What's the latest in people's lives?

[Tsukiyumi]

...But strangely enough, with the american speed limits and 55 miles per hour, you need the power less than we do...

Houston freeway speed limit: 70mph. Of course, if you're going that slow, you'd better watch out; the majority of people go 80-90 when traffic is light.

[Reliant121]

...But strangely enough, with the american speed limits and 55 miles per hour, you need the power less than we do...

Houston freeway speed limit: 70mph. Of course, if you're going that slow, you'd better watch out; the majority of people go 80-90 when traffic is light.

Beside the point, pretty much anything can do 70-80. A diesel like a 1.4 could do...105 if you pushed it?

[Reliant121]

Oh and forgot to say: Peugeot diesels in particular are tough as nails. There was an old lady over the road that used to have a peugeot diesel...16 years she ran that thing, and it never failed an MOT. It needed servicing, but hot damn it was reliable.

PS: Everyone WOULD drive at 80-90 on our motor-ways...if there weren't a billion speed camera's on every motor-way matrix.

[Sionnach Glic]

Meh. Nobody over here worries about speed cameras. Mostly because they keep getting stolen. Though what people want with freaking speed cameras is beyond me.

[Aaron]

Meh. Nobody over here worries about speed cameras. Mostly because they keep getting stolen. Though what people want with freaking speed cameras is beyond me.

Aren't they mounted to a large ass pole high in the air? We don't have them in Ontario, sometime before I got here the public managed to get them withdrawn from service. Some how they violated our right to drive like fools.

[Tsukiyumi]

Meh. Nobody over here worries about speed cameras. Mostly because they keep getting stolen. Though what people want with freaking speed cameras is beyond me.

I know around here, people have been stealing things like that for the copper; don't know if that would be the reasoning over there.

[Sionnach Glic]

Over here, ours are hidden in bushes along the side of motorways. We seem to take a more "this'll get the fuckers!" attitude, rather than "this'll make them slow down when they see it".

Tsu: No idea what ours are made of, so I can't comment.

[Aaron]

Over here, ours are hidden in bushes along the side of motorways. We seem to take a more "this'll get the fuckers!" attitude, rather than "this'll make them slow down when they see it".

Oh, that's illegal here. Even police doing radar have to be in plain sight.

Tsu: No idea what ours are made of, so I can't comment.

Well there will copper in them but that's alot of work to get a tiny bit. To get any money for it you've got to sell it by the tonne. And I dunno about you but if I ran a scrapyard I'd be instantly suspicious of people trading in wire who wasn't obviously a tradesman.

[Sionnach Glic]

Why is it illegal? Do you also have laws against plain-clothes police?

[Aaron]

Why is it illegal? Do you also have laws against plain-clothes police?

I'm not sure, IIRC it has something to do with entrapment or something. It might even be safety related, when I was a kid they used to hide in the bush and then jump out at the last second to "clock you". Guess what that leads to.

[Sionnach Glic]

A lot of freak brake failures?

[Aaron]

A lot of freak brake failures?

Nah, people causing accidents because they just got the hit scared out of them. Most people in Canada don't seem to have the hatred of police that seems to exist in various other places.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Well, I just got unfortunate news from my sister. She's been having problems with her laptop which we've traced to a hard drive going bad. She did order a replacement and it did ship very quickly, she was able to install it, but... it seems the thing is defective (it's failing at initial system check during boot-up: not recognized). She's returning home on Friday, so she can get it looked at by the local retailer, and she has 30 days to return the defective drive for a refund.

As for me, everything is pretty much positive. My grades last semester, if not as sparkling as I may have hoped, were at least all solid passes at worst. Since the worst grade I've gotten in any course is a C I got in one of my courses this past fall and my GPA is still very solid in the mid 3's - that is, somewhere between a B+ and A- average even after it's taken a bit of a dip - I can't complain too much. But, as I've mentioned privately to a couple of you, a meditation program I'm doing is really doing wonders for me, and I've found work in this winter break which is keeping me busy, taking advantage of my strong writing skills by re-writing ebooks into much better English for payment. (While my language isn't always perfect in "informal" arenas such as this, it really reads extremely well when I sit and write formally) My diabetes seems to be as well controlled one could ever hope (most of the time my sugar is at normal levels) and I'm doing well so far in a new fitness regimen I've just started on a couple of weeks ago. Overall, the $$ situation is going as well as I can hope for, being a student and staying at home, going to a commuter school a modest walk from home.

Now, I'll do what I can about finding an internship in engineering this summer (in this economy!) so that I can get some experience in real, as opposed to school, engineering, and also get that nice credit in the resume. Try to find something to cross for me. This is important since I'll graduate in one year (yes, in January <shrug>) and once the college boots me out I'll then have to find real work. But, an iffy job market aside, I'm feeling pretty positive about things right now.

I've been just busy enough that I've been able to take a peek in from time to time and still work in my posts every now and then, but unable to follow these long discussions (I get that there's been talk of cars lately in this thread but don't have time to read it over fully)... so good luck, congrats, or "that sucks, dude" to whomever for which any of these may apply.

[Lt. Staplic]

wow.
congrats...I think.
jk. seriously though, hope things keep going well for you CPH.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

congrats...I think.

thanks...I think