0) The question is, do those new taxes bring in more then the cost of increased policing, increased fire department coverage, increased snow clearing and other road maintainence etc? I don't know the answer but the city council never mentions the increased costs when talking about the increased revenue. 1) The planning hasn't actually been too bad here, and I'm not really complaining, just stating things aren't clear cut. 2) My commute isn't bad due to not going into the big city. For those going in to the big city, one of the largest in Canada, the commute has become hell. 3) The new businesses are generally nice, but hard on the old businesses.
Transit used to be profitable. Shit, the transit company built the dams down the road that light my house, originally to power their street cars. It was one of the cost savings, electric traction. Unluckily, between unrealistic franchise agreements, things like the transit company being responsible for snow clearing, government subsidized road building allowing a much more spread out urban area along with the franchise forcing the transit company to serve that spread out area, subsidies for fuel and parking making cars cheap to operate and of course the GM conspiracy to replace electric traction on rails with diesel buses all made it unprofitable for transit. Note that it was largely subsidies, both government and private, that resulted in the current state where transit is almost always unprofitable.
While around here, the developers are responsible for building the roads into and in the new subdivisions, the city still ends up upgrading the main roads. Where all the development has been happening has led to the main road being 4 laned with sidewalks and shoulders, multiple traffic lights and a new by-pass, all paid by the tax payers and making a trip to town for me, quite a bit slower, mostly due to the traffic lights. More expensive coming home due to having to stop multiple times on the uphill too.
How about the people/industries that finance them? Hippies on their own are poor and have little affect. Exxon for example, upon realizing that global warming was real back in the '70's, made the decision to finance the anti-nuke camp to maintain their industry.
Well my '98 F150 is manual, manual shift, manual windows and manual locks (last owner added the alarm, remote start and electronic locks). Last vehicle the power locks were broken, so manual, though if they worked, I could have just pushed a button after unlocking the drivers door to unlock the others. That vehicle, I had to replace the window regulator motor twice, spent too much time looking for the wiring break that broke the door locks and other various issues that made me want to avoid too much power this and that.
Yes, that is the drawback. Since I acquired this vehicle, I live in fear of locking the fob in the truck or losing the fob, especially at first when i only had one fob. Now I can use the spare key (which I didn't have at first) if the fob is inside, the truck will scream until I quickly find the fob and hit the unlock button, then 2 other buttons to reset things.
It's handy to just push a button to unlock both doors rather then walk around and unlock the passenger door after unlocking the drivers door. Likewise for locking them if the passenger forgot to push the button down before closing the door. Driving alone, it's not so important. The truck also won't start without pushing that button to unlock the doors and screams if someone opens the door (reaching through an open window or such).
My ancient fob has a 12v battery that is about half the size of a triple A, length wise. I also don't know what the point of always broadcasting would be, have to press a button to unlock and enable the ignition and even with the key in the ignition, if i don't start it within 3 minutes or so, the ignition and starter (or maybe just the starter, have to try push starting it one day) are disabled forcing me to push the unlock button again.
Same here, and even though it has got an aftermarket remote start, the procedure to get the truck set up is detailed enough that I've never bothered. As well there's the steering lock and the club thing on the steering wheel. I also have a hard time believing that my ancient fob is always broadcasting, rather then when pushing the unlock button.
Our right to a jury is not as strong as in America. Basically it only kicks in at the possibility of getting over 5 years in prison and I believe people are less likely to elect trial by jury. Not sure if the case resulted in 5 years plus a day or less a day, both common on the books due to that 5 year thing.
The guy was guilty as the law was written, so the Judge had no reason to throw the case out as the facts were clear. There was also no right about double jeopardy at the time so if the Judge had thrown it out, there could well have been a new trial. Really the Crown shouldn't have pursued the case but they did. Perhaps the whole idea was to force Parliament into fixing a bad law, which happened. At the time, Parliament was Supreme and Judges almost never bucked the law. That changed when we got our Charter of Rights in '82. Whether a jury was involved, I do not know, but even jury nullification wouldn't stop an appeal and the nullification thrown out at the time. That changed when juries kept nullifying Morganteller, an abortionist as the population as a whole got pissed off about it and our politicians do listen sometimes.
There was a case here in Canada, back in the '50's I believe, where some poor guy picked up a girl at the bar, believing she was of age, got caught fucking her and charged with statutory rape. Due to the way the law was written, believing the girl was of age was not a defence and he got 5 years. The Judge was very apologetic when sentencing the guy but the law was the law. Shortly after, due to this case, the law was changed so that believing a girl was of age was a defence.
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Wouldn't that only be true on 32 bit Win10? Can you boot into DOS on that Surface?
Yes, that sounds best.
0) The question is, do those new taxes bring in more then the cost of increased policing, increased fire department coverage, increased snow clearing and other road maintainence etc? I don't know the answer but the city council never mentions the increased costs when talking about the increased revenue.
1) The planning hasn't actually been too bad here, and I'm not really complaining, just stating things aren't clear cut.
2) My commute isn't bad due to not going into the big city. For those going in to the big city, one of the largest in Canada, the commute has become hell.
3) The new businesses are generally nice, but hard on the old businesses.
Transit used to be profitable. Shit, the transit company built the dams down the road that light my house, originally to power their street cars. It was one of the cost savings, electric traction.
Unluckily, between unrealistic franchise agreements, things like the transit company being responsible for snow clearing, government subsidized road building allowing a much more spread out urban area along with the franchise forcing the transit company to serve that spread out area, subsidies for fuel and parking making cars cheap to operate and of course the GM conspiracy to replace electric traction on rails with diesel buses all made it unprofitable for transit.
Note that it was largely subsidies, both government and private, that resulted in the current state where transit is almost always unprofitable.
While around here, the developers are responsible for building the roads into and in the new subdivisions, the city still ends up upgrading the main roads. Where all the development has been happening has led to the main road being 4 laned with sidewalks and shoulders, multiple traffic lights and a new by-pass, all paid by the tax payers and making a trip to town for me, quite a bit slower, mostly due to the traffic lights.
More expensive coming home due to having to stop multiple times on the uphill too.
As mentioned above, 1st class includes reserving a seat and not much else. (different coloured seats basically)
But then it would have turned up, burned. More likely chopped for parts.
How about the people/industries that finance them? Hippies on their own are poor and have little affect.
Exxon for example, upon realizing that global warming was real back in the '70's, made the decision to finance the anti-nuke camp to maintain their industry.
Well that's why I expected it to turn up again, dead on the road somewhere.
One advantage of the modern fob.
Yes, after reading more comments, I realized things have changed in the way fobs work.
Someone stole my last truck, a '91 F150 that looked as ugly as hell. It didn't show up again, so it wasn't just a joyride either.
Well my '98 F150 is manual, manual shift, manual windows and manual locks (last owner added the alarm, remote start and electronic locks). Last vehicle the power locks were broken, so manual, though if they worked, I could have just pushed a button after unlocking the drivers door to unlock the others. That vehicle, I had to replace the window regulator motor twice, spent too much time looking for the wiring break that broke the door locks and other various issues that made me want to avoid too much power this and that.
Yes, that is the drawback. Since I acquired this vehicle, I live in fear of locking the fob in the truck or losing the fob, especially at first when i only had one fob. Now I can use the spare key (which I didn't have at first) if the fob is inside, the truck will scream until I quickly find the fob and hit the unlock button, then 2 other buttons to reset things.
Is there no lock/unlock doors button on the inside of your driver-side door?
No, manual locks and even manual windows.
It's handy to just push a button to unlock both doors rather then walk around and unlock the passenger door after unlocking the drivers door. Likewise for locking them if the passenger forgot to push the button down before closing the door. Driving alone, it's not so important.
The truck also won't start without pushing that button to unlock the doors and screams if someone opens the door (reaching through an open window or such).
My ancient fob has a 12v battery that is about half the size of a triple A, length wise. I also don't know what the point of always broadcasting would be, have to press a button to unlock and enable the ignition and even with the key in the ignition, if i don't start it within 3 minutes or so, the ignition and starter (or maybe just the starter, have to try push starting it one day) are disabled forcing me to push the unlock button again.
Same here, and even though it has got an aftermarket remote start, the procedure to get the truck set up is detailed enough that I've never bothered. As well there's the steering lock and the club thing on the steering wheel.
I also have a hard time believing that my ancient fob is always broadcasting, rather then when pushing the unlock button.
It's dark as in unknown or unexplored, or at least was unknown. Like darkest Africa.
Our right to a jury is not as strong as in America. Basically it only kicks in at the possibility of getting over 5 years in prison and I believe people are less likely to elect trial by jury. Not sure if the case resulted in 5 years plus a day or less a day, both common on the books due to that 5 year thing.
A ticket for 36 in a 35 zone is within the margin of error of the radar gun or whatever and would be a reason for the Judge to throw it out.
The guy was guilty as the law was written, so the Judge had no reason to throw the case out as the facts were clear. There was also no right about double jeopardy at the time so if the Judge had thrown it out, there could well have been a new trial. Really the Crown shouldn't have pursued the case but they did. Perhaps the whole idea was to force Parliament into fixing a bad law, which happened. At the time, Parliament was Supreme and Judges almost never bucked the law. That changed when we got our Charter of Rights in '82.
Whether a jury was involved, I do not know, but even jury nullification wouldn't stop an appeal and the nullification thrown out at the time. That changed when juries kept nullifying Morganteller, an abortionist as the population as a whole got pissed off about it and our politicians do listen sometimes.
You can politely torture someone to death and many an asshole is polite about it. Civilized people will forgive people for mistakes made in the past.
There was a case here in Canada, back in the '50's I believe, where some poor guy picked up a girl at the bar, believing she was of age, got caught fucking her and charged with statutory rape. Due to the way the law was written, believing the girl was of age was not a defence and he got 5 years. The Judge was very apologetic when sentencing the guy but the law was the law.
Shortly after, due to this case, the law was changed so that believing a girl was of age was a defence.
They seem to eat different things depending on location. Saw more Monarchs then ever this year and there's no milkweed here in SW BC.