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Riso posted:Don't worry, they register everyone. There's a central database that lists where every person lives too. It's not really a central database but yeah, because of the "Meldepflicht" pretty much everyone is registered at the municipality they live in. bronin fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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It's called a register of residents and lots of countries have it.
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Fizzil posted:With regards to the UAE officially its 120 on most roads, but they wont fine you for going 140 unless you're close to the city limits where speed camera's are installed and they usually post big signs to tell you to slow down cause its monitored. Works that way in many countries I guess. Also, someone I know was snapped by two consecutive cameras in Sharjah and fined based on calculated average speed, but nowhere does it say you can get hit by it IIRC (this is what we call section control here in the Netherlands).
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Koesj posted:Works that way in many countries I guess. Also, someone I know was snapped by two consecutive cameras in Sharjah and fined based on calculated average speed, but nowhere does it say you can get hit by it IIRC (this is what we call section control here in the Netherlands). I got into trouble for this too, the police occassionally hide cameras without warning. Its kinda lovely and you have to be warned by other people or friends, this happens really frequently too once within the city they dont really tell you what speed limits are accepted and instead you know via experience or word of mouth. Maybe its for fiscal policy reasons because they are trying to keep the money in instead of going out of the country but thats probably a story for another time 
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Koesj posted:Works that way in many countries I guess. Also, someone I know was snapped by two consecutive cameras in Sharjah and fined based on calculated average speed, but nowhere does it say you can get hit by it IIRC (this is what we call section control here in the Netherlands). The Central Value Theorem fucks us over yet again. I think there are U.S. tollroads that also do this (where they compare the time on entering the tollway and leaving and if distance traveled / time taken is too much over the speed limit they fine you).
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Disco Infiva posted:Meh, boobs are just front butts, so it's all the same to me. I get jokes me  . Homicide rates per 1000. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:Well why do you think they all wanted to move there? It really demonstrates the population boom of the 20th century that the holocaust resulted in the global Jewish population returning to its level 50 years earlier.
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Koesj posted:Works that way in many countries I guess. Also, someone I know was snapped by two consecutive cameras in Sharjah and fined based on calculated average speed, but nowhere does it say you can get hit by it IIRC (this is what we call section control here in the Netherlands). Not trying to pick on you in particular btw, your post was just the most quote-worthy.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:I've never understood why people feel upset if they aren't warned that speed limits will be enforced on a particular section of road. They didn't put warning signs, it happens alot.
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What the gently caress Wales, I thought you were cool. Map possibly somewhat related. 
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PittTheElder posted:I've never understood why people feel upset if they aren't warned that speed limits will be enforced on a particular section of road. I don't mind either, but it's a UAE specific thing: IIRC normally they do warn you. Topical: 
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Koesj posted:I don't mind either, but it's a UAE specific thing: IIRC normally they do warn you. What's this?
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I'm guessing the map on the right is just for the local elections, since I'd have trouble believing UKIP didn't score that well in the South East.
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Koesj posted:I don't mind either, but it's a UAE specific thing: IIRC normally they do warn you. Most African countries
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Kurtofan posted:What's this? A map based on (the first column of) this, although they might be using a slightly different dataset.
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Badger of Basra posted:Most African countries 
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Tree Goat posted:The Central Value Theorem fucks us over yet again. I think there are U.S. tollroads that also do this (where they compare the time on entering the tollway and leaving and if distance traveled / time taken is too much over the speed limit they fine you). None do this in the US, in no small part because it would encourage taking surface roads and paralleling non-tolled freeways instead. If any two of the major toll roads issued tickets for speeding for just one day, it'd be a single time millions of dollars return in tickets. Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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XMNN posted:What the gently caress Wales, I thought you were cool. I wasn't under the impression that they were cool, but I'm still surprised. I didn't know UKIP did that well in Wales, I thought they were almost exclusively an English thing. Some news searches are schooling me.
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Lycus posted:I wasn't under the impression that they were cool, but I'm still surprised. I didn't know UKIP did that well in Wales, I thought they were almost exclusively an English thing. Some news searches are schooling me. A lot of poor overlooked welsh people who continued being poor and overlooked during 13 years of Labour can unfortunately make them turn a bit reactionary. In Scotland most of those people went to the SNP but Plaid Cymru are a joke so UKIP have picked up the protest vote.
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Germany and Australia's Northern Territory, bastions of Freedom.Ofaloaf posted:*Maximum speed limit on paper. It's a rare and frustrating time when somebody actually does just 70 on the highway. In Australia, where no speed limit is signed it defaults to 50 km/h in urban/suburban roads and 100 on highways.
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I don't know how it works in other parts of the world, but in the places I visited in the EU, you'll always encounter this sign just past a country border crossing: It's a list of default maximum speeds. This one is for the Netherlands. 50 on urban roads, 80 on unmarked roads outside town, 100 on expressways and 120 on highways. Normally, max speed signs are lower than the default speed on a road. However, since they started making some highways 130 km/h, there's a 130 km/h sign that overrules the 120 km/h default speed, which is rather weird to me. By the way, the German version has '130' in a blue circle for the highway one. As they have no maximum speed, that indicates a recommended safe speed or something.
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For authenticity, that Kentucky one should really be the weird, flattened oval used when the highway number is four digits long.
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have a map with a terrible choice of colour gradients:  source: http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/12/study-massive-preprint-archive-hints-geography-plagiarism
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What's up with the state between Arizona and Texas painting a bullseye in theirs?
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Poil posted:What's up with the state between Arizona and Texas painting a bullseye in theirs? 
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Poil posted:What's up with the state between Arizona and Texas painting a bullseye in theirs? It kinda looks like it could be a dream catcher.
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Back when I visited the US, we did a collect-them-all on photos of car license plates from each state (and other areas/things with their own plates). American license plates are way more artistic than European ones.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Back when I visited the US, we did a collect-them-all on photos of car license plates from each state (and other areas/things with their own plates). American license plates are way more artistic than European ones. Oh there's wide amounts of variety just in each state too. There's also some...questionable ones.  (That's the logo of the University of Michigan)
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Yeah rest of the world outside of like Canada, US, Mexico, and a few Carribbean countries have boring rear end plates, it's sad. I've always liked PA's owl plates (which I think have been obsoleted by beaver plates) 
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Carbon dioxide posted:Back when I visited the US, we did a collect-them-all on photos of car license plates from each state (and other areas/things with their own plates). American license plates are way more artistic than European ones. In the early 2000s, my state had an, um, interesting design that apparently won some kind of award from the "Automobile License Place Collectors Association" but was despised by most residents:  It was supposedly meant to be a long-term design but ended up lasting something like two years before being replaced. As I recall, an awful lot of drivers bought stickers to put over the sun's face; the most popular seemed to be a bullet hole. Nowadays in addition to the regular design we seem to have an absurd number of additional plates available, including designs representing basically every college in the state.
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Special plates are great because when you see one of these you know they're an rear end in a top hat and probably on their cell phone/double parked.
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Poortugal. Sounds about right.
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Basil Hayden posted:The fancy graphic plates offered by most states usually don't predate the mid-90s — before that most places just had the state name and some kind of motto in a plain font (as you can still see with a few). That's gotta be the second-best license placate I've ever seen, second only to Nunavut's.
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remind me to send this to my polish friend an excellent map, nothing wrong with it 
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