[Hatfield]

The Valentine 1 is nice because not only does it detect all types of police radar and laser, and can keep track of multiple signals at once, and the directional arrows tell you which direction the radar is coming from.

This is handy, for example, when you’re going up 395 and some asshat blows past you doing 100 in an Escalade. At this speed it’s pretty hard to get zapped from behind if you’re reasonably diligent about watching the rear view mirror. And it’s very easy to get zapped from the front – pop over a hill, and if there’s a cop there, you’re toast.

So I use what Car and Driver calls “the patsy method” where you are detecting the radar that’s being aimed at other cars, not you. In this case, once the asshat blows past you (and one always does), you let him be your patsy and follow at a distance of about 1/2 mile to a mile, matching his speed and checking the rear view mirror frequently. When the detector goes off, see what direction it’s coming from. Almost always the radar is front of you – in front of your patsy as well – and almost always the patsy will not have a radar detector himself.

I’ll drop down out of warp speed and watch the patsy get nailed. I would say in the past 3 or 4 years of going up to Mammoth, I’ve seen at least 10 people get nailed, and the cop never even sees me. I’m doing 65 by the time I come into his view. It makes for an efficient and entertaining drive.

The other nice thing about the V1 is that it has a remote control option which allows you to hide both the display and the detector itself.

[Hatfield]

The Valentine 1 is nice because not only does it detect all types of police radar and laser, and can keep track of multiple signals at once, and the directional arrows tell you which direction the radar is coming from.

This is handy, for example, when you’re going up 395 and some asshat blows past you doing 100 in an Escalade. At this speed it’s pretty hard to get zapped from behind if you’re reasonably diligent about watching the rear view mirror. And it’s very easy to get zapped from the front – pop over a hill, and if there’s a cop there, you’re toast.

So I use what Car and Driver calls “the patsy method” where you are detecting the radar that’s being aimed at other cars, not you. In this case, once the asshat blows past you (and one always does), you let him be your patsy and follow at a distance of about 1/2 mile to a mile, matching his speed and checking the rear view mirror frequently. When the detector goes off, see what direction it’s coming from. Almost always the radar is front of you – in front of your patsy as well – and almost always the patsy will not have a radar detector himself.

I’ll drop down out of warp speed and watch the patsy get nailed. I would say in the past 3 or 4 years of going up to Mammoth, I’ve seen at least 10 people get nailed, and the cop never even sees me. I’m doing 65 by the time I come into his view. It makes for an efficient and entertaining drive.

The other nice thing about the V1 is that it has a remote control option which allows you to hide both the display and the detector itself.

[Hatfield]

The Valentine 1 is nice because not only does it detect all types of police radar and laser, and can keep track of multiple signals at once, and the directional arrows tell you which direction the radar is coming from.

This is handy, for example, when you’re going up 395 and some asshat blows past you doing 100 in an Escalade. At this speed it’s pretty hard to get zapped from behind if you’re reasonably diligent about watching the rear view mirror. And it’s very easy to get zapped from the front – pop over a hill, and if there’s a cop there, you’re toast.

So I use what Car and Driver calls “the patsy method” where you are detecting the radar that’s being aimed at other cars, not you. In this case, once the asshat blows past you (and one always does), you let him be your patsy and follow at a distance of about 1/2 mile to a mile, matching his speed and checking the rear view mirror frequently. When the detector goes off, see what direction it’s coming from. Almost always the radar is front of you – in front of your patsy as well – and almost always the patsy will not have a radar detector himself.

I’ll drop down out of warp speed and watch the patsy get nailed. I would say in the past 3 or 4 years of going up to Mammoth, I’ve seen at least 10 people get nailed, and the cop never even sees me. I’m doing 65 by the time I come into his view. It makes for an efficient and entertaining drive.

The other nice thing about the V1 is that it has a remote control option which allows you to hide both the display and the detector itself.

[Hatfield]

> The Z06 Corvette not only outperformed the
> Porsche 911 on the skid pad

Yawn. Skidpad is just one test. Like 0-60, it doesn’t mean that much in isolation. Slalom time is a better measure. Or lap time. Even better yet, just drive both cars. I did. Did you? I bought the 911. Haven’t regretted it.

[Hatfield]

> The Z06 Corvette not only outperformed the
> Porsche 911 on the skid pad

Yawn. Skidpad is just one test. Like 0-60, it doesn’t mean that much in isolation. Slalom time is a better measure. Or lap time. Even better yet, just drive both cars. I did. Did you? I bought the 911. Haven’t regretted it.

[Hatfield]

> The Z06 Corvette not only outperformed the
> Porsche 911 on the skid pad

Yawn. Skidpad is just one test. Like 0-60, it doesn’t mean that much in isolation. Slalom time is a better measure. Or lap time. Even better yet, just drive both cars. I did. Did you? I bought the 911. Haven’t regretted it.

[Hatfield]

> The Z06 Corvette not only outperformed the
> Porsche 911 on the skid pad

Yawn. Skidpad is just one test. Like 0-60, it doesn’t mean that much in isolation. Slalom time is a better measure. Or lap time. Even better yet, just drive both cars. I did. Did you? I bought the 911. Haven’t regretted it.

[Hatfield]

> The Z06 Corvette not only outperformed the
> Porsche 911 on the skid pad

Yawn. Skidpad is just one test. Like 0-60, it doesn’t mean that much in isolation. Slalom time is a better measure. Or lap time. Even better yet, just drive both cars. I did. Did you? I bought the 911. Haven’t regretted it.

[Hatfield]

Well, it’s hard not to imagine the internet driving a lot of real estate agents out of business the same way it drove travel agents out of business ten years ago. Pretty much the only travel agents that have survived are specialists, package tours, that kind of thing. If the analogy follows and in fact most realtors are driven out of business, the ones that remain will be specialists of some sort.

I think the only reason I’d want to get a real estate license would be to save the commission on investment properties I bought and sold. Even then I wonder if it’s worth paying a few percentage points to keep the hypothetical broker side of me an arm’s length away from the hypothetical investor side of me, just in case a deal goes sour.

I kinda like the optometrist idea.

[Hatfield]

Well, it’s hard not to imagine the internet driving a lot of real estate agents out of business the same way it drove travel agents out of business ten years ago. Pretty much the only travel agents that have survived are specialists, package tours, that kind of thing. If the analogy follows and in fact most realtors are driven out of business, the ones that remain will be specialists of some sort.

I think the only reason I’d want to get a real estate license would be to save the commission on investment properties I bought and sold. Even then I wonder if it’s worth paying a few percentage points to keep the hypothetical broker side of me an arm’s length away from the hypothetical investor side of me, just in case a deal goes sour.

I kinda like the optometrist idea.

[Hatfield]

Well, it’s hard not to imagine the internet driving a lot of real estate agents out of business the same way it drove travel agents out of business ten years ago. Pretty much the only travel agents that have survived are specialists, package tours, that kind of thing. If the analogy follows and in fact most realtors are driven out of business, the ones that remain will be specialists of some sort.

I think the only reason I’d want to get a real estate license would be to save the commission on investment properties I bought and sold. Even then I wonder if it’s worth paying a few percentage points to keep the hypothetical broker side of me an arm’s length away from the hypothetical investor side of me, just in case a deal goes sour.

I kinda like the optometrist idea.

[Hatfield]

Well, it’s hard not to imagine the internet driving a lot of real estate agents out of business the same way it drove travel agents out of business ten years ago. Pretty much the only travel agents that have survived are specialists, package tours, that kind of thing. If the analogy follows and in fact most realtors are driven out of business, the ones that remain will be specialists of some sort.

I think the only reason I’d want to get a real estate license would be to save the commission on investment properties I bought and sold. Even then I wonder if it’s worth paying a few percentage points to keep the hypothetical broker side of me an arm’s length away from the hypothetical investor side of me, just in case a deal goes sour.

I kinda like the optometrist idea.

[Hatfield]

Well, it’s hard not to imagine the internet driving a lot of real estate agents out of business the same way it drove travel agents out of business ten years ago. Pretty much the only travel agents that have survived are specialists, package tours, that kind of thing. If the analogy follows and in fact most realtors are driven out of business, the ones that remain will be specialists of some sort.

I think the only reason I’d want to get a real estate license would be to save the commission on investment properties I bought and sold. Even then I wonder if it’s worth paying a few percentage points to keep the hypothetical broker side of me an arm’s length away from the hypothetical investor side of me, just in case a deal goes sour.

I kinda like the optometrist idea.

[Hatfield]

> But some of us folks on the app side using
> java/.net(or pick your favorite script kiddie
> language) have gotten so use to just doing
> “new”‘s without “delete’s” 🙂

A real embedded engineer doeesn’t even use new or malloc! 🙂

[Hatfield]

> But some of us folks on the app side using
> java/.net(or pick your favorite script kiddie
> language) have gotten so use to just doing
> “new”‘s without “delete’s” 🙂

A real embedded engineer doeesn’t even use new or malloc! 🙂

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