I will need to ride the BART this Friday and this thread is not giving me much confidence...
Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
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Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original design for the Bay Bridge retrofit was $400 million. Instead, we got a less-safe, grandiose art piece for over $8 billion. $400 million more if you want a bike lane.
Is this corruption or incompetence? I honestly think it’s corruption. Why can’t we just outsource this to a European engineering company that is capable of accomplishing this? It just makes no sense to me.
Corruption was blatant and rampant in the era that saw most of our infrastructure development. The New York City subway was built in the era of Boss Tweed. Honestly I think this is not a coincidence. Projects that balance their own goals with fairness and deference to “stakeholders” will naturally be pathetic compared to projects that simply pursue their goals.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this corruption or incompetence? I honestly think it’s corruption. Why can’t we just outsource this to a European engineering company that is capable of accomplishing this? It just makes no sense to me.
Corruption was blatant and rampant in the era that saw most of our infrastructure development. The New York City subway was built in the era of Boss Tweed. Honestly I think this is not a coincidence. Projects that balance their own goals with fairness and deference to “stakeholders” will naturally be pathetic compared to projects that simply pursue their goals.
The New York City subway was built in the era of Boss Tweed
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or perhaps we should make different changes to society that allow citizens in public to be safe without having to carry a gun?
I'm all for this. What changes do you propose, how do you intend on carrying out those changes so that the execution matches the intent, and how can I help?
As a country, take care of your disadvantaged people, the jobless, the homeless, the troubled. Enforce a proper minimum wage, scaled as a proper living wage for a given area. Enact single payer healthcare. Stop persecuting minorities, and end the ridiculous war on drugs. Enact gun control.
In the longer run, abolish (crony) capitalism, abolish lobbying and "campaign donations" (bribes) and break the military-industrial complex. Make the wealthy actually pay their taxes and give back to the society that they built their wealth on top of. Increase equality.
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#195Maybe they should issue more concealed carry permits in bay area counties. It's wrong for the police to simultaneously neglect your protection and also prevent you from protecting yourself.
Agreed. You have a right to self-defense. But I've met people out here who do not believe in self-defense. Somehow in their theoretical mind they believe any form of violence is evil. They also believe people who believe in self defense are evil too. The lunacy has no end. But my stay here sadly might...
Right to self-defense does not mean a right to use deadly force in every situation. The essence of self-defense is to use only the necessary force to ensure your safety, by incapacitating or immobilizing the assailant, until police arrives or you can make a safe escape.
It is not a license to kill.
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#196I will need to ride the BART this Friday and this thread is not giving me much confidence...
If you’re riding during rush hour you will be fine. During the work day (between rush hours) is also okay, but less people around.
Riding early morning or at night is when the real trouble generally happens.
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm all for this. What changes do you propose, how do you intend on carrying out those changes so that the execution matches the intent, and how can I help?
As a country, take care of your disadvantaged people, the jobless, the homeless, the troubled. Enforce a proper minimum wage, scaled as a proper living wage for a given area. Enact single payer healthcare. Stop persecuting minorities, and end the ridiculous war on drugs. Enact gun control. In the longer run, abolish (crony) capitalism, abolish lobbying and "campaign donations" (bribes) and break the military-industri…
> make the wealthy actually pay their taxes
Sounds like you need to get your facts straight.
> A Pew Research Center analysis of IRS data from 2015, the most recent available, shows that taxpayers with incomes of $200,000 or more paid well over half (58.8%) of federal income taxes
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjK...
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. You have a right to self-defense. But I've met people out here who do not believe in self-defense. Somehow in their theoretical mind they believe any form of violence is evil. They also believe people who believe in self defense are evil too. The lunacy has no end. But my stay here sadly might...
Right to self-defense does not mean a right to use deadly force in every situation. The essence of self-defense is to use only the necessary force to ensure your safety, by incapacitating or immobilizing the assailant, until police arrives or you can make a safe escape. It is not a license to kill.
The right to self defense means that you have the right to use force, including deadly force, to stop a threat to your life.
In a life or death situation, your last concern should be moderating your force against your assailant to stop the threat.
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
The original design for the Bay Bridge retrofit was $400 million. Instead, we got a less-safe, grandiose art piece for over $8 billion. $400 million more if you want a bike lane.
Is this corruption or incompetence? I honestly think it’s corruption. Why can’t we just outsource this to a European engineering company that is capable of accomplishing this? It just makes no sense to me.
a European engineering company that is capable of accomplishing this?
What makes you think European engineering companies are any better? Europe is just as littered with failed, bloated, late and vastly over budget infrastructure projects. Hell the small bridge down the road from my office was supposed to be closed for 4 month for some maintenance work, it's now been closed for 14 month and there is still no estimate for when it will be done.
Re: Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right to self-defense does not mean a right to use deadly force in every situation. The essence of self-defense is to use only the necessary force to ensure your safety, by incapacitating or immobilizing the assailant, until police arrives or you can make a safe escape. It is not a license to kill.
The right to self defense means that you have the right to use force, including deadly force, to stop a threat to your life. In a life or death situation, your last concern should be moderating your force against your assailant to stop the threat.
For the bless-ed among us, they are so woke they've evolved the ability to moderate themselves in a life or death situation. Funny none of them have been in one.