellphone jammers as a standard part in vehicles.

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