Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Lussier
jk...@kinz.org writes: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:35:04AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: I too, had one of those plates on the front of my car. Recently when I brought in for it's every-13-month re-inspection, the mechanic performing the inspection informed me afterwards that he is required to

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-24 Thread jkinz
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:35:04AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: I too, had one of those plates on the front of my car. Recently when I brought in for it's every-13-month re-inspection, the mechanic performing the inspection informed me afterwards that he is required to remove vanity plates from

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: I was recently parked for just a few moments in downtown Lowell and came back outside to find a meter lady writing me a ticket. I asked her what the violation was and she mumbled something incoherent about the plates being different. I

[OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm surprised they let through HACKER with all of the criminal rep that name has unjustly acquired. I have no idea how DMV personnel decide what's acceptable on vanity plates but I saw 455H01E not long ago so I guess they haven't perfected their filtering techniques. My car has my official

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-14 Thread roger . levasseur
I don't know how much they enforce it, but if you have the newer red and white MA plates (as opposed to the old green and white ones), MA requires you to display them both. When I had my yearly MA inspection back in March, my green on white plate was failed, with the garage guy saying

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 05/14/2009 03:50 PM, roger.levass...@comcast.net wrote: When I had my yearly MA inspection back in March, my green on white plate was failed, with the garage guy saying that the RMV was cracking down on the inspection stations to check the plates. To be fair, many are quite illegible