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Re: “Javier's Taco Shop”
It is a dive, you have to bus your own table, etc... That said, the food is very good, (even when you are sober,) and the prices are low and the hours are long, so as long as you aren't expecting anything fancy, you'll be happy.
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Re: “Mercury News Team: We Would Never Block the Bike Lane With Our Giant Ass News Van”
That is a nice promise, you don't have a microwave* truck. In fact, Matt Davis has talked about renting a car to drive to Salem, and the Mercury didn't pay for it. If I know Hump, you probably have to depend upon free Wifi to file your stories, but maybe he is more generous than I thought and gave you cellular/wimax cards for your laptops.
*The TV stations likes to call them satellite trucks cause it makes them sound cool. The truth is, they are just aiming the dish at the general direction of the radio towers in the west hills, where it gets picked up by a dish there and put on a fiber optic line and run back to the studio. The signal is on the microwave frequencies, so they are considered microwave trucks, (not to be confused with the food carts which tend to have real stoves in them.) The two dishes and the electronics to run them costs less than $10k, although the mounting, (on the radio towers, and the truck itself,) is far more than that. Satellites aren't very good for local news anyways. They cause delays between the people "on the street" and the people in the studio, and they are a lot more expensive to buy time on.
Re: “Cop Union Running "No Confidence" Vote on Sizer And Saltzman”
@Matt Davis: They only want the press to come if they aren't going to automatically write something bad about them. For instance, pointing out that showing up to a political event in uniform is a very bad thing probably you on the "Don't invite" list.
The police union can vote on how confident they feel about Saltzman, but given that he is a city wide elected official, their vote should have absolutely nothing to do with what happens. If it does, then it should be considered a coup, and we should apply for asylum outside city limits.
Re: “BREAKING: Metro Takes Aim to Kill CRC Support in 2011”
The kind of earthquake that would take down the existing I-5 bridge would also crack the dams. So yes, the bridge may indeed fall down, shortly before it gets hit with a massive wall of water.
It is actually an interesting argument, if you are an insurance investigator. See if you have a house, and it floods in a hurricane, then it is covered by flood insurance which you may or may not have, and may or may not be subsidized by the federal government (depending on your location.) However, if it catches fire, (which happens quite often in hurricanes; gas lines break and stuff,) before it floods then it is covered by the fire insurance...
As such, I imagine the corps of engineers (who own and manage the dams,) would want to know if the bridge fell down before the wall of water hit it. If the water hit after it had fallen down, then they wouldn't have to rebuild it, where as if their dam failing caused it to fall down, they would have to rebuild it. Not that that changes anything, it would still be paid for by the taxpayers and we still wouldn't have a bridge at all for a while, but it is interesting...
Re: “Blogtown Flash Food Drive: Day Three!”
Are you using mail totes for non-post office related uses?
Re: “Saltzman Suspends Chasse Cop For Beanbag Shot On 12-Year-Old Girl, Updated With Video”
No argument that she is indeed resisting arrest. However, if instead of shooting her, (and risk missing and hitting his partner who is trying [successfully] to keep her from running,) he'd just grabbed her too, everything would have been fine. He certainly can't claim that she was a risk to his safety, since she obviously wasn't a risk to his partner's safety.
As for post accident drug testing, I think that is fairly standard at most workplaces. Why are the police any different? And why would they be opposed? (Unless they know that they'd fail, I do know that there are police officers that confiscate drugs and never manage to take the stuff all the way back to evidence.)
Re: “Man, I F@#$%^&* HATE IT When I Get My F*&^%$#@ Sleeves Wet!!”
I haven't had this problem since, I don't know, I was 6 and I could barely reach the sink. Since then, the water that runs down my arms tends to actually run down them, and almost never up my arms to my sleeves.
Not that it is a bad idea. Somewhere there must be a midget supply store and they should stock these.
Re: “Saltzman Suspends Chasse Cop For Beanbag Shot On 12-Year-Old Girl, Updated With Video”
@Number Six: I wouldn't be worried about the water bureau as much, because:
1) They aren't armed.
2) Their job isn't to enforce the law.
But yes, they'd be fired anyways, and for good reason. However, armed people standing around making political statements reminds me of 3rd world dictatorships, not just a bad use of public funding.
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