WildUtah

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by WildUtah 10y ago
I meant to point out how far away it is, not to imply that taxis are a good choice. They are not. Tokyo and its surrounding countryside towns even as far away as Narita have the world's best train system and you should always prefer it
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Or the airport could do the right thing for its customers and auction slots to the highest bidder. Industrial central planning and picking protected industries continues to be a disaster for Japan (and every place else that tries it), decad
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Tokyo International Airport at Haneda is the main airport for international flights to Tokyo -- at least for Japanese carriers. Foreign carriers are exiled to Narita -- a US$200 cab ride away -- as a protectionist measure. Haneda is right
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by WildUtah 10y ago
No fast lane, no special categories, just eveyone lined up including those in private jets. If the powerful had to stand in line with the plebes then the TSA would be history before the end of the month. Nope. My congressmen and senators
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Wait. There's a smaller government party?
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by WildUtah 10y ago
AeroMexico has a monopoly on flights from Latin America to Asia. (Technically, you can fly from Brazil to Abu Dhabi or something, but only AM goes to east Asia.) The AM flights run from Mexico City to Narita (a third-tier city in Japan) and
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Harris was elected DA in San Francisco in a race against DA Terence Hallinan who was famous for soft-pedaling drug user prosecutions. She immediately stepped them up. Harris first started barely supporting medical marijuana after constituen
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by WildUtah 10y ago
California doesn't have party primaries. There's a June election and the top two vote winners go on to November, even if from the same party. That's why California has a chance to prevent a second Feinstein in Kamala Harris.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Feinstein promoted a scam artist and put her in charge of her campaign treasury. That lady did the same to Feinstein as Feinstein does to the federal budget and all the money disappeared. Feinstein just refilled tens of millions of dollars
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by WildUtah 10y ago
That's why it's so important to add another Feinstein to the Senate from California this fall. Kamala Harris is a classic anti-drug warrior prosecutor with no respect for civil rights to join Feinstein. Don't even think of ch
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by WildUtah 10y ago
The Summer Of Love happened in SF because a working class family could get an affordable mortgage and buy a home there in 1967. Nineteen year olds working as shop clerks could get a decent apartment on their own. Now homes cost $1.5MM+ and
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I don't think you understand. It's better for the billionaires, Wall Street bankers, and venture capitalists this way. Therefore sacrificing a middle class country and way of life is worth it. There are still lots of options for t
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Nothing douchey about it. Car drivers are taking an enormous amount of public resources and endangering the public while they do it. They can wait a few seconds so that you don't have to wait indefinitely for them in crosswalks.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
France, Japan, Germany, Spain, Canada, and Mexico don't have socialized health care. Of the western countries, it's mostly just Britain that has socialized health care. Now a lot of those countries have universal access to health
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Many states don't have party registration. It's a convenience for parties that want to close primaries and target voters for GOTV.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"I'm not sure I will ever renew my Mexican voter registration." What are you going to use for ID if you don't have a credencial?
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Closed access academic journals were an unethical anachronism twenty years ago. And yet we've made little progress against them.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
None of the complicated components are made in Red China. The CPUs are made in Korea, the cameras in Japan, the batteries in Japan, and the power control circuits in Free China, The CNC machines, and glass cutting instruments are made in Ge
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I agree. Apple /// and Lisa are overpriced for consumers and small businesses. Apple just doesn't understand that while corporate purchasing is the big money, you have to sell your soul to break into it. You need the str
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by WildUtah 11y ago
You -- unless you are a Pygmy or Sen or the like -- are a species that lived in a protected niche for 100,000 or more years without making much of it. Then you -- we -- figured out writing and agriculture and pottery. The next logical step
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Well, ærospace agencies actually, since there are few signals to intercept in central nowhere. Contacting satellites and guiding æroplanes over open ocean is a great use for an island in the middle of an ocean.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Apple really does do nasty things to drive short term profits while hurting user experience. Why does Apple charge $130 for a $5 LTE antenna on iPads or $100 for a $3 64GB SSD chip on iPhones? Why do they cripple entry level iPhones with on
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I don't agree with you, but upvoted for not owning skinny jeans.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Tech workers salaries in SF are anything but middle class. If you're single and making more than $72k per year, you're in the upper class." Yeah, in Dipstick, Nebraska. But in SF $72k isn't upper class or even midd
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"A $120k median salary definitely isn't "middle class."" No, but it's close. A middle-class family could live in San Francisco on 150-180k if they're frugal and don't insist on living in a nice neighb
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by WildUtah 11y ago
There is a proposal to make it slightly harder to troll called the "Innovation Act." You can look it up on http://thomas.loc.gov IT has not passed.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Everyone who has to live in it hates Brasilia. You can force people to live there because it's a powerful capital city, but it's still awful.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Oh, stewardess. I speak Jive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Most people don't get rid of their foreign sounding accent because they don't work on improving their accent." Taking on enough of a local accent to be understood is good. Losing your accent is a terrible cost that requ
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The Supreme Court is no fan of the First Amendment. Notice that Citizens United was a 5-4 decision in the clearest core political speech case since the First World War[0]. And at least two of the Citizens United justices will probably be re

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