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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
Average Zombie:
I blame Harry Dresden. That boy goes through apartments like Hanalore goes through Lysol.
JackFaerie:
--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 29 Mar 2011, 23:37 ---as to visiting friends, do Americans not use the train?
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Hahah, nope, we don't. Our country sucks that way. Most public transport is extremely inefficient and expensive. (It can even cost less to fly than to take the train for some destinations... and of course, it will be quicker.) For shorter distances, you can drive, or you can take sketchy slow buses that smell weird. A handful of cities have decent metros. But I live in Philadelphia, and though it has a subway system I almost never use it because it takes an hour to get from where I live to most places I want to go... which takes 15 mins by car. (Nevermind that it's never above 3.5 miles' distance, but city driving is city driving.)
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Andy147 on 30 Mar 2011, 01:31 ---She didn't say she wouldn't rent to a Wiccan. For all we know, if Dora had said "Yes", she'd have followed on with "In that case, I should warn you that sorcery is banned."
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Look up the word 'litigious' and say that again.
I'm not saying that she would automatically lose a lawsuit, but she would spend more defending such a question if the matter ever came to court that it's better to avoid it altogether.
I renter's religion is not the landlords concern, and as long as they neither disturb the neighbors nor damage the property, a renter can do with the residence as she will.
And that especially includes practicing one's religion.
tom_s252:
--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 29 Mar 2011, 23:37 --- do Americans not use the train?
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As a Brit who has visited quite a lot of America, I'll give this a try...
It depends which bit of America. Boston, New York and Washington (and therefore to a lesser extent places like Philadelphia, Baltimore, bits of Connecticut) are connected by nice, relatively quick trains that are comparatively affordable if you book ahead. Chicago's alright because most of the Amtrak network seems to point towards it. But outside the major metro areas, mass transit makes very little sense. I visited some friends in Texas; Dallas' attempt at light rail is laughable, but when you realise that people commute to Dallas from around 75 miles in every direction, spread out in tiny towns, it makes very little sense to try and connect them all.
By the time the price of oil tips the economic scales in favour of something other than private car ownership, it wil be too late to implement a meaningful mass transit in most of America. This, in the end, is what will make GM pull their head out the sand and get on with inventing a practical hydrogen fuel cell car. I hope...
Tergon:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 30 Mar 2011, 01:04 ---If I were Jewish, I could might accept a job knowing full well that I would be required to work on Saturday, and fully willing to do so, but it would be illegal for an employer to not hire me simply for because I was Jewish expecting that I would not be able to work on the Sabbath.
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Yes, but there's a fine line here. If, for example, you went to the interview to apply for a weekend job, and then informed the interviewer that you would not be working Saturdays because it was the Sabbath, you wouldn't get the job. While it's true that this would be because of your religious beliefs, the employer could argue - quite reasonably and, so far as I know, legally - that religion does not enter into it. He's simply offering you a financial arrangement that carries certain obligations, and you're unwilling or unable to meet those obligations. Therefore, he excercises his legal right to withdraw the offer.
The same applies to Dora here. The landlord may or may not care what her religious beliefs are, and s/he has no right at all to enquire after such. The landlord does, however, have full legal right to expect that the apartment would not suffer structural damage at the hands of a tenant, whatever the excuse behind it may be. The Real Estate Agent that Dora is talking to is being extremely indelicate here, and possibly being more than a little offensive when lumping all "witches" and "wizards" into the "burns shit down" category, but that's it. One middle-aged lady is guilty of vague bigotry, but no discrimination laws have been violated.
--- Quote from: Andy147 on 30 Mar 2011, 01:32 ---How do you know it's got a spacious living room? It hasn't been shown, and all that was said about it was "east-facing".
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Oh, come on... she's a Real Estate Agent. The living room is always spacious. Even if it's literally a closet with a TV inside. At worst it's "cozy", but judging by what we already know about the place, I'm thinking my call has good backing behind it. ;)
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