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London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge
Vivek writes "BBC is reporting that Londoners will have to pay a 5 pound "Congestion Charge" starting Feb 17. According to this Times of India article, an Indian software firm called Mastek developed the .NET based software to implement the plan. In the absence of toll booths, it reportedly uses character recognition from 700 surveillance cameras to identify defaulting license plates." See our previous story for background.
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BBC is reporting that Londoners will have to pay a 5 pound "Congestion Charge"...
Charging tolls for access to roads is a waste of time and money. It's the years 2003 I mean come on!
So sad. What used to be a mighty empire is now the land of government run spy cameras, tabloids for newspapers, unfair tolls, and Hugh Grant.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Please, read this entire post it may initially look like a troll but it most certainly is not.
The software is being developed by an Indian software company. I used to sell a lot of Computer Associates backup solutions, until they switched their phone support from New York to India. Whenever you call them for tech support, often times in a "system down" scenario, the language barrier to too much to overcome. Often what could quickly be resolved with proper communication takes hours or even longer, and in some cases has resulted in things becoming more broken than when you started.
As a result, I never recommend CA software anymore for mission-critial servers. Their competition does not have this problem.
Now the first time this London congestion software goes on the fritz, some toothless brit will call a sand nig on the phone and try and solve it. Neither of them speak proper english, so who know what the fuck they will talk about. They will probably end up changing the software in some odd exchange of communication, and in the end come p with some really shitty code, like slash code or worse yet Linux itself. Then the two will meet in Arfica and suck each other's dicks, and then they will argue about whether the stench is the englishman's breath or the indian's BO. In reality, the smells are from all the rotten fried chicken bones and watermelon rinds piling up in Africa.
Experience has shown this to happen again and again. When will we learn our lesson?
The man reason for the English having disgusting mouths is they refuse to rinse Cmrd taco's cum out after he finishes. At least that explains why all the men have rotting pie holes. The women probably have mangled mouths due to men punching them for speaking out of turn or trying to learn how to read.
are you sure you're not confusing England with the MidWest?
The women probably have mangled mouths due to men punching them for speaking out of turn or trying to learn how to read.
The U.S has at least moved onto doing that to blacks.
There is no extra government regulation needed to make mass transit more popular. All you have to do is end subsidies to both cars and mass transit, so that people have a choice whether to invest in cars or not.
This charge is a step in the right direction; It is a user fee, as opposed to a tax that is placed on every person.
That depends on your audience. If you were expecting a mainly American audience (like this one), then imo you would be correct to use their dialect word.