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MegaMFFY 3357 Well what exactly are you arguing for then? Because it seems you shouldn't have any... MegaMFFY 3358 There's nothing wrong with being frustrated. Everyone gets frustrated in traffic. Its the nature of the beast. The problem is this endless... MegaMFFY 3359 You want to ride along? I'll extend you the same invite I do to anyone who doesn't believe me. Of course if it's bicycling, you better be able to do 30mph on... MegaMFFY 3360 I think it would be fascinating to see just how a legion of incompetent morons manages to know your schedule, and place themselves all around you whenever you try to go somewhere... MegaMFFY 3361 Today was a good day... probably drove a good 130 miles and only encountered two MFFY drivers. The first was driving a black magnum. 4 lane road plus left turn lane. I'm in the... MegaMFFY 3362 Easy enough to print out the photo and a copy of this thread and snail it to the... Ford to resume advertising in gay publications Ford will again advertise in gay publications Ads resume after criticism from gay rights groups Wednesday... Worst stretch of road Driving California 58 between Bakersfield and I-5 made me think of this: What would you nominate as the nastiest stretch of major thoroughfare... Worst stretch of road Dave Head I agree, and to add, the last time I was on the PA 'pike, the road surface was so bad between the Ohio state line and Cranberry - previously the... More Rude Drivers Well I had another jerk pull a "cool" stunt on me yesterday. I was waiting at a light with two lanes of traffic turning left from one street to another. I'm in the... KLASP Keep Left And Stop Pedalphiles 3367 necromancer I have made that drive between LA and SF maybe 200 times over my life. Generally it's okay, for the most part, you get people who know what they're doing. You still get the... KLASP Keep Left And Stop Pedalphiles 3368 rec.autos.driving on 19 Dec 2005 16:23:53 -0800: I know what you mean. Over here on the east coast we get the same thing on... KLASP Keep Left And Stop Pedalphiles 3369 rec.autos.driving on 19 Dec 2005 16:55:25 -0800: Actually, where I am (about 35 miles north of the GA-FL line), it very rarely snows (for which I will be grateful as... Saving my expensive clutch I have driven manual transimissions all my life. Never had an auto in a car until I... SUVs now killing polar bears too 3371 John S. SUVs are not the whole problem but they are a symbol of public apathy toward nature. The idea that most people know what's good for them... SUVs now killing polar bears too 3372 Gazoo There we have an intellectual giant's prelude to the following comments... Oversimplification may be easy but it keeps you ignorant... Traffic light controls Right Lane Impatience In NorCal, the typical traffic light control has a "default green" on the larger street. At specific intervals... Right Lane Impatience 3374 Brent P You do. You said "gas (and) some snacks". That implies a trip inside the store. I'll even give you no waiting time behind other customers. I thought 15 minutes was pretty f*ing... Right Lane Impatience 3375 You are fing pooting me... Now... instead of "I", it's "WE"?! You... and your pitcrew next... Right Lane Impatience 3376 Because I didn't think some nit-picking butthole of a troll would make a big deal about it... Wrong Way MFFY! 3377 Responding so nobody uses the false points in arguing back. gpsman A digital camera is not always on... Wrong Way MFFY! 3378 Dave Causing what situation? While it appears he's clearly in violation of the law my point is... Wrong Way MFFY! 3379 Which is the definition of the term. I've made a wrong turn and been on a one way street going the wrong way a couple times in my life thanks to badly placed... Wrong Way MFFY! 3380 Brent P Didja ever ask yourself, "How do they get away with that"? Where's your evidence speed limit criteria is pulled out of someone's butt... Wrong Way MFFY! 3381 The 85th percentile speed is where collision involvement is minimal. It comes directly from analysis of data. Since it made... Wrong Way MFFY! 3382 John, They are referring to MUTCD, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. You can read it here. Specifically, they are talking about their Holy Grail, setting speed limits to the 85th Percentile. For this... Shifter technique This page: says that to move the shifter when changing gear you should (in this example, changing from 2nd to 3rd): "move the knob up to neutral, one column to... Shifter technique gpsman Well... this may be cranking up the wayback machine a little bit, but there were at one time aftermarket shifters available for... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3385 Here's a different Xmas story As a teacher, Ms. Jones, was very curious about how each of her students celebrated... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3386 That's nice. I'm Jewish, and I don't celebrate Christmas. If you wish me, "Merry Christmas," I will wish... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3387 Well that backfired in a HUGE way, then. You are no doubt arguing from the position that Christmas only existed in a time after Christ is... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3388 Dave Smith Here's a different Xmas story As a teacher, Ms. Jones, was very curious about how each of her students celebrated Christmas. She called on young Patrick Murphy. "Tell me Patrick what do you... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3389 Oh, come on; that's a cop-out. The same could be said of any* figure who... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3390 No, it's not. There's no historical evidence of Jesus, other than what's mentioned in the Bible. Such as? Lots of contemporary... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3391 PTRAVEL There is no "historical evidence" about Jesus. "No direct and first-hand information about Jesus survives. Information from outside Christian sources is unavailable. One must therefore rely exclusively on Christian sources. The... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3392 Had I read Icono Clast's joke? It's an established fact. Both Jews and Chinese have functioned as what's known as "middleman minorities": people whose work takes place somewhere between producers... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3393 Personally speaking we don't give a poo. While we DO put up lights on the house and front yard folage (it looks nice) we don't have any kids and our dogs couldn't care... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3394 It never HAD any religious significance. Just about everything to do with the way Christmas is celebrated got its start going back... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3395 Well, I suspect that somewhere in that timeline, the Christians accepted the new version of the holiday as a religious holiday... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3396 You would be wrong, then. If you research the history of customs related to the holiday called... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3397 That's not the way they see it. The Christians who do not celebrate Christmas do so as they believe the birth of... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3398 I'm not going to do your homework for you. But if you do the research carefully, you will find your own indisputable sources to show that... Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3399 Oh Bosh. Dec. 25 was the celebration of the Birth of Mirthra, celebrated about 1st... Snow tires cold pavement Depends on what kind of snow tires we are talking about. I suspect that the Jeep has the old-fashioned kind that... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey Right out of the '1984' playbook. -- Keith Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey From 2006 Britain will be the... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3402 Moderate Mammal --------------------- I was aproached by a local electronics company who wishes to demo a police mounted camera with OCR. The idea being an in car PC will be kept updated via a wireless... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3403 Not really. The only way that any cellular phone can be tracked is if it is in contact with two or more cellular towers. The old "triangulation" principle, which any... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3404 I would think that this might be extremely difficult to prove to my satisfaction. :-) Unfortunately, IFIK, there is no way to tell whether a vehicle traveling down a highway is safe... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3405 True. The "old" way to do it was to park a police car at one side of a major bridge, and key in the license or "rego... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3406 James Hammerton It still wouldn't cover that - to track your every move they'd have to have total coverage of every section of every road everywhere. Even... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3409 On 22 Dec 2005 13:47:16 -0800, "Ian Bailey" There certainly would be in Australia! Not needed. For a simple example, consider two cameras exactly one kilometer or... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3413 IMHO, definitely a false analogy. and you seem to know this as well or you wouldn't have used the phrase "the equivalent". Criminals generally chose... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3414 zadoc Well, yeah. You seem to be eager to toss away your rights and freedoms for every other false sense of security your handlers convince you you need in order to be protected... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3415 snips) That is highly questionable. It is more likely that Australian streets are safer despite the tough gun control laws. In the U.S... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3416 Ian Bailey Big fat deal. So we should accept such a gross invasion of privacy while there aren't many cameras, when it's very clear that this government's plan is for total surveillance of the entire... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3418 A very long time ago, I tried the cop career. I for some reason, found out I had the "nose". I would suddenly get the smell of booze, and start looking around... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3419 If a simple breath test requires a 20 minute wait you are obviously desperately short of police in your area. Admittedly the chances of being hit by a drunken driver are... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3420 zadoc They don't do breath tests, they just talk to each driver for a few seconds and pull them out of line for more testing if they appear to be under the... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3421 Ah, well, your population density is much higher! Still, if the police talk to them before testing, then it really cannot be called "random" can it? In an area with fairly low traffic flow, can... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3422 Brent P) I don't see it that way, though. One could make the same argument... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3424 Brent P) No one on usenet needs to defend their point of view, and it would be a waste of time and effort to try to do so. No one is tracking "every movement... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3425 So you're just a babbling troll. good to know. That's what this thread is about... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3426 Brent P) If you think so, don't read my posts or simply kill file me. I don't really care if you believe me or not. Have you always been this suspicious of... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3427 That's probably a good idea. Government is inherently not supposed to be trusted. Didn't you learn that growing up in the... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3429 zadoc One could, but those don't interfere with free travel (that's one of those rights that we theoretically have but IRL have, um, some of the time) or qualify as an... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3430 On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:26:22 +0000, Paul Hyett Just another in a long list of consequences of gun confiscation. If citizens were armed those cameras would be broken all the time... Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey 3431 zadoc Not at all. Someone might merely wish to avoid the inconvenience of having to wait for a roadblock, say, and not actually be drunk. Perfectly normal... Smart Move by LAFD Driver I just witnessed a smart move by a driver of an emergency vehicle of the Los Angeles (City) Fire Department. While responding to an emergency call, he was exiting the freeway (US... Smart Move by LAFD Driver One spring in Atlanta, I had all my windows open in stopped traffic, I was on the highway, just about even with the end on an on-ramp when I heard the... Psycho with cancelled license, superspeeds, hits tree, kills self and splits car in half Thank god this public menace is dead. Speeding Car Splits In Half On Impact With Tree POSTED: 7:18 am EST December 22, 2005 UPDATED: 12:23 pm EST December... U.S.A. demands Iraq protect prisoners a joke US demands Iraq protect prisoners After killing and cripppling tens of thousands and dropping hundreds of tons of plants in an illegal, unprovoked invasion justified with a mbuttive campaign of... U.S.A. demands Iraq protect prisoners a joke The truth will set us free from warmongering bastards like bush and cheney, and the wars that they start. Their lies will only cause more hell on earth. kb... HTF Did We Get Onto This Topic I see this from another perspective. I'm an IT professional and (unfortunately) many of my friends and family members know... TriNational Driver Database Driver License Agreement In the recent Immigration Bill (HR4437) as pbutted by the US House, there is a posion pill provision. Under Section 606 (c... GPS Tracking Coming to a DMV Near You 3444 DTJ I'd never defend any person, from Tim McVeigh to members of Al Queda, but lumping all Muslims together as a hate-filled religion is the same as saying that all Christians are...

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