The Verge: Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood
The Verge: Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561264/california-driver-ticket-spacex-s...
On 7/2/21 22:24, jim bell wrote:
The Verge: Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561264/california-driver-ticket-spacex-s...
Well yeah, if it's in the field of view, that's unsafe and the driver should get a ticket. It doesn't matter if it's a Starlink antenna or the big pink bunny prize won at a carnival. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561264/california-driver-ticket-spacex-s...
that's unsafe and the driver should get a ticket.
You're a biological blob prone to disastrous biological failure and extreme mental processing errors on variety inputs, nowadays also fully distracted via phone / video / drugs, driving hardly maintained mechanical blobs prone to random failure, at whatever speed above zero, on roads littered with terminal risks, including other vehicles, drivers, bridges failing, sinkholes, mudslides, insecure loads, tens of people clinging to sides of buses etc, cows in the road, terrorists, retards, road pirates, etc. By your logic, everyone should "get a ticket" for "unsafety", by definition. Even the cops. Yet no one was hurt, no damage occurred. So which is it... everyone goes to jail, or no one? Logical Answer: No one. Else you are creating victimless paper crimes, and an unfree and unsafe police state. Stop doing that.
On 7/3/21 14:05, grarpamp wrote:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561264/california-driver-ticket-spacex-s...
that's unsafe and the driver should get a ticket.
You're a biological blob prone to disastrous biological failure and extreme mental processing errors on variety inputs, nowadays also fully distracted via phone / video / drugs, driving hardly maintained mechanical blobs prone to random failure, at whatever speed above zero, on roads littered with terminal risks, including other vehicles, drivers, bridges failing, sinkholes, mudslides, insecure loads, tens of people clinging to sides of buses etc, cows in the road, terrorists, retards, road pirates, etc.
By your logic, everyone should "get a ticket" for "unsafety", by definition. Even the cops.
No, not for "unsafety", but for recklessly making the operation of that vehicle much more dangerous than it is and already needed to be.
Yet no one was hurt, no damage occurred.
Not this time. What happens when a pedestrian or bicyclist is out in front of that vehicle and moving at the exact speed to stay in the unnecessary blind spot made by a gigantic satellite dish which has no reason to be on the FSM-damned *hood* of the vehicle?
So which is it... everyone goes to jail, or no one?
Logical Answer: No one.
No, logical answer: the idiot that put a satellite dish on the hood.
Else you are creating victimless paper crimes, and an unfree and unsafe police state.
Stop doing that.
I stand by my original assertion, which matches that of the CHP. Driving is dangerous enough *without* adding to it. It's really no different than driving with burned-out brake lights or bald tires. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
It's pretty hard to find relevant community for things like this. Some people want a speed cap on all vehicles so nobody can drive over 50 mph. Others want to drive without seatbelts or lights. These is quite workable if the two groups are not all living on the exact same roads. But they are. I don't see Starlink as interesting so I'm probably missing something.
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