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Advertising executive Karen Zuckerman has assembled a small army of college women across the country to spread the word about her ambitious Rockville, Md.-based dorm-decorating company.
Aptly called Dormify, the start-up — funded with $2 million from a dozen investors and Zuckerman herself — is going head to head with big brands like Pottery Barn, Target and Bed Bath & Beyond as it tries to capture a slice of the collegiate-spending market.
Dormify sells stuff online, such as vinyl wall decals that make you believe a chandelier is hanging from the ceiling. The biggest chunk of its business is bedding, which includes sheets, duvets and decorative pillows under girly names like "California Girl" and "City Chic."
What interests me about the business are the 300 style advisers positioned across 150 colleges. The goal is to create a national network of Dormify ambassadors who will spread the brand through blog posts, photos and updates on social-media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. Typical topics run the gamut from basic decorating tips to how to get into a sorority.
"If people like our content, then they are going to be interested in our products," Zuckerman said. "We try to touch on content that all college girls are interested in."
Zuckerman is betting she can blow out the Dormify student brigade into a national distribution channel that not only sells dorm stuff but one day helps young women and couples outfit their apartments after graduation — and maybe even decorate their first homes.
In return for volunteering — style advisers don't get paid, but they can receive a commission from sales — Zuckerman's employees learn to become young businesswomen. They learn how to communicate verbally and in writing. They make contacts. They learn how to market themselves on the Internet.


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Watch the video of Père Noël getting his beard stuck in a descender:
Santa's job isn't without its risks. Just imagine working under serious time pressure, moving around on snowy roofs in the dark...
In Florida, "Santa Claus" was getting ready for the upcoming Christmas work rush and brushing up on his rappelling technique at a local shopping mall. But the exercise didn't go exactly as planned. Instead, this poor "Santa" got his beard caught in the descender. We still don't know if he ever made it down..
Watch the video of Père Noël getting his beard stuck in a descender:
At Petzl, we actually created a Technical Notice with some important tips for Santa:
- Descending a rope
- Ascending a rope
- Setting up a hoisting system to descend and ascend a chimney with the help of his elves
- Some food-related guidelines
- And working with maximum possible safety
You can also download Santa's Tech Notice (PDF; 1.6 Mb) here.
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The three players were named to the team as a result of votes by league players, coaches and managers. Lo Duca also was the top Dodger vote-getter with 281,528 online votes and 171,048 offline votes. The next highest Dodger vote-getter was Shawn Green, who finished 15th in the voting with 204,231 online votes and 171,217 offline votes.
Gagne is making his second consecutive All-Star appearance. The 2001 runner-up for Rolaids Relief Man pitched one inning last year and allowed a solo home run to Alfonso Soriano. Gagne is the third different Dodger closer to make an All-Star team in the last seven years (joining Todd Worrell and Jeff Shaw).
Gagne, who shattered the Dodger franchise save record last year with 52, has converted all 30 of his save opportunities this year, the fourth-longest streak to start a season, and 38 dating back to last year, the longest current streak in the Major Leagues and tied for fifth-longest all-time. In one stretch he saved six consecutive Dodger games, matching Rod Beck's five-year-old Major League record.
The right-hander also leads all relievers in strikeouts, having fanned 74 in 43 innings, averaging 15.5 per nine innings. He has struck out two or more batters in 28 of his 41 outings. At one point he retired 24 consecutive batters, with a string of 10 consecutive strikeouts included. In addition to 30 saves, Gagne is 1-3 with a 2.09 ERA.
Kevin Brown is making his sixth All-Star appearance, and first since 2000. In 4 2/3 innings of All-Star work, Brown has allowed only two hits and one earned run. He was the winning pitcher in the 1992 game at San Diego while playing for Texas. He also appeared twice as a Florida Marlin, once as a San Diego Padre and once as a Dodger.
Brown has made a remarkable return from two seasons of elbow and back operations. From the start of the season until mid-June, he might have been the best starting pitcher in the league. In his first 15 starts, the only two times he allowed more than two earned runs came when he was weakened by an upper respiratory infection.
He won nine consecutive decisions, but came out of his June 17 start with a strained groin muscle. Healed from that ailment, he suffered a strained lower abdominal muscle in his July 3 start that might keep him out of the All-Star Game. He currently is 10-4 with a 2.30 ERA (tied for first in the league).
Lo Duca is making his All-Star debut, another noteworthy achievement for a player who spent eight seasons in the minor leagues, but he has played in the Florida State League All-Star Game, the Texas League All-Star Game and the Triple-A All-Star Game. He is the first Dodger catcher to make an All-Star team since Mike Piazza in 1997.
Lo Duca has been the one dependable bat in a Dodger offense that has struggled all season, and his career-high 25-game hitting streak is the second longest in the Major Leagues this season and second longest in Los Angeles Dodgers history.
His versatility also has provided manager Jim Tracy with lineup flexibility. Lo Duca has started most of his 79 games behind the plate, but he has also started at first base and left field, where regulars Brian Jordan and Fred McGriff have missed considerable time with disabling injuries. And Lo Duca has batted in the second, third, fourth and fifth spots in the batting order. He is hitting .303 with five home runs and 30 RBIs.
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Thome named AL Player of the Week
Following 600th homer, Twins slugger wins award for eighth time
One historic achievement begets one weekly award. Minnesota slugger Jim Thome, who became the eighth player in Major League history to hit his 600th career home run last Monday, was named the American League's Player of the Week in recognition of his performance.
Thome, who has been named Player of the Week eight times in his distinguished career, will receive a watch courtesy of Game Time in honor of his accomplishment. The 40-year-old batted .429 with three home runs, seven RBIs and four runs scored in his five games played last week.
Thome, the oldest player to reach 600 home runs, did it with the 48th multihomer game of his career. The former 13th-round Draft pick went deep twice last Monday, notching five RBIs in the effort. Thome drilled another homer Wednesday to help Minnesota take a series from first-place Detroit.
Thome outpolled a sturdy group of contenders for the award, a field that included Toronto's Jose Bautista, Detroit catcher Alex Avila, Texas first baseman Mitch Moreland and a trio -- Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson -- of prominent Yankees.
Peter Bourjos, an Angels center fielder, also made it into the honorable mention group. Only one pitcher -- Toronto southpaw Ricky Romero -- was considered for AL Player of the Week.
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— You've seen them. Peeking out from sidebars, jiggling and wiggling for your attention, popping up where you most expect them: those "One Weird Trick" ads. These crudely drawn Web advertisements promise easy tricks to reduce your belly fat, learn a new language, and boost your credit score by 217 points. They seem like obvious scams, but part of me has always wanted to follow the link. What, I wonder, makes the tricks so weird? How come only one trick (or sometimes "tip"), never more? Why are the illustrations done by small children using MS Paint? I've never pursued these questions, though, because a fear of computer viruses and identity theft has always stayed my hand. One curious click, I imagine, and I could wake up hogtied on an oil tanker headed to Nigeria.
Thankfully, Slate has allowed me to slake my curiosity, and yours. They gave me a loaner laptop, a prepaid debit card, and a quest: to investigate these weird tricks and report back to you. I also contacted a bevy of marketing experts to help me parse what I found. The individual tricks themselves are peculiar, but the larger trick — of why this bizarre and omnipresent marketing strategy works — tells us a lot about what makes us click, buy and believe.
Newly emboldened, I clicked on my first ad, which promised a cure for diabetes. Specifically, I hoped to "discover how 1 weird spice reverses diabetes in 30 short days." The ad showed a picture of cinnamon buns. Could the spice be . . . cinnamon? Maybe I would find out. The link brought up a video with no pause button or status bar. A kindly voice began: "Prepare to be shocked." I prepared myself. As "Lon" spoke, his words flashed simultaneously on the screen, PowerPoint-style. As soon as he started, Lon seemed fixated on convincing me to stay until the end. "This could be the most important video you ever watch," he promised. "Watch the entire video, as the end will surprise you!"
Every time Lon seemed about to get to the spicy heart of the matter, he'd go off on a tangent. This video wouldn't stay on the Internet for long, he said. The cure is for people "ready to put down the flaky answers." Indeed, "if you're looking for a miracle cure or new age fad, leave this page now." Lon also took pains to trash the medical establishment. Big Pharma has been lying to you, he said. They profit every time you take their pills, or inject yourself with their needles. But the secret spice Lon discovered can free you of the lies and the needles. You will "look and feel like you were never sick." Your doctor will confirm your cure, astounded.
What is Lon up to? "People tend to think something is important if it's secret," says Michael Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School. "Studies find that we give greater credence to information if we've been told it was once 'classified.' Ads like this often purport to be the work of one man, telling you something 'they' don't want you to know." The knocks on Big Pharma not only offered a tempting needle-free fantasy; they also had a whiff of secret knowledge, bolstering the ad's credibility.
It's doubtful, though, that Lon has much in the way of insider info. He's an actor hired by Barton Publishing, a firm based in South Dakota that puts out a wide variety of crankish health literature — there's nary a foodstuff that isn't the cure to some ailment in one of Barton's booklets. Most "one weird trick" ads are hard to trace back to a specific marketing firm with flesh-and-blood employees, but Barton is open about the kind of publishing it does, with pictures and bios of their contributors on its website. (Notably, the first person listed is not a homeopath but a "split tester.")
The Barton brain trust seemed surprisingly sincere, which I kept in mind as I turned to my next ad. I clicked to learn "the REAL reason why Obama is trying to take your guns away." You'd think health quackery and gun paranoia would have little in common, but soon I was brought to a page with a self-playing, pauseless video and a male voice urging me to watch to the end. Apparently Obama has signed an executive order authorizing him to institute martial law and "steal your food supply," but "Matt" has developed "a weird but incredibly effective system" to survive the coming storm.
"Research on persuasion shows the more arguments you list in favor of something, regardless of the quality of those arguments, the more that people tend to believe it," Norton says. "Mainstream ads sometimes use long lists of bullet points — people don't read them, but it's persuasive to know there are so many reasons to buy." OK, but if more is better, then why only one trick? "People want a simple solution that has a ton of support."
What about all the weirdness? "A word like 'weird' is not so negative, and kind of intriguing," says Oleg Urminsky of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "There's this foot-in-the-door model. If you lead with a strong, unbelievable claim it may turn people off. But if you start with 'isn't this kind of weird?' it lowers the stakes." The model also explains why some ads ask you to click on your age first. "Giving your age is low-stakes but it begins the dialogue. The hard sell comes later."
Poorly drawn graphics are a deliberate choice as well. "People notice when you put something in the space that's different, even if it's ugly," Urminsky says. "This might hurt the brand of established companies, but the companies here have non-existent or negative brand associations, so it may be worth it for the extra attention."
Plus, "if the ad were too professional, it might undermine the illusion that it's one man against the system," Norton says. Slick ads suggest profit-hungry companies, not stay-at-home moms or rogue truth-tellers trying to help the little guy.
There may be another reason for the length and shoddiness of the ads. "The point is not always to get the customer to buy the product," Urminsky says. "It may be to vet the customer. Long videos can act as a sorting mechanism, a way to 'qualify your prospects.' Once you've established this is a person who'll sit through anything, you can contact them by email later and sell them other products."
"Those Nigerian prince scams are not very convincing," he adds, "but they're meant not to be. If you're a skeptical person, the scammers want to spend as little time with you as possible. These videos may screen people in a similar way."
Arguably, this very article has behaved like a one-weird-trick ad in delaying gratification this long. So what does happen when you grit your teeth and watch to the end of the videos? Well, you can survive the Obama-calypse with a booklet on bunker-building and water purification. Eliminate belly fat using the thoroughly disproven extracts of garcinia cambogia and acai. And diabetes — just add cinnamon. The weirdest trick of all, of course, was getting anyone to click in the first place.


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東には涸沢カールが広がり、西には白出沢〜新穂高温泉。それらのコース全てを歩いて何度もこの場所を訪れたが、この山小屋の存在程心強い物は無い。 それほど素晴らしい場所にある素晴らしい小屋です。
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馬の背と呼ばれる奥穂高岳から西穂高へ伸びる稜線上の難所のパノラマです。 尾根の左右どちらとも切れ落ち高度感があり、通過する場合、特に奥穂高側から西穂高側へ行く下り方向の方が困難に感じるでしょう。重荷の時...
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The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.
The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.
They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.
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I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.
At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)
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I think patents tend to last about 20 years from the moment of granting, which is why cheap ibuprofen medicine took so long to come out. It is a state sanctioned monopoly on an innovation and is designed to allow the inventor to reap the rewards of her work. The idea is to encourage others to spend money on R&D with the knowledge they'll have some time to recoup losses. Copyright currently remains with the holder (the person who created the work) for 70 years from their death. It used to be 50 years (prior to that it was 14), but the Disney corporation managed to lobby the US govt (and thus WIPO) to extend the period as Micky Mouse was close to entering the public domain. As far as I can tell there will be another extension soon as Winnie the Pooh is getting close to public domain status, and the bear of little brain is Disney's highest earning character.
I don't know why no-one has come up with the idea of putting drug formulae to tunes in order to extend the monopoly life of them. Another drug company woudn't be allowed to copy their "lyrics".
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Imagine if you will that M$ patented the concept of the WIMP user interface (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer I think). Then KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker, Fluxbox, ICE-WM etc would all be controlled by M$. OK it's hardly a new idea now, but you get the point.
The fact is that the WIMP UI was not originally done by M$, it was done on an Apple computer before a PC, and the GEM interface predated the Windows interface. BUT that does not mean that M$ could not have patented the idea at the time, it was a relatively new thing and not generally used.
It could destroy all open-source programs, and even competition within commercial programs.
If Adobe patented the concept of DeskTop publishing, then all Microsoft's, Serif's and other efforts in this area would be illegal, as would Scribus. All you can "copyright" is your own implementation of an idea. With patents you can own the idea itself.
PS love the earlier post about the guy patenting the wheel!
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Umm, it made sense to me, ( i think ? ) ...
All you can "copyright" is your own implementation of an idea. With patents you can own the idea itself.
Yes, thats what i was getting at, in a nut shell. But i was just rolling it around to myself really. There is a difference, though subtle.
So, a patent decrees, or formalises ownership. That ownership being based on it being something original. Such as an invention. But thats all. It's up to the holder to decide how that title will be used. Where copyright controls how it will be used on transfer to someone else.
hmmm, seems the two are closely related, and in themselves apparently benign. Though, as is quite evident in business, when it comes to self regulation ... a person would have to be a fool to think it wont be abused.
And it would appear, that, as a patent depends on the concept of inventiveness. It would seem that thats the thing that is in need of some re-draughting. Like .. what is and what ain't an "invention", compared to an implementation. If that can be defined in an acceptable way, wouldn't that be a major govern over the issuing of patents. Easier said than done though, i know.
Could "xml" be thought of as an original idea, or just an implementation of the "concept" of "markup" language(s). I would think the idea of a patent would have to belong more with the later. But what i think isn't really worth much. It's what that weird commision thinks that counts.
So ... the EU commission has to figure out a definition for what constitutes an invention, or just when does something become original. But also, can't an "original" and thus apatentable thing, consist of a set of other original thing. Like a patentable machine, built from common components ... cogs, sprockets, levers etc. Like the "foon", over here it was called that. It was a cross between a fork and a spoon. A really handy utensil. One could drink beer and have their dinner at the same time, which puts it in the hall of all time great inventions in my book. It was different though. It borrowed two existing ideas and merged them into something completely different.
Doesn't software, kinda do that as well !, in a way.
And, if an object can be thought of as being an invention. Why can't an idea. Or does calling an idea a procedure make it more acceptable in that regard.
I just saw in LXF for March, up at the local shopping center, on the editors page. Seems Poland have been successful in blocking some vote or something. I haven't read it as yet
If software can be patented were __all__ doomed. And how the fsck does an unelected commission get to have any political power in a democracy. Thats totally weird.
Maybe different "classes" of a patent would be a good idea. With diminishing degrees of associated legal power (ie; different getting screwed levels).
Copyright should be sufficient in most cases. And, because of the complexity, the old surgeons maxim should be made to apply ... "when in doubt, cut it out".
That is, if it isn't obvious enough, and clear cut, then a copyright should only apply. And maybe some form of other recognition with out any legal weight.
Would the EU be having this problem if this so called commission was actually elected. Hell, the weekend is tomorrow, i'll have to have another, umm, long think on that one
If they get away with it over your way. Our egg-roll of a PM will just catch the idea, like the flue. Then we'll all have to carry it.
Good Luck on this. (get rid of that screwy commission for a start)
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The patent office insist that software per se is not patentable but that it needs some "technical element" to allow it to be patented, but they don't have a definition as to that "technical element". I wonder how that works? Over to Jarndice & Jarndice and m'learned friends!
On the commission front the European parliament threw out the proposals but somehow it was then resusitated by the commission, arse. I'm with jjmac get rid of the commission!
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easy answer ...
just go to the mplayer website, then you'll know what all the fuss is aboot (about!!)
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it needs some "technical element" to allow it to be patented, but they don't have a definition as to that "technical element" ...
It is really is just that simple, but, there is a somewhat disturbing air to their explanation. It seems the game is going to be all about "definitions", ... what MS in the 'halloween' memos liked to refer to as 'perceptions'.
I think the antenna needs to very much so, up and observant in that case.
-:- Would you by a second hand car off a EU patent commissioner ? -:-
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Software is generally speaking a form of comminication, its a form of speech, after all programmers generally learn "a language" to program in.
Books are also a form of communication / speech, and authors can copyright a book but they can't patent the story before its been published.
Software is inherently based on ideas from the past, building blocks get re-used or learnt from, thats how it moves forward. When trying to accomplish something, what is the point of starting from scratch EVERY time, especially when there are tried and tested ways of doing things.
Is it not also slightly funny that a patent can be nullified if "prior art" can be shown to exist, but art is one of the forms which cannot be patented.
My personnel view is that ALL patents are bad, I understand that the initial intention was possibly to protect person A from having their invention nicked by Corporation B who can rush it to market much quicker etc But to simply say that two people cannot have the same idea just doesn't work. So what if I think of an invention that someone else thought of 10 years ago, I did not know about it, how can it be wrong for people to have the same ideas!!?
Copyright on the other hand is far easier to place morally.
To quote a source from 1991:
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February 28, 1991
The League for Programming Freedom
Software patents threaten to devastate America's computer industry. Patents granted in the past decade are now being used to attack companies such as the Lotus Development Corporation for selling programs that they have independently developed. Soon new companies will often be barred from the software arena--most major programs will require licenses for dozens of patents, and this will make them infeasible. This problem has only one solution: software patents must be eliminated.
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San Francisco activists and labor filed an appeal of the controversial commuter shuttle (aka, the Google buses) pilot program to the Board of Supervisors today, alleging it was pushed through without a proper environmental review.
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The shuttles, mostly to Silicon Valley tech firms, pick up passengers in Muni bus stops. The use of public bus stops would incur a $271 fine for private autos, and often do, but the shuttles have largely received a free pass from the city. Last month, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency approved of a pilot plan hatched behind closed doors that allows use of 200 bus stops by the private shuttles, charging only $1 per stop, per day.
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while the endless appeals work their way through the system. And in the end the city will be bound by state law not to make a dime over costs - so the $1 charge per stop will stand. And SEIU and the Housing Rights Committee will have wasted more of their funder's cash while doing absolutely nothing to halt evictions or CO2 emissions.
So why the angst?
Oh, that's brilliant. Rather than carpool through private shuttles, let's let all the city employees drive their cars all the way to the South Bay. I'm sure it'll have NO effect on both traffic and the environment. I'm sure all the carbon monoxide emitted and overuse of fossil fuel will prove to be better for all. And that's not including the road rage because of the increase in traffic jams and pile ups.
Right, everyone driving is a much more Eco-friendly option.
>"The use of public bus stops would incur a $271 fine for private autos, and often do"
Would love to see the statistics showing that private vehicles are regularly fined for stopping in bus stops.
Anecdotally, I frequently see taxis dropping off and particularly picking up people at bus stops (drivers target bus stops to get fares from frustrated bus riding hopefuls).
Anyway, would be great if you could share your research indicating that private citizens are frequently given $271 tickets for stopping in a bus stop.
Been doing so for years.
Number of tickets? Zero.
Stay in your vehicle and it's a non issue.
stop all the time.
No tickets, not many buses either.
I described it in another thread. I stopped for only a short time, and someone was in the vehicle in case a bus came. So the above is just not true. You just got lucky. And you may not be so lucky for very long, because MUNI buses now have cameras that can ticket you for such violations. So if one of the camera-equipped buses goes by, your buddy may get a fat ticket even if he immediately leaves the scene.
Why don't you retell the whole story Greg? You stopped at the bus stop so you could run in and get a cup of coffee. Also, while there was a person in the car, he wasn't in the driver's seat. There's a big difference between picking/dropping someone off and leaving your car there with no driver so you can get your coffee.
It was Chilean sea bass. Yes, I know. Bad bad bad. But that detail is as irrelevant as the gender of the other person and the seat they were in. The relevant point is that no, staying in the vehicle will not save you from a ticket. Especially not from the bus camera tickets. The camera does not care about what seat the person is sitting in, the person's gender, or whether the driver is picking up his disabled grandmother or just getting an overpriced latte. The camera only cares that there is a vehicle in the red zone at the exact moment the MUNI bus comes by, and that the vehicle's license plate is readable.
Except that Google buses seem to be exempt from paying.
a bus means that their being in a bus stop is not deemed as a massive problem in terms of enforcement priority, and rightly so.
And a given google bus only uses the stop ten times a week. I see other types of vehicles use bus stops far more, but because they don't contain people more successful than you, it doesn't seem to bother you.
In any event, there is now a deal sand so the problem goes away.
So writing "bad bad bad" makes it an oopsie? I know I speak for all my fellow endangered species when I say, Fuck you. You should be hit with a CEQA suit for your actions, triple damages for acting like it's okay.
You know what? Forget what I just said. You just go on right ahead and keep occupying the bus zone. When the parking gestapo slaps that ticket on your window, just tell them the sage advice you received here from another troll: they told me stay in the vehicle and I'll be fine. I'm sure the parking gestapo will rip that $271 ticket right up.
You keep changing the subject Greg. The original topic was that people who pull their cars into a bus stop to pick up or drop someone off will rarely get a ticket. YOU decided to bring up the fact that you got a ticket while parked in a bus zone. You omitted the fact that you got out of your car to go get coffee or whatever. And it is relevant that there wasn't someone in the driver's seat. You left someone in the car. Big deal. What if that person can't drive? How're they gonna move it?
If you were smart you would've asked them to run your errand while you sat in the driver's seat. But you didn't. It was YOUR fuck up, not anyone else's. Quit blaming other people for your stupidity and arrogance. I've had the same situation countless times. I dropped my passenger off and circled the block and picked them up when they were ready. No ticket. Huh...
As for the MUNI cameras. That is a completely separate issue. You didn't get a ticket from the camera, did you? If people get tickets because of the camera, then that's THEIR fault. Just like someone giving you a ticket because you parked there. YOUR fault.
And the advice is use the stop to drop someone off/pick someone up. Not to leave your car there while you get your coffee.
If all you do is drop off and pick up, the odds of a ticket are negligible.
I haven't been "lucky". I've done this maybe a thousands times or more. Odds are I would have gotten a ticket if it's enforced, so clearly it isn't unless you are a twat like Greg who does his weekly shopping while parked in a bus stop.
Therefore, none of these stories are definitive proof of who is right or wrong on this issue.
That said, since you are giving out anecdotal evidence, I will do the same. I live on Mission Street (and I walk and talk the Muni to work here in SF). Everyday, I see cars driving in the "bus" lanes, and not just to make a turn, including past SF police cars--not once have I seen a private car ticketed for this. Also, I regularly see cars stop at corners on Mission Street in the bus stop area, and while I do see Muni bus drivers honk at them, I have never once witnessed any private automobile driver get ticketed. I have also seen SF police cars drive by and never once as one stopped and ticketed a private vehicle stopped at a Muni bus stop that I have seen.
I think my personal experience is just as valid as yours. It seems to me, the city does NOT regularly ticket private automobile drivers who stop at Muni stops--at least on Mission Street.
and probably should be except in the most egregious of circumstances
Don't worry about a thing, Greg. As the troll said, as long as you stay in your vehicle you'll be juuusst fine.
illegal parking. If you are in control of the vehicle and can move it in a moment, most cops will just tell you to move on.
Interestingly, a cop told me that putting on your hazard lights can help you avoid a ticket. At the margin, some cops will see that as an acknowledgment of the temporary inconvenience and obstacle, and give you a pass.
That's the point. Most bus stops are empty 95% of the time, even on Market Street. Stopping in one is wrong but in the hierarchy of every day life it isn't worth a police officer's time.
My complaint is that the SFBG constantly lies by saying that private cars are often ticketed. Most of us know that they are just making it up but it is still worthwhile to point out that they make stuff up.
The other vehicles that use bus stops illegally do so all the time.
And the google buses remove cars from the streets.
So google shuttles are the most innocent of all vehicles that use Muni stops. Yet SFBG singles them out the most for ideological reasons.
SFBG is so biased and hateful it beggars belief.
Actually you just proved who was right and it wasn't you Greg. You just contradicted yourself. You started out by saying people do get tickets for stopping at bus stops. You called multiple posters lucky for not getting tickets. Now even you say that your OWN anecdotal evidence shows that the doesn't regularly ticket private automobile drivers who stop at MUNI stops. Duuuuurrrr.....
And since you just admitted that the city doesn't regularly ticket cars at MUNI stops, you want them to single out the Google buses for tickets because you don't like them.
This is why you can never win an argument Greg. You end up shooting yourself in the foot every time you open your mouth.
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Any remaining credibility is lost by his rants about cops, Asians and his stated willingness to lie to a justice to further his political ideology.
That should be obvious, from the fact that I responded to him.
These cameras are intended for auto-- or semi-auto-- ticketting of drivers using bus lanes--and, I believe, bus stops; so one might not see the tickets being issued.
crucially they do not show the driver's face, because the camera is forward facing.
So a driver can easily get off a ticket simply by claiming that he is innocent until proven guilty, and that there is no proof that he is driving.
The tickets being issued are not moving violations like the red-light cameras issue. Unless you are a stupid troll you wouldn't argue that the DPT has to get a photo of a driver's face to issue a parking ticket.
you who was driving.
You don't drive, do you?
You can fight a parking ticket by claiming that you weren't driving the car? Tell the truth, you are actually 13 years old and have never driven a car in your life.
You just have to try.
The MTA contends that pilot projects are exempt, can't remember if it is categorical or statutory, from environmental review if their intent is to collect data. That's how they did the Market, Folsom and 8th Street "double wide" bike lanes.
I'm on board.
Regarding Joe Rodriguez's statement:
"Some studies conducted already show that affluence rises wherever the shuttle stops are placed. One by Chris Walker, a 29 year old in Mumbai, India, shows skyrocketing property values in and around the Google bus stops from 2011 to 2013."
If you read Walker's notes he states that the rising prices started long before the advent of tech shuttles and that it is very difficult to distinguish between correlation and causation in regard to the buses. Walker makes statements illustrating both sides of the argument and it is easy enough to just cherry pick the ones that you like. Joe Rodriguez makes the impression that Walker came to a firm conclusion, which is obviously not true.
Here is the link to the study that Joe Rodriguez misrepresents. You can see for yourself:
MTA's job to worry about housing affordability.
Who's job is it then? It's under nobodies purview.
Isn't it better to have some oversight over infrastructure development-- to weigh pro's and con's? I don't necessarily want to ban google buses, or some other knee-jerk reaction, I just want public oversight in the planning process.
and of course parts of DPW as well.
But this isn't a planning issue. The issue is what it costs the city to let the google shuttles pick up and set down passengers.
You cannot claim it causes congestion because it removes cars from the streets.
You cannot claim they pollute for the same reason.
And any knock-on effect on housing affordability is highly speculative, contentious, debateable and impossible to quantify anyway.
That's why I cannot come up with a better number than a buck a stop, and the city transit experts appear to agree with that.
Fabricated schmabricated. Who cares about facts. It's all about hype, hysteria and political advantage-taking.
Maybe that is because they pick up all city residents and anyone that needs a taxi. Unlike the Google buses that only picks up their workers yet takes over a citizen's bus stop to do so. Taxi serve the City's needs and these buses serve Silly Con Valley's needs.
No they aren't.
when Rob Anderson filed the EIR suit over the bike plan?
The SEIU's idea here is to extort more money because it's there. They could careless about policy or anyone living in the city other than members. They just want more money to be wasted on them and their make work jobs, as a former member I can safely state that as a fact.
were SEIU members. They're as big as whores as the corporations they claim to oppose and they know it too. Bankrupt hypocrite fucking liberals - they couldn't even get Volkswagen workers to vote to unionize in TN when the company didn't oppose their efforts. That's gotta hurt.
Out of the buses and into your cars!!
Now there's a blast from the past! Is he still kickin' or has he already moved to Colma with his friends Arthur Evans and Joe Konopka?
PS... sorry to hear you lost your union job. But bitterness isn't going to help. In fact I hear that holding such grudges shortens your life. Maybe you should go take a Zen Buddhism workshop with the google-ites, or you might wind up like those not-too-old bitter curmudgeons named above.
right now Greg. Why is that?
So yeah, he's bitter a lot.
San Francisco was a union town when there were unions there. What's left of them? SEIU and Transit Unions. Between them and the ineptitude among staffers at City Hall, SF has evolved into a large open dump. The city needs cleaning and sprucing up to reestablish itself as the jewel of the west it was in its prime. All of us in the bay area hope for that. Let the buses run. The workers that use them are coming home to SF and spending their time and money there. Be happy about that. Their being there primes the local economic pump and that can only help the locals.
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The city should also do an environmental review of all those free parking places that city workers get a municipal parking lots.
If city workers did not get all those free parking spots, they would be using public transportation and reducing carbon emissions.
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