Architect Minoru Yamasaki's buildings tend to fail live out their expected period of use..
Posted on 02/10/2006 7:45:18 PM PST by logician2u
John Stossel's "Myths, Lies and Nasty Behavior"
Do you think farmers need more government assistance? Do you think gasoline is more expensive than ever? John Stossel may make you reconsider. (ABC)
Here's my latest list of things you may have been led to believe are true ? but aren't. I'm also including some nasty behaviors that are more than just annoying, they cost us all money.
I hope this will give you a different perspective about your money, your neighbors and your politicians.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Adults are different from teen-ager, dopey twits.
Who forced you? There are plenty of cities where you can live down town, leave your car in the parking garage to be taken out only on weekends for a drive in the country. It is by your choice that you live where you do.
If I could not have a few inches of space around me I'm sure would go stark raving mad!
Architect Minoru Yamasaki's buildings tend to fail live out their expected period of use..
I wonder if ABC ever regrets hiring John Stossel?
That`s true, what may be getting crowded in one area doesn`t mean it is so for other areas. I tell you though, here in NYC it seems every freggin` mutt from every corner of the planet has to move here which I don`t get at all. It`s nuts here now.
Me, I`m stuck in this liberal cesspool, my family lives here, but these people.. why the hell would they move to a place that has one of the highest local taxes in the country not to mention one of the highest rents? I would think this would be one of the last places I would ever want to go if I was coming from another country looking for work.
People have told me "Oh it`s because there are lots of jobs here" but that really isn`t the case at all, there really isn`t a lot of jobs. I see tons of illegals everyday waiting on a corner for construction work and most of them are turned away, there are just too many. It`s just like that scene from that movie "On the waterfront"...Only a few are hired and the rest aren`t. I would think they`d have a much better chance in a small town where there is less competition.
There was a bail out, but President Ford didn't go for it. Eventually the city was mostly bailed out by unions. But that was 25 years ago.
Here's a chart of federal spending by state. Note New York gets back less than it sends to DC
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/266.html
"Not evil, just rude."
Quite rude, quite often.
I agree. And sometimes purposefuly so.
Some people used to get their "attention" and "importance" fix by merely talking on a cell phone. They were rare at one time, and simply having one, and using it in public drew attention.
Those days are no more. Heck, my 12 year old nephew has a cell phone.
Now that attention and pseudo-importance comes in being rude and inconveniencing others. Any attention is good attention to some.
If you are in line at the checkout counter with people behind you, get off the phone and get out of the way. Other people have places to be too.
If you are in a restaurant or a classroom or a meeting, turn it off. If your call will be that important, put in on vibrate and politely excuse yourself when the call comes in.
And, if you can drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time without negatively affecting your driving, more power to you. Some can. If not, hang up and drive.
According to http://www.shgresources.com/ri/almanac/, Rhode Island has a total area of 1,545 square miles. 500 square miles of that is water, leaving 1,045 square miles of land.
1,045 sqare miles = 27,878,400 square feet.
6 billion people (every man, woman, and child on Earth) / 27,878,400 square feet = 215 people per square foot. That sounds a bit crowded.
As for Texas: (http://www.shgresources.com/tx/almanac/)
268,581 sq. miles total.
261,797 sq. miles of land.
7,298,481,484,800 sq. feet of land.
divided by 6 billion people =
1 person for every 1216 square feet, or a 35ft. x 35ft. plot of land for everyone.
So yeah, if every family on Earth had 8 people, each family would get 10,000 square feet of land.
Don't believe everything you think.
Amen. See my tagline.
Do you have a source for that information?
Also if there were no big yellow government school buses offering "free" transport, perhaps parents would not have so readily chosen to live in suburbia.
So, you want we should all crowd into the city? Actually many kids in my county walk to school--no big yellow buses for them!
Parents in an effort to send their children to the safest and best government schools strive to move to the most expensive neighborhoods they can affordThat is exactly what my family did--you want I should live in a ghetto so you can alone enjoy the country?
Your comments are indicative of someone who is very class conscious, segregationist and inflammatory. You may disagree with others, but at least use solid logic and reliable sources.
People who talk loudly on their cell phones in public are inconsiderate a**holes. Not evil though.
Your off on your calculation here is the correct figure:
1 045 square mile [survey, U.S. statute] = 29 133 044 865.916 12 square foot
Huh, you're right. I listed the square feet in 1 square mile.
Using the correct value yields 4.9 square feet, or 2.2ft X 2.2ft per person.
That would probably work, but I'd sure hate to be in charge of the port-a-potties.
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