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Nope. You're on a public road, you're in public and not entitled to any privacy. That's been case law for years and years and years. Nothing new. Frankly, I'd want people with suspended licenses removed from the roadway along with habitual drunks and other people who cannot handle the minimum amount of personal responsibility demanded by owning/operating a motor vehicle.

Only 700/hr? Considering that a freeway has a maximum capacity of 2000 cars/lane/hr, this technology isn't quite ready for primetime in the states.

One of my colleagues is obsessed with their show. He says it's because he's half-Armenian--just like them! After his incessant chatter about it, I checked it out, and then promptly checked out about 5 minutes later because all they do on camera is whine. Another colleage of mine had the unfortunate experience of being on the same Southwest flight as they were going to Las Vegas, and not only did they delay the plane, but they were intoxicated, combative, and Khloe needed about 6 airsick bags...all before takeoff. Absolute $h!shows, all of them. Kim's very beautiful, though.

They all annoy the $h! out of me.

If FL converted their gas tax from a flat tax to a %-based tax, they'd be fine.

I have it, but it isn't public. Just something for my friends and I to be smartasses on.

Nice--that's a far more informative article than I found shortly after it happened and I wanted more than the KTLA blurb.

I don't really believe in the drug use studies. I remember taking the "confidential" questionaire back in high school, and I lied on it, as did many other of my peers. We weren't going to admit to anything that, even without being traced to our names, would statistically get back to our high school, leading to a crackdown. I know this: marijuana is as popular as ever, especially for college freshmen, and cocaine use is much higher than it used to be. I also know that adderall and other "concentration" drugs are routinely abused, and people still sell/share painkillers after having their wisdom teeth out.

Well, as a message board and not a blog, I don't know how "journalistic" we will ever be, but that said, it does raise the level of professionalism, at least to an extent. I don't personally feel like it's been a problem on here, but if it's just to be minimized and not banned, that's OK I guess.

I saw that commercial, and it was so over-the-top that I am SURE every 9-year-old could spot it. Just like anti-drug ads, so ridiculous they actually promote the opposite of their content.

According to the 911 call, they said they had a stuck accelerator and bad brakes and were going 100 mph. Shifting into neutral would eliminate the engine throttle from the equation, and the brakes, no matter how bad, would get the car to stop. No, they hadn't. They had just recently picked up the rental car, probably didn't know how to work everything in it very well, and according to local reports had no idea what to do so they called 911. Maybe they "knew" what to do, but didn't know how to actually do it in that car. I highly doubt the engine would explode "Hollywood-style" Sweet, good to know that you are intimately familiar with every single working of every car out there so that you NEVER are unfamiliar with a rental car. I bet you're every travelling companion's dream!

NO! That is NOT AT ALL what you are supposed to do in that situation!!!!!! Ever hear of steering wheel lock? Now you have a speeding missile YOU CANNOT CONTROL! Also, these cars have the push-button ignition, and I don't think they knew how to turn it off. What an intelligent, informed person does in this situation is throw the transmission into neutral and steer to the side of the road/shoulder and apply the brakes. I remember hearing about this, happened down near San Diego. So sad. Damn lucky no one was killed outside of the vehicle either--they crashed at the end of a freeway ramp and it's frankly miraculous a) there wasn't a queue at the light to plow into, and b) no cross-traffic in the way. They literally flew off the T intersection, into some scrub grass so far off the road you couldn't see the car from the road, and promptly burst into flames. Such a tragedy.

Not arguing, just wanting rationale...did I miss something, or why the call to ease off the cursing? Gotta be 13+ to join the site, so I don't think those words are anything new to any of the members. What's the reason? Just asking...

My cursive became legible only to myself around the 6th grade. I then switched to print, and that suits me just fine. I don't know anyone who uses cursive; even my signature is just using block lettering, though it gets serifed and connected because I scribble it out so fast. I do not think I remember how to write a cursive, capital "V" if it is any different from a printed "V," though I just went through the alphabet and know the rest of them still...why, I have no idea.

Put your preconceived notions on hold and try to learn something. Here is how law works: each case is decided on the FACTS of the case. Many cases with similar facts are decided differently, and that is primarily due to differing NUANCES. Let's try and draw some important distinctions: You expect hot coffee to be hot...but do you expect it to be SCALDING? Scalding means capable of causing severe burns requiring SKIN GRAFTS with even brief contact. What about in a sit-down restaurant? You're served soup...of course you expect it to be hot, but you don't expect it to be served straight from a boiling pot without any time to cool because COMMON SENSE dictates that you serve soup AFTER allowing it to cool for a minute. Look at a soup can--almost always says "Let cool for 1-2 minutes prior to serving." Did you mother serve casseroles straight out of the oven while they were still bubbling? Of course not! No one puts a plate of food in front of a family without letting it cool for a minute or two because it's COMMON SENSE to avoid potentially injurous situations for your spouse and children. This is why McDonald's was negligent--they served their coffee EXCEPTIONALLY hot--hotter than anyone else did at the time, UNEXPECTEDLY HOT, and they failed to warn their customers about it in a manner that was deemed adequate by a court and a jury. Now you cannot miss the "Caution: HOT!" labels, whereas before there was an approximately size 3 font around the bottom of the cup.

Yes, which is why she was 20% at fault. McDonald's wasn't serving their coffee any cooler for dine-in sales, and clearly that's intended for immediate consumption. If you're serving product so hot that any spill whatsoever results in a skin graft, it seems just a little excessive to me.

In your mind, only.

It depends greatly on what the hell you're talking about, and past behavior. I give second chances until it becomes apparent that there is a pattern of behavior afoot. Of course, it takes a while for me to trust someone to begin with, so most people get weeded out early.

Wow, I looked up the penal code, and I'm left wondering why exactly the CA laws evolved into what they are. You're right, but that is highly unusual.

Really? So a man can rape a woman anally and it isn't rape? Yeah, I don't think so. Rape is usually statutorily defined along the lines of forced insertion of an object into another's orifice without consent.

Chris, don't be a fool. The McDonald's coffee case was won by the plaintiff because McDonald's was behaving recklessly with their serving temperatures. Do some basic research on this case before you trot it out as an example of a frivolous lawsuit because anyone who DOES know about this case will immediately discount you as talking out of your ass. http://www.caoc.com/CA/index.cfm?event=showPage&pg=facts

I tip depending on service rendered, starting at 10% as a base, going up or down as necessary.

This reminds me of the CNN story from Georgia where a man warned a woman to shut her screaming kid up or else he would, and when she failed, he slapped the child numerous times. That said, got the kid shut up.

One must-do mod from what I've heard is to switch out the HVAC control unit for the one in the Roadmaster...apparently the Roadmaster's unit has much greater functionality that the Caddy engineers removed in the Fleetwood's unit for the sake of "interface simplicity" though the two units are completely swappable.

Yes, no milk--that's for scrambled eggs, not an omelette. There are a variety of ways to make them, but I recommend adding the filling/topping fairly soon after placing on the skillet (after the bottom has started to congeal) so that everything is somewhat distributed evenly. Here's a good video: