Half Informed

Source Tweet: @FollowMe_RnBE Texting While Driving Banned for Federal Workers http://budurl.com/325u

Source Article: NYTimes.com

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate”.

My boy Obama has taken some pretty drastic measures in the name of safety. Federal employees may not text while driving. And they also plan to extend this to professional drivers, or as they so eloquently refer to them as ‘truckers’.

The ban took effect before the ink could dry. But this one just looks like a lot of common sense.

This transport collided with a school bus when the driver of the transport was texting

Everything except the Professional Drivers bit. Denying them texting even while not driving would be cutting off a valuable life line they have to their families.

Texting has become more common than phone calls. They can reserve rooms ahead of time with their Web Enabled Black Berries and iPhones, spank it to porn before they got to bed in their sleepers thus maintaining the family unit.

Apparently the governing body of motor carriers still needs to define ‘Texting’.

And as for drivers bypassing the warnings on their tracking systems. The fix is simple, wire it to the transmission and if the vehicle is moving kill the screen.

Talking on a cell while driving is nowhere near as dangerous as texting while driving. The only people I know that can text while keep one eye on the road are those with lazy eyes. Finally after all those years they get some vindication.

If this is done right it will end up saving a lot of lives and hopefully in a few years anyone using a gadget while driving will get looks from people like they were pounding a fifth of whiskey while on the road.

Source Tweet: @nickdreweBanned Bud Light ‘In The Can’ ad - http://j.mp/jKEqp

Source Article: You Tube

When I first read this I seen  … Can’ ad… and was thinking Canada. And I was hoping to be able to run on a piece about how the CRTC are idiots.

But today it looks as if I get to poke a little more fun at the more well known FCC I guess. That is the US governing body on communications I think? Who ever it is that decides what is allowed to be publicly broadcasted OTA (over the air) probably had a few gears going off in their head when they are screening this one.

On one hand, everyone and sometimes their dog has a TV. So what they allow to be shown on the airwaves has to be acceptable in the bible belt, more or less.  I don’t see 1-900 commercials with scantly clad women in bikinis trying to convince me that it is going to be her on the end of the phone line I’m talking to instead of working a brass pole at your local speakeasy. No they reserve that time slot for life insurance commercials, trying to suck cash from the elderly before their mind completely goes. I don’t know if this is a regulation or a demographics thing. Either way it is like shooting fish in a barrel.

On the other hand. In this world of global networks almost anyone that has access to media like TV has access to the internet. To a point where people in recent and current war torn countries are pounding Twitter with feeds on the local elections and current uprisings. But when you try to deny people of something. Something so harmless as a suggestive commercial? Man your asking for it.

When you deny to public of something they are going to want to see why. And therefore you are going to make it viral and everyone is going to want to see it. Kids are going to be downloading them to their mobile media devices and bringing them to school.

But is this a ploy by the advertising giants? Do they spend all that cash on commercials just racy enough where they know it wont be seen on TV but they can feed it to the media after and see it grow like wildfire? If this is the case then they are getting the additional kick back of having their product be branded “The Choice of Bad Asses”.

Now here is the kicker. I send this to my mother to watch, now she isn’t some biker mom and she isn’t a prude. She has been known to get a good laugh out of some pretty sick jokes but there is a limit. She watched the video and didn’t get the “take it in the ass” undertones. “I would have never thought dirty!” she said.