Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: State Farm files patent for system to suppress calls and text while driving Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 15:19:11 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7b9e8ad3d9acb56777d5d492610334c8@dizum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:19:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="40d4c934a5d40f9e74a5b868cd945dc2"; logging-data="3927978"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KZcfnsfzb2jlIPyyyyQOylpTPcwFQQ5A=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gASlYB2tDEXo27uwhxvHe/PmBtc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1900 On 6/9/2024 1:42 PM, Ed P wrote: > OTOH, I'm told years ago people did not have phones in cars but that was > in ancient times. That's true. People used to die of exposure walking to the supermarket and they wouldn't be found for days. Imagine... No phone. No helmet. Just out in raw reality. Funny thing... One of my favorite ways to relax is to be out on my own, unreachable, timeless, with no one knowing where I am. I'm told that for people under 40, having no contact with other humans for a full day would drive them over the edge and they'd have to add an anti-psychotic to their regular SSRI prescription.