Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "jack" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:00:08 +1100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <977171a2-738d-4405-9241-7cd8f403ef94@googlegroups.com> <56AB34BF.9030305@koerber.org> <9b5oabh1k6vuil2c7pd59bop74qtqfefht@4ax.com><8737tf4y41.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere><6a77d7ef-5dc8-4c56-a765-29c76b500a57@googlegroups.com><178029475.475890088.507946.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org><20160131094248.39f4c0b282484fa720279fae@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oMaiMVmbsd/yXZ4qpGE+Kw7C2wFsHdeR43y6k5J4vJUzwP10A= Cancel-Lock: sha1:fZMU0NqzrtHdjScggoDRZcVl2CM= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:158563 "Bob Eager" wrote in message news:dha1e0FfseU15@mid.individual.net... > On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 19:56:05 +1100, jack wrote: > >>> It doesn't handle the 'senior' case, true. But it does the rest. >> >> No it doesn’t. It doesn’t handle the other situation where there is a >> fixed charge to go anywhere in the day, week or month but only charges >> you for the actual cost of the particular trip when that is less than >> the fixed charge that allows you to go anywhere as often as you like. > > It does, for the day anyway (as I noted before). Fixed (lowish) charge > for a journey. Capped cost per day at less than the amount for three > journeys. Nothing to stop you taking 100 journeys and you still only pay > up to the cap. Not possible to do that unless you use the same card all the time and still doesn’t handle the weekly and monthly and quarterly etc season tickets either.