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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I find this hard to believe but I have no real way of knowing. Anybody in New York able to enlighten me?
I played around with this
toy. A $60,000 income in Appleton, WI is about equal to a $100,000 income in Queens; the vast majority of the difference is in housing prices. In Brooklyn the equivalent salary is about $115,000. That's a significant difference, but much less than 4x. Not to mention, most of the people who live there are relatively wealthy anyway, and most Americans do live in more low-cost-of-living areas like Appleton.
Relative wealth of a neighborhood is kind of a problem in itself though. Doesn't matter how rich the people there are on average, most of the infrastructure jobs in that high-cost area are still at or near minimum wage and are getting charged the full cost of living.
I mean, even Wall Street has to have people working the McDonalds.
edited 16th Jan '13 3:33:19 PM by Pykrete
Ah, what a lovely word "commute" is... Untill you live outside of the big cities and your car breaks down. No car often means you can't do anything yourself unless there is good public transport in your area.
To make this on-topic, my point is that I would be all for additional taxes that improve our public transport systems. Or other options so that you don't have to depend on a car (like more official car-pools).
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!I dunno. Eugene had a pretty kickass bus system, and the EMX that cut through the middle of town from the university to the bus station to Springfield was free.
Portland...ehhhh. The trains are useful and have good spread but are hideously expensive ($100/mo, far more than you'd spend driving for yourself, and more than you'd spend on driving and parking depending).
Public transit gets a reputation for creepers I guess, but in my experience it's not really any moreso than you'd see on the street.
edited 16th Jan '13 5:17:49 PM by Pykrete
Oh this one is just brilliant. Seems Barry wants a study on video games.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/01/16/obama-asks-congress-to-commission-violent-games-study
It also seems he fails reading comprehension otherwise he would have already known and digested the ones already out there. Still, it's not like America is trillions of dollars in debt and ten million dollars actually means anything, is it?
Well, I don't see a problem with it, considering that we've also had reports on establishing commissions on violence study in general. The basis is that we take the recent violent incidents very seriously so we're looking into learning what we can. And it's better to be a study than a premature restrictive law.
Well, I don't know much about the commission yet. Maybe part of its job will be to compile and apply those existing studies.
And I pretty much agree with this quote:
He didn't need a $10 million study to do that. There's already a pretty damn vast body of research on the topic, as well as a staggering amount of evidence that countries that consume the exact same games (some of whom also have similar access to guns) have dramatically less gun violence. None of this is hard to obtain.
I mean fuck, he could've spent a couple hundred giving people access to EBSCO to look it up themselves. This isn't even a week-long project.
edited 16th Jan '13 5:36:46 PM by Pykrete
Of course, they could be using skepticism regarding the veracity of those studies' standards as an excuse to immediately discredit their results, while depending on persumed lack of sufficient will of fellow US American researchers to conduct their own surveys into the topic.
edited 16th Jan '13 5:42:46 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Huntsman, Senator Manchin Hope to Lead Bipartisan 'No Labels' Movement
Obama plans to name Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough as his next Chief of Staff
Supreme Court Hears Argument on the F.C.C.’s Authority to Rule on Cellphone Towers
Jay Carney: NRA Ad “Repugnant And Cowardly”
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter: NRA has no ‘human decency’
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Resigns
edited 16th Jan '13 6:34:48 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Funny because in most countries the Minister of Interior is the iron fist of the administration.
But who knows... maybe the same happens in the U.S but everyone is too afraid to admit it.
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edited 16th Jan '13 7:04:09 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.What, no federal response/comment on the Missouri legislators' open proclamation of defiance against federal authority?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.To be fair on the comparison with alcohol, the United States actually tried that with an amendment even, and we had to make an amendment to nullify that previous amendment because crime concerning alcohol got out of hand. One can at least imagine trying to do that with guns would end up the same way because of how pervasive they are in the culture.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyAccording to Wikipedia, the Secretary of the Interior is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and to insular areas of the United States.
Also Salazar sound like the name of an evil wizard.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016![]()
It's also apparently incredibly corrupt, if Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney is a valid source. To quote, "Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior." I'm imagining like a Banquet of Chestnuts sorta thing, just all the time at the DOI.
edited 16th Jan '13 7:13:27 PM by Lascoden
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And Ramon Salazar is the name of the Big Bad of Resident Evil 4.
edited 16th Jan '13 7:13:30 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Like I said. Dumbass has a limited point.
As for numbers, this
is what Wikipedia linked to when bringing that stat up. It appears to be "errors" rather than "malpractice", so take that as you will.
It should be noted that over 50 times as many malpractice suits make it to court at all as there are assault weapon deaths. So at the very least you're looking at a problem that eclipses assault weapons by only two orders of magnitude rather than three. Yaaaay.
And hell — forget the malpractice. Drunk driving is way, way the fuck more likely too. How many people are keen on banning alcohol? Because we're measurably less capable of being trusted with that.
edited 16th Jan '13 2:50:01 PM by Pykrete