Re: Big Brotherish Laws

2003-01-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:39 PM 01/27/2003 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: That's because non-US licenses constitute automatic permission for minor traffic law violations. The scenario is something like the following: [Driver gets pulled over]. Driver: Gidday mate, hows it going? [Cop asks for license, looks at it]

Re: Big Brotherish Laws

2003-01-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have heard of one case where somebody was stopped in Nevada, and instead of presenting his California driver's license, if any, he presented his somewhere-in-the-Caribbean non-photo license and an international driver's license, and that was just fine for

Re: Big Brotherish Laws

2003-01-24 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:45 AM 12/18/2002 +, Adam Back wrote: If I recall some time ago (years ago) there was some discussion on list of using non-US drivers licenses or out-of-state drivers licenses I think to get around this problem. I thought it was Duncan Frissell or Black Unicorn who offered some opinions

Re: Big Brotherish Laws

2002-12-17 Thread Adam Back
If I recall some time ago (years ago) there was some discussion on list of using non-US drivers licenses or out-of-state drivers licenses I think to get around this problem. I thought it was Duncan Frissell or Black Unicorn who offered some opinions on this. (Actually I am interested in this

more about using non-US driving licenses (Re: Big Brotherish Laws)

2002-12-17 Thread Adam Back
And this I guess was the cypherpunks post I was thinking about from Duncan below. The only worries then would be if the insurance company would consider you insured in event of an accident with a non-US license. (Where that could a Canadian insurance company, or a US insurance company if you can