freakpower

This city journal truly r0x0rz my s0x0rz.

I live in northern Europe (not germany). I don't know, but don't the majority of the European people live with their families or alone? That's the way it's up here. I live with my family. Mother, father and little brother. In this apartment. First: Bill Gates has the right of share his house with he wants. I agree. He does have the right to share his house with whoever he wants. On the other hand you could probably discuss whether or not the house is actually his (he didn't build it and so on). The street singer doesn't work 12 hours per day and he had not invented the DOS. Somehow I doubt Bill Gates works 12 hours per day but I'll let that pass. However, Bill Gates didn't invent MS-DOS himself. He bought it from someone else (can't remember who), reworked it a bit and published it. Third: freakpower, the marxism has never resulted very well. I've read a text about it a few days ago and I transcribe it here: Marx was the creator of one political and economical system implanted by his followers in many countries of the European East and in Asia, with lots of bloody revolutions. However, his system shown quickly be defective and inefficacious, and lead to the bankruptcy all the countries that adopted it, except China. If you A-hem. I never claimed Marxism was good. I know about all the killings and such. I mentioned Marx because I felt justified in comparing him to Smith, both having written down the basics for political ideologies and both being dumb. Can't say anything about your fourth statement since I agree with that Fifth: freakpower, with how many people you share your house,probably better than the houses of the majority of the european people? See above.

Well, rewright, over here during the late 60's they showed that removing two hundred years of development was no problem when there were ugly concrete housing projects to build. Now painted in pastel colours because they looked so bad in bare concrete. Gil_Mnogueira - Adam Smith wrote a book called Wealth of Nations. He could probably be called the Marx' of capitalism (but I dunno). However, I'm not following you. Why would it be unjust if a street singer lived in the same house as Bill Gates? Oh no. Bill Gates has to share his huge (how huge? HUGE) house/mansion with one more person. The world is coming to an end. Bill Gates, one of the richest, if not the richest, men on the planet has to SHARE? Silly thought! I mean... Equality? What's that good for? Freedom? Uh no thanks. Women's liberation? Bah! Let's just go back to the Roman Empire so people can learn their places! Number two. Why would economic chaos break out if people got homes downtown? Because all of a sudden people wouldn't need to work? I don't get this. People would still HAVE to work, because there's RENT to pay, there are BILLS to pay, they have to eat something as well, and if they're really lucky, have something more at the end of the day to buy pointless stuff like... Computers. Number three. This is all my opinion. (Of course it is, I wrote it.)

Date: 12/11/2004 12:16:00 PM Author: seemurray2 uncrazycooper: like I said this idea only works in very large cities and very small towns. And it only would work with everyone living crammed together in apartment buildings, such as in large cities like New York City, so they could walk out the door and go across the street to the store. But maybe everyone doesn't want to live in an apartment and maybe everone doesn't want to live in a huge city. And you forgot the point that everyone can't live within walking distance of where they work and shop. That's why it is set up like it is now, so you can drive to one Best Buy instead of having to have a thousand of them so they are all within walking distance of everyone, and then they would all go out of business because they wouldn't get enough customers to be able to operate.quote> Why do they have to go to Best Buy? Wouldn't a local electronics store down on the corner work just as well?

I've always liked this city, but I haven't commented. Perhaps because I'm used to lurking (I visit a lot of forums I only read). I like this city perhaps mostly because it has a fairly realistic scale to it, as far it's possible in simcity; 12x12km for 3 million people isn't too unfeasible, at least not with simcity - what with it's 72 people in a 2 (or is it 3 floor?) floor, 16x16m apartment. Thumbs up!

I've always liked this journal (at least as far as I've read, that is, all). Perhaps mostly because it reminds me a lot of the city I live in (except the terrain. Not quite as hilly), as it's, like most cities around here, not as spread out as an american city - despite the fact that there is lots of room around here, in fact, I'd wager there are more apartments constructed than double-family housing. Perhaps also because I don't like urban sprawl, because it promotes cars and cars create pollution, which promotes more cars (too much pollution in the air, etc). Now, I've drifted off track though. I do like this region. The fact that it's (almost?) fully developed is another plus.

Proposal B seems like the best for me.

Nice to see some smaller towns. And a nice european feel as well. That region looks HUGE though, how large is it?

Date: 7/16/2004 4:42:21 PM Author: I still like my diea!quote> I like your idea as well.

Date: 7/16/2004 3:52:46 PM Author: How about making it a Double-Deck highway instead? That sounds more Los Angeles-ish. quote> Like this? I've got no idea how on/offramps and intersections would work out for this though. well it's just a poor draft anyway