FUN FACT - California(specifically, LA) not only had the first freeway in America, but the LA sprawl came before the freeways, despite popular belief. Also, Before Los Angeles became liberally coated with freeways like fondant on a fancy cake, it had one of the best, if not THE best public transportation system in the world at the time. The more you know.
So only people with enough money would have the right to drive around Manhattan?
Other than commercial traffic (taxis and delivery vehicles), most of the people driving around Manhattan are already rich people in their hired cars.
In the very least, over time, all taxis should be required to be electric. That alone would drastically reduce the pollution in the air, let alone the noise. I'm also all for congestion charges and more pedestrian plazas. The response from actual New Yorkers for the closure of big chunks of Broadway to cars was enormously positive, and most people seem to want it it to expand substantially.
most of the people driving around Manhattan are already rich people in their hired cars.
You mean also commercial traffic. :P
In the very least, over time, all taxis should be required to be electric. That alone would drastically reduce the pollution in the air, let alone the noise. I'm also all for congestion charges and more pedestrian plazas. The response from actual New Yorkers for the closure of big chunks of Broadway to cars was enormously positive, and most people seem to want it it to expand substantially.
Frankly I don't really give a damn what central Manhattan does, I don't drive there. I only drive in North Manhattan and (though I haven't yet) where you live in Queens.
So, I'm playing Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 trying to finally get that fucking "Smile" achievement in my XBox. This is done in the mode Sequence where there are 20 stages you have to clear in 30 seconds each with only three lives and three screen-clearing bombs, though you can a live and a bomb at specific intervals, when you're adding another digit to your score starting with 1000. If you die in a stage, you proceed to the next with one life less. Anyhow, the achievement is done by having time run out on stages 2 and 4, and die on stages 11, 15, 17, 18, and 19. So in the end, the stage grid looks like this:
KOKOK K K K K K XK K K X KX X XK
So I was doing that achievement perfectly, except I died on the last fucking stage.
Anyway, I think what pisses me off most about this is they keep talking about CO2 emissions and climate change. CO2 does not hurt people (don't be pedantic, you know what I mean). We have real and serious pollution problems we need to address before we should even think about CO2.
What exactly are you denying here - climate change in general, anthropogenesis, or CO2 as primary driver? It is not clear.
It is not clear because I'm not denying or even alluding that they aren't real. I'm saying that the air pollution we currently have is a more immediate problem than climate change. It's a problem that's directly bad for humans, rather than indirectly like climate change. It's also a problem that no one even seems to acknowledge, which pisses me off.
Some commercial for a Christian self-help video used the phrase "Fight your battles on your knees." I'm sure they're very nice people, but all commercials should be submitted to 4Chan before release so any obvious things like this one can be avoided.
*Raunchy Sonic Pushes his way out from behind the mental filter* Hey, it works! I had a girl on her knees in front of me and all I could say was "Oh God! You're So Good!" If that doesn't sound like a prayer, I don't know what does.
My adviser isON VACATIONwhich means I will have a scant 1 or 2 days to haveIMPORTANT PAPERWORKfilled out before theLOOMING DEADLINE.
Fucking bureaucracy, I got so mad I Stan Lee'd.
At least your advisor didn't get investigated by the FBI for bioterrorism and then gored by a buffalo while you were trying to turn in final edits on your thesis.
My adviser isON VACATIONwhich means I will have a scant 1 or 2 days to haveIMPORTANT PAPERWORKfilled out before theLOOMING DEADLINE.
Fucking bureaucracy, I got so mad I Stan Lee'd.
At least your advisor didn't get investigated by the FBI for bioterrorism and then gored by a buffalo while you were trying to turn in final edits on your thesis.
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In the very least, over time, all taxis should be required to be electric. That alone would drastically reduce the pollution in the air, let alone the noise. I'm also all for congestion charges and more pedestrian plazas. The response from actual New Yorkers for the closure of big chunks of Broadway to cars was enormously positive, and most people seem to want it it to expand substantially.
K O K O K
K K K K K
X K K K X
K X X X K
So I was doing that achievement perfectly, except I died on the last fucking stage.
This is how it should be done.
Fucking bureaucracy, I got so mad I Stan Lee'd.
"You know what would be really funny? If we took old Disney cartoons and got some WACKY ANNOUNCER GUY to talk over them!"
This is the worst thing. Ever.
True fucking story.
Then I worked out what thread I was reading.
A lesson in how people can lie via use of graphs.
I foresee issues with poop.