Thanks for stopping in – hey, you can live your life like that, just put your mind to it.

I won’t have an Evo X in my stable for a little while yet, but I’m considering importing a Mk.1 from Japan, to get the purity of the original.

(It will also cost about $50,000 less… so, that’s another plus!)

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(Okay, here’s one more – the night of the blackout in 2003, I hit 210 on the 401 East of Oshawa, around 2 am. There was also an Audi A4 and a BMW 3 series involved… bet most people didn’t know a VW could go that fast)

There may be a way to monetize your writing – well, there is always a way.

I want to find a way to monetize my writing without having to choose a niche – although I might be falling in to the poetry niche soon enough.

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Cheeky is good and I agree, I’m surprised I’ve made it this far sometimes… though I can’t say my life’s been boring, so that’s good.

You’re right about the profiling though. Let’s say I put a bigger turbo and custom software in my GTI. Now, it would be quicker, but still not as fast as, say, a Porsche Cayenne SUV.

Yet, with the new street racing law, the police could impound my car if they suspect I will street race. The Cayenne driving lawyer or investment banker will remain unmolested…

But as you say, take the good with the mildly irking.

Oh yes, there are a lot worse places to live than Ontario. I just don’t get it sometimes though. Instead of singling out street racers, they target everyone so that they are not “profiling” or some such thing.

Ah well, take the good with the mildly irking, I suppose.

~Graham

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Oh, I certainly don’t think *you’re* being hypocritical – there have to be laws against speeding and what I did was dead wrong. Many, perhaps most, of us break laws every day (perhaps not as extreme as I did, and I don’t advocate doing it – or maybe I do, sometimes you have to be crazy).

I really meant that the current laws could be adequate to prosecute extreme speeding, but the courts don’t do it. Toronto does have a problem with street racing. I think the police and courts could have taken care of it without new laws.

But if it is election time, it’s good “business” to bring in harsh new laws like this as it gets the mindshare.

When I referred to “hypocritical older generations”, I had one person in mind – a co-worker who had said he thought this was a good idea to cut down on the problem.

The same individual had previously bragged about driving a Dodge Super Bee at around 140 miles per hour when he was in his 20’s…

I totally agree with you – excessive speeding on streets is a very bad idea. I only meant that I don’t think it’s fair for the previous generation to say to the next generation “do as I say, not as I *did*” all the time, which they seem to do…

I wonder if I’ll be any better with my kids at that

Your idea is pretty good with the GPS units. Higher performance cars in Japan have a neat system where the car “knows” via GPS if it is on the street, or on one of the sanctioned race tracks in Japan. If you’re on the street, the car’s top speed is limited. If on the track, no limit.

On a positive note, as crazy as the laws are in Ontario, I could think of a million places worse to live. I’m sure there are some places where they *do* shoot speeders!

-Brett

At the risk of being hypocritical, I do think there should be laws against fast driving (I mean, it’s okay if I do it, but not anyone else, right? heheh). But to lump that in with a real danger on Toronto’s streets — that’s another dealy altogether. Target the street racers, get them off the roads. Disallow certain mods on city streets so that they can put them on their cars but can still race them on controlled tracks. Here’s an idea — force them to get special plates and maybe even a GPS unit. That way if there is an accident, they know exactly what racers were in the area at the time.

Another Toronto law that went provincial was the giving buses the right of way. My god, bus drivers in TBay were aggressive enough as it was. Now they *do* own the road. Public transit makes sense in a place like T.O. — I’d use it too if I lived there. But get into the sticks where buses come once every hour and a half, and it just doesn’t make it a practical mode of transportation for most people.

Ontario is its own special something, isn’t it?

~Graham

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