When I lived in Hungary, my ISP had a policy, that over a certain amount of traffic, your account got limited till the end of the month... I seem to remember 4 gigs, but that was a long time ago
In Costa Rica there does not seem to be a limit like this, but then again it seems that that part of the town is pretty empty DSL-wise as it is a new service in the area.
OK, there are 2 kinds of peppers regarding burning sensations in your mouth, and I think that comes back to the other burning.
1 kind of pepper however hot, does not keep hurting your mouth (like tabasco, habanaeron and different american (central) souces.
2. The evil peppers, like the green big thing in europe. When you eat some of this, the burning sensation stays for hours in your mouth.
The latter is not necessarily hotter than the first, but stays somehow. I think the #2 is the one that gives you a secund burn, a ring of fire, or "so hot you feel it twice" feeling.
I am not a hot pepper expert, but love hot stuff.... If you go to panama, try the souce that has mustard in it, and habanero peppers (it is like a liquid mustard, and is an all restaurant tables - dunno about fancy restaurants, but all small places at the beach have that).
BTW I import my sauces from Panama to Costa Rica, because sauces are not hot here enough. I know a mexican guy working in a bar/restaurant, he always asks guests if they want "costa rican hot" or "mexican hot" when they ask for hot sauce
I seem to recall my wife saying a few times, how hot pepper eating cultures have a general lower rate of cancers, surprisingly that includes gastrointestinal (stomach) cancers.
Now that somehow also goes back to volcanic formations, as cancer seem to be a lot lower among people who live on volcanic rock..
But don't quote these in your MD doctorate, it is the "I heard" category....
oooh crap:) that VR3 is a nice piece.... I am diving with a simple uwatec aladdin, that is NO-DECO and only Nitrox.
I guess for my 20-30m dives it is fairly enough for now:) besides i just went broke getting 2 sets of dive gear (everything from finc to BCD to regs) for me and my wife....
hmm good info, thanks . pkgsrc: will look into it. Binary ports: it is good as source as it is:) there is space, time and CPU, so I just keep it working:)
Once you start diving you realize, that your motocross gearbag is not heavy, your paintball gear bag is not that big and heavy at all, even with the backup gun.
With the recognition of how much stuff you can/have to hang on yourself, you also tend to wear bigger and bigger watches and computers....
That device does not seem to be bigger than your modern dive computer (e.g. Uwatec smart) , and yes, people wear things that size, and there are screen protectors that cost a few bucks to save a few hundred (many times $1k)..
Nowadays i find myself wearing the Polar 710i heart rate monitor as a watch. Beleive me it is not a little watch but after my dive watch it feels like a light wrist-wrap... Maybe some more diving with a compass, a backup timer, a dive computer, all strapped to my arm and i won't notice something like a wrist computer added to my bracelet collection on the land part of the earth.
Oh well, but do I need one? I doubt. My pda barely gets any use, my laptop is permanently on my wife's table. I guess i do not want to mobile compute as much as I thought before. Usually a GPS and a phone in my pocket does satisfy my background radiation.
Well for the desktop i really do not care, just apt-get all the crap, and it is a slow machine running X, mozilla and terminals. No reason to compile.
Now on the serversm when there is an advantage to be taken, I would compile apps, but not everything. Like mysql and apache (that accounts for 90% for processor time) I would compile if there is heavy load, but for others i really do not care.
Now BSD is a different devil, there you must compile it when using ports, so I guess that is the way to go.
As far as I know space-age technology came to scuba diving with rebreathers a long time ago already.
For the unfamiliar: these are the devices, that recycle your air with a "CO2 scrubber" substance, and work with very little additional gas consumption. (film where you can see some of these : The Cave)
if interested, also search for "Rebreathers" or a good guess is "dolphin rebreathers"
hmm, this just seems not right, but at least they should install some device that blows the shark finning boat up in case they catch one of these brain controlled sharks...
That actually allow you to use 5.1 on a 7.1 card. and patch the voice in/out to the leftover plug. While SB LIVE 24 allows the mic for the leftover, there is no option to use it as a separate voice device in/out:(
On the 7.1 issue : my AMP is a 5.1 and I am actually unable to put speakers on the side because of the shape of the room....
If I could ? Hmm, as I am swithing over my movie watching and gaming to the PC, actually I would be able to decode that much of channels, and I would put an other 2 satellites up. Why not:)
It would be a nice feature, to be able to see all previous versions of a post/article (ala waybavk machine). Ohh well that would bloat the database to multiple of its size.
So not necessarily possible, but would be a cool feature anyway...
If you thought it was easy enough to move that mouse just a notch, before putting that dot, connecting that poly, etc.... with a normal mouse, your problems will multiply with that.
I am not a CAD worker nor a GFX designer, but mice annoy the hell out of me enough. I personally have a trackball, one that is an old Logi design, and that pointer has a approx 35 degree button surface, so the idea is not entirely new. I actually beleive, that an angle smaller than 90 is more appropriate and a more natural rest.
But hey, what does that matter? I type all day on the console:) and when not - I use a trackball...
For me it is an easy answer: I try to be polite: I dislike Motorola phones, and I am not surprised if tech savvy people would not get them, and would not care if it is linux, symbian or ce.
I personally really do not care if my phone runs linux, and even if it did I would not waste the time to write some killer custom app just because I can... Of course I am not saying that I would not write scripts or whatever needed to maintain my data.
Besides: a phone's life span is soo short (unlike those old times) that for the time you develop something (as a hobbiist) someone comes out with a phone with 3 times bigger display, zoom lens camera and whatever else unneeded crap and you can start patching....
I mean do you need linux on your phone ? Do you have a Motorola phone? Even that there are development tools for your phone, did you write a CE/Linux/Java/Midp/whatever app for it?
If you do not have kids to take care of of a grandma with an expensive medical condition - in other words if you can afford the cut, go for it.
You spend 8+ hours (half of your life, not including sleeping times) at your work. If it is boring, and you hate it, you will start to hate your life.
I left several workplaces just before getting a raise, for others that paid more or less the same, but promised more travel, new people, new challenges, new devices and software to fiddle with......
But then again, I am the person who is thinking about doing volunteer ( =free) work on a remote island as a park ranger for 3-6 months just for the sake of being there, climb hills, clean trails and dive..... but have no kids or anyone to take care of, and my wife would volunteer as well (she is a teacher/biologist)
obviously it is not a permanent job change, but obviously it is not for the money, as it involves a 100% salary cut.... but right now I am kinda sick of sitting in my home office and staring at the 4 monitors and hitting buttons for $$$
I don't know about you but If I could shell out an extra $600+ for 2 sli cards for my gaming machine (non existent as I am playing on consoles), I would go for it.
In fact I know some people who sport DUAL SLI cards and are happy with it.
A failed attemt?
I don't think so. Just because average joe on his win2k does not need one (well 2) to process word documents, does not mean that hardcore gamers are not interested.
It's like saying that Ferraris are a failed attempt because most people drive VWs and Hondas....
I wonder if that applies to turbo type (the ones that go into your ear in a 90 degree angle) such as "sony turbo".
I figured that with these I can block out ambient noise, and enjoy better base at a lower volume.
The Ipod earpiece died on me after 3 weeks, and sound quality is unacceptable for me compared to the sony ones.
This is not to start a flamewar at all, I listen to electronic music (trance, goa, psychedelic) and that's what I figured - the ipod buds let too much environmental noise in, and quality suffered with volume.
Mostly use my ipod at the gym, elsewhere I use a MDR V500 monitoring headset from Sony.
So how does that study apply to turbo-types? Any ideas?
Do not get me wrong, I do not like MS. I hate their products (most of them) and avoid them as much as I can.
But this is a joke. They have a product, that can be bad, faulty, unsecure or whatever, but it is still their product and they do whatever they want with it.
Does not work with whatever else? Well it is a different issue. Do not use it. Or use the "other product". Explorer sucks? Do not use it.
I think it is ridiculous to force a company to make their product interoperable. If they think it is good for them, then let them do it. If their mail server or collaboration server does not work with anything, they will loose customers (and force others buying it so they can e.g. work together with a company.
I do not think they need a ruling. I think they have to realize that if they do not fix their protocols and document formats (etc etc...) they will loose market share on the long term.
Not that they lost a bunch of money on me, but I am sure they are loosing money everyday, when someone advises customers against an exchange server or other products based on terrible interoperability experience.
just my 2 cents. Europe is getting aggressive, and I am sure some people are enjoying any punishment on MS here, I think this time this should not be enforced like this. People should instead stop buying the crap, terminate support contracts until protocolls are open and usable X-platform.
There should be a free replacement of software (with cost of disk paid). That means probably like $1 or less.
I have 2 copies of windows legally, and I run "warezed serials" as one is a laptop only installation, the other lost the serial number (yes I just lost it when moving). I absolutely have no idea how a legal workorund would look for this, so I have legal windows disks, and cannot update because I am stuck with copied serials, and a crippled laptp version.
Disk damage: never really happened to my original disks, however I hate CD's so I just rip them and listen to the copies. I guess that is illegal too, but how nicer is it to have 2 copies boiling in the car mp3 player with 10hours of music, other than dragging 10 originals and having them unusable in half a year. I mean I know people who had their entire case of CD (100 cds) stolen from their cars, that must suck.
On the games: I have 1 on the HDD for extra maps, and handle my originals with extreme care. Always in the case, clean and no touching. I think they can last like that.
Actually my ps2 scratched some disks, thanks to luck they were burnt movies. Oh yes, sometimes when I rent a movie and have no time to watch it, I would copy it to a rewritable DVD, so I can watch it later. Sometimes I have to do that, as my devices are not all region free, or they just refuse to play here and there for no apparent reason. Then again it must be illegal too, but if I rented it I want to watch it. It does not mean that I will keep it (that's why it is on a rw).
Sorry to say, but the rev limiter mod is totally legal. It does not affect emmissions on normal operation. All you get is peak performance for a few seconds when you really need it (e.g. emergency or on off road when you cannot shift back for some reason (damn big rocks, logs, whatever))
All emission tests (at least here) are made on 2000RPM on a car (1800cc) and on the base rev (without pressing the gas)
On my bike it was done on base rev (no choke, no gas). Same on our quad.
You do not want to tell me that they take the rev box apart on an inspection and see if the limiter cable is cut or not.
Obviously you won't rev it over the normal limit while driving on the street, unless you have a reason.
I know reasoning on the streat sometime breaks the law, that's how I got stopped the other weekend speeding at 110 at the 80 limit.
I know in europe my licence might have suffered, here I just politely told, that I was taking over under the limit, and the idiot speeded up, so I had to finish the take over, as there was no other way to avoid the car behing me already closing the gap. I dunno, I grew up in european laws, and while sometimes miss them, sometimes it just makes sense to do some explanation and then go without a fine.
That's why I can ride a knobby tire without the police saying a word, they simply know that 50% of roads are crap, and the other 50 is dirt roads. Now in europe my bike would loose the plates on spot, and I would be forced to drive "dual sport" tires on dirt roads and most likely have an accident because the lack of traction.
I agree, laws should be kept, but laws should not be always written by people who have no clue about a bunch of things.
I beleive at places like that you can find a green sticker legal pipe at stores that keep the limits.
Here they did not check any noise levels at the 2-year inspection (green/road legal sticker).
I ride a Brasilian made Honda XR and the pipe is stock and reasonably silent with a spark arrester (i do not want to set the forest on fire or anything like that). I modded the air intake though for some time, that made the bike louder, but then again, unless you are crazy loud, no one will say a word. It is not like europe when police stops you for all kinds of shit.
I drove in hungary, and just got sick of it. Police would stop you 3 times a day just to find some shit, and if they don't they will look for your emergency aid package or the extra light bulb to put a fine on you. Even that my car was always in order I just hated the constant crap.
Here I was stopped like 5 times in 5 years, and got 1 ticket altogether for speeding. I guess that would be the normal.
I was going to the beach, topless, and without shoes with some friends from spain, and they told, that it is illegal to drive barefeet, and without a shirt on. Huhh... I guess i don't want to drive there.
ebay and games: usually you can tell from the packaging or looking at the pics, or reading the sellers info on the item. Many state clearly that the item is an original and not copy.
e.g. xbox game not in a green cover is an alarm, so is someone selling way under price, shipping from taiwan, but there are many more, like the lack of a manual.
If I buy a copy (never happened yet) I ask for my money back if the seller does not agree I will tell them that I will report the issue to whatever agencies and ebay/amazon. That will get my money back for sure. A negative feedback also puts a mark on the seller.
On the rules: I lived in europe and know that there are rules, but they do not come from the manufacturer. You mess with your car, you need a permit, but it's not like the manufacturere enforcing you not to open the hood.
Here it is different, just to give an example I have e street legal quad, a blaster 200 2 stroke. Just passed the regulatory exam and have plates and everything. On the side of it there is like a 30cm sign: not for highway use, never ride it on paved surfaces.
My motorbike has offroad (knobby) tires on it from time to time and I know it would not be possible in europe: it says "not for highway use" .
But hey, the highway has holes the size of my car in it, so I guess it does not matter then.
Also on the exhauset: people take the car for inspection with the stock, then put on a different pipe for use. No one seems to care, unless you are really loud. But than again, why should I be restricted on my 250cc to a decibel level that is exceded by just the engine noise of many road vehicles. Offroad is a different story.
Then again, it is just an argument, I ride with the factory pipe on my bike with a spark arrester, so that bike would be street legal even for California green sticker (minus the knobbies in the dry season - rainy season sucks with knobbies on asphalt, too much moldy/slippery spots you do not want to ride on an offroad tire).
I just got a double flat tire hitting one on my car last weekend (yep, both right tires jumped off the rim).....
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When I lived in Hungary, my ISP had a policy, that over a certain amount of traffic, your account got limited till the end of the month ... I seem to remember 4 gigs, but that was a long time ago
In Costa Rica there does not seem to be a limit like this, but then again it seems that that part of the town is pretty empty DSL-wise as it is a new service in the area.
OK, there are 2 kinds of peppers regarding burning sensations in your mouth, and I think that comes back to the other burning.
1 kind of pepper however hot, does not keep hurting your mouth (like tabasco, habanaeron and different american (central) souces.
2. The evil peppers, like the green big thing in europe. When you eat some of this, the burning sensation stays for hours in your mouth.
The latter is not necessarily hotter than the first, but stays somehow. I think the #2 is the one that gives you a secund burn, a ring of fire, or "so hot you feel it twice" feeling.
I am not a hot pepper expert, but love hot stuff.... If you go to panama, try the souce that has mustard in it, and habanero peppers (it is like a liquid mustard, and is an all restaurant tables - dunno about fancy restaurants, but all small places at the beach have that).
BTW I import my sauces from Panama to Costa Rica, because sauces are not hot here enough. I know a mexican guy working in a bar/restaurant, he always asks guests if they want "costa rican hot" or "mexican hot" when they ask for hot sauce
In Hungary you call that "it is so hoe you feel it twice".... happens with good peppers :)
I seem to recall my wife saying a few times, how hot pepper eating cultures have a general lower rate of cancers, surprisingly that includes gastrointestinal (stomach) cancers.
Now that somehow also goes back to volcanic formations, as cancer seem to be a lot lower among people who live on volcanic rock..
But don't quote these in your MD doctorate, it is the "I heard" category....
oooh crap :) that VR3 is a nice piece .... I am diving with a simple uwatec aladdin, that is NO-DECO and only Nitrox.
:) besides i just went broke getting 2 sets of dive gear (everything from finc to BCD to regs) for me and my wife....
I guess for my 20-30m dives it is fairly enough for now
hmm good info, thanks . pkgsrc: will look into it. Binary ports: it is good as source as it is :) there is space, time and CPU, so I just keep it working :)
Once you start diving you realize, that your motocross gearbag is not heavy, your paintball gear bag is not that big and heavy at all, even with the backup gun.
....
..
With the recognition of how much stuff you can/have to hang on yourself, you also tend to wear bigger and bigger watches and computers
That device does not seem to be bigger than your modern dive computer (e.g. Uwatec smart) , and yes, people wear things that size, and there are screen protectors that cost a few bucks to save a few hundred (many times $1k)
Nowadays i find myself wearing the Polar 710i heart rate monitor as a watch. Beleive me it is not a little watch but after my dive watch it feels like a light wrist-wrap... Maybe some more diving with a compass, a backup timer, a dive computer, all strapped to my arm and i won't notice something like a wrist computer added to my bracelet collection on the land part of the earth.
Oh well, but do I need one? I doubt. My pda barely gets any use, my laptop is permanently on my wife's table. I guess i do not want to mobile compute as much as I thought before. Usually a GPS and a phone in my pocket does satisfy my background radiation.
Well for the desktop i really do not care, just apt-get all the crap, and it is a slow machine running X, mozilla and terminals. No reason to compile.
Now on the serversm when there is an advantage to be taken, I would compile apps, but not everything. Like mysql and apache (that accounts for 90% for processor time) I would compile if there is heavy load, but for others i really do not care.
Now BSD is a different devil, there you must compile it when using ports, so I guess that is the way to go.
As far as I know space-age technology came to scuba diving with rebreathers a long time ago already.
For the unfamiliar: these are the devices, that recycle your air with a "CO2 scrubber" substance, and work with very little additional gas consumption. (film where you can see some of these : The Cave)
if interested, also search for "Rebreathers" or a good guess is "dolphin rebreathers"
cheers
hmm, this just seems not right, but at least they should install some device that blows the shark finning boat up in case they catch one of these brain controlled sharks ...
That actually allow you to use 5.1 on a 7.1 card. and patch the voice in/out to the leftover plug. While SB LIVE 24 allows the mic for the leftover, there is no option to use it as a separate voice device in/out :(
....
:)
On the 7.1 issue : my AMP is a 5.1 and I am actually unable to put speakers on the side because of the shape of the room
If I could ?
Hmm, as I am swithing over my movie watching and gaming to the PC, actually I would be able to decode that much of channels, and I would put an other 2 satellites up. Why not
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, in primary school...
.... I still do not know if it is a black date in my calendar or a red one ....
Then a C-64.
I loved the ZX and that caused me some early programming addiction, however the C-64 did not get me interested at all, I played on it, and that's it.
Then came a 8 mhz PC-XT... and life changed
Since then I do not remember not having a computer around me
It would be a nice feature, to be able to see all previous versions of a post/article (ala waybavk machine). Ohh well that would bloat the database to multiple of its size.
...
So not necessarily possible, but would be a cool feature anyway
I am sure they will obey robots.txt and they will present a uniq user agent string.
YEAH RIGHT!
If you thought it was easy enough to move that mouse just a notch, before putting that dot, connecting that poly, etc .... with a normal mouse, your problems will multiply with that.
:) and when not - I use a trackball ...
I am not a CAD worker nor a GFX designer, but mice annoy the hell out of me enough. I personally have a trackball, one that is an old Logi design, and that pointer has a approx 35 degree button surface, so the idea is not entirely new.
I actually beleive, that an angle smaller than 90 is more appropriate and a more natural rest.
But hey, what does that matter? I type all day on the console
summary: I think it is a really retarded design
For me it is an easy answer: I try to be polite: I dislike Motorola phones, and I am not surprised if tech savvy people would not get them, and would not care if it is linux, symbian or ce.
... Of course I am not saying that I would not write scripts or whatever needed to maintain my data.
....
I personally really do not care if my phone runs linux, and even if it did I would not waste the time to write some killer custom app just because I can
Besides: a phone's life span is soo short (unlike those old times) that for the time you develop something (as a hobbiist) someone comes out with a phone with 3 times bigger display, zoom lens camera and whatever else unneeded crap and you can start patching
I mean do you need linux on your phone ? Do you have a Motorola phone? Even that there are development tools for your phone, did you write a CE/Linux/Java/Midp/whatever app for it?
OK, I am negative today
If you do not have kids to take care of of a grandma with an expensive medical condition - in other words if you can afford the cut, go for it.
You spend 8+ hours (half of your life, not including sleeping times) at your work. If it is boring, and you hate it, you will start to hate your life.
I left several workplaces just before getting a raise, for others that paid more or less the same, but promised more travel, new people, new challenges, new devices and software to fiddle with......
But then again, I am the person who is thinking about doing volunteer ( =free) work on a remote island as a park ranger for 3-6 months just for the sake of being there, climb hills, clean trails and dive..... but have no kids or anyone to take care of, and my wife would volunteer as well (she is a teacher/biologist)
obviously it is not a permanent job change, but obviously it is not for the money, as it involves a 100% salary cut.... but right now I am kinda sick of sitting in my home office and staring at the 4 monitors and hitting buttons for $$$
just my 2c. your mileage might vary
I don't know about you but If I could shell out an extra $600+ for 2 sli cards for my gaming machine (non existent as I am playing on consoles), I would go for it.
In fact I know some people who sport DUAL SLI cards and are happy with it.
A failed attemt?
I don't think so. Just because average joe on his win2k does not need one (well 2) to process word documents, does not mean that hardcore gamers are not interested.
It's like saying that Ferraris are a failed attempt because most people drive VWs and Hondas....
Well, a possible solution could be to make a dedicated user writeable dir (/usr/whatever) where these advanced users cound install stuff.
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...
Sudo is a no-no for me on the other hand for mv/cp and so on, but you can ask for scripts to edit certain files and to change stuff in a dir.
You migh optionally enable a bin dir in the users dir, so a "bin" user group could install stuff there (similar to option 1)
but again your setup might vary by unix (even by linux distribution). It is doable, just molest the admins enough
in unix EVERYTHING is possible imho (yes, yes now all windows admins just flame me)
I wonder if that applies to turbo type (the ones that go into your ear in a 90 degree angle) such as "sony turbo".
I figured that with these I can block out ambient noise, and enjoy better base at a lower volume.
The Ipod earpiece died on me after 3 weeks, and sound quality is unacceptable for me compared to the sony ones.
This is not to start a flamewar at all, I listen to electronic music (trance, goa, psychedelic) and that's what I figured - the ipod buds let too much environmental noise in, and quality suffered with volume.
Mostly use my ipod at the gym, elsewhere I use a MDR V500 monitoring headset from Sony.
So how does that study apply to turbo-types? Any ideas?
Do not get me wrong, I do not like MS. I hate their products (most of them) and avoid them as much as I can.
But this is a joke. They have a product, that can be bad, faulty, unsecure or whatever, but it is still their product and they do whatever they want with it.
Does not work with whatever else? Well it is a different issue. Do not use it. Or use the "other product". Explorer sucks? Do not use it.
I think it is ridiculous to force a company to make their product interoperable. If they think it is good for them, then let them do it. If their mail server or collaboration server does not work with anything, they will loose customers (and force others buying it so they can e.g. work together with a company.
I do not think they need a ruling. I think they have to realize that if they do not fix their protocols and document formats (etc etc...) they will loose market share on the long term.
Not that they lost a bunch of money on me, but I am sure they are loosing money everyday, when someone advises customers against an exchange server or other products based on terrible interoperability experience.
just my 2 cents. Europe is getting aggressive, and I am sure some people are enjoying any punishment on MS here, I think this time this should not be enforced like this. People should instead stop buying the crap, terminate support contracts until protocolls are open and usable X-platform.
I agree with you, and I hate stores.
There should be a free replacement of software (with cost of disk paid). That means probably like $1 or less.
I have 2 copies of windows legally, and I run "warezed serials" as one is a laptop only installation, the other lost the serial number (yes I just lost it when moving). I absolutely have no idea how a legal workorund would look for this, so I have legal windows disks, and cannot update because I am stuck with copied serials, and a crippled laptp version.
Disk damage: never really happened to my original disks, however I hate CD's so I just rip them and listen to the copies. I guess that is illegal too, but how nicer is it to have 2 copies boiling in the car mp3 player with 10hours of music, other than dragging 10 originals and having them unusable in half a year. I mean I know people who had their entire case of CD (100 cds) stolen from their cars, that must suck.
On the games: I have 1 on the HDD for extra maps, and handle my originals with extreme care. Always in the case, clean and no touching. I think they can last like that.
Actually my ps2 scratched some disks, thanks to luck they were burnt movies. Oh yes, sometimes when I rent a movie and have no time to watch it, I would copy it to a rewritable DVD, so I can watch it later. Sometimes I have to do that, as my devices are not all region free, or they just refuse to play here and there for no apparent reason. Then again it must be illegal too, but if I rented it I want to watch it. It does not mean that I will keep it (that's why it is on a rw).
"that's been illegal since 1974 or so"
Sorry to say, but the rev limiter mod is totally legal. It does not affect emmissions on normal operation. All you get is peak performance for a few seconds when you really need it (e.g. emergency or on off road when you cannot shift back for some reason (damn big rocks, logs, whatever))
All emission tests (at least here) are made on 2000RPM on a car (1800cc) and on the base rev (without pressing the gas)
On my bike it was done on base rev (no choke, no gas). Same on our quad.
You do not want to tell me that they take the rev box apart on an inspection and see if the limiter cable is cut or not.
Obviously you won't rev it over the normal limit while driving on the street, unless you have a reason.
I know reasoning on the streat sometime breaks the law, that's how I got stopped the other weekend speeding at 110 at the 80 limit.
I know in europe my licence might have suffered, here I just politely told, that I was taking over under the limit, and the idiot speeded up, so I had to finish the take over, as there was no other way to avoid the car behing me already closing the gap. I dunno, I grew up in european laws, and while sometimes miss them, sometimes it just makes sense to do some explanation and then go without a fine.
That's why I can ride a knobby tire without the police saying a word, they simply know that 50% of roads are crap, and the other 50 is dirt roads. Now in europe my bike would loose the plates on spot, and I would be forced to drive "dual sport" tires on dirt roads and most likely have an accident because the lack of traction.
I agree, laws should be kept, but laws should not be always written by people who have no clue about a bunch of things.
I beleive at places like that you can find a green sticker legal pipe at stores that keep the limits.
Here they did not check any noise levels at the 2-year inspection (green/road legal sticker).
I ride a Brasilian made Honda XR and the pipe is stock and reasonably silent with a spark arrester (i do not want to set the forest on fire or anything like that).
I modded the air intake though for some time, that made the bike louder, but then again, unless you are crazy loud, no one will say a word. It is not like europe when police stops you for all kinds of shit.
I drove in hungary, and just got sick of it. Police would stop you 3 times a day just to find some shit, and if they don't they will look for your emergency aid package or the extra light bulb to put a fine on you. Even that my car was always in order I just hated the constant crap.
Here I was stopped like 5 times in 5 years, and got 1 ticket altogether for speeding. I guess that would be the normal.
I was going to the beach, topless, and without shoes with some friends from spain, and they told, that it is illegal to drive barefeet, and without a shirt on. Huhh... I guess i don't want to drive there.
ebay and games: usually you can tell from the packaging or looking at the pics, or reading the sellers info on the item. Many state clearly that the item is an original and not copy.
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e.g. xbox game not in a green cover is an alarm, so is someone selling way under price, shipping from taiwan, but there are many more, like the lack of a manual.
If I buy a copy (never happened yet) I ask for my money back if the seller does not agree I will tell them that I will report the issue to whatever agencies and ebay/amazon. That will get my money back for sure. A negative feedback also puts a mark on the seller.
On the rules: I lived in europe and know that there are rules, but they do not come from the manufacturer. You mess with your car, you need a permit, but it's not like the manufacturere enforcing you not to open the hood.
Here it is different, just to give an example I have e street legal quad, a blaster 200 2 stroke.
Just passed the regulatory exam and have plates and everything. On the side of it there is like a 30cm sign: not for highway use, never ride it on paved surfaces.
My motorbike has offroad (knobby) tires on it from time to time and I know it would not be possible in europe: it says "not for highway use" .
But hey, the highway has holes the size of my car in it, so I guess it does not matter then.
Also on the exhauset: people take the car for inspection with the stock, then put on a different pipe for use. No one seems to care, unless you are really loud. But than again, why should I be restricted on my 250cc to a decibel level that is exceded by just the engine noise of many road vehicles. Offroad is a different story.
Then again, it is just an argument, I ride with the factory pipe on my bike with a spark arrester, so that bike would be street legal even for California green sticker (minus the knobbies in the dry season - rainy season sucks with knobbies on asphalt, too much moldy/slippery spots you do not want to ride on an offroad tire).
I just got a double flat tire hitting one on my car last weekend (yep, both right tires jumped off the rim)