Tag: cars

Doesn’t calling him a vigilante admit he’s upholding the law?

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vig·i·lan·te, n.

  1. any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.

So, some guy in Florida (of course) was busted by the FCC, for having a signal jammer in his car, that effectively made it impossible for surrounding motorists to use their cell phones while in the moving range of his signal jammer.  He was fined $48,000 for interfering with wireless communications

Translation: some guy, tired of people ignoring the oft-unenforced cell phone use while driving, took the law into his own hands, and used a signal jammer to make it impossible for motorists within his vicinity to fuck around on the cell phones while driving, thus making them safer, less-distracted motorists.  He was fined a large sum of money for doing what the law wouldn’t do: something about it.

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Proximity lols

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Long story short: Porsche is preparing to open their new North American headquarters in Atlanta.

However, it’s actually in Hapeville, a sub-city known for high crime and with the reputation of being somewhat “urban,” which is the politically correct code word for “it’s a ghetto.”

I get why they say it’s in Atlanta, and in all fairness, Hapeville falls into that umbrella that would be “Metro Atlanta.”  Technically, I don’t live within Atlanta proper, and my home mailing address does not say Atlanta, but I’m also still a part of the Metro Atlanta region.  After all, whenever I get jury duty every three fucking months, I have to report into the city of Atlanta.  This is obviously a common practice, because Atlanta is a fairly well known city, and for the sake of simplicity, people and businesses slap that nametag association because it’s just easier, than having to explain where places like Chamblee, Forest Park, Union City and Doraville are.

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The extinction of Evolution

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Long story short: Mitsubishi is killing off the Lancer Evolution this year.

Knee-jerk reaction: Nooooooo QQ

Ultimately, this has absolutely zero impact on my life, but it’s simply one of those situations where it’s change, and there is a facet of my personality that tends to become sentimental about inconsequential things and always second guess the concept of change.

For what it’s worth, there was a pretty notable period of my life where I was gung-ho about import cars, and among them was the fanaticism over the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution line of cars. All-wheel drive, turbo-charged, and at the time, completely unavailable in North America, it was one of those fantasy vehicles that we here in America could only dream about ever getting to drive. It was a monster of a performance vehicle that was both sickeningly fast as well as nimbly agile, and in the days before YouTube, there were numerous video clips from other countries where Evos would obliterate all sorts of notable sports cars on both the strip and the track. And then Evos begun showing up in Eastern media, like movies like Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt, Ekin Cheng’s Legend of Speed, as well as the second season of one of my favorite animes, Initial D.

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Well I’ll be damned

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Long story short: House Bill 459 passes, declaring that it is now a misdemeanor to be puttering down in the left lane on a divided highway.

In other words, it is now a ticketable offense in the state of Georgia to be cruising in the left lane when there are faster cars that would like to pass.  When this bill was initially proposed, I didn’t think it really had any chance to actually pass, as there was too much gray area, too much subjectivity, and too much room for error for it to be a viable law.  It took pretty much an entire calendar year, but not only did it pass, it passed with a landslide margin of 162-9.  Apparently, a lot of legislative talking heads are really passionate about the ability to drive without Driving Miss Daisy clogging up the left lanes.

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Just take a few steps back and try not to lol

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Now I don’t often talk about politics on my brog, because I’m not qualified to do so, they bore me, and I think the whole fucking system is corrupted anyway, so why bother?  But this is too gold of a story to not go without some sort of mention.

Okay, ready?

A petition on the White House website proposes that Justin Bieber should be deported.  Furthermore, it easily cruised past the 100,000 signatures necessary to potentially ensure that it should be taken seriously.

I lol’d.  Not funny to you yet?  Take a few more steps back.

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It’s almost a party

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A long time ago, I worked with a guy who spoke with a pretty thick Cambodian accent.  One cold winter night as he came inside, he exclaimed to me and the other people present, to “be careful outside, there’s black ice everywhere.”  The thing was though, due to his accent, “black ice” sounded precariously like “black guys.”  This elicited a lot of laughter from us (it’s okayone of the guys present was black!): Watch out for all the black guys outside.  The black guys is dangerous.  Black guys everywhere!

Anyway, over the span of the last month, there has been a rash of trucks overturning on highway ramps, spilling their contents all over the place.  Now there’s no confirmation that black guys ice has had anything to do with any of them, but given the fact that it’s the winter, we here in Atlanta have been subject to some record-breaking arctic polar snaps, there’s always the possibility that black guys might have been involved.

Confirmed or not, it really was a convenient excuse for me to forcibly shoe-horn in the black guys story because I’m a terrible person and I find it amusing.

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Nope, no remorse at all

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I know it’s all over the news lately, but I just felt like saying a little something about the whole New York bikers story that provoked an altercation that led to a person getting run over and paralyzed and a man beaten viciously in front of wife and daughter.

The bikers in question, in every way, shape and form, are fucked.  The only injustice that can come out of this whole situation is if the driver of the Range Rover is charged with absolutely anything, or has to pay a single dime.

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