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  1. Re:Weird by Nf1nk · · Score: 2, Informative · on Washington Woman Sues RIAA for Attorneys Fees

    Just to the north of the city, the local authorities have a speed limit sign which is 25mph, which is lower than the speed limits in most other parts of the state. The officers there have been instructed to pull people over several blocks into the speed zone, and to only do so for people that are doing at least 11 over the limit.

    This is why California has speed trap laws http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/trans/trafficoperatio ns/pdf/SpeedLimitsBrochure.pdf and has given people the right to challenge a speed limit that is improperly low, and also requires frequent road speed surveys if the city wishes to enforce the speed limit on a stretch of road.
  2. Re:Vehicles that burn calories by Deideldorfer · · Score: 0 · on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth?

    Something like this?

  3. Re:Rise up, my brethren! by stan7826 · · Score: 1 · on We Are All Nerds Now

    Heh. And here I've been driving around for 20 years with a vanity plate on my car that says IMA NERD Perhaps it's time to turn it back in and get something different.

  4. Re:GM Actually Did Kill off Streetcars by update() · · Score: 2 · on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died?
    Damn Slashcode.

    Let's try this again: a short debunking of the myth and a scholarly article in Transportation Quarterly.

    They preview fine -- let's see what happens.

  5. Re:GM Actually Did Kill off Streetcars by Jiro · · Score: 1 · on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died?

    Try this link. It pretty debunks the idea. Also this. GM was convicted of conspiring to monopolize "supplies"--that is, to force the companies it owned to buy all their busses from GM. Not of driving streetcars out. Streetcars had already peaked in 1920 and were in decline for a long time. And streetcars were replaced by busses all over the world, including in locations which had no connection to GM and where the busses did not come from GM, and even by companies in Los Angeles which were not owned by GM.

  6. Re:Pac Bell better than reputation by Stan+Schwarz · · Score: 1 · on On the Reliability of DSL Providers...

    I have PacBell DSL in Pasadena, and I'm pretty happy with it. Their mail server sucks, but I run my own. I got in on the original deal with a static IP with basic service, so I run my own mail and web servers. But the connection is good. According to Big Brother I have only 0.13% downtime for the last 52 weeks.