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847badgerfan

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1078 on: April 18, 2019, 07:48:03 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 18, 2019, 06:17:57 AM
In my case, I could pay off the loan in a month with no penalty.  I think I had to make the first payment.  As the interest rate is 1.9% and I'm paying 3.7% on the condo, I'm letting it ride.  It is through VW Credit.

When rates are that low, it would be silly to pay them off and not make much more on your money elsewhere.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1079 on: April 18, 2019, 08:08:33 AM »
Chicago lead the country for large city population loss for 2018!! Yay, Chicago!!
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1080 on: April 18, 2019, 08:11:25 AM »
Chicago's population has been trending down for a while now, save for a blip before the crash happened. What should be very disturbing to local and state leaders is the decline in collar county population. That's a huge turn of events.


The metro numbers are also a bit skewed in they include parts of SE Wisconsin and NW Indiana - states people from Illinois are relocating to, in droves.



https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-census-chicago-cook-county-population-decline-20190408-story.html
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1081 on: April 18, 2019, 08:15:22 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 17, 2019, 06:10:48 PM
 I'm in 1C and a tall dude is in 1A, and I finally realize he is Nuke Laloush in the flesh.
You mean Andy Dufresne ?
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1082 on: April 18, 2019, 08:21:54 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 17, 2019, 10:19:49 PM
can't we simply get jet packs for everyone?
Or Mr Scott beaming everyone up would be smashingly efficient also
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1083 on: April 18, 2019, 09:02:27 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on April 18, 2019, 08:15:22 AM
You mean Andy Dufresne ?
Yeah, him too.  He had a beard and was wearing a hat, so he was somewhat disguised.
There was an elderly British lady in 1B and he and I were assisting her with her folding table and whatnot.
I ALMOST walked out in front of a bus on that trip looking the wrong way.  The driver leaned on his horn seeing me looking the wrong way.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1084 on: April 18, 2019, 09:05:47 AM »
We've lived here a year now, and the plethora of scooters and bikes has exploded.  I now see piles of scooters like ten to a bunch sitting around.  Often they are in the sidewalk and a hazard to navigation (or perambulation).  The various bikes are all over as well, Uber has joined the fray.

We've almost been hit a few times by folks on scooters coming up from behind, you can't hear them.  The city is talking about the problem and hazard and now there is an ap for reporting improperly stowed scooters that I have not used.  On the one hand, it's a neat form of transportation, but on the other they are hazardous.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1085 on: April 18, 2019, 09:17:40 AM »
The scooters have become an issue in many large cities across the country.  In Austin we've already had at least two fatalities and a lot of injuries resulting from their use.  I believe some cities are already moving to ban them, and heavy regulation at the very least seems likely.  Still not sure it will help much.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1086 on: April 18, 2019, 09:29:54 AM »
They are another reason to eschew "electromagnetism" entirely.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/11/26/18112586/midtown-alliance-shareable-scooter-bike-regulation-last-mile“We likely haven’t hit ‘peak scooter’ yet.”
That’s according to Kevin Green, president and CEO of Midtown Alliance, which last week shared with city officials its recommendations for regulating the dockless, shareable vehicles that have lately taken Atlanta by storm.
“We believe that electric scooters provide a much-needed last-mile transit option for Atlantans, but we’ve also witnessed firsthand the safety challenges that come with it,” Green said, according to a Midtown Alliance news release, which announced the organization’s stance on Atlanta City Council legislation that would create rules for shareable vehicle companies.
The proposal, which initially emerged in September, seeks to impose regulations on where people can ride and park dockless scooters and bikes, and how the operating companies can do business within city limits.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1087 on: April 18, 2019, 09:40:16 AM »
We have plenty of money for any transportation infrastructure we want, it's just being tossed into the defense budget. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1088 on: April 18, 2019, 10:01:05 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 18, 2019, 09:40:16 AM
We have plenty of money for any transportation infrastructure we want, it's just being tossed into the defense budget.
Well, that's not entirely true...
"We" don't even have the money for the defense budget. The defense budget IIRC is somewhere on the order of $700B a year. We're running yearly deficits expected to be greater than $1T per year going forward. So even if you cut the defense budget to zero, we're still >$300B annually in the hole. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1089 on: April 18, 2019, 10:03:35 AM »
I think the scooter regulations are honestly a solution in search of a problem. My guess is that within a year or two, the scooter "fad" will end of its own accord, particularly as right now growth for the scooter companies is huge but profitability is not. Do they even have a sustainable business model?

Give it two years, and those scooters will be a thing of the past IMHO.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1090 on: April 18, 2019, 10:38:45 AM »
They are heavily used around here.  I don't see many on rented bikes, but I see scooters everywhere being ridden.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #1091 on: April 18, 2019, 11:13:41 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on April 18, 2019, 10:03:35 AM
I think the scooter regulations are honestly a solution in search of a problem. My guess is that within a year or two, the scooter "fad" will end of its own accord, particularly as right now growth for the scooter companies is huge but profitability is not. Do they even have a sustainable business model?

Give it two years, and those scooters will be a thing of the past IMHO.
Agree with you here.
A lot of people hate the way some users carelessly leave them lying around in dangerous locations.  A lot of people hate the way they look, sitting around all over the palce, and believe they're nothing more than litter in our city.  A lot of people are throwing them into the lake and down storm drains.
Seems like the cost of replacing scooters regularly is only going to harm further these companies' lack of profitability.  
Beyond that, area hospitals are seeing some significant spikes in injuries resulting from riding and/or being crashed into by these things, so it's only a matter of time before the lawsuits start pouring in as well.
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