I use AHK to turn my tilde key into a console key.

Much obliged. And he's a jerk and I want his job.

Non-Twitter mirror for those of us whose work networks block Twitter?

First thought? Thundercougarfalconbird.

Every morning on my way to work I pass by a little restaurant on the same road as my office. This restaurant has been open for a long, long time and it's partially to do with the fact that the owner is obscenely rich. One can always tell when the owner is at work because one of two cars are parked on the curb out…

+1 for DR2k. I love that movie.

Guess my wife is a Ferrari fan, now.

Most accidentally Jalop hip-hop track I've ever heard coupled with the most accidentally Jalop music video I've ever seen. Fucking fantastic.

I noticed that yesterday, too, and just about jumped out of my seat. The wife had no clue why I was so excited.

Anyone care to provide a link that will work for those of us who work in a place where Twitter is blocked?

1) I agree with you, but the context here is a discussion about how Detroit is going to pay back their debt, which is (relatively speaking) a short-term challenge. Adjusting AV will lower revenue in the short term and the city may not see any of the long-term benefit the reassessment would provide.

1) Detroit isn't trying to maximize their tax revenue with this adjustment, they're trying to bring it back to a place where it has some relation to the situation.
2) Lowering the tax rate would normally be an incentive for people to move to a given area which would, in turn, raise revenues except there are a ton of…

Except that the city doesn't actually own those pieces of art.

It isn't, not without a highly unlikely ruling after a lawsuit that they wouldn't be likely to file anyway. The art is the property of a charitable trust and therefore is not the city's to sell.

Where's Brt? I'd love to discuss this with him...

Most people would get paid something if the city files chapter 9 but it would be a much longer, messier, and more expensive process.

No, but they can be sued for recovery of assets under certain circumstances. The problem with that is when you're dealing with a bankrupt municipality you can't seize anything needed for "basic services" which is most of the remaining assets when a municipality files. The primary incentive for a municipality to pay…

This is what happens when 80% of a city's economy is dependent on an industry that doesn't pivot fast enough when their market share steadily moves overseas. And then you have leadership that couldn't seem to do anything right for decades.

They kind of can't do either, so I'm not sure why Orr is putting that out there. There's less than 800,000 people in the same boundaries that once hosted 1.7M people during the sixties, which means (among other things) that they have a serious revenue problem. If they lower taxes or reassess the taxable value of the…

THIS IS ME BEING SO EXCITED. I HAD NO IDEA THEY WERE DOING THIS! :-D!!!