I received the package from Amazon today. Now I have the Panasonic Wireless 802.11 b/g Network Camera which I can configure to watch over the floor upstairs, which I will bait by dropping a few newspapers on the ground before retiring downstairs to monitor the camera feed. I will sit patiently until the cat tentatively approaches the newspapers and decides "hey, I know I'm nowhere near my litterbox, but I'm thinking...yeah...these newspapers would look and smell alot better with some cat urine."
But this time will be different. As he starts to relieve himself on the newspapers, the Uniden GMR1038-2CK 22-Channel 10-Mile Two-Way Radio will spring to life. The cat may not understand how it is that my voice is coming through the radio sternly instructing him to move away from the newspapers. But he'll know that, for him, the Transparent Society is here today, and privacy as he once knew it is gone forever.
And after I reprimand him, oh, I don't know, let's say 100 times - he might stop peeing on the floor.
On the plane last Monday, I read in an article in the Asian WSJ that a UK government regulator issued a new regulation in April that if one ad agency loses an account to another, the agency that won the account has to hire staffers who worked primarily on the business from the agency who lost it.
Have they gone insane over there? The article notes that "clients often change advertising agencies because they want fresh talent." Well duh. Let's take this a step further...what if I dump my ad agency because I think everyone working on my account is an incompetent fool? Can I specify in the new contract that no-one from the old agency can work on my account? What if I hire an ad agency in another country?
It would be quite ironic (if not uncommon) if this law had the extremely detrimental, and of course completely unintended effect of actually driving ad agencies out of the UK.