What Are You Doing Right Now
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@siringo you should see how we drive in Texas... One of our toll roads is 85 mph / 137 kph (posted) and it is nothing to roll 90 to 95.
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@siringo I don't have anything with 5 1/4 floppy drive anymore; was designed for I think the 286 generation of CPU. I just hold on to it for nostalgia
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@Dashrender In Canada, as I found out the hard way, they can impound your vehicle for going over 75 mph (120km/h) on the highway; fortunately I got off with a warning at the time.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You'd be done for hitting 80 down here. Loss of license on the spot, car impounded.
What the hell?
80mp/h equates to 128km/h. Most state maximum speed limite are 110kmh.
Different states have different rules about when it happens, but it's entirely possible to have your car impounded, lose your licence for 6 months, and collect >$1k worth of fines all in one go, in most states and territories. After a month, when you can have your car back, you have $900 to pay in towing and storage fees.Behave yourselves on the roads.
80 isn't even "fast" in most of the US. In the NYC metro, if you only go 80, you're a hazard in the way.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You'd be done for hitting 80 down here. Loss of license on the spot, car impounded.
What the hell?
80mp/h equates to 128km/h. Most state maximum speed limite are 110kmh.
Different states have different rules about when it happens, but it's entirely possible to have your car impounded, lose your licence for 6 months, and collect >$1k worth of fines all in one go, in most states and territories. After a month, when you can have your car back, you have $900 to pay in towing and storage fees.Behave yourselves on the roads.
Holy hell that's oppressive!
I just did a cross country trek and my average speed was more like 85 MPH, and I crossed 90 a few times.
sure the speed limit is 75, but meh.LOL, I regularly hold "over 100" between Dallas and Houston. Remember in Texas, if there's no traffic to put in danger, the speed limit doesn't exist by law. Speed limits are to protect others only here, if you are only putting yourself at risk, it's illegal for the cops to stop you.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo you should see how we drive in Texas... One of our toll roads is 85 mph / 137 kph (posted) and it is nothing to roll 90 to 95.
And believe it or not, Texans are considered "slow drivers" in the US. Coming from the northeast, it's painful how slow average traffic is in Texas. Texans drive closer to the speed limit than any other region of the country by a low shot. They have higher speed limits than most, but stay closer to them.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo you should see how we drive in Texas... One of our toll roads is 85 mph / 137 kph (posted) and it is nothing to roll 90 to 95.
And believe it or not, Texans are considered "slow drivers" in the US. Coming from the northeast, it's painful how slow average traffic is in Texas. Texans drive closer to the speed limit than any other region of the country by a low shot. They have higher speed limits than most, but stay closer to them.
In Colorado, Texans are the ones exiting the highway from the left lane, and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it. None of them can park.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You'd be done for hitting 80 down here. Loss of license on the spot, car impounded.
What the hell?
80mp/h equates to 128km/h. Most state maximum speed limite are 110kmh.
Different states have different rules about when it happens, but it's entirely possible to have your car impounded, lose your licence for 6 months, and collect >$1k worth of fines all in one go, in most states and territories. After a month, when you can have your car back, you have $900 to pay in towing and storage fees.Behave yourselves on the roads.
Holy hell that's oppressive!
I just did a cross country trek and my average speed was more like 85 MPH, and I crossed 90 a few times.
sure the speed limit is 75, but meh.LOL, I regularly hold "over 100" between Dallas and Houston. Remember in Texas, if there's no traffic to put in danger, the speed limit doesn't exist by law. Speed limits are to protect others only here, if you are only putting yourself at risk, it's illegal for the cops to stop you.
I've never heard that before - I have heard a rumor that Montana has no posted speed limits on some of their high ways.
And of course everyone knows about the autoban in Germany - the open highway has no speed limits. -
Another day, another set of flames with which to deal.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
I don't understand... please provide more info.
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Just found out my school is doing a full return to office work in a week. I don't like this.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
I don't understand... please provide more info.
What do you mean? When choosing a turn, you have to be as safe as possible. Obviously turning around is necessary when driving sometimes. So since u-turns are the safest type of turn, they are required to be used whenever possible, since "being safe" is the most important part of driving law.
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School got a shipment of 300 desktops in so I'm working on imaging them
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Also working on my documentation for my job for when I leave. I had to learn the environment from scratch with little help from anyone here. Next person shouldn't have to go through that. Hopefully I can move from desktop support to an admin at some point
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Doing my documentation as web pages with the info in .json, just because.
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finally got My personal loan Paid off.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You'd be done for hitting 80 down here. Loss of license on the spot, car impounded.
That is ~130 kph
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
I don't understand... please provide more info.
What do you mean? When choosing a turn, you have to be as safe as possible. Obviously turning around is necessary when driving sometimes. So since u-turns are the safest type of turn, they are required to be used whenever possible, since "being safe" is the most important part of driving law.
what makes u-turns the safest type of turn? versus what? a right or left turn? I'm just lost.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
finally got My personal loan Paid off.
Been Looking at apartments/Homes and man it's expensive.Why?
