Oh the problems of the first world. When you get to thinking about it more regulations are created by those that envy the ones wanting to live it up. Take for example the predicament of the dude that buys a Ferrari.
Where is he going to drive it? To really kick it he has to take to the highways. That does no good. In reality where is he going? To work on surface streets (I mean not to work on the street unless he is a road maintenance type) to pay for that Ferrari or Porsche. Well guess what - he cannot really drive it any different than a Hyundai behind him.
Then to the matter of hitting the high road (or free way) its not that free. If he takes off over the posted speed limit to really gun the cylinders he risks getting caught in the eyes of the patrol. Said patrol on petrol use is a sad excuse for useless regulation on a civilization that is considered unable to regulate themselves.
I say if we design freeways with dedicated no limit lanes these people might feel rewarded for owning these high speed machines. But alas we do not. There is no revenue in that. Although Texas has recently adopted a strategy to give and receive. A new toll road with higher speed threshold allows people to drive 40 miles in less than half hour. For such exhiliration they fork over certain monies to the state.
Yet models similar to these (taxation not automobile) do not truly let you justify a high end car purchase. Because if speed thrills then 85 miles an hour is still what a Hyundai can deliver with ease. Don't need an Italian job to get there when a lo(ve)wly Korean would do.
Then there is the protect life lobby that springs into action since they have nothing better to do. Their belief stems from the notion that all life is sacred and that it is the government's job to do everything to protect it. I think this is a huge fallacy that is costing me a lot of money.
These people are disconnected from reality and only exist to while their time away. I say people that do not want to continue should be allowed to end it. There are many ways to do so and driving very fast into a stationary object is one of it. Let them.
By creating special lanes for no limit drivers we can achieve both - revenues to the state and exhiliration to the driver such that collateral damage is minimized. I for one do not want to be the stationary object in the above mentioned scenario.
It is indeed foolish that in a country where firearm purchases are legal we should have to worry about speed limits.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Man with his limited imagination can't do much better than impose limits...brain surgery might improve conditions.
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