Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-17-2010

[andrewducker]

• 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' has been cast.
  (tags: writing books movies)
• Oxfordshire turns off all of their speed cameras - except two, to check people's actions. Speeding, strangely, goes up...
  (tags: law cars uk speed video)
• UK has worse social mobility record than other developed countries
  (tags: society uk)
• Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
  (tags: photography history usa photo)
• Titanic relatives asking to die horribly in "ironic" circumstances.
  (tags: Titanic)
• German singer on trial for HIV sex.
  (tags: health hiv sex law)
• China Tops Japan as World's No. 2 Economy
  (tags: china economy japan usa business economics)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I think that many people agree that some speed limits don't make sense. But I never see campaigns for the increase of speed limits, only for the removal of methods of telling if someone is breaking the law.

[matgb]

Which is exactly my point. The people who object to speed cameras always campaign against the camera, not the law they're there to enforce, and I wonder why.

It's not something I currently campaign on one way or t'other, given the car's dead and being sold, but I do think "this device shows I break the law, ban the device" is stupid, whereas "this device helps enforce a stupid law, change the law" is supportable in many cases.