Oh no, those institutional toilets do seem to work better. You could fill it full of sludge and get it to go down in one press. They sound like a small jet and go down with so much force that they appear to create somewhat of a vacuum if the prison documentaries are to be believed. They are every bit as awesome as they sound.
They *could* leave the rights up to the State. I can assure you that the vast majority of New England isn't going to run out of water any time soon. If they're low on water then the rest of the country is dead from thirst.
I want a showerhead that has the pressure of a fire hose. I want it to deform my skin and peel off the two outermost layers. I want the elderly and children to be afraid of it - by sound alone. I want it hot, too. However, I was able to achieve that. It is plenty hot. I am not sure how many heads I've tried now but it's probably more than is healthy.
I have so much pressure that, literally, I have to have a pump house that doesn't actually pump but lowers the pressure. If I take the shower head off and turn it on - it's got pressure. (I have considered bathing like this but the stream isn't so very broad.) I'd go take some from the older house that I have on the property but I've learned my lesson with poking at older plumbing. I want the same pressure, and effect, that you you'd expect to find in Marine barracks that had been built in the 1940s.
Hmm... I wonder if any of my friends know how to make one? I have some odd friends with some odd skills.
That sounds awesome! That is also something that I've never thought of launching. As an adult, I have a few dollars. I have a neighbor that raises chickens and even some that migrated to my house (I assume they're revolutionary Communist chickens - it's a long story) but, as near as I can tell, the ones that migrated to The New Land (my lawn) haven't left me anything that resembles an egg. But, I can get some.
I can even get thick black piping and make egg sabots. Hmm... I won't be home until spring, probably, and I don't think my current location is a good area. I am in Florida, I can get away with it, but I'm in a rather ritzy community, on the beach, and don't have a whole lot of property here. I do have several video cameras, a work shop, and a pile of tools - including a MIG welder. I am picturing something with a classic WWI-style AA weapon targeting system and, of course, all in black.
Also, per your other remark. I am glad it amused someone besides me. I actually find it more amusing that someone else failed to get the humor. It says a lot about some people. Of course, you can say most anything about "some people" and be correct. "Some people like sticking mashed peas in their ass." I'm not gonna Google, my kids are wandering around the house and that'd be an awkward conversation, but I presume that there are even pictures of people doing this. And liking it... So, when things like that happen - I get to say, "Some people ____." I'm easily amused.
I'm gonna need to see some math. The Nazis killed something like 24,000,000 Russians during WWII.
The US lost something like 50,000 people during the Civil War. The Germans killed about that many English in the Battle of the Somme in one day.
This shit in the Middle East that everyone keeps trying to blame on the US? Heh... Let's just go back a bit further and see when those countries, as they exist (sort of) today, came from shall we? (The US did not participate in the League of Nations.)
I am not, of course, saying that the US is not a monster. No, we are. But, by my rough estimates, we're still an order of magnitude less a monster than many, many other areas.
We all, I hope, have a finite limit on abuses we will accept before accepting that we must fight, and risk death, in order to maintain our liberties. While I don't (probably) agree with the threshold that that AC has established for themselves, I understand the concept.
I had an "incident" (that I've described in great detail here, at least once) and, at the time, nobody believed that cops had that power. I'll skip the gritty details but I'd stopped to take a nap in a parking lot in Kansas during one of my fairly frequent wanderlusts - where I just drive around the country, even continent, at mostly random.
I'd declined their request to search my vehicle but was subject to a Terry Stop. I'm not sure if this next part was legal - there are limits to what a Terry Stop can actually include. They opened my wallet and, surprise, there were a whole lot of $100 bills in it. Yeah, of course there were. It's not like I want to be without cash. I had even more than that in a safe in the car. I think there was 3-4k in the wallet, not a whole lot.
The car I was driving is a nice car but they'd not know it. It was (I still have it) an older model Honda. It's not like I was in a BMW, it's not like I was dressed like anything different, and I had long hair and sorta dark skin. (I'm a mutt but mostly Micmac.)
So they tell me that they think I'm a drug dealer and that they're going to take the money. They have counted it out and one of them is writing a receipt out. I told them that I wasn't very happy with their choice, that I'd be calling my lawyer, asked their names, and said that I'd be staying in town until the matter was resolved. (I think, I do not know, that it was that last part that changed their mind.)
Some looking, the following night, indicated that this is not unheard of when you're traveling with cash in even moderately large sums. This was the same police outfit that tried to tell me that my refusal to allow them to search the car was probable cause that enabled them to search the car. I literally giggled and told them that I hadn't been a dumb teenager since sometime around the year they were born and then stared at the one who said it and said, "So, no."
They followed this up with kicking me out of Kansas, telling me never to return, escorting me to the highway, and telling me that if I ever came back that they were going to arrest me on sight. (Which also amused me.)
I think they like people who are on the road because it's not like they're going to stick around for a court case. I, on the other hand, had plenty of time and kind of liked the area. I'd just gone through and helped clean up after a tornado in Greensburg. I was on "vacation" waiting for my business to finalize the sale process and be able to divest the shares in the now-parent company. I happened to be in the area and they got whacked with a tornado. I went over and helped clean up. So, I was willing to stick around.
The sad part is, I've been in fights that got me arrested, I've been in sketchy situations, and I've had lots of interactions with the cops when, frankly, I'd probably forgive them (if not say they're justified) for macing me and kicking my ass out by the docks. I've never had any poor interactions with any US police except for this one time. I have, however, gone out of my way to avoid even driving through Kansas and that means I've actually had to drive through Texas since then. Yeah, I picked driving through Texas instead of going through Kansas. Ah well. I should go back and hang out just to piss 'em off.
That's a bit hyperbolic. Do you not know about, well, most of Europe (for example), or Persia, or China, or even Japan (for a while)? Do you not know what the UK did to their colonies? The Dutch? Portugal? Spain? France? The US is a bigger thug than the Nazis? I mean, come on now...
They already make 'em buy insurance. I think my kids either at least broke a bone or broke someone else's. My daughter quit cheering after breaking another girl's nose so she's at least broken that one. With my son, trips to the ER were fairly common. He had an ankle air cast thing and a cast on his wrist at one point so I'm thinking that was broken but that was a lot of years ago and my memory has faulty sectors.
Usually, the larger the scar - the more interesting the story. With that, of course, the more prominent the lesson. To this day, I wake up sometimes with a sore knee, back, ankle, wrist, etc... First thing, "Oh yeah! I remember that. Heh." You can laugh more when you've cried your hardest. You can sing louder when you remember having been silenced. You can jump higher when you've been held down.
Probably not. So then why make everyone follow the same rules when there are obvious outliers? Why not make everyone get one of those metal toilets from jails? They're low flow but use high pressure. How about the freedom to make responsible choices on your own?
Don't get me wrong, I know about the tragedy of the commons - that's how we got here in the first place. However, at some point - enough is enough. I could be an ass and use an old showerhead. I could take the low-flow valve out of one. I don't. I live with it but I'd really like a nice one - and I've looked pretty hard and not found one. So, if you're actually wanting to help, hook a guy up, will ya?
A few weeks back, I gave an address to a piece of my property. It was that silly three word address thing, that thread. I'm not there now but I'll be back in the spring. Anyhow, it's on the side of a mountain, in the NW part of Maine, with a true artesian well, and it appears that there's a whole bunch of water in it. As in, my actual well is at a lower elevation than my house and I don't actually need a pump to get it to my house. I have a pump house but that's more to regulate the flow so it doesn't blow my taps off when spring comes or it rains heavily. Well, not quite that bad I don't think but I am not a plumber.
At any rate, add to that the fact that I own *all* the land around me in almost every direction - I'll own the next chunk to my NE when my neighbor's pass away. We've reached a verbal agreement and I'm just going to pay them ahead of time, let them remain in it, and they can give the money to their kids who don't want to own the farm. There's a couple that live there and work the farm for them, or most of it, and I'm just going to let them live there in exchange for running the farm. They can keep the profits so long as they maintain the property. I'll probably put it in some sort of trust.
Basically, there is zero chance of me running out of water. If I am out of water - the rest of the world is pretty much fucked. I don't even consume electricity to pump the water, it's a true artesian well. I don't dump a bunch of chemicals into the water, that'd not be cool. Even if I did, I have a pretty fancy leech field but I still don't. What I do want is to be able to buy a damned showerhead that's good. I've tried a bunch of expensive ones and I don't really like any of them. I can do a quick Naval shower or the likes but I kind of like my hot showers. I like it to pound the hell out of my head and back and turn me beet red. I want to step out of the shower bright red and not just from the water being hot.
On the other hand, I bought nice toilets. They're low flow but I did some reading first and ended up spending a bit on 'em but they work better than the old style. They're shaped a little funny in the bowl and the drain's a little different looking but I used to put a whole lot of opiates into me and that means that I'd shit a sticky brick and these deal with it just famously. Seriously, that stuff's like almost cured cement or something. Err... I don't have pictures of the toilet or I'd share the model name. They're pretty good though.
If you ever get in a fight and get arrested or something, make sure you get locked down in a cell by yourself. It will have the ultimate toilet in it. It's made of metal and has a sink built in but, wow... Those things can suck down a sheet, socks, pillow case, papers, food, utensils, and probably a cat. I'm only slightly less utilitarian than that so I didn't opt for one of those. It would be awesome, however.
If you stand up, bounce up and down a few times, and land heavily on your head - you'll knock that sand out of your vagina.
You do realize that you're ranting at someone on the internet, right? Yeah... You could be right, 1000x over, and they're still not gonna give a shit and now everyone will try it just to piss you off.
I have a 19 year old dishwasher that I'm told still works but I don't think she's ever actually washed any dishes since she's been with me. Meh, she probably won't wash 'em when we get back home either. That's why you find a nice neighbor and pay them well. Said neighbor is actually down here with us and she has her husband with her. She's "on vacation" so she isn't "allowed" to do the dishes. I've done them myself - I have no idea how the automatic dishwasher works. I'll probably never learn.
I don't think there are any around here until Spring Break comes around and then there are just hoards of chicks with little clothing on and they tend to spill over onto my private section. I don't mind or anything but I have a little lady with me this time. I think it might be prudent to go back north before the middle of February hits. My kids have spent more time here than I have but I've come down to enjoy the view during Spring Break. I'm watching the sunset, of course. Yeah, that's the view that I speak of.
You missed last night. I don't normally drink but I had a couple with the kids and g/f. Fortunately, not too many and I didn't go off the rails ranting about something different. I'm kinda tired tonight so you'll have to find a new bedtime story.
I didn't say that it was based on 'em. I said "heavily influenced." If you go through your history books and read about what happened in the five or so years after the end of WWII then you'll see what I'm referring to. The Allied Forces spent a lot of money, time, and effort rebuilding and teaching them to think for themselves. They heavily influenced the whole process of turning them into a democracy, including specifics with the laws. The Allies weren't just going to let them keep the same regulations. They simply couldn't be trusted to do so.
Thanks - that pointed me in the right direction. They did it, for the most part, in-house. A recently deceased Ralph Iboshi was brought on with the design team. He passed away back in 2012(ish), as I recall. He was with KPFF (they had at least one good employ - namely Mr. Iboshi) but KPFF's name is not on any of the documents that I'm finding. I'm only finding Mr. Iboshi's name.
I see him listed as still being with KPFF. It makes me wonder if he simply ended up staying on with the muni and left KPFF or what. Given the date of the RFP, 2006, I'm a little concerned that I know nothing of the project. (The companies that you listed are the guys that are doing the construction - there's surely someone, perhaps from KPFF, still on-site though they have an office in Tacoma as I recall.)
At any rate, I noticed a fairly typical thing... Someone (probably Iboshi) came up with a bunch of great ideas and the State of Washington cut it down and they're implementing only five or six. (I'm willing to bet the additional costs would have been a percentage point or two.) This is why you can't have nice things. I've ranted about it on Slashdot before.
I'll keep reading and looking up more information. I'm just getting back in a little while ago. I'll make a phone call tomorrow or later tonight and see what pops out. If I saw the project, I don't believe we put a bid in on it. I don't even recognize it which is, well, a bit odd given the time frame. I'll dig back through and see if they did a regional RFP only and/or only sought an in-state business. Sometime around that point (around the time of the quake) was when KPFF opened an office up in Washington. They're usually out of Oregon - I think... Yeah, Oregon, I'll Google if need be.
At any rate, Iboshi's got some quality work out there. Years ago, he did some work on the PCH. One of the primary things that PCH tries to maintain is aesthetics (there's an interesting history going back through - the design work on the bridges is amazing) and there was a need to optimize throughput with growing traffic demands in the mid 1990s. I'd trust his work - but I'd keep in mind that they only acted on some of the proposals and it looks like quite a bit of work was done in-house.
The price doesn't look too bad. I suspect the insurance company is going to be pissed with the delay but that's what insurance is for. If you live out that way, you should call it some part of it, just a small part, Iboshi Way. Unless it turns out to suck, in that case - I mention again that municipalities are horrific about only implementing a part of the proposed solution - often at trivial cost savings and will only lead to much more expensive expansions or alterations in the future.
Pfft... Pope, I hold a Ph.D... I'll let that sink in for a minute.
Good? Alright. No, having a Ph.D is not indicative of intelligence by default. I know some highly educated idiots and, sometimes, put myself into that category.
However, I concede your point about San Antonio, Orlando, Louisville, and Tampa. I will, on the other hand, offer this: http://www.online-phd-programs...
And, because someone has to, I'll add that Seattle is probably home of the most hipsters and SJWs! (Someone had to throw that out there.)
Heh... Everett. They've got a Naval base there. I have been there but I don't recall any Bikini workers. This was the late 1970s. They only had whores.
Having done a whole lot of work, across this country and in others, specifically with with government workers - I can answer your questions with one word:
Municipality.
But, some more of the story... No, I'm not saying all government is bad. I am saying that, for whatever reason, highway/transportation departments do some amazing things but sometimes they're amazingly inept.
They mention a muni engineer but I'm unable to find any information about the traffic engineers or the traffic modelers. I can almost guarantee that they exist, especially with the FHWA involved, and the timing on the project is interesting. I'd have had zero personal involvement but I may be familiar with the company who provided the above mentioned services. Very, very few municipalities (even at the State level) have the staff, education, or compute power to actually model their own traffic (in a timely fashion) and then make accurate predictions and suggestions. Thus, I'm almost willing to wager that it was contracted out and there were few companies doing so at the time (though there were more coming online starting a few years prior).
If anyone's in the area and wants to find out who did the work then I just might be able to get some sort of preview about real expectations (those expectations not given in the city council meetings or in press releases) and find out any scuttlebutt - though it might be a bit dated, I suspect the modeling company and/or traffic engineers have someone either on-call or on-site and they'll be capable of recommending, designing, and remodeling - or at least collecting the data and pushing it back to be done on big iron. I can say that I'd be a combination of pissed off for tying up the personnel and happy for the money because they've been paying some guy to hang out in WA for two years while the project went nowhere - and he's got no input, expertise, or willingness to accept liability for making any decisions as to what to do with broken equipment.
(They probably did work with others to look at alternative routes but I'm not seeing much about that.) Usually, it is me me picking people's brains on Slashdot. For once, I might actually know something or be able to find it out. It's really a bad idea to do a project this size completely in-house. They're just not really equipped for it and, more often than not, you end up with a combination of seemingly good ideas that really don't work that well but someone read an article and maybe a book. There's everything from seismic activity to psychology that goes into modeling traffic effectively and (in my not-so-humble opinion) very few providers of that service that are actually qualified.
Ah well... I don't have any insight at all on this project but if someone can find out who did the modeling then I might be able to connect with a people or two. When you let a muni do the work, you end up with stuff like bicycle racks in an island at the end of a closed highway's on ramp. You end up with things like half the parking spots being taken away - to encourage walking, but no new spots added on the outskirts. You end up with short merge points and a need to go from city-street speeds to highway speeds in a few hundred feet. It's not really their fault, they simply don't have the capacity to look at the larger picture and the experience to optimize the throughput. It's also pretty expensive.
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Oh no, those institutional toilets do seem to work better. You could fill it full of sludge and get it to go down in one press. They sound like a small jet and go down with so much force that they appear to create somewhat of a vacuum if the prison documentaries are to be believed. They are every bit as awesome as they sound.
They *could* leave the rights up to the State. I can assure you that the vast majority of New England isn't going to run out of water any time soon. If they're low on water then the rest of the country is dead from thirst.
I want a showerhead that has the pressure of a fire hose. I want it to deform my skin and peel off the two outermost layers. I want the elderly and children to be afraid of it - by sound alone. I want it hot, too. However, I was able to achieve that. It is plenty hot. I am not sure how many heads I've tried now but it's probably more than is healthy.
I have so much pressure that, literally, I have to have a pump house that doesn't actually pump but lowers the pressure. If I take the shower head off and turn it on - it's got pressure. (I have considered bathing like this but the stream isn't so very broad.) I'd go take some from the older house that I have on the property but I've learned my lesson with poking at older plumbing. I want the same pressure, and effect, that you you'd expect to find in Marine barracks that had been built in the 1940s.
Hmm... I wonder if any of my friends know how to make one? I have some odd friends with some odd skills.
That sounds awesome! That is also something that I've never thought of launching. As an adult, I have a few dollars. I have a neighbor that raises chickens and even some that migrated to my house (I assume they're revolutionary Communist chickens - it's a long story) but, as near as I can tell, the ones that migrated to The New Land (my lawn) haven't left me anything that resembles an egg. But, I can get some.
I can even get thick black piping and make egg sabots. Hmm... I won't be home until spring, probably, and I don't think my current location is a good area. I am in Florida, I can get away with it, but I'm in a rather ritzy community, on the beach, and don't have a whole lot of property here. I do have several video cameras, a work shop, and a pile of tools - including a MIG welder. I am picturing something with a classic WWI-style AA weapon targeting system and, of course, all in black.
Also, per your other remark. I am glad it amused someone besides me. I actually find it more amusing that someone else failed to get the humor. It says a lot about some people. Of course, you can say most anything about "some people" and be correct. "Some people like sticking mashed peas in their ass." I'm not gonna Google, my kids are wandering around the house and that'd be an awkward conversation, but I presume that there are even pictures of people doing this. And liking it... So, when things like that happen - I get to say, "Some people ____." I'm easily amused.
Learn some history, child.
I'm gonna need to see some math. The Nazis killed something like 24,000,000 Russians during WWII.
The US lost something like 50,000 people during the Civil War. The Germans killed about that many English in the Battle of the Somme in one day.
This shit in the Middle East that everyone keeps trying to blame on the US? Heh... Let's just go back a bit further and see when those countries, as they exist (sort of) today, came from shall we? (The US did not participate in the League of Nations.)
I am not, of course, saying that the US is not a monster. No, we are. But, by my rough estimates, we're still an order of magnitude less a monster than many, many other areas.
You even took the time to entitle your post "InB4" and nobody noticed.
We all, I hope, have a finite limit on abuses we will accept before accepting that we must fight, and risk death, in order to maintain our liberties. While I don't (probably) agree with the threshold that that AC has established for themselves, I understand the concept.
I had an "incident" (that I've described in great detail here, at least once) and, at the time, nobody believed that cops had that power. I'll skip the gritty details but I'd stopped to take a nap in a parking lot in Kansas during one of my fairly frequent wanderlusts - where I just drive around the country, even continent, at mostly random.
I'd declined their request to search my vehicle but was subject to a Terry Stop. I'm not sure if this next part was legal - there are limits to what a Terry Stop can actually include. They opened my wallet and, surprise, there were a whole lot of $100 bills in it. Yeah, of course there were. It's not like I want to be without cash. I had even more than that in a safe in the car. I think there was 3-4k in the wallet, not a whole lot.
The car I was driving is a nice car but they'd not know it. It was (I still have it) an older model Honda. It's not like I was in a BMW, it's not like I was dressed like anything different, and I had long hair and sorta dark skin. (I'm a mutt but mostly Micmac.)
So they tell me that they think I'm a drug dealer and that they're going to take the money. They have counted it out and one of them is writing a receipt out. I told them that I wasn't very happy with their choice, that I'd be calling my lawyer, asked their names, and said that I'd be staying in town until the matter was resolved. (I think, I do not know, that it was that last part that changed their mind.)
Some looking, the following night, indicated that this is not unheard of when you're traveling with cash in even moderately large sums. This was the same police outfit that tried to tell me that my refusal to allow them to search the car was probable cause that enabled them to search the car. I literally giggled and told them that I hadn't been a dumb teenager since sometime around the year they were born and then stared at the one who said it and said, "So, no."
They followed this up with kicking me out of Kansas, telling me never to return, escorting me to the highway, and telling me that if I ever came back that they were going to arrest me on sight. (Which also amused me.)
I think they like people who are on the road because it's not like they're going to stick around for a court case. I, on the other hand, had plenty of time and kind of liked the area. I'd just gone through and helped clean up after a tornado in Greensburg. I was on "vacation" waiting for my business to finalize the sale process and be able to divest the shares in the now-parent company. I happened to be in the area and they got whacked with a tornado. I went over and helped clean up. So, I was willing to stick around.
The sad part is, I've been in fights that got me arrested, I've been in sketchy situations, and I've had lots of interactions with the cops when, frankly, I'd probably forgive them (if not say they're justified) for macing me and kicking my ass out by the docks. I've never had any poor interactions with any US police except for this one time. I have, however, gone out of my way to avoid even driving through Kansas and that means I've actually had to drive through Texas since then. Yeah, I picked driving through Texas instead of going through Kansas. Ah well. I should go back and hang out just to piss 'em off.
That's a bit hyperbolic. Do you not know about, well, most of Europe (for example), or Persia, or China, or even Japan (for a while)? Do you not know what the UK did to their colonies? The Dutch? Portugal? Spain? France? The US is a bigger thug than the Nazis? I mean, come on now...
Yeah, mine are slightly taller than most and I think you just named the brand.
They already make 'em buy insurance. I think my kids either at least broke a bone or broke someone else's. My daughter quit cheering after breaking another girl's nose so she's at least broken that one. With my son, trips to the ER were fairly common. He had an ankle air cast thing and a cast on his wrist at one point so I'm thinking that was broken but that was a lot of years ago and my memory has faulty sectors.
Usually, the larger the scar - the more interesting the story. With that, of course, the more prominent the lesson. To this day, I wake up sometimes with a sore knee, back, ankle, wrist, etc... First thing, "Oh yeah! I remember that. Heh." You can laugh more when you've cried your hardest. You can sing louder when you remember having been silenced. You can jump higher when you've been held down.
I kinda figure something is still using it. Damned if I know what.
Probably not. So then why make everyone follow the same rules when there are obvious outliers? Why not make everyone get one of those metal toilets from jails? They're low flow but use high pressure. How about the freedom to make responsible choices on your own?
Don't get me wrong, I know about the tragedy of the commons - that's how we got here in the first place. However, at some point - enough is enough. I could be an ass and use an old showerhead. I could take the low-flow valve out of one. I don't. I live with it but I'd really like a nice one - and I've looked pretty hard and not found one. So, if you're actually wanting to help, hook a guy up, will ya?
That is my point.
A few weeks back, I gave an address to a piece of my property. It was that silly three word address thing, that thread. I'm not there now but I'll be back in the spring. Anyhow, it's on the side of a mountain, in the NW part of Maine, with a true artesian well, and it appears that there's a whole bunch of water in it. As in, my actual well is at a lower elevation than my house and I don't actually need a pump to get it to my house. I have a pump house but that's more to regulate the flow so it doesn't blow my taps off when spring comes or it rains heavily. Well, not quite that bad I don't think but I am not a plumber.
At any rate, add to that the fact that I own *all* the land around me in almost every direction - I'll own the next chunk to my NE when my neighbor's pass away. We've reached a verbal agreement and I'm just going to pay them ahead of time, let them remain in it, and they can give the money to their kids who don't want to own the farm. There's a couple that live there and work the farm for them, or most of it, and I'm just going to let them live there in exchange for running the farm. They can keep the profits so long as they maintain the property. I'll probably put it in some sort of trust.
Basically, there is zero chance of me running out of water. If I am out of water - the rest of the world is pretty much fucked. I don't even consume electricity to pump the water, it's a true artesian well. I don't dump a bunch of chemicals into the water, that'd not be cool. Even if I did, I have a pretty fancy leech field but I still don't. What I do want is to be able to buy a damned showerhead that's good. I've tried a bunch of expensive ones and I don't really like any of them. I can do a quick Naval shower or the likes but I kind of like my hot showers. I like it to pound the hell out of my head and back and turn me beet red. I want to step out of the shower bright red and not just from the water being hot.
On the other hand, I bought nice toilets. They're low flow but I did some reading first and ended up spending a bit on 'em but they work better than the old style. They're shaped a little funny in the bowl and the drain's a little different looking but I used to put a whole lot of opiates into me and that means that I'd shit a sticky brick and these deal with it just famously. Seriously, that stuff's like almost cured cement or something. Err... I don't have pictures of the toilet or I'd share the model name. They're pretty good though.
If you ever get in a fight and get arrested or something, make sure you get locked down in a cell by yourself. It will have the ultimate toilet in it. It's made of metal and has a sink built in but, wow... Those things can suck down a sheet, socks, pillow case, papers, food, utensils, and probably a cat. I'm only slightly less utilitarian than that so I didn't opt for one of those. It would be awesome, however.
If you stand up, bounce up and down a few times, and land heavily on your head - you'll knock that sand out of your vagina.
You do realize that you're ranting at someone on the internet, right? Yeah... You could be right, 1000x over, and they're still not gonna give a shit and now everyone will try it just to piss you off.
I have a 19 year old dishwasher that I'm told still works but I don't think she's ever actually washed any dishes since she's been with me. Meh, she probably won't wash 'em when we get back home either. That's why you find a nice neighbor and pay them well. Said neighbor is actually down here with us and she has her husband with her. She's "on vacation" so she isn't "allowed" to do the dishes. I've done them myself - I have no idea how the automatic dishwasher works. I'll probably never learn.
Your username, it checks out.
I don't think there are any around here until Spring Break comes around and then there are just hoards of chicks with little clothing on and they tend to spill over onto my private section. I don't mind or anything but I have a little lady with me this time. I think it might be prudent to go back north before the middle of February hits. My kids have spent more time here than I have but I've come down to enjoy the view during Spring Break. I'm watching the sunset, of course. Yeah, that's the view that I speak of.
You missed last night. I don't normally drink but I had a couple with the kids and g/f. Fortunately, not too many and I didn't go off the rails ranting about something different. I'm kinda tired tonight so you'll have to find a new bedtime story.
I recommend some awful (so bad it's good) science fiction.
http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1...
That was just dirty. By the way, 2/3rds of "pun" is "P-U." (best said aloud)
I didn't say that it was based on 'em. I said "heavily influenced." If you go through your history books and read about what happened in the five or so years after the end of WWII then you'll see what I'm referring to. The Allied Forces spent a lot of money, time, and effort rebuilding and teaching them to think for themselves. They heavily influenced the whole process of turning them into a democracy, including specifics with the laws. The Allies weren't just going to let them keep the same regulations. They simply couldn't be trusted to do so.
Thanks - that pointed me in the right direction. They did it, for the most part, in-house. A recently deceased Ralph Iboshi was brought on with the design team. He passed away back in 2012(ish), as I recall. He was with KPFF (they had at least one good employ - namely Mr. Iboshi) but KPFF's name is not on any of the documents that I'm finding. I'm only finding Mr. Iboshi's name.
It took me a minute to make the connection but you can find him listed on page 24 in this PDF:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projec...
But, when I look here:
http://www.scatnow.com/FEIS%20...
I see him listed as still being with KPFF. It makes me wonder if he simply ended up staying on with the muni and left KPFF or what. Given the date of the RFP, 2006, I'm a little concerned that I know nothing of the project. (The companies that you listed are the guys that are doing the construction - there's surely someone, perhaps from KPFF, still on-site though they have an office in Tacoma as I recall.)
At any rate, I noticed a fairly typical thing... Someone (probably Iboshi) came up with a bunch of great ideas and the State of Washington cut it down and they're implementing only five or six. (I'm willing to bet the additional costs would have been a percentage point or two.) This is why you can't have nice things. I've ranted about it on Slashdot before.
I'll keep reading and looking up more information. I'm just getting back in a little while ago. I'll make a phone call tomorrow or later tonight and see what pops out. If I saw the project, I don't believe we put a bid in on it. I don't even recognize it which is, well, a bit odd given the time frame. I'll dig back through and see if they did a regional RFP only and/or only sought an in-state business. Sometime around that point (around the time of the quake) was when KPFF opened an office up in Washington. They're usually out of Oregon - I think... Yeah, Oregon, I'll Google if need be.
At any rate, Iboshi's got some quality work out there. Years ago, he did some work on the PCH. One of the primary things that PCH tries to maintain is aesthetics (there's an interesting history going back through - the design work on the bridges is amazing) and there was a need to optimize throughput with growing traffic demands in the mid 1990s. I'd trust his work - but I'd keep in mind that they only acted on some of the proposals and it looks like quite a bit of work was done in-house.
The price doesn't look too bad. I suspect the insurance company is going to be pissed with the delay but that's what insurance is for. If you live out that way, you should call it some part of it, just a small part, Iboshi Way. Unless it turns out to suck, in that case - I mention again that municipalities are horrific about only implementing a part of the proposed solution - often at trivial cost savings and will only lead to much more expensive expansions or alterations in the future.
Pfft... Pope, I hold a Ph.D... I'll let that sink in for a minute.
Good? Alright. No, having a Ph.D is not indicative of intelligence by default. I know some highly educated idiots and, sometimes, put myself into that category.
However, I concede your point about San Antonio, Orlando, Louisville, and Tampa. I will, on the other hand, offer this:
http://www.online-phd-programs...
And, because someone has to, I'll add that Seattle is probably home of the most hipsters and SJWs! (Someone had to throw that out there.)
Heh... Everett. They've got a Naval base there. I have been there but I don't recall any Bikini workers. This was the late 1970s. They only had whores.
Having done a whole lot of work, across this country and in others, specifically with with government workers - I can answer your questions with one word:
Municipality.
But, some more of the story... No, I'm not saying all government is bad. I am saying that, for whatever reason, highway/transportation departments do some amazing things but sometimes they're amazingly inept.
Here's a Wikipedia article about the project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here's a section on the WSDOT site about the history (and has more information):
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projec...
They mention a muni engineer but I'm unable to find any information about the traffic engineers or the traffic modelers. I can almost guarantee that they exist, especially with the FHWA involved, and the timing on the project is interesting. I'd have had zero personal involvement but I may be familiar with the company who provided the above mentioned services. Very, very few municipalities (even at the State level) have the staff, education, or compute power to actually model their own traffic (in a timely fashion) and then make accurate predictions and suggestions. Thus, I'm almost willing to wager that it was contracted out and there were few companies doing so at the time (though there were more coming online starting a few years prior).
If anyone's in the area and wants to find out who did the work then I just might be able to get some sort of preview about real expectations (those expectations not given in the city council meetings or in press releases) and find out any scuttlebutt - though it might be a bit dated, I suspect the modeling company and/or traffic engineers have someone either on-call or on-site and they'll be capable of recommending, designing, and remodeling - or at least collecting the data and pushing it back to be done on big iron. I can say that I'd be a combination of pissed off for tying up the personnel and happy for the money because they've been paying some guy to hang out in WA for two years while the project went nowhere - and he's got no input, expertise, or willingness to accept liability for making any decisions as to what to do with broken equipment.
(They probably did work with others to look at alternative routes but I'm not seeing much about that.) Usually, it is me me picking people's brains on Slashdot. For once, I might actually know something or be able to find it out. It's really a bad idea to do a project this size completely in-house. They're just not really equipped for it and, more often than not, you end up with a combination of seemingly good ideas that really don't work that well but someone read an article and maybe a book. There's everything from seismic activity to psychology that goes into modeling traffic effectively and (in my not-so-humble opinion) very few providers of that service that are actually qualified.
Ah well... I don't have any insight at all on this project but if someone can find out who did the modeling then I might be able to connect with a people or two. When you let a muni do the work, you end up with stuff like bicycle racks in an island at the end of a closed highway's on ramp. You end up with things like half the parking spots being taken away - to encourage walking, but no new spots added on the outskirts. You end up with short merge points and a need to go from city-street speeds to highway speeds in a few hundred feet. It's not really their fault, they simply don't have the capacity to look at the larger picture and the experience to optimize the throughput. It's also pretty expensive.
I figure they probably work at Boeing and are mad that the money isn't going to them.