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nimbusgb wrote:
The UK Government is debating whether to fit around 10 million of them in the South of England, perhaps you should wait until the order is placed? Bulk pricing? rant Yes, it will go UP by 200% due to the specialised interface, non standard thread and targeted health and safety requirements that some beurocrat will impose on the order. They will arrive 2 years late and be installed backwards. They will of course be supplied from China thus depriving a uk industry of work. The remote interface will not be compatible with any other hardware or software in existence. This will kick off a massive software contract to one of the big contracting house to build a remote billing package. The proof of concept test will send out credit notes to everyone involved in the pilot and make demands for the negative sums to be paid immediatelly. 3 people will end up in jail over unpaid council tax bills. 6 months into the actual project the public will riot in the streets because they realise that their water is being measured in litres rather than cubic feet, however the project will proceed in spite of the public outcry. During all of this the water companies will have decided that they have been instrumental in transforming the face of resource usage in the UK and will award their board members 50 million pound bonusses. At the end of the project someone will discover that to save costs the installation contractors omitted the required PTFE thread tape and there are 10 million water meters all leaking 1 litre per hour into the ground thus negating the point of the whole project. An enquiry will go out for 1 million 50000 litre water tankers, to be parked at the end of each residential street with suitable brass taps to allow housholders to collect supplies in plastic drums. ( hey they do it in Africa it must be a workable solution ) Actually it wont be a problem because all the reservoirs will be empty and there wont be any water to deliver anyway. rant\ What me a cynic? Everything you say is true, but it does keep unemployment down! |
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