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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10003018/ Using cell phones, wireless, IBM takes aim at $26 billion parking industry Updated: 4:58 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2005 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Gary Farrall is a college student’s worst nightmare. As the parking enforcement supervisor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he oversees ten parking officers who write as many as 400 tickets each day. But when it comes to coin-operated parking meters, Farrall is no fan: “The parking meter is over with,” he says. Over with because drivers now have a way to fight back; a way to beat Gary to the punch by paying their parking meters using a cell phone. UCSB is the first place in the nation to replace conventional, coin-operated parking meters with a wireless, electronic pay-parking system called Intellipay developed by tech giant IBM. You park your car, make note of the space and call a toll free number. Then you give your credit card number and you’re good to go. When the meter’s about to expire, the meter will call you, giving you the chance to feed it by credit card before Gary and his gang get a chance to tag you. But you have to be quick: Gary gets the phone call from the meter at the same time you do. (snip) |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:26:43 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
> said the following in rec.autos.driving... > <sarcasm> What's a parking meter??? </sarcasm> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10003018/ > > Using cell phones, wireless, IBM takes aim at $26 billion parking > industry > > Updated: 4:58 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2005 > SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Gary Farrall is a college student?s worst > nightmare. As the parking enforcement supervisor at the University of > California, Santa Barbara, he oversees ten parking officers who write > as many as 400 tickets each day. Nice little revenue scam. Typical university. > > But when it comes to coin-operated parking meters, Farrall is no fan: > ?The parking meter is over with,? he says. Over with because drivers > now have a way to fight back; a way to beat Gary to the punch by > paying their parking meters using a cell phone. > <PAF> Who cares? -- -- "There's not a shred of evidence that the jerries murdered anything close to 7 million jooz. Another monstrous lie just like the 9-11 official story. " -- Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend, 12/01/2004 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/9oog5 Message-ID: > |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
Paul. wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:26:43 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE > > said the following in rec.autos.driving... > > > > <sarcasm> > What's a parking meter??? > </sarcasm> > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10003018/ > > > > Using cell phones, wireless, IBM takes aim at $26 billion parking > > industry > > > > Updated: 4:58 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2005 > > SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Gary Farrall is a college student?s worst > > nightmare. As the parking enforcement supervisor at the University of > > California, Santa Barbara, he oversees ten parking officers who write > > as many as 400 tickets each day. > > Nice little revenue scam. Typical university. So you think that the mission of the university is to provide students with free parking. > > > > > But when it comes to coin-operated parking meters, Farrall is no fan: > > ?The parking meter is over with,? he says. Over with because drivers > > now have a way to fight back; a way to beat Gary to the punch by > > paying their parking meters using a cell phone. > > > > <PAF> > > Who cares? > > -- > -- > > "There's not a shred of evidence that the jerries murdered anything > close to 7 million jooz. Another monstrous lie just like the 9-11 > official story. " > > -- Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend, 12/01/2004 > Ref: http://tinyurl.com/9oog5 > Message-ID: > |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
> > > SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Gary Farrall is a college student?s worst
> > > nightmare. As the parking enforcement supervisor at the University of > > > California, Santa Barbara, he oversees ten parking officers who write > > > as many as 400 tickets each day. > > > > Nice little revenue scam. Typical university. > > So you think that the mission of the university is to provide students > with free parking. Nobody is saying they should get free parking, but when the article states: **** "But when it comes to coin-operated parking meters, Farrall is no fan: "The parking meter is over with," he says. Over with because drivers now have a way to fight back; a way to beat Gary to the punch by paying their parking meters using a cell phone. **** A way to "FIGHT BACK"??? The students are doing what you want them to do, pay for parking. The parking Nazis don't like it when they pay, since it eliminates a big revenue stream of writing tickets. |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
Furious George:
> > Nice little revenue scam. Typical university. > > So you think that the mission of the university is to provide students > with free parking. News flash, asshole: most universities already CHARGE students with parking fees (along with to all the other rip-off fees those bastions of liberalism charge) when they register. Then they intentionally make student parking scarce to rake in even more with parking tickets. Maybe if you weren't such a ****ing moron, you would have been able to be admited to college to experence the fleecing first hand. |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE wrote:
> UCSB is the first place in the nation to replace conventional, > coin-operated parking meters with a wireless, electronic pay-parking > system called Intellipay developed by tech giant IBM. > > You park your car, make note of the space and call a toll free number. > Then you give your credit card number and you're good to go. Stupid. The meters at my local university allow you to stick your credit card into them and it charges it; or you can pay for parking by SMSing the ID of the parking meter to a certain number, and you get an SMS warning when it is about to expire. |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
The Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend Blade wrote: > Furious George: > > > Nice little revenue scam. Typical university. > > > > So you think that the mission of the university is to provide students > > with free parking. > > News flash, asshole: most universities already CHARGE students with > parking fees (along with to all the other rip-off fees those bastions of > liberalism charge) when they register. Then they intentionally make > student parking scarce to rake in even more with parking tickets. You probably think Harvard should knock down some classrooms to make more room for student parking. That would provide them with value for their dollar. MIT should get rid of some labs so students can easily park. If you think college is a rip-off don't go. > > Maybe if you weren't such a ****ing moron, you would have been able to > be admited to college to experence the fleecing first hand. |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
The Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend Blade wrote: > was motivated to say this in rec.autos.driving on > 13 Nov 2005 23:36:44 -0800: > > You probably think Harvard should knock down some classrooms to make > > more room for student parking. That would provide them with value for > > their dollar. MIT should get rid of some labs so students can easily > > park. If you think college is a rip-off don't go. > > > > They could just as easily say that students (or students below a certain > level) can't have cars on campus. Some honest colleges do that. You are dumber than dubya. Why do you insist on micromanaging Harvard and MIT? OK, from now on, the President of the University has to get your prior written approval before installing a parking meter or issuing a student parking permit. |
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Has time expired for coin-operated parking meters?
Furious George was motivated to say this in rec.autos.driving on 14 Nov
2005 18:40:03 -0800: > You are dumber than dubya. Why do you insist on micromanaging Harvard > and MIT? OK, from now on, the President of the University has to get > your prior written approval before installing a parking meter or > issuing a student parking permit. I never said any such thing. Your reading comprehension skills are on a par with your jug-eared buddy in the WH. What I suggested was that if space is such a concern - as you mentioned when YOU first brought up harvard and mit - was that they COULD easily say that students can't have cars on campus. As prestegious as those two universities are, I doubt it would effect their enrollment any. Those colleges that do make parking difficult for students inorder to rake in parking ticket revenue are reprehensible. If you can't handle that, mr. the establishment can do no wrong and the people can do no right, then that is your tough ****. |
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