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Posted on 03/02/2006 7:29:00 PM PST by Turbopilot
Ten cubits being outside diameter, and 30 cubits being the inside circumfrence?
Yes, it was, and you are correct that the 3 drivers in the left lanes were in violation. However there is more, they would be in violation if they were unknown to each other, the foreknowledge and agreement to violate the law is the necessary act to engage in a conspiracy, always a felony, and involve the right lane driver in the conspiracy.
They are felons and will be going on the lam faster than 55.
Bingo!
"Police, fire, DOT, they're all there to make your life easier and to ensure we get something in return for subjecting ourselves to society's laws. "
Are you stoned, or really that naive?
Either is scary to anyone who has learned what two of those agencies really do to ("for") the public.
And the fire department has it's ways of getting over on us as well, just not quite so often or obviously.
The video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5366552067462745475&q=%22meditation+on+the+speed+limit%22
As for me, I just wish that all politicians would go away and who the president of the USA is becomes completely irrelevant.
Why not base the national speed limit on the size of the state? Texas, being so large could have an 80 mph limit. You guys in Massachusetts? 20 mph. Not 15, not 25 --- 20!
Americans distrust government anyway, that's who we are.
But to flagrantly dare an American to flout the law is to invite wholesale disaster and eventually pitchforks. Maybe even a waterside tea party.
Conservatives fear the 'mob in the streets' that overcome our civil authorities' ability to maintain order.
Want to avoid a coup ? by Hillaryites ?
Bring back respect for the law, and parental authroity.
BUMP
Actually, in some jurisdictions it is against the law to not give way to faster traffic. I don't know about Georgia. So driving in four cars in a coordinated fashion in order to block all four lanes might be illegal. It certainly created a hazardous condition.
I started driving the speed limit on the Garden State Parkway about half a year ago, when some moron passed me on the right shoulder when I was driving in the slow lane at 15 mph over the limit. Now I drive in the right hand lane at 55 mph for the ten miles I am on this road. It costs me 2 minutes each way, my gas milage has increased 5 mpg, and I travel in a little bubble of slow moving traffic.
Some of the leadfoots here may have a problem with that, but the Garden State Parkway is six lanes wide, each way, at this stretch. I leave five lanes to the law-breakers. I'm just gonna follow the double nickel on that lane alllll the way to the right.
Agree that states should set it. But 60 is ridiculously slow for many parts of the country.
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Fair enough...
I completely lost my argument here, but this is the most belabored thread ever. I don't feel like I lost too much.
(OK YOU ALL "WIN"!!! Happy?)
One good thing about the EU is that the Teutonic Highway Sanity has permeated even .... Italy!
The Germans are very good drivers around town, going at a modest pace, obeying signals, signalling, watching for pedestrians, etc. Once out on the Autobahn, it is understood that the fast lane is for people who can (a) afford it by having good equipment, and (b) expect those lower on the automotive food chain to stay out of the way.
BTW, don't try having a bad tire, or a rusty vehicle. So you can imagine my shock when seeing all this sanity starting to be practiced on the Italian roads (well not Napoli).
So if you yearn for the kamikazi Euro drivers of your lost youth, I recommend Greece ... and Portugal. Whew!
Pretty funny!
Dead on about Germany.
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