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This might differ state to state, but I doubt. Through the miralce of the interweb:

The following summaries explain the law regarding the use, possession and production of falsified identification documents and the penalties for such actions.

COV 18.2-204.1. Fraudulent use of birth certificates, driver's licenses, etc.

• It is illegal to use another's identification as one's own.
• It is illegal to possess or sell an ID for the purpose of establishing a false identification.
• Persons who possess, use or distribute fake IDs are charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor. If the document is used to purchase a firearm, the charges increase to a Class 6 felony.

This comes from Virginia, and a quick search showed similar laws in NC and CA. It is illegal to own a fake ID, regardless of your intentions.

If you live in VA, you might have already done your part depending on how you voted! VA has some awesomely strict anti-spam laws which even make it illegal to route spam through VA, even if the spammer and recipient don't reside anywhere in VA. Do a search for "Virginia Computer Crimes Act", or just click here for VA Codes and Laws. As always, the EFF is a good place to look around too.

Now if VA would just get rid of UCITA... *sigh*

Well you're wrong. At least according to the State law you're supposed to keep right http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co d+46.2-804 and yield to faster traffic http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co d+46.2-842.1 . According to the State Police this includes when that traffic is exceeding the speed limit http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/022006 /02092006/166829 . Why you might ask? Because slow drivers in the left lane increase road rage incidents and cause more accidents.

Well you're wrong. At least according to the State law you're supposed to keep right http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co d+46.2-804 and yield to faster traffic http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co d+46.2-842.1 . According to the State Police this includes when that traffic is exceeding the speed limit http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/022006 /02092006/166829 . Why you might ask? Because slow drivers in the left lane increase road rage incidents and cause more accidents.

in Virginia traffic school, which I had to attend at age 16 over half my life ago. They said you do not have any obligation to move or go faster than the speed-limit whatsoever. This was from the county-enforced state-approved course taught AT the courthouse. Honestly, I think your type are assholes. But I'm too tired for a flame war right now so I will probably ignore your response.

As a former alumni of Va. Tech and former resident of Roanoke, VA, I would like to thank the Va. Tech talking heads, other liberal colleges around the state, campus police, Larry Hincker and all the other anti-gun crowd pundits who had a hand in striking down (illegally IMO) sound legislation (House Bill 1572); legislation proposed by the honorable Del. Todd Gilbert that would have allowed students and teachers, who hold a state-issued concealed carry permit, to carry a concealed gun on campus(es).

By there very unconstitutional actions they were complicit and abeted Cho Seung-Hui in the killings of 33 students yesterday at Va. Tech. There is no guarantee, but if the students/teachers of Va. tech would have been allowed to lawfully carry a concealed weapon on campus (without the fear of ejection from the college) this tragedy may have been averted. My sympathies to the families who have been affected by this insane action by a seriously disturbed murderer.

HB 1572
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+su m+HB1572

Virginia Tech's ban on guns may draw legal fire
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/xp-21770

A bill being considered in the House of Delegates challenges the authority of public universities to restrict weapons on campus.
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/49915

Gun bill gets shot down by panel
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/50658

College spokesman celebrated 2006 defeat because it would help make campus safe
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=55226

Va. Tech: Gunman Student From S. Korea
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/ap/natio nal/main2693365.shtml

As a former alumni of Va. Tech and former resident of Roanoke, VA, I would like to thank the Va. Tech talking heads, other liberal colleges around the state, campus police, Larry Hincker and all the other anti-gun crowd pundits who had a hand in striking down (illegally IMO) sound legislation (House Bill 1572); legislation proposed by the honorable Del. Todd Gilbert that would have allowed students and teachers, who hold a state-issued concealed carry permit, to carry a concealed gun on campus(es).

By there very unconstitutional actions they were complicit and abeted Cho Seung-Hui in the killings of 33 students yesterday at Va. Tech. There is no guarantee, but if the students/teachers of Va. tech would have been allowed to lawfully carry a concealed weapon on campus (without the fear of ejection from the college) this tragedy may have been averted. My sympathies to the families who have been affected by this insane action by a seriously disturbed murderer.

HB 1572
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+su m+HB1572

Virginia Tech's ban on guns may draw legal fire
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/xp-21770

A bill being considered in the House of Delegates challenges the authority of public universities to restrict weapons on campus.
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/49915

Gun bill gets shot down by panel
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/50658

College spokesman celebrated 2006 defeat because it would help make campus safe
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=55226

Va. Tech: Gunman Student From S. Korea
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/17/ap/natio nal/main2693365.shtml

There's a specific law against dealing fake drugs, though.

Are you sure about that? I can't speak to the federal system of laws, but at least in states that model their criminal codes after the Model Penal Code, there's no specific "attempted blah" crimes, but just an overall "a person commits an attempt when, with intent to commit a specific crime, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime" clause in the general section of the code. For instance, here's PA's, here's New York's, and here's Virginia's. (VA doesn't define attempt, but they have a generic attempt section.)

Now, the federal code is more twisted than the MPC, so it may explicitly define attempts. Anyone know?

(Of course, copyright infringement of the sort we're talking about here is more or less not a criminal matter so this doesn't really apply.) ...if they're the copyright holders, I have to believe that they're authorizing you to have it by distributing it like that

They aren't authorizing you to have it because they aren't distributing it. They're distributing random data.

Yeah, that's just another reason I left VA as soon as I could. VA doesn't see speeding as speeding, rather as willful endangerment of the welfare of others, AKA reckless driving. 80 in a 70? Reckless. Failure to use turn signals? Reckless. Tires chirped? Reckless. Which would all be fine and dandy if there weren't the other life-crippling pre and post-trial penalties that went along with it. "You'll have to find another way to work for the next month until your court date. Suck it up." Then your license is suspended for 6-24 months unless you're found not guilty, which is, let's be honest, unlikely. That might as well be a death sentence for single people who don't live in an urban environment. It can be hard to keep a job when you can't get there. Still need to get to work, but nobody's available to give you a ride? Well, you could try driving, but fortunately there are road blocks and other drivers to worry about, so even if you drive perfectly, you're still taking a huge risk. Oh yeah, if you get any of those reckless charges while your license was suspended, you're now a felon.

Wisconsin is worse. Cops just sit around and run the license plates of every vehicle that passes.

I know it's hard to believe that society wouldn't devolve into anarchy without such innane laws, but other states manage just fine without them.

Driving may be a "privelage," just as home ownership is a "privelage," but that doesn't negate its importance in the lives of most people. Cracking down on driving offenses only make criminals out of otherwise healthy and productive members of society. It's an effective way to keep tabs on people (since almost every driver is stopped at some point, be it a roadblock or otherwise), and fees/penalties are a huge source of income for the state. I'm not saying driving shouldn't be policed, but VA has taken it, and continues it's journey, off the deep end.

Yeah, that's just another reason I left VA as soon as I could. VA doesn't see speeding as speeding, rather as willful endangerment of the welfare of others, AKA reckless driving. 80 in a 70? Reckless. Failure to use turn signals? Reckless. Tires chirped? Reckless. Which would all be fine and dandy if there weren't the other life-crippling pre and post-trial penalties that went along with it. "You'll have to find another way to work for the next month until your court date. Suck it up." Then your license is suspended for 6-24 months unless you're found not guilty, which is, let's be honest, unlikely. That might as well be a death sentence for single people who don't live in an urban environment. It can be hard to keep a job when you can't get there. Still need to get to work, but nobody's available to give you a ride? Well, you could try driving, but fortunately there are road blocks and other drivers to worry about, so even if you drive perfectly, you're still taking a huge risk. Oh yeah, if you get any of those reckless charges while your license was suspended, you're now a felon.

Wisconsin is worse. Cops just sit around and run the license plates of every vehicle that passes.

I know it's hard to believe that society wouldn't devolve into anarchy without such innane laws, but other states manage just fine without them.

Driving may be a "privelage," just as home ownership is a "privelage," but that doesn't negate its importance in the lives of most people. Cracking down on driving offenses only make criminals out of otherwise healthy and productive members of society. It's an effective way to keep tabs on people (since almost every driver is stopped at some point, be it a roadblock or otherwise), and fees/penalties are a huge source of income for the state. I'm not saying driving shouldn't be policed, but VA has taken it, and continues it's journey, off the deep end.

Yeah, that's just another reason I left VA as soon as I could. VA doesn't see speeding as speeding, rather as willful endangerment of the welfare of others, AKA reckless driving. 80 in a 70? Reckless. Failure to use turn signals? Reckless. Tires chirped? Reckless. Which would all be fine and dandy if there weren't the other life-crippling pre and post-trial penalties that went along with it. "You'll have to find another way to work for the next month until your court date. Suck it up." Then your license is suspended for 6-24 months unless you're found not guilty, which is, let's be honest, unlikely. That might as well be a death sentence for single people who don't live in an urban environment. It can be hard to keep a job when you can't get there. Still need to get to work, but nobody's available to give you a ride? Well, you could try driving, but fortunately there are road blocks and other drivers to worry about, so even if you drive perfectly, you're still taking a huge risk. Oh yeah, if you get any of those reckless charges while your license was suspended, you're now a felon.

Wisconsin is worse. Cops just sit around and run the license plates of every vehicle that passes.

I know it's hard to believe that society wouldn't devolve into anarchy without such innane laws, but other states manage just fine without them.

Driving may be a "privelage," just as home ownership is a "privelage," but that doesn't negate its importance in the lives of most people. Cracking down on driving offenses only make criminals out of otherwise healthy and productive members of society. It's an effective way to keep tabs on people (since almost every driver is stopped at some point, be it a roadblock or otherwise), and fees/penalties are a huge source of income for the state. I'm not saying driving shouldn't be policed, but VA has taken it, and continues it's journey, off the deep end.

No, but I can show you where state laws have been redesigned for the Segway (look for "electric personal assistive mobility device", which makes it sound like a wheelchair or something). I'd love to know how much it cost to lobby that into law.

Here's the Virginia exemption.

In Virginia, Level 3 destroyed people's property without getting their permission. They keep trying to get the power of eminent domain to get land for free.

Here are some related links:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-14617
http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/10 40481.pdf
http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2004/11/are-we-back-in -business.html

Level 3 is just plain evil.

The average computer uses as much as two circus tents worth of coal to run on any given day.

Umm, any hard data (from an impartial site, please) for this? I'm guessing you pulled this out of your ass.

Reason why I don't believe it is that my building has thousands of computers, usually running all the time. One circus tent, according to De Boers (warning: large PDF), is 44x44x12 meters, or somewhat less than 23,232 cubic meters Your quote means that every day a computer uses about 46,464 cubic meters of coal every day.

To keep things in perspective, the United States produced about 2936986.3 tons of coal per day in 2003. Let's say that coal is about 52 pounds per cubic foot on average. That means we produced an average of 112,961,000 cubic feet of coal, or 3,196,796.29 cubic meters, per day. (2936986 * 2000 / 360 /52 * .0283), tons/year->lbs/year->lbs/day->ft^3/day->m^3/day)

If my math is correct (and I did do this in kind of a hurry, so be kind), your statement would mean that only 68 computers (3196796.29 / 46464) running all year long would exhaust the yearly coal production of the United States.

I don't think Virginia will.

http://www.vbbe.state.va.us/faq.html#4

Plus, it looks like Virginia is one of the states that requires a credit check and clean credit history. So if you did not pay your rent, or missed a credit card payment, they will not give you a law license. The link about has more info.

I just ran into this yesterday. VA DMV License plate checking/reservation won't operate properly with Mozilla, yet it will with IE. Here's the link

ahh Virginia...

Where drunk driving nets you a slap on the wrist (7 day license suspension, misdemeanor -- Virginia Driver's Manual [pg. 30]) and spamming sends you to jail.

I'm glad to see we have our priorities straight, and the dangerous people are being kept away from the rest of us.

I saw this one close up. True.com's hired a professional lobbyist to try to push a bill through in Virginia, and it resulted in this: The Online Dating Safety Act, HB2467

I was bird-dogging the House Science and Technology Committee meeting the day they dealt with it, and had a front-row seat on the results. Even among the most socially conservative legislators, it was seen as a company trying to legislate their business model for competitive purposes. Gotta hand it to the lobbyist, he took the True.com reps to all the right people. But in the end, it didn't really matter. When the bill came up, there was lots of snickering, and the bill died a quick and painless death.

I saw this one close up. True.com's hired a professional lobbyist to try to push a bill through in Virginia, and it resulted in this: The Online Dating Safety Act, HB2467

I was bird-dogging the House Science and Technology Committee meeting the day they dealt with it, and had a front-row seat on the results. Even among the most socially conservative legislators, it was seen as a company trying to legislate their business model for competitive purposes. Gotta hand it to the lobbyist, he took the True.com reps to all the right people. But in the end, it didn't really matter. When the bill came up, there was lots of snickering, and the bill died a quick and painless death.

I saw this one close up. True.com's hired a professional lobbyist to try to push a bill through in Virginia, and it resulted in this: The Online Dating Safety Act, HB2467

I was bird-dogging the House Science and Technology Committee meeting the day they dealt with it, and had a front-row seat on the results. Even among the most socially conservative legislators, it was seen as a company trying to legislate their business model for competitive purposes. Gotta hand it to the lobbyist, he took the True.com reps to all the right people. But in the end, it didn't really matter. When the bill came up, there was lots of snickering, and the bill died a quick and painless death.

Save some time, here's one link to cc: them all:

Stupid Legislators

California Sponsor: Asm. Fran Pavley (assemblymember.pavley@assembly.ca.gov)
Michigan Sponsor: Rep. Jim Howell (jhowell@house.mi.gov)
Texas Sponsor: Sen. John Corona (john.carona@senate.state.tx.us)
Virginia Sponsor: Rep. Joe T. May (Del_May@house.state.va.us)

Let your voices be heard!

Yep. The Commonwealth of Virginny doesn't do parole.

Wrong:
http://www.vadoc.state.va.us/offenders/community/o verview.htm

"inmates can earn a maximum of 4.5 days for each 30 days served"

This figures out to about 15%, so this spammer will serve at least 7.5 year before being paroled.

Not in Virginia, he won't.

As for rape: Va. Code 18.2-61(C) says that rape gets you five years to life. It also says that 10 year olds can commit rape, but the Commonwealth will have to do extra work to prove it. Va. Code 18.2-63 gets you a class 4 felony for CK with a minor between 13 and 15, unless it's by consent, then it's a class 6 felony if there's a three year age difference, or a class 4 misdemeanor if not.

To sum up: spamming is a maximum misdemeanor, unless you're a real sleaze, in which case it's promoted to a minimum felony. Sex with a minor gets you a middling felony (2 to 10 years and up to $100,000), unless it's consentual, then it's demoted to a minimum felony. In other words, bulk spamming AOL is the same to the state of Virginia as consentual sex with a minor. Maybe you don't like that, but that's the way the scale works.

P.S. Under Va. Code 18.2-370.2, if you have sex with a minor, you can't hang around schools. If only bulk spamming meant you couldn't hang around the Internet...

So what you are alleging is that statistically significant numbers of voters decided to game the system to create the impression that Kerry was winning? This has happened before, I'll admit; usually when an African-American candidate is running against a White candidate, a significant number of those polled will claim to have voted for the African-American candidate, so as not to appear racist. Governor Wilder of Virginia's election provided an excellent example of this. However, given the divisions of the electorate, people inclined to vote Bush aren't shy about it, and have few misgivings about telling people. And "lefties for Bush" is as electorally empty a category as "swift-boat veterans for Nader." Hence, I find the idea of People lie in exit polls as an explanation for the serious mismatch between exit polls and reported results to be fanciful.

Since you live in VA be sure to submit this http://www.sbe.state.va.us/hava/ElectionDay-Compla int-Form.pdf document.

VA Senators

VA Delegates

You can use the "Whose my legislator?" page to find out your employees, I mean representatives, if you don't know.

VA Senators

VA Delegates

You can use the "Whose my legislator?" page to find out your employees, I mean representatives, if you don't know.

The Virginia DMV site is excellent (http://www.dmv.state.va.us). Since VA has about 250 license plates (no exaggeration!), you can order them all online, including a preview of personalized plates. Also, license renewals, car registrations, tax payments, etc. can all be accomplished online (in firefox!) without trouble.
This is critical for us, because the wait at the DMV is usually 4-6 hours, even when you get there before opening.
The overall VA DOT site also has good info line which direction the HOV (express/commuter) lanes are going at any given time, and that info is in a fairly plain-html format that comes in handy when you want to load that information on a handheld.

"It is a criminal offense to vote absentee while remaining in the states."

Donno where you live, but in Virginia, for instance, that is SO NOT true. There is a whole list of reasons that are OK, from being away at school to being out of town on business to just having a long workday.

For Virginia's rules, visit: http://www.sbe.state.va.us/Election/AbsenteeVoting /absente1.htm

Many states have similar rules; a quick trip to you state's web site will get you the scoop...

HOUSE BILL NO. 751 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice on March 8, 2004) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate R. G. Marshall) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 20-45.3, relating to the Affirmation of Marriage Act for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. 20-45.3. Civil unions between persons of same sex.

A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage is prohibited. Any such civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement entered into by persons of the same sex in another state or jurisdiction shall be void in all respects in Virginia and any contractual rights created thereby shall be void and unenforceable.>

Don't they teach these stupid fucking state senators "bill writing 101" before they turn them lose on the legislature? This is worded so it voids ANY CONTRACT between any two people of the same sex, not just homosexuals looking for a marriage license. I guess it you're so ignorant that you're trying to enshrine hatespeach in the state's laws, little things like logic are beyond you.

The revolutionary physician who supervised America's first public asylum.

A novelist in the first half of the 19th century.

Yes, there were two.

• In addition to my salary, I would be paid a bonus of up to 20% of my annual pay, in cash, quarterly, subject to a good performance review (there were benchmarks established -- so much percent of the bonus for reaching so high a level of objectives met).
• They'd pay off my relocation expenses from my previous company. If I left within a year, I'd pay those expenses back.

Sometime around the end of June, when my first performance review was due, a memo went out. The bonus plan was becoming an annual payout at the fiscal year-end, instead of quarterly, and it was going to be half cash, half stock options. Much grumbling, but in the economy of late 2001, having a job was better than not having one.

Then right after September 11 (October 2, in fact), a bunch of us got laid off. The bonus-payout issue was raised. We were told (this is priceless) that a memo had gone out the day before, but our team hadn't gotten it because our project manager had forgotten to distribute it to us. The alleged memo said that effective with the last quarter (the first one where the deferred-bonus plan was in effect), all bonus payout was to be annual, at the end of the fiscal year, but now it would be all stock options.

Essentially what they did was, in stages and retroactive to the previous two quarters, convert a quarterly cash bonus retroactively to an annual stock-option award. That didn't sit well with me, and with the "keeping my job" incentive removed, I decided to see what my options were.

To make a long story short, the Virginia Department of Labor & Industry agreed with my interpretation, that since no employee signed any paperwork acknowledging the change in the bonus plan, the original offer letter's terms should stand. That I know of I'm the only person who fought them on this, but they didn't make me sign a confidentiality agreement so I made sure my co-workers knew. By the last day of December 2001 I had in my hand a check for 10% of my salary (6 months' worth of bonus) minus my relocation expenses. I probably could have quibbled over the meaning of "leave" versus "involuntarily terminated without cause", but by then I needed the money rather badly.

Get all the terms of your employment up front, in writing, and keep that paperwork safe!

" an incontrovertibly brilliant physician who brought the full flower of Moral Management treatment to Williamsburg"

From The Galt Figures. He was a major figure in American mental health history.

I'm a senior in computer engineering and I'm not too worried. This isn't like the textile industry where robots are poised to take my place. There will always be a need for someone to write firmware code, assembly or other tasks because computers aren't going to go out of style anytime soon.

Yeah, the market may be bad today, a year from today or even 5 years from today, but don't jump ship too soon. Assuming you had a BS in CE, a good employer of a non-CE, but computing-type job should see your BS and realize you can do more things than you were taught. I already have an AS in Civil Engineering, that shows I know other forms of engineering and transfers over the core classes so I don't have to overlap my classes. My dad got his BS in EE, but worked with chemicals for 15 years till his company was bought out but the new company went under. He now fixes electronic sensor machines for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality doing what he is educated for with a generous salary.

I guess the moral of the story is get the computer degree you are trying to get and in the long run it'll be okay.

My guess would be the local BBB, the State Attorney General, or anyone who will listen.

The determination is in the details. Ms. "Lincoln" is charged with a violation of Lincoln Municipal Code Section 9.16.230, which reads:

9.16.230 Public Nudity; Unlawful.

(a) It shall be unlawful for a person to, knowingly or intentionally, in a public place or in any place open to the public, appear in a state of nudity.

(b) 'Nudity' means the showing of the human male or female genitals or pubic area with less than a fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering on any part of the areola and nipple, or the showing of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

(c) This section shall not apply to:
(1) Any theater, concert hall, art center, museum, or similar establishment which is primarily devoted to the arts or theatrical performances and in which any of the circumstances contained in this section were permitted or allowed as part of such art exhibit or performance;
(2) Any dressing/changing room or restroom facility open to the public;
(3) Any person under twelve years of age; or
(4) Mothers who are breast feeding.

So, given part (c), she probably doesn't have the selective enforcement hook that the linked Virginia case turned on, other than the male/female topless selectivity thing that worked in Canada last year.

However, the government, if faced with an unconstitutionality claim, will have to state exactly what the compelling interest of the law is, and almost certainly it will be the same common law opposition to public nudity that is supposed to prevent people from being "shocked and offended." (Or driven mad with lacivious rage, or whatever.)

Now, for a conviction of a crime of intent (i.e., other than some kind of neglegence), scienter or "malice aforethought" must be proven. The defense in this case will almost certainly be able to prove an absence of malice, unless the procecution can produce a member of the public that observed the conduct depicted in the photographs and swears under penalty of purjury that they were shocked and/or offended. (With those breasts, I'm guessing you'd want a male for shocked and a female for offended.) The prosecution must also prove that the suspect was aware of the witness, or at least of the possibility of the witness's presence. The defense can counter with the likely fact, likely supported by witnesses, that (1) the indoor flashing was for a very brief period of time, and (2) the outdoor flashing was during a private party from which witnesses were being excluded.

In short, the prosecution has to prove, at the "beyond a reasonable doubt" level, that she was reckless about whether someone would be offended, which is not going to be easy.

What, exactly, in the constitution do you find to prevent a state from passing laws against public nudity?

For the topless-only pictures involved, it's the due process clause, in particular selective enforcement, in that guys can go topless and girls can't. Hey, don't look at me. It worked in Canada! Different constitution, but the exact same argument.

Anyway, laws prohibiting public nudity are frequently ruled unconstitutional as soon as some D.A. tries to enforce them, e.g. this case allowing erotic dancing in Virginia. That turned on, among other things, selective enforcement vis-a-vis nursing mothers. The details of the law are what make the real difference.

I demand a spear through the heart! (Delivered by a bare breasted maiden, of course.)

I wonder if this will bring along with it another tax on everyone's phone bill. This sounds similiar to the Local Number Portability charge.

Our local government is extremely inefficient. The DMV website of my home state (Virginia) is hailed as one of the best, yet it is nothing more than a frontpage index. We have an Online Transactions page which is supposed to keep you from waiting in the dreaded DMV line, but when you fill some of the forms you are greeted with an error message. It has been so for the past six months or so. I have filed numerous complaints, written letters to the DMV webmasters, filled a complaint form at my local library, and signed their contact form online, nothing changed.

It takes a week to verify a driver's insurance status, AFTER the reception of all the documents. These are not documents handed out from the driver him/herself, but are faxed/mailed by insurance agencies to the DMV!

Why on earth would the processing of an electronic document take a week? The DMV should design the format for its electronic forms, and have the insurance agencies use thos document forms/templates, and the DMV should invest in a tiny document processing software tool OCR or text,whatever, and be done with this dreaded 7 day queue. It doesn't even have to be a document, the question is "Does this driver have insurace, yes or no?" It is nothing more than a boolean flag, and I am waiting for seven days, so my local government can understand the meaning of Yes or No. If they don't have the resourced to implement this, then they should by all means open up the specs, and someone will implement it with the tools they already own, free of charge, and I am volunteering for this.

Most of the automated telephone help line for all the universities, courts, and government agencies (which I have used)are turned off AFTER business hours. I am wondering, why would an answering machine need to work only from 9 to 5, during business days? Do they pay the machine in overtime? You can not even get the directions or pay your dues with a credit card after business hours. The only exception to this is Fairfax County which handed out their tax-payment processing department to a privately operated hotline.

Our government is a well oiled machine when it comes to executing its boy projects (Global wars, high-tech survailance, duct-tape shilling, etc.) remember how fast the tax cut was approved and executed? but when it comes to the issues that matter to us citizens, it starts to develop arthiritic joints.

Our local government is extremely inefficient. The DMV website of my home state (Virginia) is hailed as one of the best, yet it is nothing more than a frontpage index. We have an Online Transactions page which is supposed to keep you from waiting in the dreaded DMV line, but when you fill some of the forms you are greeted with an error message. It has been so for the past six months or so. I have filed numerous complaints, written letters to the DMV webmasters, filled a complaint form at my local library, and signed their contact form online, nothing changed.

It takes a week to verify a driver's insurance status, AFTER the reception of all the documents. These are not documents handed out from the driver him/herself, but are faxed/mailed by insurance agencies to the DMV!

Why on earth would the processing of an electronic document take a week? The DMV should design the format for its electronic forms, and have the insurance agencies use thos document forms/templates, and the DMV should invest in a tiny document processing software tool OCR or text,whatever, and be done with this dreaded 7 day queue. It doesn't even have to be a document, the question is "Does this driver have insurace, yes or no?" It is nothing more than a boolean flag, and I am waiting for seven days, so my local government can understand the meaning of Yes or No. If they don't have the resourced to implement this, then they should by all means open up the specs, and someone will implement it with the tools they already own, free of charge, and I am volunteering for this.

Most of the automated telephone help line for all the universities, courts, and government agencies (which I have used)are turned off AFTER business hours. I am wondering, why would an answering machine need to work only from 9 to 5, during business days? Do they pay the machine in overtime? You can not even get the directions or pay your dues with a credit card after business hours. The only exception to this is Fairfax County which handed out their tax-payment processing department to a privately operated hotline.

Our government is a well oiled machine when it comes to executing its boy projects (Global wars, high-tech survailance, duct-tape shilling, etc.) remember how fast the tax cut was approved and executed? but when it comes to the issues that matter to us citizens, it starts to develop arthiritic joints.

About 3 years ago in Northern VA I saw a Honda with a license plate that said "AOL 50" with a AOL bracket around it. A quick check of the VA DMV plate selector shows that it is available again but "AOL 80" is taken, HAHAHAHA. I tried "ME TOO" but it's taken also. If you truely have no social life and you're quick you can probably get lifetime moderator by grabbing "VA LINX"

Please see this link. John Galt was an asylum superintendent with revolutionary ideas.

Code Of Virginia: SB 1139 HB 2290

Code Of Virginia: SB 1139 HB 2290

Will they drive a spear through the heart of the spammer? I would move back to Virginia just to be part of that.