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Reread my post then. I said that most people think they have a virus when they actually have spyware. I then said that spyware is used more as a form of "advertising" whereas viruses are meant to be harmful and often times the hackers do it for attention. Then I stated how it wouldn't be advantageous to target an OS with a (comparatively) small user base if your goal was advertising rather than infamy. All of this was in response to someone stating they didn't buy the "small user base as a reason Macs don't have viruses" argument due to the fact that many hackers write viruses for the recognition.

1 inning down out of 1,458+ and we've already given up 2 runs. :(

Lower is better. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/03/29/where-are-americans-most-miserable/

This.

I can't believe one would characterize the walk as "lonely and empty". It can't be more than 200 feet. Yeah sure it'd be easier if there was a moving sidewalk that transported you right from the door of the train to your favorite stand in the market, but come on! I mean I just rode the Metro around DC all weekend and was glad to only have to walk a few blocks to most my destinations. If anything was as close to a Metro station as the WSM is to the W. 25th St. rapid station, I would have been thrilled.

Indianapolis the Bad- One hip neighborhood (Broad Ripple) for the entire metro area. Mass. Ave.?

You want to transfer to the Green or Blue lines at Tower City, not E. 34th. You could technically transfer at either E. 34th or E. 55th, but Tower City is indoors and a much safer station to be waiting for a train at (and much busier, there's hardly anyone that gets off at E. 34th). Both the Green and Blue lines go to Shaker Square (they split after that stop) so either one will do, but neither of them is called the Waterfront Line east of Tower City (the Waterfront Line goes northwest out of Tower City, not east).

Is that the Italian word for transportation? :)

She's not going to be driving. It would add a considerable amount of time (and require a transfer at Tower City). I second the suggestions for University Circle/Cleveland Heights (Little Italy, Coventry, Cedar/Fairmount). Very close to a lot of things (school, groceries, restaurants, Coventry nightlife) and an easy ride downtown for even more nightlife.

Correction, DC Metro allows them by policy. http://www.capmetro.org/riding/safe_riding.asp That's the Austin Metro, not DC Metro. (I was tipped off when they kept referring to buses. Buses are a distant afterthought in the DC Metro system.) EDIT: I found the DC Metro rules, and it simply says you can't drink on trains or in the stations. http://www.wmata.com/rail/railrules.cfm

More supply-side economics. As if the income gap isn't wide enough already.

What makes you say that? In football there are limited possessions. A couple dropped passes and a few untimely turnovers can completely change the face of a game. In basketball, you have many more offensive opportunities, so you have to be more consistently bad to blow a game.

...by design.

Funny because it's true.

There can't be space for much more than a dozen cars to park on that street (if even that many). Was it pretty much every car's window that was busted? Usually thieves will only break certain windows (ones where they see something to take), whereas a vandal (someone doing it "for kicks") may break every window. The latter seems to be much more rare.

Was it on Lorain or Bridge?

MurrayHill > CVB Great work!

All caused by homeless people hiding under cars no doubt.

But the point is that it could happen. Just like a 50 foot crevice could open on I-71 and swallow your car on the drive in to downtown.

But what can we do? The world has poor people and homeless people. We can't all live in a bubble and hide from them, and we also can't put a bubble around the city of Cleveland (which is effectively what the suburbs do with their auto-centric, pedestrian unfriendly development).

Ditto here. If you just brush off the homeless person with a "no" and don't make a big deal of it and act like you've done it a million times before, 999 times out of 1,000 they will give up and just walk away, seeing you aren't going to give them anything.

Nobody is saying homeless people are all model citizens or worthy of free handouts at every turn, but to insinuate that they all could get a job simply by wanting a job is just ignorant.

And the "typical problem with conservative minded folks" is that they think that ALL poor people are only poor because they are dumb and lazy. They would rather deny help to all of them than take the chance of possibly helping someone who doesn't deserve it. Also, they think they are the supreme judges of who deserves what in the world (and by extension the wealthy ones always seem to think they deserve every penny they have schysted out of the system). See how this stereotyping game works?

Because there are more people than jobs! Geez. You have no idea what people have or have not done to try to get a job. Who gave you the right to be Miss Judgemental? The fact that many work so hard for such a small amount of money should tell you something about their ability to actually land a job and their willingness to work for money. Also, panhandling is annoying, yes. But every city has it (I've been begged much more in some other cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore than here) and it's been around for hundreds of years. I think we need to be more worried about actual crime than annoying but harmless beggars.

My thoughts exactly. I think he's just tapping the southern suburban market. I wish he'd open a place in the city proper.