Month: December 2005

I don’t know what it is about Sluggardly Utility Vehicles and parking like you own the road, but within five minutes of each other, I spotted a white Territory covered in an advertising hoarding take up two spots next to the disabled spots at McDonald’s crowded carpark, and a Nissan Patrol taking two spots at the local shopping center. I took photos of both with my mobile. Maybe I’ll start a site for this: crapdrivers.com or something.

Everyone has to park the car legally to get their license. I don’t know how or why these cranially challenged drivers thought they had the right to park in two spots, but it’s disgusting. I wrote to the company who had the hoarding on the car to complain. If I get a reply, I’ll post it here.

This morning, Singapore, a supposedly civilized first world nation, murdered an Australian citizen, Nguyen Tuong Van. He had smuggled drugs, and for that he deserved a long sentence commensurate to his crime.

But not murder at the hands of a state.

From this day forth, I will not be supporting any barbaric regime which murders people. I will be changing my Optus mobile (owned by Singtel) to some other carrier. I will be avoiding US owned carriers for the same reason unless it is demonstrable that they are not state owned.

If you are part of a Government who kills and you need or want my advice or me to work for you, until you morally grow up, you are denied access to advanced research and technology.

If such regimes wish to be a part of the civilized world, they will act like it and abolish the death penalty.