>Yeah, but how far can you make it in FUCKING LOS ANGELES

Probably a lot easier since the roads aren't FUCKING CATTLE PATHS THAT GOT PAVED OVER.

Crikes, you're stupid.

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I'm an urban cyclist.

I can make it from Arlington MA to Downtown Boston no problem, down Mass Ave, one of the most traveled roads anywhere.

And I don't feel like it's suicidal at all. Then again I don't bike like a moron and I pay attention to traffic laws. Clipless pedals help a lot.

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The only problem with that is that widening roads actually does not reduce traffic jams.

Building more roads only causes more traffic.

It /is/ walkable.

4 miles is 1 hr 20 minutes at normal walking speed.

2 hours by car? No, just no. That kind of time spent in a car going nowhere is just maddening.

Fer crissakes, it's 1 hr 20 minutes from here to Boston's South Station, and I'm in Concord NH and even during rush hour, it's not two hours. And once you're in Boston or Cambridge, you honestly don't need a car.

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You need to put the vaccine in the lentils and wheatgerm and that demographic is taken care of. Don't get me wrong here I am vaccinated and I discovered when I received Hep B vaccinations that I cannot create antibodies for Hepatitis B. I think that essentially means Hep B will kill me or at least make me very ill. That fact still will not make me agree that force should be used to vaccinate the unwilling. I suspect that with all the vaccinations and 'molly-codlling' that the weak are being allowed to survive and even prosper and that cannot have good ramifications for the future human race.

Making traffic flow better will bring more traffic, even if you use false analogies. Every trip has an associated cost, and if you lower the cost for each trip by better flowing traffic, more trips will become affordable, and yes, making traffic flow better will generate more traffic that was non-existant before because of being too expensive.

That is all.

FTFA:
Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour.

>4 miles
>Sunny LA

GET A FUCKING BICYCLE!

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to convince people to work where they live.

Because there's nothing I like better than opening my window on a nice spring evening and having to listen to the honking of car/truck horns, the accompanying smell of exhaust, people yelling up and down the street, drunk staggering about and talking to themselves at 2 in the morning and people who think it's acceptable to have a party on the street a 4 AM.

Maybe you like to keep your windows closed every day of the year, but there are those of us who like to breathe relatively clean air and not have to deal with inconsiderate slobs who think it's their right to do what they want, whenever they want, without consideration for those around them.

Did you miss the part where (per said driver's assertion) Sidecar paid a better post-deduction base rate even without the temporary promotion?

Also, it's not exactly like there are substantial costs associated with switching which service a driver chooses to work from. If rational economic decisions were being followed, one would expect a driver to want to double their money while it was possible to do so, and then switch back to a different service if that paid better the rest of the time.

Except that drivers aren't making more money with Uber or Lyft.

Saturday night I took a Sidecar home, and our driver was talking about how Sidecar is currently offering better base rates (after accounting for deductions -- Uber shows drivers the price a customer is paying before their cut is taken out), and currently offering double payouts from their marketing budget as a limited-time promotion to attract more drivers.

The premise that Uber or Lyft pays better is, presently, false.

You got the founder of Islam right, but Judaism is considered as founded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...">Abraham who precedes Moses by multiple centuries. And Christianity was founded by this guy named Jesus, called "the Christ". He predated Constantine by about 300 years or so... Abraham and Jesus were most assuredly NOT warlords.

In a particularly lame move, somebody put Bing search into Thunderbird. When searching your emails, you can also get irrelevant web search results via Bing. What the use case is for that I have no idea.

Depends on where you live.

Depends on where you live.

Climate IS weather. Climate is the integral of weather over some pre-determined time window. Want to know the climate for the last week? Last month? Last 10 years? Look at the weather over those times. Climate IS weather. The claim otherwise makes as much sense as saying bread isn't flour, water, and yeast...