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Pls RT: #entertainment #funny #WTF : LAJARA: Program lets you appear less stupid - Kingston Daily Freeman http://bit.ly/aITrv5
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Caveat emptor.
In other words, we are all bad drivers. Now please stop reading this and concentrate your eyes on the road.
"Factoring in margin for error, average test scores between the genders were similar (21 percent female versus 19 percent male)."
ALBANY (AP) — New Yorkers who shell out about $50 to take a leisurely trip down a cartoon road with just a few clicks of the mouse can end up shaving hundreds of dollars off some of the nation's highest car insurance premiums.
Under a program launched this month, New York joins 26 other states that offer online driving courses to reduce insurance costs and erase disciplinary points from licenses.
The online courses, which are allowed under state law, cost drivers about $50, but cost the state nothing. They provide a 10 percent annual discount on a driver's car insurance premiums, savings that last three years. Drivers can retake the course to sustain the discount.
States including California, Arizona, Texas and Florida also allow the program to be used to reduce insurance premiums.
It can be a badly needed break in a state with one of the highest auto insurance rates in the country. The cost of an insurance premium for New Yorkers varies based on a number of factors, including where the driver lives.
"In some parts of New York state, you're probably paying almost as much to insure a vehicle as you are to finance it," said John Corlett, a spokesman for AAA New York.
For married couples and families with children, the 10 percent discount applies to the additional premium cost of each person who takes the course.
Drivers who have points on their license can drop up to four points when they successfully complete the course. In New York, a drivers' license is suspended at 11 points.
The class deals with collision prevention, defensive driving techniques, aggressive driving, improper lane use and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
"Most of the people taking the course haven't gone through any formal driver education since they were 15 preparing to get their first drivers' license, and every year there's new laws," said Rick Hernandez, a partner for I DRIVE SAFELY, which offers one of the state approved online programs.
Their online course is self-paced, offering short text lessons and some animation, showing cars navigating along cartoon roads. The material is entirely multiple choice.
Online and in-class sessions are also available from American Safety Council, Inc. and the National Point and Insurance Reduction Course, Inc. The online classes cost more for the convenience. They vary by company, generally costing around $50, compared to $20 to $40 for classroom courses.
The online class is more flexible than the traditional six-hour classroom session, because students can complete it at their own pace, logging in and out within 30 days.
Once drivers complete the online course, the DMV is notified automatically, but individuals must inform their insurance company within 90 days to receive the discount.
"These programs are common in other states, and we felt that they would open up access to defensive driving courses for people who might have limited access to the in-person driving courses, either time wise or geographically," Corlett said.
About 650,000 New Yorkers completed the classroom courses last year, according to the DMV.
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/broch/c32a.htm
http://www.AAA.com
Made by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers for http://www.thisisreality.com/.
One of them, Joel Coen, lives in Ulster County with Oscar-winning wife Frances McDormand, of "Fargo" fame.
the ‘Sin of Worshiping False Labels’. Some marketers are exploiting consumers’
demand for third-party certification by creating fake labels or false suggestions of third-party endorsement. This
development is serious enough to warrant its own category - hence the seventh Sin.
Stomach not happy with Happy Meal
In its never-ending war against the people's right to be fat, the city of New York began requiring that chain restaurants put calorie counts on their menus.
This violation of our God-given right to misuse "God-given" in phrases comes after the city passed a ban on transfats, the artificial goodies that like to party heartily in your coronary artery.
Thankfully for big people outside of the Big Apple, Big Macs are not a big deal.
That's because fast food is healthy, according to the impartial Web sites of the fast food chains.
For instance, McDonald's and Burger King stress that their burgers are made with 100 percent beef.
So you can sleep happy knowing that the burgers are entirely made of murdered cows that were pulverized into gooey stringy bits.
Also great is the fact that the buns that wrap the healthy beef patties are made with tasty and nutritious things like thiamine mononitrate, ribovflavin, niacin, sodium stearoyl lactylate, amonium sulphate and more than two dozen other unpronounceable ingredients.
That's what happens when a company is run by a clown or a guy in king's suit.
Not surprisingly, if you are a fast food consumer, chances are you are not that concerned about what's in the food because you are too busy being angry at the attendant who just messed up your order of two half-pound Angus burgers with three large fries and five sodas (Why do they always forget that you want diet soda?)
Besides, you most likely want a beef patty made out of an diabetic cow that died of a heart attack and was injected with high fructose corn syrup, steroids and cheese from a can.
But the fast food restaurants will have none of this. They really want you to know that their food is OK and that their flavors are naturally made with an ingredient called "Natural Flavors."
The solution to this problem of not knowing what's your beef is nutrition education, according to experts, otherwise known as unemployed nutrition educators.
The chains' efforts are impressive. For instance, McDonald's has answers to all your questions, like:
* "Are there worms in the meat?"; and
* "Are there really eyeballs and other weird stuff in your burgers?!?"
All this makes one wonder:
* Do McDonald's question writers know how to use exclamation marks?!?
* "Are there really people asking if there really are eyeballs in the burgers?"
* "Aren't eyeballs more expensive than meat, anyway?"
* "Is that burger looking at me?"
* But seriously, "Are there really eyeballs and other weird stuff in your burgers?"
Not to be outdone, Burger King also has answers to your important nutritional questions such as, "Quick! What was the Burger King slogan in 1974?"
Luckily, you will forget all this nonsense, because you just finished your burger and now you have to go to the bathroom really fast.
The following stories from The New York Times, which I forgot to post yesterday, are related to "New research on memory forgettable."
The NRA-Institute for Legislative Action has published a document, "What`s So Scary About Banning Assault Weapons?". (Their answer? Slippery slope).
I was going to make a joke about that. But then I thought it's probably better to avoid making fun of people who are really serious about wanting to have a semiautomatic rifle with a folding telescoping stock and with a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, which also has a flash suppresser, a bayonet mount and a grenade launcher, in red.
