I've never heard anyone using it, regarding any set of three states. If it makes you happy, though.
I've never heard anyone using it, regarding any set of three states. If it makes you happy, though.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm neutral on it. Just reporting the facts. It isn't the whole state, just the area that's close to the Ohio and Indiana borders. I'm surprised at the difficulty so many are having with this.Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I'm neutral on it. Just reporting the facts. It isn't the whole state, just the area that's close to the Ohio and Indiana borders. I'm surprised at the difficulty so many are having with this.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I'm probably closer to you than you know.I'm actually not too interested to meet any of you chaps. I think actually putting faces and voices on everyone's posts would seriously screw with my mind. I've got my imagined 'tones' for all of you, and I'm happy to keep them that way.
...that, and the fact that I'd probably be depressingly similar to how you all have imagined me.
That being said, if anyone interesting swings through Baltimore (or DC on a weekend), you're always welcome to try looking me up.It would be kinda creepy, wouldn't it, if we found out OMG I know people YOU know, so-and-so works at Johns Hopkins and his sister is married to so-and-so who works for Boston Analytics and OMFG they live next door to a guy I knew in Evanston.....
*gulp*
Tri-state area is common, yeah. Depends on the region, though. We also have "Quad cities", and "The Region", but only midwesterners might know those terms. My tri-state is PA, Maryland and Virginia, but sometimes it's PA, Maryland and Delaware. Or PA, NJ and some other state, even West Virginia, they don't have to be contiguous. Depends on which part of PA you live in, and what states are borders.Any state border area where three states come together can be referred to as a tri-state area, no? That's how I've always heard the area referred to...
It's not a secret, at least as far as I know. Back before the e-commerce bubble burst and the telco's went bankrupt, practically every big name domestic tech company had a large corporate complex here, employing thousands or even tens of thousands of workers (Worldcomm, Compuserve, IBM, and maybe one or two more I've forgotten were all in the 10k+ employee club around here). And once that bubble burst, every other company in the region realized that there were scores of unemployed techies in the city, and they could get a great deal on techie labor and bargain basement prices on shiny, slightly used datacenters if they wanted to. (And the companies that didn't go under still have a big corporate presence out here - we still have a massive IBM presence here, for example: lots of jobs and billions of dollars in infrastructure that won't be going away any time soon.)It is? Country's best kept secret...?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
If your local Ohio tech economy is so great, then why have you not been able to "get away" (even to Cincinnati) for over a year?
That's easy, he's fucking indispensable. She-it.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Gays.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
No no, the line is "wine, song, women"
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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