bmielke wrote:Farmer Giles wrote:I never bother driving, I'm just a motorist.
Please Explain, if you are a motorist are you a passenger, or are you behind the wheel?
Obviously I'm behind the wheel! You never saw a sign addressed to "Motorists and Pedestrians"? Do you pay attention to traffic signals? Im the one with need for concern!
Farmer Giles wrote:why do you care if I have drivers license?
Because every week I drive a minimum of 650 miles, I don;t want some idiot who doesn't believe in Drivers Licenses out there frolicing around while I am driving.
what on earth is believing in driver licenses? I dont think any vehicle code you'll find the first reference to anyones political beliefs. Just keep your eyes on the road and stop worrying about images in your head. And watch those signs!
Farmer Giles wrote:Why are you so dissatisfied with the non-resident exception?
If you have a License then you can be a non-resident, But if you lack a license you are breaking the law.
what are the qualifications for that License, the one for Nonresidents? do you have any reason to believe Im unqualified? I have reason to believe YOU are a driver who doesnt recognize the term 'motorists'. That means when you pull up to the railroad crossing you cant read the sign! You need retraining.
see, we all know that know no one has any reason to believe that I on the other hand am unqualified, so you have to make up some phony reason about "driver licenses" like I was obligated to obtain an actual license when there is a clear exception that is practiced daily. You are obsessed or entranced by the image of a colorful, high tech drivers license from the States. What is the legality by which someome "from" India may operate an automobile in the States? How can anyone rely verify or determine anything from over there? You cannot and it is immaterial. In your fevered mind, you just make associations between faded papers with funny writing on them and turban wearing colorfully clothed brown people who have a great cuisine.
Non-Resident means someone who lives elsewhere in reality not in their own little head.
no, it means some one who is not a resident. check the code, under "definitions". it doesnt mean you are "somewhere else". This is how far your hallucination has come! Now, because you're "not from here", you must be somewhere else! No, I assure you, wherever you are, thats where you're at. It always amazes me when people say "I live somewhere else". Where then, do you think you are?
I guarantee the applicable law will come from the local state, not the image of "foreign, distant lands". get real.
Farmer Giles wrote:I dont think it bothers you when statistically lets say in the USA 100,000 operators from around the world daily present foreign DL's, what the difference between me and them?
They have a driver's license. Someone has certified they know how to drive.
wrong. they do not have a drivers license. there is no recognized drivers license from outside the USA and Canada, in those countries. No foreign occupational license will ever be valid in another country, especially without a treaty. this doesnt stop anyone from operating legally every day all over the world (its all the same law everywhere!). And no one has certified they know how to drive. They have passed nothing resembling a test, because there is no proof of it. An IDP is proof of competency WITHOUT a test. It is especially designed for "drivers coming from countries where no domestic permit is issued"...like MOST OF THE WORLD. Probably there are one billion at least qualified motorists from around the world that do not come from recognizable administrations. Even if that have local issue, it may be entirely useless for any purpose, if it doesnt conform to the international standards and appear in English.
The IDP is proof of competency WITHOUT a test. Thats got to be a source of popular confusion, because all actual DL holders have been tested. So what? Prove otherwise if its such a problem! It gets done for disqualifications al the time; but the issue isnt really that anyone suspects I might me unqualified (but I do suspect most of you!)
The issue is you're totally confused.
Farmer Giles wrote:Dont we all enjoy the same equal protection?
Sure get a license and I will support your right to drive anywhere in the country.
So again I ask the same question! What are the legal conditions for a valid license? The same one that allows nonresidents to operate motor vehicles under the same conditions as any other noncommercial operator.
Farmer Giles wrote:Why is the standard different for me?
They choose to visit you choose to drive around without a license.
that just doesnt make any sense. what has visiting and driving got to do with each other?
Farmer Giles wrote:what is the basic condition to enjoy the nonresident benefit of exemption?
Be a non-resident and have a driver's license.
that just goes to show how incoherent you are. If I have a drivers license then by definition Im a resident. nonresidents are specifically excepted from the command to have a drivers license, read the goddamned code!
You do realize that by non-resident they mean that you just don't live in that state right? It is so people don't need to have 50+ Drivers Licenses.
wrong again. "nonresident" means NOT A RESIDENT.