Thursday, April 10, 2008
The news over the past few days was quite amusing. First, we had new ERP gantries in operation from Monday onwards. The newspapers were full of stories of how people forgot abt them and had to stop at the side of the road to insert their cashcards. However, I recall one news bulletin on Ch8 10pm chinese news, that stated that the new ERP gantries had a positive impact, in that it increased the average speed limit from 20km/h to 21-24km/h..
WOW. That is really a BIG increase in the average speed limit, thereby justifying using the ERP gantries. I think at an average rate of $1 for an increase of about 1km/h, we should perhaps charge $30 for each gantry so that we can drive at 50km/h on those roads.
The 2nd amusing piece of news came in the form of the Olympics Torch Relay. Despite China's insistence that the relay must go on etc, anyone who saw the footage of protesters attacking the relay etc can tell that this is a major embarrassment for the Chinese, as well as the IOC. I mean, no amount of positive spin is going to take away from the stark visual images that showed how people feel about China.
More Fuzzy Logic @ 9:47 AM
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