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Adonis wrote:
It's worth noting that the intention of the first minimum wage laws were to keep blacks from taking the jobs of whites.

And it's been doing exactly that ever since.

What point exactly are you trying to make? You seem to be suggesting employers would only hire blacks when the wage was lower than that of whites.

Sutherland wrote:
Anyone who voluntarily wants to own a huge car is free to pay to park it in a garage somewhere if they want. But owning a huge car in a city is ridiculous. It's a very, very suburban mentality. And it exacerbates the parking problem. And it's just plain out stupid.

bodhipooh wrote:
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mpwJC wrote:

Your math is correct, but its application is completely off. While 24 units could, in theory, process 14K people in hour, that presumes that one can control the manner in which those 14K subjects are fed into the system.

If each machine can process 600 people every hour, that means it could theoretically process 10 individuals every minute, or one every six seconds. The reality is that, during rush hour, the same space may be occupied by 4, 5, or even 6, different people in a six second period. People at WTC move along in a manner similar to ants, following the person ahead almost immediately behind them. There is likely something like a one or two second separation. As such, if you take the 24 number you derived, and multiply it by 6, you end up at 144. 200 is not overkill, as such a system would need to have some redundancy built into it.

In any case, I hate the idea on principle alone. I find it unnerving to see so many policemen, and military personnel, stationed at WTC and 33rd street, and I rue the fact that we have allowed a police state mentality to take over our daily lives. I have spoken with friends who have told me, in no uncertain terms, that they actually don't feel safe at a station if they don't see police or military personnel deployed on site. Not too long ago, we used to thumb our nose at pretty much every other country in the world because of their use of national ID cards, and here in this region people seem to clamor for more police, more military, more random inspections, more of the security theater nonsense we have come to accept as normal and necessary.

bodhipooh wrote:

You got one thing right: this is a city and change is inevitable. Those of you who seek to encase it in amber and preserve it as you wish (as if it was your version of it that only matters) are pursuing a fool's errand. Cities will never remain the same. They change, they evolve, they grow, they shrink. The rest of what you say is nonsense: JC is not being annexed by NYC. It is simply growing in popularity by people you seem to dislike (people with more money than you) and you wish you could somehow keep JC as it was 30 or 40 years ago.

Cool opinions bro. We weren?t discussing only NJ. Obviously wasn?t talking about the people at the bottom half of the 1% who technically qualify but the people who are at the very top that are literally hoarding all the wealth unchecked.

TonyTwoPoops wrote:
Yeah no- you?d have to be a complete fool to think taxpayers should be subsidizing tax breaks for corporations and the 1% at this point while we are allegedly too broke to fund basic social services.

?We?re too broke for health insurance and free education but here?s $11/hr so corporations can get out of paying billions in taxes!?

$15/hr is barely a livable wage. We are way behind on that front.

MDM wrote:

The SARS outbreak in southern China and Hong Kong was on the same order. People were given steroids to pull back their immune systems. They survived the flu only to later die a slow death from their bones disintegrating. The doses of steroids given were too high, which in turn, destroyed the capillaries in the patient's bones.

I was traveling through Hong Kong at that time. The HK authorities had people in gloves and mask taking passenger body temps with infrared temperature guns.

tern wrote:
What retail park on Bright Street and Grove Street?

Robin.

SunnyJC wrote:
So if you see a sidewalk that needs dire repair, take a picture and simply submit it via the JerseyCity Connect app. It supposedly will be investigated and remediation initiated if the complaint is legit.

brewster wrote:
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srs7191 wrote:
What irks me is that the sidewalks are in such dire straits.

Walked down Bright St today from Grove through to that retail park, absolutely atrocious sidewalks, lots of similar condition sidewalks can be found all around.

Not exactly befitting of a place that can now go up to 30k+ property taxes.

You DO know that sidewalks are the homeowners responsibility? And that if the city inspectors were going around gigging people for crappy sidewalks the furor would be deafening? I got contacted there was a complaint about my sidewalk, turns out was just the disgruntled boyfriend of a tenant looking to harass me. Inspector couldn't find anything, then went "aha!" at a slight crack, till I pointed out it was actually over the property line on the neighbor's property.

Now here's the thing: the neighbor didn't get a citation, because there was no complaint against them! This only works by resident complaint! When I pointed out there were sidewalks like a roller coaster easily found, he said they only respond to complaints.

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Frinjc wrote:
the downward trend in rents in Manhattan,

I always take these reports with a grain of salt, since so much of the upper end of the Manhattan rental market is fantasyland prices, same as the sales. You see condos drop from $30M to $15M because there was no actual reason to be $30M other than they thought they might get it from some foreign oligarch. Lower ends of the market are not nearly so volatile.

But in general I agree with you, unless someone has let their rental slip far below market they can only raise it so high before pricing themselves out.

brewster wrote:
On another right tending site the response to the "state's rights" argument was, and I more or less quote: "you didn't support states rights for me about the federal govt persecuting Christians and Southerners, so fuck you even though I agree with your position". And there's why bipartisanism is dead, if you don't support them when you disagree with them, they won't support you even when they do. This place is a mess.

RichMauro wrote:

* Martin Luther King Drive was Jackson Avenue
* Christopher Columbus Drive was Railroad Avenue
* Luiz Munoz Marin Boulevard, was Henderson Street
* Manila Avenue was Grove Street .