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• whatever commented on Downtown Development Recap: 2012 Edition
  ok Paul, but you've been noting that on here about me for so long now, I'd bet it predates Siri's first beta - lol It's fine to rerun the classics of course, but for 2013 how about thinking up at least a few new ad hominem critiques of me? More variety all around might be good on here :-) (same also goes for the other member of my fan club - the local one …but at least from him we get to see a variety of usernames and sometimes a new persona) But seriously, it's becoming a pet peeve of...
• PaulBuffalo commented on Downtown Development Recap: 2012 Edition
  I don't disagree with you about Rochester. I think you provided a lot of info in your reply to enforce your point. (And you thought I was being snarky.)...
• "Realist" commented on Downtown Development Recap: 2012 Edition
  That's odd, I was just about to say my version of siri has been sounding a lot more like whatever. When I ask my phone about historic tax credits, she asks if I mean to say job killing, average working family crushing corporate welfare? When I ask about sprawl subsidies she says government spending isn't a subsidy as long as it goes toward sprawl. When I correct her, she changes the subject to something about the Lake Effect man, Democrats, Hollywood liberals, all while repeating "shrug" and "lol." Strange....
• whatever commented on Downtown Development Recap: 2012 Edition
  Funny, no matter what I ask mine, she just starts complaining about sprawl. I'm wondering if the Apple Store resold me a customized one some Chicagoan traded in last time he visited back here, lol Anyway, sounds like your Siri needs some fixes too… Maybe nobody told her govt spending on publicly owned (if she knows what that means!) roads/sidewalks in dense urban areas can be very appropriate, just like it can also be anywhere else taxpayers drive. She can consider basing it on traffic amounts, local-govt funding, etc, instead of moralizing bias against choices people are free to make....
• whatever commented on Downtown Development Recap: 2012 Edition
  Thanks, Paul. Another thing is Rochester's city poverty rate has been slightly higher than Buffalo's for a few years. Latest the Census bureau says it's 31% there vs 30% here. Considering that higher poverty rate there plus slightly more job losses over 5 & 10 years, if they asked Cuomo why their similarly populated area isn't getting a 'billion' from NYS like Buffalo is, it would be a good question. (admission - I think I mentioned that poverty rate last year too, so very sorry to real for yet again repeating something. There goes one of my 2013 resolutions!)...