>When someone outside of America thinks of American food, do you think they will think of Cajun gumbo, TexMex, Clam Chowder, or something you'd find on the menu at McDonalds?

Statistically this random non-american is some sort of Asian. Therefore the answer is finger lickin good.

Ah, a fan of Korean fried chicken, I see.

They provided a mortgage statement. The district employee can trivially verify that by firing up the GIS system.

The kind of district where people would rat each other out at any rate that would cause non-trivial amounts of work is going to be full of exactly the kind of people who wouldn't see anything wrong with treating a circuitous 3rd party ALPR enforcement system as authoritative and would have the spare $$$ to pay for such a boondoggle.

The last thing some legislators and lobbyists who've cooked up a law that will make their benefactors rich at the expense of some other random industry is to have the enforcement bureaucracy in charge of actually doing it pushing back because it's nonsensical.

Imagine if the EPA was located in Detroit. I bet we wouldn't have 450k mandated warranties on heavy truck emissions components (which serves what purpose beyond front loading that cost into the purchase, the last thing you want if you want these cleaner newer trucks on the road).

If the pencil pushers who sent steel production to elsewhere had their offices in Cleveland maybe we'd have less clean but more steel production domestically instead of offloading that tonnage of production to parts of the world where it's dirtier still, say nothing of the shipping to get it here (the last rebar I bought came from Oman).

> bet we wouldn't have 450k mandated warranties on heavy truck emissions components (which serves what purpose beyond front loading that cost into the purchase

To be fair, it also makes it incredibly difficult to import a truck made for any other market into America.

Only slightly more than Cuba is "protected" by the United states.

It's more of a "don't F around in my back yard" statement directed at anyone who might than it is a protection deal.

I am not sure what your point is?

My point is the US at one point had taken the entire Korean Peninsula, and was pushed out by an initial push of hundreds of thousands, then over a million Chinese troops.

The reason tht US hasn't invaded North Korea since is because China won't allow it.

I say we set the delay to red and green to be 0 state wide and use the cameras to fine people who don't start moving within a short amount of time after they get green.

Betcha red light running drops like a rock after that.

Shame the university takes itself so seriously. The illustrative example of overloading would have been pertinent to his subject of expertise.

I mean, I like puns but they're a flash in the pan. Jokes get old after a while and you don't want to embed them in something fairly permanent like a building name.

"Surely you've all heard of the Hoare house on campus?" seems like a pretty timeless way to a) keep people from dozing off during that bit of lecture b) cause a whole bunch of people to remember who this guy was and what he did.

This particular word for the oldest profession goes back to Old English. I am fairly sure it would outlive the building.

If the problem is when the joke lives on amusing undergrads long after you've tired of it, that just makes it worse.

Wait until they hear about what Magpie Lane in Oxford used to be called.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_Lane,_Oxford

A historical bawdy pun is one of the most Oxfordian things I can think of. If we can incorporate a man in drag, we're in real business.

The greatest generation and the silent generation spent their entire adult lives vesting power in institutions and they passed this on to the boomers.

Now, after the better part of a century of that running it's course with nearly no pressure to not chart a crap course it's falling apart.

It’s the stewardship that’s the problem not the institutions or existence of.

>Less people buying power from the utilities means they increase prices on the remaining customers.

Demand on the grid is going up.

What's driving up the cost is that all those rebates and 0% loans for solar, heat pumps, etc, etc, tax advantages for qualifying installers, etc, etc, etc, all that stuff is paid for by loading it into the transmission and distribution charges, the "cost of the wires and pipes" on your bill.

And that's all before all these new data centers start piling onto the grid.