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I scrolled away thinking it was a scare video.

Looks like they ran out of material and sewed together scraps.

Hope all recover.

10tv is reporting that speed and alcohol are likely factors and that he wasn't wearing a helmet. http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2011/09/05/columbus-70-closed.html

Performance varies place to place. In Dublin I could get 1m on my 3g but at my house I got no better than 300k. Most of the time I got about 100-150k. This was tethering 3g through my BB storm.

Chill out. I was talking about 4g before you butted in. Levity is not your style?

Glad I don't owe him money.

Am I right in believing that the portable breath test can be refused without consequences as they are not as accurate as the big machines, but the big breath machine on the desk at the cop shop is trusted to be accurate and cannot be refused without consequences...?

The standard penalty for first OVI in my area was always 3 month suspension, work driving privileges after 30 days. 30 days in jail, 27 days suspended, 3 days traded in for drug/alcohol interdiction program. I see that a class 5 suspension is 6 months. When did that change? Must have been in the last 5-6 years. There is a difference between OVI and OVI per se. OVI means they have to prove impairment (poor FST performance = impairment) and OVI per se is when your alcohol concentration (blood, breath, urine etc) is above the prescribed limit. They don't have to prove impairment for OVI per se - it is assumed. OVI Refusal is NOT "Failure to control". Refusal leads to a longer Administrative License Suspenion (1 year?) , but it's still an OVI charge - just not OVI per se. Failure to count to ten is likely going to be entered as evidence of impairment. You can legally deny all fo the SFSTs and you refuse to blow in the bag at the side of the road - but expect that your next stop is the station where you will be required to give a sample of blood/breath/urined etc that you cannot refuse. Or at least you will be charged for that refusal. There is no right to remain silent as the 5th amendment relates to testimony, not blood/breath/urine.

Works ok for browsing if you use their proxy that downloads all the components of your chosen website to their servers then sends it to you in one package. Otherwise you're stuck with the 2 second ping time that makes online gaming or "chatty" protocols like rdp, netbios impossible.

You've have 4g for 6 years? Sweeeeeet. Wait, wait, let me munge someone else's quote for this... (My wife is in IT and works from home, she has rdp, file shares and other crap running over the VPN all day long)

$10 a gig? Yeah, Once you've hit your limit then the next time you download a DVD it costs you $50. I don't think most people have the slightest clue how much data they download in a month. I had to reflash an old wrt-54g router wtih dd-wrt to get monthly usage stats which is how I know I run between 30 and 40 Gb a month. That's $300-400 per month. Unless you know how much data you use you'd be ill-advised to sign up for a hard limit. That would be like buying a bike but not knowing how much you're gonna pay for it until the check clears (or doesn't).

Will skip.

Did he attach his pump to your service port?

You can be convicted of ovi for performing poorly on the field sobriety tests even if you haven't touched a drop. Nerves, adrelanine, balance, old injuries, current injuries etc all play a part. Heck, with my ankle injury recently I couldn't balance on that foot stone cold sober until halfway through physio. (The officer should ask, or be told, about injuries that could affect your performance and he or she should adjust the tests to account for that). I don't trust the field sobriety tests that require you to walk or balance. HGN is fine and reciting the alphabet should never be a problem to a sober person. I'd just ask for a breathalyser. But I've never been pulled over on suspicion of OVI. If you've been individually hand-picked out of the flow of traffic for investigation of OVI then you've probably done SOMETHING to get the cop's attention.

I can't stand trick plays where the intent is to make the other team think that the play hasn't started. Horrible sportsmanship. Now fake punts, statue-of-liberty and other plays are fine as long as the opposing team knows the play has started. Could you imagine the same thing playing out in other sports? That would be like the pit crew announcing on the radio at the start of a car race that the green light will show but's it's a fault with the system so just stay put, then having their own cars floor it. Or it would be like a boxing coach yelling out "We're just going to test the bell" so that they when bell is run 2 seconds later his own guy starts pummeling the unprepared opponent.

I told him I'd buy the car and pay him an extra $5000. $3k for the shipping agent and $2k for himself. I'll send him a check, Please just western-union the difference to...

Nobody who has 4G service where I live also has unlimited data. 10G limits don't reflect the reality of home users, streaming video etc. If you run Verizon 4G at full speed (18Mb/s) constantly you'll burn up 8.1G in an hour. use up your 10G allowance in 74 minutes. If you continue at full speed constantly then your overage charges will be $64,000. I have remotely logged in to my home cctv from work (16 channels full motion video) and accidentally left it running when I went home for the weekend. 3 days later I burned up enough data that it would have been about $6k of overage if I had been on verizon. Still want limited 4G?

Verizon is limited to 5G or 10G depending on plan. $10/g over that. According to my router I burn up 35G per month = $330/mo internet if I went with Verizon 4G. I use a local wireless provider called NexGenAccess. It's a small operation so recovering from storm damage outages can take a day or so, but it's $37/mo for 2Meg when my only other choices are 3G (slower) 4G (capped), dialup (yeah,right) and satellite (BTDT, pingtime sucks).

If he refused to provide a sample and the police lost the opportunity to collect the sample then he will be charged with OVI Refusal and I don't see how a lawyer will help that unless there are other unrelated procedural problems that the lawyer might discover. OVI Refusal is a common concept in law across many countries in which you are assumed to have refused to provide a sample because you knew you were drunk. In the UK it's called "Failure to proved a specimen for laboratory analysis". Generally the penalties are exactly the same as if you had been drunk - this prevents people from evading OVI simply by refusing to provide a sample. When you sign up for your license you agree that you will provide a sample when asked or else lose you license. Now, whether OVI refusal is enough to he was drunk for his CHL is another matter... The refusal + poor performance on the FST + testimony from the officer that he smelled alcohol = bad news for the defense.

Wise choice to walk away. There are better deals out there. The nicest bike in the world doesn't do youthe any goodmore if you can't ride it. Jbweld on the case means you should plan on a new engine or trans. If someone tries to sell you a bike or car that "just needs x" then ask yourself why HE didn't fix it and ask for more money. Good call.

Narcolepesy, or more specifically, cataplexy?

You know, I think this is just crazy enough to be real. But just because the biek is still upright doesn't mean the rider was safe - looks like he got to test out the new James Bond motorcycle ejector seat. Any news on the rider?

Is that anyone on here? Headed southbound on a sportbike with his left leg in a full-length metal brace - dangling off the side of the bike with his toes only a couple inches from the ground because he apparently couldn't put his foot on the peg.

When I read that line I had to put my coffee down because I was laughing to hard to hold it steady.