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Were the sewers already separated on the route?

How many dead malls, empty big-box stores, half-empty suburban apartment complexes from the '90s, and single-family houses in sprawl have the banks have to foreclose upon and how many urban, mixed use buildings have to fully rent out halfway through project completion before banks wake up to what's actually successful today and is going to be in the future? I suppose that's a rhetorical question.

That too!

People were eating too much corn anyway.

The results for Columbus are skewed by Christopher Columbus. Besides the gay one.

Ooooh, I remember what I said about this before the board crash -- You know what they said back in the '90s, "Genesis does what Nintendon't!"

Sounds like the trip you go on after disabling the HAL-9000.

You always know somebody's serious about getting rid of something on criagslist if they put "need gone" in the ad.

Interesting, I'm used to them always wanting to come over to our place because it's "cooler" "less boring" "has no drama" or the big one, "not mom and dad's". There was a while there that we were able to keep the 18-25s away, but they're kinda back but more like 23-28s now. I'm 34 and my roommate's 30. My other childless friends get it all the time too. This is what happens when you don't have kids at that age; you wind up with kids that you could have had when you were 8! I think getting a smaller place helped; there aren't 9 couches and futons all over the house now. I have eaten breakfast right next to sleeping people on workdays at 10AM plenty of times.

He might be trying to pull the old, usually-unsuccessful "endless supply" maneuver where he figures that if they just spend a ton of time together that she'll end up really digging him. Whereas your girlfriend probably put him into the friend zone a long time ago. I'd worry more about the annoyance of his presence rather than any hanky-panky between the two.

That is part of their job. I didn't exactly mean it that way; what I was saying is that there's no way that they can dedicate the amount of time defending the project in the media that the fanatical opponents who have dedicated their entire existence to stopping the project have.

They have jobs.

The electric car is never going to get anywhere with all this charging business. You need to be able to go to a battery station and get your discharged battery swapped out for a new one in a minute or two like they do with propane tanks on forklifts or batteries during an R/C endurance race. Yes, that would mean that every vehicle had to take the same kind of battery, but some cars could use one while others could use three. Of course a bunch of techno-narcissists would cry about it "stifling innovation" because there weren't new cars coming out each year with proprietary batteries that gained 1.3 miles per charge a year, but it could actually get the cars out there and useful. The burden of improvement would then shift to the different brands of battery station.

That's a shame. I see lots of WoW in their future.

Ahh, that old did-I-get-laid-last-night? feeling.

I just don't think the other cities had to deal with this kind of opposition. Not even the ones in NASCARland. Those Southern states and Texas are way more car-obsessed than Ohio yet they're capable of saying "Just let those city slickers do their thing; it isn't hurting anybody". But here it's "worse than 9/11" because the suburbanites are so terrified of their houses losing value among other things.

You wouldn't think it, but college campuses are actually not good places for game stores. People have tried many times, including a bare minimum of the three independents that I know of for sure at gigantor tOSU. These were started by experienced, otherwise successful businesspeople with other well-performing game stores. Rent's high on college campuses and you lose out on Christmas and the sizzling summertime months among other things. And those big boxes full of good trade-ins in people's basements are mostly in the 'burbs. You might see GameStop on a campus but they've got all those other locations to feed them stock.

Like most Tweeter activity.

Nope, and it's certainly not a pleasant career transition. Unfortunately, the demand for salesmen is much greater.

[quote author=willalbro link=topic=28327.msg662734#msg662734 I'm not talking every landlord. Just several of the major players I know. There will always be slum lords who rent party houses to students who do not want new apartments, with all their rules an such. When I first got out of high school I rented an apartment on my own in a complex full of full-blown adults and attended a branch campus. When it was time go away to school, there was no way in hell that I was going to deal with all those bullshit summer camp rules. Not from the university and especially not from the private sector. I'm no rebel or "loud at night" kinda guy, but so many of the rules revolved around petty little offenses that someone old enough to go to war shouldn't have to worry about. I selected Shawnee State because their housing arrangements treated people like adults. What kind of people are those super controlled environments good for? TV addicts? Gamers? I don't think they're good for anybody -- especially not these people you see who are like 29 and living in them. And they wonder why people have trouble joining the adult population.

And every building needs a yard just like a house!

With drink prices like that people will only go there once.

Dumps full of friends are where life happens! Sterile new one bedrooms are where loneliness and porn happen.

Followed by tons of car commercials.

There are costs to taking the potential high achievers out of traditional failing urban public schools, true. But there are costs to leaving those potential high achievers in those unconscionably hostile learning environments, too--namely, that that potential will never actually be realized, because critical learning years of youth will be lost. They will be held back by the need to teach to the median (or below it) when that median is unacceptably low; many of these schools do not have the resources for gifted programs (as you note, what resources they do have are often required to go to special education first, and they can't even cover those needs). In addition, in some of those schools, the academic culture is so hostile that enrolling in a gifted program might as well paint a target on one's back. Akron Buchtel high school, at least as of a couple of years ago, offered all of one AP exam. AP tests are huge for talented but poor children because they can shorten the amount of quarters or semesters that one actually needs to be in college, significantly reducing both the expenses of higher education and the time before one can start earning a paycheck with a college degree. If leaving the potential high achievers in the traditional public school environment meant only a small loss of performance for the gifted but serious gains in performance for median-level students, then I'd be more supportive. The hard evidence for that is extremely thin, however; as best I can tell, the exhortations to leave these students where they are because others will benefit from their presence seems to be mostly wishful thinking. More accurately, the gifted are neglected and unchallenged while the school's resources and attention are focused on the problem populations; the school's administration in many cases simply has no choice. That means that the status quo is unacceptable and promises of internal reform are meaningless because they come from administrations that could not deliver such internal reforms even if they wanted. Refusing to allow high performers a way out of that system does a tremendous disservice to both the students and to the community. Even in "good schools" there's usually quite a few poor kids. They still tend to command a lot of attention because they're generally much more outgoing than the middle- and upper-income kids. That's something I noticed at every school I attended. Poor people know they need to be outgoing in order to survive -- think about why people initiate conversations. It's usually because they want or need something.