Garbage bin; chipped – track & trace

By Sjeltur • January 7, 2009 • No Comments

Afvalcontainer The small kind of news…. Nobody is really noticing it…. Which worries me A LOT….
Sjeltur is worried…?? About what…??
WELL; today in our local newspaper just a small announcement => the garbage company announced that they going to exchange the garbage-bins for new ones…..
During the next 2 years – people will get a paper in which the exchange will be announced. The reason for it…?? The garbage company bought new trucks….and the newer bins would fit better….

Okay – some news uh…??
Uh….. and Sjeltur is worried…??
Well yeah; the same article also said….. there will be a little chip attached to the bin with the information of the owner’s address….
WHAT….??
Yes – that is the part I am worried about…..!!
What is going to happen with this chip…? What information will be gathered with that…? Why would the garbage company do that..??

Oooooh – we now pay garbage tax over the amount of persons on an address… maybe in the future they will change that to a weight tax…?? You pay what you use…

YES; but what if – yes, I know this is going a bit weird….. the garbage company could also be scanning what the content of my garbage is…..?

* I am about 100% sure that my health insurance is interested in this information…
Sjeltur eating all kinds of “unhealthy stuff” – equals higher risk = he has to pay more… !!

* I am about 100% sure that Kraft or Heinz is interested in what I use of their competition….. makes it way easier to make the perfect flyer for Sjeltur

Yep –and probably you can come up with 100s more

AND 100s more reasons to be against such a chip !!

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Windows; you really need them while driving..??

By Sjeltur • January 7, 2009 • 1 Comment

CarsnowSmall This morning - going to my work…… Bit of snow and ice at the streets close to my house. Getting on the highway - nicely clean….. driving with 120km/h (yep - we are allowed this speed in Holland…  ;)……. I see some breaklights in front of me….. hit my break also….. NO RESULT….. the whole highway was pure ICE….!!
Luckily enough I was far far away from the car in front of me; nothing happened (uh… that car was not far away anymore - about 15 meters) - but wow…. that was scary !

And then you get to your work…. and read an article about a guy who drove with an, almost, totally closed window on the highway….. Result; 240 euro fine…..

Mmmmmh - and is that enough to cover the risk he took with this behavior…??
How about; take his drivers license…?? He clearly showed how he takes his responsibilities……!!

CarSnow

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240 thousand dollar T-shirt

By Sjeltur • January 6, 2009 • No Comments

ArabicShirt Is a “shocking” t-shirt Usd 240,000 worth…??
With a slogan originally used as an anti-nazi statement….”We Will Not Be Silent”……

Worn by an Arabic person on a plane…..

BUT; he was told that the other passengers did not like this t-shirt - as the text was a bit provoking…
Ooooh - I forgot to tell; it was also written in Arabic - with the English translation underneath it.

So; what happened…??

This guy was told he was not allowed to wear this t-shirt - JetBlue (the airliner) told him to wear another shirt on top of it…. AND he was also told to not sit on the seat which was mentioned on his ticket = BUT at the back of the plane….

This was enough reason for Raed Jarrar to sue JetBlue - which now has to pay Mr.Jarrar the 240 thousand dollars….

Well well; seems that a wrong t-shirt brings you more than airmiles uh…??

Mmmh; I do think that the action of JetBlue was totally wrong….. but worth that much money..??
Not to me…. a ticket to Disney World - would have been enough….

What do you think..??