(The oniony part is the cell not having a prisoner in it.)
grue
joined 2 years ago
Sigh... of course it's fucking kkkobb county.
We are the lobbyists. For example, my city is currently doing this, so it's up to people like me to show up at the meetings and demand changes like that. You can do the same in your city or county by talking to your local political rep, even when they aren't doing a wholesale rewrite like they are here.
LOL, maybe in a competent school system. Meanwhile, in my kids' school system even things like signing up to pay for school lunches is outsourced to some shitty third-party service with an outrageous ToS that includes a binding arbitration clause with said arbitration being conducted in Louisiana (a different state hundreds of miles away).
Fine, use one app but make it the Free Software one, then.
Regardless, it is completely unreasonable to dictate that people consent to onerous third-party corporate terms of service in order to access government services, especially ones enforced by truancy laws!
Maximums aren't necessarily the problem, since developers are incentivized by market forces not to build more parking than necessary.
The problem is parking minimums, which are based on numbers pulled out of somebody's ass 80 years ago and (to the extent they correlated with anything at all) tend to be closer to the maximum that could ever conceivably be needed (think "Black Friday at a shopping center") more than anything else!
Last I checked (which admittedly was the better part of a decade ago), Comcast claimed the first basic set-top box was "free," but gave you a couple bucks of refund each month if you demanded a CableCard instead.
In other words, it's not free and they're liars.
Electric cars are still cars, and therefore do fuck-all to fix the real problem of excessive use of land for parking lots, low-density zoning, and lack of walkability.
The only way to have communities that are healthy and sustainable (ecologically, financially, or otherwise) is to fix the zoning code so that folks don't need to drive in the first place.
If that were true then the street on both sides of the border would be fancy, instead of only the street on one side of it.
Trust me, you don't want to be trying to maintain legacy Jython code at this point, let alone use it for anything new. All the "normal" Python infrastructure like Pip etc. has moved on and broken compatibility, so you'd have to find and maintain locally the last working compatible version of every single package you use. I suppose you could use Java libraries, but the impedance mismatch trying to use LBYL explicitly typed stuff in EAFP python is terrible. It's just a horrible mess.
It requires different strategies that efforts toward smaller cars (or electric cars, or autonomous cars, for that matter) do not contribute to and could in fact distract or detract from.
After all, folks might think "why keep trying to make me change my car centric lifestyle when we've 'already solved' the pedestrian safety problem (or the environmental problem or whatever)," not realizing there are so many more interconnected problems that only a change in development patterns can address.
Only for copyright control freaks unwilling to use bittorrent-style multicast distribution. That's a "them" problem, not an "us" problem.
Congratulations on being a consumer removed, I guess?