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Pretty much, yes.
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Although this podcast is hosted by a Dane.
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Europolitical bullshit is really as much fun as it sounds.
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Last I checked, Arizona ones were good for 30+ years (I saw one in ~2005 that had an expiration date in the 2030s. Texas gives you four or five years.
South Carolina gives you ten-year ones after the first one. Mine doesn't even expire for another almost 2 years.
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In Massachusetts even if you fail the eye exam, if you're old enough, you might get "lucky" in that your doctor, the teller at the DMV, and her boss might not want to be the meanie that takes your license away so they'll renew it anyway. I actually saw that happen once.
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They can live there and not be able to bear said truth.
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As explained upthread, Arizona licenses are good until age 65. After that you have to renew every 5 years.
There is one interesting quirk with a license issued before age 65. If you need a replacement license (due to loss or theft), but your on file photo is >= 12* years old, you have to go into the MVD** and get your picture taken again before you can get your replacement.
* might be 10, I can't recall exactly ** Motor Vehicle Devision is the official name here in Arizona. Other states refer to it as the DMV.
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You know how it is--going downthread is too much work. I almost edited my post to acknowledge that, but that doesn't up my post count.
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Plenty of states call it weird things. IIRC in MA it's the RMV, Registry of Motor Vehicles, Florida is Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and so on.
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Am I the only one that noticed that the quarantined Hotmail message is a future message from the one that reports it?
How do you even get a "Spam Notification: 1 New Message" report on an email titled "Spam Notification: 9 New Messages"?
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No, no you're not the only one.
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Well, obviously the 9 messages had already been reported by the first email, so they weren't counted by the second email. That, or they had been deleted.
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The drivers license is not really a WTF. I grew up in Arizona where drivers licenses do not expire until you turn 60.
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Covered, repeatedly, upthread. And it's 65, not 60.
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Great... we not only have an infinate loop, but a race condition as well...
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In the Australian Capital Territory (the Australian equivalent of DC), our driver's licences are valid for 5 years. Except for some reason their policy is for expiry dates to coincide with multiple of 5 (ie, 25th, 30th...) birthdays. This meant that when I came from interstate (where they don't have that policy, and my licence expired somewhere around my 29th birthday), I was issued a licence with only ~1 year validity.
I was sorely tempted to ask what they would do if my licence had been due to expire just before my x*5 birthday - do I get one valid only a few days?
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Odd, I thought that Sydney was just its own city.
Filed under: Canberra troll!
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I assume you didn't ask because you were afraid the answer was yes.
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I didn't ask because the response would have been a blank stare, and I didn't want to stick around longer than I already had.
Maybe the system sees sense and can issue a 5 years & 1 day licence, but I'm curious where they draw the line as to how short is too short.
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Sydney is it's own city (but I figure you knew that and are trolling me :smile: ) - Canberra is the capital.
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Yeah, if you quote my post...
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Actually the old Finnish ones expire your 70th birthday, after which you'd need to supply a doctor's statement for renewal every fifth year.
It's not really the card that expires, either, because I replaced my large plastic driver's license with a credit card sized one and it still bears the same expiration date than my old one. Only the driver's licenses given out after the EU-wide decision to shorten the validitiy period have the 5 to whatever expiration time. This has something to do with the prohibition of retroactive decisions and taking away already aqcuired perks.
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A five-year expiration means that the address the DMV has on file for you is never more than five years out of date. In my state, licenses can now be renewed online-- but they mail you the physical license, so your address still can't be older than a year or so.
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Only if they require proof of current address. All you need in NSW (that's a state in Australia) to renew is a current license, renewal form, cash and a half decent set of eyeballs (to read the giant font on the eye chart). I guess the government figured it's pointless too - we can get 10 year licenses from 2015.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-uemc-e3w#t=2m15s
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If the expiry is less than a certain amount of time in the future (I think 1 year) you get one with a bit over 5 years validity.
Source: Finally registered legal change of address after five years actual residency, aged 24. Expiry was 35th birthday.
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Wow, the Aussie dollar has really been tanking lately.
On the plus side, it should be a good time to go shopping online and spend a few million $US.
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Sending two emails has always been a race condition.