Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Those meanies at Birmingham Airport
Just back from 24 hours in Britain - which appears to be more and more of a nanny state, with speed cameras all over the roads (at least one per mile on the main drag into Plymouth) and warning signs everywhere else.
At Birmingham International Airport, I came across the ultimate in mean-ness: they'd locked the electricity power points. So nobody's going to sponge a few KW of free electricity from them, oh no. At around 15p per kilowatt hour, my laptop would have used at most 1p's worth of electricity while I gave the airport GBP5 for the privilege of using their wi-fi network. OK, so you'd say they don't have to give me free electricity, but since a fiver is a lot for an hour online, it would have been a nice touch.
At Birmingham International Airport, I came across the ultimate in mean-ness: they'd locked the electricity power points. So nobody's going to sponge a few KW of free electricity from them, oh no. At around 15p per kilowatt hour, my laptop would have used at most 1p's worth of electricity while I gave the airport GBP5 for the privilege of using their wi-fi network. OK, so you'd say they don't have to give me free electricity, but since a fiver is a lot for an hour online, it would have been a nice touch.
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