"The Grid" is fully intact here for the main arteries laid-out on one-mile increments, with two or three lanes in each direction. One can drive from any neighborhood to any neighborhood easily, but one cannot drive through neighborhoods easily. One has to use main roads to drive around.

I don't have a problem with this. It reduces traffic where neighborhood casual pedestrians are likely to be.

That won't happen until one's future is guaranteed to be secure.

And that won't ever happen.

Someone is required to care about those people only because the State has decided that someone has to care about those people.

Same with kids in schools; the staff care about the kids because they're being paid to care about those kids. If they weren't being paid, there'd be a lot less paying attention to those kids' interests.

Mmmhmm... I've got my side-mirrors adjusted way out, as the central windshield-mounted rearview mirror covers more than a straight shot out the back window. Occasionally I'll have to narrow the angle on one side if I'm backing up into a narrow spot, but that's rare.

The solution is to stop using laminated layers of thin sheet metal for the roof pillars and to use something more durable for a given volume.

The implementation of side-curtain airbags and of stronger roof-strength requirements should not come at the expense of something as fundamental as view.

Another problem is that true Communism isn't supposed to have leaders. There isn't supposed to be a Politburo. It's almost more like Anarchy but where everyone is taken care of than anything else, but leaders are not willing to give up their power to transition to that phase, and end up as dictators or oligarchs. It's simply a change in who is benefiting fro the toil of the workers, they still get the shaft.

Worker-owned companies, often Employee Stock-Option Programs or ESOPs are still a form of captialism, but with the ownership of capital more specially distributed than normal. It's more like a partnership where everyone working there is a partner to a certain degree. The company is owned by the partners, the workers or former workers in this case, and they benefit directly from the company's success.

If I understand the principal intent of Communism, the individual is to be provided for without question, and the individual is supposed to work to the best of their abilities without question. The problem with this is that lots of people won't work if they're provided for without having to do so, and if the system attempts to impose metrics on individuals to compel them to work, they'll look for ways to skirt the rules. In manufacturing that means poor quality goods as various stages do the minimum needed to pass, which compounds as the products go through multiple stages of production.

No, but I actually agree with points 1, 6, and 9. Once kids have enough self-esteem to self-motivate, I think it's a disservice to continue to tell them that they're special. Half the time they aren't even unique in any truly meaningful metric, and once kids are out of school and have reached the age of majority then no one is required to care about what happens to them anymore. Giving kids deserved recognition for their achievements is one thing, but recognition needs to be proportional to the achievement and recognition without achievement (ie, participation 'awards') doesn't seem to help.

I think the point of the no-parking-11am-2pm signs is to get people that went drinking the previous night to pick their damn car up in the morning and not leave it until the following evening, and to stop the lunch-rush from turning into a living hell on those streets.

Downtown Tempe has a lot more restrictive parking rules; one has to have permits to park in many of the neighborhoods around the university, even if those neighborhoods have businesses in them.

Most academic leftists I know understand that true Communism can't function because of the human desire to rise above one's peers. True leaderless Communism would have to shoot for the lowest-common-denominator and be more like the Borg Collective as it was originally portrayed in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as it could not tolerate anyone think that they are better than anyone else or trying to be better than anyone else.

Most leftist academics believe that the argument of what should be government-provided versus what should be laissez-faire is the crux, and it's finding a balance. Anyone so leftist as to seek true communism is as unrealistic as anyone thinking that complete capitalism without government moderation of the market would work. Both are fantasies. Both get subsumed into oligarchies or dictatorships in some fashion or another without counter-forces to keep them in check.

When a truck can have a pallet of those Knowles speakers fall off the back of it, then you'll be able to find them.

Even though I work closer to the outskirts of the city than to its core, I actually moved closer to the core when buying the most recent house. Traffic outbound is light in the mornings, and traffic inbound in the afternoon is light until one reaches the actual center. Plus, if work ever does change and require me to go inbound in the mornings, I start closer-in than I would have before.

I can picture it now, a raiding party of Sony Asimos running in to disrupt a national television broadcast, wielding guns that look like video game light guns but with gigawatt lasers, blasting-away at the crew, press researchers, and on-air talent, vaporizing heads on-contact and splurting blood everywhere...

My lifelong friends in my city aren't in my neighborhood, as they're based on common interests, not on geographical proximity, and the distance to drive to leave my neighborhood to find a major road to head their way is a negligible portion of the trip. I am friends with my immediate neighbors, but that's as a result of being immediate neighbors and sharing a common interest in having a nice neighborhood. As they are my immediate neighbors I don't have to drive or even bicycle to see them, I can walk the few feet needed for that. Even when I had to go around the oddly-shaped block to attend a blockwatch meeting, it was still only a walk of a quarter-mile.

My city didn't really exist until after WWII. A lot of neighborhoods that are now bad were built in the fifties, sixties, and even into the seventies with the grid plan, while other neighborhoods built with less rigid designs from those same periods enjoy a lot less crime and poverty. The oldest homes closest to downtown are one of only a very small number of prewar neighborhoods, and for that particular neighborhood, despite having the grid they're some of the most valuable homes in town given their proximity to the downtown white-collar offices and the entertainment venues in the area.

Not all cities followed the "white flight" model.