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The only toll road in Atlanta was a small 6 or so mile stretch that connected the busy midtown area with with busy suburbs. When the bonds were paid off they made the road free. That seems a better take on this. It's so odd to go through states with toll roads and the roads suck. Like I'm not sure what they're spending this money on, but it's not the road.
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Phanatic posted:Lots of states have tollways. If you want to get from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, there are all sorts of public roads you can take. Or you can take the Turnpike, aka the "rich people get to drive faster" road. I'm not sure what the meaningful difference is between that and a toll lane on a non-toll highway. In Texas (Austin just opened their's) there are toll LANES on public roads. Not a tollway purposefully built somewhere off the main lanes (To note: We do have actual tollways. 183A (I can't even type that without retching), 45, 130.). No. Take your existing 3-4 lane highway, do construction on it for double the time you said it was going to take (loving up existing traffic for loving ages) to add a lane that is ridiculously expensive (when busy, the toll is as high as $9.00) and that we are encouraged NOT TO loving USE (really! "Hey, this is only for when you really need to get somewhere! Don't use it otherwise!"). This is the "rich person's lane" we are talking about.
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Jan 6, 2018 20:31
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to be fair texas openly hates poor people and is pretty unapologetic about it
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topenga posted:In Texas (Austin just opened their's) there are toll LANES on public roads. Not a tollway purposefully built somewhere off the main lanes (To note: We do have actual tollways. 183A (I can't even type that without retching), 45, 130.). No. Take your existing 3-4 lane highway, do construction on it for double the time you said it was going to take (loving up existing traffic for loving ages) to add a lane that is ridiculously expensive (when busy, the toll is as high as $9.00) and that we are encouraged NOT TO loving USE (really! "Hey, this is only for when you really need to get somewhere! Don't use it otherwise!"). This is the "rich person's lane" we are talking about. This comes from federal grants for road construction, that gave states quite a bit of free money for roadway expansion if they showed a plan for ensuring an average speed of 45 mph or greater, for 90% of the time the road is open. That can only really work if you have a mechanism for severely limiting access during rush hour. Combine that with persistent underfunding of infrastructure, and it's not surprising that a lot of states rushed towards dynamic tolling. The $9 toll sounds like "gently caress you stay out" because that's exactly what it's supposed to mean. It's not all bad, though. The same program requires that it can't be exclusively pay-for-play - they also have to let high-occupancy vehicles in for free. And, that means buses get much faster, more reliable freeway service. It's not quite as good as true bus-only lanes or separate grade light rail service, but as long as people are scared of transit and vote against genuine transit infrastructure, it's about as good a positive step as you can expect.
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Space Gopher posted:This comes from federal grants for road construction, that gave states quite a bit of free money for roadway expansion if they showed a plan for ensuring an average speed of 45 mph or greater, for 90% of the time the road is open. That can only really work if you have a mechanism for severely limiting access during rush hour. Combine that with persistent underfunding of infrastructure, and it's not surprising that a lot of states rushed towards dynamic tolling. The $9 toll sounds like "gently caress you stay out" because that's exactly what it's supposed to mean. Right now, it seems pretty loving horrible. Yes, there is a bus--one bus-- that uses the lane. From my quick research I don't even see mention of having 2+ person vehicles able to use it for free/discount. Starting this month, they will add 5 more buses. The same bus system that is horrible broken. The routes that will use the express lane are aimed at getting people from north suburbs (Leaner, Cedar Park, Round Rock) to downtown. Do you live/work south, east or west? Tough. Austin believes that people only ever work downtown and only care about North-South routes. As long as you want to go downtown. Because downtown is the loving mecca, right? gently caress me for working for a growing company that doesn't want to pay high downtown leasing rates (or the Domain, oh god how I wish we were at the Domain), I guess. I'm really not trying to be contrary, it's just that I loving live here and have for 42.5 years and I am LIVID about how they handle public transport in this goddamn town. You seem to be coming from a place of "hey, this is how it's supposed to work so it's not all that bad!" When I'm seeing how it's actually (not) working because Jesus gently caress we can't do anything right. If it worked the way you spelled it out, it probably wouldn't be so bad. KingSlime posted:to be fair texas openly hates poor people and is pretty unapologetic about it I think it's part of our constitution. topenga fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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Moneyball posted:Be like Massachusetts and have the governor give you a choice between raising the gas tax or tolls, pick tolls, then have the gas tax raised too. And still have the worst roads in the country. The only reason you should ever think Mass has the worst roads in the country is if you're thinking Rhode Island is apart of Massachusetts.
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topenga posted:Right now, it seems pretty loving horrible. Yes, there is a bus--one bus-- that uses the lane. From my quick research I don't even see mention of having 2+ person vehicles able to use it for free/discount. Starting this month, they will add 5 more buses. The same bus system that is horrible broken. The routes that will use the express lane are aimed at getting people from north suburbs (Leaner, Cedar Park, Round Rock) to downtown. Do you live/work south, east or west? Tough. Austin believes that people only ever work downtown and only care about North-South routes. As long as you want to go downtown. Because downtown is the loving mecca, right? gently caress me for working for a growing company that doesn't want to pay high downtown leasing rates (or the Domain, oh god how I wish we were at the Domain), I guess. Sounds like you found your platform to run for office. God speed and good luck.
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KingSlime posted:to be fair texas openly hates poor people and is pretty unapologetic about it Somehow their teacher pay is really high compared to other parts of the country. At least in San Antonio.
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Yet another Ponzi scheme going around. "yes, a pyramid, but whatever" And more #BossBabe math  That's $3500 in sales, not revenue. In an MLM even higher tiers of the pyramid are lucky to get 20% commission (most get less than 10%), so maximum $700 across the entire team for 6 months = $117 per month. Before expenses and taxes. So these people probably lost money, and they definitely made way less than minimum wage.
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Jan 7, 2018 00:14
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Youth Decay posted:Yet another Ponzi scheme going around. "yes, a pyramid, but whatever" Wait, I don't get this. Isn't this literally just a bunch of people giving you money for some reason?
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please knock Mom! posted:Wait, I don't get this. Isn't this literally just a bunch of people giving you money for some reason? I don't understand why you don't want to do it.
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please knock Mom! posted:Wait, I don't get this. Isn't this literally just a bunch of people giving you money for some reason? The purest form of capitalism. Drink it up!
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please knock Mom! posted:Wait, I don't get this. Isn't this literally just a bunch of people giving you money for some reason? It is the pyramid scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme#The_"eight_ball"_model I had always thought that a pyramid scheme was Amway, but the money-only no-goods is the more basic pyramid scheme (and what is actually illegal, I think).
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Yeah I was just baffled at how transparent it is, but apparently there really is a sucker born every minute.
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I remember chain letter versions where there was a list of ten or twenty people, and you were supposed to send money to the person at the top, then add yourself at the bottom- with the promise that as you forwarded the letter you would eventually get paid out by other people
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Jan 7, 2018 01:58
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Ashcans posted:I remember chain letter versions where there was a list of ten or twenty people, and you were supposed to send money to the person at the top, then add yourself at the bottom- with the promise that as you forwarded the letter you would eventually get paid out by other people Having read a book (False Profits by Joyce K. Reynolds) it seems to rely heavily on a form of mysticism that the money given up the chain will somehow spontaneously regenerate because of alignment with the universe and the power of positive thinking or somewhat. It's very strange, but they know their victims well, and the "new age" crowd who practise this mysticism have been proven to be very credulous and trusting of these snakes.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Having read a book (False Profits by Joyce K. Reynolds) it seems to rely heavily on a form of mysticism that the money given up the chain will somehow spontaneously regenerate because of alignment with the universe and the power of positive thinking or somewhat. This new brand of "pure" pyramid schemes seems targeted towards lower-income minorities (I posted one several pages ago that had stereotypical Hispanic names in the "example" pyramid diagram) rather than the positive thinking woo types. Those ones go for the MLMs selling snake oil. 
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Jan 7, 2018 03:48
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Youth Decay posted:This new brand of "pure" pyramid schemes seems targeted towards lower-income minorities (I posted one several pages ago that had stereotypical Hispanic names in the "example" pyramid diagram) I remember that picture -- one of the names was pollo. Not even capitalized.
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Photex posted:The only reason you should ever think Mass has the worst roads in the country is if you're thinking Rhode Island is apart of Massachusetts. I was going to say "Michigan"
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Jan 7, 2018 17:59
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kimbo305 posted:I remember that picture -- one of the names was pollo. Not even capitalized. Capital Chicken sounds like a straight to video animated film from the 90's.
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Yet ANOTHER pyramid, the "blessing loom". And another hunbot who thinks making $80 a month before taxes and expenses is a really great deal.  Totally not a cult, guys. 
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RedStateEducation.txtquote:Hey guys! As the title says, I'm a 20 year old who has dreams of living in Southern California. I assume most of you know that they don't really teach cost of living or how to calculate how much you need to make in order to live comfortably in a more expensive state. Currently, I live in South Dakota and make $13/hr without a degree. I have no idea where to even start because it seems impossible to afford living in California if half of what I hear is true. I don't know how much money I'd make in California if I were doing the same thing there. Do they pay you more because the cost of living is higher? Where is a safe, yet affordable place to rent? Is everything really that much more expensive? If so, then how does anybody else live there that is in my same situation? Thank you for reading and I appreciate any information! pretend it's all bold.
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Guest2553 posted:RedStateEducation.txt More bold text dubby324 posted:I work at The UPS Store as a Sales Associate and Notary Public, but there were talks of promoting me to Assistant Manager last week, so I could be getting a raise soon. I’m not picky about where I live as long as it’s in Southern California. I just love the atmosphere and the general feeling of Southern California. There’s always poo poo going on and it’s just a nice change of pace to living in South Dakota. Where I live, nothing is exciting. The people are dull and uninteresting, the scenery is bland and dry, and I just can’t take it anymore
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Oh god reading that post is exactly what it felt like to catch up with friends from back home who, at 30, still live in the exact same neighborhood they were born in
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Is his situation really that BWM? He lives in South Dakota, I’d be trying to escape too.
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It's like the people who hit up forums for residents of Japan saying "it's been my dream to move to Japan and become a manga artist ever since I watched Naruto! I only have a high school education and $800 to my name but I can totes get by in Tokyo for a few weeks until I find a job right?"
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Trustworthy posted:Maybe if I think of them as toll roads with a subsidized free lane for the poor I can convince myself that the concept isn't some evil capitalist dystopian poo poo In BWM news that relates to this, 10 years ago Indiana sold off the I-80-90 turnpike to an international consortium of fuckheads for 99 years in exchange for a few Billion dollars. Indiana then used the money to greatly improve the I-465 loop around Indianapolis and start building a southern extension of I-69. Well now Indiana is out of money and wants to toll I-465 which they just finished building, and adding tolls would cost just about as much as they would earn.
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Weatherman posted:It's like the people who hit up forums for residents of Japan saying "it's been my dream to move to Japan and become a manga artist ever since I watched Naruto! I only have a high school education and $800 to my name but I can totes get by in Tokyo for a few weeks until I find a job right?" According to his other posts he was just caught smoking marijuana by his neighbor a month ago. I think I may have an idea on his motivation.
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Weatherman posted:It's like the people who hit up forums for residents of Japan saying "it's been my dream to move to Japan and become a manga artist ever since I watched Naruto! I only have a high school education and $800 to my name but I can totes get by in Tokyo for a few weeks until I find a job right?" Is being a notary per-state or transferable?
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Vox Nihili posted:According to his other posts he was just caught smoking marijuana by his neighbor a month ago. not the worst reason to move to california
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Doc Hawkins posted:Is being a notary per-state or transferable? per-state, and the requirements vary quite a bit. All you need to become a notary in SD is $30, a small bond and the notary supplies. If you're thinking to yourself "I bet California is much more complicated" you'd be correct. https://www.nationalnotary.org/california
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It's not like being a notary is super special, but it would help with some jobs. I know banks have a lot of notaries, also helps with any sort of office assistant or bookkeeper type jobs.
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Jan 8, 2018 13:40
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I'm a notary public but I don't think I've ever actually done anything with it. I may have notarized another employee's notary application and that's it.
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I was a Notary. I had to say a pledge and I got a kick rear end embosser. It's neither tough nor exclusive. Still not bad to have on a resume. If the job requires it, you just saved them a few dollars and the hassle of getting you setup. Plus I think you can't be felon or even commit some misdemeanors and be a notary so it's like a cheap background check. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 15:06
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If an employer needs you to be a notary they'll pay for you to become one. I'm reminder of the American kid with a bachelor in French who thought she might move to Canada since the government there needed French speakers. It might seem like a qualification, but it really isn't.
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It looks like the anal wine didn't age well. Notary certification in my state is a1 house online course and short written online test, plus paying a small fee. I doubt all but the very cheapest of employers would look at it as a skill or asset that the employee beings to the table.
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Some days I fantasize about finding a small start up company that thinks being a Medallion signature guarantor and a notary is worth dropping $400k a year on. Just sit at a desk and sign and stamp stuff. No one in the company quite knows why they need me, but they know they can't just sign it. But I dream....
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Solice Kirsk posted:Some days I fantasize about finding a small start up company that thinks being a Medallion signature guarantor and a notary is worth dropping $400k a year on. Just sit at a desk and sign and stamp stuff. No one in the company quite knows why they need me, but they know they can't just sign it. GWM: being a notary in Spain. A cursory search says ~150.000€, while the median in Spain for 2015 was 19.000€.
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I do have Spanish heritage....don't speak Spanish though. I'm sure I could make that work though. Do you think an Illinois notary is transferable to Spain?!
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Notaries in civil law jurisdiction are pretty much attorneys, they draw up contracts and do wills, poo poo like that. Here in Quebec they basically need a law degrees. They just don't take the bar. There's something else for just stamping signatures.
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