Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

[Katman]

So now you know.

Hey, while you're baring all - is that Henry Rollins or do you just look like him?

[miloking]

So you've read the book. Still one of my favourites, I read it probably once every 18 months. In terms of development as a writer, I like the Blue Ant ones the best. You know the third Blue Ant book is due this year? September I think.

The very first interweb forum I signed up on had a character limit for screen names, which meant that the spaces, and the second t got dropped. I just carried on.

So now you know.

Ok fair enough i didnt know there was character limit on "nicks" thats my FAIL

But yeah without neuromancer there wouldnt be any cool movies and games..like matrix they also say it inspired existence of internet (but who knows)

Anyway back on topic... holidays, Speed limits, revenue ra ra ra ra...

[Flip]

NONE of those 600 people died because "I" went bit fast down the highway on my bike...so your argument is invalid!

And how i treat my life is nobody elses business but my own!

When you are on the race track on your CBRRRRRRRRRRRRR you can go as fast as you like. When you are on the public roads you can go the speed limit (or within 5kph of it) stick to all the other road rules or you can suffer the consequences. You can show all the disregard and of your own life you like but when your actions place others at risk or even a perceived risk, its another completely different story.

Just because you didn't cause an accident today speeding does not mean you won't cause one tomorrow speeding! My argument is perfectly valid.

You are showing a classic generation Y over estimation of your own abilities and a failure to accept responsibility when things inevitability go wrong.

[Headbanger]

Defiance is all good and proper, but what will it acheive? You'll end up with tickets still, you'll vent, get angry, call the police same names, raise your blood pressure, and then get another ticket. Then repeat the process. I defy the law as well, but if I get caught then fair cop, I knew the rules, I chose to break them, why should the cop get my abuse?

Consider for just a second that you're addressing someone able to think through the consequences of the stand they have taken without you talking to them like a 5 year old.

Why should the cop get my abuse?,Who said I would abuse them?, do you think everyone that doesn't follow your code is stupid?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Hey, while you're baring all - is that Henry Rollins or do you just look like him?

It is a recent photo of Hank the Tank. I'm not so pretty.

[yachtie10]

Its the cry of the sports bike owner, the boy racer and those stupid late middle aged men in HSV commodes, its "Revenue gathering". No its not, its society (the other 99% of the population) saying 100 kph is fast enough. If you want to free up a whole pile of police resources to investigate other crimes STOP RIDING LIKE A DICK on the road. Hell five or six hundred people die on the roads each year and we still don't get it.

excuse me! when did 99% of the population say they support this
I think this road toll argument is ridiculus mainly be cause this action wont reduce it and will probably increase it (and i dont care what happens this weekend as it is statistically insignificant)

[HenryDorsetCase]

Ok fair enough i didnt know there was character limit on "nicks" thats my FAIL

But yeah without neuromancer there wouldnt be any cool movies and games..like matrix they also say it inspired existence of internet (but who knows)

Anyway back on topic... holidays, Speed limits, revenue ra ra ra ra...

Meh, topic is boring now. I think if there are character limits now they are considerably expanded. This was round 8 years ago when I struck the issue

[HenryDorsetCase]

Ok fair enough i didnt know there was character limit on "nicks" thats my FAIL

But yeah without neuromancer there wouldnt be any cool movies and games..like matrix they also say it inspired existence of internet (but who knows)

Anyway back on topic... holidays, Speed limits, revenue ra ra ra ra...

Gibson coined the term "Cyberspace" in 1983 for Neuromancer, so the story goes. The rest, as they say, is history*


*also quoting a Drive By Truckers song lyric

[HenryDorsetCase]

When you are on the race track on your CBRRRRRRRRRRRRR you can go as fast as you like. When you are on the public roads you can go the speed limit (or within 5kph of it) stick to all the other road rules or you can suffer the consequences. You can show all the disregard and of your own life you like but when your actions place others at risk or even a perceived risk, its another completely different story.

Just because you didn't cause an accident today speeding does not mean you won't cause one tomorrow speeding! My argument is perfectly valid.

You are showing a classic generation Y over estimation of your own abilities and a failure to accept responsibility when things inevitability go wrong.

I am a long way off being Generation Y, and of course your argument veers from something that sounds faintly logical to ad hominem in two sentences.

Please explain to me how 99 kph is safe, and 104kph, is "unsafe" on the same road with the same traffic ie. the only variable being a 5% speed differential? because I'm struggling to see it.

[FJRider]

Please explain to me how 99 kph is safe, and 104kph, is "unsafe" on the same road with the same traffic ie. the only variable being a 5% speed differential? because I'm struggling to see it.

Travelling at 99 km/hr (on the open road) you wont be ticketed (safe) ... at 104 you may be ... the element of risk is for you to decide ... will it be worth the risk ... ???

[Flip]

excuse me! when did 99% of the population say they support this
I think this road toll argument is ridiculus mainly be cause this action wont reduce it and will probably increase it (and i dont care what happens this weekend as it is statistically insignificant)

I know you "dont care what happens this weekend" but until you start to take some responsibility for your actions you are doomed. Prove me wrong ride safely take some responsibility, reduce the risk you place yourself and other road users at. See what happens when the rozza stop issuing tickets and start doing other police work.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Travelling at 99 km/hr (on the open road) you wont be ticketed (safe) ... at 104 you may be ... the element of risk is for you to decide ... will it be worth the risk ... ???

so its safe from being ticketed, not safe from an accident. Gotcha.

And yet I was told by Howard Broad that this "initiative" would improve road safety. He said so. In a letter and everything. Surely the Comish wouldn't be incorrect? He's the Comish!

[Headbanger]

Travelling at 99 km/hr (on the open road) you wont be ticketed (safe) ... at 104 you may be ... the element of risk is for you to decide ... will it be worth the risk ... ???

Considering I doubt my speedo is 100 percent correct, and the speed cameras themselves can be out by upto 3km even when correctly calibrated and used as per design I'd say it makes no difference if someone chooses to travel at 99km/h or not, with no tolerance in the system your fucked no matter where you put your faith.

That aside, This will save lives how?

[HenryDorsetCase]

I admit it, I am trolling. Its amusing me so I dont have to tidy up my desk and office.


I think sensible people will see this "initiative" for what it is: nothing but a stupid publicity stunt, and the mouth frothing reaction as nothing short of hilarious.

I will just carry on, doing like I do. And I'm sure it'll be fine.

[HenryDorsetCase]

That aside, This will save lives how?

No no, you need to define your terms: road safety in this context revolves around getting or not getting an infringement notice.