http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/05/15931899-the-tuesday-morning-news Comments On: The Tuesday Morning News by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss And, @12. I'm sorry but Ali still doesn't seem like a bully to me. I'm sure your steadfast defense of the common working stiff seems honorable to you but to me it seems a bit heavy handed. We'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
Posted by tacomagirl]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:25:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:42:38 -0800 The Stranger
The extent to which the incentives have been successful has been drastically curtailed by our poorly implemented transit system, the weak incentives towards transit and the incredibly strong incentives dolled out _towards_ cars.

It is a shame that there are those who actually believe that these things exist like universal constants, somehow foiling our supposedly best efforts.
Posted by Jimi's Crosstown Traffic]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:29:44 -0800 The Stranger That's not to say that mass transit isn't inherently desirable in the first place though.

Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:33:24 -0800 The Stranger
If King County Metro is threatening service cuts to meet budget gaps, adding free rides is not realistic, and they just eliminated the free ride zone downtown.
Posted by biffp]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:29:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by leek]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:14:17 -0800 The Stranger
Sure, some of those riders will be vagrants just tooling around, but if you can't see how incentivizing people out of their cars and onto mass transportation isn't a huge benefit to those who "have" to drive, then you are a more myopic idiot than I generally give you credit for, Pheobe.
Posted by Jimi's Crosstown Traffic]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:04:06 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by lucidslumber]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:29:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:23:25 -0800 The Stranger by a vote of 400 to 175 - a majority of 225.

This is the first big hurdle for Marriage Equality in England and Wales.
Posted by passionate_jus]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:21:49 -0800 The Stranger
1% in WA
2% in Texas

Rick Perry provides
Jay Inslee starves
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:01:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:01:02 -0800 The Stranger fake illness to collect benefits. That looks like insulting, public bullying by a boss who is whining about doing the same thing he should have done for employees all along. He basically called his employees liars. So do I want to make an example out of that? Do I want to yell back with a louder bullhorn? Do I want to use an independent voice (who isn't employed by this guy and, thus, isn't afraid of getting fired by him) to tell another side of the story? You bet I do. But I don't think we're bullying him--I think we're calling out bullying on the schoolyard.
Posted by Dominic Holden]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:54:44 -0800 The Stranger
My sense is that transit service should be thought of as a municipal utility. (So should wi-fi service.) Eliminate fares completely. A tax on residents, probably via car tabs and a sales tax, to provide funding. If buses were free, more people would ride and operating costs would go up, but we'd have the benefit of a truly useful public transit system.
Posted by Cornichon]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:50:59 -0800 The Stranger
First of all, it's the worst type of leveraged buyout, the MBO, or management buyout, said management (that Dell guy) admitting his business style sucks royally so he has to do a leveraged buyout on his very own company --- truly the ultimate of financial scams!

Secondly, Dell sux big time as the tweeter strongly suggests.

Has Micro$oft made any intelligent business decisions over the past 15 years which anyone is aware of lately?

Sure, they took extreme advantage of the horrible events on 9/11/01, to do an unscheduled job layoff of around 1,000 employees in the Puget Sound region on 9/12/01 (and no, I wasn't one of those people), but what else has McSoftware done of any moment?

BJs for Apple designers, maybe?
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:39:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tacomagirl]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:34:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by theophrastus]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:26:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:07:19 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/sports…
Posted by biffp]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:07:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by passionate_jus]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:06:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dominic Holden]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:03:49 -0800 The Stranger
Here's live coverage of the debate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house…

And here's a live blog of the important points considered:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/…
Posted by passionate_jus]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:02:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by biffp]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:57:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by California Kid]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:55:55 -0800 The Stranger