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'I don't want to live in the Matrix': Parking in some spots requires smartphone
BuffaloNews ^ | Jan 3, 2019 | Maki Becker

Posted on 01/03/2019 8:02:08 PM PST by yesthatjallen

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To: Mears

I had a Tracfone to carry in the car but never used it and let it expire. If I did much night driving, I’d prolly get one again.


21 posted on 01/03/2019 8:34:33 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Are they going to provide a “snow removal” app to go with the pay app? </s>


22 posted on 01/03/2019 8:40:15 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: yesthatjallen
This thread:


23 posted on 01/03/2019 8:43:00 PM PST by Drew68
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To: sparklite2

I no longer drive at night but was doing some when I got the first cell.

It was huge and had a pamphlet that was like a small phone book telling you where you could or could not use it,all over the USA. There weren’t cell towers all over the place then.

My,how things have changed.

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24 posted on 01/03/2019 8:43:21 PM PST by Mears
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To: yesthatjallen; BobL; sphinx; GreenLanternCorps

So what happened, did the campaigns for the mayor and city council get bankrolled by the failing Apple corporation, which is desperate to sell more smartphones?

Just one more reason to take the bus, if you can. Who in heck wants to wallow in traffic jams to find limited parking options, if they can help it? As long as you can take a concealed weapon with you, the bus should be fine.


25 posted on 01/03/2019 8:49:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Drew68

“I remember, back in my day, when we would circle around and around and around a block with our pockets full of nickels, looking for vacant spots, and then would put the nickels in the meters, and sometimes one of them would jam in there, so we would have parking tickets when we got back to our cars! And we liked it!” —Grumpy Old Man.


26 posted on 01/03/2019 8:53:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Do I get a free smartphone or do I have to pay money to a private for profit business before I can deal with my government?


27 posted on 01/03/2019 8:59:22 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Jamestown1630

“I love the computer, especially word-processing. For some of us who do constant editing and rewrites, it makes the grunt work of writing so much easier and less a distraction from the mental flow. I also like being able to see things and access information from all over the world that I couldn’t see otherwise.”

Agree completely.
I just refuse to be tracked by Google and whoever.


28 posted on 01/03/2019 8:59:49 PM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: sparklite2

I was there for that.

I happened to stay home from work that day. Wasn’t planning it but the ride home the night before was so awful, I decided to take a call in vacation day.

I was about to go in but my ride had already left so I didn’t, and 15 minutes later, WHAM.

Never saw such a white out in my life.

We could not even see the house next door across those narrow little driveways with 3 feet of lawn next to the house next door. Couldn’t have been more than 10 - 12 feet between houses.

Toronto sent the Metro-Melter.


29 posted on 01/03/2019 9:00:21 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Mears

Do you remember how the movie “Cool Hand Luke” started?


30 posted on 01/03/2019 9:12:43 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: metmom

From what I remember of the machine, it was pretty neat.
It drove down the street, loading snow in front, then melting it internally, squirting anti-freeze into the melt water, then dumping the water out the back to run down into the sewer.


31 posted on 01/03/2019 9:15:19 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve just solved the parking problem. I bought a parked car.
– Henry Youngman


32 posted on 01/03/2019 9:21:57 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Drew68
I can see that.

However, city government is now forcing people to download their app to deal with city government.

Is is progress? Is is more convenient? Is it intrusive?

33 posted on 01/03/2019 9:39:12 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

If you have to pay to park, you are living too close to too many ‘Rats.


34 posted on 01/03/2019 9:39:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Scrambler Bob

Nope,,,


35 posted on 01/03/2019 10:02:17 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

Like Buffalo isn’t already an intolerant shithole.


36 posted on 01/03/2019 10:45:10 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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'I don't want to live in the Matrix'


37 posted on 01/03/2019 11:42:51 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: nwrep

Not if you believe in personal liberty.

A cell phone app is not legal tender.


38 posted on 01/04/2019 12:54:43 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: yesthatjallen

:: Get ready to have everything you do monitored by your smartphone. ::

Oooops, too late.
02/04/2014


39 posted on 01/04/2019 4:42:00 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: sparklite2

I remember seeing pictures of it working on the news.

I thought it heated the snow though.

Either way, it sure was effective.


40 posted on 01/04/2019 4:52:50 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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