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on Making a District a Destination

Tear it down and build a ballpark. If the city wants people there year round, using the parking garages and visiting businesses, they need a reason to go there in numbers. Basketball during baseball's off season and vice versa. Just look at the Twin Cities. They just built a new ballpark right next to the city's huge parking garages. And on the other side of those parking garages... the Timberwolves' NBA arena. All of the businesses in the area seem to be busy. And for those that will say, but MSP has MLB, not AAA, just look at the St. Paul Saints. That's right, look at the independent league baseball team in the Twin Cities. They get large crowds (larger than the AAA Beavers) because they have an actual baseball park, not a multiuse stadium. The numbers are there for the Beavers if they had a proper stadium.

posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Plant Power

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posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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on Listening In

I mention it because it is a common misunderstanding within the public. People think that if they have a GPS, they can be tracked. This is false. You linked GPS technology with that of cell phone triangulation for 911 calls. These are completely different technologies. So your point of GPS devices being within many devices and being tracked as a result carries no weight. If you purchase a GPS device that "phone home" your location, your loss of privacy could only be blamed on yourself.

As for RFID chips, which I didn't even mention, if one was to have an RFID chip on themselves and receivers everywhere, one could be tracked, but then again it would be your own fault for carrying the RFID chip. So in response, why did you even bother mentioning it?

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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on Listening In

I would not be in favor of the government recording all phone conversations as phone conversations are not public interactions. Catching someone on camera in public (or on your own property) committing a crime is fundamentally different than listening in on every phone conversation which occurs in private. Legal wiretaps that listen in for a specific reason with a judge's approval I have no problem with, as long as it's not a Bush policy that is allowing it.

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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on Listening In

First off, GPS devices do not transmit their location. You cannot be tracked by solely using a GPS device.

Secondly, face recognition cameras in public places are only there to monitor criminals within the system and to monitor abnormal behavior. Matching captured faces on camera from random people to the same person on another camera is far too inefficient and time consuming to be of any use when used on the public as a whole.

My preference would be for cameras to be placed everywhere as it is a huge crime deterrent and also aids significantly in prosecuting crime that does occur within a camera's view.

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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on TAG, You're It!

I was a TAG student in the Beaverton School District and as far as I can remember, the only TAG activity that I participated in was pull-out classes that consisted of solving some puzzles in elementary school. After that it was up to me to take the most difficult classes that were offered. (In middle school math levels were differentiated, and in high school I was in the first class that could graduate with the IB diploma.)

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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