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I'm sure telecom carriers would welcome local competetion and build out their infrastructure for everyone:

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New York ranks No. 1 in losing residents to other states

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They are leaving. I quote:
  Looking at New York City specifically, the area with the largest percentage of residents lost to other states came from the zip code 10075, in the Upper East Side, which faced a 9.3 percent decrease in its population from 2015 to 2016

Citizens figured out that skyrocketing housing prices resulting in increased homeless, gentrification, and billions in tax payer payola (aka "incentives" https://www.bizjournals.com/ne... ) just isn't worth it.
Good for them.

The U.S. government needs FAR better management.

One example is the problems at the IRS:

The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers (April 17, 2018) "The tax agency's embrace of IBM in the 1950s helped drive down audit rates. It's still depending on the same code."

IRS says it's using technology from JFK's time (Feb. 3, 2015)

TurboTax, H&R Block Spend Big Bucks Lobbying for Us to Keep Doing Our Own Taxes (March 23, 2017)

How the IRS Was Gutted (Dec. 11, 2018) "An eight-year campaign to slash the agency's budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy."

Who's More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 -- or $400,000? (Dec. 12, 2018) "If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you're more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them."

After Budget Cuts, the IRS' Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing "Collapse" (Oct. 1, 2018) "Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency's budget and management changed priorities."

There are much earlier reports about IRS under-management: Internal Revenue Service is a den of thieves. (April 2, 2000. Not a "den of thieves", just terribly undermanaged, apparently.) "The GAO audit compared the agency to someone who can't balance his or her checkbook and instead just adjusts it to agree with the bank statement."

I don't fall for Huang's feel-good explanation for a couple reasons... One, trash-talking AMD's new Radeon 7. Two, since the Switch basically does the Shield better than Nvidia was willing to, why fight a product that has all the games, too??

Chip CEOs throw shade at each other at CES: 'Lousy and nothing new'

Huang continued to criticize Su's stage moment, saying, “Wow, underwhelming, huh?"
“Weird launch," he added. "Maybe they thought of it this morning."

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Because forcing people to use run-down and broken public transportation doesn't fix the problem of a systematic, long-term lack of investment in the transportation infrastructure. What fixes that is more money. Where that money comes from used to be the economic engine of the middle class, but that's pretty much gone. Where did the money go? To the 1%. So if we need money to fix problems, that's where it's going to have to come from.

If the rich had been content to be rich, life would go on as usual. But they weren't content with that. They needed to have it all while everyone else got pretty much nothing. Right now, the top 1% richest people in the US own 35% of the wealth. If you look at the top 5% of the richest people in the US, they have 62% of the wealth in the country. That's absurd. And the bottom 40% of people, the bottom half of what used to be the middle class and the poor, own less than 1% of the wealth in the country.

40% of our country collectively owns 1% of the wealth of the whole country. I get that you've got yours and fuck everyone else, but you can't squeeze blood from a stone. It's not "soaking the rich" when they're so wealthy they don't know what to do with it, and we literally can't get any more money out of 40% of the population.

That's all very eloquent but you won't solve your problem when your solution is "tax the rich". That's California's recipe for success and people are fleeing that state in droves BECAUSE of those policies but while Cali has been getting all that kind of press lately, New York is right there along with them: https://www.bizjournals.com/ne...

You cannot tax yourself to prosperity. It doesn't work, has never worked and won't ever work even though you have an entirely valid point of who holds all the wealth. Those with the wealth leave when someone tries to take too much of it. Cali and NY are stark evidence of it.

Good question, and to be honest I didn't quiz him on it, and didn't get to observe the situation closely since I had my own career. I'm all for regulations that are necessary for employee safety and such, but I think that many of the compliance/reporting requirements have put a much higher burden on them. As a hiring manager in a major company now, I see some of what I consider silly compliance requirements. For example, when I want to hire someone, I'm required to open a requisition and interview a minimum number of applicants even if I already know who I want to hire...I have to waste the time of at least two other people for an opening that they have no chance of getting.

For the sake of further discussion, these might be appropriate...
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https://www.businessinsider.co...

From: https://www.bizjournals.com/sa...

The San Francisco-based company is backed by plenty of Silicon Valley investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GV and DBL Partners. Other investors include Thrive Capital, Campbell Soup Company, Acre Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, and First Beverage Group.

Nice job 'redistributing the wealth', Juicero. But that's giving Juicero too much credit. They were apparently not 'smart cynics', but were 'dumbass vegan true believers'. They apparently spent the money overbuilding the juicer, rather than just taking it and running as they should have.

AAAAAnnnnnnnd they're gone!

SIX years ago.

Right...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...
https://www.investors.com/poli...
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Seattle already spends more than a billion dollars on "solving the homeless crisis": https://www.bizjournals.com/se...

This is on an estimated homeless population of roughly 12,000 individuals: https://www.seattletimes.com/s...

This works out to around $88,000 a year per individual. Let that sink in for a second.

Their government is ineffective and inept, giving them more money to waste is not a practical solution.

+100 VERY INFORMATIVE

Seattle already spends more than a billion dollars on "solving the homeless crisis": https://www.bizjournals.com/se...
This is on an estimated homeless population of roughly 12,000 individuals: https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
This works out to around $88,000 a year per individual. Let that sink in for a second.
Their government is ineffective and inept, giving them more money to waste is not a practical solution.

They already do: https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/04/10/google-to-power-georgia-data-center-with-solar.html

This is the real elephant in the room:
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Bezos and Buffet have buddy buddy in some interesting ways lately, if the blockchain supply chain fires up under Amazon, it's a done deal. Forbes on same thing:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

Yes, we all get old. Which is one reason young people should care more about the employment rights of people older than they are.

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So far, 269 people have joined a class-action lawsuit against Google claiming they were discriminated against in the workplace based on their age.

The scope of the lawsuit against Alphabet's Google division was revealed in a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Howard Lloyd and follows what he referred to as a âoelengthyâ hearing that took place in a San Jose on July 26.

The lawsuit originated in 2015 with plaintiff Robert Heath and was certified as a class-action in 2016.

When plaintiff Cheryl Fillekes joined the case in 2015, she claimed that because of her age, Mountain View-based Google did not hire her for an engineering position for which she was qualified, which she alleges violates the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. In court documents, Fillelkes claimed that a recruiter told her she needed to put her dates of graduation on her resume so the company could view how old she was.

In October 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled that more software engineers could join the lawsuit. The lawsuit represents over-40 job applicants who sought engineering jobs at Google but say they were discriminated against because of their age.

[See the full complaint below]

"We believe the allegations here are without merit and will continue to defend our position vigorously," said Google spokesperson Ty Sheppard. "We have strong policies against discrimination on any unlawful basis, including age."

In recent years, Google has maintained it has policies in place to guard against age discrimination in the workplace. Last year, Judge Freeman reportedly responded:"Having such a policy does not necessarily shield a company from a discrimination suit, particularly in light of the evidence and allegations presented here ... today, most, if not all, companies are well versed in anti-discrimination and make great efforts to ensure their written policies comply with anti-discrimination law."

Itâ(TM)s not the first time the search giant has been accused of age discrimination. In 2004, Google was sued in a case that was ultimately settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

Silicon Valley's tech industry skews young. As of late last year, the median age of workers at both Google and Menlo Park-based Facebook was just 29 years old, according to the Huffington Post. Last year, Hewlett-Packard was sued by former employees who claim that the company had deliberately and unfairly acted to become a "younger" company.

Laurie McCann, a senior attorney with the AARP, which advocates for older people's rights in the U.S., recently stated that ageism in the tech industry is a "very big problem." Two-thirds of older tech workers say they have either experienced or witnessed age discrimination at work, according to a 2013 survey taken by the organization.

A study by recruitment platform Hired cited by the Financial Times suggests that once tech industry workers turn 45, they often see the number of job offers fall and their salaries plateau.

"People brag about how young the average age of their workforce is and say downright derogatory things to older people, almost like they are above the law," McCann said recently, speaking generally about ageism in Silicon Valley's tech industry.

Guess you've been lucky.

I stand corrected. I haven't realized that the minimum wage in Silicon Valley went up this year. The lowest rate that a tech can make is between $13.50 and $15.00 per hour.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/01/02/minimum-wage-bay-area

BTW, minimum wage 15 years ago was $5.15 per hour. Federal minimum wage today is $7.25.

If the competitor made errors and there were lawsuits, they would be held harmless and you would take the hit.

No.

Right. If your cable access goes away during Judge Judy, you're going to blame Google.

If the competitor made errors and there were lawsuits, they would be held harmless and you would take the hit.

No.

Why didn't Google propose this?

Because that's exactly what they did. Except Google is still the one who does the work. Outside of that one difference, yeah Google and NES worked on an alliance to get the fiber laid without OTMR, but even then AT&T and Comcast have already extended the local appeals process to seven years for make ready work. This is literally why AT&T can't extend into the Comcast only region I'm in. There's a fiber optic end point only 300 feet from where I live and AT&T can't extend it because we're only four out of the seven years into it. Even then, there's been talk to extend the appeals process even more. Pretty much all the local folks who were going to work on the Google fiber project have pretty much conceded that AT&T and Comcast are ready to scorch earth the process just to ensure that people like Google can't make any headway in the future. Shit, they already quake at EPB in Chattanooga. It's clear, neither want a fair market and all the politicians here in the state are more than happy to let them have it. Even if that means that AT&T can't draw that final 300 feet of fiber or the other hundreds of examples like that in the Comcast monopoly zones.

2007: It won't be the case in a few years, when 3G is deployed broadly enough. 2011: It won't be the case in a few years, when LTE is deployed broadly enough. 2017: It won't be the case in a few years, when 5G rolls out.

You are clearly uneducated about 5G. It's not like the old protocols and some incremental improvement. Most people do everything in their residence with wireless (Wi-Fi) anyway, including streaming video and stuff.

here is a quick primer on the services going into trial, and Verizon is planning something similar.

You can look at some more detail to whet your appetite right here. 5G might be a mobile broadband service in the distant future, but the real promise is for fixed wireless, providing lots more competition and options for last-mile Internet access. You have to license the spectrum from the FCC, and this may be where the FCC can really enable a lot more competitiveness in the market.

Could it fizzle? Sure. But your out-of-hand dismissal is pure ignorance.

The issue is not NN but competition. We have an issue with monopolies because the government... local and state mostly grants exclusive franchise licenses to run cable to no more than two companies typically.

Nope. Still got it wrong, Karmashock? Why do you knowingly repeat something you admit, even in this post, that you recognize is false? Congress outlawed that over 20 years ago, in the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

And in fact, many municipal and state codes specifically indicate that any license granted for use of public rights-of-way and easements must be non-exclusive.

that people presume to be surprised when abusive and monopolistic behavior occurs when you grant companies monopolies is baffling.

That you, an individual, mistate the problem, even when you've been repeatedly informed of the error you are making, is not at all baffling, you found your easy answer, and now you're simply refusing to reassess the problem and actually understand the situation.

You do not have the right to such ignorance.

And you don't have the right to willfull blindness.

Grant right of way access to poles and conduits for third party last mile ISPs and all this NN stuff becomes irrelevant.

Nope. You neglect to mention the most important part. You actually have to have the connections run, you can't just magically declare the problem solved, there actually needs to be provisioning.

Google is having a hard time running cable. That is how bad and how corrupt these franchise agreements are right now. And if google with all its resources is having a hard time then what chance does anyone else stand?

Google has actually gotten numerous franchise agreements, because, contrary to your initial false assertion, the issue was not exclusivity.

Whether or not Google is having a "hard time" because of "how bad" and "how corrupt" these franchise agreements are right now, is not something you've provably established either, but at least it's not blatantly false. So there is that. If you can't do anything else, maybe you should stick to claiming there's corruption instead.

Unfortunately, you'll still likely be ignoring some of the realities of the situation, so you shouldn't stop there, but expand your perceptions and seek more information.

Here some fool will say that such agreements are illegal. De Jura they are... De facto they're the law of the land. Try to run cable and see what I mean. You can't. Only former Bell Companies and TV Cable companies are running last mile cable. This isn't because other people don't want to run cable or can't afford to run cable or because there isn't a market. It is because if you try... you are denied.

Oh, so the braying fool who willfully cites a false reason from the beginning, presents a blustering defense. Why don't you refrain from a poor phrasing, and describe your problem without resorting to something you know is inaccurate? It'll actually improve your own position, rather than make you look like an obstreperous fool who can't manage to present his ideas without deliberat

This settlement is 45 minutes outside of Phoenix, a city of population 1.6 million. And growing. Rapidly. All the critics here who are chorussing "oh, Gates is so stupid, he doesn't know that Arizona is uninhabitable" are silly: we already know it's possible because 1.6 million people already live there.

At one point Detroit had 1.6 million people. That’s not a selling point.

This settlement is 45 minutes outside of Phoenix, a city of population 1.6 million. And growing. Rapidly. All the critics here who are chorussing "oh, Gates is so stupid, he doesn't know that Arizona is uninhabitable" are silly: we already know it's possible because 1.6 million people already live there.

He merely needs to make a suburb that's somewhat more attractive than the other suburbs currently being built. And he can sell this to, not new people who had never thought of moving to Arizona, but some of the 81,000 people moving to the Phoenix area every year.

Okay.

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Google Fiber is starting construction of its gigabit internet network next week in West Louisville.

The lucky winner of the starting point is the Portland neighborhood — a seeming homage to Google Fiber's promise to the city to be socially conscious internet providers.

Grace Simrall, chief of Civic Innovation and Technology at Louisville Metro Government, confirmed Wednesday the technology giant's intention to start building. She said the quick turnaround from the original "Google Fiber is coming" announcement in late April to the start of the build is encouraging.

"They're assured us that they've come up with a strategy to be able to turn peoples' services on faster than other markets," she said. "They're aiming to do this in a matter of months, not years."

Simrall said the next neighborhood the gigabit service will come to is Newburg. Other neighborhoods are in the works, but she could not confirm plans past Newburg.

When the first announcement came, Google said it planned to test innovative ways to deploy the infrastructure, including through wireless technologies, microtrenching, and possibly through simply hanging the cables on utility poles.

The last method is under fire in Louisville. Don't forget that AT&T and the Louisville Metro Government are duking it out in court over a 2016 city ordinance that was crafted to help Google and other third-party internet service providers deploy networks quicker.

Maybe to totally avoid the issue, the deployment in Portland will be done by microtrenching, which is literally burying the fiber optic cable underground. The cable will be laid block by block, with the goal to finish one block each day, Simrall said. It will reach from 22nd and 30th streets between Market and Bank streets.

She said she couldn't say the company's goals, but Simrall and other government officials have talked with the Google Fiber team about bringing better, more affordable internet connection to the underserved, lower-income neighborhoods in West Louisville.

Simrall has said she thinks this will help to start closing the opportunity gap in the city, because access to good quality, high-speed internet service is a major economic driver.

Almost 300 people join class-action lawsuit for age discrimination at Google. They already settled their first age discrimination lawsuit when Larry Paged fired Brian Reid 9 days before IPO costing Reid 45+ million dollars in stock options. They admitted age discrimination and plants to change it. Yet Google still has an average age of 29.

Then there is the leaked news some googlers and google managers use black lists to block conservatives from joining some teams and promotions.

I wonder if it's because some older engineers might be conservatives.

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An "engineer" with no engineering degree. Tesla put her in the position above more qualified people and now she's complaining.

• [2017] Homebuilders sue Zillow
• [2017] Blockbuster $8M+ Verdict Against Zillow for Copyright Infringement of Real Estate Photos
• [2015] Zillow copyright suit challenges fate of sold listing photos
• [2014] Zillow Accused of Subjecting Female Employees to "Sexual Torture"

https://news.synopsys.com/2016...

Synopsys bought a company that specializes in this kind of work a few months ago.

Three years ago, also this:
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Adam Clarks Adams Platform:
https://www.itwire.com/opinion...
http://www.smh.com.au/business...

Now you might think ok, this one was a scammer, but people vet those things, cant fool me twice, right?
http://v-net.tv/2015/10/09/unk...

5 years later VERY SAME "The company’s senior development team comprises: Adam Clarke"
Adam Clark, of Adam’s Platform Technology (2004) "transfer a 1.3 gigbyte video file to a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk." strikes again in another scam :)

Another one is Madison Priest's Zekko Corp:
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http://jacksonville.com/tu-onl...
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Magic video compression turned out to be buried cable :D

Want more video compression scams? Check out V-Nova Perseus - they promise 3x smaller files than h.264, but somewhat independent tests show 20% bigger files at same quality :) and the real kicker is Perseus is really just reencapsulated h.264 video with resize filter on top :D multi million dollar scam, they even scored one Sat TV network contract.

This has been the case for more than a decade, but 4 years ago the SDP decided one more way to "destroy the morale of veteran teachers and drive a wedge between the union (PFT) and workers was to force everyone who get 3 instances of absence into disciplinary meetings. As per the bureaucracy of the SDP, if you make it to a second disciplinary meeting, your chances of prevailing plummet -- "clearly you must be a horrible employee if you are here a second time!" is the assumption in the central office; especially for the same infraction. Principals thought the new rule harsh and unreasonable -- it applied a solution needed only for a small minority of teachers who are chronically absent, to everyone, so they enforced it with discretion. The SDP responded the next school year by mandating that it be applied to EVERYONE, and data would be checked, those principals who were found derelict would be disciplined themselves.

Three years on, teachers who are new and don't "get" the process routinely get fired, suspended or quit after a year or two because they run afoul of the policy. Those who are chronically absent on purpose have learned to "game" the system, and still call out regularly with no repercussions, and many sick teachers come to work and get sicker, or worse. There have been off the record discussions of how a flu-like bug, or "stomach flu" will spread through a school in a week or so, where in the past one or two would be out and that's all.

The SDP officially refuses to budge on the policy because "children can't learn if the teacher is not there", but after years of allowing the substitute system to fail and be abused -- daily fill-rate of approx 20%, and most fair to poor performing schools NEVER receiving a sub, privatized it, touting the fill rate would be 80+% from day ONE of the new school year. The contractor never achieved higher than 11%, and their replacement company hovers around 16% currently. The District clearly attempted to address academic performance by ensuring the teachers were teaching, but put little thought into the causes of teacher absence, and more troubling chronic absence (low morale, failing health, assault on employees -- even teachers who were attacked bet penalized for calling out!), and clearly didn't work to implement processes and structures to mitigate teacher absence. In the last year, they implemented auto emails from the Superintendent recognizing employees who have not called out for a year, but little else beyond.

So penalizing employees for not showing up to work is not a new thing, and in fact some employers like this school district have no shame when it comes to its punishments.

In Silicon Valley, the kids pushing fries at Burger World make more.

Your math is wrong. Minimum wage is $10/hour in Silicon Valley. I make three times more than that (thanks to an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus). The CEO of Burger World is fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent minimum wage from rising to $15 per hour by 2019.

The issue could be moot, however, if San Jose adopts the Cities Association of Santa Clara County recommended $15 minimum wage by 2019, which the city's representative to the association endorsed back in June in a non-binding vote. That schedule calls for an $11 an hour wage on Jan. 1, 2017, $13.50 in 2018 and $15 in 2019.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/09/30/san-jose-raises-minimum-wage-but-fine-print-once.html

If you're leaving a state that has high unemployment and a ridiculously high cost of living, amd high taxes, going to a state with low costs, high pay, amd low taxes, recognize that those conditions were created by policies.

Well, turns outs out California is doing great. Unemployment is only 4.9%, lower than Texas at 5%. What a huge difference!

Of course, Texas has a history of poverty and failing schools as well as a dangerous obsession with bathroom inspections.

Even Texas's own governor admits that the state has a problem when it comes to transportation and congestion. And in fact, the California High-Speed Rail project is not light rail, but like the Houston-Dallas link a inter-city connection.

Furthermore, no, Trumpcare does not grant states more freedom. Of course, it turns out, somebody who voted for it admitted they didn't read it.

Maybe that's your problem? You didn't read it, so you couldn't find out what was in it?

In Mountain View, CA? Rent.

How much of Mountain View doesn't Google own?

Google and LinkedIn did a land swap last year to get out of each other's way since Mountain View wasn't big enough for the both of them.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/07/12/google-linkedin-strike-stunning-grand-bargain-for.html

but I'm looking for something that has been -demonstrated- at "city scale" or larger.

You mean like this, or perhaps this? Or perhaps this, which has been operating for decades?

Ohio's governor has suggested this, capping textbook costs at $300 per semester. Colleges are fighting it.

Ohio may try that

Governor Kasich proposed universities pick up all textbook costs over $300 per semester.

Colleges aren't happy

...except the fact that airline fares are way cheaper, adjusted for inflation, than they used to be...

No, they are not. The airline industry has been furiously trying to spin the facts on this, but it is not cheaper to fly, adjusted for inflation, than it used to be, and certainly not since deregulation. Even the charts that show a drop since 1995 fail to take into account that many of the services involved in air travel have now been "unbundled". "Oh, you want to bring a suitcase on your trip? That will be $50, per piece of luggage."

http://www.bizjournals.com/biz...

I can't tell if the 'Silicon Valley Business Journal' is real or not, too.

It's real. I don't recall when the name got changed. It used to be the "San Jose Business Journal" in the 1990's when I read it regularly.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose

Yes, one of the key benefits of working at home is control of the environment, and that most assuredly includes who gets to interrupt, or not, and when.

Working in company offices, I did some pretty good work. I tried hard, despite being very uncomfortable and unhappy. That was the job. But working at home, I did great work, became financially independent and most definitely happy. I loved (still do) my office and would (still do) burn huge numbers of hours in (t)here really Getting Shit Done. I also established myself in a very low cost-of-living location, doing high pay-in-employment work. Remotely. That's a really nice side effect of remote work, or at least it was for me. Hearing about real estate expenses in areas like Silicon Valley and various similar enclaves, I can only shake my head at the difference. I spent less in total (under $100k, all told) on nearly 6,000 sq feet of totally custom (and admittedly very eclectic) environment than most of the people in those areas spend on one bedroom apartments in less than 4 years ($2300/mo.) It really matters to your quality of life where you put your roots down.

TBH, I think one of the most programmer-hostile things a company can do is say "you have to work where we are." The tech exists, and has for some time, to make that completely unnecessary. Even if "constantly interrupt and monitor" is part of the company's operations protocols, that too is 100% doable. Throw the employee a fast connection and a good desktop, a webcam and a mic... whatever you need to do to keep in touch, you can do. Should cost a metric fuckton less than providing them office space "at" the company, too. I have never, ever, heard a decent argument for the requirement that warm flesh be present in the room in order to get good work done, or out of any employee. Frankly, if the employee can't work like that and do good work, they sure as **** aren't doing great work for you in any bloody office.

But, you know. I'm old, cranky, successful, independent, and can say these things with no fear my supervisor will see them. :)

That's complete Bullsh*t.
I live in Seattle. Boeing announced it will be cutting jobs in 2017 due to " fierce competition with rival Airbus and a drop in new orders".
They will be cutting the number of planes produced per month.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sea...

Seems in Texas, "other people's money" hasn't been an issue. But we do not just hand out "welfare" to everybody who asks here...

Texas throws around a lot of other people's money to corporations. In fact, they lead the nation in giving other people's money to corporations.

http://www.bizjournals.com/san...

https://www.texasobserver.org/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12...

If [San Francisco] allowed more new housing to be built, along with improving public transportation to accommodate greater demand, these problems would diminish.

I believe the problem can be summed up succinctly:

Many people in San Francisco don't want any new buildings; they say the existing buildings are part of the charm of SF and they worry about sprawl. Some of them even have the idea that building new stuff causes housing costs to go up due to "gentrification".

Many people in San Francisco don't want the cost of housing to go up; they decry the trends where only wealthy people (many of them young technical workers at hot companies like Google) can live in SF, and they complain that the city would be more interesting with more starving artists, poets, musicians, etc. (And many hate the private bus systems offered by companies like Google.)

Take both of the above together, and the people of San Francisco are never going to be happy. Not allowing more building capacity means prices will go up, prices going up means that artists and poets can't afford to live in the city. Protesting against the "Google Buses" does nothing to help any problems and just annoys people.

$7500 does not impact a car that runs from 60-140K, so once the subsidy ends there, it is over. In addition, that same subsidy is available to Tesla competitors, but, they have not made the sales. Basically, Model S outsells its competitors and both have the same subsidies.

As such, I think that when M3 hits, and is a superior car to its competitors BMW 300 series, etc and at the same price point (35K), then it is obvious that Tesla will be selling as many as they can produce.

BTW, if the GOP kills the 7500, then you can bet on it that many others WILL be impacted on sales. The leaf, volt, bolt, i3, etc are $20-25K cars that sell for 35+K and the 7500 DOES make a HUGE impact on their sales. But even with that, they still can not compete against Tesla.

First off, they have made profits 2x. As musk has shown, they can make easily just be slowing down investments.
And What gov subsidies? The 7500 tax break for the car buyers? You really think that is making ppl buy MS and MX? Absolutely not. The reason that Tesla model S outsells ALL OF THEIR COMPETITORS is that they have a SUPERIOR product. In addition, it is obvious that Model X will outsell its competitors as they increase production. Basically, Tesla is held back by their production capability.

Lastly, the companies that are dependant on gov subsidies would be all of others. Germany is now funding VW, BMW, MB, Audi, Porsche, etc to move to EVs.
America gave LOADS of money (in both subsidies and massive loans) to GM, Ford, Chrysler, and even a number of none American car makers to re-tool into hybrids. Total joke. In less than 1 year, Tesla will still be unable to meet the demand of .5-1M cars while nearly all other car makers are going to be plummeting in sales.

Why so con man musk could lose again in court and owe this poor man that had the misfortune of owning one of the worse cars ever made in existence even more money?

Musk is a con man. Everything he does is shady. The sooner he's thrown in prison the better.

Hardly insightful, and in fact a baldfaced lie. Here's what you get when you google "bay area unemployment rate"
The unemployment rate in San Mateo County was 3 percent, while the unemployment rate in Solano County was 5.6 percent in February. Marin County recorded the second lowest rate among Bay Area counties at 3.2 percent, followed by San Francisco County at 3.3 percent, employment officials said.

And for tech workers it's even better. http://www.bizjournals.com/san...

If anyone pulled "lockdown" on me, I'd walk out instantly.

I'm not sure of the cost of the update but... looks like they have at least $1 million to spare since that doesn't include deferred compensation like stock options. Similar compensation for other companies in this area.

That's about 420x the average worker wage in the country btw.

And..

http://www.bizjournals.com/kan... [bizjournals.com]
In just less than eight months, Claure earned $22 million, the paper reports. The data come from Securities and Exchange Commission filings that the Overland Park-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S) filed ahead of its August stockholders meeting.

And that was just the top executive- not the top 25 executives (also available public information).

So now tell me why the industry can't afford to update the software on our devices again?

I'm not sure of the cost of the update but... looks like they have at least $1 million to spare since that doesn't include deferred compensation like stock options. Similar compensation for other companies in this area.

That's about 420x the average worker wage in the country btw.

And..

http://www.bizjournals.com/kan...
In just less than eight months, Claure earned $22 million, the paper reports. The data come from Securities and Exchange Commission filings that the Overland Park-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S) filed ahead of its August stockholders meeting.

Except for those government departments banning iPhones and replacing them with Android wholesale because Apple was supporting terrorists. It makes no sense but anti-intellectualism and religious fervor in this country seems to be making a comeback in a big way.

They aren't. It's a bluff.

Sure they are. Kansas City International contracts with Akal Security for screening services, and had used another private contractor for years prior. There are still a few TSA agents at the airport as Akal works under federal oversight, but the screening personnel themseves are Akal employees. I saw it myself when I flew through there back in November.