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07-18-2013, 09:30 AM
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Bloomberg’s Latest ‘Nanny’ Move: Pushing People to Take the Stairs | Politicker
Bloomberg’s Latest ‘Nanny’ Move: Pushing People to Take the Stairs | Politicker
Nothing is more digusting than listening to an enormously overweight person huff and puff because they just had to walk 50ft down the hallway to the conference room for a meeting.
It's really sad how many people on the elevator to come up to the Engineering floor............we are on the 2nd floor.
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07-18-2013, 09:38 AM
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While I think that regulation is stupid I don't really see the bid deal besides the added cost when renovating. Its not like he banned or in anyway limited access to elevators. He is just making the stairs seem friendlier. I doubt it will actually change behavior but its far from a nanny state move.
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07-18-2013, 09:40 AM
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Bloomberg’s Latest ‘Nanny’ Move: Pushing People to Take the Stairs | Politicker
Bloomberg’s Latest ‘Nanny’ Move: Pushing People to Take the Stairs | Politicker
On one hand, I think having more access to useable stairwells would be a nice feature. I personally cannot use the stairs in my office building because the doors on each floor are locked from inside the stairwell. That is, you can enter the stairwell from the floor you are on, but the door locks behind you. Once in the stairwell, you can only exit at the ground floor.
On the other hand, I tend to chafe at things being mandated (like the signage) and can imagine it added cost and headaches for architects for something that ultimately won't get used a lot in many highrises. I'm over ten floors up and I would wager that less than 20% of the people on this floor would make that hike - and we have a number of fitness oriented people on this floor.
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07-18-2013, 12:07 PM
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Someone please point me to the clause in the Constitution (state or fed level) where this stuff is the business of government at all.
Taking the stairs? Good.
Gov't mandated? Very bad.
Taking the stairs? Good.
Gov't mandated? Very bad.
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07-18-2013, 02:47 PM
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The government is trying to mandate the availability of useable and accessible stairwells for those people that wish to use them. At most, the govt is trying to mandate signage and some changes to doors.
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07-18-2013, 03:37 PM
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I personally cannot use the stairs in my office building because the doors on each floor are locked from inside the stairwell. That is, you can enter the stairwell from the floor you are on, but the door locks behind you. Once in the stairwell, you can only exit at the ground floor.
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07-22-2013, 09:12 AM
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New York food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti - NYPOST.com
Illinois rewarded for misspending only $52 million on food stamps « Watchdog.org
Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
Illinois is being awarded $4 million by the USDA as recognition of it 98 percent accuracy rate. Smith said she doesn’t know how Illinois will spend that money.
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07-22-2013, 09:55 AM
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Jay Carney: In fact, comprehensive immigration reform--I'm sure this is of interest to at least one reporter--would significantly reduce our deficit, would expand economic growth, would raise wages--
[Audible laughter--one female reporter's voice heard apologizing for the laughter]
Carney: --and would enhance our, you know, the creation of innovative businesses.
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07-22-2013, 10:53 AM
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TSA opening up PreCheck program to let more fliers speed through lines - NBC News.com
yeah this won't get abused. Don't you think people who don't want scrutiny would be willing to pay the $85 fee?
yeah this won't get abused. Don't you think people who don't want scrutiny would be willing to pay the $85 fee?
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07-25-2013, 09:06 AM
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A part of history rarely discussed and even more rarely appreciated by North Americans:
[W]e swung in towards the centre and started to enter a city devastated beyond all comprehension. It was more than appalling. As far as the eye could see, square mile after square mile of empty shells of buildings with twisted girders scarecrowed in the air, radiators of a flat jutting out from a shaft of a still-standing wall, like a crucified pterodactyl skeleton.
Horrible, hideous shapes of chimneys sprouting from the frame of a wall. The whole pervaded by an atmosphere of ageless quiet ... Such impressions are incomprehensible unless seen.
Horrible, hideous shapes of chimneys sprouting from the frame of a wall. The whole pervaded by an atmosphere of ageless quiet ... Such impressions are incomprehensible unless seen.
Imagine a world without institutions. No governments. No school or universities. No access to any information. No banks. Money no longer has any worth. There are no shops, because no one has anything to sell.
Law and order are virtually non-existent because there is no police force and no judiciary. Men with weapons roam the streets taking what they want. Women of all classes and ages prostitute themselves for food and protection.
This is Continental Europe in the aftermath of WWII. Law and order are virtually non-existent because there is no police force and no judiciary. Men with weapons roam the streets taking what they want. Women of all classes and ages prostitute themselves for food and protection.
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