The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

Yeah, I agree with that. Crypto is in the find the sucker stage of market creation. Will it evolve to the next stage?

No.

[Tamas]

  when I am teying to get the kid to sleep I often browse Reddit. On the XRP one there was a guy saying he just spent a couple thousand dollars on it, I told him people here will egg him on because it's a Ponzi scheme.

I have been perma-banned 

[Admiral Yi]

The old broad is looking good.

[Barrister]

That there is a town named Flon Flon pleases me.

The town is named after the main character in the 1905 dime store novel The Sunless City by E. Preston Muddock.  The character's name?  Josiah Flintabbety Flonatin.  When I lived there I actually bought a copy of the book, though I never read it.

It would be live named a town founded in the 1980s after, I dunno, Raistlin.

[crazy canuck]

I lived in Flin Flon, about 30 years before you were there.

[Habbaku]

DGuller and Habbaku, should I wait for XRP to reach $3 and take my 600% profit or should I wait more/less?

Be happy if it hits $2 and sell everything. 

[Habbaku]

Crypto has real value for money launderers, drug smugglers, and black market arms dealers.

And degenerate gamblers.

[Tamas]

DGuller and Habbaku, should I wait for XRP to reach $3 and take my 600% profit or should I wait more/less?

Be happy if it hits $2 and sell everything. 

I am probably just going to hold on until I get stopped out at breakeven.

[Josquius]

Cardiff looking at higher parking charges for bigger cars.
It just makes sense.
Though could be better framed as cheaper parking charges for smaller cars. More an incentive to the positive than punishment for the negative.


BBC News - Should you pay more for parking if you have a big car? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28wr7lge1o

[Barrister]

YOu know I can see how many your registration fee or something could vary based on vehicle size.  A larger vehicle takes up more space on the road, is likely heavier so puts more wear and tear on the road - but parking?

Parking sports are all the same size.  What difference does it make if one vehicle is larger than another - each is taking up exactly one parking spot.

[crazy canuck]

YOu know I can see how many your registration fee or something could vary based on vehicle size.  A larger vehicle takes up more space on the road, is likely heavier so puts more wear and tear on the road - but parking?

Parking sports are all the same size.  What difference does it make if one vehicle is larger than another - each is taking up exactly one parking spot.

If it was just on registration, then it would inappropriately penalize situations where people need larger vehicles and don't use parking spaces during the course of their work - think construction and agriculture as just the more obvious examples.

I think it makes sense to target the guys who drive large pickups from their homes to the office in urban settings.  There are a number of those guys who park in my building.  And by the way, the don't just take up exactly one spot.  While they can squeeze between the lines, it is impractical to part beside them, unless you are really good at squeezing yourself out of your own vehicle.

[Zanza]

I considered getting a bigger car, probably an electric SUV, but it does not fit into the underground parking of my condo. #firstworldproblems

[Barrister]

I considered getting a bigger car, probably an electric SUV, but it does not fit into the underground parking of my condo. #firstworldproblems

My wife and I bought a F-150 a couple of years ago.  It was always the plan for me to drive the much-smaller RAV4 to and from work (it's better on gas, I have a longer commute than my wife does by far) - but the one time I did try to drive the truck it simply did not fit in the parking garage - too tall.

[Admiral Yi]

Around here there are parking spots labeled compact car only.

[Josquius]

y

YOu know I can see how many your registration fee or something could vary based on vehicle size.  A larger vehicle takes up more space on the road, is likely heavier so puts more wear and tear on the road - but parking?

Parking sports are all the same size.  What difference does it make if one vehicle is larger than another - each is taking up exactly one parking spot.

As others say technically being able to squeeze between the lines isn't enough. That only works if the car next to you is small too.
It's always funny to see old multistories and how much the jeep type cars all poke out.

Also there's street parking. No fixed spaces there and the big ones absolutely are taking more space.