NWS: Supremacy at Sea - WW2 shipping on January 1, 2009

"Alan Bernardo" <virginiawolf.TakeThisOut@voyageout.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Giftzwerg" <giftzwerg999.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <55f34b71-a461-421c-a2fb-
>> d327046b61ae.TakeThisOut@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com
>> says...
>>
>>> It just ain't my day - got a 60 euro ticket for "speeding" at a death-
>>> defying 41 km/h in a 30 zone as well.
>> - Giftzwerg
>
> About two years ago, two days apart, I got two tickets. One was for not
> pulling over to the right-hand lane on the highway for a stopped cruiser.
> The guy stopped me and said that he would give me a warning on the
> speeding ticket but not the safety issue. I thought-- well, that's good.
> The ticket for the safety citation was $300.
>
> Then, returning from a little session in which my under-aged daughter got
> an $80 dollar ticket for speeding, I get stopped for going straight in a
> turn lane. It was on a newly-opened road, which had been widened. It was
> confusing as to what lane went where, as I explained to the officer.
>
> All I got was a $200 ticket. Here in Ohio at least, getting a ticket if
> you're under 18 isn't going to cost much. But if you're over 18, be
> prepared to pay big.
>
> Alan
>


the more i hear from you guys in oddball states the more i appreciate
massachusetts.
of course the rest of the country thinks we all drive like maniacs and to be
fair, we do.
you really have to b doing 20 mph over the limit on roads like 128 to
attract attention.
but as the police are the fastest drivers out there they have a hard time
noticing.
now and then if the state needs money they get out on the mass pike and set
up radar on it, but that is very rare.

in boston they are fanatic about parking tickets as a way of filling the
coffers.

----- Original Message -----
From: <eddysterckx.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: NWS: Supremacy at Sea - WW2 shipping on January 1, 2009


> On 24 dec, 10:08, Warship NWS <Warshi....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Sorry Eddy.. .. meant to say media pack, not demo pack.
>
> Ah, ok - will be looking for the full game to arrive early January
> then. Hope I don't get slammed by customs again like what happened
> with War Plan Pacific today. 10 euros extra on top of the 21% VAT -
> legal robbery - I'd gladly pay the extra 20 euros straight to the
> developer given the choice.

Same here but they thought it was a book so they only charged 4% VAT, of
course they added 2,50 Euro for custom cost and 3 for shipping (which i
thought had already paid) and applied a change rate of 1,26 instead of 1,4.
So "only" a 7.4 ? surcharge not considering the 12$ of shipping. Digital
download is badly needed.



Davide

On 24 dec, 20:52, "Miowarra Tomokatu (aka Tomo)" <n... DeleteThis @thistime.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:26:48 -0800 (PST), "eddyster...@hotmail.com"
>
> <eddyster... DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Belgium is broke and they're at a point where they'll try *anything*
> >for extra income.
>
> Ready to invite the Habsburgs back again, Eddy?

You can asses the degree of civilization of a country by looking at
when they decided to chop the king's head off.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

On 24 dec, 21:39, "Davide Bertone" <a....TakeThisOut@aa.aa> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <eddyster....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: NWS: Supremacy at Sea - WW2 shipping on January 1, 2009
>
> > On 24 dec, 10:08, Warship NWS <Warshi....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Sorry Eddy.. .. meant to say media pack, not demo pack.
>
> > Ah, ok - will be looking for the full game to arrive early January
> > then. Hope I don't get slammed by customs again like what happened
> > with War Plan Pacific today. 10 euros extra on top of the 21% VAT -
> > legal robbery - I'd gladly pay the extra 20 euros straight to the
> > developer given the choice.
>
> Same here but they thought it was a book so they only charged 4% VAT, of
> course they added 2,50 Euro for custom cost and 3  for shipping (which i
> thought had already paid) and applied a change rate of 1,26 instead of 1,4.
> So "only" a 7.4 ? surcharge not considering the 12$ of shipping. Digital
> download is badly needed.

I admit to having no clue whatsoever on what they based that 10 Euro
customs charge. S&H + customs essentially means the price of that game
got doubled. Long live digital download

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

Davide Bertone schrieb:

> Same here but they thought it was a book so they only charged 4% VAT, of
> course they added 2,50 Euro for custom cost and 3 for shipping (which i
> thought had already paid) and applied a change rate of 1,26 instead of 1,4.
> So "only" a 7.4 ? surcharge not considering the 12$ of shipping. Digital
> download is badly needed.
>
>
>
> Davide
>
>

Since Dec. 2008 there is a new EU customs regulation for importing goods
from outside the EU. No customs fee for goods under 150 EURO (only tax).

> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=en&lng1=en...&lng2=b


I will order WWII-SAS after the first reviews in January, maybe there
will be a first patch too.


Michael

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:13:00 -0800 (PST), Warship NWS
<WarshipFC.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:

>SAS FAQ updated,
>
>http://forums.navalwarfare.org/showthread.php?t=753
>
>Thanks
>Christopher Dean
>Naval Warfare Simulations
>Director of Operations

Please update us when you add digital download. I just bought three
games from Matrix today. I would have bought two from them and SASWW2
if it had been available for DD.

-fin

<eddysterckx.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> It just ain't my day - got a 60 euro ticket for "speeding" at a death-
> defying 41 km/h in a 30 zone as well.
>

If Belgium is anything like the US, my guess is the officer in question was
short on his monthly quota for citations and was desperate to fill his quota
as most departments hand out sub-standard performance evaluations at the end
of the year if monthly quotas are not met. You are far more likely to get
pulled over for minor violations in the last week of the month than you are
the rest of the time, and warnings are handed out a lot less during that
period as well.

In Oakland our crime rate was so bad, regular patrol officers didn't have
citation quota's as there were usually 30-100 or so calls for service
standing on the logs with no officers available to respond. So we spent most
of our time running from one act of violence to the next with no time to
stop and write tickets.

In fact I once opened my ticket book and found all my citations were moldy
and ruined as the last time I had written a citation it had rained and the
leather ticket book and paper citations musty have gotten wet. It had
probably been several months prior.

The city of Oakland made up for the lack of revenue from this kind of
policing by creating a motor division (motorcycle officers) within the
department. These officers were delegated to just writing citations and
handling traffic collisions for the majority of their work days. Sure they
responded to in progress calls like an armed robbery or shooting, but only
if they were close and no patrol officers could respond right away.

So if you're in a big city, watch out if a motorcycle cop is around, as
these guys are usually tasked to filling citation quotas every day. State
police like the California Highway Patrol are similar in nature to our motor
division guys, they generally have to fill quotas every day as well.

Jim

--
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways - Brewski in one hand - cigar in the other - body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride"

Giftzwerg wrote:

>
>> Ironically, I remember when I drove from Baltimora to New York, back in the
>> '90s. I was stopped two times by the cops because I was going *too slow* (it
>> was the first time for me behind a wheel in the USA, so I was being very
>> prudent). They reasoning: "If this guy is going so slow in an area where he
>> can speed, he surely has something to hide". A cop actually warned me to
>> "speed up".
>
> Yep. Cops are highly suspicious of anyone rigidly adhering to traffic
> rules. And driving slowly is a classic DWI telltale.
>

Another telltale is driving really fast on the wrong side of the freeway...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/01/02/71w...gway.AR

> Another telltale is driving really fast on the wrong side of the
> freeway...
>
> http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/01/02/71w...gway.AR

If I read the story correctly, this woman had traces of blood in her alcohol
O___o

Probably she was wondering what all the drivers going the wrong way had
drank.