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They're definitely a distraction? Excellent! Let's start getting rid of roadside advertising, billboards, obnoxious fast food signs...
by devb 13y ago
They're definitely a distraction? Excellent! Let's start getting rid of roadside advertising, billboards, obnoxious fast food signs...
- alanctgardner2 13y agoDon't be facile; surely a picture implying that the government is going to blow you up with a Reaper for going 10 over the limit is more distracting than a picture of a Big Mac. Especially in a state that (I hear) is on the verge of bankruptcy.
- alan_cx 13y agoGiven American levels of obesity, Im not sure you are correct.
- Zigurd 13y agoSo the bad news is that Big Macs kill more Americans than drones, and the bad news is that we're closing the gap.
- GrinningFool 13y agoHave you driven I95 near Philadelphia lately? I think the contingent of electronic animated, image-changing, and even occasionally flashing billboards carries a slightly higher distraction factor.
- samatman 13y agoIt's beginning to remind me of Fahrenheit 451.
- skaevola 13y agoAnd, to be successful, billboard advertising necessarily must distract you.
- ErikAugust 13y agoFun fact: In Vermont, billboards are illegal.
- btipling 13y agoAmerica would be so much more beautiful if we had fewer billboards and cables were underground instead hosted on poles. I think it's patriotic to oppose billboards and telephone polls.
- koenigdavidmj 13y agoAnchorage has a law that in order to do any work on above-ground cables (other than emergency repairs), you must put them underground at the same time.
- devb 13y agoNYC, or at least Manhattan, has had a law requiring underground utilities since 1888!
- oijaf888 13y agoIts substantially more expensive to run cables underground everywhere in the nation.
- btipling 13y agoA price that's probably worth it in many cases.