Football is a different animal.

Its *not* about attendance. It’s about one of the wealthiest people in America taking money from the coffers of an American city that can least afford it so he can further line his pockets, risk-free.

Baseball games are played in warm weather. Not so with basketball

Exactly. And has been said many times before by smarter people than me (I?), these types of “event centers” (stadiums, arenas, etc.) don’t generate additional economic activity, they just shift it. And often from smaller, locally-owned bars, clubs, and restaurants to already-wealthy teams and vendors.

2017: Where confidently lying about crowd sizes while the anyone with eyes can see you’re lying is the new normal.

Unscientific survey of one person (me):

The problem is that those bars, restaurants, etc. simply move from other parts of the metro area. Studies have shown that arenas and stadiums don’t cause people to spend more money, they just spend money in one location that they would have spent in another. They don’t increase their entertainment expenses. Now that…

Every study that has looked at the actual effects says that the effects aren’t that big, they only extend a couple blocks from the stadium, and merely shuttles money there from other parts of the city.

“See!? Look at the sea of red! What a turnout, tremendous.”

The point of the arena deal and that wad of taxpayer cash was to “revitalize” a moribund downtown. That it’s taken a single home game (and that might even be generous) for the new car smell to wear off should encapsulate pretty neatly the scam of publicly financed stadiums.

Look at the body language here, in some cases Kim is positioned to be outside of their little circle, almost like she’s on a little island by herself.

If SJP didn’t have a fuck ton of charisma? She played an irresponsible woman-child who literally skipped her way through dates and shoe shopping sprees, and yeah it was awful writing but she played Carrie like a perpetual 15 year old. All the actors on that show were one-note except for Cattrall. Miranda was always…

I share an office with a stone cold bitch this year. It’s bewildering. She is just really, really not nice.

I totally disagree. You can do pretty much anything on Linux now without the terminal, but the terminal is just faster once you know what you are doing.

I would recommend Linux Mint. It’s built off Ubuntu, and has the Cinnamon desktop as default. It is much more like Windows.

I’m running Linux Mint (with Xfce) on my Acer AO751-h netbook, with which I often travel. It’s slow, but not painfully so; but this hardware is, I think, 10 years old. Still, I do some of my writing on it (Libre Office or Evernote, through Chromium) and surf the web, chat on Hangouts, etc. I’ve thought about replacing…

If someone’s coming over from Windows, I’d recommend a distro with either the KDE or Cinnamon desktops to get their feet wet (Linux Mint KDE/Cinnamon; Debian KDE/Cinnamon). They’re similar enough to the Windows desktop that I don’t think it’d be as much of a shock to get used to versus, say, GNOME or Unity.…

It sounds like the distribution you want is Mint, though.

I have copied and pasted this into a text file. Ctrl land Ctrl c are going to be game changers. Thanks!

Admittedly slightly more advanced than the content of this article, but if you use the terminal a lot, there are quite a few tricks to speed things up which many beginners don’t know: