Light bulb question -- Daniel Stern?

You can't merely change the covers on a DOT approved assembly, they are
glued shut to prevent brain dead American's from putting on the wrong cover.
Apparently people in Europe, OZ, India, Africa and Asia are not assumed to
be so dumb by their government regulators.

Richard.

 

The X-Pel product doesn't replace the headlight assy. covers. They are
adhesive-backed, 1mm thick, optically clear sheets that you stick onto
the front of the intact headlight assy.

BTW - FWIW, for various reasons, lots of Americans remove the front of
the headlight assy. by putting the assy. in an oven to soften the glue,
and re-attach them after they've done whatever it is they do inside.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

Yeah - but I know you have offices in several places. I just want to
know how many different places you are registered in besides that
absentee one you just did and how many times, total, you're going to
vote - I know all about you democrats!! Like they say in Chicago, "Vote
early and often!" 8^) Seriously - dya know that in California, it's
illegal for them to ask a voter to show ID (might intimidate them)!!
What idiots. Wonder how many illegals will be voting there.

I hear there's going to be rain in several states (including Ohio)
tomorrow morning - that's usually good for the Republicans - keeps the
lazy welfare dems that just recently got force-registered from showing
up at the poles. 8^) I hope it rains cats and dogs.

Well, yeah, but whatever the min. size it takes to bust it without the
X-Pel, it's going to have to be several times that size to break it
*with* the X-Pel on, so statistically you're much better off with them.

Also, you have to be careful on smaller lamps; these kinds

Yeah - I bought a set of the StoneGuards a couple of years ago - never
put them on - they were way too thick (2mm) and stiff IMO - I could see
the adhesive peeling due to their inability to conform to the curved
surface of the headlight (I don't think they even make them anymore - I
get the impression that the X-Pels are the second generation and much
improved). I recently bought the X-Pel to go on whenever I get that
dang hazy left-side headlight replaced and those HIR bulbs in - too many
things on the to-do list (plus I'm slowing down) but I'll be up plenty
early tomorrow a.m.!! 8^)

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

Uh - no. The purported reason is that ID's cost money, and that
it would be like a defacto poll tax. At least that's what the poll
worker told me when I asked about ID a few years ago.

It's pretty simple. Give 'em your name, address, and sign in the
book.

 

That's the kind of b.s. logic I'd expect to hear. Like I said - what idiots.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

By the same logic, the gas that I use to drive to vote or the shoe
leather that I use up walking to the polling booth is a poll tax.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

OT (cont): As it happens the question of not showing ID in (some places) in
the US was mentioned in a BBC radio discussion programme the other day.

In UK you don't have to identify yourself but when you are given a ballot
paper your name is ticked off a list, so you can't get it twice.

DAS
--
For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling
---

[.........]
Seriously - dya know that in California, it's

 

As mentioned by David, we have to sign the voter registry book, so
you can only vote once. And, if you're like me (and 2/3 of the voters
in WA state that vote by absentee ballot), you can't get a standard
ballot - although you can get a "provisional" one that they later
validate as your only one.

Bill is out to lunch on this issue.

Floyd

 

Oh, I donno...twelve seems like a nice, round number.

For real. And regardless of legality, there are *huge* numbers of
precincts that don't require ID before checking off the name on the voter
rolls and directing the voter to a booth.

Not that fake ID is all that tough to get -- ask any college kid.

I'm fairly sure neither the North Pole nor the South Pole nor anyplace in
Poland is a US *polling* station. 8^P

 

A poll tax would be wrong. A prerequisite knowledge and IQ test, on the
other hand...

 

I would have been surprised if there were no safeguards.

DAS

 

I haven't lived in Australia for almost 20 years now, but one could vote
anywhere in one's "electoral district" (I'm using the US terminology),
not just in one's own "precinct": evey polling place had the list of
registered voters (compulsory registration and voting. Yeah!) for that
electoral district, and they crosschecked the lists later for dupes and
no-shows. If there was an ID requirement at all (I don't recall now for
sure), it probably was simply the document acknowledging one's
registration, there being no system of photo IDs anyway.

And of course they used a preferential voting system, so that a vote for
a "third party" candidate wasn't a wasted vote.

AND there were no radio/tv/newspaper reports or comments on the progress
of the election until the polls had closed nationwide (2-hr time
difference from East to West).

MB

Whether you vote Democrat or Republican today, the country will still be
run from boardrooms in the USA and elsewhere, not by your elected
representatives.

 

Actually, in WA state, you can walk into any polling place to vote.
They all have the information to construct a ballot for every precinct
in the state. The ballot is then sent to the proper county for validation
and final tallying, which takes 1-2 weeks (or more, if recounts are needed.)

Floyd

 

|
| Yeah - but I know you have offices in several places. I just want to
| know how many different places you are registered in besides that
| absentee one you just did and how many times, total, you're going to
| vote - I know all about you democrats!! Like they say in Chicago, "Vote
| early and often!" 8^) Seriously - dya know that in California, it's
| illegal for them to ask a voter to show ID (might intimidate them)!!
| What idiots. Wonder how many illegals will be voting there.

Same in Maryland. They ask your name and address (guess they never heard of a
phone book) and off to vote you go. No ID required. Amazing. Hard to have a
lot of faith in the process when I could say I'm anybody. I guess that's the
only way dems can win. We surely wouldn't want people to provide
identification, that's way to intrusive. Unreal!

 

|
| (Besides, I already voted.)
|

I thought you lived in Canada. Canadians voting in the US these days? Or is
it only Canadian Democrats that vote in the US!

 

| Bill Putney wrote:
|
| By the same logic, the gas that I use to drive to vote or the shoe
| leather that I use up walking to the polling booth is a poll tax.
|

As long as it's deductible!

 

|I would have been surprised if there were no safeguards.
|
| DAS
| --
| For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling
| ---
|
| | [..........]
| > As mentioned by David, we have to sign the voter registry book, so
| > you can only vote once. And, if you're like me (and 2/3 of the voters
| > in WA state that vote by absentee ballot), you can't get a standard
| > ballot - although you can get a "provisional" one that they later
| > validate as your only one.
| >
| > Bill is out to lunch on this issue.
| >
| > Floyd
|
|

If you knew your neighbor was ill and wasn't voting, you could easily vote in
his place under this system. Stupid! ID is required for any other
"transaction" in life, why would requiring it for something this important be a
problem to better assure integrity of the process?

 

American citizens get to vote regardless of where we live.

 

| On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, James C. Reeves wrote:
|
| >> (Besides, I already voted.)
|
| > I thought you lived in Canada.
|
| American citizens get to vote regardless of where we live.
|
|

That makes sense. Why bother though if not residing in the US? Curious.

 

Maybe he's trying to make it less painful to return

nate