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If they take the safely driver to an criminal trial then all kinds of dirt can come out in it.

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

The family settled with Uber a couple of weeks after the crash - a civil suit is unlikely:
https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

The victim's family received settlement and is suing the City of Tempe for another $10 Million

The victim's family received settlement and is suing the City of Tempe for another $10 Million

Lie of the year [politifact.com] was claims by Obama on the ACA. All news outlets agreed.
Yet, here we have someone 5 years later still telling us it was the truth.

Hey look! You're lying again.

The "lie of the year" was a mistake by Obama. He left out "and if your insurance company wants to continue issuing the insurance". All those people who couldn't keep their plan? Their insurance company ended the plan.

But if you actually look at your own link, that "lie of the year" has nothing to do with how long the bill was available or debated. Which is what you lied about in your previous post.

Liberals are currently encouraging the death of 300 US citizens a DAY due to drugs coming from Mexico

You mean by the 4000 terrorists who actually turned out to be 6 people?

Also, most of those deaths are being caused by opioids. Which are made in the good ol' US of A.

Finally, very little drug smuggling is done directly over the border. Instead, it's delivered via ports, ports of entry, and airports. Says who? Trump's DEA and CBP
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They are willing to let thousands die for a political attempt to make sure Trump loses reelection

How, exactly, would this work?

If thousands are supposedly dying and the Democrats are to blame, then Trump can point to the lack of a wall as the reason for all those deaths. That would help Trump win re-election.

If solar power is the cheapest energy source on earth then there would be no need for this "irrespective of cost" provision. They admitted that solar power is expensive RIGHT ON THE BALLOT for the voters to see.

That phrase was added by AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich at the request of energy company Arizona Public Service. Quid pro quo.

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This conflict of interest is being publicized every day in Arizona. I don't even live there, nor do I have a dog in this fight. How do I know this and you don't?

Please. Try harder next time. Do your research. Or at least be a better troll.

If solar power is the cheapest energy source on earth then there would be no need for this "irrespective of cost" provision. They admitted that solar power is expensive RIGHT ON THE BALLOT for the voters to see.

That phrase was added by AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich at the request of energy company Arizona Public Service. Quid pro quo.

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

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This conflict of interest is being publicized every day in Arizona. I don't even live there, nor do I have a dog in this fight. How do I know this and you don't?

Please. Try harder next time. Do your research. Or at least be a better troll.

When you are buying politicians.

https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

Steyer has done uniquely well with it, but if you think he is about clean energy or this proposal is think again

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

It will force the early shutdown of APS's nuclear power plant and likely boost greenhouse gas emissions.

So Crashmarik how long have you been working for APS? And BTW APS owns the Corporation Commission since a majority of the sitting members campaigns were 90 to 95% financed by APS. I mean look who has the money in the current election for Corporation Commission. Hell APS even puts their people on local school boards to keep the schools from buying and installing their own solar.

Energy is going to become more expensive no matter what mix of energy we use. Might as well install as much solar as possible. Arizona is the sunniest state in the Union and installing solar should be a no brainer. We still need a way to store that energy. I hope molten salt batteries, or train car kinetic energy storage or something else will solve that problem. Vote Yes 127

When you are buying politicians.

https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

Steyer has done uniquely well with it, but if you think he is about clean energy or this proposal is think again

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

It will force the early shutdown of APS's nuclear power plant and likely boost greenhouse gas emissions.
 

...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?

Let me give you a liberal perspective on this: you are raising a straw man. We have no problem with protecting the border, the problem we have is with using scapegoating and scare-mongering, and bullshit waste of resources like building a wall. If you want to see the source of our problems, it's rich guys buying politicians, not Mexicans sneaking across the border to pick crops.

If you are here in this country illegally, you have criminally trespassed. You should be deported.

No, "trespass" has a specific meaning in law, and an unauthorized crossing of the border does not match that, even if it feels like tresspassing. And even as it were, the law allows people to enter your land against your wishes under certain circumstances. If a neighbor goes on your posted land to hunt, that's trespass. If he goes onto your posted land to escape a home invader, it's not trespass.

Treaties the US imposed on other people after WW2 also bind us when it comes to handling asylum seekers. We don't have to help them get here, but we do have to give them due process and administrative help when they get here, even if they sneak across our borders. It's actually the government that is breaking the law by turning asylum seekers away at the border without a hearing, which of course means they sneak across, which makes policing the border that much harder.

But I just don't get these seemingly increasing number of folks in the US promoting full blown open borders, with no control of who gets in here.

That was how we did immigration up until 1927. You showed up at Ellis Island, were checked for disease, promised you weren't an anarchist and they'd ship you over to the docks at Battery Park and let you go anywhere you wanted. The 1927 quotas were proposed by eugenicists, who were worried that the influx of Jews was lowering America's collective IQ.

Now if you were Mexican, you weren't part of the quota system. You could still walk across the border until 1965. That was because business interests needed the cheap labor. What changed in 65 was the rise of the United Farm Workers. Now this *might* just be coincidence, but if you look at how the'65 restrictions were enforced, they did not stem the influx of immigrants, so much as put those immigrants outside the protection of the law and made it harder for them to organize. The government didn't go after farmers hiring Mexicans, they went after the Mexicans. And the Mexicans they deported would be immediately replaced by other Mexicans, because there was a job waiting for them.

Now restrictions on employers have become stricter, but we still have a system which is dependent upon immigrant labor, but puts those laborers outside the protection of the law. That's the problem with the tip line; it's a tool for payback against people with no rights of due process. This is the problem of immigration in the US: the hypocrisy of the whole system corrupts things that would otherwise be a good idea.

What good does building a wall do if you can just pay someone to wave you through? And yet the demand for immigration security theater has the agency relaxing screening standards that are supposed to catch cartel infiltrators, in an agency that already has a stunning 5% corruption rate. Immigration security theater undermines national security.

Now change the immigration so it allows for the immigrant laborers we actually need and keeps the people who've been here for years peacefully

In Maricopa County, as in all of Arizona, you are assigned a polling place. You can't just show up at whichever one you want on election day.

Yes you can, you just end up casting a provisional ballot if you do not go to your assigned polling place. You can still vote at any polling place in your county...

You would know this if you were a voter in the US.

Unlike you I won't stoop to claiming you do not live in the U.S., instead I will give you a pass for not understanding arcade details of a process we all only go through once a year or so. They do REALLY want you to vote in your assigned polling place so I understand why you might think it was not possible to do otherwise. It's not even as difficult as flying without proper ID (which I had to do once, shudder).

It is NOT about costs. It is about idiots pushing to close these down before we have alternatives in place. This is being pushed by California Dem, Steyer.

Please don't forget that the Tempe Police Dept. immediately placed all blame on the pedestrian. We now know that the Uber car know of the obstruction and had enough braking time to have reduced it to a non-fatal accident.

Please remember the faked darkened videos, when the street was well lit.

I have no idea what is happening in this accident in Tempe... Any locals have a clue?

https://petapixel.com/2015/07/...
http://fox13now.com/2016/06/21...
https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

You have to cross the border to claim asylum. What made up process are you imaging exists where you can claim asylum outside the US? No nation on earth allows you to claim asylum from outside the borders. NONE

Nope, you're wrong. You go to the border at a port of entry and present yourself as an asylum seeker. That's the correct process, the legal one, and the one that will keep your family together. But the lines have gotten really long, and yes, they wait outside the border. Those arrested are trying to break the line, even when being told not to do that.

No one, because there was no vehicular manslaughter.

The woman was found to be at fault for not checking that the road was clear before stepping out of the shadows to cross illegally. Something that she could have easily done since it was dark and the vehicle's headlights were on.

A large median at the site of the crash has signs warning people not to cross mid-block and to use the crosswalk to the north at Curry Road instead.

Exactly this..

This doesn't preclude a civil case, where Uber might be found to be partially liable for this, but there is not a crime (except for the woman who broke the law) here to prosecute.

No one, because there was no vehicular manslaughter.

The woman was found to be at fault for not checking that the road was clear before stepping out of the shadows to cross illegally. Something that she could have easily done since it was dark and the vehicle's headlights were on.

A large median at the site of the crash has signs warning people not to cross mid-block and to use the crosswalk to the north at Curry Road instead.

Sadly, with the way Teslas on autopilot will ram motorcycles we will soon see if a Duc will fit in the gaps...

We still don't kill inattentive pedestrians in the Phoenix area because we think they should know better. Even on McDowell or Grand traffic stops for those who seem to be oblivious to traffic. And even those who mock the traffic and cross, knowing they are too expensive to strike.

Arizona has highest rate of pedestrian deaths in the U.S., report says
Pedestrian deaths continue to rise, Arizona ranks third highest in 2016
That's from one quick search, so it seems you do. That's lots of pedestrians kills. Both articles mention distracted drives and pedestrians as the cause of these increases.

You even refute your own claim with your own citations in that post; the charges of pimping where dismissed, so the legal system has already tossed out that claim completely.

Bullshit

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

The criminal case brought by the California Attorney General's Office against Backpage was two-fold.

One set of charges accused the website's operators of profiting from sex trafficking and setting up elaborate schemes that allowed the site to take in money from illegal prostitution transactions. That part of the case stayed intact on Wednesday.

The other part accused the website of acting as a virtual pimp. Those charges were tossed out because the judge ruled that the website did not have a hand in actually writing the ads that sold the services; it merely hosted the ads.

The judge said the allegations of financial crimes are not subject to protection by the Communications Decency Act or the First Amendment.

I.e. there were two sets of charges. Financial ones and virtual pimping. The virtual pimping ones were tossed because of the CDA and First Amendment but the financial ones were not.

I.e. with SESTA in place they would not have been able to use the CDA as a shield. Which meants they would have been prosecuted for both sets of charges. Without SESTA in place they could only be prosecuted for the financial crimes.

I.e. the CDA blocked them from being prosecuted for the virtual pimping.

https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

For many of us, gift cards are presents for hard-to-please family members who want to pick out their own gadgets at Best Buy.

For pimps and prostitutes, gift cards have become a currency to pay for sex ads on Backpage.com, anti-prostitution activists say.

Dallas-based Backpage, a classified-ad site similar to Craigslist, is the leading online marketplace for sex, according to government investigators and federal prosecutors who have been struggling for years to shut it down. The U.S. Justice Department says more than half of sex-trafficking victims are under 18.

Credit card companies stopped doing business with the website two years ago. People could still buy Backpage ads, but it became more difficult: They had to mail in checks or use complicated digital currencies like bitcoin.

But now, Backpage has begun accepting gift cards from major retailers, The Dallas Morning News has confirmed. That means a pimp could walk into any local grocery store and pick up a convenient, untraceable way to pay the site to post ads selling women, critics say.

So more than half the victims were under 18. That's not a failure of moderation, that's a business model. And Backpage made a fortune - around $45 million dollars.

https://www.azcentral.com/stor...

The criminal case brought by the California Attorney General's Office against Backpage was two-fold.

One set of charges accused the website's operators of profiting from sex trafficking and setting up elaborate schemes that allowed the site to take in money from illegal prostitution transactions. That part of the case stayed intact on Wednesday.

The other part accused the website of acting as a virtual pimp. Those charges were tossed out because the judge ruled that the website did not have a hand in actually writing the ads that sold the services; it merely hosted the ads.

The judge said the allegations of financial crimes are not subject to protection by the Communications Decency Act or the First Amendment.

"Indeed, the money laundering charges based on bank and wire fraud on their face, are not based on publication of third party speech at all," the ruling says. "Rather, they are based on the purported illegality of Defendants financial operations."

From August 2013 through October 2016, according to the prosecutors, the website raked in more than $45 million in illegal transactions.

Backpage, according to the indictment, was told by American Express that it would not long process payments because of the website's "overtly sexual content and questionable practices."

Backpage then created, according to prosecutors, a string of companies that could shield the fact the money was involved with Backpage.

According to prosecutors, Ferrer, the Backpage CEO, told employees to remove the name Backpage from descriptions that would show up on transactions. He told another employee, according to the indictment, to tell a credit card company that one of the companies had no relation to Backpage; instead, it helped truck drivers find jobs.

The dismissed counts of pimping suggested that the Backpage executives received prostitution earnings from 12 individuals from California who advertised on the website. According to the indictment, six of those people were under the age of 18.

Once again you see that half of the prostitutes were under age. And Backpage's vast earnings came from them. And the executives got off the pimping charges because of the CDA. Only the money laundering charges stuck.

Yeah, this reminds me of arguments about online vs. local sales tax. Why not argue for removing the local sales tax in order to compete better, rather than arguing for taxing the online purchases?

Because some group of people get paid as a result. "The knowledge" is just another example of a group of people trying to limit their competition with artificial legal barriers. But hey, we're making some progress. Just think, soon people in Arizona may be legally able to wash or blow dry someone's hair without spending $12,000 and 1,000 hours in school to get a license from the State in order to reduce competition for licensed hair stylists.

Articles I've read say the jurors did get to see the footage but that the video was not shared with the public until after the acquittal.

The inscription on the officer's gun ("You're fucked") was inadmissible in court.

Related video where Laney Sweet (Daniel's widow) talks about how the video was withheld from the public during trial and includes audio conversation with the county attorney. She was also not allowed to view the video without agreeing to be silenced on some of its content.
Also a related facebook group (JusticeForDaniel).

> So what? The original remark was is pretty much what the voters expect so disputing that necessarily refers to the popular vote as done by the voters.

So the uneducated voters think that the popular vote decides who is president?

Well, no, it's Mr. Trump who thinks something about the electoral college, back in 2012 when he mistakenly perceived that Obama had lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. He made numerous vituperative denunciations on that.

Now of course, he suddenly can't say that, though he's still compelled to fabricate an unsupported fairy tale about illegal voters in order to justify his ego-base claims that he didn't lose the popular vote. He couldn't even accurately describe his victory, but ended up ignoring who outperformed him in the electoral college, and how even George W. Bush in 2004 got more voters in many states than he did.

And the liberals still want to call the Trump supporters uneducated? Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black!

No, I would call Mr. Trump's supporters a rusted crucible that is slowly disintegrating into even more useless scrap.

Which, considering the average profit margin https://yourbusiness.azcentral... of 1-6% on groceries, is a pretty big sacrifice.

Does your average New Yorker use 100 gallons of a petrol per day?

Does Bill's new town plan on having 20 million people in it?
The point is, whatever problem you can think of, money and cheap energy can probably solve it.

Does your average New Yorker use 100 gallons of a petrol per day?

This settlement is 45 minutes outside of Phoenix, a city of population 1.6 million. And growing. Rapidly. All the critics here who are chorussing "oh, Gates is so stupid, he doesn't know that Arizona is uninhabitable" are silly: we already know it's possible because 1.6 million people already live there.

He merely needs to make a suburb that's somewhat more attractive than the other suburbs currently being built. And he can sell this to, not new people who had never thought of moving to Arizona, but some of the 81,000 people moving to the Phoenix area every year.

yeah, but the first target will be South Korea.

Besides, nobody agrees with you.

Are we on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea? Probably not ...

In South Korea, daily stresses outweigh North Korea missile worries

North Korea could go nuclear, but most South Koreans don't care

So settle down Sally, and don't get your "panties in a wad.

These court cases are crap and I'm sick of this argument that people are just incapable of getting an ID somehow.

Yes, yes, ignore the actual documented problems that were substantiated in a court of law. This is the biggest issue with the legitimacy of your argument, you rail and rant at the concerns, instead of solving them.

I said this to Mashiki, but you should realize it as well, a little contrition is what you need, not obstreperousness.

Everyone should have an ID.

Then make it an obligation for the state to provide it, even if the Governor of the State has to walk around in EVERY single neighborhood with a camera and a printer.

Here's a list of reasons why, provided by the NYC government:

Yes, yes, there are good reasons to have ID. Which is why the City of New York set up a Municipal ID program, thank you for appreciating them.

People object no matter how easy the local government makes it.

People object because the state government doesn't make it easy, hence the court claims you blithely dismiss, and when a local government does it, the GOP puts up roadblocks anyway.

People objected even when they were sending mobile voter ID vans into neighborhoods to make it easy.

Really, they never sent those vans around here, but maybe those vans weren't around at convenient times, maybe they weren't well-advertised, maybe they weren't doing the job properly. Maybe people still had the issues with having the documentation. Just because you say you do something, doesn't mean you do it right.

If those vans were giving out free phones people would have waited on lines for hours.

Yes, yes, there were protests over providing people with phones too.

Voters are supposed to be adults. Treat them accordingly.

Yes, yes, blame the voter, a common attitude, except the state's legitimacy only exists with the provision of the vote. Treat it accordingly.

I bet if you needed a photo ID to collect social security benefits the person named in that lawsuit would have had one for 20 years.

I bet if Social Security started doing photo ID, there'd be massive protests and objections about the mark of the beast.

Actually, I don't know. Could be a new car thing...

http://www.azcentral.com/story...

This one comes to mind. It's a good way to protest. Gets a lot of attention for relatively little cash.

If you are a school faced with all these costs and are no longer financially secure, any revenue source must be looked at regardless whether you like the strings attached or not. Directly answering your question, no but when you add in the other federally mandated expenditures for financially struggling schools it becomes more and more like it.

The states themselves are being sued.

http://www.twincities.com/2016...
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-...
http://www.denverpost.com/2016...
http://www.azcentral.com/story...

BTW, I only keep hearing about "rigged" elections, fraud, stealing votes etc. from two kinds of people. Political dilettantes and Republicans.

Only difference being that as far as I can tell, while political dilettantes have always been partial to conspiracy theories because they are... well...dilettantes...
Republicans seem to have built their myth of "being cheated" around that time JFK beat their "not a crook" sweatball Tricky Dick.
Who just happened to be running multiple schemes to rig elections just as his party was busy implementing the "Southern strategy" in order to woo southern whites.
Who were at the time all hot and bothered about losing their "legitimate" ways of rigging elections against black voters, they went around dressed in nothing but dresses made out of bed linen.
Sorta like what ISIS folk do.

How about the Arizona Republic, then, whose publisher and staff are receiving death threats because it endorsed Clinton?

did a similar thing last month, getting rid of "only" 6% of its IT workforce locally by outsourcing to India. No H1B visas needed as the call-center jobs moved to India.

http://www.azcentral.com/story...

I'm not sure how much this saves customers, the monthly charge customers pay probably didn't drop, but I'm sure that this helped the local organization's bottom line and made their management look good to the bosses. Short-term profit vs long-term stability. Except for an article in the newspaper, didn't seem to be much outcry.

To be fair, I don't remember ever reading in any significant company's corporate prospectus that employment was more important than revenue.

And McCain had a fundraiser who had a meth lab in her home. Let's blame the candidate for anything one of their fans does!

Maybe I should go around saying "I love PopeRatzo" while kicking puppies and wearing a shirt with pictures of dead babies on it. By your logic, it's a reflection of YOUR character, right?

In my apartment, I paid $52-$68. My apartment was 3 times the size of the living space I propose, had 4-inch walls, and did not have any insulation; one entire long wall and one short wall (50% of my wall space), as well as the entire ceiling, was uninsulated and facing directly outside.

Were you paying a significant amount to heat/cool it by electricity? How long ago was this? I'm trying to figure out the source of your numbers.

I was a little wrong, my electric bill's service charge is $17.50. To make this clear, even if I flipped the main breaker for a whole billing period and used 0 kwh, I'd be charged $17.50+taxes, which consumes *MOST* of your figuring for the utility bill.

The fallacy I see you using is using a pure linear estimation on a electric bill for an apartment 3X the size of what you propose. MY point is that electricity costs aren't linear with apartment size.

The difference in electricity use between a ~750 sqft apartment and a 250 one is likely to be negligible. In most cases you're still looking at about the same time with the same lighting, the same computer or TV on the same amount of time, the same electricity demands for cooking, etc...

The poverty line is a relative poverty measure. It's a delineation at which we say people are poor because they look poor. It's distinct from absolute poverty, which is the delineation at which a person cannot afford the basic needs for living. The term "decent life", as you put it, is distinct from "subsistence".

It's still not a bullshit metric.

That's actually a function of risk control, and not cost. A larger apartment holds a higher-income tenant with less of a flight risk;

Not necessarily. Remember what I mentioned about static costs? There's a basic minimum cost for a functional bathroom or kitchen. Bathrooms/kitchens effectively cost more per square foot, and this price increases as they shrink. As the apartment itself shrinks, the proportion of the apartment that is bathroom/kitchen increases.

Bedroom/living room space is cheap in comparison.

I've seen as low as $0.62/sqft for a 900sqft area; I've seen some apartments as low as $330, but don't like the amount of risk in treating that as the norm.

Cheap apartments are likely to be old apartments. 900 square feet can be cheaper per sqft than 244. Think about it. For a 900 sqft apartment, you still only need to supply 1 each of: refridgerator, stove, sink, bathroom sink, toilet, bathtub or shower, etc... That 900 feet will be more expensive subdivided into 4 tiny apartments because there's more walls involved, and 4 times the appliances/equipment.

we're going to have a multi-year transition period where we've still got people on HUD because the landlords are figuring out what units to build *and* trying to manage finances and logistics in hiring construction to build them.

Don't forget that you'll have to address zoning and building codes. For example, Manhattan has a requirement that the smallest legal apartment is 400 sqft. Bloomberg wanted to reduce it to 300, you'd need to reduce it even more. Chicago stipulates that in any given development must average at least 500. It also has rules about how many apartments can be on the land, how many can be 'efficiency', how many parking spots must be provided, etc... Even Phoenix, AZ, my earlier example, has various rules that add up to ~400 square feet.

you have to plan and project, which is why there are pretty big error bars.

I don't disagree with the error bars. I simply disagree that they're in the right spots, assuming an

The Arizona Board of Education just voted to recommend abandoning Common Core ("College and Career Read Standards" in Arizona).

  A big complaint was the number of tests required, time lost to testing, expenses, and the inconsistent implementation of automated testing.

Also, the material wasn't meeting student needs, for instance, from the AZ Kids Can’t Afford to Wait! 2015 report:

"Many recent graduates are uneducated on personal finances and what financial pitfalls face newly
independent individuals. This situation is exacerbated in the dropout population"

Just one of the findings.

This has to pass the Legislature and get through the current struggle to fund public education as currently ordered by a judge.

Then prove him wrong. Show us *why* it's dumb... you cared enough to reply, now let's see your reasoning.

His theory has solid reasoning when one considers that the vast majority of advertising in other media is geared toward women, because women do the most purchasing (one count shows it at ~80% ) .

So what's your rebuttal?

Consulting is quite a bit different than running a business that pays minimum wagers. An average restaurant, for example, makes a profit of about 3-3.5%. A restaurant tries to keep the labor component under 30%. If the cost of labor goes up by 25%, as is proposed in California, then the labor component raises to just shy of 35%, and the profit goes to about -3.8%.

1 inch of water per SQFT is for those who want that golf green lawn. Until about 6 years ago I never watered my lawn and it remained reasonably beautiful with just normal precipitation. Now I only water my lawn when it's dry for extended periods. I water for only 15 minutes per section (whatever amount of water that equals to I'm not sure but I managed to do the whole lawn which is about 30x30 total which is about 1/3 inch per sqft).

Watering a 30x30 ft lawn with 1/3 inch of water is around 180 gallons, so if you're spreading 50 gallons over that lawn, you're only getting around 1/10th of an inch of water, barely enough to penetrate the soil.

So the point is, I get whatever I get out of the 50 gallons. It's water that isn't coming out of the city's water supply. Those that are more serious (such as some I know) will get a 1000 gallon tank installed at time of construction. Each 50 gallon saves me $10 (based on the lowest rate in the consumption chart) and based on my bills I figure I save between $25 and $40 a month.

Where do you live that you pay $0.20/gallon for water? In San Francisco, the water+sewer rate is closer to $0.02/gallon. The city with the highest cost for water + sewer in this chart is Atlanta, GA ataround $0.026 per gallon.

If you're refilling your 50 gallon barrel 2.5 to 4 times a month with rainwater, you probably don't need much water for irrigation anyway, sounds like you're already getting regular rain.

On long days, our crew harvested more than 40 tons of lettuce, with each cutter responsible for more than 3,000 heads.

Astounding that you didn't know about this. If they had been Muslims, it would have been world news.
And, I win.
I correct myself: I am ABSOLUTELY astounded how little coverage this gets. ASTOUNDED. And this is me we're talking about.

http://www.christianpost.com/n...
http://www.azcentral.com/story...
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.charismanews.com/us...
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Open a lemonade stand on your front lawn (Preferably somewhere public enough you'll be noticed and make a good amount of cash). No, none of the paperwork bullshit....See how long you stay in business (and avoid jail!) and get back to me with "free market".

Kids still do that around here without any problems other than attracting summer flies and the occasional yellow jacket. Certainly there are some jurisdictions (maybe even entire states) where the kids would get a lesson in government run amok, but in most places, they'll be fine. If you can really generalize so zealously from a handful of news stories, you must think the entire country is currently overrun with escaped llamas. There are no absolutely free markets, but to judge two nations' economic freedoms based on a comparison of curb-side lemonade stand feasibility is simply moronic.

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A person defies a valid court order? They're arrested and in jail for contempt of court.

Unless, of course, the person is a white cattle rancher.

Whats his skin color have to do with anything? Oh you're just a race baiting douche bag, got it.

A person defies a valid court order? They're arrested and in jail for contempt of court.

Unless, of course, the person is a white cattle rancher.

Those reversible lanes ("suicide lanes") have been around in Phoenix since a lot longer, starting in the 1970's. http://www.azcentral.com/news/...

Phoenix is one of the few U.S. cities in the that realizes a) Public transportation doesn't work well in low density, post-WW2 US cities (aka, the sunbelt and west coast) and b) Grid pattern streets and excellent freeways are the only reasonable, cost effective short term strategy. What is the long term strategy? Nobody knows, except maybe to completely get rid of shitty low density cities, which will never happen. American people want their trucks and backyards, and they especially don't want to have to sit next to some poor person on public transportation.

Well, I'd go with something like Florida, where they're mandating a hookup to electric and water for everybody. Even if the individual has spent the resources to have it provided through alternative means.

In Arizona, the woman even had water, though the level of solar provided might not be enough, given that she was getting some electricity from the neighbors.

The officials decided it was better for her to be homeless than to live in a house without air conditioning or heating. Well, they denied knowing that she'd end up sleeping in her car when they kicked her out. Probably ended up costing the state more money in shelters and what not.

So while Florida might be like the rules for waterless urinals - plumbing code still says you have to run water there, but all you need is a valve and a capped pipe in the wall - so if you ever decide to get rid of the waterless urinal and get a water using one(or put toilets in or something), it's easy. That's a static cost.

Or if you have to have a meter and pay a monthly connection charge, even if you consume 0 kwh. Like Arizona.