My favorite activity in any high-end American hotel is flipping signs on the doorknob from "do not disturb" to "please clean room". This is my way of lobbying for the little red lights used in more civilized countries. You must struggle to create the society you want to live in.
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Next I will do my part for high-speed rail by cutting the brake lines on the Acela
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Those doorbells are probably easily hooked up to lights for deaf guests!
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yes, we were staying in Turkey in a not particularly high end hotel and they had an electronic doorbell which got disabled when you set do not disturb
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The technology exists! Isn't it weird? Is there some big door sign lobby in the US that blocks all attempts to make it happen?
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Americans hate NIH stuff. We won’t try good things invented overseas for ourselves. We have to invent and iterate though many bad versions on our own first. Exception: video game consoles. There may be others.
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If we get it, it’ll have WiFi and a camera. You’ll have nobody but yourself to blame.
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just saw minority report last night. 1009 is the number on the hotel room, right?
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and soon, after all hanging signs are replaced by lightbulbs, hand-wringing over energy usage :-)
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And Japanese toilets
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