One of your boastful friends makes a bet with you that he can tell you in no time at all exactly how many leaves there are
on a tree at any given moment. Of course you agree to the bet - it seems like the quickest way to earn a free meal in your favorite Italian restaurant. As soon as you’ve made the bet, you figure out the catch: how the hell can you prove him wrong?
I’ll give you a few minutes…
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… Did you come up with something?
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Everywhere in the world, and especially in countries that are still not fully computerized, the law enforcement authorities are faced with huge problems regarding unpaid fines, and this is especially true for parking fines. Do you pay your parking fines? You don’t have to answer that… let’s continue with the story.
Because of this problem, the law enforcement authorities have devised an excellent way to force us to pay our dues immediately - they simply tow the car away. However, towing is a clumsy and expensive process.
I once heard a novel solution to this problem from the city of Kiev, in the Ukraine. It appears to have been taken right out of the school of Systematic Inventive Thinking.
What do the authorities there do when they come across an illegally parked car? They simply remove the license plates from the offending vehicle and take them to the depot.
Continue reading ‘License to Invent’
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