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Who can possibly bike to work here that doesn't habitually walk? If it's far enough that you're biking instead of driving, you're going to need to shower and change when getting to the office. Not viable for many people. Not to mention the complete lack of safe places to bike on the streets. And if you're talking about biking to the PATH train, riding the train sweaty and smelling worse than most of the other passengers, walking the rest of your way to work to get to the shower in your cubicle (everyone has one, right), this makes a lot of sense.
And if the weather says 20% chance of rain, you can't bike to work. 5 days a week and you'll likely get rained on one of those days. I guess that's why they're supporting it with a single bike rack(?!)
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I can't help feeling a bit sorry for someone who visits from North Carolina and ends up in that area by accident after midnight. It's not so obviously bad to someone from out of town, especially someone from a different sort of place, that you can really blame them for being over there late. A person could see the A&P (and TD bank and Best Buy and...) and not even be aware of the projects nearby.
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State. It's obviously a nonsense ruling, but as it stands it's the law of the land.
http://www.nyclu.org/pdfs/mta_searches_suit_080405.pdf The state governments are bound by the US 4th amendment due to the 14th amendment 's equal protection clause. But it won't be enforced without a federal ruling. Everyone who consents to these searches betrays the freedoms that our ancestors shed their blood to protect, while giving up your dignity and human rights at the same time. The searches are obviously mean to spread fear and eliminate the notion of rights, not to protect anyone.
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Sorry, to clarify...
The court decision that allows them to search you on your way into the train gives you the choice to refuse the search, leave, and board the train at another station. They can only search something large enough to be seriously dangerous (not the exact wording though it's about that vague). The claim I heard was that people were not being allowed to walk away, or were being bullied into searching with threats, or were having things like pockets searched, which is not allowed by the court decision. The court decision is obviously unconstitutional, but it's basically the rules under which the police are (supposed to be) operating currently. Was anyone not given the choice to refuse the search (and thereby denied entry into that station, but with civil rights somewhat intact).
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I heard (from only one source so far) that searches are taking place at the PATH inconsistently with the (questionable) court decision. Today and yesterday, evening rush, in the city.
For example searching past the turnstyles, threatening people with biting dogs. During the evening rush. I hope that these rumors are unfounded or isolated, the last time I heard of something like this (a few years ago) it turned out to be confirmed by many sources, as shocking as it sounds.
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Something doesn't smell right.
If $200K was invested in one fund, there must be millions invested elsewhere. If the books are valuable, it would be easy to loan them to a library under the terms that they be kept together. If he had a job as CIO, he can surely get a well-paying job in a week. How can he not know or find someone with the space to set up/fill out a library in their house? It would cost almost nothing to keep them in storage. But then no one gets to see them. Surely there must be some books that can be sold that don't really break up the collection, beyond the value of having the entire "Irving Leif" collection. Sounds like at least some are out of copyright. Why not use his technical skill/contacts to have them scanned, and see if a few dollars can be made selling copies? Why is he 62, recently working as a CIO, with $200k to invest in a single fund, and still renting his residence? This can't be the whole story. Sounds like some mental illness may be involved.
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I don't know Damian at all but this is how you find someone good. Recommendations of an individual (not a big shop, not even a small shop unless you get a person's name), from people who have had good experiences. And you get what you pay for. If everyone's experience with someone who makes house calls is as described above, they're worth a LOT. Certainly more than they're charging. There's also a luck factor and the ability to give nonsense explanations that sound nice, so I'm not recommending someone I don't know based on the experience of someone else I don't know. But if enough credible people say this kind of thing, that's your best bet. Don't forget that some things just can't be fixed, and a lot of things aren't worth the time/effort/cost to be fixed. Proper communication of this (if correctly identified) is still a success.
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If Paige Hershkin is still around (was at 1 McWilliams Place, by the old hospital), I recommend her. I normally only judge a doctor based on intelligence/competence and willingness to communicate that knowledge without regard to bedside manner. But I'm pretty sensitive about anything involving the eye, had never been to any kind of eye doctor before and ended up needing every test they have, and probably needed the same treatment as a scared 9 year old. There's no way I could have tolerated it without her 'bedside' manner. The person who put the eyedrops in may have warned her unless I was that obvious, and I'm sure it's noted in my file unless her memory is amazing (or I'm the first adult to ask things like "this machine isn't going to poke me in the eye is it?"). So you should probably warn her first.
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Pretty much every "survey" of the "best" places uses pretty pathetic criteria and has no human filter to exclude the obviously bad results. Surveys like this have Buffalo being considered one of the best places to live because of its low cost of living, or rural North Dakota being one of the best places to raise kids because of the low crime rate. These are uniquely bad though. My favorites from your excerpt: Quote:
More corruption means more money spent per student. The only money needed is payroll for teachers. Before the college level books should basically be free. At worst, $150 per student for an ebook reader, $100/month for the entire school for a shared Internet connection, and from there download free ebooks. If a particular subject is seriously lacking material, any teacher for a given subject should be able to clean up a Wikipedia article or an old out-of-copyright textbook. If a teacher can't teach the subject without a book, they aren't competent and probably can't teach with a book either. Obviously the corruption inherent in the textbook purchasing process (not to mention teacher hiring process) prevents this, but that's because the goal is not education of the students. Quote:
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Found this too. http://www.cspinet.org/2007schoolreport.pdf New Jersey gets points for restricting whole milk in favor of skim milk (so extra processing is a good thing! Although whole milk is not forbidden). More points for restricting the fat content of ice cream - inevitably in favor of sugar when I look at commercially available ice creams and the variation in fat/sugar content.. Sugar-water is allowed (as long as there is 100% juice available too, 6 flavors of 100% juice for every 4 flavors of sugar-water). Sparkling water is not allowed. That's right, New Jersey gets points for prohibiting sparkling water in favor of sugar water (the 1% fruit juice non-bubbly soda, like Snapple, realistically). Candy is prohibited, despite the fact that a controlled setting like a school is a perfect place to give small amounts of candy as an occasional reward to demonstrate responsible consumption of processed sugar. Of course when encouraging sugar-water over seltzer, teaching responsible consumption of sugar is not a goal.
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When they say "fags" they mean gays. This is all explained in their FAQ. http://www.godhatesfags.com/faq.html Misrepresenting their position is not helpful to anyone. They may have problems with other groups, such as "fag enablers". But they aren't calling people who disagree with them fags, nor are they seriously redefining any other words in their most well-known slogans (as far as I could find). Regardless of how insane they are (or are pretending to be in order to get followers), this church is able to clearly state their positions and does so on their website. And personally I'm not painfully ambivalent about them. I agree that God hates many, many people. I can't think of any other fictional character that is portrayed as having such a strong and wide-ranging level of hatred. It would not generally make for good reading, and it's not the quality of the writing that makes the Bible popular. The Westboro Baptist Church agrees that their God is quite hateful. I realize that some people have trouble telling fiction from reality. But for the people that understand the difference, why does "God Hates Fags" require any response whatsoever? Would "Tony Soprano Hates Jews" require a counter-protest? Where is the overlap between people who think that it's important who God hates, but don't agree with what he is described as hating? The confusion would make sense if it were from the use of the same character's name in different works, but that doesn't really seem to be the case.
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Yeah high school gangs in Jersey City are really well-known for their violent support of gay rights. And there's no way that a kid who sticks up for gays will be labeled gay himself and have a miserable experience for the remainder of his school years.
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I've noticed this too. They completely make up for it by being friendly, and since I know what to expect, I'm no bothered by it. For a neighborhood bar/restaurant, I'd rather they err more on the laid back side. I can get what I want at simple, I just may have to get up and go talk to my waitress. And if it's so casual that they don't even care to come back and check whether I need ketchup or something, I don't mind getting it myself or throwing packets of sugar in the general direction of the waitress until she turns around.
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It was wonderfully successful under Maggie and your advice is basically to return it to the way she ran it. It is significantly telling that she left an operating business that had no immediate sign that the ownership even changed. Jim left an abandoned space that will be closed for who knows how long. Overall Maggie helped the neighborhood and Jim harmed it. And it's not like Maggie is some amazingly astute businesswoman. She just gave people what they obviously wanted. (Except warm bread). She just avoided driving customers away with insanely stupid moves. She cared about the place. She was happy to make her customers happy. Even though she would be visibly stressed quite often, it's because she was working hard. I never saw Jim visibly stressed. I don't think he cared. He seems like a business major who always wanted to open up a bar, and wanted to duplicate a favorite bar from his college years. I still don't know what could be wrong with Jim. I guess it's similar to other failed business attempts in the neighborhood. People think they can get away with anything because they have a captive market. But the market isn't as captive as they think...
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But the food was good under Maggie, then Jim bought it and decided to destroy the quality of the food. It is pushing for a better standard in Jersey City to go to places with good food, rather than one with food so bad the owner obviously doesn't care. Was it better to go to Go and buy expired condiments, or was it better to go to C-Town, get higher quality at a lower price, and wait for Go to go out of business? Now we have La Rustique in the neighborhood, instead of a condiment store. I think that's a win for the neighborhood. I don't think anyone should be encouraged to support a local restaurant with food so bad that it can't be eaten. And it's not like they weren't given plenty of chances. It's not like Jim could have been unaware that the food was disgusting. He just didn't care. He kept the food good for a year (or at least through the first summer) after buying it, so it's not like this was some impossible feat. The horrible atmosphere with the excessive number of TVs is at least debatable. But the neighborhood wanted a neighborhood bar. We didn't want a sports bar. Everyone has good TVs at home. And the layout of the place did not make it too pleasant to watch a game anyway. And you're going to get a lot more business if you attract everyone in the neighborhood to come with excellent specials that change daily (and are written clearly on a blackboard outside). More people will go to a familiar excellent local eatery on a regular basis than will go to a sports bar with inedible food. It's obviously a case of extreme arrogance. Thinking he can force people to eat whatever garbage he serves. The way the Harvest Cart was chased away supports this. If you can't compete on the quality of your food, chase away what competition you can.
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Good news! The Ale House hasn't been open in days.
Hopefully destroying the food quality (and atmosphere) has resulted in an important lesson in failure. Let's just pray that this guy doesn't get enough money in the sale to go on to ruin any other local businesses.
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The rape occurred at the Lincoln in late 2005. Lefrak's representatives said that she made it up to get free rent. They added the obviously-needed bars to the ground floor windows immediately after this. Also some money was stolen in this incident.
Here's a discussion about the rape: http://www.newportwaterfrontassociati ... /bb/showthread.php?t=1719 Even if a huge portion of rape accusations are made up, there was no particular reason to suspect the woman was lying in this case, and certainly any random person has more credibility than a slumlord. Even though it's reasonable to assume that Lefrak would act to defend themselves, it was amazing how callously they did it. The home invasion was in Jan 2008, at 10th and Monmouth. There were no allegations of rape or serious injury. There wasn't any indication that they were targeted or involved in anything where they'd be expected to have large amounts of cash or valuables. For some unknown reason, the police took it seriously and the two perpetrators were caught. Here's a discussion about the home invasion: http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... =&topic_id=12289&forum=10 Those are the only two violent crimes on 10th st that received significant publicity in the past few years.
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You're alone. Everyone else is dumping it in the regular garbage if there's any way to pretend you didn't know it was toxic, like CF bulbs or electronics containing lead solder. It's not really even necessary to hide it. If it's so toxic that you need to hide it, you should be dumping it under the Turnpike. GE's advice for CF bulbs is basically to throw the bulbs in the regular garbage (double-bagged to make a nice cocktail of chemicals), as long as you don't know that it's to be incinerated. Home Depot supposedly takes CF bulbs for 'recycling', but I'm sure you'll have about as much luck with that as if you called a hazmat team every time a CF bulb breaks. To get rid of paint, use one of the convenient drains labeled "drains to your river" at every intersection.
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OK that's not how it works. People rarely ask for payouts, even in thoroughly corrupt situations where you are expected to bribe everyone every time. If you don't get the hint that a payout was necessary, you just fail. On the scale of random corruption experienced by small business owners, Jersey City is the worst I've ever heard of in the US. It's still not nearly as bad as in India, but in India the bribes are small and go directly to the individual low-level worker you're dealing with. (obviously they kick up to someone).
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If you have seizures of diabetes, the concept of doctor-patient confidentiality is no longer relevant. They report you to the government and you lose your license. (this does not apply to old age despite the stronger statistical correlation and the ease with which the DMV has to determine your age).
Confidentiality really is no longer relevant at all - my doctor can report me to my insurance company due to a high (but in the safe range) test result as being an undue risk, thus in the long-term destroying my life. Thanks. (Yes the doctor reported raw data that was not necessary to reveal as it was already interpreted by the doctor, a lab never was involved). It's made me wonder ever since - being an indentured servant for health insurance due to preexisting condition risk of a condition that may never exist gave me time to think - whether things like negative STD results could be considered a risk factor. Surely that means you had something to worry about, so why should the insurance company not worry. I know negative heart tests can be considered positive by the insurance company for preexisting condition rules. But it's interesting that this person still had his license, while there are others with the same condition who have it taken away. I assume he had seen a doctor previously, as the police wouldn't assume diabetic shock nor would the driver get this bad and not have been experiencing symptoms for some time beforehand. Or worse, he knew of the lack of confidentiality laws and refused to get treatment that would have prevented this. We see a disproportionate portion of such afflicted people in this region as it's the only part of the country where you can live a normal life without being able to drive. 75% of the population of the country would starve to death without the ability to drive. (well subtracting many for having family that would take care of them.) It seems that it's much better off to make sure you are always scamming the medical system (back), no matter how big your problems are. Well until you crash into four cars in a tunnel.
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His problem as described is most likely individual bad blocks. Windows tries to read the block, gets an error, and gives up. (The solution to the problem being to read it on a Linux or perhaps OS X machine.) Bad blocks are part of the normal behavior of hard drives, and are why you should never be using a non-RAIDed drive for any purpose. (A proper RAID system will read the data from the redundant drive, re-write the bad block, which the drive will transparently remap). Non-RAIDed drives are fine for backups, or for OS disks that store no important data and have minimal cost to reinstall (e.g. corporate desktops). His problem could be more severe as he did not provide any details however the fact that the OS recognizes the drive is a strong indication that it spins up and is somewhat readable. It's very easy to tell whether the drive has spun up if you have it in an external enclosure, due to the strong gyroscopic forces (if you pick up a running drive, set it down as gently as you possibly could, more gently than you would set down an egg). This freezer trick is if the drive will not spin up at all. You are hoping for different rates of contraction of the metals to unstick it, as the grease is sticking instead of lubricating. Or perhaps you're hoping for the temperature change to affect the grease. Freezing the drive is a more desperate move than hitting it with a hammer (such that you spin the drive around the axis of the platters). It can save a drive that is not spinning up, but it's a possibly destructive move for entertainment only. After all it only costs about $1000 to have a professional recovery attempt made, which may include opening the drive in a cleanroom. If data's worth saving, the data is usually worth more than $1000. If you put a drive in the freezer without sealing it in a ziploc bag, expect catastrophic condensation inside the drive when you remove it. That seal shouldn't be broken until the drive is at room temperature.
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Does anyone even test the air and water? There should be very detailed results somewhere if they did...
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Do we care about being "fair" to Starbucks and Subway if it gets us good food at a fair price? There are good things about living in a city. Quality street food is one of them. Is it fair for megacorporations to deprive us of our quality of life?
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You're willing to make a merchant take a loss on a transaction so that you can make a fraction of a penny from cash back?
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