Belly, if the government can subsidize the price on set top boxes, surely they can subsidize a device that has the potential to save loves.

As for loss of profits, may I suggest you delve into the profits made by many from the failed insulation scheme.

As an example, cost of insulation was $300, two installers at $300 each per roof, $700 profit for the owner of the company.

Multiply this by three houses per day.

So it can be done without business loosing out.

579, if the best you can offer to this debate is a snide remark, may I suggest you leave this topic to the grown ups.

Or better still, perhaps you can tell me why lighting and smoking a fag while driving is not policed, because after all, like talking on a hand held, it takes one hand from the wheel.

Or eating a hot pie even, or sipping on hot coffee.

What about tuning the radio, or loading/searching a GPS.

All of these are equally as distracting as talking on a hand held while driving, so why are they not policed.

Rechtub you are seeing a bitterness in my words that is not there.
I enter verbal combat with you thinking we are just swapping words and thoughts.
Let me be clear Ham Radio is a big part of my life.
I have used that gear to assist in many groups and events as a communications operator/officer for free.
We asked the Minister for Communications about two way Radio use in cars.
Our answer was, we have it in writing, as mike is held against mouth on a set known channel they are legal.
Car radios? mine stays on one channel, only and *idiot* would take their eyes of the road to surf radio channels

Here is where the bitterness starts, I truly honestly think a man of your age *is unaware just how much use is made of mobile phones/computers* than you know or understand.
Think about it.
One hand on the wheel texting eyes down phone near lap.
More often than sanity will let us understand today,s folk live on the face book page on trains and trams and while driving cars.
4 points off the license? $433 fine? not for nothing Rechtub, not cash grab but trying to stop fools killing them selves or much worse you and I

Gee whizz, here we go again Belly, for the fith time, I don't have a problem with laws against texting while driving.

It's phone calls I have a problem with, nothing more.

As for 2 way, out here where I work, QLD gas fields, the rodio in many trucks is on silent, simply because there is so much banter on there.

Why don't the authorities clamp down on that?

Driving a truck myself at times, you see yet another wide load approaching and, because you had the radio on silent, you have no idea how wide it is.

As for channel surfing, most mine sites, some containing hundreds of km of roads, have multiple channels which means constant tuning, albeit at 40kph.

As for me Being bitter towards you, sorry, was never my intention.

On a lighter note, What do think about the cricket?

What a turn around!