Subj : Health Was: Nuts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 08:23:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>>> ...Thinking the bridge griders going faster than usual -- glance at BM>>>> speedometer: oh poop! NB>>>> Caught you by surprise, did it....? Fortunately for you there NB>>>> wasn't an officer lying in wait for you.... :) BM>>> Or now speed cameras! NB>>> True, they are even more insidious... ;) BM>> There are around seven cameras on the I-74 Bridge alone, but AFAIK BM>> they're for traffic monitoring and not speed. NB>> I see a number of cameras on the highways and roads... as far as I NB>> know, they also are only for traffic monitoring... :) BM> Yes, though I would suppose if someone noted a vehicle speeding along BM> at a 100 MPH in a 65 MPH zone they might call to have someone check it BM> out. NB> If they were viewing the cameras in real time.... and not some NB> minutes later or something.... :) "Hey, an hour ago...". Nope, just doesn't quite work. My guess is someone (probably plural) watches a screen of maybe a dozen or some cameras and if notes something unusual checks it out. ...Sounds like a good job for a computer: object moves too fast or too slow wake up a huham -- to me staring at that kind of display all day would be borrrring! BM>> Most of the speed cameras in the state were removed a few years ago; BM>> I've forgotten the detailed reason but seemed like it had something BM>> to do with a technicality of not observing directly and also some BM>> people were getting tickets for speeding even though they weren't BM>> driving ==> son speeding in car registered to parent. NB>> We had them in our city... and they quietly just took them all down NB>> eventually... I think the major reason was that drivers caught by NB>> them tended to make big stinks about the results and it became more NB>> of a money loss from the court cases than a money maker from the NB>> fines.... And it didn't improve anybody's driving responsibly, NB>> either... still had accidents, people sleezing through, etc... And NB>> sometimes ticketed people for legitimate actions, like stopping and NB>> then turning right on red... BM> Here the infraction was reviewed by camera company, then sent on to BM> the local police for review, then a ticket was issued. I remember BM> reading years back a lot of tickets were not issued when technically BM> should have: almost stopping ('slides'), etc. And locally it did cut BM> the number of red light runners. NB> Yours might have been a little more effective than ours, then.... It did seem to reduce the number of red-light runners. I haven't seen anything on the news in quite a while about accidents at the 'bad' intersections locally. Quite certain not eliminated, just no accidents. And possible the traffic control folks could have tweaked the timing of the lights to help reduce accidents: E-W lights turn red, pause a second before N-S lights turn green: that one second delay could allow a light runner to get through the intersection -- still illegal, but at least no one injured. NB>>>>>>> ... My support group for procrastinators hasn't met yet. BM>>>>>> Gee, I should modify that one to 'procrastinating helpers' to use BM>>>>>> with the beginning portion! I'll have to put that on my To Do List - BM>>>>>> eventually.... NB>>>>>> Right. ;) BM>>>>> And thanks for the reminder: I hadn't gotten to it yet! NB>>>>> And..... BM>>>> Hmm: there's a pen over there...... NB>>>> Hmmmmm.... ;) BM>>> And paper over there.... NB>>> And did you put them together yet....? ;) BM>> Currently using the It's Too Cold Out There excuse! NB>> Ah, but, you are inside where it's warm.... NO excuse... BM> But have to go outside to get there! NB> The paper and pen are outside.....??! Hmm, yes! Who put those out there? Now have to get around to bringing in to thaw! ...And by the time that happens Spring will be here and thaw on own. Maybe even Summer by then! BM> OTOH you might be happy to know I'm straightening out the area of my BM> Electronics Workbench in the basement. Just 'got the urge'. Do have BM> to wear a sweater-jacket 'cause it's a little chilly down there. BM> Overall still looks messy because have to store some to-be-trashed BM> items until Bulk Waste Pickup -- which is next Monday but if the BM> weather isn't acceptable will have to leave until next time: don't want BM> a box frozen to the snow, or rain-soaked and falls apart when they go BM> to pick it up. NB> That sounds like potentially a useful project.... :) Especially NB> if the follow-thru happens.... :) Monday morning the weather was a few degrees below freezing and so did put out the boxes for recycling. Getting rid of those boxes just made it easier to get to the other storage boxes on the shelving, making it easier to properly store the stuff. (Sounds like a horrible mess! Is, but isn't -- "neat mess"!) ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... And thus ends another wit-filled message. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .