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OK, answer me this:
Trying to renew my vehicle plates on line. Enter all the gorp, my credit card data and hit submit. See title for results.
This is followed by an email thanking me for renewing and saying that my CC info is being forwarded to their CC vendor.
The question: What will happen next?
a. My credit card will be charged and I will be mailed my plates.
b. My credit card will be charged but no plates will be mailed.
c. I will never hear from them again.
d. Something else.
BTW: do you suppose they have forseen errors?
Sigh. Mother told me there would be days like this, she didn't tell me there would be so many.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My guess is a lovely combination of b and c, because..well..nothing can be easy.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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why not just attach your credit card to your car where the plates go?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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The last time I did that I got a ticket.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: The last time I did that I got a ticket.
Think yourself lucky you're not in Canada.
The police there issue Celine Dion tickets.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's for first offence, second time it's Nickelback.
For repeat offenders there is Justin Bieber.
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d. -- Someone is planning a trip to Ibeza with your CC info.
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theoldfool wrote: Enter all the gorp,
I found the problem. The last time I put gorp on the computer it shorted out.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Ah, the joys of DMVs. The epitome of customer service.
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theoldfool wrote: BTW: do you suppose they have forseen errors?
The real question is: If they were able to show an error message, doesn't that mean they have actually foreseen that error? Which of course would make the error message inaccurate, which in turn means they had not foreseen that they would foresee the error, which means it was an unforeseen error to foresee an error and then label it unforeseen ... 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Say, is that common all over the USA that you have to "renew" your license plates? Or is it only in some states?
Here in Norway, the plates assigned to the car when it is bought for the first time (or possibly imported to Norway as a used car) stays with that car until it is scrapped, even when sold to another part of the country. I believe that even if it sold to Sweden, say, and carries Swedish plates for a few years, and then sold back to Norway, it would regain the same old plates.
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The plates stay the same but you get a sticker to glue on to indicate when they'll expire. It's a yearly fee, though some places let you pay for two years at a time. I've lived in TX, CA, NH, and ON, and it's been the same in all of them.
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We had those stickers in Norway as well, but from 2012, the automatic number recognition functions in the video cameras of the traffic police had matured enough to be a reliable way to flag cars who hadn't paid the yearly fee. It can even be fully automated - the camera mounted in a box along the roadside, reporting to the police office only those cars that haven't renewed.
From 2018, we still have to pay a yearly fee, but it is added to the (mandatory) liability insurance bill; you do not pay it separately.
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varies by state but here it is a yearly fee. They change plates every 5 years or somesuch, stickers in between. The license plate stays with the owner, not the car. I usually renew for 2 years but my second car is now 22 years old, so I do one year.
When I fill the gas tank, the value doubles. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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We have a few exceptions in Norway, where the number plate stays with the person:
The car of the Norwegian king has had a "A-1" number plate since the 1930s. (All new cars since 1970 have a two-letter, five-digit number plate, except for the king.)
For a few years, we have had the option to buy "personalized" number plates with up to seven characters, provided the letter combination is not yet taken (and the word is not offensive). You pay a fee (almost 900 USD) for it, and it can be transferred to another car for a period of ten years, when it must be renewed. But these personalized plates are sort of a "secondary" registration number: The original XX-12345 number is still assigned to the car, and will be the one used if the personalized plate is not renewed after ten years. A standard format number is always assigned when the car is first sold, even if the buyer immediately switches to the personalized plates.
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Experience: Recognizing a mistake the second time you make it.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Not even the donkeys struggle two times with the same stone   
(I have been told this a lot of times   )
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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 I assume that's a German saying, because I don't recognize it in English. There must be an equivalent, but I can't think of it.
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Actually is a spanish one. 
Meaning is that only the human being is the only dumb live form that repeats the same errors many times without learning from them.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If every Monday morning is a deja vu to you, then you are up for a few deja vus in the future.
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If related, it was a lazy curse...
On the other hand... I sometimes wonder if those "brave" are not just plain "too dumb to be afraid"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Try typing “dirty” followed by your first name into urban dictionary and see what....ummm...acts are named after you.
Warning. You probably won’t be able to post the results here.
My first name is Scott if your name doesn’t yield any results.
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Mine was ... um ... unprintable, so I tried a few others here: "Dirty Kent" is a bit ... specific. I wonder if he knows?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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