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   Jolly Roger to Savageduck   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   07 Mar 14 13:18:21   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-07, Savageduck  wrote:   
   > On 2014-03-07 11:13:20 +0000, Neil Ellwood   
   > said:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:14:32 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In article , Arif Khokar   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On 03/04/2014 03:02 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>> The signs are almost certainly there for a reason   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rather than try to determine what the reason is, you just assert that   
   >>>> it's there for a "reason"  I could put a stop sign up myself at some   
   >>>> arbitrary intersection and you'll still come along and say that stop   
   >>>> sign is there for a reason.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That doesn't really lend credence to your position.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't have to "determine what the reason is". I couldn't care less   
   >>> where they put Stop signs, and it doesn't even remotely change the FACT   
   >>> that the law says to stop at one, whether selfish pig-headed morons like   
   >>> it or not.   
   >>>   
   >>> The damn things aren't that cheap, so they don't go around just sticking   
   >>> one wherever they feel like it. There *IS* a reason - if you want to   
   >>> know what it is, then go and ask the people in charge of putting it   
   >>> there.   
   >>   
   >> In the UK there are two differing signs. One is a stop sign that is   
   >> compulsory to stop at and the other is a give way sign where other traffic   
   >> has the right of way but if there is no other traffic there is no need to   
   >> stop.   
   >   
   > The same is true in the USA. We have the "stop" sign and the "yield"   
   > sign, and where there is no regulatory sign or control mechanism at an   
   > intersection our "Vehicle Code" falls back on the "Yield to the right"   
   > right of way rule.   
      
   Well, okay; but you wouldn't call a yield sign a stop sign, and it's not   
   legal to yield at a stop sign. You are supposed to come to a complete   
   stop.   
      
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