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Booblord Zagats posted:On the other side of the road is the White trash containment zone that features... I used to use that exact same phrase in Tacoma to describe the plaza that has Bass Pro shops, Goodwill, a laundromat, recreational weed shop, regular smoke shop, pizza place, and Hustler store all in the same area.
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The storefront of the one there looked like it sold lifestyle gear for folks who like to read Larry Flynt's fine publication. So porn, sex toys, and women's versions of Affliction shirts with brass knuckles that said "TALK poo poo GET HIT." edit: (nsfw)http://hustlerhollywoodstores.com/hustler-hollywood-tacoma/
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Somebody brought up the oil and gas thing a few pages ago so I thought I should fill in: According to Houston Business Journal approx 600k sq ft of unused office space has hit the market every month for the last year. This doesn't count the millions in sublease space from bigger companies stuck in long lease agreements. I know of four 20-30 story buildings that are brand new within a mile of each other that have no occupants. There are a whole shitload of REITs and investors who are about to get absolutely face hosed on speculative building they will never be able to fill unless we go back to $150/barrel oil.
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Somebody brought up the oil and gas thing a few pages ago so I thought I should fill in: if we go back to $150 ill have to start robbing banks again
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Somebody brought up the oil and gas thing a few pages ago so I thought I should fill in: I know I'm cold and heartless saying this but gently caress em'. Fossil fuels must die.
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Well, Houston is still a desirable city to live in. If cost of business gets low enough that space will be filled by some other kind of white collar work. People who built it might never see the money they wanted though.
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Cliff Racer posted:Houston is a desirable city to live in  forever and ever
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mrwuss posted:if we go back to $150 ill have to start robbing banks again
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Cliff Racer posted:Well, Houston is still a desirable city to live in. 
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I am from loving Phoenix and Houston fills even I with an existential dread and horror.
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"Houston, you are a problem"
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Houston is a parking deck masquerading as a major city. In other words, the perfect American city.
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I am from Houston. Do I need to make another thread about it? You guys don't seem to be getting it still.
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Houston is a big dirty shopping mall and heaven help you if you ever get told to go to the wrong airport and try to get to the right one in time.
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Cliff Racer posted:Well, Houston is still a desirable city to live in. If cost of business gets low enough that space will be filled by some other kind of white collar work. People who built it might never see the money they wanted though. NYC has quite possibly the highest cost of business yet there are zero empty buildings/an incredibly high employment rate. If the cost of business meant anything, Kansas would be booming and not the flaming shitshow that it currently is.
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I don't want to bring up Wal-Mart chat but there definitely is some credence to the argument that they get shipped shittier versions of things other places get. I was just reading an article on that peanut company that knowingly shipped deadly peanuts to people, and years earlier they had shipped peanut butter candies that far exceeded some FDA limit to Wal-Mart stores only, instead of throwing them away. lol
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Houston is a parking deck masquerading as a major city. Parking decks would be an improvement. Jeez, people maximize your space. Maybe there's a stadium just off frame? I know we still have an inexplicable number of regular parking lots near our baseball field that could've been consolidated into a nice deck.
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"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service. With what we believe is a complete disregard by the U.S. Department of Education for due process to the company, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and more than 8,000 employees will be negatively affected.” lol
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cuck cuck im gay posted:"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service. With what we believe is a complete disregard by the U.S. Department of Education for due process to the company, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and more than 8,000 employees will be negatively affected.” I'm guessing that was the email sent to the AP when everyone showed up to locked doors this morning?
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cuck cuck im gay posted:If the cost of business meant anything, Kansas would be booming and not the flaming shitshow that it currently is. I made a Kansas! thread a while back after reading an article about their terrible schools and it taught me that no matter how bad things seem, they can always be worse
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm guessing that was the email sent to the AP when everyone showed up to locked doors this morning? Here is the full statement, http://www.ittesi.com/2016-09-06-ITT-Educational-Services-Inc-to-Cease-Operations-at-all-ITT-Technical-Institutes-Following-Federal-Actions How long till the website goes down? I'm guessing a week at best. edit : 
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The AP was saying 40,000 students would be affected by this, seems a little off from the 8,000 they are claiming
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FlamingLiberal posted:The AP was saying 40,000 students would be affected by this, seems a little off from the 8,000 they are claiming 8,000 employees. Looking forward to the rest of the for profit colleges dying as the education bubble continues to deflate.
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The EDF keeping up the good work.
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cuck cuck im gay posted:"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service. With what we believe is a complete disregard by the U.S. Department of Education for due process to the company, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and more than 8,000 employees will be negatively affected.” Targeting Private PRisons and for profit colleges. Obama's second term looking fuckin good.
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm guessing that was the email sent to the AP when everyone showed up to locked doors this morning? The one sent to students was even better. Over the weekend they told students "we thought about how important labor day is so we're extending the holiday to include Tuesday, so don't come in on Tuesday" lol Really sucks for people who were nearing the end of their degree as I am assuming no schools accept ITT credits. I am very glad these scummy schools are being reprimanded but lets not kid ourselves. A good portion of the population will decry this as "Obama's war on businesses". Professor Shark posted:I made a Kansas! thread a while back after reading an article about their terrible schools and it taught me that no matter how bad things seem, they can always be worse They call it Brownbackistan for a reason.
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cuck cuck im gay posted:NYC has quite possibly the highest cost of business yet there are zero empty buildings/an incredibly high employment rate. Yes yes Iowa blah blah, but Iowa has had the highest rax rate of all surrounding states except Minnesota and Illinois, yet Iowa boasts far more corporate hqs than all bordering states except Illinois and Minnesota. Its almost as if tax rates isnt the main driver of business or something. Theres a reason Des Moines has a huge insurance hub and higher taxes vs Topeka or Sioux Falls. gently caress Brownback and his state is definitely circling the drain.
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Tax rates matter but infrastructure and job market and all kinds of other things matter, too. Sometimes more; doesn't matter what the tax is if the required infrastructure to operate the business doesn't exist - fiber wire for tech companies, for example. It's not coincidence that Silicon Valley and Oregon were/are the centers of the tech boom. Kansas, for example, slashed their education budgets so much to justify their tax cuts that they lost tons of factory jobs when the owners of an auto factory (forgot the company) said 'these people literally can't follow printed English instructions - we had to make picture instructions and they still couldn't do that.' Brownback is a retard and Kansas sucks. Moridin920 has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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People also probably want to work for a company in a good state, like Illinois or Minnesota, than some flyover fuckhole like Iowa or Kansas or Nebraska.
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two forty posted:People also probably want to work for a company in a good state, like Illinois or Minnesota, than some flyover fuckhole like Iowa or Kansas or Nebraska. Kansas is really cheap, and they have better strip clubs than Ohio 
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Moridin920 posted:Tax rates matter but infrastructure and job market and all kinds of other things matter, too. Sometimes more; doesn't matter what the tax is if the required infrastructure to operate the business doesn't exist - fiber wire for tech companies, for example. It's not coincidence that Silicon Valley and Oregon were/are the centers of the tech boom. Incidentally Nebraska has a much higher tax rate and far better jobs and is starting to experience a tech boom because they're actually building fiber and are in the middle of the country also nebraska has far better education and no charter schools HUH
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Moridin920 posted:if the employment choice is between Kansas or Ohio I think I'd rather just be homeless Happy Medium is available. Just click the link in my snazzy new avatar.
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two forty posted:People also probably want to work for a company in a good state, like Illinois or Minnesota, than some flyover fuckhole like Iowa or Kansas or Nebraska. lol if you think Nebraska and Iowa are as hosed in the rear end as Kansas
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Kansas really is on some death spiral because they've destroyed their economy but they think they're actually fixing it and all the voters keep voting for more because all they really give a poo poo about is idiot religious issues like abortion and teaching creationism in schools. Watch this documentary: https://vimeo.com/107525994 then realize it is from 2009 and poo poo has only gotten worse. there's only like 2 redeeming people in that whole thing and one of them is just a fat farmer dude going 'i really dunno why people can't just live and let live all these religious folks have taken over and gotten rabid and nuts and my Kansas is gone  '
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Your dream is jobs for middle/upper class white collar workers except those people usually have a choice in their employment and if they have children they arent moving to states with absolutely loving abysmal education, like Kansas. If they do theyre going to want another 25k a year or something to send their children to private school and suddenly all those cost of living savings you business was counting on disappear because you're paying through the nose to get the people you want
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When did ITT become a 'bad' school? I mean, it was never a good one, but it's been in business for half a century. As much as everyone hates for-profit education, the very nature of their business model means there has to be some value to the degrees. It's the quality/convenience/cost model where you can only pick 2. But you still get 2 out of 3. Did all that sweet government backed debt make them toss their already suspect standards in an attempt to maximize student rolls? Moridin920 posted:Tax rates matter but infrastructure and job market and all kinds of other things matter, too. Sometimes more; doesn't matter what the tax is if the required infrastructure to operate the business doesn't exist - fiber wire for tech companies, for example. It's not coincidence that Silicon Valley and Oregon were/are the centers of the tech boom. Kansas hasn't been cutting it's education budgets long enough for companies to see stupider workers. But yeah, tax cuts will only get you so far. Some industries live and die by tax breaks. Studios look for excuses to film in Georgia because of it's tax credits, but they also import their most highly trained workers. That's not going to work for most businesses. Also Kansas was hosed regardless. Kansas with cheap taxes and MadMax infrastructure actually sounds better than Kanas with normal taxes and regular infrastructure. At least one is a little more exciting.
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