May need to reinstall the drivers
Posted By: ER MT on 2007-10-28
In Reply to: Can someone please help me with laptop question? sm - technical question
I would go to the laptop manufacturer's web site and search for your laptop. They should then have a link for support and drivers, and you can try re-downloading the modem drivers. That should fix it.
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Sounds to me like you need to reinstall the sound DRIVER. (sm)
If you need help on where to locate the link to do this, email me.
They go by Drivers's License as far as I know - sm
My mom thought it was by voting, but she never voted and was not registered to vot either and got called 2 times. She did drive though.
Should teenage drivers pay for ....sm
1. Driver's education/training classes if required in a state (ours mandates it) and it's not available as part of the public school curriculum? The price is $325 for the 40 hour course if taken through one of the state approved places and includes 6 hours of hands-on driving experience and 34 hours of classroom instruction.
2. The cost of car insurance and gas?
My husband & I are considering for item #1 having our almost 15-year-old pay for half the course as she does have the money in the bank and makes money babysitting, but haven't totally decided on this. We know that if we ask her what she thinks about it she'll respond that she wants us to pay for it because she likes to spend her money on music. We do pay $100 a month for her to have guitar lessons which began this past summer. For item #2 we do agree that she should pay for the insurance/gas when she gets her permanent license. Some of the parents in our area pay for this for their kids and others either have them pay all or part of it. Our rules for driving once she turns 16 is that she will have to keep her grades up to a B average or higher, have a part-time job and if she slacks on either then the keys are taken away. She isn't involved in extracurricular activities after school so there's no reason why she couldn't work a few hours a week during the school year to cover these costs. We do have a good dependable car for her to drive (1992 Cougar with low mileage) so at least there's wheels for her to travel on.
What's your opinion?
Those of you with teen drivers....
...how did you handle speeding tickets, punishment wise? Take away their keys for XXX amount of time, ignore the first offense, ground them, etc.
teen drivers
I made my son pay his own ticket which for him was the punishment. I have to admit I speed so we didn't ground him or anything. Hasn't happened since.
I have two teen drivers on my insurance.
One is away at college and is not allowed to have a car on campus. Since he's paying for, or has earned scholarships for a good portion of his tuition, we pick up his car insurance as a secondary driver on a very old Toyota that he inherited from his grandfather. My second son has had his license for only two weeks. At the current time, as he is a good student, responsible and working very hard at school and on some extracurricular activities, we pick up his insurance as a secondary driver, as well. So far, so good. No one has had any moving violations or dings. In fact, I'm 46 and have never had a moving violation and have only gotten two parking tickets (deserved).
We're very serious here about driving responsibility. The boys know that one speeding ticket and we drop them from our insurance like hot potatoes. No insurance, no driving, no car. No warning. Mess up once, and they don't get back behind the wheel on our dime ever. The boys also know that their father and I mean what we say. We're not rich, but we are happy to be able to help our sons as they work toward their futures. But we won't pay high insurance fees because of their stupidity. More importantly, we've been to too many funerals for young people who died in accidents caused by speeding. I think that because of this, our boys seem to have taken their driving responsibilities/privileges very seriously.
Gas surcharge, that stinks, here the drivers - sm
have to pay for their own gas, etc. So whatever tips they get helps pay for their gas, and doubt they make more than $6 an hour here but have to drive long distances (boonies). I don't know what their deliver area is but it is a minimum of 5 miles out from the store, and those short trips eat up the gas. They have about 5 people delivering on the weekends as they are kept busy (only delivery service in the area--Domino's)
Wasn't trying to lump all bus drivers together.
I know there are some very good ones out there who are in it for the kids, definitely not the money. I was just offering a possible explanation to anon who asked.
Personally, I trust no one with my stepson unless I know them very very well. He doesn't ride the bus either but is picked up from school with us. The older a child gets, the more comfortable I am with it but in my opinion, not in elementary school. Fortunately my job allows such accomodations. I understand not all parent's are able to do such and there's nothing "wrong" with that. Just my personal opinion to choose not to leave my child with anyone if its avoidable. Besides the bus driver/stranger thing there are many other reasons I prefer my child not to ride the bus and not be left home alone.
IMPORTANT - drivers licenses for 2008
With the new laws implemented by the Homeland Security Act, to get a driver's license. state ID, or passport you will need to have the following:
Birth certificate
Original social security card issued by social security admin.
If married, you must have "tracking" of your name, which means you must have copies of all your marriage licenses so everything can be verified.
You will not be able to board a plane or go into any federal building unless you get the new ID or drivers' license.
Start early to collect all the data you need.
Also, I would urge you to contact your federal senators and congressmen to have them repeal this act.
I totally agree with you. It always made me think of expired drivers license. nm
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Precious! Many places will have state-to-state drivers form a chain
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