From: gufus on 9 Apr 2010 15:20 Hello, ~BD~! You wrote on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:30:14 +0100: | gufus wrote: >> >> Remember the Golden Rule of the WWW: >> >> "Thou Shalt NOT excessively annoy others or >> allow Thyself to become excessively annoyed." | Thanks for reminding me, gufus. Welcome. For myself, I've had enough of alt.comp.anti-virus... I hope for the group's sake, people calm down. Take care. -- With best regards, gufus. E-mail: stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca
From: FromTheRafters on 9 Apr 2010 17:05 "Whoever" <whoever(a)wherever.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns9D556DAF2E99Asomewhere(a)69.16.185.250... > I'm not quite sure why you would think my earlier > posting might be a forgery? I'm not referring to any of your posts. > A forgery of whom? I was referring to only these two posts: <hpj529$tuu$1(a)leythos.motzarella.org> <hpls1g$2o4$1(a)leythos.motzarella.org> > Another of Chris' sock puppets? To what end? No, somebody trying to make a liar look even more like a liar - only ending up giving PCButts plausible deniability. > If it really bothers you not to know who I am, I'll toss in my old > .sig > file here. I don't care, you are "whoever" and I have no reason to doubt your posts. PCButts has had forged posts in here before, and I suspect those were as well. > I just redid this system and haven't bothered to redo my > newsreader sig. Frankly, I'm really wondering why I bother to follow > usenet any more. The S/N ratio has dropped so low that it's rarely > worth > the time any more. Force of habit I guess.... Still some entertainment value, no? ISTR your name from oh...about ten years ago in these groups.
From: FromTheRafters on 9 Apr 2010 17:08 "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D55810F1E38BHHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.250... > ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:4bbee574.587109(a)EDCBIC: > >> ~BD~ wrote: >>> >>>In the UK a red light at traffic lights means 'stop'. In parts of the >>>USA I believe a red light allows one to "turn right on a red" - have >>>*you* ever done that, Leythos? I found it felt good to do that! :) >> >> In many if not most intersections you can turn right on red, 'after >> you stop', and in California if both streets are one way, you can >> even >> turn left on red, after a stop. You must stop first in all cases and >> may then turn only if there isn't signage prohibiting these turns. >> (no >> turns on red etc). > > Wowa.. You can turn left on a redlight in Cali? That must make for > some > strange intersections. ....and some highway interchanges have you exiting from the fast lane.
From: Dustin Cook on 9 Apr 2010 17:20 "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous(a)example.invalid> wrote in news:hpnoig$llh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > Dustin Cook wrote: > >> ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:4bbee574.587109(a)EDCBIC: > >>> ..and in California if both streets are one way, you can even turn >>> left on red, after a stop. .. >> >> Wowa.. You can turn left on a redlight in Cali? That must make for >> some strange intersections. > > Pretty much the same all over... you are on a northbound one-way street > and the cross-street goes west. Would you want to turn right? I see your point, and we have roads like that here; but.. no signs that say we can stop and turn left in most normal cases. :) > Flo from Progressive: "Do you have a driver's license?" Yes. I have her insurance too. LOL -- "Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior
From: Dustin Cook on 9 Apr 2010 17:21
"FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in news:hpo503$f4t$1 @news.eternal-september.org: > "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:Xns9D55810F1E38BHHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.250... >> ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:4bbee574.587109(a)EDCBIC: >> >>> ~BD~ wrote: >>>> >>>>In the UK a red light at traffic lights means 'stop'. In parts of the >>>>USA I believe a red light allows one to "turn right on a red" - have >>>>*you* ever done that, Leythos? I found it felt good to do that! :) >>> >>> In many if not most intersections you can turn right on red, 'after >>> you stop', and in California if both streets are one way, you can >>> even >>> turn left on red, after a stop. You must stop first in all cases and >>> may then turn only if there isn't signage prohibiting these turns. >>> (no >>> turns on red etc). >> >> Wowa.. You can turn left on a redlight in Cali? That must make for >> some >> strange intersections. > > ...and some highway interchanges have you exiting from the fast lane. They've begun doing that on roads here. -- "Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior |