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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h31g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.net.news.config,uk.transport.buses Subject: Re: Censorship in uk.rec.cycling.moderated Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT) References: <8ia955562a0r7i8t51l6lp59k7co025ld2@4ax.com>   <9eob551usn4veu8gic3pdq45eo9f0oeab6@4ax.com> <40775f73-b68b-471e-94aa-98c2685d0c4a@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>   <05oc55hove7buoe5ol4ubs2fe7p7auf8k1@4ax.com>  <7bpq34F20n748U1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 21 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247600566 6980 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2009 19:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h31g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2635 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:7200 uk.net.news.config:56105 uk.transport.buses:57

On Jul 11, 12:16=A0am, Peter Grange  wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:29:11 +0100, Matt B > >  wrote: > >Allan wrote: > > >> Road tax - no such thing, there is VED ... > > >VED is a /tax/ which must be paid (=A30 in some cases) to allow a motor > >vehicle to be used on the public road. =A0It /is/ a *tax*, in fact it is= a > >*road use tax*, more commonly known as a *road tax*. > > Yes, but there are a number of people who firmly believe that the VED > implies some sort of right to use the road, and those who do not pay > VED have no right to use the road. This is often used in the "you > don't pay road tax, piss off off the road" argument against cyclists, > which is of course nonsense.

Of course. After all, any argument which isn't pro-cycling is automatically "nonsense", isn't it?