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California SB-319 Paves Way For An Unlimited Speed Autobahn

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 19 2019, @11:41PM   
from the Wir-fahr'n-fahr'n-fahr'n-auf-der-Autobahn dept.

Brought to the floor by Senator John Moorlach of Orange County, SB-319 would direct the state's Department of Transportation to build two unlimited speed lanes on each side of Interstate 5 and State Route 99, the main north-south arteries linking cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. The sections of the roadways in question run straight through the supremely flat Central Valley, making for ideal high-speed driving conditions.

Perhaps paradoxically, California's answer to the German autobahn would be paid for by the state's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The text of SB-319 points out that the recent collapse of California's ambitious plan for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco, which was originally intended to trace the same route as the proposed unlimited speed lanes, has left residents without "access to high-speed, unabated transportation across the state."

http://www.thedrive.com/news/26554/california-might-add-lanes-with-no-speed-limits-to-major-highways

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• No, But Not In The Way One Would Expect. No, But Not In The Way One Would Expect. (Score: 0, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:59AM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 20 2019, @02:59AM (#803828) Homepage Journal

  Google:

  spiritual emergence

  spiritual emergency

  That the term "Spritual" appears does not in any way imply that it has to do with Spaghetti, whether floating in a vacuum, under a modest gaseous pressure, large, small, mostly-harmless or capable of awesomely violent destruction.

  No, it's more like the sort of insight that led what's his name... the young Carl Guass:

  "Class, I need to grade your quizzes for a little while."

  "Please take out your pencils and a piece of paper. No young Carl! PAPER! I WANT TO SEE PAPER ON YOUR DESK OR I SHALL SMITE THEE!

  I expect you catch my drift.

  Consider that Einstein really _did_ assert that we employ but one tenth of the grey matter that G-d Gave Us.

  How then, to use the other nine?

  When I was I think seven and a half, while Dad and I were watching football on TV he pointed out a young boy watching the game at the sideline.

  "See Mike! See that kid there? No not him," Dad gets off the couch then points at a little boy who's quite a lot smaller than the big and burley athletes.

  "Yeah, Dad?"

  "he's a Whiz Kid?"

  "What's that?"

  "He's only _seven_ years old, but he's a _student_ at the University that's playing today."

  For reasons I won't go into just now - otherwise I'd be writing for weeks on end as those reasons are quite complicated and so complex to convey in mere English prose - I was quite _unhappy_ with my young life there in Concord, California. I am unable to remember the actual years in which my life's events took place, but Mom would know, I'll copy this post into an email to her, my mother relatives as well as to lots of friends as well as our colleagues.

  Heh: I tell _others_ that "I just spammed my very latest Wall Of Text to the usual suspected". But I'll redact just _this_ one line.

  My cafe just closed. Back In Ten!

  By all accounts I really _should_ have been happy: Mom and Dad were _wonderful_ me, as they were to my sister. Dad was a loving father, he was an inspiring teacher to me as well. Consider that he taught me to drive nails into wood just as soon as I was physically strong enough to lift his sixteen-ounce claw hamme

  While Vietnam raged on, Dad had served enough tours that he would never be expected to return there.

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  Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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• Re:No, But Not In The Way One Would Expect. (Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:46PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:46PM (#804006) Journal

  Spiritual emergence? Isn't that what was happening with the dude in Hannibal the Cannible's movie? If that fasist FBI chick hadn't shot him to death, he might have emerged soon as a moth, probably a giant female moth sans tits. Or, something like that, I think. Just about all that was left to do, was to skin the yappy broad in the pit I think. Then, maybe eat that damned yappy dog. Chihuahuas probably taste better than the little ugly mutt in the movie, but, hey, if you don't have a Taco Bell around, you make do with whatever you have at hand.

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