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- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
This was what the UK discovered after Brexit
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
The first two are newsworthy because of their exceptionality. Thousands of cameras two issues.
The third link points 100% away from the argument that it’s just to get revenue. If it were they would be actively decreasing the amount of dropped fines. They’d be making sure cameras were calibrated correctly (as if they’re not the court would throw out) and that they weren’t
unable to send tickets to motorists in the post within the allotted time before they are no longer valid
and that they wouldn’t suffer from a
lack of resources to bring cases to court
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Riiighhtt because you’re sooo busy and soooo important to your job that you can’t take a morning off. Speed awareness course is like 4 hours and you can do over video call. Get a fucking grip.
Or, if you are genuinely so important and busy you must be paid a bomb, so just pay the fine, take the points, pay the bit extra on insurance. Job done.
Or, here’s an idea. Don’t break the mother fucking law in the first place.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
“hi boss I need to take a half day holiday on X date, I have to attend a speed awareness course”
"Hey bob, can I swap a shift with you on X date, I’ll work your X Saturday. I’ve got to attend a speed awareness course "
Or if you’re to chicken to tell the truth replace with dentist.
It’s hardly rocket science.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
It only seems to be since the yanks woke up.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Over here if you’re just a bit over they’ll normally put you on a speed awareness course for the first time getting caught.
And I 100% agree on fines being income based. I think some of the Scandinavian countries have done that. I also think there needs to be some kind of catch for the super rich who work the system so they don’t really declare an income. Maybe if your net worth is x times the national average the fine is the greater of either a percentage of your net worth or income.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
In the vicinity of camera sites, the pre/post reductions ranged from 8% to 49% for all crashes and 11% to 44% for fatal and serious injury crashes. Compared with controls, the relative improvement in pre/post injury crash proportions ranged from 8% to 50%.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
I don’t know what the rules are in the USA but over here you should be stopping on amber, not blasting through.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Maybe you guys ought to campaign to get the law changed. They used to be grey over here, but pressure was put on the government and how they’re all high vis yellow with loads of warnings before them.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Fixed speed camera housings located within an area of street or highway lighting should be coloured yellow either by painting both the front and back of the housing or covering both the front and back of the housing with retroreflective sheeting. In an area not covered by street or highway lighting, the speed camera housing should be treated with yellow retroreflective sheeting.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
I mean I don’t know how you could think it wouldn’t be. Well signposted camera will help you pay more attention to your speed on the slope, it’s woods so presumably animals could run out at you.
If you can’t see a bright fucking yellow speed camera, and haven’t been paying attention to the ten dozen signed, then that’s 100% on you.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
I don’t think anyone has ever received a speeding fine from a speed camera who was going at the speed limit.
Stop being a cunt and think of others road safety.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Except they do make it safer and because there’s always tonnes of signs around them you don’t get the brake slamming. They act as a deterrent.
Mobile speed traps, however, are a definite revenue boost.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
So you’re going to go back on the death (and injury) part now that it has been pointed out that the study you linked was only about the collisions. And itself points research that shows that there is a reduction in death (and injury).
Right?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
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if you drive at the speed limit you won’t have a problem
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the speed camera will be well signposted (car on the left so this is the UK) while it’s not a legal requirement that they have signposts I’ve never come across a fixed camera that isn’t
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If you don’t break the law you won’t have a problem
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the camera is painted bright yellow for visibility
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once again for the those at the back who are hard of thinking: don’t speed and you won’t get fined
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usually for first time offences if you’re just a bit over the limit you’ll get the option of a speed awareness course.
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You’ve probably come to expect odd numbered points to tell you to not break the law by now, so I’ll mix it up: if you get caught breaking the law and get a slap on the wrist, don’t keep breaking the law.
I do agree though that the fining structure should be reformed, it should be a percentage of income with some provision in place so the super rich can’t get out of paying their appropriate share too.
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- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Road safety is bad mmkay
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 months ago:
Not a boomer, but as a Brit - the grey squirrel is an invasive species which has pretty much driven out the native red squirrel from most of the country. They also cause damage to trees through bark stripping.
- Comment on This Google Photos popup 2 months ago:
Why would you use Google photos as your gallery if you’re not using the backup feature? It’s like the only reason to use it over a different gallery.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 2 months ago:
Ent and lower decks often get skipped, everything else occasionally.
Prodigy, never. That theme is up there with Voy and DS9.
- Comment on SubSpace 3 months ago:
Star Trek Prodigy.
And it’s bloody brilliant.
- Comment on Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online 3 months ago:
must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.
Which is why all religious schools should be banned.
- Comment on Anon goes to PE class 3 months ago:
T-shirt weather starts at
23C~ 13c thank you. - Comment on well if you look at it that way 3 months ago:
- Comment on Wednesday, my dudes. 3 months ago:
Super green
- Comment on Old school shitposting 3 months ago:
Paid a penny but only farted
- Comment on I, too, like books. 3 months ago:
It would be so much easier if we had accents over our vowels, like in a lot of languages to indicate which of that vowels sounds was wanted.
- Comment on Uh oh 3 months ago:
I’d use 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Solid explorer FTP plugin has always worked fine for me.
- Comment on Lifetime achievement 3 months ago:
I watched the dub and thought it was pretty savage towards the Imperial Japanese government.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Even if that were the case the salves should been shown that freedom was better ( they like it because of Stockholm syndrome) by the end and freed. Instead we’re just shown that you should be nice to your slaves (Harry and Kreacher).