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"In Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, the railroad’s weakest link — a 90-year-old drawbridge across the Thames River in eastern Connecticut — was scheduled to carry its last train on Monday evening, as a four-day, round-the-clock marathon to replace the span was to begin." - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
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"We meet at campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., in a conference room on the M floor - M for McCain. (M is one above 12. The whole floor was renamed and relabeled by the campaign, right down to the buttons on the elevators. McCain is superstitious, his spokeswoman explained; it's a fighter-pilot thing. But isn't M the 13th letter in the ... ? Never mind.)" - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
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"One of the charms of looking at cricket from this side of the Atlantic is the confusing nomenclature of the game and they don’t let us down this time, referring to switch hitting as a “reverse slog-sweep”." - Larry Greenfield
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Awesome. Website with photos: http://www.nycwaterfalls.org/ - ⓞnor
I love his stuff at moma and PS1, even if the work is somewhat smaller than the waterfall. - Larry Greenfield
I saw the color thing at SFMOMA. It was ok. I mean, the yellow thing at the beginning was beyond awesome, the rest was merely amusing. - ⓞnor
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surely it's not that they're "easy", it's that they're surrounded by opportunity. (not sure why that doesn't apply to math, though. hmm.) - ⓞnor
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"It has long been the custom to compare a popular piece of legislation to motherhood and apple pie. Evidently, that is no longer the standard. Worse, Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it." - Larry Greenfield
(Like is for Mothers, or Moms as they're now fauxkishly called) - j1m
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"How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?" - Larry Greenfield
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"take one randomly selected line from The Breakfast Club and then join it to a randomly selected line from Waiting for Godot. Or vice versa. It's always great." - j1m
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"So was Giblets really wrong? Was the war a mistake? Were we right to blow up the moon?" - Larry Greenfield
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that's... bad, right? - ⓞnor
yes, bad bad bad. this was a clear win for pretty much everyone and it still managed to get defeated. - Larry Greenfield
how did it lose? what's the assembly's deal? - ⓞnor
ny government is chronically dysfunctional. the assembly is essentially controlled by the speaker, Sheldon Silver, who represents the LES. probably what killed congestion pricing more than anything else was that he didn't want it to pass. his public comments had been lukewarm support. it's quite possible he didn't let it to pass because it was a way of him demonstrating his power. but the assembly members (democrats) also seemed anti-pricing because---and this is just a hypothesis---they're not too smart. - Larry Greenfield
Remind me why you get so excited about congestion pricing again? Among other things, how does this help carless Manhattanites like yourself? - j1m
Less pollution, less honking. Cars are a blight. - ƃuɐʞ
Of course, half of the cars driving in new york at any given moment are cabs. And it's already very expensive to bring a car in during a weekday. - j1m
benefits for the car-less: the revenue stream was dedicated to help mass transit. clearing up congestion allows for faster cab rides (even across the bridges needed to reach brooklyn) and should lower business costs for things like deliveries. - Larry Greenfield
So what do you figure the real cost is to the city (and other providers of resources that those cars use) of having a car driving around for an hour? Parked for an hour? In Manhattan for a whole day? - j1m
@j1m: It might be expensive in time and parking, but tolls are free if you enter via the Manhattan or Brooklyn bridges and exit through the George Washington Bridge. - Michelle Lee
I guess you can only do that once, though. - j1m
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more congestion pricing fun - Larry Greenfield
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I'm not interested until it produces fire-breathing dragons - j1m
"Mr. Sancho, who describes himself as an author and researcher on time theory..." - ⓞnor
yeah, nice. but note that the other plaintiff appears to be an actual former physics grad student. - j1m
So, wdyt? - ⓞnor
If the fact that seemingly intelligent people worry about whether people believe that the universe was created by "an unseen omnipotent entity" or "a big bang" is a joke, then the fact that $8 billion has been spent on this is the punchline. - Alex Mendes da Costa
m13a, are you saying that you think the questions the Large Hadron Collider are essentially religious ones? I tend to see cosmology that way, but I thought I was the only one. - j1m
@ⓞnor: I think who knows. Like 99.99% of people, I don't know the physics literative myself. All I can do is pay attention to the opinions of experts. If neither of these guys knows much physics, I'd certainly ignore it. Of course, if there's a real risk, even 1 would be a surprisingly small number of naysayers, because scientists are all about saying nay. Adding another layer, the Times account surely does no more than scratch the surface of how serious phsyicists think about this question. - j1m
I ran into a friend with a BS in Physics, and he said this scenario, though not impossible, is viewed as very unlikely. I said, You mean like one chance in 10^-21? He said, Maybe more like 10^-9, but really unlikely. - j1m
There were similar comments about the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider several years ago. The Tech had a nice interview with Bob Jaffe, where he discussed some of the physics in that case, http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N.... His comment on the black hole there was: "The energy required to make a black hole out of two nuclei would be about 115 orders of magnitude larger than what will be available at RHIC." - Jeremy Hylton
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