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What a steaming pile of dung. During the same time period, homelessness decreased in California. Seattle elected 2 socialists to the City Council. It's a veritable bonanza of freebie handouts. Mobile heroin shoot up clinics, open air drug sales even on City hall steps, no chase/no confront policies, refuse to ticket or tow stalled/broken down vehicles in streets. Seattle PD is completely hamstrung and unable to enforce laws.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/loc...
Note from the article: 2 hours for PD to respond to a 911 call - hope you don't have any life threatening issues...
Seattle, population $714K has 1400 officers. Boston, population 690K, as over 2000 uniformed officers. The City refuses to spend where it's needed (like $12M per mile bike lanes). Along that same socialist thinking, just last week, the Seattle City Council did an about face and pulled $180M targeted for upgrades to the Mariners Stadium - and want's to put that $180M for homeless housing. even though in 2020, when the stadium is paid off, 30% of the $35M in bond payments no longer needed are already earmarked for homelessness. Consequently the Mariners won't sign the lease renewal. (Anyone want a major base ball team?)

...Danielle says she unplugged all the devices, and she repeatedly called Amazon. She says an Alexa engineer investigated. "They said 'our engineers went through your logs, and they saw exactly what you told us, they saw exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry.' ...

( https://www.kiro7.com/news/loc... ) I wonder what else is in those logs...

Basically, yes. Like these people for instance...

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And now that Seattle is asking Amazon to give a tiny percentage back to help the community that fostered them, they threaten to leave.

This argument would be more compelling if Seattle didn't already collect taxes from Amazon. Amazon already pays quite a lot in taxes. The Seattle city government basically said "We've decided we need even more money, you have money, so hand it over."

When even the extremely liberal Starbucks is complaining, maybe Seattle has gone too far.

Amazon doesn't like this, but it's really going to hurt low-margin businesses like fast food hamburger restaurants. The iconic local hamburger chain, Dick's Drive-in, will never open another location in Seattle, according to the founder's grandson Saul Spady.

"This is a tax on high-volume, low-margin businesses, like restaurants, and that's where it's going to put the most pain. And it's making restaurants like Dick's Drive-ins think really strongly about do we make our workforce more efficient, do we give less money to charity, or maybe we just don't be a business in Seattle."

Spady cites Denver's head tax equivalent, the Occupational Privilege Tax, saying, "If the nearest, largest head tax in the country is $50 and [Seattle's is] six times the nearest head tax, how is that a compromise?"

But at least Seattle didn't already do something crazy like pass a $15 per hour minimum wage law! Oh wait... yes they did.

If a city council giving orders truly leads to prosperity and happiness, then Seattle will be prosperous and happy. I fear it doesn't work that way.

That sham-diversity is even a banner to rally around instead of merit is one of the reasons that this guy wrote what he did. Hire the best, don't hire the paraplegic-trangender-black-lesbian because it makes you look good in your social circles.

Because at the end of the road, the same ones who are promoting that person to be hired for their non-abilities, will also be promoting segregation in order to protect their special little groups whether it be by race/sex/insertspecialthing. As we've seen over the last year and change at universities, and I'm pretty damn sure that we went through this garbage in the 1960's and 1970's. But some people sure seem to be up to bring it back.

Even this person is mis-characterizing the memo. He didn't say don't hire the women and minorities, he said that the men might have needs also. You have a mentoring program, but white men are not allowed in, only women and minorities. He didn't say that the traits that women might have more commonly than men make them worse, he said it makes them prefer other fields of work. He even spoke of ways to make programming better for them by helping it fit to the traits they have.

That sham-diversity is even a banner to rally around instead of merit is one of the reasons that this guy wrote what he did. Hire the best, don't hire the paraplegic-trangender-black-lesbian because it makes you look good in your social circles.

Because at the end of the road, the same ones who are promoting that person to be hired for their non-abilities, will also be promoting segregation in order to protect their special little groups whether it be by race/sex/insertspecialthing. As we've seen over the last year and change at universities, and I'm pretty damn sure that we went through this garbage in the 1960's and 1970's. But some people sure seem to be up to bring it back.

For anyone still wondering why the snooper charter is a very very bad idea... and this is only a single problem out of a huge list.
Here's what to expect:

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/...
http://animalnewyork.com/2014/...
http://www.kiro7.com/news/inve...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...
http://wncn.com/2016/02/10/nc-...
https://psmag.com/when-your-st...

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Most of these are coming directly from security agencies and the police itself, but what do people think will happen once ISPs and multiple governmental agencies are able to log content from Internet users? Be prepared folks. It's not about only about you doing bad and questionable things. It's specially about all the people with access to your private lives willing to ruin it or turn it into a profitable business.

You mean like refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, because you find homosexuality morally abhorrent?

Lesbians are a protected class. People who bake cakes are not.

Well, hang on. Google/Wikipedia says sexual orientation is protected under employment laws, per the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As for other areas, there are lawsuits in the works. Such as this one going to the Washington State Supreme Court today.

Half of the people I know are voting for Bernie as a write in or for Jill Stein.

Half of the people you know are idiots.

http://www.kiro7.com/news/loca...

Write-in votes for individual candidates are only hand tallied if the total number of write-in votes may be enough to make a difference in the outcome of the race.

That's literally throwing your vote away.

Sure, you can have your manual car. We'll just make it illegal to drive it anywhere.

Government officials excluding manual cars from freeways.