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BeTTer GeT YoGo HQ oN to iT‼️.. 🙈📞 @BrownesDairy The uploaded YoGorilla commercial clearly depicts the character using a hinged flip phone with a screen showing the other caller, presenting the idea of portable video calling in an animated advertisement. If this commercial aired during the YoGorilla campaign’s reported 1990s or early-2000s period, it predates Apple’s 6 July 2011 filing for “Flexible display devices” and Google’s 8 June 2017 priority date for its folding-display patent, although the specific clip’s original broadcast date remains unverified. The distinction is that YoGorilla’s phone has a separate upper screen and lower keypad connected by a hinge, while those later patents concern particular technologies for flexible screens that bend or fold. The commercial therefore illustrates an earlier depiction of a video-calling flip phone! #YogoHQ🦍

Coalition promises $50 toll caps if it wins Vic election afr.com/politics/coalition-p… @FinancialReview @FinancialReview If Australian toll-road operators continue charging motorists according to long-term concession agreements, then toll-road performance should also be part of the discussion! Motorists pay a premium to use toll infrastructure partly because it is intended to provide faster, safer and more reliable transport. If severe congestion substantially removes that advantage, why should exactly the same premium toll apply regardless of the service actually delivered? Take Brisbane's Gateway Motorway as an example. Queensland itself acknowledges long-standing congestion on parts of the Gateway corridor and is undertaking upgrades intended to reduce peak-hour congestion and improve travel reliability. Department of Transport and Main RoadsInstead of simply applying the full toll whenever a vehicle passes a toll point, Australia could consider a performance-based tolling framework :Normal traffic — A$6.02 Moderate sustained congestion — A$4.50 Severe congestion — A$3.00 Major prolonged gridlock — A$1–2, or an automatic account credit. Those figures are illustrative, not current policy. The important principle is that the price paid would partly reflect the service received. Queensland already has the technology needed to measure motorway performance. Its Smart Motorways system uses vehicle detectors, CCTV, variable signs and real-time traffic information specifically to monitor congestion, improve traffic flow and make journey times more predictable. Department of Transport and Main RoadsA performance system therefore wouldn't need motorists to lodge claims saying, “I was stuck in traffic.” The network could determine automatically that a particular journey experienced qualifying severe congestion and apply the appropriate credit afterward. Retrospective credits would also avoid the problem of announcing cheaper tolls during congestion and inadvertently attracting even more vehicles onto an overloaded motorway.Most importantly, performance-based charging would change the incentive. If persistent congestion reduced toll revenue, operators would have a stronger financial incentive to maintain lane availability, clear incidents rapidly and improve traffic management. There is even international precedent for linking private-road payments to congestion performance. An Australian Government study of overseas toll-road concessions describes UK arrangements where concession payments could be reduced when motorists experienced congestion attributable to the concessionaire, using measures including average vehicle speeds. The proposition isn't that toll roads should be free. It's that a premium toll should have a measurable level of service attached to it. And there is an especially interesting point in Queensland: the Gateway and Logan concession requires the franchisee to provide traffic information and traffic-incident management services, among other user services. Department of Transport and Main Roads That makes the distinction between charging for access and charging for performance particularly worth examining!