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I don’t remember how widespread this was, but in many circles, the 1998 bill was referred to as Mickey Mouse Protection Act.

“Industrial Tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of those urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”

― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

If you wanted to reduce the crowds on Everest, you’d ban guided climbs, not solo climbs. Solo climbing big mountains is rarified territory that attracts relatively few participants.

WRT antitrust, what’s generally regulated these days is nothing, nada, zilch.

“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store”

Surely then the company could explain this reason. More trustworthy? Something else? This would give the employee the option of trying to improve that aspect their performance.

I’m not saying this is easy, or without pitfalls, but the biggest reason I’m for transparency is that it helps protect against unfair salary discrepancies.

The ASCA is doing great work on a shoestring budget replacing timebombs.

Roger Brown is a solid human. Replacing old fixed gear is mostly a thankless task, but Roger just keeps fixing things.

https://web.stanford.edu/~clint/rep/08614.htm

I’m reminded of this from Einstein:

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

I believe it is present in both the original distillate and also is leached from barrels. Some info here on the leaching from barrels:

AGING OF WHISKEY SPIRITS IN BARRELS OF NON-TRADITIONAL VOLUME

http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:1059/datastream/...

And then returns to two lanes, rinse, repeat. Not sure how you think widening Tacoma would happen. You'd need to tear down most houses and businesses that line the street. I live in Sellwood, trust me, the bridge is not the bottleneck.

You're seeing both the old span (moved North from its original location) and the new bridge under construction in that photo. Once the new bridge was finished, the old span was torn down.

More photos here:

http://www.sellwoodbridge.org/?e=518

The bike and pedestrian improvements are huge. The old bridge had no shoulders (death trap to ride) and one ~3' sidewalk on the North side that was shared between pedestrians and bikes heading West and East.

Edit to add photo...

You can see the old span alongside the new bridge here:

http://www.sellwoodbridge.org/files/12-15-15.jpg

Tacoma street East of the bridge wasn't gonna get any wider no matter how many lanes wide they made the bridge (which is mostly one lane each way). It would make no sense to widen the bridge beyond the width of Tacoma.

Yep, the 80%-90% level is pretty easily met by doing those along with using the native controls (buttons, links, etc.) properly. When your designers hand you a custom interactive widget, you can add a good chunk (50%-100% extra effort) to your estimate to make it accessible.

I struggle getting designers to consider how a thing is supposed to work without a mouse for instance.

NVDA [1] and VoiceOver (iOS and MacOS) are free.

[1]: https://www.nvaccess.org

You'll want to retire that rope, but nope, I've had a couple of high fall factor falls with no ill effects. A true fall factor 2 fall is impossible to achieve in a real setting (knot, etc.), but I've taken a prob 1.6 or so.

I had a similar experience when I was taking Aikido classes, dropped my motorcycle, (high-sided over the tank/bars) and instinctively tucked my head and rolled. I had a backpack on with schoolbooks in it and rolled back up to my feet, suffering nothing more than some mild bruises.

Bob Cratchit fingerless gloves FTW :-)

Seriously though, I live without AC at home (Portland, OR, so not a real hardship) and often wear a cap and vest during the winter. I kinda like having more connection to the outside temperature.

They're pretty stable, with the high alcohol content they don't really need to be refrigerated, but doing so will extend their life.

Be careful with cinchona bark, it can be toxic (quinine and other alkaloids).

I believe this article from David Pogue is the one:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-on-iphone-voiceov...

Naw, it's actually pretty cheap, with a great ROI

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/06/144737864/forge...

I worked for myself for about a decade (web dev) and always considered getting 6 billable hours in a good day.

They are, to some extent at least, depending on what browsers you need to support. You have to set *-appearance: none and build the styles back up.

What would you expect from a library that encourages people to use any tag for a button?

If you're for instance relying on handlebars to escape displayed content from user input properly and your version has a vulnerability...

> Downtown LA to Santa Monica at 9am

That's against traffic. What does Santa Monica to Downtown LA at 9am take?

A big problem in LA is that many people drive much longer distances than that, 30, 50, 70 miles one way in their commute.

Civil disobedience implies actions in the open and being willing to suffer the consequences of your actions. If Uber had made a public statement that they were instituting a policy to refuse service to city and law enforcement officials and were willing to take their lumps, you might have a point.

See also: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/02/ny-fed-household-d...

(For some more analysis)