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Sometimes it was hidden by the vehicle ahead of you, sometimes it's in a part of the road where you'd have to swerve into an oncoming lane to avoid it,

If you can't see a road hazard because you are too close to the car in front, then back of. Yes, I'm aware of the "but then, someone may pull in front of you" argument. If you are driving so close to the person in front that nobody can pull in, you should stop driving.

Are these potholes so wide they can't be straddled? I did a quick search online and the pics of Boston potholes aren't as bad as claimed here. Sure, there's an occassional outlayer, which gets lots of attention, but they don't look that special. Oh, and why aren't you going to http://www.cityofboston.gov/pu... and reporting them every time you see them?

I think they go under-reported because Bostonians want something to complain about. So you get what you ask for.

At least with the self-driver-car, the car can report the pothole when it starts, possibly avoid small one, to avoid making them into the big ones. The Boston drivers here talk like they aim to hit them as hard as possible, for the badge of another bend/broken rim.

Okay, technically, they're trash compactors, so that they don't have to go and empty them as often:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/pu...

That seems to make more sense to me than a 'solar powered bench' which looks to me to be two seats as the whole middle of it's taken up by a box. (which might be the point -- it'd be less comfortable for a homeless person to sleep on it)

I've seen other solar "urban furniture" that made more sense to me -- things like bus stops w/ solar panels in the roof (to power lighting, up-to-date bus info ... and sometimes advertising).

I've seen other 'solar phone charging stations' that make more sense to me than having it take up 1/4 of a bench:

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/solar...

http://www.gizmag.com/street-c...

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/...

Quite the opposite of what happens when a government monopoly on things has their labor go on strike, like mail (pre-internet, when it was really needed) or public transportation of today, the consumer has plenty of other choices and they exercise them.

Unfortunately, in the case of cabs, the big alternative is a government enforced heavily restricted set of providers (a peek at the Boston version here).

City of Boston November 2012 Presidential Election Results. Only three precincts reported less than 100% turnout. A great day for democracy!

It should be noted that in Boston, there are no Republicans; the city is owned lock, stock & barrel by Mayor Tom 'Mumbles' Menino. Oh, and his party affiliation is (D), which is so often left out of summaries. "You Never Stumbles When You Votes for Mumbles"

Serious question for anyone who is white and purports to be outraged or disgusted by John Derbyshires article.

Would you volunteer to walk around the streets of Compton on a Friday night. If not why not?

Hell no, I wouldn't.

I also wouldn't walk around South Boston in the middle of the night, a low income, predominantly (85%) white neighborhood.

http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/U_Neighborhood_Profiles.asp

Boston was supposedly the first metro area they rolled out FiOS, and while almost every suburb has it around here their urban penetration has been exactly ZERO.

While Slashdotters are often more interested in FiOS internet service, it's cable television services which call the shots. To offer cable in a locality, Verizon must first obtain a license from the city or town. As of now, the City of Boston has not granted them a license. Looking at the City's website, I don't see any evidence that Verizon has applied for a license either.

Maybe you should call them to see where the licensing procedure stands?

If you list in the Boston area or nearby, computer recycling is easy. If it is a old CRT monitor, call Sanitation at (617) 635-7574 and they will pick it up at the address you tell them to come by. They pick it up the same day as trash day. If you do not live in Boston, make arrangements with someone locally to drop it off at their address.

As far as computers go, as long as they have no hazardous material inside, sanitation will pick it up for free with thhe regular trash. What I do I pull the internal components from the inside, Ebay them in a large bulk auction and toss the case. Perhaps people are not aware, that if you toss out metal with the garbage, it will get recycled. Part of the dumping process is that they use large eletro-magnets to pull/extract the metals and they are recycled them.

For more information what can or can not be recycled, go to http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/recycling/FAQ.asp

I am sitting in a chair, no one is going to TAX me on the fact that I own some chair (personal property).

Mayor's Office

Address:
Mayor's Office
1 City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA 02201

Telephone: 617.635.4500

Facsimile: 617.635.3496

Web Site:
www.cityofboston.gov/mayor

E-mail:
Mayor@cityofboston.gov

Boston City Council indicated that the predicament would be fixed more subscribers asked for plain ASCII text. Subscriptions to public notices available at ann.hess@cityofboston.gov
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

Boston City Council indicated that the predicament would be fixed more subscribers asked for plain ASCII text. Subscriptions to public notices available at ann.hess@cityofboston.gov
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

...regrettably textedit and appleworks do not always reproduce everything, for example Boston City Council calendar gets cut. See for yourself, ask for the city council calendar updates by email ann.hess@cityofboston.gov

If you would like to contact MIS Management Information Services at Boston City Hall, it would help to get them to use plain ASCII text in email and put the full text public notices on the web instead of just abbreviated calendar listings. Contact rajesh.pareek@cityofboston.gov

Reference
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:z1r9094PnU8J: www.tele-works.com/pdf/Boston.pdf+%22rajesh.pareek %40cityofboston.gov%22&hl=en

http://tinyurl.com/6k9g6

http://www.tele-works.com/pdf/Boston.pdf

Here is the Boston City Council rule 34 that needs to be updated for the web with regard to making available on the web full text of public notices of council committees public hearings

Rule 34...

http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/councilmeeting .aspcouncilmeeting.asp

...Upon scheduling of a hearing and posting of a hearing notice (including time, place, and subject) with the clerk, the hearing notice shall be posted electronically and on council bulletin boards, and a written and electronic notice shall be delivered to each councilor and other interested parties by council staff...

http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/councilmeeting .asp

Advocates of plain ASCII text can contact their favorite city councilor...

Here is the Boston City Council rule 34 that needs to be updated for the web with regard to making available on the web full text of public notices of council committees public hearings

Rule 34...

http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/councilmeeting .aspcouncilmeeting.asp

...Upon scheduling of a hearing and posting of a hearing notice (including time, place, and subject) with the clerk, the hearing notice shall be posted electronically and on council bulletin boards, and a written and electronic notice shall be delivered to each councilor and other interested parties by council staff...

http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/councilmeeting .asp

Advocates of plain ASCII text can contact their favorite city councilor...

If you might give it a stab with a note for the council to improve the predicament of getting them off their addiction to .doc formatting for public notices, please contact council staff director ann.hess@cityofboston.gov
or your favorite city councilor. Note the peculiar one letter l in councilor.

Ask the rules of the city council be updated for so called e-government and distribution of council public notices full text by email in plain ASCII text and on the website.

Boston City Council sends by email public hearings notices for council committees like the Human Rights Committee. But our Boston City Council is unwilling to send the email as plain ASCII text instead of the .doc formatted public notices that are not so compatible.

Maybe they want to preserve enbolded text as if that enbolded text was some sort of legal document. Maybe they want to preserve the image of a seal of the city. At the expense of wider more compatible distribution of important information our city council is even unwilling to put the full text of public hearings notices on the web site at http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

An online calendar at the website does list the meetings minimally with no details. The full explanation for the purpose for holding the public hearing needs to be posted every time with an archive for reviewing past hearings.

So much for a mandate of so called e-government !

Anyone interested in marketing his products directly to the CEO of Dash.com and chairman of Direct Revenue, Mr Daniel L. Kaufman, should consult the following information:

The Mr. Kaufman listed in the article holds this office for his scams

The Internet Archive version of Dash.com from 1999 has a nice little bio of Mr Kaufman.

According to that bio, he has significant real estate holdings in Boston, MA. According to the City of Boston, indeed he does:

Home Address:
20 ROWES WHARF, APT #306
BOSTON, MA 02110
Building value: $819,400.00
Residential Exemption: YES
("Since 1983, the City of Boston has elected to apply a residential exemption to residential property that serves as a principal residence of its owner.")

I will leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.

Anyone interested in marketing his products directly to the CEO of Dash.com and chairman of Direct Revenue, Mr Daniel L. Kaufman, should consult the following information:

The Mr. Kaufman listed in the article holds this office for his scams

The Internet Archive version of Dash.com from 1999 has a nice little bio of Mr Kaufman.

According to that bio, he has significant real estate holdings in Boston, MA. According to the City of Boston, indeed he does:

Home Address:
20 ROWES WHARF, APT #306
BOSTON, MA 02110
Building value: $819,400.00
Residential Exemption: YES
("Since 1983, the City of Boston has elected to apply a residential exemption to residential property that serves as a principal residence of its owner.")

I will leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.

See also
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/

I only mention this as I was a student at the above and silent password logging TSRs were rampant on their network.

Oh yeah, and their entire collection of staff/student mailboxes and the mailspool were made available via an anonymous read/write network share if you knew enough about Novell Netware to manually map a drive.

To clarify, Boston (in Massachusetts, United States) was named after Boston (in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) - more information can be found here.

1. The Big Dig won't actually be completed for another ten years.
2. It's tiny compared to New York. (Notice that all of boston could comfortably fit in a tiny portion of Manhatten.
3. The silicon valley still has better tech jobs.
4. What the hell is chowda? No I don't want to have some.
5. Yes, the Yankees suck, but so do the Red Sox.
6. Boston Drivers

Just think about what would happen if this was in the US. Kids die in illegal net cafe/pub/dance party warehouse because there aren't any fire exits. Wouldn't you think the parents will all be in an outrage to close all these unsafe places down?

It happened in 1942, but rather than close down all the bars, it was the start of the enforcement of modern fire codes.