Agreed and trapster and other apps do the same crowdsourced speed trap locating trick.

Trapster had better audio alerts but they don't work on my new phone so I use waze now.
It also flagged "likely" speed traps even when the police were not yet reported in the location.

Using the app to locate a speedtrap is about as productive as driving along the road and observing parked police cars then circling back around and attacking them now that you know where they are.

The police have a problem because they have been killing united states citizens at a rate of roughly 1200* citizens per year (via 528 validated trustworthy news source reported face page reports). More of those citizens killed by united states police were children than all the citizens killed by the police forces of england, france, and germany combined. It is literally (not figuratively) about 120* citizens vs under 20 citizens in england, france, and germany total per year.

Not to mention countless beatings, illegitimate property seizures, and a solid reputation of "good cops" standing aside doing nothing while the "bad" cops commit crimes.

*People who are police officers killed about 1450 citizens but 528.com found that about 200 of the killings were not related to their police status or police duties.

** I support the police and donate to the police fund but our police are out of control and have terrible community relations. We need to get them out of dealing with drug gangs and drug money and swat teams and military equipment. Move that activity to the FBI and return the police to ordinary police enforcement actions. Having a tank and heavy automatic weapons misleads them into killing 7 year old girls when they were at the wrong address.

Hey, take it easy.

Up until this year, Ford's flagship coupe still ran a live rear axle. They've only just put independent rear suspension (on a rear wheel drive car) this year. If it's taken them decades to get multi-link suspension on one of their best selling cars, expecting them to develop software that works in just a few years is a bit rich.

Hitler was trying very hard to forge an alliance with all the western powers prior to the onset of WW2.

Hitler's eyes were firmly set to the east, the plans to invade Russia in 1941 were set in place long before September 1939. The Nazis had spent a huge amount of resources trying to foster good relations, not just with the governments of Great Brittan and the United States, but the people too (I.E. the German-American Bund). The German leadership tried hard to ally themselves with England because they felt that the English people had a lot on common with the German people. However they underestimated the resolve of the British government, Chamberlain and his ministers drew a line at Poland and declared war on Germany when they crossed it.

You're joking eh?

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... Did you forget the lessons taught here (well obviously, if you remembered what happened in Vietnam, Iraq would never have happened).

When a population is committed to opposing an invading force the invasion will never been finished. The Troubles didn't end through the martial might of the British, it ended because the cause of the conflict was resolved. For 48 years the British tried to use force to solve the issue, in the end it was diplomacy that bought the conflict to an end. When a population has cause to fight, they will continue to fight, Sun Tzu called this "the moral law", whichever of the sides the people believed to be more right was imbued with the moral law.

The reason the US has been able to hold onto states like the Dominican Republic and Grenada is the fact the majority of the people accepted that the US was the better side in the conflict. Vietnam and Iraq on the other hand, the US was seen as the worse side, supporting corrupt governments and ideals.

If Canada was resolved to fight a US invasion dont kid yourself, you'll never hold Canada.

Yes, foreigners use the term "Yank", not "Yankee" as it has born such rhyming slang terms as "sherman" derived from Sherman Tank and "seppo" which is a shortened version of "septic" as derived from septic tank (tank rhymes with yank, in case you didn't get it). Its also rhymes with the word "wank" which seems to be what you're doing here.

I have certainly enjoyed the irony that you've called foreigners ignorant, yet have demonstrated greater ignorance foreigners yourself.

So go ahead and eat nasty overcooked eggs. Your loss.

By the sounds of it, the US needs to do what other developed nations have done and have separate heavy vehicle and taxi licenses. In countries like Australia and the UK, a taxi license concentrates on things like navigation, traffic laws, stopping and picking up passengers, dealing with difficult passengers and knowledge of the local area. In London they take this to the extreme with "The Knowledge".

In Australia, we have five classes just for trucks (Light, Medium and Heavy Rigid as well as Medium and Heavy Combination) and this is for good reasons, you dont want someone who only has a medium rigid license driving an articulated lorry with three trailers (heavy combination) because they are very different vehicles.

No, not anything like that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/06/03/uber-driver-with-felony-conviction-charged-with-battery-for-allegedly-hitting-passenger/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-09/uber-driver-charged-in-san-francisco-girl-s-death-in-crosswalk.html
http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-charged-for-bashing-a-passenger-in-the-head-1639711808

Its all a conspiracy by "the man" to keep everyone "inside the box". Not like anyone's been hurt or killed, no nothing like that.

Sounds you have no idea what you're on about.

I can guarantee you that if the Govt. left it up to drivers to get the proper training and instruction on how to operate vehicles safely, people wouldn't do it.

The only reason people get proper licenses for commercial vehicles is because its enforced. Without enforcement people will cut corners left, right and centre.

Also, I highly doubt there's any profit in licenses. For what they cost, I doubt they're even breaking even. However the cost of not having them is a much higher road toll and all the externalities that go along with that (cost to clean up after accidents, repairs to roads, signs and barriers, lost productivity from jams caused by accidents and so forth).

Were you doing it for commercial gain?

My personal insurance policy has an open driver clause, that means anyone licensed to drive my class of car can drive it and it remains fully insured. So a friend can drive my car home, to the shops and so forth, this is fine with my insurer. However if I started renting my car out to strangers, then my insurer would have a problem.

>executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police,

That sounds pretty gender discriminatory to me.

Dang, we'll outsource anything.

It's a pretty central fact to cooking. If water boiled at 385 Kelvin, we'd have made 100C = 385K.

I think you mean 450,000 sq km for Sweden. About the size of California, but w/ 1/4 the population. And that's far less density than our megaregions like the Great Lakes, NorthEast (DC-Boston), Texas Triangle, and mid-south Florida. Except for patches, none of these regions have comparable internet. What's the telco's excuse again?