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org/u/ko7 "There aren't many people in the company, in the whole world, who know about the Lolita' book or films," Lim said. Is there anyone on the motd who is unfamiliar with what the name "Lolita" refers to? If the latter, are you sure this ist a case of E_RATCHET?
The carpool lanes are well on their way to becoming toll lanes. Maybe they won't have potholes once someone is concerned about them. I do use the freeways which you say is a social good and thus should be free, but the op says they are wasteful and should be usage-fee-based which is contrary to your claims of free travel being a social good we should pay for with everyone's taxes. I'm saying that some things are worth paying for, no matter that they don't pay for themselves, BART and Amtrak included. op \_ Why is BART worth paying for if it can't pay for itself? Why not buy everyone a car, or a donkey, or a bike, or a helicopter? Rail is the most space-efficient and energy-efficient way to transport large numbers of people over significant distances. BART itself is pretty fucked up, but public funding of rail in urban areas is way more obviously of public benefit than public funding of freeways. If you advocate that we each buy our own train then I don't see how it's any better than what we have now. Rail is not a good way to solve this problem unless we are both going to offices very close to each other. Even in Europe, with great public transit, buses are vital. If you're going to use buses then you need roads, so what is the point of rail? Rail is great to get large amounts of goods (or people) from point A to point B, but that's not often the problem that needs solving. Replacing all freeways with rail sound freeways with rail sounds rather stupid to me. You are projecting your love of bike here against common sense. More passenger-miles per dollar, fewer emissions per dollar. Taking 1500 cargo containers from a port to a warehouse, sure. Taking 1500 people from their homes to 1500 places of employment maybe not. As I said, even in Europe and Japan they have roads and freeways. It can help eliminate congestion at certain times, but your ROI argument leads me to believe that congestion is not your main issue and that relief comes with a high price you refuse to acknowledge. One thing you're paying for is your commute not to be even worse than it is. Not sure how much of the capital costs, less than 100% though. You can base it on the average weekday ridership of >300K if you like. Point is, do you remember what traffic was like the last time there was a major BART outage?
My inlaws are voting for him because he reminds them of Ronald Reagan. They've always voted for winners in the past and have been 100% accurate. What do you think of them now, with Romney out of the race? Also, if you have 1000 mutual funds playing the market, some of them are going to have extraordinary winning streaks that are more owed to randomness than to wisdom on the part of those running the mutual fund. I don't care about diet coke or caffeine as they haven't affected me personally. The multiple wife thing is a serious issue since it'll create more desperate single restless young men w/o a wife to whip them (eg hateful, restless Middle East young men effect). In all I don't have anything against Romney, and I may just end up voting for him. I have a huge problem with them telling me I shouldn't indulge those vices. Americans vote for charming winners that appeal to their hearts while left wing people vote for smarties (or at least those who seem annoyingly smug about their superier intelligence) It's not about the policies, damnit.
A hot 19 year old just invited me to stop over and visit her at a women's college near Boston. If not, she's probably not a gold-digger and you should consider yourself lucky.
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