Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call

dstone writes "Vancouver, Canada has just become the first major city in North America to allow motorists to feed their parking meters with their cell phone. Drivers call a number on each meter, the system recognizes them by Caller ID, they enter how many minutes they want, and that's it. The system sends them a reminder text message before their time is up and they can extend their time remotely. The catch? The company contracted to provide the service, Verrus, makes their money through a 30-cent 'convenience fee.' Less pockets full of change, less parking tickets, seems like a step forward."

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Re:Kinda defeats a parking meter feature

[DavidTC]

Pssst, you don't need to explain where London is. Even us Americans know.

If you do explain, feel free to put London, England, or London, UK. You don't need to put 'London UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND'.

Re:Kinda defeats a parking meter feature

[drinkypoo]

Guess what, kid (there's no way you could be an adult):

For what it's worth (maturity and age are typically not all that well-connected) I'm 29 years of age.

they're going to keep chalking your tires whether you like it or not. What are you going to do about it?

That's a good question. I'm still thinking about that one. I think mostly my plan is to look for a country where as few people as possible have your attitude that people should roll over and let the system fuck them around, and move there. Yes, THIS is a very tiny, mostly unimportant example of that fucking, but it is still a valid one. It demonstrates the establishment's lack of respect and concern for the citizenry. Your comment demonstrates your lack of commitment to freedom.

I know you're the smartest guy on earth and all, but it doesn't seem like you thought this through.

I know you think you're smarter than me - and you may be right, for all I know - but right now you're only being an ass. I started out by asking a [mostly rhetorical] question about where do they get off vandalizing my car when their job is to uphold the law and serve the public interest, and I got a bunch of pure bullshit back. Well, you've handed me bullshit, I'm doing my best to make shit-ade.

I know, it sucks, why can't everyone just be as smart as you and then life would be easier, right?

Well, yes and no. If we didn't have stupid people, then we'd have smart people working their whole lives making burgers at McDonalds because there wouldn't be any jobs that everyone but the stupid is vastly overqualified for. There is a substantial chance that I would end up working there, because I am less driven to go run around in a rat race and pour my sweat into job-finding, so my life would likely be harder.

Is that a suitably smart-ass response to your asshole question?

Re:Kinda defeats a parking meter feature

[drinkypoo]

I don't have a sidewalk.