Are they? Honest question because I haven't seen any statistics on what people were paying.
I don't need statistics for this. There are parking lots and garages with parking available all over the place, at an excessively high premium. Baltimore has 670,000 people; Maryland has 5.7 million. Within 1 mile of Ram's Head in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, there's parking for over 3 million vehicles. There's that many parking garages.
Parking is available, if you want to pay $12-$15 to get into the door. This is right across the street from a $2 street parking spot. If you're trying to sell a $2 parking spot for $30... well, $20 is less than $30, so people will go into the garage instead. No statistics needed.
And whats to stop a bunch of rich people firing their drivers now that they have easy access to a spot that they can just throw down $50 for?
That would make personal drivers rent seekers. If the value of a personal driver is below that level, then we're destroying wealth in the economy by spending money on the personal drivers, and they should be eliminated.
The supreme court is different. They're supposed to look at issues and decide if this is how our country was supposed to work. If certain actions criminalize a religion without just cause (i.e. the criminalized set of acts is representative of a harmless behavior, or a set of non-criminal acts that only happen under this religion in this way), the Supreme Court may interpret not only that religion is a shield (i.e. Peyote for shaman religions), but also that the law has no other reasonable purpose and is thus wholly invalid so it can fuck off.
That doesn't mean they always do a good job of it; I only intend that the supreme court is tasked with interpreting the standing of the law itself as well as the standing of the law against a person.
Wikipedia has always been seen by many of them as an illegitimate, irresponsible, self-appointed power-grab by anonymous nobodies - because after all, it is
The best part? Any anonymous nobody can register a domain name and put up information on a Web site. Wikipedia allows others to remove your bullshit, eventually ending in an edit war and a fact finding cycle.
Encyclopedias are effectively written by anonymous nobodies, too. Who wrote the lion article for Britannica? Oh sure you could look it up, but who does that? They're anonymous outside legal process: Nobody actually cares who the Britannica writers are unless they decide to sue them.
Mostly, it's attaching a name to a thing. Most people identify that Britannica is written by Britannica--the named persons who wrote it aren't in anyone's mind--while they identify Wikipedia as Wikipedia, and have to make some further thought to claim that the writers are not named persons they can identify. If you start telling people about Brooke Allen, they'll look at you like, who is that? Tell them she writes for Britannica and has six degrees in American History and they'll assume she's credible.
The city is a dense network of roads, and is supported by so much parking that it comes in 12 story parking garages that take up entire city blocks, spaced three blocks apart.
Pull up Google Maps for "Parking garage baltimore inner harbor". Go to Water Street and Gay. See the building along Water Street that takes up the whole block? That's a 12 floor parking garage. See Central Parking two blocks east? 10 floors. South-east, another Central parking. South of that is Pier 5, which is absolutely massive. The tiny ones squeezed in a corner are small parking lots, pay to park, fenced in, with guards.
Baltimore has a population of 670,000. Between the parking garages and street parking, there's room for over three million cars to park in a one mile radius from Power Plant Live. There's also metro service, bus service, and light rail service. Maryland has a population of 5.7 million.
The city can't offer better parking solutions. It isn't physically possible.
How do people without access to the auctioning app get access to what is essentially public parking?
The same way anyone else does: don't try to park when people want to go out. In the current situation, it's extremely likely that you'll leave on Friday or Saturday night at 7pm, show up at 7:30, and drive around until 8pm or even 9pm trying to find a parking spot within half a mile of the night life joints. Public parking is inaccessible because it's scarce; this scarcity also denies access to public roadways. This solution frees up some access to roadways, and lets you find out how much parking is being opened up--you can then decide if it's worth looking for a public parking space or just go to a parking garage, or take public transit.
Why should someone pay a third party to have a chance to use public parking?
Because the third party currently has rights to that public parking by writ of using it at the time. Otherwise I'd just call a tow truck to remove the Ferrari parked in my spot.
Seriously, though, it's information. The city could provide a similar service, and you'd pay for it in fees, and you could try to make the same argument. To me, the difference is that third parties are more efficient in this system than public-sector initiatives, and therefor better.
Then they'll adapt. Also, it increases the flow of traffic by parking more people in a shorter time frame, making it easier to stumble over a parking spot by luck in shorter time.
What's the difference here? In my scenario, a parking space is found and utilized at an acceptable distance soon after an individual decides to find one. In the existing scenario, individuals drive around until they stumble upon one by luck, or give up and move out further.
My system is like SCHED_CFQ, while the existing system is like SCHED_RAND.
Uh. No, not really. There are plenty of places to stop, for example at long red lights or in the no-parking area by the kerb. Most places you can stop aren't parking spaces.
Is this the "you can't wear Google Glass because imaginary people will beat you up" argument?
I account for everything. People wave you on when you wait for their parking spot in real life. That's how it works at Wegman's, at Lowes, at the Inner Harbor with street parking, etc. An arm comes out and waves, and you drive on. I drive on every day. People park, then dick around in their car for 10 minutes.
We have nothing like that here. Parking spaces don't have smart grids. San Francisco appears unique in this aspect; in Baltimore, it would be a high expense that the city cannot undertake.
My experience with parking congestion is limited to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. In this scenario, the streets are filled with cars so much that a pedestrian OUTWALKS them; I am annoyed at the slow pace of traffic when on my bicycle but, fortunately, most of Pratt carries a bike and bus lane on the right. I'm going 30mph down the road (on a bicycle, yes--it's level) beating the lights (which you must stop for on a bicycle!), while everyone else is crawling.
Parking garage fees can easily break $20 if you're doing the 10-2 or 8-1 run on a Saturday night, except for a select few running an early bird special. Typical fees are $12-$15 to get in, $1-$3/hr until you leave, rounded up. Folks try to get a $2/hr roadside spot driving around for a half hour or more (and most of them cheat and only pay for the first hour--the meters don't expire; you put a ticket on the dash in your car, which has the date printed on it, although it's only valid for an hour).
The space going unused isn't the problem; the space being in use *is* the problem.
In a parking shortage, you have two shortages: one of parking spaces and one of information. The shortage of information causes the problems associated with parking shortage.
In short: the driver who immediately fills your parking space finds it by luck. The more severe the parking shortage, the more cumulative distance that driver has driven (i.e. in circles) trying to find a spot by luck. Rather than circling the block a dozen times, the driver looks up a spot and reserves it, then goes directly there.
I got a tetanus vaccination last week so that my constant work in the garden won't lead to my unpleasant not-quite-death. And all I needed was a poke in the arm, which was extremely unpleasant, but oh well.
Here are your options:
Default: drive around for hours on clogged streets, not able to get anywhere. Get close to your destination, spend 20 minutes circling the surrounding 3 blocks twice, determine this isn't getting you anywhere. Spend 10 more minutes getting further out. Park, walk for 20 more minutes. Get to your destination 50 minutes after you've first reached it, itself after 20 minutes of battling traffic to get close in the first place. This is down town Baltimore City.
Alternate One: Get close to your destination. Pull out your phone, find a parking spot, purchase. The streets are less clogged due to people parking more quickly, thus fewer cars on the road, thus you reach your destination in 5 minutes. Park, pay. Cost including reservation and any parking meter costs will be lower than the $15-for-the-first-four-hours cost of the surrounding parking lots and garages (on saturday nights, I get $8 plus a VAT for the night, 8pm to 1am only, out by 5am, from ONE parking garage; the rest are charging $8 to get in plus $2/hr, so $18 to stay out from 8pm to 1am).
Alternate Two: Have the city install a smart grid. Reserve parking spot remotely and pay city an additional fee on top of usual parking costs, additional taxes, or both.
Alternate Three: Have the city install a smart grid. No reservations; pay additional taxes to constantly race to where a parking space will hopefully still be.
The cheapest and most effective solution is Alternate One. The other two require building more infrastructure, paying more fees and taxes, and maintaining the infrastructure. Alternate One provides near-parity with much lower investment and maintenance costs. Costs are direct--not hidden in taxes or reduction of other city services--and are bounded by the cost of parking at readily-available higher-tier parking garages (i.e. you won't pay $45 to park a block away from the $12 parking garage).
It occurs to me that knowing where a parking space is available would reduce time spent driving around, itself reducing pollution, excess expenditure on additional fuel, the clogging of streets, and other issues associated with tons of traffic driving in circles throughout the city.
These people are providing the city the great and valuable service of a functional smart parking grid operating when parking congestion is high.
The Internet says "rawlemon scam" is a revolutionary new technology. Everywhere. Provide that this is a scam, because I can't find any such evidence, and there is a lot of tech that looks stupid because I don't understand it but is actually brilliant and awesome.
I have concluded that a rolling distro would be incredibly stupid.
What we need is something like Ubuntu, with its 6-12 month release cycle, but also supporting a rolling repository. Ubuntu has backports repository for select updates; a rolling repository would extend this, caveat only the latest version of all software and the non-rolling version of all software are supported. So Ubuntu 14.04 is supported, Ubuntu 14.04 rolling with today's updates is supported, but Ubuntu 14.04 with some middling release of Firefox from last week--fully stable, latest patched Firefox 29 when Firefox 30 just came out and is now in rolling--is *not* supported, at all.
The normal release could base on a rolling snapshot. I dunno.
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So what i described above was more than Aereo offers.
Are they? Honest question because I haven't seen any statistics on what people were paying.
I don't need statistics for this. There are parking lots and garages with parking available all over the place, at an excessively high premium. Baltimore has 670,000 people; Maryland has 5.7 million. Within 1 mile of Ram's Head in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, there's parking for over 3 million vehicles. There's that many parking garages.
Parking is available, if you want to pay $12-$15 to get into the door. This is right across the street from a $2 street parking spot. If you're trying to sell a $2 parking spot for $30 ... well, $20 is less than $30, so people will go into the garage instead. No statistics needed.
And whats to stop a bunch of rich people firing their drivers now that they have easy access to a spot that they can just throw down $50 for?
That would make personal drivers rent seekers. If the value of a personal driver is below that level, then we're destroying wealth in the economy by spending money on the personal drivers, and they should be eliminated.
Imagine you rent an apartment in San Francisco, hook your DVR up to the antenna, and set up Internet to watch it from New York.
Now imagine you rent that DVR from an electronics rental company.
Now imagine you also get an account with LogMeIn as your access method to your DVR.
Now imagine the landlord, the electronics rental company, and LogMeIn are all the same company.
That's Aereo.
The supreme court is different. They're supposed to look at issues and decide if this is how our country was supposed to work. If certain actions criminalize a religion without just cause (i.e. the criminalized set of acts is representative of a harmless behavior, or a set of non-criminal acts that only happen under this religion in this way), the Supreme Court may interpret not only that religion is a shield (i.e. Peyote for shaman religions), but also that the law has no other reasonable purpose and is thus wholly invalid so it can fuck off.
That doesn't mean they always do a good job of it; I only intend that the supreme court is tasked with interpreting the standing of the law itself as well as the standing of the law against a person.
Wikipedia has always been seen by many of them as an illegitimate, irresponsible, self-appointed power-grab by anonymous nobodies - because after all, it is
The best part? Any anonymous nobody can register a domain name and put up information on a Web site. Wikipedia allows others to remove your bullshit, eventually ending in an edit war and a fact finding cycle.
Encyclopedias are effectively written by anonymous nobodies, too. Who wrote the lion article for Britannica? Oh sure you could look it up, but who does that? They're anonymous outside legal process: Nobody actually cares who the Britannica writers are unless they decide to sue them.
Mostly, it's attaching a name to a thing. Most people identify that Britannica is written by Britannica--the named persons who wrote it aren't in anyone's mind--while they identify Wikipedia as Wikipedia, and have to make some further thought to claim that the writers are not named persons they can identify. If you start telling people about Brooke Allen, they'll look at you like, who is that? Tell them she writes for Britannica and has six degrees in American History and they'll assume she's credible.
He'll probably have an anti-SLAPP motion filed against him, get barred from discovery, then have to pay $10 million in legal fees.
The city is a dense network of roads, and is supported by so much parking that it comes in 12 story parking garages that take up entire city blocks, spaced three blocks apart.
Pull up Google Maps for "Parking garage baltimore inner harbor". Go to Water Street and Gay. See the building along Water Street that takes up the whole block? That's a 12 floor parking garage. See Central Parking two blocks east? 10 floors. South-east, another Central parking. South of that is Pier 5, which is absolutely massive. The tiny ones squeezed in a corner are small parking lots, pay to park, fenced in, with guards.
Baltimore has a population of 670,000. Between the parking garages and street parking, there's room for over three million cars to park in a one mile radius from Power Plant Live. There's also metro service, bus service, and light rail service. Maryland has a population of 5.7 million.
The city can't offer better parking solutions. It isn't physically possible.
How do people without access to the auctioning app get access to what is essentially public parking?
The same way anyone else does: don't try to park when people want to go out. In the current situation, it's extremely likely that you'll leave on Friday or Saturday night at 7pm, show up at 7:30, and drive around until 8pm or even 9pm trying to find a parking spot within half a mile of the night life joints. Public parking is inaccessible because it's scarce; this scarcity also denies access to public roadways. This solution frees up some access to roadways, and lets you find out how much parking is being opened up--you can then decide if it's worth looking for a public parking space or just go to a parking garage, or take public transit.
Why should someone pay a third party to have a chance to use public parking?
Because the third party currently has rights to that public parking by writ of using it at the time. Otherwise I'd just call a tow truck to remove the Ferrari parked in my spot.
Seriously, though, it's information. The city could provide a similar service, and you'd pay for it in fees, and you could try to make the same argument. To me, the difference is that third parties are more efficient in this system than public-sector initiatives, and therefor better.
Then they'll adapt. Also, it increases the flow of traffic by parking more people in a shorter time frame, making it easier to stumble over a parking spot by luck in shorter time.
What's the difference here? In my scenario, a parking space is found and utilized at an acceptable distance soon after an individual decides to find one. In the existing scenario, individuals drive around until they stumble upon one by luck, or give up and move out further.
My system is like SCHED_CFQ, while the existing system is like SCHED_RAND.
Uh. No, not really. There are plenty of places to stop, for example at long red lights or in the no-parking area by the kerb. Most places you can stop aren't parking spaces.
Ah, okay. So they prefer the people who are driving to drive around more.
Is this the "you can't wear Google Glass because imaginary people will beat you up" argument?
I account for everything. People wave you on when you wait for their parking spot in real life. That's how it works at Wegman's, at Lowes, at the Inner Harbor with street parking, etc. An arm comes out and waves, and you drive on. I drive on every day. People park, then dick around in their car for 10 minutes.
We have nothing like that here. Parking spaces don't have smart grids. San Francisco appears unique in this aspect; in Baltimore, it would be a high expense that the city cannot undertake.
My experience with parking congestion is limited to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. In this scenario, the streets are filled with cars so much that a pedestrian OUTWALKS them; I am annoyed at the slow pace of traffic when on my bicycle but, fortunately, most of Pratt carries a bike and bus lane on the right. I'm going 30mph down the road (on a bicycle, yes--it's level) beating the lights (which you must stop for on a bicycle!), while everyone else is crawling.
Parking garage fees can easily break $20 if you're doing the 10-2 or 8-1 run on a Saturday night, except for a select few running an early bird special. Typical fees are $12-$15 to get in, $1-$3/hr until you leave, rounded up. Folks try to get a $2/hr roadside spot driving around for a half hour or more (and most of them cheat and only pay for the first hour--the meters don't expire; you put a ticket on the dash in your car, which has the date printed on it, although it's only valid for an hour).
The space going unused isn't the problem; the space being in use *is* the problem.
In a parking shortage, you have two shortages: one of parking spaces and one of information. The shortage of information causes the problems associated with parking shortage.
In short: the driver who immediately fills your parking space finds it by luck. The more severe the parking shortage, the more cumulative distance that driver has driven (i.e. in circles) trying to find a spot by luck. Rather than circling the block a dozen times, the driver looks up a spot and reserves it, then goes directly there.
I got a tetanus vaccination last week so that my constant work in the garden won't lead to my unpleasant not-quite-death. And all I needed was a poke in the arm, which was extremely unpleasant, but oh well.
Here are your options:
Default: drive around for hours on clogged streets, not able to get anywhere. Get close to your destination, spend 20 minutes circling the surrounding 3 blocks twice, determine this isn't getting you anywhere. Spend 10 more minutes getting further out. Park, walk for 20 more minutes. Get to your destination 50 minutes after you've first reached it, itself after 20 minutes of battling traffic to get close in the first place. This is down town Baltimore City.
Alternate One: Get close to your destination. Pull out your phone, find a parking spot, purchase. The streets are less clogged due to people parking more quickly, thus fewer cars on the road, thus you reach your destination in 5 minutes. Park, pay. Cost including reservation and any parking meter costs will be lower than the $15-for-the-first-four-hours cost of the surrounding parking lots and garages (on saturday nights, I get $8 plus a VAT for the night, 8pm to 1am only, out by 5am, from ONE parking garage; the rest are charging $8 to get in plus $2/hr, so $18 to stay out from 8pm to 1am).
Alternate Two: Have the city install a smart grid. Reserve parking spot remotely and pay city an additional fee on top of usual parking costs, additional taxes, or both.
Alternate Three: Have the city install a smart grid. No reservations; pay additional taxes to constantly race to where a parking space will hopefully still be.
The cheapest and most effective solution is Alternate One. The other two require building more infrastructure, paying more fees and taxes, and maintaining the infrastructure. Alternate One provides near-parity with much lower investment and maintenance costs. Costs are direct--not hidden in taxes or reduction of other city services--and are bounded by the cost of parking at readily-available higher-tier parking garages (i.e. you won't pay $45 to park a block away from the $12 parking garage).
Economics.
It occurs to me that knowing where a parking space is available would reduce time spent driving around, itself reducing pollution, excess expenditure on additional fuel, the clogging of streets, and other issues associated with tons of traffic driving in circles throughout the city.
These people are providing the city the great and valuable service of a functional smart parking grid operating when parking congestion is high.
ZSW doesn't have a statement on their site about this. Nothing online I can find by googling copiously says anything about this.
It's either fake bullshit or it's bullshit in the form of shit we've already seen all over the place being peddled as new. Apparently the former.
He posed an imminent threat to the US. We should have details about this threat, and about what impending attack his execution halted.
Or it's an RFID.
The Internet says "rawlemon scam" is a revolutionary new technology. Everywhere. Provide that this is a scam, because I can't find any such evidence, and there is a lot of tech that looks stupid because I don't understand it but is actually brilliant and awesome.
Lots of sites have ads that go to other sites which are ad supported. Many of these sites have ads for each other. It's like a big pyramid scheme.
I have concluded that a rolling distro would be incredibly stupid.
What we need is something like Ubuntu, with its 6-12 month release cycle, but also supporting a rolling repository. Ubuntu has backports repository for select updates; a rolling repository would extend this, caveat only the latest version of all software and the non-rolling version of all software are supported. So Ubuntu 14.04 is supported, Ubuntu 14.04 rolling with today's updates is supported, but Ubuntu 14.04 with some middling release of Firefox from last week--fully stable, latest patched Firefox 29 when Firefox 30 just came out and is now in rolling--is *not* supported, at all.
The normal release could base on a rolling snapshot. I dunno.
Yes, it is fully compatible with TacoBell.com.