Posts by Bart Janssen
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Up Front: The Real Victims, Here, in reply to Robert Harvey,
FWIW, Kate Wilhelm's "The Gate To Women's Country"
A wonderful novel by Sherri S Tepper
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Hard News: Paying for the storms to come, in reply to Roger,
Try 40 years! I clearly remember answering University exam question sea level rise and increased stormyness in the late 1970s
You're right, I remember giving a literature seminar on it in the 80s - I just forgot how old I am :(.
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Them feeling utterly entitled to women is the problem. That’s what needs fixing.
There are times when I just can't figure out any way to understand some people and this is one of them.
This attitude is so far from my own I can't even imagine how they became the way they are. I'm left just shaking my head in confusion.
How does a society create such people? Did nobody notice that they were insane? What must their parents feel like when they discover that they've raised such an evil person? Or their teachers? Do they have any normal friends?
None of it makes any kind of sense at all.
They are however, quite real and somehow society (us) needs to figure out how to end such behaviour.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Impeachment by a simple majority (possible, maybe likely if the Democrats have a House majority after the mid-terms) but then conviction by a 2/3 majority in the Senate. Highly unlikely.
Agreed. But the key is that The GOP will cut him off when senators and congressmen lose their seats because of him. Essentially he becomes a president without any party.
He then either resigns or stands his ground.
At that point the GOP implodes because of the internal divisions.
There is some possibility that he becomes attached to one of the remnants of the GOP but probably not enough to win a third of votes in senate.
My bet is a resignation not long after the mid-terms, if as people expect, they are a blood bath for the GOP. By that time the GOP will see no value in him as president and the investigations will have progressed easily far enough for impeachment to pass in the house.
And then the sex tape is released.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m fully expecting pictures of Trump naked, TBH. The guy is stupid enough for that.
Avenattii and Stormy have both broadly hinted as to the existence of dick pics. Ew.
I've said from the beginning this all ends with a Trump sex tape ... and you all thought the worst outcome was nuclear holocaust.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Moz,
suggesting that voting might not be the best way to select
Unless what you are measuring is popularity then voting is never the best way to select anyone for any job.
It is however, not the worst way.
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Cyclists need only cross three and a half lanes of uncontrolled traffic to get to the other side and carry on with their citybound journey.
Surely they are taking the piss right?
Maybe Kathryn King needs to take the AT management on this thrilling ride.
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Hard News: The shared-use path that no…, in reply to Max Robitzsch,
until we get some revolutionaries in power
I think that's the real issue here. It isn't even revolutionaries really, it's just people who aren't so totally embedded in the "cars first" culture of the 70s.
We keep getting road works that don't just ignore cyclists and pedestrians but are actively hostile to them. That made sense when everyone was expected to use a car and only fitness nuts rode/walked or ran anywhere. There is a generation of roading engineers brought up on the idea of excluding people (for their own safety of course). That generation are now the management in AT and that thinking desperately needs to be replaced.
Great North Road was always a logical flat cycle route. Back when I rode along it to Uni it was a decent route, but the progressive addition of the motorway interchanges and slip lanes (god I hate slip lanes) have made it a death trap for cyclists and pedestrians.
It could be a great cycle route, it's wide enough and connects to some great public amenities it just needs some new heads in AT to see that.
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Hard News: Paying for the storms to come, in reply to linger,
something that was not generally well-understood 20 years ago
I agree, with respect to the risk from weather. Although I'd note that climate change and its effect on extreme weather events was well known 20 years ago - it was however loudly denied.
But that doesn't alter the discussion with respect to cars hitting power poles, or maintenance/replacement costs associated with over ground lines.
The idea that cities should move infrastructure underground has been around longer than 20 years.
Vector's reluctance to push undergrounding has had much more to do with giving the appearance of making a profit than with providing the best possible infrastructure for the city.
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Hard News: Paying for the storms to come, in reply to Neil,
It’s the problem with hindsight
WTF. It's been known for decades that undergrounding protects the lines and reduces maintenance costs and reduces road accidents.
It's not hindsight, it's an utter failure of management.