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  1. Re:Hold up by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1 · on Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime (theverge.com)

    the second regular folks brought it and they ran like frenchmen.

    Regular folks...

    https://www.portlandoregon.gov...

  2. Re:Communism by Penguinisto · · Score: 1 · on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App

    What, and horn in on the city's profit center? Are you nuts?

    (mind you, that's Portland's setup that I linked, but I'm willing to wager that SanFran has a similar deal going where they themselves rent out dedicated parking spots on a temporary basis.)

  3. Re:citation needed by Penguinisto · · Score: 1 · on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase

    Not in Portland he didn't

    (...I may be exaggerating, but only slightly.)

  4. Re:36 million gallons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All

    Yeah, I got them right, although now that I look up Portland's water usage (PDF) it turns out they are pretty good at conserving water, so I was off by a factor of 2. I would have been accurate in most American cities.

    First of all, the estimate I used includes businesses (i.e. if you want to know how much water a city uses you can estimate that it is about an acre-foot per household per year, even though some of this isn't used by the households). Second, unfortunately, Americans just use a lot more water. (Lawns, etc.)

  5. Re:I wish they'd do it here. by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Informative · on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017

    Streetlamps for pedestrian safety reduce safety

    Bullshit. Street lighting has been found to reduce pedestrian crashes by approximately 50%.

    peed bumps increase traffic crashes and reduce safety

    Double bullshit. Overall, the treated streets experienced a 39 percent decrease in crashes per year after speed bumps are installed. The 39 percent decrease on speed bump streets is a statistically significant difference (t = 2.8) from 1.39 to 0.85 crashes/year, meaning crashes most likely do decrease on speed bump streets due to bump installation. As well as this gem which asks a different question but which provides the same evidence against your "common sense".

  6. Re:Oh Great by fm6 · · Score: 1 · on The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor

    Let me dig into my memory bank. Oh yeah, the green party is about ecology and sustainability, right? These are things that municipal officials deal with every day. I live in a city that isn't actually run by the Green Party, but might as well be, given all the effort the city puts into mass transit, bike-friendly streets, mandatory composting and recycling, and other green initiatives.

  7. Water pipes are not always metal. by sjbe · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Resources For Identifying Telecom Right-of-Way Locations?

    For water and gas pipes, they're pretty easy, since they're metal pipes.

    Lots of water pipes are not metal. Many are stone or PVC. Some, believe it or not, are even wood.