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Try being poor sometime and being unable to get a driver's license or state issued ID card, unable to take time off of work to get one, unable to pay the fees, etc.

And yet the poor somehow manage to get an identification card for their welfare benefits.

In my state an id costs $20, I wouldn't call that a burden, and the fee is waived for the homeless.

Actually, the law basically states that if you are in the left lane and there is someone behind you, you are required to move over if it is safe to do so.

From http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/rules_of_the_road/rr_chap04.html:

When driving on an interstate highway or full access controlled freeway, a person may not drive in the left lane, except when passing another vehicle. Exceptions include when no other vehicle is directly behind the vehicle being driven in the left lane, when traffic conditions/congestion make it impractical to drive in the right lane, when weather conditions make it necessary to use the left lane, when there is an obstruction or hazard in the right lane, or when the driver is changing lanes to yield to emergency or construction vehicles.

Good catch. There obviously is a law that overrides that clause, as the judge specifically told the courtroom this before court, that having proof of insurance in court was not a valid defense, or something to that effect. Here's another reference:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/drivers/drivers_license/SR-22_uninsured_crashes/mipenalty.html

I was always under the impression that proof of insurance was a nicety. I rarely have kept my current insurance card on me, but I have always had an expired insurance card. *Nothing* on the card ever changes except the valid from-to dates, so if I ever did "need" it, I had my policy number, agent name, etc etc, and I could even tell you the correct expiration date. I also rarely get pulled over (Once every few years), so I didn't care. Until this last time, and I had to go to court to show proof of insurance. The fine was lower if you had valid insurance at the time I think, but you still got a fine if you did. Or maybe you (You meaning me) had to pay court costs, filing fees, etc that still amounted to a fairly significant amount. Whatever the case was, it wasn't "free" like it always had been in the past. So now I make sure I have the most recent insurance card on me.

I am not a lawyer, so I don't know. I assumed what the judge said was correct, but perhaps not. But I did land up paying.

Sorry, AC. I am the holder of about a dozen trademarks registered in Texas and Illinois. It is YOU who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Here's a link to the Secretary of State's application form for registering a trademark in Illinois to get your started in recovering from your snarky dumb-assedness: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/c2466.pdf

Yes, you can register trademarks state-by-state. You're the one who needs to do some research.

http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/rules_of_the_road/rr_chap08.html

When you're not sitting at tracks:
Flashing Red means stop and yeald the right of way.
Flashing Yellow means proceed with caution.

Flashing red for trains is usually accompanied by a bell and often a pike.
Trolleys in SF are the odd man out with their own unique system.

Here's a pretty good set of Right/Left turn on red rules for North America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_turn_on_red

you can get a note from the Mexican embassy saying in effect to give this person an ID with no further verificattion.

I'm not sure where you get that. Here is the list of documents the Illinois Secretary of State will accept in application for an Illinois DL/ID.

Frankly, their requirements are a bitch. A close friend of mine was in document situation in which we figured out the easiest way for her to get an Illinois ID was to return back to Ohio and renew her Ohio ID and bring that with her to Illinois.

Having said that, your complaint was that the SOS would take "a note from the Mexican embassy." Arguably, that's all a passport is--a document issued by an embassy.

If the states are going to issue an ID in any name with no proof this pretty much means the ID has no value.

Please repeat this to yourself over and over again. It doesn't matter what documents you use to get the ID, the ID's value, at most, only equals the value of the documents which were submitted in application. Unfortunately, we treat it otherwise and think that somehow the document is magically better than what was submitted in the first place.

I have been saying for some time now that licenses should read "This document not guaranteed for identification purposes, third parties use at their own risk." Apparently such a warning is found on licenses issued by the state of South Australia, Australia.

Wow. Lots of venom in the parent.

Note that, at least in my state, we are required to stay at the right-most edge of the lane and avoid major highways, on which non-motorized vehicles are banned. There really isn't an applicable minimum speed on any normal roads that I'm aware of, but, if there were, note that the laws in my state limit the scope of those limits to motorized vehicles capable of safely operating at such speeds.

Illinois Rules of the Road:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/rul es_of_the_road/rrtoc.html

Relevant legislation:
http://www.winthropharbor.com/ordinance/ord_title7 _ch71.asp
  71.004 MINIMUM SPEED REGULATION.
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and regular movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation of his vehicle or in compliance with law.

(ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5 11606(a)) Penalty, see 70.99

(IANAL)

In Illinois, it is technically illegal to enter an intersection on the yellow.

I don't buy it. If it were illegal to enter on yellow, they would need another color to let you know that the light is about to turn yellow. Otherwise, if you're 5 feet from the intersection going, well, just about any speed, and the light turns, how are you supposed to stop? Maybe if you're already stopped (for example while waiting to turn left) it's illegal to enter on yellow, but there's no way it can be illegal to enter if you're already moving.

The Illinois Rules of the Road say nothing about it being illegal to enter on yellow.

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Damned straight. Corporations like the World Wildlife Fund and The United Way and the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm).

Damned straight. Corporations like the World Wildlife Fund and The United Way and the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm).

Damned straight. Corporations like the World Wildlife Fund and The United Way and the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries are going to ruin the Earth. We should outlaw all corporations! That will fix everything. If we get rid of corporations, everyone will have jobs and food and there will be world peace and all the happy little nerds can read Slashdot in their parents' basement while drinking Free Beer(tm).