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Participant[quote=flyer]Whichever way it goes, I’m all for putting One Paseo on the ballot, and letting “the people,” rather than the city council decide the fate of this project.[/quote]
Why even have a City Council then?
ParticipantThe new library downtown has a floor with a handful of Makerbots on it that you can use for free.
ParticipantMe either, but I’d love to see all my right winger family members FB feeds if a White Baptist church was surrounded/investigated by a militarized police force. For sure it would be a sign that Barry Hussein the Mooslum was starting his plan to annihilate White Christians. “SEE! WE TOLD YOU!”
Yet, not a peep from them about Ferguson. Huh, funny, that.
ParticipantParticipant[quote=flu]What I am curious though is would this “outrage” have been any different if, instead of being a white man,
the cop was
1. a woman
or
2. african american
or
3. hispanic
or
4. asianI think it’s stretching for some to be concluding that that Wilson is a racist, and yet Holder seems to be hell bent on bring up civil rights violation.
That I find very disturbing, again imho the entire double standard thing…[/quote]I’m curious if the “outrage” would be different if it was an un-armed white tea-partier who was shot 6 times. Would that be enough to make all the Cliven Bundy tough guys start whining about tyranny again?
It’s so very interesting to me that somehow subsidized healthcare and same-sex marriage is tyranny, but a militarized police force literally repressing the freedom of press and assembly is not. It’s like all of these people who have been crying tyranny for the past 6 years are finally seeing what they warned us about, but they are no where to be found. In fact, they’re on the side of the militarized police force! Why is that?
They just raided a church today, by the way. Where are all the our-religion-is-being-oppressed whiners now? Oh, it was a black church? Nevermind then…
It’s fucking pathetic…
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ParticipantWelcome to the wonderful amazing world of beer! Be prepared to spend many years and a small fortune on exploring various breweries, brewpubs, bottle shops and styles. I started many years ago and still to this day every day is a new adventure in beer. Pretty soon you’ll be trying Russian Imperial Stouts double-dry hopped with 6 types of hops, brewed with yeast harvested from the beard of the brewer, and aged in bourbon barrels that have been cellared in the hull of a sunken nuclear submarine. I’m not even joking.
San Diego is ground zero for this revolution, so consider yourself lucky and jump in to the deep end head first! If there’s one recommendation I have it’s to try a new beer every time. Of course you will find favorites that become your go-to, but I make it a policy whenever eating out or visiting a bottle shop to always get something I’ve never had before.
The places mentioned above are great, but if you really want you socks blown off hit up Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens up in Escondido. That place was a revalation to me as a beer n00b back in the day. It’s not just the beer, but the cuisine and location/decor/setup that goes along with it. Stone Liberty Station isn’t too bad either. My vote for best restaurant taplist goes to Waypoint in North Park. It’s owned by the Bottlecraft guy. Their beer menu is mind-blowing.
I can’t even imagine a world without good beer. It’s like trying to imagine a world without the Internet. How did we survive those dark ages?
Participant[quote=ltsdd]The potential of malfunction software/hardware and thus crashes and the liability of trillion $$$ lawsuits that followed would make the automakers think twice about making self-driving cars available to the masses. I think the risk/liability trumps the cool factor.[/quote]
The potential of human error already greatly exceeds that for software/hardware error. Tell me which is more dangerous:
- a fully tested automated system
- a bunch of sexting teenagers, drunken post-party 20-somethings, vision-impaired slow-reacting seniors, sleepy over-worked parents of 4, and roid-raging lifted truck bros
I think what we’ll see happen is that insurance costs for automated cars will be MUCH lower than that of error-prone human drivers, so manufacturers will cover those costs or roll them into the price of the cars.
We’ll probably see automation take over trucking way before it takes over commuting. The cost savings are huge: Don’t need to pay drivers, they can drive 24×7, and can “chain” up like a train, greatly improving fuel efficiency via drafting. You’re foolish if you don’t think shipping companies are already researching/testing this.
Participant[quote=CA renter]You can’t force Americans out of their cars, for the most part, and any attempts to do so will result in forceful opposition. While I applaud attempts to make mass transit more convenient (and biking safer), it’s unreasonable to expect everyone to dump their cars in favor or buses, trains, and bikes.[/quote]
Population will grow, so what’s the other solution then? 60-lane highways to accommodate all the cars? Maybe triple-decker 40-lane highways? That thinking is no longer sustainable. The era of adding more lanes is over.
No one is asking “everyone” to dump their cars, but clearly there need to be other options.
Participant[quote=livinincali]It’s naive to assume that just because you have a trolley stop that people aren’t going to bring their cars and demand a place to park them.[/quote]
I think the assumption goes the other way… make it difficult for people to find parking and they are more likely to take transit.
Participant[quote=AN]Mira Mesa is planning for exactly that when the trolly extend from UTC through Mira Mesa on Carroll Canyon. That area will be mix use and dense.[/quote]
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that. Where can I find some more info? Best I found was this: http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/miramesa/pdf/carrollcanyon.pdf
ParticipantNo one is talking about high-rises. This is simply about raising the height limit to 60 feet (instead of 30 where it is now). And it’s only for a single vacant lot right next to the station.
http://voiceofsandiego.org/2014/04/21/the-height-of-trolley-tensions/
Mountain, meet molehill.
ParticipantI’m really disappointed that no one has continued my recursive quote joke.
ParticipantIf the NIMBYs want to avoid pricing their children out of the city they grew up in, they should prepare for density. Simply look at the current state of San Francisco real estate for how this game plays out. If you don’t build density (as SF has avoided to do for decades), prices rise, and pretty soon nobody can afford to live there. Just look at Rich’s famous price/inverted inventory graph. SD NIMBYs should ask themselves if they want to follow in the SF NIMBYs’ footsteps.
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