What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[jamespowers]

Unless that's a club for fellows with respiratory issues I don't wanna hear any more!

Well it is in San Franfreako so what do you expect.

 

[jamespowers]

"Okay, which one of you clowns brought the helium?"

I would be the one putting sulfur in it.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Well it is in San Franfreako so what do you expect.

Oh, well that makes sense. :crazy:
Oxygen bar, unbelievable.
James, it's the end of my day, my medication and alcohol have taken effect, so here's my idea on how you can make a better bar than this.
You get these guys (the same ones pictured) to come to your bar and call yours "a kick in the n*ts bar."
$5.00 cover charge, all you care to receive....
Sorry but this is about as good an idea as an oxygen bar.

 

[rjb1]

Lousy customer service and lousy service people.=QUOTE]
Try these two:
1) My mother hired a guy to paint her steel carport. The idiot used water-based latex paint! It's rustier now than before he did anything.
2) This one deserves to be in one of those bizarre internet photos. - I hired a guy to put gutters on my shop. The roof edge hangs out about six inches from the building wall but he nailed the gutters directly to the wall so the roof overhang protrudes completely BEYOND the gutter.
I still can't believe it! It's not a gutter if the roof extends beyond it! I don't know if he was high, drunk, stupid, or all the above.

 

[Zombie_61]

...2) This one deserves to be in one of those bizarre internet photos. - I hired a guy to put gutters on my shop. The roof edge hangs out about six inches from the building wall but he nailed the gutters directly to the wall so the roof overhang protrudes completely BEYOND the gutter...

I really don't mean to laugh, but...ound:

By the way, I'm laughing at the stupidity, not your misfortune with which I sympathize.

 

[jamespowers]

Oh, well that makes sense. :crazy:
Oxygen bar, unbelievable.
James, it's the end of my day, my medication and alcohol have taken effect, so here's my idea on how you can make a better bar than this.
You get these guys (the same ones pictured) to come to your bar and call yours "a kick in the n*ts bar."
$5.00 cover charge, all you care to receive....
Sorry but this is about as good an idea as an oxygen bar.

I hate to say it but I have seen that one already as well. You just don't want to know......:doh: Another San Franfreako treat....

 

[jamespowers]

Lousy customer service and lousy service people.=QUOTE]
Try these two:
1) My mother hired a guy to paint her steel carport. The idiot used water-based latex paint! It's rustier now than before he did anything.
2) This one deserves to be in one of those bizarre internet photos. - I hired a guy to put gutters on my shop. The roof edge hangs out about six inches from the building wall but he nailed the gutters directly to the wall so the roof overhang protrudes completely BEYOND the gutter.
I still can't believe it! It's not a gutter if the roof extends beyond it! I don't know if he was high, drunk, stupid, or all the above.

Painting is another thing I do myself with the best paint available. The gutter guy was all of the above. :doh:

 

[jamespowers]

I really don't mean to laugh, but...ound:

By the way, I'm laughing at the stupidity, not your misfortune with which I sympathize.

I confess that I laughed too but it was because it is not at all surprising with today's "handymen."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I confess that I laughed too but it was because it is not at all surprising with today's "handymen."

Maybe he was Russian.

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[jamespowers]

Maybe he was Russian.

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Figures!

 

[dh66]

Lousy customer service and lousy service people.

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[jamespowers]

Government workers are on an entirely different plane.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Government workers are on an entirely different plane.

Yes but usually in coach class.
BTW I've never nor do I have any desire to set foot on a plane.
Gov't worker or not.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;qTbdir6AsOs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTbdir6AsOs[/video]

 

[Haversack]

The photo above of the house sitting in the middle of the road was taken in China and depicts the result of what happened when the owner of the house refused to sell it to the government for a highway project. Sort of like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. The Guardian article below has photos of several examples of what the Chinese call nail houses.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ga...homes-in-pictures#/?picture=399880690&index=0

 

[jamespowers]

The photo above of the house sitting in the middle of the road was taken in China and depicts the result of what happened when the owner of the house refused to sell it to the government for a highway project. Sort of like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. The Guardian article below has photos of several examples of what the Chinese call nail houses.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ga...homes-in-pictures#/?picture=399880690&index=0

That would be lousy. I am surprised they just don't pave over them.

 

[3fingers]

That would be lousy. I am surprised they just don't pave over them.

That's what would happen here. Eminent domain is now being used for supporting private development. What was originally used as a way to force people to sell for road projects and things of that nature is being stretched to cover things government considers in the public interest for "economic development". There are really no private property rights anymore. If you have the bad fortune to be in the way, you will be moved one way or another.

 

[HudsonHawk]

That's what would happen here. Eminent domain is now being used for supporting private development. What was originally used as a way to force people to sell for road projects and things of that nature is being stretched to cover things government considers in the public interest for "economic development". There are really no private property rights anymore. If you have the bad fortune to be in the way, you will be moved one way or another.

During the Constitutional Convention there was much debate over eminent domain. Some, such as Thomas Jefferson, pushed for true allodial ownership of land, but it was clear such a system could never work. The compromise was eminent domain for "public use", which is the term ultimately included in the Fifth Amendment. Some have argued that the terminology "public use" is significant and does not include "public benefit" or "public interest", others have argued that those are practically the same. Courts have consistently favored the use of eminent domain for economic development going all the way back to the 1820's.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When Griffith Stadium in Washington DC was being built in 1911, several property owners refused to sell -- and because the project was being mounted for the interests of a private business, the Washington American League Baseball Club, the authorities refused to allow eminent-domain proceedings to claim the lots. As a result, for as long as the ballpark existed -- into the 1960s -- there was a deep notch cut into the center-field corner of the stands.

 

[3fingers]

I see economic development as used in this context as not being as important as a benefit for the good of the community as what will raise more revenue for the taxing bodies involved. If a strip mall built on your property will raise more in property tax and sales tax, the current property owners are well and truly screwed. Whether the courts have favored it or not, that is not right, and I can't believe that was the intent of the original law. It has only been in recent years that this tactic has been employed (at least in this area) whether because when tried before there was a backlash and too high of a political price to be paid or some other reason I am not aware of. In the end, I believe the benefit is directed toward government, and if there happens to be a "benefit" to the public of having a dollar store closer to your home, it's a bonus.