• Septimaeus
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    6 months ago

    “Necessary but not sufficient condition,” e.g. the light in your room might be off, but “suspending your light privileges” is easy at the breaker box.

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      6 months ago

      No. You’re still not making it make sense.

      You’re trying to tell everyone that you can legally drive without a license.

      Of course you can drive without a license, but not legally. A learner’s permit is a type of license.

      So how do you suspend a license that the guy didn’t have?

      What is the breaker box in your analogy? Breaking the guy’s legs?

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        6 months ago

        What is the breaker box in your analogy? Breaking legs?

        lol I meant a [circuit] breaker box (aka power/ac panel, breaker panel, distribution board, etc)

        So how do you suspend a license that the guy didn’t have?

        It’s just a minor legal misnomer. If a defendant happens to not have a driver’s license in the first place, suspension could be more accurately termed “prevention.” Logistically speaking, the state probably just generates a stub file/account with a valid license number then just adds the suspension to that empty driving record.

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          6 months ago

          Oh. Ok, I think I get it now… but it’s still weird.

          I’m not actually sure how that would work here… I do know that you can’t renew your license or plates without paying all overdue fines though.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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          6 months ago

          Since he already has a state ID, he already has an account. So they don’t even need to stub it.