Jesus,
I remember when my folks called the schoold and TOLD the school I was not going to be in school for a couple of days for "insert reason". There was no request, there were informed. I had to do the homework and take any missed exams, but that was assumed.
This is why I wouldn't have my kids in a public school.
and so the HOA maintains the property, attaching a lean on the title and is paid when the house is eventually sold...
You still haven't explained how this impacts the rest of the community. In your situation, these elderly (of which there were NONE) would be forced to sell their house and move away.
Frankly, I see less actual "commuting" in the future. Technically, I've been able to telecommute from my house for the last 10 years. Only a series of managers that "liked their team in the office" prevented it.
It served me little to drive into the office to email / call the Singapore-ese or the English and French when I could do it from home. Outside the occasional staff meeting, all hands meeting, customer meeting (at their site or ours), there was little need for me to actually be in the office. This was and is the case for my of my coworkers.
Given there were zero "elders" in my development, so that's wasn't a factor, and how, exactly, is elder abuse likely to lead to people not maintaining their houses, and how is that going to impact my, or the rest of the neighborhood's quality of life. Also note, when answering, that HOA could step in and "maintain" the exterior of the property if it was not kept up.
I don't consider consentual agreements (prostitution, drug use, etc.) crimes, so if some widowed businessman was banging an escort, I don't care, nor do I care if he's smoking weed.
As to "domestic abuse", maybe there was some, no one will know, and frankly, it has little impact to others and their quality of life, so really, how relevant is it to the points I was making?
Well, let's see. Since I was on the Board of Directors for my community's HOA, we got informed of any crime in our development. Baring 2 incidents, there was none. One was some teenagers that set fire to our gazebo-the parents made the kids help fix it, and a "halloween crime spree" where some folks went up the street checking for unlocked cars, and took when they found. This was all over 7-10 years.
Maybe I should have said "major". There was no meth labs, no shootings, no violence, no (obvious) drug sales, very little property crime, etc. When it did happen, it was a BIG deal in the local newspaper.
My Ex (but when she was still my wife) and I move out to suburbia or exurbia (not sure what's the definition) and I'll share some of my thinking. FYI: In my area, there are two major cities, Baltimore and Wash DC.
First off, we wanted more space. It was just the two of us, but we really wanted about 250-500 sq more. A slightly bigger bathroom, wider shower, more kitchen space, etc. We looked in our local area and could not afford/were unwilling to pay the prices. We had a monthly amount we could afford and were unwilling to go beyond it.
Noise. We were tired of the Korean grandparents, who ran an in home daycare center for their extended family, having arguments with their kids/customers at 11:30 AM on a week night.
Crime. We were at the decision point, wavering between deciding to more or not, when we found at a kid in the neighborhood had fallen in with a bad element and someone fired off a 9MM round that lodged in one of our neighbor's floor. It penetrated the front of the house first. We decided to move. Additionally, there were several property crimes in the area. Cars broken into and stuff stolen, etc., and an “element” less than a mile away that hung out on street corners at all hours of the night selling drugs.
So we left the area, got a bigger place for a lot less money than we would have paid staying where we were, got distance between the neighbors, got more quiet, got NO crime, cheaper taxes, etc.
Living either in B-more or DC would have meant more taxes, less quality schools (or paying for private education), crappier public services, crappier roads, MUCH higher housing costs, etc. It wasn’t a difficult choice
I'll take exception to number 3:
"3.The physical location of the factory has inadequate means of evacuation and/or is a toxic environment for the employees."
I don't necessarily agree. Western/1st world building codes, fire codes, and health codes are just that: Western/1st world. Other folks in different places may have different thinking. This rule should not necessarily be exclusionary...
TL/DR all the comments. Apologies if already covered.
So a politician has a position (either for political or personal reasons) that you disagree with and his indiscretions are somehow relevant to that position? This just gives the other side some ammo. So what? I'm sure folks on the other side of his position already hated/didn't like him and were firing arrows at him on other points.
He's a pig, but you should know that going in. HE IS A POLITICIAN. Why would you be surprised about this and when is it even very comment worthly?
Now, have you seen pics of his wife and of the chick he slept with? Who wouldn't be tempted?
I saw this a few days ago and I was indeed surprised. I'm not linking this to all the various other "goings on" like was quoted above, but really, training targets like this is a bit too much.
As mentioned above, you've got LAPD cops firing at truck, etc. which demonstrates that additional rigorous training is indeed necessary, but it it really necessary to train on targets that represent, what .01% of the probably threats in a cop/leo's career?
What if the TSA or Federal Marshals trained with frangible bullets on targets that looked Muslim. Outrage there much, ya think?
Kinda depends on how you define "anything" doesn't it?
We had moved from torturing a single terrorist to stop a school bus bombing to invading Egypt to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from taking power, (I argued that you'd have to invade multiple times, since we'd never kill the ideas they were espousing, coupled with the associated collateral damage, was all too expensive and wouldn’t it be better to just nuke the country and exterminate the entire populace. Curiously, she didn’t’ agree, but she did favor multiple invasions every decade if necessary.) to exactly where on the good to evil line she was prepared to go no further down. That's when she made the above comment and got my response.
For the scientist, no action. Folks, like me, would be able to publicly denouce him, protest him, etc. but other than "peer pressure", no other actions would be acceptable.
Reminds me of the torture arguement I had with a woman I was dating (a jew). I got her to distill her point to "anything we do is acceptable as long as we are protecting our (the US's) people. I asked her why that position wasn't acceptable for Germany in 1942. That ended the convo! :)
Scott,
I've watched the populace be slowly dumbed down and infantilized. They have gladly relinquished their inheritance for someone who promises to take care of them (that being every politician since 1940 ish). I have watched politicians lie to the populace to get elected then come back and lie to them more and get reelected. No, until there is a profound change in the populace, attempting "change" within the system is pointless. The Tea Party, once a free radical, has been mostly co-opted now. No, the system must fall of its own weight. We’ll build something new out of the ashes.
The ONLY process of change that I see ever taking place along the lines of your "option 2" would be "engaged citizenry” marching on DC and removing our elected officials by force, but I doubt that's what you meant when you wrote it. That option, I think, is still highly unlikely.
“Our unfinished task” refers to citizens — us — as ruling the government, not the reverse. “We” are making the government do what is right. To work “on behalf of the many, and not just the few.” And he takes from the progressive vision the heart of the conservative message. "
The populace does NOT want to rule. They want to be ruled. Please. Bread and Circuses. And the politicians surely do not want the citizens to rule, that's why they campaigned to get elected.
Don't come crying to us if you FUBAR. We might come save your ass, but we're billing you for the costs.
And FYI for consistancy: don't show up at the hospital with head trama after refusing to insure yourself and then not wearing a helmet on your cycle. I've no problem turning you away.
There has been no formal declaration. We're not at "war". As a practical matter, we are, but still. Words have meanings.
The killing will continue until morale improves. We are currently supporting terrorists in Syria. When they come to power, after overthrowing the current guy in power, we'll realize that we need to "drone up" that area too, and so on, and so on.
Welcome to the new world order--where due process is a bullet.
"My sister reached for one and I knocked her hand away. ”But you have so many!” ”I know. Because I wanted a lot. If I didn’t want all these olives, why would I have explicitly asked for them? Get your own damn olives.” This incident lives on in family infamy as evidence of my callousness, though I like to think of it as evidence of my sister’s disrespect for my personal autonomy."
Damn straight! That would be my reaction as well. Those are my olives biatches! Get your own--or ASK nicely rather than assume you can have some of mine for the taking.
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On “Is the Washington Post Pro-Gay? And to What Degree is That Even A Thing?”
I know of no smart, educated people who give this debate much thought. They are too busy dealing with their own lives.
On “Well intentioned truancy policy goes awry.”
Vacations IIRC
On “Is the Washington Post Pro-Gay? And to What Degree is That Even A Thing?”
"The Washington Post has its values and it comes through. It is under no obligation really to pretend otherwise."
Yep, and the WP is pro gay, so of course the opposing side gets less attention. This is surprising?
On “Well intentioned truancy policy goes awry.”
Jesus,
I remember when my folks called the schoold and TOLD the school I was not going to be in school for a couple of days for "insert reason". There was no request, there were informed. I had to do the homework and take any missed exams, but that was assumed.
This is why I wouldn't have my kids in a public school.
On “Why Can’t American Cities Create and Maintain a Middle Class?”
and so the HOA maintains the property, attaching a lean on the title and is paid when the house is eventually sold...
You still haven't explained how this impacts the rest of the community. In your situation, these elderly (of which there were NONE) would be forced to sell their house and move away.
"
Frankly, I see less actual "commuting" in the future. Technically, I've been able to telecommute from my house for the last 10 years. Only a series of managers that "liked their team in the office" prevented it.
It served me little to drive into the office to email / call the Singapore-ese or the English and French when I could do it from home. Outside the occasional staff meeting, all hands meeting, customer meeting (at their site or ours), there was little need for me to actually be in the office. This was and is the case for my of my coworkers.
"
Given there were zero "elders" in my development, so that's wasn't a factor, and how, exactly, is elder abuse likely to lead to people not maintaining their houses, and how is that going to impact my, or the rest of the neighborhood's quality of life. Also note, when answering, that HOA could step in and "maintain" the exterior of the property if it was not kept up.
"
I don't consider consentual agreements (prostitution, drug use, etc.) crimes, so if some widowed businessman was banging an escort, I don't care, nor do I care if he's smoking weed.
As to "domestic abuse", maybe there was some, no one will know, and frankly, it has little impact to others and their quality of life, so really, how relevant is it to the points I was making?
"
Well, let's see. Since I was on the Board of Directors for my community's HOA, we got informed of any crime in our development. Baring 2 incidents, there was none. One was some teenagers that set fire to our gazebo-the parents made the kids help fix it, and a "halloween crime spree" where some folks went up the street checking for unlocked cars, and took when they found. This was all over 7-10 years.
Maybe I should have said "major". There was no meth labs, no shootings, no violence, no (obvious) drug sales, very little property crime, etc. When it did happen, it was a BIG deal in the local newspaper.
"
My Ex (but when she was still my wife) and I move out to suburbia or exurbia (not sure what's the definition) and I'll share some of my thinking. FYI: In my area, there are two major cities, Baltimore and Wash DC.
First off, we wanted more space. It was just the two of us, but we really wanted about 250-500 sq more. A slightly bigger bathroom, wider shower, more kitchen space, etc. We looked in our local area and could not afford/were unwilling to pay the prices. We had a monthly amount we could afford and were unwilling to go beyond it.
Noise. We were tired of the Korean grandparents, who ran an in home daycare center for their extended family, having arguments with their kids/customers at 11:30 AM on a week night.
Crime. We were at the decision point, wavering between deciding to more or not, when we found at a kid in the neighborhood had fallen in with a bad element and someone fired off a 9MM round that lodged in one of our neighbor's floor. It penetrated the front of the house first. We decided to move. Additionally, there were several property crimes in the area. Cars broken into and stuff stolen, etc., and an “element” less than a mile away that hung out on street corners at all hours of the night selling drugs.
So we left the area, got a bigger place for a lot less money than we would have paid staying where we were, got distance between the neighbors, got more quiet, got NO crime, cheaper taxes, etc.
Living either in B-more or DC would have meant more taxes, less quality schools (or paying for private education), crappier public services, crappier roads, MUCH higher housing costs, etc. It wasn’t a difficult choice
On “Third World Factories Aren’t All Sweatshops…”
I'll take exception to number 3:
"3.The physical location of the factory has inadequate means of evacuation and/or is a toxic environment for the employees."
I don't necessarily agree. Western/1st world building codes, fire codes, and health codes are just that: Western/1st world. Other folks in different places may have different thinking. This rule should not necessarily be exclusionary...
On “Fun Constitutional Facts: Gun Rights Edition”
The second amendment means I should be albe to keep a small thermonuclear weapon in my basement (and ofc enrich plutonium) for self defense purposes.
*engages cloaking device*
"
Here we go again!
On “Abolition wasn’t an Anachronism.”
History of the world: Might makes Right
On “Thursday Night Bar Fight #1: What will be socially verboten in the future?”
Nuclear Fission and the poisons they created, and ofc the use of atomic weapons and their construction.
On ““Secret Children For Me, No Gay Marriage For Thee!””
TL/DR all the comments. Apologies if already covered.
So a politician has a position (either for political or personal reasons) that you disagree with and his indiscretions are somehow relevant to that position? This just gives the other side some ammo. So what? I'm sure folks on the other side of his position already hated/didn't like him and were firing arrows at him on other points.
He's a pig, but you should know that going in. HE IS A POLITICIAN. Why would you be surprised about this and when is it even very comment worthly?
Now, have you seen pics of his wife and of the chick he slept with? Who wouldn't be tempted?
On “Occam’s (Rent Seeking) Razor”
I saw this a few days ago and I was indeed surprised. I'm not linking this to all the various other "goings on" like was quoted above, but really, training targets like this is a bit too much.
As mentioned above, you've got LAPD cops firing at truck, etc. which demonstrates that additional rigorous training is indeed necessary, but it it really necessary to train on targets that represent, what .01% of the probably threats in a cop/leo's career?
What if the TSA or Federal Marshals trained with frangible bullets on targets that looked Muslim. Outrage there much, ya think?
On “New monument is too phallic with all these vulvas around”
Oh dear Jebus! I wasted 5 mins reading the linked articles.....
Who do I invoice to get compensation?!
On “BIBI, Torture For the Cure Edition”
Kinda depends on how you define "anything" doesn't it?
We had moved from torturing a single terrorist to stop a school bus bombing to invading Egypt to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from taking power, (I argued that you'd have to invade multiple times, since we'd never kill the ideas they were espousing, coupled with the associated collateral damage, was all too expensive and wouldn’t it be better to just nuke the country and exterminate the entire populace. Curiously, she didn’t’ agree, but she did favor multiple invasions every decade if necessary.) to exactly where on the good to evil line she was prepared to go no further down. That's when she made the above comment and got my response.
"
For the scientist, no action. Folks, like me, would be able to publicly denouce him, protest him, etc. but other than "peer pressure", no other actions would be acceptable.
Reminds me of the torture arguement I had with a woman I was dating (a jew). I got her to distill her point to "anything we do is acceptable as long as we are protecting our (the US's) people. I asked her why that position wasn't acceptable for Germany in 1942. That ended the convo! :)
On “The State of the Union’s Quiet Radicalism”
Scott,
I've watched the populace be slowly dumbed down and infantilized. They have gladly relinquished their inheritance for someone who promises to take care of them (that being every politician since 1940 ish). I have watched politicians lie to the populace to get elected then come back and lie to them more and get reelected. No, until there is a profound change in the populace, attempting "change" within the system is pointless. The Tea Party, once a free radical, has been mostly co-opted now. No, the system must fall of its own weight. We’ll build something new out of the ashes.
The ONLY process of change that I see ever taking place along the lines of your "option 2" would be "engaged citizenry” marching on DC and removing our elected officials by force, but I doubt that's what you meant when you wrote it. That option, I think, is still highly unlikely.
"
LOL
“Our unfinished task” refers to citizens — us — as ruling the government, not the reverse. “We” are making the government do what is right. To work “on behalf of the many, and not just the few.” And he takes from the progressive vision the heart of the conservative message. "
The populace does NOT want to rule. They want to be ruled. Please. Bread and Circuses. And the politicians surely do not want the citizens to rule, that's why they campaigned to get elected.
On “How Much Liberty Is Too Much?”
As a hard core libertarian, I'm cool with this.
Don't come crying to us if you FUBAR. We might come save your ass, but we're billing you for the costs.
And FYI for consistancy: don't show up at the hospital with head trama after refusing to insure yourself and then not wearing a helmet on your cycle. I've no problem turning you away.
On “A Catechism of War”
"Are we at war?
Yes. We are at war."
There has been no formal declaration. We're not at "war". As a practical matter, we are, but still. Words have meanings.
The killing will continue until morale improves. We are currently supporting terrorists in Syria. When they come to power, after overthrowing the current guy in power, we'll realize that we need to "drone up" that area too, and so on, and so on.
Welcome to the new world order--where due process is a bullet.
On “Teaching Social Norms, Part 3”
"My sister reached for one and I knocked her hand away. ”But you have so many!” ”I know. Because I wanted a lot. If I didn’t want all these olives, why would I have explicitly asked for them? Get your own damn olives.” This incident lives on in family infamy as evidence of my callousness, though I like to think of it as evidence of my sister’s disrespect for my personal autonomy."
Damn straight! That would be my reaction as well. Those are my olives biatches! Get your own--or ASK nicely rather than assume you can have some of mine for the taking.
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