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Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)

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From: Richard Berkeley
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:00
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Scott M. Kozel wrote:

> Brandon Sommerville <grimrod@mindless.moc> wrote:
> >
> > Scott M. Kozel wrote:
> >
> > >Oh, I see, Brandon.  You're concluding that the law is a "moron".  My,
> > >how un-Canadian of you.
> >
> > Hmm, we all complain about the idiocy of the bureaucracy.
>
> Who is "we"?  I know lots of people who are thankful that governmental
> units do all the positive things they do.  Building roads for one....

Sure, and in order to show appreciation, we all drove at 55.

> > Stupid laws are stupid laws, bureaucracies as a group are generally
> > incapable of reacting to new information.
>
> Laws are laws.  If you don't like them, then lobby the government to
> change them.

What?  Large-scale noncompliance with the speed limit wasn't good enough?

Richard
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From: Richard Berkeley <bummer@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)
Date: 1998/07/07
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