Posted on 12/06/2005 10:24:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
"I'll set sail first. As we sink further into a third world police state, the real third world looks better all the time."
Amen to that. The real third worlders are too busy with internal strife and insurgencies to worry about someone who just wants to be left alone.
Makes me miss my old '72 Torino. I'd like to see someone keep me from ripping it out of that. That thing had $15 worth of electronics and could run on anything. One thing's for sure. I'm NEVER getting rid of my '87 T-Bird. It wouldn't take much at all to convert it to carburetor and tear out the computer.
The second this happens it's time to start a web page listing everyone who will be running against their local politicians.
Mandatory GPS in all cars : I wonder if the government will force all cars which cannot be retrofitted with GPS to be turned in to them with a 90 day grace period, and if you turn it in within that grace period you get a huge discount on a new GPS-enabled car...of course those who refuse to turn their cars in will have their cars seized without warning.
You know, I kind of remember hearing a story on the Alex Jones Show where some county government somewhere in America was going to start refusing to grant license plates to all cars 15 years or older. Wouldn't surprise me if the government forces all non-GPS cars to be turned in...wouldn't surprise me either if the government forces all analog TVs and all analog radios to be turned in either when HDTV and HD-radio are in full-swing.
I've always wondered how they're gonna get rid of analog landlines...
Maybe they'll just start increasing taxes on landline use and lower the prices of cable internet and VoIP...then when enough people are using cable internet and VoIP, they'll shut down the landlines all at once. When that happens, RIP dial-up internet. Would dial-up internet service companies such as NetZero go along with it?
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That's weird, I've swapped out my toll tag to a different car without any problem. I don't think I even entered the right license plate number, I just did what I thought it was on the top of my head.
Your time will come !!
Maybe it's only the newer installations that look at the plate, my "capture" was going thru' the toll plaza at 190 & Preston which is of course fairly new compared with the Tollway etc.
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