Baltimore:Neighbors Losing Patience Where Plows Still Haven’t Cleared Streets
13 Replies to “Government Is Just Another Word For the Things We Can’t Get Done Together”
It’s called Al Gore riot control!
Its ‘Warm Snow,’ created from climate change..
Gore promised…
But the damn stuff keeps freezing..
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Glad to see so many of you still Al-live after the Gore death threats..
Baltimore residents snowed in by all that Global Warming the plows are idle becuase stupid as stiicks granola munchers object to moterrized snow plows disturbing them while they meditate for Gaia going OOOOMMMM OOOOMMM OOOOMMM and wanting stupid bicycle snow plows ENVIROMENTALISM SPREADS STUPIDITY
Strange how racial riots/events have a slow decaying effect on cities… Do a tour of Selma if you want to see the future for Baltimore.. The hate manifests into an indifference, nothing positive.
“Many are trying to shovel themselves out, tired of waiting for help.”
Forced to do it themselves….. something they should have done themselves to began with. What’s happened to this country?
Get your sorry ass out there and shovel. When the plow comes down your street your car will be buried unless you act now.
In an all fairness, plowing streets efficiently is computationally a hard problem. You’re basically trying to find a Hamiltonian cycle in a very large graph. Realistically you’re going to find a good-enough solution and stick with it.
That said, there’s no reason they can’t have GPS on the trucks relaying real-time info to a central map that shows exactly what streets have been plowed in the last 24 hours.
I am willing to bet that CRIME in Baltimore has fallen to virtually ZERO … due to impassible snow-choked streets. No wonder the city leaders are slow-walking their duties. Well … that AND the typical government employee work rate.
The plow operators are probably scared of being shot.
This is what happens when government expands and expands and expands beyond the original scope of government as it was known a century ago. It can’t get the basic things right anymore.
In an all fairness, plowing streets efficiently is computationally a hard problem.
Especially if you get paid the same no matter the outcome…kinda like communist health care…then it gets really hard to do, and they start using words like ‘computationally’ a hard problem…
so true. both of you posters.
I’m going to finger point at the North American edjukashun system that let’s millions graduate not knowing how to read properly let alone what computationally hard problems are.
Beefaholic,
BZZZZZT! Wrong! Thank you for playing!
Don’t worry, the streets in the ‘hood have been plowed. The streets that haven’t been plowed are out in the good neighborhoods. The streets where those evil, racist, (TAXPAYING) mostly white people live.
It’s only computationally hard if you don’t do some basic simplifications first. You’re not going to get to every street, so you don’t even try. Instead you prioritize. Bridges and overpasses get first priority, because air is passing both above and below and they ice up first, and collisions in those locations cause traffic nightmares. These are followed by the major traffic arteries and the streets from those to the hospitals and fire stations. Then you do the secondary major roads. Residential streets, you hope people are picking up salt on their tires and get to them if you get to them. And then you accept that you’re not going to get to every street on every major snowfall.
It’s called Al Gore riot control!
Its ‘Warm Snow,’ created from climate change..
Gore promised…
But the damn stuff keeps freezing..
–
Glad to see so many of you still Al-live after the Gore death threats..
Baltimore residents snowed in by all that Global Warming the plows are idle becuase stupid as stiicks granola munchers object to moterrized snow plows disturbing them while they meditate for Gaia going OOOOMMMM OOOOMMM OOOOMMM and wanting stupid bicycle snow plows ENVIROMENTALISM SPREADS STUPIDITY
Strange how racial riots/events have a slow decaying effect on cities… Do a tour of Selma if you want to see the future for Baltimore.. The hate manifests into an indifference, nothing positive.
“Many are trying to shovel themselves out, tired of waiting for help.”
Forced to do it themselves….. something they should have done themselves to began with. What’s happened to this country?
Get your sorry ass out there and shovel. When the plow comes down your street your car will be buried unless you act now.
In an all fairness, plowing streets efficiently is computationally a hard problem. You’re basically trying to find a Hamiltonian cycle in a very large graph. Realistically you’re going to find a good-enough solution and stick with it.
That said, there’s no reason they can’t have GPS on the trucks relaying real-time info to a central map that shows exactly what streets have been plowed in the last 24 hours.
I am willing to bet that CRIME in Baltimore has fallen to virtually ZERO … due to impassible snow-choked streets. No wonder the city leaders are slow-walking their duties. Well … that AND the typical government employee work rate.
The plow operators are probably scared of being shot.
This is what happens when government expands and expands and expands beyond the original scope of government as it was known a century ago. It can’t get the basic things right anymore.
In an all fairness, plowing streets efficiently is computationally a hard problem.
Especially if you get paid the same no matter the outcome…kinda like communist health care…then it gets really hard to do, and they start using words like ‘computationally’ a hard problem…
so true. both of you posters.
I’m going to finger point at the North American edjukashun system that let’s millions graduate not knowing how to read properly let alone what computationally hard problems are.
Beefaholic,
BZZZZZT! Wrong! Thank you for playing!
Don’t worry, the streets in the ‘hood have been plowed. The streets that haven’t been plowed are out in the good neighborhoods. The streets where those evil, racist, (TAXPAYING) mostly white people live.
It’s only computationally hard if you don’t do some basic simplifications first. You’re not going to get to every street, so you don’t even try. Instead you prioritize. Bridges and overpasses get first priority, because air is passing both above and below and they ice up first, and collisions in those locations cause traffic nightmares. These are followed by the major traffic arteries and the streets from those to the hospitals and fire stations. Then you do the secondary major roads. Residential streets, you hope people are picking up salt on their tires and get to them if you get to them. And then you accept that you’re not going to get to every street on every major snowfall.