the $45 is for round trip and my experience is with commuting to and from westchester county. I forgot how cheap it is to go to jersey.
Yeah, you're right, (depending on where you live) NYC transit can be pretty cheap.
a little off topic, but does the subway in toronto get as hot and in the summer as the subway in NYC?
Alternatively, NYC's got arguably one of the cheapest and most extensive mass-transit system on the planet. What?!?
Not cheap really. $2 and rising. Not as expensive as some, but not cheap.
Saying NYC's public transit is the best in the country might be true, but that ain't saying much.
So your solution is for government to seize control of the goods and dictate market terms?
Wow, that's quite a jump. How did get that from my post?
Maybe you should complain that only the rich and privileged get to drive a Porsche, and that the fact most people drive an old Holden is a terrible injustice that needs government intervention to set it right.
The guy with the Porsche should be paying more tax. If you call that "government intervention", then I guess most people want it.
Not you?
Who gives a fuck if some beerbelly doesn't make enough money driving a forklift to pay $2k for football tickets?
Apparently the team does. (doh)
Life isn't fair.
I guess life just got a tiny bit fairer.
Rich guys get to fuck supermodels and princesses. Do you think Diana Spencer would have been with Dodi Al-Fayed if he had been Dodi the Egyptian taylor? I don't. Rich people pay LOWER interest rates on loans. Yes, the people most able to afford it actually pay LESS interest than those least able to. Rich people pay a lower percentage of their income to Social Security.
If you're looking for a cause, how about that?
Because obviously, you're much more passionate about than I am.
Sounds good in theory, (like communism) but just doesn't work in reality.
The rich and privileged get to go to any game at a whim. (and get the best seats)
Others have to sell their car to see their favorite team.
as for:
being a republican I believe in less government involvement... I take responsibility in my own actions rather than waiting for government to step in.
That's a pretty simple philosophy. How do sweatshops fit into it?
I wish people with simple-minded unrealistic ideas would stop voting for liars and thieves.
They already do load many drugs with irritants so as to make snorting them VERY painful. This Is NOT new. (I'd rather not explain how I know this) Wonder why they don't already do this with oxycontin?
O yeah, they make billions off of addicts.
scum of the planet.
"Where exactly do you live, and in what world do the immigrants in your area NOT do the jobs that nobody else wants to do?"
did you read my post?
What about garbage men in your area? Aren't they decently paid in Texas? Don't they get benefits?
do you consider being a sanitation worker one of those jobs that non-immigrants don't want?
(no, i bet you wouldn't)
and why is that?
now, what if that sanitation job paid minimum wage with no benefits.
O, wow, i guess now it's a job only immigrants would take.
and why is that?
"Well, the states hasn't exactly "eradicated teenage pregnancy". I know of a few people that I encounter in my daily life who quite recently became pregnant at 16, and I went to a rather upper-middle-class suburbanite high school."
besides exposing your insecurities, did that have a point?
"Secondly, I don't see what "eradicating teenage pregnancy" has to do with making people sexually repressed. The kind of thought that you need to be makin' babies without any form of contraception or you're a sexually repressed tool is kind of ridiculous."
you kind of have a point there, except i didn't say anybody was a sexually repressed fool. i was pointing out that the statement "eradicate teen pregnancy" is silly. if the statement had been "reduce teen pregnancy" it wouldn't have been silly.
What do you mean "their Fundies and Unions won't even let them bring in immigrants to keep the lights on" ?
(I know you mean fundamentalists)
I really hate this (incredibly stupid) idea that gets thrown around all the time that immigrants do the jobs no one else wants to do. It's like everyone has forgotten to use their brain.
Why is it that people are happy with a job in sanitation? (the garbage man)
Because it pays.
Any time you hear of a job that "Americans don't want to do" it simply means not enough money is being paid.
Instead you have this brain-dead idea that it's ok to have second-class citizens.
"it's good that they've eradicated teenage pregnancy"
yeah and while they're at it, they'll eradicate homosexuality and masturbation too. And how about young people being horny? Have they fixed that yet? Everyone can be like that guy in "40 year old virgin." Great movie btw.
doesn't matter what anyone says, neither my mom or my dad, nor my three sisters, nor any of my cousins know how to use any tool to remove drm. and i doubt they ever will. most of my cousins and sisters can handle the likes of limewire though.
overpriced garbage
Why are you calling my friends creams "overpriced garbage"? Have you tried them?
They are accurately priced. They are much higher quality than their Walmart Drug counterparts.
Very high quality and expensive. Probably not your style. I bet you buy your cream at WalMart. And your cream works, I'm not saying it doesn't, but it ain't like these creams. They're real nice. Sorry, but without trying them out, you really shouldn't comment on their price, now should you?
I know this a difficult idea for you to fathom, but when my friend bought the creams, she had to sign a contract saying she wouldn't sell them cheaper than the other people in town selling them. Why? Because in the long run, the products' market value would be reduced. This is part of their business model. Without it, the company would not be in business.
In this deal my friend gets a good mark-up on the products because she had to convince someone that this product is better than WalMart.
There is no deception. The creams are much better than WalMart creams. They cost more. Part of that price goes to the person who had to put in effort explaining why they're better. If nobody did the explaing, nobody would buy them.
Smart people do buy the creams, because well, they are in fact, the best.
You can still shop at WalMart though.
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my god she is ugly.
the $45 is for round trip and my experience is with commuting to and from westchester county. I forgot how cheap it is to go to jersey.
Yeah, you're right, (depending on where you live) NYC transit can be pretty cheap. a little off topic, but does the subway in toronto get as hot and in the summer as the subway in NYC?
To commute to the "burbs" as you say, here in NYC can cost anywhere from $8 to $45 each way.
Not cheap really. $2 and rising. Not as expensive as some, but not cheap.
Saying NYC's public transit is the best in the country might be true, but that ain't saying much.
Do you really need that explained to you?
is that insightful??
Not you?
The rich and privileged get to go to any game at a whim. (and get the best seats)
Others have to sell their car to see their favorite team.
as for: That's a pretty simple philosophy. How do sweatshops fit into it?
I wish people with simple-minded unrealistic ideas would stop voting for liars and thieves.
Less privileges for the rich. One less thing money can buy.
"these people" ... friggin swine. -beneath you (good lord you're dim-witted)
but i just couldn't stomach the WIRED magazine writing style. That shit is for retards.
Uncompressed video? Where are you getting that? You probably mean MPEG-2.
you are such a fucking moron.
They already do load many drugs with irritants so as to make snorting them VERY painful. This Is NOT new. (I'd rather not explain how I know this) Wonder why they don't already do this with oxycontin? O yeah, they make billions off of addicts. scum of the planet.
"Where exactly do you live, and in what world do the immigrants in your area NOT do the jobs that nobody else wants to do?"
did you read my post?
What about garbage men in your area? Aren't they decently paid in Texas? Don't they get benefits?
do you consider being a sanitation worker one of those jobs that non-immigrants don't want?
(no, i bet you wouldn't)
and why is that?
now, what if that sanitation job paid minimum wage with no benefits.
O, wow, i guess now it's a job only immigrants would take.
and why is that?
"Well, the states hasn't exactly "eradicated teenage pregnancy". I know of a few people that I encounter in my daily life who quite recently became pregnant at 16, and I went to a rather upper-middle-class suburbanite high school."
besides exposing your insecurities, did that have a point?
"Secondly, I don't see what "eradicating teenage pregnancy" has to do with making people sexually repressed. The kind of thought that you need to be makin' babies without any form of contraception or you're a sexually repressed tool is kind of ridiculous."
you kind of have a point there, except i didn't say anybody was a sexually repressed fool. i was pointing out that the statement "eradicate teen pregnancy" is silly. if the statement had been "reduce teen pregnancy" it wouldn't have been silly.
What do you mean "their Fundies and Unions won't even let them bring in immigrants to keep the lights on" ? (I know you mean fundamentalists)
I really hate this (incredibly stupid) idea that gets thrown around all the time that immigrants do the jobs no one else wants to do. It's like everyone has forgotten to use their brain.
Why is it that people are happy with a job in sanitation? (the garbage man)
Because it pays.
Any time you hear of a job that "Americans don't want to do" it simply means not enough money is being paid.
Instead you have this brain-dead idea that it's ok to have second-class citizens.
"it's good that they've eradicated teenage pregnancy"
yeah and while they're at it, they'll eradicate homosexuality and masturbation too. And how about young people being horny? Have they fixed that yet?
Everyone can be like that guy in "40 year old virgin." Great movie btw.
link no good nothing (new) comes up for bridge or minnesota
doesn't matter what anyone says, neither my mom or my dad, nor my three sisters, nor any of my cousins know how to use any tool to remove drm. and i doubt they ever will. most of my cousins and sisters can handle the likes of limewire though.
the beginning. The part I don't get is "graft." Beware of geeks bearing political corruption?? it doe snot make sense.
The internal combustion engine itself is extremely inefficient.
They are more efficient. You are wrong.
Can anyone explain what "Beware of geeks bearing graft" means? (QOTD)
overpriced garbage
Why are you calling my friends creams "overpriced garbage"? Have you tried them?
They are accurately priced. They are much higher quality than their Walmart Drug counterparts.
Very high quality and expensive. Probably not your style. I bet you buy your cream at WalMart. And your cream works, I'm not saying it doesn't, but it ain't like these creams. They're real nice. Sorry, but without trying them out, you really shouldn't comment on their price, now should you?
I know this a difficult idea for you to fathom, but when my friend bought the creams, she had to sign a contract saying she wouldn't sell them cheaper than the other people in town selling them. Why? Because in the long run, the products' market value would be reduced. This is part of their business model. Without it, the company would not be in business. In this deal my friend gets a good mark-up on the products because she had to convince someone that this product is better than WalMart.
There is no deception. The creams are much better than WalMart creams. They cost more. Part of that price goes to the person who had to put in effort explaining why they're better. If nobody did the explaing, nobody would buy them.
Smart people do buy the creams, because well, they are in fact, the best.
You can still shop at WalMart though.