That's great. A classic. Heh, this is quite funny :).

Yeah, this one is going in my bookmarks.

Grant Wood, deputy sheriff, reported: "We believe at one point [Carey] pressed the wrong button and became enraptured with his TI-89 while attempting to view the directions."

lol as if a sheriff knew what a ti89 was yeah nice fake article for presenting a program

I've been trying to submit a news article for weeks, and they'd rather put THIS on the front page?!

Anyway, I wish him the best of luck. If only he was using an 84 instead of an 89...

How is a new article submitted? (Enter Shameless Plug) My latest DOS Asm app might qualify. Quick Assembly SDK compiles the same code of a new language for many TI's and shells flawlessly, as well as converting bitmaps to .db and dc.b...(Exit Shameless Plug) As for this article...sweeet and hilarious. Are the chips on discount now?. I actually crashed a car once while using my 92+ (on GTA Vice City).

send an email to news@ticalc.org and hope for the best. not like they check it anyway!

>not like they check it anyway!

Trust me, Michael checks it.

Only on assembly and informational programs will anyone check it. They just don't want a BASIC program cluttering up news (fake and real) about 2 to 5 year projects, no matter how good it is.

This is an...interesting article. lol. probably one of the best so far...

Someone needs to do me a favor and rate and review some of my programs or games. I wish I was rich, then I'd pay people to check out my programs... *sigh*

I'll rate yours if you rate mine. No guarantees about good ratings, though.

If I rate yours with good ratings, I had better get good ratings... or else... :)

*cough* He's cheating the rating system *cough* ;-)

When I first read this headline, I thought they were going to try to tell me that Joey died again. ;)

(Those of you who frequent #tcpa ought to know what I'm referring to.)

<JMan_> jgannon died again?
<aardvarq> Yes. He was in Japan when it sank.

Lol, this is one of the funniest tings, I thought that Joey died too, but wow... Must... Get.... Program...

"He was in Japan when it sank."
ROTFL
(Hey Joey, can't you swim or something? ;) )

Yes, but I had my seatbelt on when it sank. By the time I got it off, the water pressure was too strong, so I couldn't kick the window out. Thus, I sank with Japan.

(I have no idea what this is all about... I'd better have a talk with the #tcpa guys. Again.)

Just to clarify, this quote is from awhile back. It's not in any of my logs, but I think I'm missing a portion of them.

My memory is fuzzy on the specifics of that quote as well, but I think if you go up a few lines (or look at the topic) it would be clearer. I think I was just referring to some event / comment regarding that jgannon wouldn't be visitng #tcpa for awhile or something. (Oh: my nick is JMan in that quote)

aarvarq's comment then came out of the blue: so ask him. :-)

I got that from our misicule quote database at http://tcpa.seligstein.com/

*checks to see if he has it in his personal logs*

Back around Mon 16 Feb is when this took place. Note, however, I don't have that exact quote in my logs, but the controversy from the #tcpa topic around when tinews died.

This is not even funny. Distracted Driving has become a huge problem in the US. Mostly, Distracted Driving talking about cell phone use. But there are a few other things that are also considered distracted driving. Like putting on make-up, reading a map, shaving, eating, tuning your radio, lighting a cigarette, electronic navigation systems(TI-Map2Go), or anything else that takes your mind (or eyes) off the road. Even talking to a passenger can be considered distracted driving.

According to an A.P. article written by Jim Suhr, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, says distracted drivers cause at least 4000 accidents per day and possibly as many as 8000 per day! CarAccident.com says that 26% of all traffic fatalities are caused by distracted drivers and that traffic fatalities caused by cell phone users have gone up 800% since 1993!

There are so many people and organizations campaining against distracted drivers, that it won't be long until there are new laws on the books. ABC and CNN are even jumping on the bandwagon against distracted drivers. Many States are considering legislation against it. Some states dont want to write a law specific to cell phone use, because there are many other things that can distract a driver, like an electronic map. And they want to keep the door open for law enforcement officers. That way, they can write a ticket to a person who is zig-zagging for any reason.

Approximately 42% of all accidents and 58% of fatal accidents occur at night or during other degraded visibility conditions, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration accident statistics. These 2.8 million annual police reported accidents, including 23,000 fatal crashes, represent accidents in which visibility may be a contributing factor. So please, especially at night, pay attention to the road and not that hamburger.
Never read while driving! If you don't know where you're going, please stop and look at the map(Once again-Map2Go). Know exactly where you are going before you leave. One minute stopped is better than ten minutes of driving around trying to find something. I've even heard of drivers using the bathroom while driving. If you really have to go, please stop for one minute. One minute isn't going to kill you, but trying to save one might.

Dude, did you like look that up or did you just memorize it. I just quit readin after like the first two sentences.

You do need to lighten up... after all, the news is fake.

Homer - "People can come up with statistics to prove anything Kent, 40% of all people know that."

"That way, they can write a ticket to a person who is zig-zagging for any reason."
Yeah...it's called "reckless driving." They already HAVE that.

That's hardly fair, as I'd bet the number of cell phones has gone up even more than 800%.

You do make some good points, but I think you need to lighten up a little. This is obviously fake. I think it's hilarious!

-TrumpetMan

Yeah, I guess I might need to "lighten up a little." But my best friend was killed recently by a distracted driver. The woman in the other car was reading a map.

yeah, that article does have a kind of sick and twisted side, and maybe the crash part wasn't funny to me because I'm taking driver's ed right now (aka shitty-videos-of-crash-dummies-propganda class). However, the part about the potato chips and the terrorists was hilarious.

*gag* I agree with what you said about Driver's Ed.

We saw this movie in Driver's Ed where there was a car on wet pavement spinning really fast and a monotonous voice said "This car is out of control." I would hope that car is out of control, because if the person did have control, he or she didn't deserve to be driving.

Why do people have to be in such a big hurry to get places? It is called pulling over and looking at the map. I yell at my mom when she rummages through her purse while driving, though it does no good.

-W-

In that case I suppose you have an exscuse to rant a bit.

Too bad about your friend but man, that's annoying. (Four big posts in a row.)

hmm... That should probably have been two sentences. But hey?

-W-

It should have at least had a comma or semicolon.

I knew that there would be a response like this. Yes this is a freakin _huge_ problem. This article satirizes this behaviour perfectly. Can't you take good satire?

Very sorry for sounding insensitive. I meant that as in "the article implies and acknoledges that it is a huge problem as well," and you have very good points.

My apologies.

Yeah! Like roadsigns! How dare the state try to disract us with such trival things such as speed limits!

Dude, too far, too far.

-W-

I was joking.

Dude, way to far. :)

...scary...
*hides from him*
that was WAY too far

I think it's just tasteless to make fun of someone's death. In any context.

I don't believe anyone's death is being made fun of. There is no mention of death at all, in fact.