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GCrites

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  1. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    ^It's a very serious problem because people can't participate as normal functioning members of society when they work all these nights and weekends.
  2. I wonder if Nermal made it there OK.
  3. Parking is their largest source of revenue. I didn't know that the aviation industry was that dependent on the automobile.
  4. I wouldn't be surprised if Scioto is moldy. It's got "That '60s Smell". Linder's probably moldy, too. Always had to take a dump within 30 minuets of setting foot in the latter.
  5. Plus, there's new people moving in all the time because of UC.
  6. Well, it does have tires and all.
  7. As long as something is said (or written) it's got to be true!
  8. There's also a bunch of guys working in shops by the Mill Creek or Norwood or whatever that play WLW (or KRC) all day at work that think that they are the only people on Earth that work and see improvements in public transit as another handout for people who are lazy and on (non-existent) general assistance welfare.
  9. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    I remember that 20-year period when everybody had power can openers. Then people realized that they were junk and went back to manual ones.
  10. Something about that picture makes me want to begin every sentence with "Nyah" and end it with "see?".
  11. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    And how do you expect people to get paid when human labor is practically valueless from all the technology which you fetishize? Perhaps the 1% of people who own the technology can dole out monthly checks to the 99% of people who don't own the robots. When the value of human labor reaches zero, the value of humans reaches zero.
  12. If normals can barely tell the difference between it and bare CMUs why spend the money?
  13. Now that Duke has agreed to start work, construction is moving ahead on all fronts. Meanwhile, Cranley says the city is rushing forward too quickly, and he is committed to halting progress if elected mayor. This is just hysterical. Too quickly? This entire project has moved at a snail's pace for years and apparently that's "too quick" for Cranley? Good god ... why does this city have to have so many enemies and villains? Maybe he thinks he's running for mayor of the suburbs and townships.
  14. That bar is awful low for "sophisticated investors". Maybe that's why they used the term "accredited investors" instead. Probably because actual sophisticated investors know a little too much. If they set the bar lower as they have here, they can create the Old Lady Tricking Exchange that they seek.
  15. You never know, someone might abuse the Emergency Alert System to break into weekend programming declaring a "worse than 9/11 disaster" that took place today. Incredibly illegal, but whatever.
  16. Well, it depends. Sometimes franchisees don't do their homework or don't realize that the value of being associated with the franchisor is much lower than they thought. I don't know what proportion of the chain restaurants at the Banks are franchises, if any.
  17. OK I remember that. That was the 2003ish work, then.
  18. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    Higher education has a staggering amount of salesmen working for it without receiving any direct compensation. Schoolteachers, relatives, family, friends, businesses, the media, the government, athletic organizations and on and on. It's only recently that people working for academic institutions really had to ramp up their use of sales techniques (because of the involvement of for-profit schools and rising questions about the employability of graduates) because it used to be that all the selling was done by others.
  19. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    Once these seemingly difficult-to-pin-down-at-first cultural phenomenons have been given official labels their days are often numbered.
  20. ^ Since 1950s houses in Florida constructed almost entirely of CMUs with those windows that have all those 4-inch segments which can be flipped open like mini blinds.
  21. Oh, interesting about the Hal Greer Stretch. I remember some work there in the early/mid 2000s when I lived there, seemed like they straightened some things out. What did they do this time around?
  22. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    I'm starting to get the feeling that these mass murder shootings are the result of men overall feeling that they have no chance of finding gainful employment -- school or no school.
  23. Huntington WV kept I-64 out. There were proposals to run it through town (and maybe another Interstate that never happened) but the city had them put it up on the hillside.
  24. ^You called out the wrong user.
  25. I don't like this sense of entitlement when it comes to parking. Overdependance on the automobile has destroyed one of America's greatest assets of the past: American Ingenuity, even by those who should have it. And I'll tell you a secret of retail: Those who are cranky and complain a lot about stuff like parking don't tend to be very big spenders so they're not the important customers. Tri-County's decline has a lot to do with that corridor being heavily over-retailed. There's two other malls (one dead) in close proximity. Also, the mall concept has kind of dried up as free time and disposable income shrink. In most cities of Cincinnati size though, there are still one or two power malls.