A Smoking Ban in Your Home

In many regions, there is legislation against smoking in public buildings. Some jurisdictions have banned smoking in cars. Now there is a movement to stop smoking in private homes:

“…The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawai’i hopes to convince owners of residential rental and condominium buildings to prohibit smoking inside private living areas.

The nonprofit group argues second-hand smoke emanating from the privacy of one unit may affect others when people live in close quarters.”

link: Hawaii studies living-space smoke ban

How would this ever be enforced? Would technology come up with a smoke detector to alert the police when there is a possibility of smoke in your home? It raises obvious questions of privacy - and how you would convince the smoke police that you were not smoking. It was only a cooking mishap.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/

[tag]smoking, ban, legislation, privacy, homes, enforcement, technology[/tag]

Apple Does Not Accept Cash

Want to buy an iPhone? If you do, you better have a credit card. Apple does not accept cash:

“…“She looked at my money and said, ‘We don’t accept cash as a form of payment for the iPhone.’ When I asked why, she would only say it was the store’s policy that I use a credit card,” Palen said.

Since he doesn’t have one, Palen asked another customer if he could give him the $499 plus tax to charge it for him. Store staffers said that was against the rules, and then escorted him — and his pocket full of bills — from the store.”

link: What can cash buy? Not an iPhone

It seems that Apple can find a customer friendly method to track sales. Of course, a customer can go buy a prepaid credit card to spend at the Apple store.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/

[tag]apple, credit cards, security, tracking, prepaid credit cards[/tag]

A Bill Russell Quote

“If there’s such a thing as a role model, it has to come from the people the kids are in day-to-day contact with — their family, their teachers, their counselors, their friends. Because I can play basketball doesn’t mean anything else. It doesn’t mean I’m a good person or a bad person. It doesn’t mean I’m bright. It doesn’t mean I’m dumb. It doesn’t mean anything. It just means that I could play basketball pretty good.”

Bill Russell

A Bill Russell Quote

“If there’s such a thing as a role model, it has to come from the people the kids are in day-to-day contact with — their family, their teachers, their counselors, their friends. Because I can play basketball doesn’t mean anything else. It doesn’t mean I’m a good person or a bad person. It doesn’t mean I’m bright. It doesn’t mean I’m dumb. It doesn’t mean anything. It just means that I could play basketball pretty good.”

Bill Russell

[tag]bill russell, quote, role model[/tag]