I had my speed ticket disputed today, by luck the cop didn’t show up and I’m free of charge. I think the whole speeding ticket system is a scam of the government to make money. I got ticket on the down hill section of Boundary Road on a fine sunday by speed traps. It is almost guarantee every driver will be over the ridiculously low speed limit on that section. The police just stop whoever coming down and issue the tickets, what a easy way to make quick bucks. By disputing the ticket, not only you have a chance to walk away free, you are making sure the government cannot profit from this scam. In a long run, if everyone dispute their tickets, they will stop issuing all the unnecessary tickets, and put the police force into better use, such as catching criminals. To learn more about how to fight a traffic ticket and why the current ticket system doesn’t server the good public, please visit here
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legal language
Tonight our project team had a team building dinner with the leaders from Saskatoon. The food and beer are great, and most important the expense is covered by PMC. In the dinner, we had talked about how expensive it is to file a patent. It costs tens of thousands of dollar to hire a lawyer to word the patent using those legal terms. Then I came up with an idea, why don’t we have software automating this process? Legal language is a subset of normal language, and each word has a specific meaning, which is similiar to logic statements understand by computers. The goal is to create a software that will translate contracts and patents written in daily english into a legal document. It would be a great idea for inter-discipline research among the liguistic, CS, and law departments.
Bittorrent
Bittorrent is the de facto peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. According to a latest internet traffic survey, bittorent traffic alone account for 30% of total internet traffic. If you search hard enough, you could pretty much find anything you want to download, from movie to music to anime to software. Comparing to other p2p service, the advantage of bittorrent is the more user the faster download speed, due to its clever distributed torrent exchange algorithm among the cilents. Yesterday I come across a cool bittorrent T-shirt when surfing the web, it has the BT logo ans says “Give and ye shall recieve” at the back. I’d like to buy one to support this wonderful protocol and make a statement on file sharing. And yes, I against the copyright law.
sleepy
It is simply inhumane to have eight thirty meeting in the morning right after a long weekend. I did make it to the meeting on time, but the side effect is I feel sleepy all day due I deprived of sleep in the morning. There is another 2 hours boring presentation in the afternoon, and logically I end up fishing during most of that meeting. It’s unlike in the school days which I can sleep comfortabily in class, I had to try keep myself awake in the meeting. The presentation is done by a marketing guy on our new product. I wonder how successful can the product be if similiar presentation also goes to the customers or the executives.
easter long weekend
This Easter long weekend is not very productive. In fact I’m so lazy that I havn’t written my blog for two days. However I had done quite a few things in this long weekend. In summary, I had hotpot dinner with CBC friends from work at Jason and Alison’s place. I’m surprised to learn that Alfred and Jeanet is engaged, and they are about the same age as me and Pat. This give me yet more pressure to get marry. Sunday spent the whole day in Richmond, church in the morning, studied at Starbuck in the afternoon, followed by dancing lesson. It’s the first lesson for beginner class, and it’s teaching Cha-cha this week. Although I had learnt ballroom dancing once back in university, I still find dancing is very challenaging to me. The problem I have is I can’t count the beats and my music-action co-ordination is pretty bad. The beginner dancing class are too advance for me, it teaches too many moves in one lesson. I think they teach the fundamental body movement, especially the balancing of your feets at first. Today I watched too much TV, including Sunday Report on the problem of hidden youth in HK, 6 eposides of “Cruel Ding” and some more Gundam Seed Destiny. The “Ding” show is pretty funny, gave me and Pat lots of laughs. No wonder it is the hottest topic in HK at the moment.
Lastly I would like to write about this week eposide of GSD. It definitely has the best action scenes and mecha fighting in the season. There are too much talking and clip shows in the past few eposides. Even Freedom Gundam is two years old comparing to the lastest Gundam, Kira with his super coordinaror abilitiy able to disable all other Gundams in the battle field. I wonder who can be his opponent at the end of the series, maybe he will somehow die half away just because he is too strong. Looking forward to what will happen in next week’s eposide.