Paul_Throckmorton

Paul_Throckmorton

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10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder considers midd... · 0 replies · +1 points

Actually, "hundreds of replies in a matter of hours" is very far off-the-mark. Thirty-six hours ago I posted a craigslist ad offering a room for rent in the house where I live (and which I own) near Valmont and Foothills, and I have received 2 replies (both of which seem like very nice people). It is not a summer-sublet, includes a bedroom, sharing a full bathroom with one other housemate, sharing a half bath amongst all 3 of us, a very large furnished living room, washer/dryer, dining room, a kitchen with 2 refrigerators, lots of basement storage space, garage storage space for bikes, and for $600/month includes all utilities. This place is a palace compared to anywhere else I've ever lived, and the total cost to me approaches $3000/month, so $600 seems an extremely reasonable figure to ask of each of the 2 other people who live here, yet I've received only 2 replies since late Friday night until now. I do realize that there is some competition of sorts from the current glut of summer sublets, but over the years I've found that people who are looking for more-permanent housing really aren't that interested in moving into a place for 2 months and then moving again, so summer sublets really aren't much competition.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Less than half of Boul... · 1 reply · +5 points

Ouch ... 2000% is very far off of an initial estimate! Can you provide links or other sources so that I can look up the raw data? Thanks.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Art Paolini: Maybe bic... · 0 replies · +25 points

Written attempts at sarcasm are certainly more difficult to pull-off/interpret than verbal sarcasm.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Robert Chisholm: In de... · 1 reply · +1 points

I followed the recommendation to read Federalist Paper No. 46. I found it quite interesting, considering that it shows what at least one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution was stating to the public and which seems to relate to the goal(s) of the Second Amendment. I consider the final three paragraphs as the most relevant; you can find this paper at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed46.asp

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder DA to file cha... · 29 replies · +108 points

I'm guessing that most people feel that she has suffered enough by virtue of being shot, but the trespassing charge is probably necessary to make it legally clear/binding/whatever that the resident had the right to shoot.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - \'Receptive audience:\... · 1 reply · +1 points

I haven't had a chance to read the entire paper at the link you posted, but what I did read was quite interesting.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder considers time... · 1 reply · +9 points

Residents of the neighborhoods near Chautauqua receive, by far, the greatest benefit from this marvelous, huge park whose expenses are borne primarily by taxpayers who live much further from Chautauqua than the area in which this "parking problem" occurs.

Keep in mind that the problem presented here isn't that the neighbors can't park a single vehicle anywhere; like the rest of us, they have exclusive use to whatever parking areas they provide on their own property, as well as access to first-come first-served publicly-funded street parking. If I didn't supply parking on my own property, I too wouldn't have enough publicly-funded parking. However, I wouldn't consider that as the public's problem ... it would be my problem, and it is solvable by simply supplying my own parking space on my own lot, rather than insisting that others pay for me to have preferred parking on public land, while the majority of that public has diminished rights to that same parking. If I had the advantage of living within blocks of such a fabulous, publicly-funded park, I would gratefully supply every bit of my own parking.

Of course, there are multiple other ways in which to deal with parking issues, but I'm against almost any "solution" that creates a further imbalance between the rights of groups of citizens to the use of publicly-funded resources.

12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Letters to the Editor ... · 1 reply · -2 points

I live in a neighborhood with an HOA, and here's what I've come to believe is the critical difference between requirements imposed by a developer/HOA vs. requirements imposed by a government. My reasoning relies upon one of my primary beliefs, this being that the best decisions are made when the decision maker's own butt is on-the-line. When a decision maker won't be penalized for decreasing the value of resources or rewarded for increasing the value of resources, then they're much less motivated to ensure that they make a good decision (and eligible to benefit via corruption).

The critical difference that I see is that, in the case of an HOA, the requirements were placed on the land when no one but the developer had paid for the land, which is not the case with regulations placed by a government, which are placed on resources that the government did not own. If the developer made a wise decision in attaching requirements to the future use of the land, in the sense that the net value that they receive for the land after the requirements are attached is higher than without those attachments, then the owner benefits to the degree that the decision increased the value of that resource (the land). Likewise, if the developer can't get as much for the land because of their decision, then they are the primary people to suffer the effects of their decision. I believe that it is this type of responsibility that leads to getting the most value out of the least resources.

12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Letters to the Editor ... · 0 replies · +2 points

As a general note to folks, "google books" (books.google.com) has scanned and indexed many, many books.

In this case, a search there for "chaotic and unforgiving" (keeping the quotes) finds the phrase in one location in Obama's book, but does not show it as quoted above by hotfrog.

A search for "roll back the ownership society" does not find that phrase in any of Google Books' indexed books, but Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" does seem to contain "ownership society" five times (once in the index).

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - New Superior Bike Park... · 0 replies · 0 points

The sidebar (or whatever it's called) says "Rock Creek Parkway and Honey Creek Lane in Superior".

Streetview makes it appear that the place is on the northeast or southeast corner, but a quick look didn't make it apparent: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22Rock+Creek+Parkw...