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Man, they can arrest you for anything anymore in Ohio. Yes, I live there.
Mind that Ohio doesnt have much to say about being legitimate or prosperous- if you know Ohio enough, just follow the money. Some mind bending tricks such as McGee's Economic Blunder to prevent the inevitable suburbian flight, things like Diebold, or NCR's great exit in the 1990's.

Criminal/civil offenses are sort of the final way to make money around here when job departure is constant and replacements are usually lower income if at all.

I presume that you already are familiar with some of Ohio's finest after encountering town sized speed traps, or "25mph here, but only for under a mile and 45mph on each side" zones. Become a mayor of a small town, set your speed traps, have a guaranteed revenue stream, then get a nice shiny new Interceptor for the law enforcement to show for a one stoplight town.

The only solution is to get rid of political parties or get a third party
Really. Not. Happening. (unless you want to get rid of Ohio entirely or reform it massively)

Given how 2 major cities are on the bottom ten lists for average income (Dayton for its mid-sized- ~26k average, Cleveland on large sized- ~24.5k average) and with places such as Southeast Ohio being hit even harder, gaining economic prosperity always seems to have put political debate on the backburner since 1980. You arent going to get anything of any true political change in a state that has seen decline for nearly the past 30 years.
  The major downside to this program is that the only real opportunities that exist in matters of guaranteed high-income jobs are with government contractors, or the financial sector- the rest has left or is leaving. This new regulation is unfortunately not the kind we need but what usually comes around here - and it'd probably make a few people unable to get a clearance of any kind.

In short, Ohio continually redefines new lows in about everything possible in the political, economic, and criminal subjects at the same time, it may require massive changes in the very least to repair the recent damage, and may need to reform education in painful ways (probably one of the places where there would be an actual need to just bite the bullet and just guarantee tuition and admission to anywhere on some non-merit, residence basis, along with career assistance) just to repair all the 25+ straight years of economic and political disasters.

Doing a lot of studying on the nature of the IHS and such, I've discovered this mostly applies to a lot of areas _except_ the DC Beltway (a.k.a., Suicide Circle). It is, quite frankly, a brain dead design as far as interstates go. I-95 was supposed to go through DC, but for some reason (political, I think), that idea was cancelled and I-95, for a time, became the eastern portion of the beltway. It was later re-labelled to the dual scheme of I-95 and I-495. The end result of this is that all your freight traffic has to go around the eastern portion and over the crumbling Wilson Bridge (Although they just opened up the outer loop span and traffic will soon be switched off the old bridge).

Also left out was the DC inner loop system, which would have included an I-266, I-695, I-595, all tying together the converging interstates of I-95, I-66, and I-70. Although one wonders whether this would have helped or hindered the current layout gven the volume of traffic that passes through...

Tons of info on the DC/VA/MD road area can be found at Scott Kozel's Roads to the Future site, as well as tons of info on the various 3-digit interstates (including little-known things like the hidden I-595 in MD and the nature of I-238 in CA) at Kurumi.com

The same is more or less true of most of the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, which first opened in 1938. Most of the on and off-ramps have been lengthened and straightened, and a couple of big highway interchanges added where new roads sprung up, but the road itself hasn't changed in my lifetime. Believe me, the new ramps were necessary. The old ones were all decreasing radius blind curves dumping right into traffic with no runoff room. The Exit 27 Southbound onramp (technically on the Hutchinson Parkway, but essentially demarcating the border between the two as well as between NY and CT) was literally a 90 degree spur two car lengths long with a stop sign at the highway. It hit the highway right after an overpass with no visibility so there was no way to see if cars were coming. You just stopped your car perpendicular to the road, checked that there was nobody under the bridge at that moment, punched it and crossed your fingers. Another feature which has just recently changed is the Sikorsky Bridge over the Housatonic River. This engineering marvel did not previously support pavement. Instead its surface was an open steel grate. I'm not kidding. Riding a motorcycle over this in the rain with a passenger was perhaps the scariest thing a human being could undertake. But to be fair, at least half of this structure was part of the Wilbur Cross Parkway, not the Merritt (the WC, the Merritt and the Hutch were all Rt. 15 and shared an exit numbering scheme). The road itself is exactly the same size and shape as when it opened. It retains its rural charm scores of unique and beautiful overpasses.

See here for the schemes for numbering three-digit interstates. Fascinating stuff.

See here for info on the violations that exist in interstate numbering.

Except for Interstate 238, which is an abomination before God and man.

Paying for content. Cable TV, DSS, DMX, BBC, PBS... to varying degrees a similar revenue model and better content. Though PBS is showing more commercials all the time.

In an Internet where content is almost universally supported by advertising, no advertising simply means no content. (And let me also point out that there's a banner at the top of this very page...)

Hmmmm... I'll take your word for that. All I see is a broken image tag. :-) Also, advertising != content. There are tons of great pages for historical, entertainment, news, information, with no ads, because the webmasters have real jobs elsewhere and just want to contribute to the community.

It's a pretty good deal: I give out free info, fun stuff, sw, and get the same from other sites. No adz needed.

Anyway, I really resent these incessant, impudent demands for my attention ("eyeballs.") I don't want ad fsckers like Kevin O'Connor tracking me, and I'll use proxies, unlisted #'s, false demog info, and whatever else to thwart them.

More: http://www.kurumi.com/opinion/adblock.ht ml

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This only protects us from the gummint, not our benevolent multinational corporations.

Ever notice how your local newspaper seems to never publish anything critical of its larger advertisers (car dealers, department stores, etc)? Ever notice how the "consumer advocacy" section of your local TV news only goes after small local businesses or goverment agencies, not the big guys?

It's not really censorship; it's just recognizing the hand that feeds you.

I've purchased my last major label CD. The big shakeout among the RIAA cartel and stores full of $18 CDs cannot arrive fast enough. Looking forward to paying for downloaded music directly to the artist.

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My little rant page on this topic: Block that Ad!

It recounts a plague/hysteria/delusion in which men are compelled to kill women, and this is widespread enough to have implications for the future of the human race. Telling any more would spoil it.

Quite disturbing, while understated, and definitely worth checking out.

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