I find the concept of a designated school bus strange.
When i was at that age we took the public transportation like everybody else
school busses get special privileges that other busses don't, like forcing traffic to stop when the bus stops
I find the concept of a designated school bus strange.
When i was at that age we took the public transportation like everybody else
school busses get special privileges that other busses don't, like forcing traffic to stop when the bus stops
And it's free.
I find the concept of a designated school bus strange.
When i was at that age we took the public transportation like everybody else
Sounds horribly inefficient.
I find the concept of a designated school bus strange.
When i was at that age we took the public transportation like everybody else
How old are you and where did you grow up? I went to school in the 70s/80s and had school buses …. but only if you lived more than 2 miles from the school.
At one point I was just under that limit by a few blocks so didn't get the school bus. But another time I was able to ride the school bus, I wished I didn't as walking would get me home faster since it took the long way about a loop and I was one of last to get off. Hellish on a non-air-conditioned bus for over an hour in Texas summer heat.
@Monkey:
Sounds horribly inefficient.
School kids using the public buses are horrible! Madison has school buses but still have this massive amount of kids riding public buses on certain routes. Unfortunately the bus I use is only one going this far south in Madison and so has a lot of kids using it. I refuse to use the bus during the hours of 7-9 am & 2:30-5 pm due to the mass of kids using the public buses. They finally got some 'special route' buses (aka public transit sends out specific buses for only school kids to use) and about 2 of them go by my home (that along with the normal school buses!) and there are still a lot of kid that ride the normal public bus. It can get packed but not as bad as before the finally got those two LM (no idea what it stands for) busses out just for the school kids.
Before then it was standing room only. Seriously!
All the seats be filled, some sitting on the laps of friends/significant others, and then people standing filling the bus up like sardines straight up to a few standing by the driver. Back when I was working and had no choice to go in at certain times, I would barely get a seat due to handicap, often after yelling at some teenager to get up, I'd see so many people get on and be packed like sardines that I'd compare it to the image of Tokyo subway where they had employees to push people into the cars and help close the doors.
I rode the school bus very briefly in the 1st grade until a neighbor boy tried to look up my dress, then I was a car rider after that
We ride the bus plenty in high school for marching band though
And it's free.
At my secondary school we had to pay the driver 50p to get on the school bus.
A hell of a lot cheaper than a public bus, but we were charged nonetheless.
related,there was a proper survey done by C-voter which largely paints a positive picture also.here
keep in mind the sample size is very low(around 1000 weighted)but well,the UP elections will paint a more clearer picture on the public response
As you said, 1k for a move affecting the entire population of the country is a bit unreliable. Perhaps they should take the poll a week from now around the time when savings get depleted
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When i was at that age we took the public transportation like everybody else
I believe Tokyo children use the trains to commute to school as well. Seems to work out ok for them.
school busses get special privileges that other busses don't, like forcing traffic to stop when the bus stops
Why would they need to though? The kids go to the bus stop, and get of at the bus stop thats nearest their house.
How old are you and where did you grow up? I went to school in the 70s/80s and had school buses
I'm 28 and spent most of my life in the city, minus a couple of years in the sticks.
In the more rural area they had a special catered mini-bus for the like ten or so kids who really lived out of the way.
In the city i never saw that kind of thing, never saw a need for it either, the buses ran so frequently anyways
Tokyo's an incredibly safe city though. You couldn't do something like that in New York or London.
Why would they need to though? The kids go to the bus stop, and get of at the bus stop thats nearest their house.
Its so the kids can cross the street. Not all live on same side of the street as the bus stop ;) And you know kids, most won't go to the closest street light to cross (that is when/if there is a street light near) so safer to have traffic stop so kids can cross. OF course this is mainly residential and side roads that I know of, I've not seen that happen the major roads.
I'm 28 and spent most of my life in the city, minus a couple of years in the sticks.
In the more rural area they had a special catered mini-bus for the like ten or so kids who really lived out of the way.
In the city i never saw that kind of thing, never saw a need for it either, the buses ran so frequently anyways
Ah thanks for the answer. I guess its different for different areas and different times,
I believe Tokyo children use the trains to commute to school as well. Seems to work out ok for them.
Don't they have a problem with public transit gropers?
@Cyan:
My buses always had seatbelts; they were sorta obtuse to use but they worked.
Of course no one ever actually wore them but the thought counted.
Same story here. Modern cars have sensors that tell the driver when the front passenger doesn't have a seatbelt on, so couldn't we just install those in every seat?
@MDL:
At my secondary school we had to pay the driver 50p to get on the school bus.
A hell of a lot cheaper than a public bus, but we were charged nonetheless.
:o oh I see. I rode the school bus from kindergarten to grade 6, there weren't any charges I believe, other than child labour in grade 5 and 6 when some of us were made into bus monitors -_- I remember very clearly the day when I discovered I could hate a large group of children lol.
FINALLY!
Ugh, my mother was the first to find out, which is perfect since she was Cuban born and migrated to the U.S. after Castro claimed power. Had to wake up my father, who hates being awakened for any reason, and for once, he was so happy.
Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced. It provided no further details.
Provided no further details for what?! The man was 90! He died of old age.
This guy outlived Saddam Hussein, Mommar Gaddafi, & a number of other douchebags.
Took long a enough.
Provided no further details for what?! The man was 90! He died of old age.
That's just what the CIA wants you to think.
So now Castro is dead, it's Raul's turn before Cuba can be free but his legacy will still rock this nation for years to come.
Lol, Raul has been acting president (and "elect"? ) for over 6-7 years. Fidel has been unfit for rule (well, all his life) for a while, being just a prop. There were theories that he was replaced by a secret Castro cousin after he died 8 deadly diseases ago, the beard and the reduced public apareances were the " evidence".
The shadow of castro-comunism will still haunt Latin American countries just like yesterday, when the right leaning governments fail, again, another "scholar" will come who'll say the terrible dangers of owning your own money and deciding what to eat.
^
Castro at least managed to provide adequate foods and healthcare to all of his people which many of so called 'progressing' nations have yet to achieve.
Not that i am saying these are everything and Castro was a messiah,but in terms of failures his was no more than his capitalist counterparts.
They just chose different people to prioritise…
Providing food. If you have to obey the ruling party and queue up on the most inefficient way possible to get the "free" food, that is not an archivement, that is a mechanism to control the population.
Oh hey, Castro died.
This could help open up a new age in relations between Cuba and the US- oh wait Trump.
Fuck.
Oh hey, Castro died.
This could help open up a new age in relations between Cuba and the US- oh wait Trump.
Fuck.
Depending if you believe it Trump has been doing business under the table with Cuba since the 90's so what's gonna stop him now?
Providing food. If you have to obey the ruling party and queue up on the most inefficient way possible to get the "free" food, that is not an archivement, that is a mechanism to control the population.
It was free and enough to check malnutrition.Cuba's per capita expenditure on health is 5 times that of China and 10 times that of India.Their life expectancy too is above average.
Fidel Castro survived 638 assassination attempts, but even he could not stand up to the merciless 2016 .
Rest in peace, comandante.
Wonderful country, Cuba, that's why people brave the sea to go out and tell the tales of the sea of happiness.
^
Castro at least managed to provide adequate foods and healthcare to all of his people which many of so called 'progressing' nations have yet to achieve.
Not that i am saying these are everything and Castro was a messiah,but in terms of failures his was no more than his capitalist counterparts.
They just chose different people to prioritise…
Castro didn't manage to do that.
Cuba has been a state floated by foreign subsidy since pretty much as soon as he took over.
First it was the Soviet Union, and then it was Maxterdexter's own country, Venezuela.
It suffered pretty heavily in between that period when the USSR collapsed and before Venezuela's Chavez regime started up. Because the state actually totally wasn't able to provide.
Do you think its total coincidence that the thaw with the US began shortly after the Venezuelan economy began to crumble?
Also while I wasn't a direct contact with the Cuban medics, my doctor friends kept saying how unprepared the Cuban medic were, so using Venezuelan logic to the Cuban "investment" on healthcare, I'd say most of the money didn't Actualy go to the doctors.
just curious,the commies here say that the cuban medical facilities and medical education is very good,so much that even americans go there to attain education.complete bullshit i suppose?
just curious,the commies here say that the cuban medical facilities and medical education is very good,so much that even americans go there to attain education.complete bullshit i suppose?
Its supposably very good quality considering the poor quality of much else of Cuba.
But is also a result of subsidy.
The claim about Americans going there to study is hilarious, mainly because until like last year it was essentially illegal to travel to Cuba on an American passport.
It sounds like your friends are confusing the idea of the garbage American Health coverage situation, with the quality of health care itself in the US. Which is very high. Its the matter of getting covered and affording it that is fucked.
@Monkey:
Its supposably very good quality considering the poor quality of much else of Cuba.
But is also a result of subsidy.
The claim about Americans going there to study is hilarious, mainly because until like last year it was essentially illegal to travel to Cuba on an American passport.
yeah,i though so too
It sounds like your friends are confusing the idea of the garbage American Health coverage situation, with the quality of health care itself in the US. Which is very high. Its the matter of getting covered and affording it that is fucked.
lol not friends,the communist party's leaders were saying that to media.wish they would just go away now,their influence is slowly decreasing.the astonishing left leaning of most parties needs to reduce already
Lol. Ya'll Queda upset they get an extra frisking.
Lol. Ya'll Queda upset they get an extra frisking.
@rawstory:
The men were among the two dozen people arrested after an armed 41-day standoff at Malheur Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. The indictments against them said that the group brandished weapons and threatened violence against anyone who attempted to remove them from the premises. However, they said, none of the charges against them were related to terrorism.
wtf…. seriously? They occupied federal land, brandished guns, threatened govt. agents ... and they do not think that's terrorism?? Someone throw a dictionary at them that highlights terrorism or just send them a link to Wikipedia and tell them to read the first sentence=
"Terrorism is, in its broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence (terror) in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim."
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@Monkey:
Castro didn't manage to do that.
Cuba has been a state floated by foreign subsidy since pretty much as soon as he took over.
First it was the Soviet Union, and then it was Maxterdexter's own country, Venezuela.
It suffered pretty heavily in between that period when the USSR collapsed and before Venezuela's Chavez regime started up. Because the state actually totally wasn't able to provide.Do you think its total coincidence that the thaw with the US began shortly after the Venezuelan economy began to crumble?
He did.It was not like he had any other choice once US put embargo on Cuba.And technically while the embargo only applied to US companies,all nations under GATT(effective back then) were more or less pressured.When USSR fell,the trick continued.One of the many examples should be discouraging British Petroleum to explore Cuban off-shore(in 1991-1992).Cuba was pretty much marginalised until Chavez came to power in Venezuela.Compare to another regime that was formed during Castro's initial years,aka North Korea,which every year beg for foods and only interested in showing off missile power,Castro's Cuba was far more humanitarian.
Of course undermining constitutional democracy,free speech,free movement can't be excused but defying America's economic world order itself was not a fault.
He did.It was not like he had any other choice once US put embargo on Cuba.
Yet your point was that the Cuban economy was great and functional and achieved these things, when it did not, and continues to not.
Its not like the US traded with any of the Soviet aligned communist countries. And even those plugged geographically into areas where trade with allies was great meant economic booms.
One of the many examples should be discouraging British Petroleum to explore Cuban off-shore(in 1991-1992).
And if they had, then you would be saying Castro was a great leader because oil exists in Cuban territory?
You are forgetting that this was your point.
Compare to another regime that was formed during Castro's initial years,aka North Korea,which every year beg for foods and only interested in showing off missile power,Castro's Cuba was far more humanitarian.
That has to be the lowest bar on earth. In fact there was only one Communist regime worse than North Korea, and that was the Khmer friggin' Rouge.
Of course undermining constitutional democracy,free speech,free movement can't be excused but defying America's economic world order itself was not a fault.
Whatever exactly you mean by "America's economic world order", that wasn't what he was doing.
@xan:
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At this point I'm not even surprised. Fucking hate their snide comments and general patronising tone in every news story they do on the subcontinent. And them choosing to only run the wackiest and/or the most negative news they can find.
At this point I'm not even surprised. Fucking hate their snide comments and general patronising tone in every news story they do on the subcontinent. And them choosing to only run the wackiest and/or the most negative news they can find.
"Indian man urinates in street, aren't they gross."
insert image from Pakistan
Yeah i think i'm good enough for a position at any major news network.
"Indian man urinates in street, aren't they gross."
insert image from Pakistan
Yeah i think i'm good enough for a position at any major news network.
Special contempt for South Asia is required for a job in the UK though.
@Monkey:
Special contempt for South Asia is required for a job in the UK though.
While in Sweden they are the token good immigrants that nationalist parties like to wave around.
What a difference a hundred miles can make. And in Spain Swedes are on the list of shitty immigrants.
And thus we come full circle.
@Monkey:
Yet your point was that the Cuban economy was great and functional and achieved these things, when it did not, and continues to not.
Its not like the US traded with any of the Soviet aligned communist countries. And even those plugged geographically into areas where trade with allies was great meant economic booms.
When did I claim that?They had nearly 30% unemployment and Castro himself once conceded that socialism can't solve everything.Added to the fact that social stagnation it created for decades have well impaired the abilities of current generation.
But he did manage to fed the people and keep them moderately healthy.This means a achievement to me;who lives in a country where people still scavenge for food and half the population severely lacking access to proper medical facilities.
And if they had, then you would be saying Castro was a great leader because oil exists in Cuban territory?
You are forgetting that this was your point.
Eh!? My point was even when he did try to engage in bilateral agreements,US intervened since it was not for their benefit.
That has to be the lowest bar on earth. In fact there was only one Communist regime worse than North Korea, and that was the Khmer friggin' Rouge.
Sure,but i had to bring up a nation which began with similar sentiment,since problem with you people is a dictator is only dictator as long as he is leftist/communist;the sheikhs and dummies of this world are all excused.
Whatever exactly you mean by "America's economic world order", that wasn't what he was doing.
My mistake,it was a figment of my imagination…
Anyway Castro had some laugh in his deathbed i believe,since...
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"Indian man urinates in street, aren't they gross."
insert image from Pakistan
Yeah i think i'm good enough for a position at any major news network.
It is not like that Indian men don't urinate in public,particularly they like to urinate on 'do not urinate' sign.:ninja:
@Monkey:
Special contempt for South Asia is required for a job in the UK though.
It probably didn't help that this PSA was in English:
When did I claim that?They had nearly 30% unemployment and Castro himself once conceded that socialism can't solve everything.Added to the fact that social stagnation it created for decades have well impaired the abilities of current generation.
But he did manage to fed the people and keep them moderately healthy.This means a achievement to me;who lives in a country where people still scavenge for food and half the population severely lacking access to proper medical facilities.
What country, India? That's a really really poor comparison to Cuba. Being fed is not an issue people in the Western Hemisphere worry about, unless we're talking Haiti.
Sure,but i had to bring up a nation which began with similar sentiment,since problem with you people is a dictator is only dictator as long as he is leftist/communist;the sheikhs and dummies of this world are all excused.
Oh that's cute. Who is "you people".
Because the only one defending dictators around here on ideological basis is you.