However, I bought the bike used....the new pipes on it were already there when I bought it. So, in my eyes...they are the original pipes "I" got. I didn't get the original OEM ones when I bought the bike.
But aside from that...it isn't like this law is enforced (thankfully). No one checks your bike for 'sound'...or emissions. Hell, they don't do that for cars either....the Borla exhaust system on my old 911 turbo I used to have, used to not so much be LOUD...but, rumbled very, very low....I used to have fun setting off car alarms that were sent too sensitive when driving through a parking deck, or the French Quarter...
" So all these people tampering with their exhaust systems- removing the mufflers and replacing them with "louder" ones, are all breaking the law.
To my knowledge, there is little or no enforcement of such laws. I am not sure why, though... since it *should* be part of most states' annual inspections. But, I see unsafe and maladjusted vehicles all the time with valid state inspection stickers."
It is perfectly legal to change out your exhaust system with 3rd party pipes. They are approved in order for them to sell them, with the exception of straight pipes, which have warnings saying they are only legal for off road use.
And not all states require inspections for vehicles.....varies from state to state. And, even states that do inspect....each has different requirements. For instance I now live in a state that does inspections, but, only to test for lights, brakes..etc. I've never lived anywhere where they have exhaust sniff tests for emissions.
"I have to agree with you, anonymous coward. I have a motorcycle. And it is *QUIET*. I have a motorcycle because it is fun, efficient, and fast. I don't think the definition of a motorcycle should include annoying the crap out of everyone around you."
Hmm...well, I bought Cobra pipes...they are perfectly legal. They have a nice, tuned rumble....I don't gun it though neighborhoods at night, etc. Are they louder than the stock ones I had? Yes. Are they horribly obnoxious, IMHO, no. But, then again, some people probably get annoyed at the stock pipes on many bikes.
I"m certainly WAY below the decibel level, and house shaking ability than many of the cars I see driving around with stereos at full blast...pumping out nothing but earthshaking bass (do those guys even know what a midrange or tweeter speaker is?).
"Price of a Vette? HA. That car featured as a headline has 1000 HP (same as the $1.5m+ Veyron) and claims to go 200 miles WITHOUT GAS, and it looks much better than anything else in Detroit. And you want it for the price of a Vette? You'll be lucky to see this vapor-car for less than $500,000, if ever. Everyone is so demanding of EVs and wants them for nothing. Being on the bleeding edge of technology isn't cheap."
I'm just saying..that when they can get these electic cars to a state where you can get one that looks like a cool 2 seater sports car (I've never owned anything in my life with more than 2 functional seats), and has performance numbers, for a reasonably affordable price (a vette is in my range), let me know and I'll be near the front of the line to go 'green'.
I'm not all the interested in where the energy comes from...BUT, after seeing these cars, like the Aero EV, I'm glad to see that another company besides Tesla are going to start making them as performance cars, and not so damned fugly and utilitarian as the current batch of EV's and Hybrids.
Now...if they can just get the prices down to that of a Vette....I'm sold and will finally go green!!
(Well, with the exception of my motorcycle, I'd never want an electric one for that, you need the sound and the rumble, that is half the fun of a cruiser.)
2. You realize that God loves you, that you don't need anything else to be happy, that everything is a vibration and the whole living universe is One
3. You become less and less attached to physical goods and material stuf, you stop caring about possesing things and instead focus on spiritual growth
4. You become a very poor source of profits, because you spend much less money, if any at all
There's of course another side effect of being more enlightened, which is: not fitting into the structure of the society. And this is the biggest threat to our current "order". You are much harder to control. To lock in a cage full of shit painted gold."
"The REASONS are DuPont and other companies that hemp was a major threat to, like the cotton industry, paper industry, oils industry, and more. Hemp had a virtual monopoly because it's so damned useful. In fact hemp oil was still the STANDARD recommended machine lubricant during the WWII era."
Hmm....I always thought that marijuana has never been legalized, is because no one can ever remember where they left the petitions!!!
"Or they are simply more motivated to get to the cheetos. You have no idea how many times I've tracked down a misplaced bag of chips when in the throws of weed induced munchies."
Now when Grandpa Will gets to his upper 70's, he can not only remember little Susie's name...but, he can also remember where the Ding-Dongs and Ho-Ho's are too, in case he gets the munchies!!
Good Grief....with all the problems the country has right now, and THIS is the type of law they try to get passed??!?!?
Man...next election cycle, let us PLEASE fill the Senate and HOR 50/50 with each party. I feel so much safer in my country, and its progress when there is complete gridlock in the federal govt.
"for instance, Americans often complain about immigrants, especially Latinos "stealing" their jobs. that is entitlement. they feel that because they happen to be born in the U.S."
No...I think most Americans complain about illegal immigrants, which do these days mostly happen to be Mexican or from South America. There is a big difference.
And yes, I think the citizens of a country, any country, are entitled to first shot all all jobs there...being a member of a country is specifically for things like having first shot at your own resources. The citizens of a country do OWN their resources. But, there is nothing wrong with letting in others as guests, we just ask that you sign the fucking guest book on the way in...follow the laws and rules so the process is orderly and that the systems in place in the country are not overrun.
"Maybe you should swap that car (with its attached license plate) for a bike. As a bonus, the bridge is probably free by bicycle."
Hardly.....not on a 23 mile bridge. When there are wind warnings, they don't even let motorcycles on it, nor glass carrying trucks. Here another link to the bridges actual site. They have their own police force just for the bridge. Kinda interesting.
I didn't mind paying the extra couple dollars a day during week days to go across it...since I was contracting, I just wrote that off as a daily expense. I just didn't want to get a speed pass, that was hooked to my bank acct, and their computer system.
"Spending on a card, I can see all that, either when my statement comes or online (or at an ATM). I can also see it for the last X years. If I have cash I end up thinking "where did that £20 go?" and trying to remember what I bought."
Well, the statement thing IS nice to have a record of all your expenditures, I'll grant that.
However, I rarely ever think of, or find the time to log on and go through that. Maybe once a month maybe I log on, when it is time to pay bills. I don't write many checks any more, so I don't really ever go on there and balance the check book or anything.
So, when I go straight with cash, while I don't have much a record of what I buy (unless I were go keep receipts, etc), I DO have a real time reminds of the rate of my expenditures during the week. That means more to me, that at the end of the month, looking through charges, etc...and while it IS a record...doing through and figuring out what each was for, etc.
Just the way my brain works...I do much better keeping up with my daily spending if I'm doing cash and when I pull out my wallet, I have a constant reminder of what I'm spending due to what I have left in my money clip.
"I don't have any personal experience with it but from what I hear it seems trivial for both an individual or a company to simply declare bankruptcy and start over from an almost clean slate."
It isn't easy like it was years back. A few years back, they passed laws (promoted by the credit card industry) that make it quite a bit more difficult to declare bankruptcy, and even after you do, you don't get that 'clean slate' you used to get. You still have to pay things back. And you still get that 7+ year bad mark on your credit record.
"P.S. are you from French Guiana, or a fan of the decidedly luxurious and unthrifty porsche?"
Cayenne == a variety of chile pepper long before it was an Porsche suv.
:)
That being said, I've never owned, nor do I want a suv. I have never owned a car with more that two seats, with the exception of a Porsche 911 turbo, and that doesn't really count since a grown adult really can't ride in the back at all even sitting across both rear 'seats'.
"I and others who use an Oyster card (prepay travel card) get London Underground travel far cheaper than those who pay with cash."
Howeer, there is a down side to this. It provides yet another way for the govt. to track your movements. I just don't want to give them any information on this, or keep them from getting as much as possible.
I've only ever had to once live for awhile that had a toll bridge I had to take. Rather than get a discount, and get one of those RFID speed pass things....I'd just pay cash to go across. I like to live as untraceable an existance as possible within reason. I like to pay in cash whenever possible. And...I find, when I take out X hundred in cash each week, by the end of the week, I can see every plainly how much I'm spending, and I must say, since I've switched to this manner of payment, I seem to spend less. I tend not to buy piddly crap here and there. When I spend cold hard cash, I tend to think twice about my expenditures.
"Let's consider the ticket system used by JR and Tokyo metro. Millions of people passing through those gates per hour across Tokyo, and there's someone out fixing the ticket-eating mechanical parts quite regularly."
Well, honestly, for most cities in the US, this is not a problem, as that most of the cities in the US have access or use a 'metro'.
Personally, I perfer to use cash. I take out a few hundred dollars each week, and I can easily see how much I'm spending as the week goes on.
I for one, am not anxious to see yet another way to conveniently spend money come to the US.
We have enough of a problem today with people living way beyond their means, and impulse spending with the credit and debit cards we have today.
Aside from the obvious problems we have in the US with a sense of entitlement to the luxuries in life, I think easy means of payments like this work like chips in a casino do. They abstract the fact that you are spending REAL money. You forget that you bought those chips with cold hard cash. With things like credit / debit cards...you tend to forget that you have to pay for them later (wich cc's), or that your bank account just lost some cash to this transaction.
Waving a phone in front of a machine, to me, would have the same effect.
But, before we go spending more money, shouldn't we WAIT till we're actually out of Iraq, and have a few years to pay down the deficit, before we start throwing money around again like a drunken sailor?
"$30,000 p/a is enough to have an ok life *if you don't get sick*, insurance or not. Even with insurance, if you need to use the hospital for more than a checkup, or heaven forbid you need regular prescriptions, you are going to get screwed, and quickly."
I don't see it.
With employer insurance...you pay like $20 copay for office visits....about the same for drugs. Those aren't going to break the bank.
And a hospital visit....usually not something anyone generally needs to do except for catastrophic problem, well, you pay the deductible, and you're good.
I don't see how that breaks the bank??
Depending on where in the US you work...$30K is a good living. No, that isn't NYC....but, you gotta make over $200K to even squeeze by life there, but, no one HAS to live there. If you make $30K...move somewhere you can get a good life for that amount, and learn like everyone needs to...to live below your means so you can save for those 'rainy' days.
"Withdrawing from Iraq. IIRC the war costs $2 billion a week."
Yeah...like that will happen very soon..
[rolls eyes]
If they start today, it will take a couple years or more to get out fast. Not to mention, once we do get out...we need at least a decade of low spending to try to get out of the deficit we're currently in.
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However, I bought the bike used....the new pipes on it were already there when I bought it. So, in my eyes...they are the original pipes "I" got. I didn't get the original OEM ones when I bought the bike.
But aside from that...it isn't like this law is enforced (thankfully). No one checks your bike for 'sound'...or emissions. Hell, they don't do that for cars either....the Borla exhaust system on my old 911 turbo I used to have, used to not so much be LOUD...but, rumbled very, very low....I used to have fun setting off car alarms that were sent too sensitive when driving through a parking deck, or the French Quarter...
To my knowledge, there is little or no enforcement of such laws. I am not sure why, though... since it *should* be part of most states' annual inspections. But, I see unsafe and maladjusted vehicles all the time with valid state inspection stickers."
It is perfectly legal to change out your exhaust system with 3rd party pipes. They are approved in order for them to sell them, with the exception of straight pipes, which have warnings saying they are only legal for off road use.
And not all states require inspections for vehicles.....varies from state to state. And, even states that do inspect....each has different requirements. For instance I now live in a state that does inspections, but, only to test for lights, brakes..etc. I've never lived anywhere where they have exhaust sniff tests for emissions.
Hmm...well, I bought Cobra pipes...they are perfectly legal. They have a nice, tuned rumble....I don't gun it though neighborhoods at night, etc. Are they louder than the stock ones I had? Yes. Are they horribly obnoxious, IMHO, no. But, then again, some people probably get annoyed at the stock pipes on many bikes.
I"m certainly WAY below the decibel level, and house shaking ability than many of the cars I see driving around with stereos at full blast...pumping out nothing but earthshaking bass (do those guys even know what a midrange or tweeter speaker is?).
If only it wasn't so damned fugly.
I'm just saying..that when they can get these electic cars to a state where you can get one that looks like a cool 2 seater sports car (I've never owned anything in my life with more than 2 functional seats), and has performance numbers, for a reasonably affordable price (a vette is in my range), let me know and I'll be near the front of the line to go 'green'.
Till then...not interested.
I guess you've never seen street flooding in NOLA during the rainy season....?
Now...if they can just get the prices down to that of a Vette....I'm sold and will finally go green!!
(Well, with the exception of my motorcycle, I'd never want an electric one for that, you need the sound and the rumble, that is half the fun of a cruiser.)
1. You smoke marijuana
2. You realize that God loves you, that you don't need anything else to be happy, that everything is a vibration and the whole living universe is One
3. You become less and less attached to physical goods and material stuf, you stop caring about possesing things and instead focus on spiritual growth
4. You become a very poor source of profits, because you spend much less money, if any at all
There's of course another side effect of being more enlightened, which is: not fitting into the structure of the society. And this is the biggest threat to our current "order". You are much harder to control. To lock in a cage full of shit painted gold."
Hehehe.....Alright Dude....NO MORE FOR YOU!!
Hmm....I always thought that marijuana has never been legalized, is because no one can ever remember where they left the petitions!!!
--with apologies to George Carlin
It's not easy being cheesey ...
Now when Grandpa Will gets to his upper 70's, he can not only remember little Susie's name...but, he can also remember where the Ding-Dongs and Ho-Ho's are too, in case he gets the munchies!!
What if you go commando?
Unless you have a license for them. I think it is a Class "A" license? I think it will also allow you to possess and use fully automatic weapons too.
If your record is clean, pretty much anyone can get this license.
Good Grief....with all the problems the country has right now, and THIS is the type of law they try to get passed??!?!?
Man...next election cycle, let us PLEASE fill the Senate and HOR 50/50 with each party. I feel so much safer in my country, and its progress when there is complete gridlock in the federal govt.
No...I think most Americans complain about illegal immigrants, which do these days mostly happen to be Mexican or from South America. There is a big difference.
And yes, I think the citizens of a country, any country, are entitled to first shot all all jobs there...being a member of a country is specifically for things like having first shot at your own resources. The citizens of a country do OWN their resources. But, there is nothing wrong with letting in others as guests, we just ask that you sign the fucking guest book on the way in...follow the laws and rules so the process is orderly and that the systems in place in the country are not overrun.
Hardly.....not on a 23 mile bridge. When there are wind warnings, they don't even let motorcycles on it, nor glass carrying trucks. Here another link to the bridges actual site. They have their own police force just for the bridge. Kinda interesting.
I didn't mind paying the extra couple dollars a day during week days to go across it...since I was contracting, I just wrote that off as a daily expense. I just didn't want to get a speed pass, that was hooked to my bank acct, and their computer system.
Well, the statement thing IS nice to have a record of all your expenditures, I'll grant that.
However, I rarely ever think of, or find the time to log on and go through that. Maybe once a month maybe I log on, when it is time to pay bills. I don't write many checks any more, so I don't really ever go on there and balance the check book or anything.
So, when I go straight with cash, while I don't have much a record of what I buy (unless I were go keep receipts, etc), I DO have a real time reminds of the rate of my expenditures during the week. That means more to me, that at the end of the month, looking through charges, etc...and while it IS a record...doing through and figuring out what each was for, etc.
Just the way my brain works...I do much better keeping up with my daily spending if I'm doing cash and when I pull out my wallet, I have a constant reminder of what I'm spending due to what I have left in my money clip.
It isn't easy like it was years back. A few years back, they passed laws (promoted by the credit card industry) that make it quite a bit more difficult to declare bankruptcy, and even after you do, you don't get that 'clean slate' you used to get. You still have to pay things back. And you still get that 7+ year bad mark on your credit record.
Cayenne == a variety of chile pepper long before it was an Porsche suv.
That being said, I've never owned, nor do I want a suv. I have never owned a car with more that two seats, with the exception of a Porsche 911 turbo, and that doesn't really count since a grown adult really can't ride in the back at all even sitting across both rear 'seats'.
Howeer, there is a down side to this. It provides yet another way for the govt. to track your movements. I just don't want to give them any information on this, or keep them from getting as much as possible.
I've only ever had to once live for awhile that had a toll bridge I had to take. Rather than get a discount, and get one of those RFID speed pass things....I'd just pay cash to go across. I like to live as untraceable an existance as possible within reason. I like to pay in cash whenever possible. And...I find, when I take out X hundred in cash each week, by the end of the week, I can see every plainly how much I'm spending, and I must say, since I've switched to this manner of payment, I seem to spend less. I tend not to buy piddly crap here and there. When I spend cold hard cash, I tend to think twice about my expenditures.
Well, honestly, for most cities in the US, this is not a problem, as that most of the cities in the US have access or use a 'metro'.
Personally, I perfer to use cash. I take out a few hundred dollars each week, and I can easily see how much I'm spending as the week goes on.
We have enough of a problem today with people living way beyond their means, and impulse spending with the credit and debit cards we have today.
Aside from the obvious problems we have in the US with a sense of entitlement to the luxuries in life, I think easy means of payments like this work like chips in a casino do. They abstract the fact that you are spending REAL money. You forget that you bought those chips with cold hard cash. With things like credit / debit cards...you tend to forget that you have to pay for them later (wich cc's), or that your bank account just lost some cash to this transaction.
Waving a phone in front of a machine, to me, would have the same effect.
But, before we go spending more money, shouldn't we WAIT till we're actually out of Iraq, and have a few years to pay down the deficit, before we start throwing money around again like a drunken sailor?
I don't see it.
With employer insurance...you pay like $20 copay for office visits....about the same for drugs. Those aren't going to break the bank.
And a hospital visit....usually not something anyone generally needs to do except for catastrophic problem, well, you pay the deductible, and you're good.
I don't see how that breaks the bank??
Depending on where in the US you work...$30K is a good living. No, that isn't NYC....but, you gotta make over $200K to even squeeze by life there, but, no one HAS to live there. If you make $30K...move somewhere you can get a good life for that amount, and learn like everyone needs to...to live below your means so you can save for those 'rainy' days.
Yeah...like that will happen very soon..
[rolls eyes]
If they start today, it will take a couple years or more to get out fast. Not to mention, once we do get out...we need at least a decade of low spending to try to get out of the deficit we're currently in.