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   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-07, Neil Ellwood  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   While neat, that is irrelevant to the topic at hand, since we're talking   
   about American stop signs.   
      
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