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Re: Please advice [thedrake]

by palma3 on Fri Mar 13 11:24:06 PDT 2009

Hmm, I called the dealer yesterday and offered him $16500 and they refused. I wonder if they expect me to call back, which I'm not going to do. Thanks the Drake for sharing your experience.

More DUH!

by vcheng on Thu Mar 12 08:27:45 PDT 2009

More DUH! If one removes the financial gain, petty local officials soon see the "light"! It takes a wise man indeed to learn from others' experiences, no? :) from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079884/Speed-cameras-face-end-road-Town- - s-join-rush-ditch-money-making-machines.html Speed cameras face the end of the road: Towns join rush to ditch money-making machines By Matthew Drake and Ray Massey Last updated at 3:01 PM on 24th October 2008 Towns all over the country are joining the rush to get rid of fixed speed cameras. Portsmouth, Walsall and Birmingham may copy Swindon in ripping out the hated cameras, and others are expected to follow suit. Tory-run Swindon Borough Council became the first to ditch the yellow boxes after councillor Peter Greenhalgh objected to central Government receiving all the cash from fines while Swindon council pays £320,000 a year for the cameras' upkeep. Mr Greenhalgh said the fact that 70 people were killed on Swindon's streets in 2007-08 was proof that speed cameras were not making roads safer. He suggested that cash should be spent on other safety measures, including training for motorists, better street lighting and reduced speed limits in problem areas. On Thursday the Liberal Democrat leader of Portsmouth City Council, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, said speed cameras could be scrapped there too. He said: 'We pay £380,000 a year of public money for six fixed speed cameras. I don't think that is good value for money. It costs £40,000 to provide an extra copper. I could buy an awful lot of coppers for £380,000. 'There is a feeling around the country that speed cameras are not great value for money. I have had informal discussions about this with colleagues on other councils, mainly Liberal Democrat. But this is not a party political issue. This is just common sense.' Anthony Harris, Walsall Council's transport chief, said all 47 speed cameras in the district could be pulled down. He said: 'It's about establishing respect with the motorist. These cameras have no impact on speeding and drivers understandably view them as traps to siphon off money for the Government. 'In most cases the motorist has no idea he has been caught for at least two weeks. Who is that helping?' David Sparks of the Local Government Association, which represents all councils in England and Wales, confirmed that other councils were investigating scrapping cameras and predicted a move towards electronic speed warning signs. He said: 'There's a reluctance to deploy speed cameras because of the cost.' Meanwhile, the AA highlighted figures in answer to a Tory question showing a decline of 20 per cent in the number of traffic police in England and Wales over the last decade. There are now 1,507 fewer patrolling the roads. Until recently, speed camera 'partnerships' - comprising councils, police, courts, and road safety groups - kept the revenue from the cameras to invest in road safety, principally more cameras. After massive criticism, the Government decided that the millions generated from the cameras would go directly into Treasury coffers in return for road safety grants to councils.

Re: Installing a navigation after purchase [loffkat]

by rv65 on Tue Mar 03 23:20:05 PST 2009

Best navi you can get is the RNS-510 baby. It's expensive though and yes it's OEM. I have seen it for under $2,000. Has a 30 GB HDD, 6.5" WVGA display, bluetooth, Sirius SAT radio, and full iPod/USB integration. The RNS-510 is a touchscreen unit which makes it much better than the push button MFD2 with it's terrible non WVGA display. It can play DVD's in park but there is a Video in Motion adapter that enables that sort of thing. Don't drive and watch a movie unless you have a passenger that wants to watch it. The former one is MFD2 and the RNS-510 is the new one they introduced for 2009. The Maps on the RNS-510 are stored on the HDD and you get 18.62 GB for storing mp3s. It supports Dynaudio but that requires VCDS to program that. Full iPod/USB requires the MDI though it does work with current one but it's not as good. The MDI requires special cables but it's got full integration. You can get the cables at your dealer. You can get a retrofit kit that goes in the glovebox and it's really nice. If you email me which is in my profile, I can get you to some good RNS-510 sites. Mark_d_drake retrofitted his EOS on the "vortex" forums and he shows you how to do it. Hope this helps.

It is the police's job to find out who was driving.

by vcheng on Thu Feb 19 06:19:46 PST 2009

from: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010810&slug=photorada- r10m Ore. court throws out radar speeding ticket By Jason George The Associated Press PORTLAND — The state Supreme Court yesterday overturned the conviction of a woman who was issued a $35 speeding ticket under the state's photo-radar law. But the state Attorney General's Office said the ruling dealt mostly with a technicality and will not have any major effect on the 1995 law. "It doesn't have anything to do with the constitutional issues of photo radar," said Kristen Grainger, spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office. The high court ruled no evidence was presented at the 1997 trial of Sara Clay that she was the driver or owner of a car that was photographed speeding in Portland. The only Oregon agencies that use photo radar are Portland and Beaverton police, said Jay Remy, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Clay received the ticket under a law passed two years earlier that allows police to send a traffic ticket to the owner of a vehicle after the car or truck is photographed in an automated speed trap set by machinery using radar and a camera. Clay requested a trial and was convicted of speeding. She appealed the verdict, arguing there was no direct evidence she had been driving when the photograph was taken or that she was the vehicle's registered owner. The Court of Appeals upheld her conviction, and Clay then took the case to the state Supreme Court. Grainger said the ruling has "zero impact on photo-radar use in this state." What the ruling means, she said, is "now we'll hear more detail from the officers who cite people." Beaverton police started using photo radar because two-thirds of the traffic accidents to which they responded were caused by people running red lights, said Mayor Rob Drake. "Broadly, regionally, there is just an epidemic of people running red lights," Drake said. Beaverton uses five photo-radar stations, which cost about $50,000 to $80,000 per intersection, Drake said. The city will drop one station soon because of restrictions passed during this year's Legislative session.

Re: #1000 [richard64]

by gogiboy on Mon Oct 29 10:37:33 PDT 2007

Your "Burr" anecdote is a beauty. Have you ever read Richard Lederer's "World history through student bloopers? You should submit your story for any future revision. My favorite: Sir Francis Drake curcumicised the world with a hundred foot clipper. What an image! Don't worry about your football player. My wife had one here at OSU in basic (remedial) composition. His paper kept making reference to the "offense of" this particular position. Turns out he didn't know that his own position was "offensive" lineman.

Ding Dongs vs. Ring Dings

by 604doc on Thu Jan 31 08:30:25 PST 2008

On the east coast, we had Drakes. They made 'Ring Dings', which were like Ding Dongs I believe. Looked like hockey pucks. I think they also made 'Yodels', which were like Ho Ho's. GP probably knows for sure. I've been gone from the east coast for a while now. Oh yeah, and I believe they're delivered by truck too. ;)