Saturday, 19 July 2008
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| WE MUST BRING BACK THE 55 MPH SPEED LIMIT laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE 12:35:57 |
| | These soaring gas prices make it a 2 + 2 is 4. We simply have to cut
back on consumption. And the 55 would also save thousands of lives a
year just like it did in the 70s.
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
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| WTF? MC Pee Pants 20:02:08 |
| | What's up with this site?
http://www.goingoutside.com/lakes/100/1007319.html
It looks like a bot wrote the info. I've never heard of several of the
places listed, and the ones that are listed are incorrectly described.
This one is my favorite:
http://www.goingoutside.com/lakes/100/1006255.html
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Friday, 27 June 2008
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| Higher speedlimits = no increase in collisions or severity there of Brent P 23:51:31 |
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http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2442.asp
"Mannering used a statistical model to calculate accident probabilities
based on his own examination of data from 390,000 accidents recorded by
the Indiana Vehicle Crash Record System. After applying the model, he
concluded that the increased speed limit had no effect on the
probability of suffering an accident nor did it increase the severity of
accidents that did occur.
In 2006, only 5.78 percent of the state's accidents were caused by
unsafe speed, a decrease from 2004. The study also noted that a 15 MPH
increase in the speed limit did not produce a 15 MPH increase in the
actual speed traveled. Instead, real speeds increased only 12 MPH. "
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| Re: Mexican Narco-Terror Crossing Border into USA B1ackwater 23:15:04 |
| | Just end the 'drug war' and the 'narco-terror' problem
goes away overnight ... along with a big chunk of your
tax burden. As a bonus, you get several parts of the
constitution back plus the right to feel good when you
sing that "Land of the Free" bit at the ballpark.
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| Top Gear: BMW M3 beats Prius in fuel economy Brent P 22:42:31 |
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http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2445.asp
"It was one of the dullest drives of my life, but in the interest of
science I stuck with it," Clarkson said. "Seriously, what I'm saying is,
it isn't what you drive that matters, it's how you drive it. That is
everything."
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| Explain This Scott in SoCal 22:06:56 |
| | So I'm sitting in the left turn pocket behind a couple of other cars.
The left turn arrow is red, but the through lanes have a green. The
through lanes are completely empty when a blonde in a white Jetta
pulls up and comes to a complete stop AT THE GREEN LIGHT. After a few
moments, she realized the light was green and pulled through the
intersection, just as the light turned yellow.
Can you explain this behavior?
Here's my theory: as she pulled up, she saw a bunch of cars stopped,
and figured the light must be red, so she stopped also. Dunno how a
big bright green ball could escape a sighted person's attention for
several seconds, but that's the best explanation I can come up with.
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"Dave's not here, man!"
- Tommy Chong
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| EZ Pass question Anthony Giorgianni 19:08:29 |
| | Hello All
This is for those familiar with EZ Pass.
I just got one (NY) and didn't want to use the tape on my windshield. So I
got three clear suction cups (about 1 1/4 inch each) with narrow wire hooks.
I straightened out the hooks and placed the wires between the two sides of
the Dual Lock mounting tape to hold the cups. For the third one, I attached
another piece of Dual Lock horizontally between the other two pieces. and
inserted the wire. The three cups hold hold the EZ Pass transponder nice and
tight on the glass next to my inside mirror (92 Explorer).
Is there any reason to believe that the suction cups will interfere with the
signal? I know you can buy suction cup holder for EZ Pass. But in my case,
the cups are blocking a lot of the EZ Pass surface between the transponder
and windshield, so I don't know. This radio transmission, so I'm thinking it
shouldn't matter.
Thanks.
Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please post back to the group
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| OT: your congressman sucks Nate Nagel 18:31:58 |
| | http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20fisacnd.html?ref=technology
Why are the Democrats not standing up to GWB? Why don't real
conservatives break ranks with the GOP? I'm disgusted. Oh, it's OK to
break the law if the White House tells you to do so? Guess it really is.
nate
--
replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
http://members.cox.net/njnagel
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| Operation Coordinates: 20.71% Carl Rogers 11:48:45 |
| | Hi Viatologists,
As of 27-Jun-2008, the Worldwide Transportation Library provides geographic
coordinates for 20.71% of its 2,216 road photographs. Through retroactive
action, the 'Operation Coordinates' program will over time increase the per
centage of photographs containing coordinates.
Cheers,
Carl Rogers
"Adding human experience to transportology"
********
Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL):
http://wwtl.info
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Complete coverage of international roads and railways.
Since 2000, we offer several photographs, videos and
Virtual 360 demonstrations -- free of charge.
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| Re: Why LLBs Never Get Ticketed in CA Rahul Dhesi 08:44:42 |
| | N8N <njnagel@hotmail.com> writes:
There is no basis for it; you made that assertion.
Ah! The old "you made that assertion" tactic!
You could not refute what I wrote, so you rewrote it, then refuted what
you wrote, thus in effect refuting yourself.
--
Rahul
http://rahul.rahul.net/
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| Re: OT: Newsflash: Scotus rules on DC gun ban Brent P 00:56:14 |
| | On 2008-06-26, N8N <njnagel@hotmail.com> wrote:
Holy. f'ing. crap. I am pleasantly surprised to see that the SCOTUS actually ruled according to a strict historical interpretation of the Constitution on such an important case. The bad news, of course, is that looking at which justices voted which way, it appears that this is still a liberal vs. conservative issue, instead of being a Constitutional issue - in other words, I suspect that many people will interpret this decision as being a political one and it will still be debated for years to come.
Well at least they didn't give local governments unfettered ability to
'regulate' firearms. Some of the predictions I heard were along the
lines of the council of nine saying it was a right to have a gun but the
states and local governments could make it impossible to have one
legally. Thankfully they clearly decided that DC's gun law went too far.
Ground held for a little while longer.... guess the government will
still need to use natural disasters as an excuse for their gun grabbing
for a little while longer.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
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| Re: LLB Wake-up Call! Necromancer 23:57:24 |
| | On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:39 -0700 (PDT), Rayvan
<rvannuland@cachevision.com> wrote:
'bout time...
I totally agree.
" Poking along in the left lane? Prepare to pay By Jenni Hogan SEATTLE -- Even if you're going the speed limit it might not be enough to prevent you from getting a ticket if you're holding up traffic in the fast lane. State troopers are on a mission to make sure the left lane on area freeways is used for its intended purpose: passing. "We're doing 58, 59 miles an hour and they are just sitting there, traffic's passing them on the right hand side," Trooper Keith Leary said while pointing out a car in the left lane of Interstate 5. "That's exactly what we don't want to see happen."
Now if we could just get our resident troll to do this in Seattle.
Maybe it can be fined into bankruptcy and possiblly get a stretch in
the cooler for assulting a cop or two....
--
Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS (a.k.a. SFB) admits to being
a deadly speeder, psychopath and criminal coddler:
"> Have you ever driven a car faster than the legal speed limit?
Yes, but never deliberately. In fact i got a speeding ticket about 5
years ago for doing 41 in a 25. I just about kicked the cops teeth in
cause i was sure he was lying. No way the SL on this wide open
stretch could be 25, i thought."
Pride of America (c.k.a. Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend/
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE/Speeders And Drunk Drivers
Are Murderers (SADDAM)), 10/3/2002
Message-ID: <3c1753f7.0210030916.7b6f5dff@posting.google.com>
http://tinyurl.com/5u4wg
Proof that POA is LBMHB/lbVH/SADDAM:
See the following: http://tinyurl.com/ahphj
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| Re: Driving 45 mph on interstates Brent P 22:29:34 |
| | On 2008-06-25, oprah.chopra@gmail.com <oprah.chopra@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there anything unsafe about driving 45 on interstates ( exception being congested freeways ). I am a cyclist and find it perfectly safe to cycle in traffic much faster than me. So I dont see how going 45 on the interstate would be any less safe. Even if someone hits you doing 70, that is only a 25 mph differential which is nothing.
A bicycle is small and easily passed. A car is not. 45mph on an
interstate in otherwise free-flowing traffic is a hazard.
25mph differential in a crash with another car will probably total both
of them.
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| Today's Cellphone Zombie Scott in SoCal 22:24:41 |
| | Fat, fugly, middle-aged woman driving a taxi in the #1 lane, going 10
under the posted limit, and has a cell phone plastered to her left
ear.
She'll be one of the first to get a ticket next week. 
--
"Dave's not here, man!"
- Tommy Chong
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| Re: King Richard puts your federal gas tax money to work. Brent P 21:57:24 |
| | On 2008-06-15, JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com> wrote:
Like many urban areas Chicago is in a pollution action zone, which limits new road construction and encourages transit development. Kill all transit and the roads would be gridlocked and the air really suck...JG
Who said anything about killing transit. I think transit should be
encouraged by making transit BETTER. Instead in chicago transit is
encouraged by making driving suck more. Because of this transit does not
improve, it often suffers service cutbacks and other things that make it
worse. Then they do something to make driving suck more. It's a vortex
of suck.
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| OT: what freedoms have we lost? Brent P 18:58:13 |
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This keeps being asked by the neo-cons following this NG...
HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/seizinglaptopsandcameraswithoutcause
Or is not a problem until it happens to you?
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| This one ought to give Scott (and a few others) a shudder Necromancer 15:47:59 |
| | http://tinyurl.com/5t53uk
I guess the chances of it actually happening are slim,but in this day
who knows?
--
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"Foley, we should have known it was you...."
--From the movie Beverly Hills Cop.
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| Operation Coordinates: 20.49% Carl Rogers 12:11:35 |
| | Hi Viatologists,
As of 26-Jun-2008, the Worldwide Transportation Library provides geographic
coordinates for 20.49% of its 2,216 road photographs. Through retroactive
action, the 'Operation Coordinates' program will over time increase the per
centage of photographs containing coordinates.
Cheers,
Carl Rogers
"Adding human experience to transportology"
********
Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL):
http://wwtl.info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Complete coverage of international roads and railways.
Since 2000, we offer several photographs, videos and
Virtual 360 demonstrations -- free of charge.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
********
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