I am now!

stabn is a Bing man.

I too am forced to use IE on my work machine, so I put chrome on a flash drive and fire that up every morning. I'm technically not supposed to attach any external drives to my work machine like, ever (see: Stuxnet), but I don't think IT checks my registry to see whether I've done so or not.

I use bing occasionally and seat belts in my own car always. Although I don't believe it makes any sense at all for government to legislate on this issue; the government might as well pass a law forbidding bing.

@KPowers: what do you have against that hot little vixen Amanda Knox?

The government can have my Bing when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

There is a ton of POVs here. How about the fact that I dont want to be responsible for killing someone who decided he wasn't going to wear his seatbelt. How about medical costs ? How about perceived quality of life ? Its not hard nor a reach to name a few more imo.

I use Firefox because smart people told me too

Firefox and ie. mostly ie cause **** them

There are plenty of reasons that legislators articulate when they pass laws, and most of them are complete BS. In practice, a much higher percentage of laws than you think are either revenue-raising measures or the result of some special-interest group getting a small group of legislators on their side. My own view: In general, I very much overweight freedom in the balancing between assuaging your guilty conscience and my desire to do stupid things.

It's like speed cameras being pitched as safety devices. I believe that's utter crap -- if intersection safety were the goal, lengthen the time for the yellow-light cycle. Speed cameras are revenue-raisers.

/libertarian politard

pretty sure that speed traps reduce traffic deaths

Then people would adapt and continue to go through the longer yellow and run the red.

its easy to see how speed cameras are nothing more than revenue raisers for the most part, but I cant think of any other kind of ulterior motive hidden in BS for seat belt laws. It seems its pretty much a law because it was costing society as a whole hundreds of millions of dollars in medical bills. or am I missing something?

Id be more than happy to live in a society where when they wheleed you into the hospital from a wreck and you werent wearing your seat belt the hospital just said "Im sorry, we arent treating him, he chose to not wear a seat belt and so his insurance isnt going to cover this and you cant afford to pay it" and then they just let you die. But since society refuses to accept that I dont think we can have it both ways, you cant have unlimited freedoms at the expense of everyone else. So while I wish the goverment would stay the **** out of my business and quit telling me what I can or cant do, or what I have to do, in some cases it seems pretty necessary given we refuse to just let people die.

i use IE mainly because i have more important things to think about than which browser i use for porn....like watching porn.

so does a lower speed limit, but no one wants to drive 55mph. Weve decided as a society that X number of lives are worth an increase in our convenience as a whole.

also, its a good day. today i think the lightbulb went off and my boss realized that i am better and have more experience at this job then he is or has.

this guy i know rolled his truck into a house one night going around a corner, was miraculously thrown clear with minimal injuries while the driver cab area was crushed into the corner of the house.

indignantly refuses to wear a seatbelt for the rest of his life. alrighty then.

I largely share your view; and I don't know the specific special interest that got seat-belt laws in place. I just very strongly suspect there is one based on general principles. I'd likewise be perfectly willing to live in your hypothetical world, or on where insurers were permitted to triple your premiums unless you certify 100% seat-belt usage -- and then penalize you materially if you don't wear one.

But who among us can say that wouldn't very much like to ride around in the back seat of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M

Oddly enough, I don't think that happens. Let me poke around and see if I can find a supporting link. My own personal experience is that I only run red lights when I'm being mildly inattentive and catch them a little late -- then do a hurried left-opposing-right safety check and see if there's something coming that require me to jam on the brakes. If traffic is clear, I run it.

The argument about seatbelts is a pretty perfect example of taking the ideas behind the libertarian ideology and turning them into a dumb 15 year old yelling **** YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME. There's really no good argument for not wearing them other than being stubborn.

There's a big difference between wearing them (which I do 100% of the time unless I'm in pickup truck out on farmland someplace, i.e. away from all traffic) and having laws commanding us to wear them.

It's kinda interesting that IE/Microsoft have been so bad at everything internet for so long but somehow they created the best porn tube search engine on the internet.

One of my good friends in high school rolled his car down a hill, landed upside down in a creek and drowned b/c he was wearing his seat belt. It happened during a heavy rain storm and he lost control of the car going around a turn. The water level was higher than normal b/c of the rain.

The 2 passengers with him were able to get out(not wearing seat belts) and couldn't get him out of the driver's seat b/c the seat belt wouldn't release.

The strange part about it is 1yr earlier I was in a wreck on the same road about 2 miles farther down the road where we basically did the same thing but the water level was normal and none of us were injured. None of us were wearing a seat belt at the time. After my friend's wreck they finally put up a guard rail on both of the curves to stop people from going off the road.

seat belt cutter in the center console is prolly a good idea I guess...maybe ill add that to my next amazon order

Just went thru customs and TSA security at STT airport. Was the only person at both each time. Probably just used up all my 2014 airport rungoods.

Scored a pretty sweet VRBO for the week. Here's the view looking out the front door:

I see all that charity money you collected is paying off nicely

Agree completely. There is zero argument for not wearing a seat belt. It doesn't surprise me at all that Bryce only wears one half the time.