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It's road behaviour. Due to the high COE car owners feel an entitlement for the road. In addition people are driving selfish and are in general bad educated (comparing to Europe and Japan). See roads.sg for examples.

Just came back from Tokyo and realized how much I miss riding my bicycle in Singapore. The city is just not made for bicycles. It would increase the quality of living by a wide margin since Singapore is so small.

>I build BIG financial software and we have certain audit requirements, access control requirements, data protection requirements etc and that is exactly how it should be.

Funny, I had the same argument with a colleague today. Since FB is listed and their business model is based on customer data they should follow the same legal requirements as customer finance companies.

QR Code Fatigue 14 years ago

Ah, the bi-weekly anti QR-Code rant. QR Codes are amazing, have wonderful potential but are under-utilized at this stage. And just for the record, for everyone who still thinks Japan uses a lot of QR Codes. Just came back from 2 weeks in Singapore. Singapore > Tokyo.

It is funny how this topic comes up every month. I guess it's because we somehow want them to add value, but at this stage they don't.