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Flangepart

I still agree with Arthur Dent: Reality is shaped funny.
"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

LilCerberus

I'm beginning to wonder what Eminent Domain is really "for"...

In my town,at least, their are enough undeveloped & derelict properties for sale, that going to the time, legal trouble & legal expense of ruining small businesses or taking away people's homes for less than they're worth just doesn't make sense...
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

ER

I wonder if they ever really let kids take their tonsils home in a jar?
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

ER

What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Flangepart

Quote from: LilCerberus on October 20, 2017, 09:47:28 PM
I'm beginning to wonder what Eminent Domain is really "for"...

In my town,at least, their are enough undeveloped & derelict properties for sale, that going to the time, legal trouble & legal expense of ruining small businesses or taking away people's homes for less than they're worth just doesn't make sense...
Location,location,location.
"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

LilCerberus

Quote from: Flangepart on October 23, 2017, 03:46:37 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 20, 2017, 09:47:28 PM
I'm beginning to wonder what Eminent Domain is really "for"...

In my town,at least, their are enough undeveloped & derelict properties for sale, that going to the time, legal trouble & legal expense of ruining small businesses or taking away people's homes for less than they're worth just doesn't make sense...
Location,location,location.
That's the part I don't get.
Instead of developing vacant land & derelict properties where new business is needed & wanted, they go where they're not only unwanted & detrimental to the local population, but also to places inconvenient to prospective employees & clientele.
It just makes no sense at all.
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

TYTD Reviews

if "12 inch mixes" were just a cash grab...why do some of them sound better than the single or album releases...

ER

Quote from: LilCerberus on October 23, 2017, 04:03:44 PM
Quote from: Flangepart on October 23, 2017, 03:46:37 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 20, 2017, 09:47:28 PM
I'm beginning to wonder what Eminent Domain is really "for"...

In my town,at least, their are enough undeveloped & derelict properties for sale, that going to the time, legal trouble & legal expense of ruining small businesses or taking away people's homes for less than they're worth just doesn't make sense...
Location,location,location.
That's the part I don't get.
Instead of developing vacant land & derelict properties where new business is needed & wanted, they go where they're not only unwanted & detrimental to the local population, but also to places inconvenient to prospective employees & clientele.
It just makes no sense at all.

My husband owns a business that in part restores old properties, sometimes even historic homes, one that was from the 1830s, often by taking them down to a shell, and on the flip side of what you're talking about (and I agree totally, by the way) he is increasingly getting flak from these SJW types who accuse him of gentrifying and driving out poor people.

It's like you can't win, but I do wonder, considering the state of some of the buildings he's acquired and turned into beautiful dwellings, have the critics of his line of work ever paused to think they're sentencing poor people to live in some truly squalid abodes? Are they helping anyone by leaving a run-down property there?

I keep telling him to confuse the SJW by telling them almost half his finished buildings are bought by gay couples---who, as we all know, can do no wrong in SJW eyes. I think it might make their circuits melt.

As for eminent domain, I worry about my own home since I got a whiff of someone in government saying my property this might just be a good place for a community development project. The police are already miffed at me because I won't let them come shoot coyotes on my land.

Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Alex

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Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?

Both. Blackmail them first, then once you've got the money have some hitmen take them out to remove the evidence.

Then shoot the hitmen and keep the money you were going to pay them.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

ER

Quote from: Dark Alex on October 24, 2017, 11:42:56 AM
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Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?

Both. Blackmail them first, then once you've got the money have some hitmen take them out to remove the evidence.

Then shoot the hitmen and keep the money you were going to pay them.

Alex, how did you ever come to be nicknamed "Dark" anyway?
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

LilCerberus

Quote from: ER on October 24, 2017, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 24, 2017, 11:42:56 AM
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Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?

Both. Blackmail them first, then once you've got the money have some hitmen take them out to remove the evidence.

Then shoot the hitmen and keep the money you were going to pay them.

Alex, how did you ever come to be nicknamed "Dark" anyway?
Eh, My place was an ultra cheap foreclosure from catalytic converter thieves...
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

Alex

Quote from: ER on October 24, 2017, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 24, 2017, 11:42:56 AM
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Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?

Both. Blackmail them first, then once you've got the money have some hitmen take them out to remove the evidence.

Then shoot the hitmen and keep the money you were going to pay them.

Alex, how did you ever come to be nicknamed "Dark" anyway?

The story behind that isn't as interesting as what ever you are thinking.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

ER

Quote from: Dark Alex on October 24, 2017, 02:28:19 PM
Quote from: ER on October 24, 2017, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on October 24, 2017, 11:42:56 AM
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Hmm, hitmen or blackmail...?

Both. Blackmail them first, then once you've got the money have some hitmen take them out to remove the evidence.

Then shoot the hitmen and keep the money you were going to pay them.

Alex, how did you ever come to be nicknamed "Dark" anyway?

The story behind that isn't as interesting as what ever you are thinking.

I dunno, man, passing out drunk in a tanning booth and waking up three shades darker than George Hamilton is pretty interesting.

(Just asked to play off your advising me to commit two murders and steal blood money, lol.)
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Trevor

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

ER

What does not kill me makes me stranger.