<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 30/08/2009, at 12:13 PM, Terry Neumann wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is NO protection against it.</font></div></blockquote>Correct - but only to a degree. You see, there is no protection against people driving in the centre lane 20 kph below the speed limit. There is no protection against someone waiting at the traffic lights for ten seconds after the green light before moving off. There is no protection against someone breaking wind in a crowded lift. There is no protection against people acting selfishly on the amateur bands. But one of the things that distinguishes us from lower forms of life is that (usually) formal protection from any of the above quite legal (but totally unacceptable behaviour) rarely becomes necessary.<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I hate to nit-pick (or maybe I don't ;) ) but that's not entirely true anymore.. - it used to be that driving below the speed limit, or sitting in an intersection after it was clear, or the light went green, could only land you with a public nuisance charge from mr plod.. These days (I not sure exactly when it was changed, I'm thinking 2002-ish), the cops can charge you with dangerous driving.. I've seen (and heard of) a few folks being done for doing 80 in a 110 zone, or not entering the left-hand lane of a T-intersection roundabout (as in being on the main road of the T) despite it being dedicated to their lane.. </div><div><br></div><div>Still, nothing they can do about farting :\</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div></div></span></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>