Dealer Plate Abuse

I think we need to crack down on all the dealer plate abuse. Each day I must see 2-3 of em during about 10 miles of driving. It usually some lady taking her kids to the store, going to the grocery store & running errands. Based on my astute profiling it's almost never someone test driving a new car, going to work to sell cars or transporting a car from one place to another.

What we need is a system where we can rat out the cheats. Maybe just email the plate, date, time & place....and if it's not a legit usage the dealer loses all their plates.

It probably costs all of us $150 every time we buy a car to cover the illegitimate plate usage.

Links

• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19790604&id=BgU1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=JE8KAAAAIBAJ&pg=4105,1339219
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=20060216&id=3R0fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wKcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6471,1400329
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8317044.html

Crappy TV Coverage of the Olympics

What's up with this year's coverage of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver? It's full of repeats, has far too much meaningless info & has more commercials than I've ever seen. If I just wanted to watch some damn event, any event w/o all the fluff I'd be out of luck. The coverage is so bad that I find myself looking for other stuff to watch. Hopefully the idiots @ NBC won't get the winning bid next time.

Iran is run by Idiots

Just when you think one of those axis of evil countries can't do anything worse they come up with something else. Never mind the bigger middle finger they flip the rest of the world, the development of nuclear weapons, refusal to abide by UN sanctions, fixing an election(more to come), killing those who object....now they are trying to shutdown gmail. Someone needs to tell all the Iranians about anonymizers. I wonder if yahoo mail works? They are idiots that run the country in Iran after all;-)

SuperBowl Ads Not So Super

After watching this year's SuperBowl ads I find them totally unimpressive. Some were really bad (GoDaddy, Bridgestone, Bud Lite, Dodge), most were so-so. None were what I consider to be good. A few got some chuckles but I can't see where any of them would get me to buy anything.

The google ad was a bit of a stretch, yet mildly interesting.

If we're going to have such bad ads let's adopt the French model and ensure they're totally pointless and contain nudity!

Obama does something right

As near as I can tell Obama actually did something right for a change. In his new budget he proposed closing some data centers, adopting best practices & using web 2.0 technologies.

See http://www.infoworld.com/t/government-use-it/obamas-2011-budget-would-choke-it-spending-eliminate-data-centers-487?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2010-02-08

for more info.