Non-binary parking

[Gob]

Residents of Penzance and Newlyn have been left baffled after being asked about their sexual identity - on a survey about parking.

Cornwall Council is currently consulting with thousands of households over a scheme which means people would have to fork out up to £125 a year to park cars outside their own home.

But while many welcome efforts to stop shoppers and visitors from clogging up residential roads, there's been a backlash over the cost.

And there has been sheer bewilderment over an accompanying survey which asks residents to identify themselves as one of five genders; male, female, gender fluid, intersex and non-binary

One elderly woman who lives near West Cornwall Hospital in an area earmarked for the scheme said she simply didn't understand the question.

"I understand male and female but I don't know what the other things mean. What's non-binary?

"I don't know what it has to do with parking outside my own home. Why does the council need to know this?"

Another resident said it seemed like a pointless and irrelevant question.

"What does gender have to do with parking and why is Cornwall Council even asking?" she said.

"It's just hilarious really. You couldn't make it up."


Read more at http://www.westbriton.co.uk/penzance-re ... PgZWseg.99

[MajGenl.Meade]

It's a load of bollocks / labial folds / undeterminate

[Big RR]

I think non binary has very little to do with physical features, but more for the persons who do not feel homo or heterosexual, but something different (such as intergender, indeterminate, maybe even nonsexual). There are all kinds of people in this world, and I fail to see how their views are "bullocks", but then I also fail to see how these views have anything to do with parking.

I usually throw surveys asking these types of questions away, but sometimes I just answer with a choice I think is likely to be underrepresents--or even write in another choice (like bestiality, or I have sex with vegetables) if there is a place to put another choice in. If enough people do it, it can screw up the responses to a question they had no business asking in the first place.

[Lord Jim]

Maybe there's a method to this madness...

Perhaps the council thinks that if they can get people focused on this ridiculously irrelevant question, they'll be less focused on the outrageous 125 nicker fee for parking in front of their own house....

[oldr_n_wsr]

If there is an "other" line next to the Sex question, put in "I would love some".

[Burning Petard]

I think non-binary means analogue.

[Big RR]

Wouldn't that be non digital? Non binary might be decimal or octal, however.

[Burning Petard]

Non-digital? You mean never use your fingers?

[MajGenl.Meade]

I don't think octal is legal in Cornwall, is it?

[Big RR]

meade--I think between consenting adults--but sadly most of them don't know what octal is so they can't consent.your fingers

Burning--not only can't you use your fingers, but thumbs are out as well--and toes only on alternate Fridays.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Non binary might be decimal or octal, however.

Actually, they both can be represented binarily.

[dales]

I'm a hexadecimal man myself.

[Big RR]

oldr--let's not even get into conversion--it doesn't work and it's just plain cruel.

[Bicycle Bill]

In Wisconsin, at least, our standard license plates use a modification of a base-34 numbering system, using the ten digits (zero through nine) and 24 of the 26 letters of the alphabet (the 'I' and the 'O' are omitted as they are too similar in appearance to the digits one and zero respectively).  They are arranged in a three letter, three digit format — ABC-123 — which according to my calculations (24³ x 10³) yields the potential to be able to issue something like 13.8 million unique, six-character license plates (not counting personalized plates).

Does anyone know if there is a name — perhaps 'quadrivigedecimal' — for this sort of system?

-"BB"-

[oldr_n_wsr]

They are arranged in a three letter, three digit format — ABC-123 —

NY uses three letter-four digit format.
We had 3-3 for a long while but they ran out. Then they switched to 3-4 and the new plates continue with that.

[Long Run]

there's been a backlash over the cost.

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"What does gender have to do with parking and why is Cornwall Council even asking?" she said.

They are trying to figure out which gender is the cheap skate.

[oldr_n_wsr]

It never ceases to amaze me how many ways the gov can come up with on how to seperate people from their money.

New Jersey just upped their gas tax by $0.23 a gallon. Supposedly it is to be used ONLY for highway repair/maintenance funding. We know that will be raided just like the sales tax increase money us Suffolk County residents voted to be only used to buy up and preserve open space.
oh but we only "borrowed" that for the general fund, we plan on paying it back
wanna buy a bridge?

[Big RR]

Well NJ voters get a say on a Constitutional Amendment to mandate use of the monies only for road maintenance, so we might be a bit luckier.

But the fact is, if we want to maintain the roads we have to pay for it--we can't go on using deficit financing. Even though I live in the state, I'd rather raise taxes than run up the debt, but I could be in the minority who want to shift the cost to our kids.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Well NJ voters get a say on a Constitutional Amendment to mandate use of the monies only for road maintenance, so we might be a bit luckier.

I hope so. Actually using money for it's intended purpose (by voter mandate no less) is a rarety.

Where did the money for roads originally come from? Was that a general budget item?

What I find in a lot of cases is, when they do something like create a special tax for an item, they just delete that item from the general budget all together and now they have found "savings".

Nassau county is attempting this. They had a line on property tax for police budget. Now they are proposing putting a $100+ "surcharge" on all traffic tickets (including parking tickets IIRC). The line on your property tax bill is not going away, nor is it being reduced, just that they will have more money to "play with" supposedly for policing.

I got a bridge for sale. Any takers?