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krj
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response 100 of 352:
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Oct 17 22:12 UTC 2003 |
Debates in one of the many, many debate items, please!
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tod
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response 101 of 352:
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Oct 17 22:24 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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tod
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response 102 of 352:
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Oct 18 00:04 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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mcnally
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response 103 of 352:
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Oct 18 00:49 UTC 2003 |
a little too much "Peter Gunn" rip-off going on there, imho.
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asddsa
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response 104 of 352:
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Oct 18 03:54 UTC 2003 |
re 102 I couldnht access that
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gelinas
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response 105 of 352:
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Oct 18 05:58 UTC 2003 |
(tod is right that banks do not have to confirm citizenship. However,
banks _do_ have to confirm identity. I've read the relevant sections
of the USA Patriot Act, and a lot of the implementing regulation.
I should finish reading it this weekend, because Authorised Signers are
not customers, but the bank may not want to accept that, and I have to
change the signers on some accounts PDQ.)
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sno
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response 106 of 352:
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Oct 18 14:17 UTC 2003 |
Just imagine if "John Smith" got on the list.
Or George Bush.
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goose
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response 107 of 352:
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Oct 18 17:10 UTC 2003 |
RE#102 -- In Mozilla after looking like windows media would be loading, it
jumped to a page that looked like a mailing list signup, and in IE it asked
me if I wanted to update my DRM in Windows media, which I don't. So I
couldn't see/hear whatever it was.
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mcnally
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response 108 of 352:
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Oct 18 19:19 UTC 2003 |
re #107: It didn't work quite right for me in Mozilla, either..
I got redirected to some page which told me that a license had been
granted and I should push on the "play" button to hear the track.
Unfortunately there was no "play" button (or much of anything else)
on the page I was seeing at the time. When I used the browser's
back button to go back a few pages to the page with the Windows
Media Player embedded in it, I found I could press "play" in the
media player on that page and hear the song. Odd and confusing..
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happyboy
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response 109 of 352:
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Oct 18 19:46 UTC 2003 |
re97: was the tub waxed?
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asddsa
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response 110 of 352:
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Oct 19 04:13 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, it didn't work for IE either.
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jmsaul
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response 111 of 352:
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Oct 19 04:21 UTC 2003 |
The changes around Liberty and State have made that area completely insane
during the day, and until around 6:30pm. I could go into more detail, but
I'm sick of talking about it -- I simply don't go there unless it's later in
the evening. It's chased me away from impulse shopping at Borders, too; I
guess it'll be Nicola's Books or Amazon from now on.
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scott
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response 112 of 352:
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Oct 19 13:43 UTC 2003 |
Re 111: I think the timing and sensors for the State/Liberty light are pretty
screwed up.
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slynne
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response 113 of 352:
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Oct 19 14:28 UTC 2003 |
Huh. That is too bad about the traffic downtown. It probably would work
if they didnt allow left turns but that would make it a pain in the
neck in a different way.
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i
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response 114 of 352:
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Oct 19 21:18 UTC 2003 |
Timing & sensors for many of Ann Arbor's traffic lights are screwed up.
Then there are the drivers who don't notice when the light turns green.
But it's a pretty good town to walk around if you've got the time.
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slynne
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response 115 of 352:
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Oct 19 21:24 UTC 2003 |
yeah, that is probably one reason I havent really noticed any problems
with the traffic at State/Liberty. I usually drive in and park on the
edges of downtown and then walk around. If I am going to Borders, for
instance, I usually come in via Packard to Fifth to Washington and then
park in the Tally Hall structure.
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jmsaul
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response 116 of 352:
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Oct 19 23:50 UTC 2003 |
Time is exactly the problem. I live here, and I work here, so when I'm
shopping in downtown Ann Arbor it isn't a special day-long expedition like
it is for people from Novi or something. It's just trying to patronize
your hometown stores, without burning tons of time you don't have.
I'd take half an hour on my way to or from somewhere and run into Borders,
or into one of the restaurants, or whatever. If there wasn't a convenient
space, I'd keep going and come back another time.
Now, you have to go to the edges of the area, hit a parking structure, and
walk in. I don't mind the walk, but I do mind the extra time that crap
adds. It's no longer something I can do on impulse on my way between
meetings or something. It's an expedition.
I guess Amazon is my hometown bookstore now, and I can kiss those
restaurants goodbye in favor of ones in sane places like Kerrytown,
Briarwood, and Ypsi.
Nice job, City Council.
(And that crap about how since the lights will make people drive slower,
they're more likely to notice the businesses? Complete bullshit. The way
those light cycles are set up, they aren't looking at the buildings.
They're scanning for parking spaces -- they got rid of almost 20 -- and
then staring at the red light they're stopped at so they don't miss the
brief, three-car green. Assuming another pedestrian doesn't jaywalk and
keep you from using it again, since the pedestrians also get very few walk
lights so they jaywalk all the time.)
Really, really, really dumb. Dog-ass dumb.
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scott
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response 117 of 352:
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Oct 20 00:36 UTC 2003 |
I think the "three car green" is a result of timing and sensor problems,
though. They've definitely got throughput problems which would be solved with
longer greens.
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sno
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response 118 of 352:
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Oct 20 01:09 UTC 2003 |
This Friday on State St at N.U. and William area was the worst I've ever
seen. Much of the problem was the right turn from William to S.State
towards the Michigan Union.
I judged that it was because of homecoming. However, a lot of confused
people still clog up that area during the day. I can see it from my
office window above where Decker Drugs was.
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cmcgee
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response 119 of 352:
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Oct 20 02:18 UTC 2003 |
City Council was not pushing for this. The merchants in the State Street
Association working with the DDA were the ones who really wanted the change.
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other
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response 120 of 352:
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Oct 20 03:13 UTC 2003 |
And that is the same merchants association which pushed to make those
streets one-way in the first place.
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mcnally
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response 121 of 352:
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Oct 20 07:20 UTC 2003 |
I'm interested in reading this not just because I'm still a bit interested
in what goes on in Ann Arbor but also because Grand Haven's downtown
merchants are pushing for their two one-way streets (Franklin & Columbus)
to be changed to two-way, a move I'm convinced will devastate traffic flow
through downtown Grand Haven and cause horrible congestion on crowded
summer beach weekends. I'd like to see them avoid making the same mistake
it sounds like Ann Arbor has made..
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johnnie
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response 122 of 352:
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Oct 20 13:20 UTC 2003 |
Kalamazoo is doing the same thing (thinking of converting all/most of
the downtown one-ways into two-ways). I think in K'zoo's case, though,
it'd make driving downtown a bunch easier.
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keesan
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response 123 of 352:
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Oct 20 18:10 UTC 2003 |
Jim discovered why his battery light was on in the car on the way from our
recent trip out of town. The fan belt (which has something to do with
charging the battery - alternator fan?) was gone, must have broken off. He
replaced it just two years ago when it went bad. He biked to Murray's and
got a belt which was the wrong size and is returning it now. Good thing we
were going to leave early and run errands on the way to my 4:30 CT scan at
the hospital. But they are likely to be running 2 hours late again like last
time anyway. For some reason the lights were working fine driving home Friday
- last time the belt went bad they were weak. The red brake light was also
on - why?
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keesan
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response 124 of 352:
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Oct 20 18:31 UTC 2003 |
The first fan belt (that was supposed to be correct for his car) was too long.
He asked for one just slightly shorter, but they looked up another size and
gave it to him. It is too short. He tried adjusting the car to take larger
or smaller belts but no luck. He will ask them to call the car company this
time. We have two hours left. Cars sure waste a lot of time. I would bike
if I had regrown enough muscle - much quicker and easier.
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