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Posted on 07/07/2007 7:42:30 PM PDT by Babu
Well hey that makes me feel better. At least a little of it goes to a Freeper. Just for that you've gotta kick in an extra fin to Jim Robinson.
I ask, what are these "stickers"?
Toll stickers
No Toll roads here...
Sorry to not get back sooner. I was tied up on another thread. I agree with you exactly, but the cameras are enormously expensive and local governments absolutely depend on the revenues they generate to keep them in operation. Also, I think the gist of the post is that they are actually causing some of the wrecks.
You are right about the governments’ intellectual honesty as regards use of the cameras. Of course, also, there is no such thing as intelligent government.
Mythbusters had a show where they tried some commercially available "license plate obscuring" products. None of them worked well enough to keep the camera from getting a clear photo.
Thanks for your contribution. I share your dim view of Stalinists. However, this paragraph is devoid of useful information, and as best I can tell, has no relationship to the topic being discussed. What point were you trying to make?
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these gummit people will get us killed......
When I learned how to read ... I learned.
Now, I read automatically. I even find myself scanning a little ahead to find or keep the flow of my reading 'voice' in my head.
If there was a reading police subliminally tapping my subconscious and correcting what hasn't been strictly taught, I'd perhaps lose the love of reading and read slower, with less comprehension and re-call.
I drive a big truck, and the most enjoyable time for me is between 12 midnight and 5 AM. Why? The only ones on the road are other big truck drivers all synched with each other by their experience and 'love for the road' (translation ... we make pretty damned good money)
Our problems come not from each other, but by the 4 wheelers (cars) that start to show up at morning rush hour.
Instead of pedal to the metal, jabbering on the CB and otherwise occupying the 90% of our brains not driving, we flip flop and use 90% of our brains trying not to kill stupid drivers.
Once it becomes known and common that there is a red-eye (sometimes white) 'cop' at a light .. an additional factor is thrown into the mix and driving is no longer fun and the result of a 'learned' skill. It becomes a task that one needs to be constantly checking and re-checking to see if the t's are crossed and i's dotted.
I love to read and I love to drive ... and I don't like intrusions into my stream of conciousness.
And the correlation with cellphone usage during those years was...?
Cellphone users are big "rear-ender" causers, due to the human inability to "multi-task".
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the thread police wouldn't allow me to pipe in with an opinion about increased surveillance and overhead cameras.
I believe the show where I saw this was on MSNBC, yesterday. I can't find a link about it right now, but it was about a gang of people who attacked one or more women in plain sight of the police.
My point is that the government will use any excuse to increase surveillance cameras - and they are getting us used to that increased surveillance with the red light cameras at every intersection.
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