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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 440

Depending on where this guy was the nearest neighbor may have likely been several miles away. For example one of my friends has a cabin in norther Minnesota the nearest neighbor is about 10 miles away. We frequently toss empty cans out the door at night and the next day walk out and shoot them from the porch, no sense in letting perfectly intact cans go unshot. Yes we do clean up the cans when we leave but why not shoot them for target practice first. This type of thing is very common in rural areas and would only really be a concern if it were in a developed are. Also in the fall it is very common to see people walking around in blaze orange with a shotgun or rifle over their shoulder out hunting

Comment Re:Ignorance of the law is no excuse. (Score 1) 440

I have wondered if it is even possible to know all of the laws and government regulations that one has to abide by. There is the United States Code, all of the various federal regulations, laws and regulations for the state you are a resident in, and various local laws and regulations. Is it even reasonable to assume that someone could read them all in a year? When you have congress passing massive bill like the ~2400 page Affordable Care Act, or how ever many are in the US patriot act, or even the annual federal budget which gets all sorts of other random crap stuffed in it, that all makes changes to existing law or create new laws it seems like it is an impossible task. Given that even the federal government can't state how many federal crimes there are it seems that it should entirely be a reasonable defense to be ignorant of the law given that even the government is.

Comment Re:And this is why there's traffic... (Score 1) 611

Remind me to never buy a car that was owned by someone in LA. That kind of drive is just murder on cars, they don't ever come up to proper operating temperature and people just rid the brakes. A car like an M3 is meant to be driven and driven hard but most people just baby them, I wish I could afford one and would consider just debadging it as most people wouldn't know it was an M3 and just assume it was a regular 3 series.

Comment Re:Traffic Furniture (Score 1) 611

I know I'm tilting against windmills... My truck has about 14" of suspension travel. I can take their speed-bumps at the speed limit.

Sounds like you have way to nice of a truck, my Jeep is old and beat up so I just don't care and will take their speed bumps at the speed limit. I also like their traffic calming traffic circles which make for a nice little circle track for my car. Although out in the suburbs you still get people on their own traffic crusade. Like the one family in the new development in my neighborhood who puts one of these in the middle of the fucking street, or at least they did until I ran it over with my jeep. By the middle of the street I don't mean off on the side, in the gutter, or on the grass boulevard, I mean lets put in right smack in the middle so it is an impediment to traffic taking up ~4 feet. It isn't like it was just out there one time, it was always out there and if the mother thought you were driving too fast would yell at you to slow down because 20-25 mph in a 30 mph residential area is too fast in her mind. Then again this is the newer development and they do have a HOA so it wouldn't surprise me if this person was one of the decision makers and likes having power.

Comment Re:Sympton of a bigger problem (Score 1) 611

I wouldn't mind taking the bus if it didn't triple my trip time to and from work and require 3 bus changes with a fair amount of walking and waiting outside, no thanks. I can spend between 30 and 40 minutes driving to and from work and not have to worry about what time I arrive and leave or I can catch the first bus leaving my city go to work and then catch the last bus leaving from near my work and hope there isn't problems as there are still 2 more I have to take to get home.

I also don't get why metro transit won't make a reasonable bus plan like having a set of buses that just run around the 494/694 loop and back and forth across 35E/W, 94, 100, 168, 61, 52, 552, and 77. These are the major highways in the Twin Cities and unless you are heading into downtown it is a bitch to use. Instead we are pissing money away on silly little trains. Have these busses only stop at major transit centers at the end of the routs or where highways cross so people can change buses. Additionally have the local city buses also stop at these transit centers and the system would become mostly useable but no one seems to want to do that.

As far as why buses aren't free, it seems to me that it was a compromise between those who think they shouldn't be subsidized at all and those who think they should be free. Also by having a nominal cost for public transit it was initially thought it would keep the vagrants out, which in my experience is not the case. Personally I am of the mind set that it should either be entirely government subsidized or completely paid by the riders but not the mushy middle where it is heavily subsidized but people still have to pay that so often happens with government programs.

Comment Re: Don't worry guys... (Score 1) 880

Simple proof is that no nation states that have a McDonalds have yet been to war with each other (and by that I mean a true war not supporting insurgents aka Ukraine).

Not true, there was the conflict between Russian and Georgia as well as the Israel and Lebanon conflict in 2006 all of whom had McDonalds at the time of fighting. Also in doing some digging it appears that there was the NATO bombing of Serbia (sure seems like war) that happened shortly after the book with that statement was published.

Transportation

Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? 190

Bennett Haselton writes Sidecar is a little-known alternative to Lyft and Uber, deployed in only ten cities so far, which lets drivers set their own prices to undercut other ride-sharing services. Given that most amateur drivers would be willing to give someone a ride for far less than the rider would be willing to pay, why didn't the flex-pricing option take off? Keep reading to see what Bennet has to say.

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