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From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 21 Apr 2008 17:38 On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:12 +0100, Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote in <YbWdnY3_CLaTWJHVnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>: > 1. Two autobahn flashes(Dortmund ish). It's an autobahn FFS! ...but most Autobahnen are _not_ unrestricted. And some that are have signs saying (IIRC) that if you choose to ignore "advice" about which speed to travel, your vehicle insurance may be invalid. -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: platypus on 21 Apr 2008 17:55 Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:43:36 +0100, boots(a)despammed.com > <boots(a)despammed.com> wrote in <fuin8o.5ms.1(a)blakeley.plus.com>: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT) in uk.rec.motorcycles, Cab >> says: > >>> On Apr 21, 3:16 pm, Boots <bo...(a)despammed.com> wrote: >>>> On Apr 21, 12:29 pm, Pete Fisher <Pe...(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> >>>> wrote: >>>> http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article35... > >>>> quelle surprise "He added that France was the most unco-operative >>>> country." > >>> That's not a bad thing, IMO. It means that it'll be difficult to >>> reach a Euro wide agreement, which means less to worry about for >>> the moment. > >> I don't disagree, it was just why mention it, french non co-operation >> is assumed. > >>> Anyway, France is probably being seen as unco-operative, because >>> their data protection laws are so strict. They're not like the DVLA >>> giving all and sundry to anyone who asks. > >> Well the RIPA now seems to allow any jumped up pip squeak to gather >> or ask for data I saw this last week and was gobsmacked. >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/poole_council_ripa/ > > ...and the US can get all your NPR data: > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nspy121.xml Google for "Phorm".
From: geoff on 21 Apr 2008 18:07 In message <slrng0q2ar.qao.Ivan.Reid(a)loki.brunel.ac.uk>, Dr Ivan D. Reid <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> writes >On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:12 +0100, Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> > wrote in <YbWdnY3_CLaTWJHVnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>: > >> 1. Two autobahn flashes(Dortmund ish). It's an autobahn FFS! > > ...but most Autobahnen are _not_ unrestricted. And some that are >have signs saying (IIRC) that if you choose to ignore "advice" about which >speed to travel, your vehicle insurance may be invalid. > Written in forrin, though, innit -- geoff
From: Scraggy on 21 Apr 2008 18:05 Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:12 +0100, Scraggy > <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> wrote in > <YbWdnY3_CLaTWJHVnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>: > >> 1. Two autobahn flashes(Dortmund ish). It's an autobahn FFS! > > ...but most Autobahnen are _not_ unrestricted. And some that are > have signs saying (IIRC) that if you choose to ignore "advice" about > which speed to travel, your vehicle insurance may be invalid. You say this as if you're telling me something I didn't know Ivan... -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: Timo Geusch on 22 Apr 2008 01:09
"Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid(a)brunel.ac.uk> writes: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:12 +0100, Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> > wrote in <YbWdnY3_CLaTWJHVnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d(a)brightview.com>: > >> 1. Two autobahn flashes(Dortmund ish). It's an autobahn FFS! > > ...but most Autobahnen are _not_ unrestricted. And some that are > have signs saying (IIRC) that if you choose to ignore "advice" about which > speed to travel, your vehicle insurance may be invalid. You're mixing two things here: - Some Autobahnen do have a posted speed limit as you say, especially around built-up areas - There has been an 'advisory' top speed of 130km/h for decades and some inswearance companies _in Germany_ have used this as a weasel clause to get out of paying out on accidents where people were driving a lot faster. That however only applied to the fully comp part of the insurance as I don't think they can weasel out of the third party part. Doesn't stop them trying, though. -- Morini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport | 900SSD | R1150RT Laverda SF2 | Harley FXD BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar |