The Calgary system is indeed pretty slick - you enter your license plate # into the pay machine, can pay via cellphone or even on the internet, and there's a truck that drives around with like 8 cameras on it doing OCR on all these plates. You get your ticket in the mail in a week or two with a pic of your vehicle - kind of like photo radar.
I think it's called the ParkPlus system but I could be wrong.
Maybe how learning to drive a standard transmission can help you find the sweet spots in an automatic?
Average driving might be similar, but when you need to squeeze performance out of it you'll have the edge.
Well, if they want me to do business on their website, they will find a different way to pay for it.
There's no chance I'll use IE - if a business requires it then fuck them, I will buy elsewhere.
Though there are ad blockers for IE too so this whole thing makes no sense at all.
Here's the actual bill:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publicati on.aspx?DocId=2993072&Language=e&Mode=1&File=24
I got all fired up after reading that toronto star story and all these comments, and was looking up my MP's email address when I decided to look up the bill.
After reading the bill, the fact that it got a standing ovation seems really... fucked up.
It kind of took the wind out of my sails to see it, though it seems like it should be redundant to something in the criminal code. Unfortunately I'm really busy and don't have time to look that up right now... maybe someone else will. If it is redundant than I'll be more than happy to write my MP. last week of school though, time is so short...
fucking IP bullshit, people patent stuff just for patenting it so they can rape people later
maybe someone should shoot them in the motherfucking head.
imagine what someone with alot of knowledge and a little time could do
I wonder how many different groups of people will be trying to mess with these things
lol, imagine one machine getting 'adjusted' by like 10 different people all in a row who don't notice each other... kind of comical but really seems to just be another wall going up in the way of real democracy...
unfortunately I don't have any really good better suggestions so not much else I can say
"There is a 100 mpg carburetor patent that an oil company is sitting on."
"This story has been floating around since the 1950s, far longer than any patent term. Either EvilOilCo has a hundred-year patent to go with their hundren-mile-per-gallon car, or there never was such a device..."
I remember when I was a kid, maybe in my early teens (so late 80's early 90's) Popular Science or Popular Mechanics had a little feature on the 100mpg engine, i think it even made their front cover. I remember thinking how cool that was because I was pretty into the environment. I almost thought it was only a dream for a while, but now that you brought it up I know it was real.
those bastards... the conspiracy is real, everyone just thinks they're going insane
you're an idiot if you leave shaw for this - try telus then and have shitty latency AND shitty bandwidth!
With shaw you get solid bandwidth, and since latency isn't that much of a problem unless you're using a voip service, why should the added cost of a low latency network be passed on to custs who don't give a fuck about voiping?
yeah i do want to know. that's why it keeps happening, because it might be 'inconvenient' for a lot of people to do something about it. i'm definitely going to make a priority of this issue for myself.
how can I sit here doing nothing and let these shitheads in China do this to their own people? No fucking way. Something has to be done.
Microsoft, Google, Apple and all other companies supporting the censorship of the word 'freedom' from the chinese vocabulary should be tried for treason immediately.
Let's see Bush put his tough talk about freedom and democracy into action at home. Censoring the concept of freedom abroad is the gravest act of intellectual terrorism against Americans I can think of especially when it's happening within America's own borders.
Most of the Chinese are good people, let's start considering ways to save them from the assholes who are trying to run their lives.
we see these signs of trouble, we're all here talking about it. Mainly, I think most people either don't know what to do about it, or don't think the small things they can do will actually have any effect due to the perceived hugeness of the enemy. I for one will continue not buying ms products, and I might even write them to tell them why.
no it wouldn't it would still be suppression of independant free thought
now i definitely won't consider buying m$ though i used to be on the fence about microsoft, now i've definitely chosen a stance against them.
The funny thing is, that both of you are showing the extreme viewpoints that this film is talking about.
yesterdays generation and today's generation, you both talk about.
we need to use aspects of both if we're going to avoid living in either a) the sterile mechanical future or b) back in the caves starting from scratch.
it shows us that we can't forget that we're human, and that we have to allow for that, even while the inevitable progress comes and takes us to the future.
Many people see similarities between parts of the movie and life today - well maybe it's a warning...
But don't stop living and hide away from 'big brother'... be human and get involved, because 'big brother' is a person too.
I'm soooo stoked this film is coming out on dvd! my recorded copy on vhs from pbs 10 years ago(I'm 24) is getting rather shabby...
Anyone remember the movie Zardoz with Sean Connery from the late 70's, where a computer that ran a whole civilization, their "God" was actually just a crystal?
pretty nifty...
I'm curious what happened to the person who they pretended to be... were they sick? Just didn't show up? Or when they came did security say, "sorry sir you've already signed in" deemed him a fake and locked the real guy away and are torturing him even as we speak?
I dunno curious about that....
It isn't socialism that killed those people, It's the greed of the people at the head of the 'socialist' government that get drunk on power who kill all those people.
You sound like one of those ignorant americans who thinks that communism is bad just because it hasn't worked before, or better still because that's what your government raised you to believe.
Don't blame the system, blame those misusing or abusing it.
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The Calgary system is indeed pretty slick - you enter your license plate # into the pay machine, can pay via cellphone or even on the internet, and there's a truck that drives around with like 8 cameras on it doing OCR on all these plates. You get your ticket in the mail in a week or two with a pic of your vehicle - kind of like photo radar. I think it's called the ParkPlus system but I could be wrong.
most definitely.
Maybe how learning to drive a standard transmission can help you find the sweet spots in an automatic? Average driving might be similar, but when you need to squeeze performance out of it you'll have the edge.
This is awesome news! I'm so happy :) Finally a solid link, and something gets done about it. Very good!
Well, if they want me to do business on their website, they will find a different way to pay for it. There's no chance I'll use IE - if a business requires it then fuck them, I will buy elsewhere. Though there are ad blockers for IE too so this whole thing makes no sense at all.
Here's the actual bill: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publicati on.aspx?DocId=2993072&Language=e&Mode=1&File=24
I got all fired up after reading that toronto star story and all these comments, and was looking up my MP's email address when I decided to look up the bill.
After reading the bill, the fact that it got a standing ovation seems really... fucked up.
It kind of took the wind out of my sails to see it, though it seems like it should be redundant to something in the criminal code. Unfortunately I'm really busy and don't have time to look that up right now... maybe someone else will. If it is redundant than I'll be more than happy to write my MP. last week of school though, time is so short...
fucking IP bullshit, people patent stuff just for patenting it so they can rape people later maybe someone should shoot them in the motherfucking head.
so what's to be done? We always knew this would happen. What can we do about it?
indeed... the question now I guess is, "What's to be done?"
imagine what someone with alot of knowledge and a little time could do I wonder how many different groups of people will be trying to mess with these things lol, imagine one machine getting 'adjusted' by like 10 different people all in a row who don't notice each other... kind of comical but really seems to just be another wall going up in the way of real democracy... unfortunately I don't have any really good better suggestions so not much else I can say
"There is a 100 mpg carburetor patent that an oil company is sitting on."
"This story has been floating around since the 1950s, far longer than any patent term. Either EvilOilCo has a hundred-year patent to go with their hundren-mile-per-gallon car, or there never was such a device..."
I remember when I was a kid, maybe in my early teens (so late 80's early 90's) Popular Science or Popular Mechanics had a little feature on the 100mpg engine, i think it even made their front cover. I remember thinking how cool that was because I was pretty into the environment. I almost thought it was only a dream for a while, but now that you brought it up I know it was real.
those bastards... the conspiracy is real, everyone just thinks they're going insane
you're an idiot if you leave shaw for this - try telus then and have shitty latency AND shitty bandwidth! With shaw you get solid bandwidth, and since latency isn't that much of a problem unless you're using a voip service, why should the added cost of a low latency network be passed on to custs who don't give a fuck about voiping?
yeah i do want to know. that's why it keeps happening, because it might be 'inconvenient' for a lot of people to do something about it. i'm definitely going to make a priority of this issue for myself.
how can I sit here doing nothing and let these shitheads in China do this to their own people? No fucking way. Something has to be done. Microsoft, Google, Apple and all other companies supporting the censorship of the word 'freedom' from the chinese vocabulary should be tried for treason immediately. Let's see Bush put his tough talk about freedom and democracy into action at home. Censoring the concept of freedom abroad is the gravest act of intellectual terrorism against Americans I can think of especially when it's happening within America's own borders. Most of the Chinese are good people, let's start considering ways to save them from the assholes who are trying to run their lives.
we see these signs of trouble, we're all here talking about it. Mainly, I think most people either don't know what to do about it, or don't think the small things they can do will actually have any effect due to the perceived hugeness of the enemy. I for one will continue not buying ms products, and I might even write them to tell them why.
no it wouldn't it would still be suppression of independant free thought now i definitely won't consider buying m$ though i used to be on the fence about microsoft, now i've definitely chosen a stance against them.
The funny thing is, that both of you are showing the extreme viewpoints that this film is talking about. yesterdays generation and today's generation, you both talk about. we need to use aspects of both if we're going to avoid living in either a) the sterile mechanical future or b) back in the caves starting from scratch. it shows us that we can't forget that we're human, and that we have to allow for that, even while the inevitable progress comes and takes us to the future. Many people see similarities between parts of the movie and life today - well maybe it's a warning... But don't stop living and hide away from 'big brother'... be human and get involved, because 'big brother' is a person too. I'm soooo stoked this film is coming out on dvd! my recorded copy on vhs from pbs 10 years ago(I'm 24) is getting rather shabby...
Anyone remember the movie Zardoz with Sean Connery from the late 70's, where a computer that ran a whole civilization, their "God" was actually just a crystal? pretty nifty...
I'm curious what happened to the person who they pretended to be... were they sick? Just didn't show up? Or when they came did security say, "sorry sir you've already signed in" deemed him a fake and locked the real guy away and are torturing him even as we speak? I dunno curious about that....
them mpaa types never were too bright eh? what is it with the prevalence of stupidity today? cripes
It isn't socialism that killed those people, It's the greed of the people at the head of the 'socialist' government that get drunk on power who kill all those people. You sound like one of those ignorant americans who thinks that communism is bad just because it hasn't worked before, or better still because that's what your government raised you to believe. Don't blame the system, blame those misusing or abusing it.