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Ah, ouch. Did the fried finger taste nice?

Backstory on burned fingers?

You jest, but heated windhields have that effect on GPS devices...

How many people have spoofed HID badges?

Why not remove the back plate too? Makes the back of the car ugly. How about this? - Every car has a transponder in it, like an aircraft. - A unique ID based upon the car's VIN number and other secure factors is transmitted to other cars within 25'. - The Uniqe IDs that the transponder receives from other nearby cars are stored withthe GPS location and time/date. - The information can only be decrypted back to a VIN number by uploading the encrypted file to the transponder manufacturer. - The information would be turned over to the police only in response to a court order. - Anyone who has a transponder installed is exempt from having license plates. - Transponders on police cars / toll booths / speed cameras will warn the police if a car passes with no transponder or a non-working transponder AND the car has no plates. So, the result is: - Everyone's privacy is maintained - That jerk you cut off in traffic can't track you down by searching local court records for your license plate. - Everyone's cars look good with no plates. - License Plate Recognition would be a thing of the past. You can have controlled-access gates, garage doors, etc open for the transponder. - The police have the ability to get a court order to identify the cars near you for hit/skip or road rage prosecutions. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Headlights are just as good. Front plates are good for identifying vehicles that commit crimes.

I notice you didn't ask for pics of my brazillian taint?

Can you find 1.85$ on that thing?

I *had* a Brazillian. They also clean up my ass hair.

<hippy> No, you're part of the system, dude. Helping THE MAN sell more gas. </hippy>

Rear-ended someone? Simply back away until you're out of reading range then turn around and drive away. I like the front plate. If they want to plug that 1.65m hole then just drop the subsidy and charge the actual price for the plates. I want British plates. You can read them from 2x the distance of US plates.

Look at my avatar. My 7yo rides home from school on the back on my Strom. About 7 miles. Country roads except for a mile of 36/327. Starting in two weeks he'll be going to and from summer camp every day for 12 weeks - 15 miles each way. Rules: - No freeway yet - He has all the same gear as me. Armored jacket, armored pants, proper bike bootsm armored gloves and helmet - We have an intercom (Scala) so we can talk Some days I ride with him, some days I don't It's not a black or white thing. You can't just say "the kid is ready". I have to consider the weather (traction, specifically), time of day (rush hour? idiot hour? = car), the route, his mood an demeanor on the day (flighty and spacey = car) and how he's feeling (tired or sick = car) Once I can assure myself that he's got his head in the game, and I can ride a safe route in good weather on quieter roads outside of rush hour... Then it's a bike day. Some days he's not up or it, some days I'm not up for 2-up. I actually ride right past my house to get from my work to his school, so it takes 5 mins to drop off the bike and grab the cage instead. My boy loves to ride on the back of my bike. He's always asking to ride more. I pick him up from school in full gear and we get him geared up right there in the classroom. He's the coolest kid there. The look of pride on his face is worth a million bucks. To me it's more quality time with my boy before he gets old enough to go all emo and hate me.

Didn't I talk to you in Meijer about two months ago? I was the British guy the bright green jacket and my son was geared up with me.

We were *told* that the person who posted that blurb was the one who recorded the video. We have also been told a few different versions including the vidoe was turned over to the sheriff but never watched. I also heard one quote that the local sheriff told a biker that if HE would run him off the road if he saw him pass on a double-yellow. I'm looking for a news report or court docket. That's pretty reliable.

Any new information? All we have to go by right now is that unsubstantiated "the pickup driver was arrested" blurb.

Do i have to wear the official bubble-wrap uniform?

I have a habit of doing oil changes / coolant changes and then lazily leaving the container of oil or coolant inthe corner of my workshop. Figured I'd better clean up the dozen of so tubs of fluids so I started pouring the oil into a single large container that I could take to the auto parts store for disposal. I got to the one shallow plastic tub that had oil in it, and it also has some lumps in it. Oil with dissolved paper towels...? I started scooping the oil up and realised it was just a thin layer of oil on top of coolant. Unusual for me to mix fluid, but oh well. As I was trying to cram one of the lumps into the openeing of an old milk jug I suddenly realized that the lump had legs. And a tail. They were dissolved paper towels, they were dead mice. About half a dozen. It wasn't oil, it was decomposed mouse juice. I figure the mice had crawled up into the tub of coolant, attracted by the sweet smell. They they couldn't get out and drowned. Then decomposed. This tub has been in the corner of my workshop for about 8 or 9 years. Well, happy to report that that shocked me into cleaning my workshop up spotless. Disposing of all the fluids correctly etc. No more decomposed mouse juice for me...

Contact the BMV and ask about the process of claiming an abandoned vehicle. Otherwise park it in his dad's driveway.

I was using a hammer-stapler (used to stapling down roofing felt) to re-attach some insulation bats that came loosein my workshop. First 6 staples went in fine. Number 7 staple went in... my left index finger. I'm leaving the blood on the floor. More manly.

I am not toeing the "police" line. Your own prejudice is showing here. Just explaining the reason that it went down like that. I don't agree than dancing is protest, and I don't agree that protests are apparently illegal. I'm not supporting anyone.

Being drunk is no excuse. Where is the content??

Does this piss off anyone else, or is it just me?

Not an expert, so correct me if I'm wrong.... College football uses amateur athletes. As soon as a college player makes money from his status as an athlete he becomes a professional athlete and no longer eligible for college football. Tressel knew that his kids were making money from their athlete status, and he knew that made them ineligible to play. He "should" have benched and/or reported them but chose to allow those ineligible players to play. The lied about it in writing. We'll be lucky if the whole last season isn't invalidated.

Totally expected. He knew about infractions that made his players ineligible, yet he fielded the ineligible players anyway. Then he signed his name to a document pleading ignorance. I don't know if he had other options (Don't field the ineligible players? Report them and let them serve a small suspension?) but the combination of choices he made could only have led to losing his job. Sucks, becuase I've always had respect for him and always heard he was a really good guy. But rules apply to good guys too.

You don't get taken to jail unless you are arrested. I think you mean they won't get charged. The courts say that dancing is a form of protest, and protest is apparently not allowed I guess? I thought it sid they were warned in advance that they would be arrested if they did it, but they did it anyway. Obviosuly they did it just to get noticed. Again, if you are unhappy with a court decision then appeal it. Breaking the law and forcing a confrontation with the police is not the way to correct a court decision you don't agree with.