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  1. The new floorplan by angelo · · Score: 2 · on JWZ On Music Over The Internet

    I'm more interested in the new floorplan for the club.. I especially like the "leveling of the bottom floor", something I think is due from my visit there before JWZ owned it. I like some of the ideas, like piping beer upstairs instead of lugging kegs, and a dj/band stage on a half-storey to accomodate trainspotting. If the opening night featured Carlos spinning, I'd make a special junket out there for just that..

  2. Re:is anyone else distressed by this: by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3 · on Anti-Dot-Com Slogans Pepper SF
    I find it ridiculous to compare hostility to the newly arrived rich with hostility to blacks and other minorities. But I'll attempt to explain the reason for the hostility a bit more, anyway.

    You don't understand 'tolerance.' Tolerance is a live-and-let-live attitude. If it were a matter of 'oh, I don't like my neighbor's nice new car, I wish it were gone,' it would be a matter of simple resentment. If I don't like my neighbor's sexual practices or hobbies or skin color, that's intolerance. But that's not the problem.

    The problem is an inflationary economy, and the effect on a market when a good sector of the consuming side of the market has a lot more income than another, the local economy will server the former far more than the latter. Food prices skyrocket. Rents and housing go up. Police serve the class in favor over the class that isn't - someone who would have be a functional part of the community 7 years ago is now an 'eyesore' today and hassled by cops. The proliferation of SUVs is a huge problem in a city with a parking crunch, and often present a menace to pedestrians and bicyclists.

    There have been a lot of evictions of poorer residents in order to be able to rent at ridiculously higher rates to new ones (fortunately there is some rent and eviction control, but increasingly landlords are weakening it and making loopholes.) New residents in SOMA, where I live, will move near a nightclub, then complain about the noise, move a lot of political money around, and have the night club closed. (Ask jwz, himself a silicon implant 'gone native,' about this sometime.)

    People are defending an already rare lifestyle, and they are also protecting some of the little character that exists in an increasingly homogenous, franchised country. San Francisco is - or will have been - one of the last urban places with a true sense of place. (Check out jwz's rant on Silicon Valley to see what many people here are trying to prevent.) You are confusing 'tolerance' with 'acquiesence.'