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Has some rule recently changed regarding NY state plate registrations? I swear since last spring, I've seen an explosion of cars with NY plates. It's not just college students returning because I have been seeing them all summer. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just going crazy?
 
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Has some rule recently changed regarding NY state plate registrations? I swear since last spring, I've seen an explosion of cars with NY plates. It's not just college students returning because I have been seeing them all summer. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just going crazy?
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I know why we are being swarmed by them where I live. Due to the labor shortages they've been pulling in contractors from New York for skilled labor with trade skills. Good chance the same thing is happening there.
 
Someday I'm going to write a book about the phenomenon of space-saving during snowy weather in Boston, and the title is going to be "Primitive Accumulation"
 
Chicago more elegant than Prague?

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Come on. Da Bears would kick that pussy Prague football team all over the South Side!
 
Hey does anyone have (or know of) an overlay map that shows the street patterns of the West End pre- and post-urban renewal? I'm pretty sure I've seen one before, but my Google skills are failing me.
 

Free Speech Dead in snowflakeland


Felger spot on......



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcjgZNaBrE



post-rant fallout


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDBH_zK8ag




Speros: Felger show surreal in post-rant fallout
Admission enough, don’t punish him



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhXdp6KtwE



Michael Felger yesterday held a four-hour press conference/confessional on air.

Felger expressed contrition a day after his rant on the death of Roy Halladay scorched the internet, igniting cries for his head across social media, and triggering a one-man, sign-wielding march on the CBS Boston studios in Brighton by WEEI’s Kirk Minihane.

“I had no self-management. I couldn’t control myself,” Felger said.

His primary crime — which he copped to multiple times during the “Felger and Mazz” show on 98.5 The Sports Hub — was a lack of decorum, humanity and compassion for Halladay’s widow and her children. The man called a “doting dad” and “a love bug” by his wife in a recent profile came off as a dunderheaded daredevil with a death wish.

“Soooreeey” wasn’t going to cut it.

Felger stood by his take that Halladay took a foolish and needless risk given the issues surrounding the type of plane he was flying. Halladay’s family yesterday refuted claims that he was a reckless pilot.

Meanwhile, Roy Halladay is unable to defend himself. Criticizing the dead when we don’t know all the facts surrounding their passing is lazy and dangerous.

Yesterday’s show swung into the surreal early and never left. Felger and Tony Massarotti took calls from supporters and detractors, and answered questions from media types. To Felger’s credit, he ducked nothing.

Yet his customary air of confidence all but evaporated for a day. He appeared sullen, at least through the lenses of NBC Sports Boston. If this was an act, an Emmy is in the offing.

Felger was “not ordered” by management at either The Sports Hub or NBC Sports New England to issue an apology. He did admit he may have been pushed into one if he had not taken the initiative to do so. He said he didn’t know whether he would face any further discipline from either of his Boston media employers, CBS Radio and NBC Boston.

Felger said he knew he screwed up Wednesday after seeing a Deadspin story featuring the headline: “Boston Sports Radio Chud Goes on Long Rant About How Roy Halladay Deserved to Die.”

The internet was littered with similar headlines. Boston was again held hostage by the musings of a media personality whose passions and DNA lie elsewhere.

Felger and I have lived in Wisconsin, Florida and Massachusetts. I never went full-Cheesehead during my days at Marquette University, nor would I expect Felger to ever go full townie, even though he’s worked in Boston for 20 years. You have to be born and raised here to know how all of this really feels.

Felger should neither be suspended nor fired for his stunt. The marketplace will determine his fate. There is something fundamentally wrong when an industry rooted in free speech punishes anyone for speaking freely. That holds for Minihane, Curt Schilling, Jemele Hill and Felger.
 
“Free speech” is protection from government persecution for voicing one’s opinions, nothing more. Is the government persecuting Felger for this? If not, then it’s not an issue of free speech. There are always consequences for the things people say, even if they’re protected from government persecution.
 
Unrelated to Odura's post, but I just thought I'd post the insane stories I've been seeing about different mega-tech-companies building their own cities:

Google's Sidewalk Lab's gigantic 800 acre project in Toronto

YCombinator looking to build new cities (plural), or at least improve existing ones

Bill Gates' spends a spare $80 million for controlling interest in smart city project in Arizona

Wonder how much silicon-valley-esque reinventing the wheel we'll be seeing. These are tech companies, not urban planning or architecture/engineering firms.
 
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The new Mythbusters is still fun.

That new BMW electric sports car is good looking, and very sculptural.
 
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