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In the bay area, you can be making $105,000 per year (for a family of four) and be considered low income. In other parts of the country that income would rate a friggin' mansion. California has a screwed up real estate market and view of poverty.

Except they insist that the rest of the US bend to their will in all things, without exception. There won't be any high density Syrian refugee build-outs appearing in this neighborhood, but the rest of the US is racist when it objects to the same.

The state of California has taken more Syrian refugees than another state (source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...).

The bay area itself has taken a number of refugees (source: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...), although the exact number is unlikely to ever be huge due to the extreme cost-ineffectiveness: why would anybody relocate people into one of the most expensive housing markets in the world?

You mean the desert? It's always been like that.

There are none so dumb as the wilfully ignorant:
An epic heat wave that swept through the Bay Area on Friday smashed records -- including the all-time recorded high in San Francisco -- and promises more of the same on Saturday, with places like Livermore and Concord perhaps seeing the mercury rise even higher.

See that: "all-time recorded high in San Francisco"

So, no. Not the desert.

The Santa Clara County Office of Education on Wednesday agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by parents who alleged their special-needs child was abused for months by his teacher — even after classroom aides complained to the principal about the treatment. Among other things, the aides alleged that the then 11-year-old nonverbal student was enclosed in a "cell block" of bookshelves, belted onto a chair, induced to vomit, shoved and violently jerked around by his clothing, according to a letter they sent to school administrators and parents. The letter — which was included in the lawsuit — pleaded with administrators to act in the 2013 case at Bertha Taylor School.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/08/2-million-settlement-in-alleged-abuse-by-santa-clara-county-schools/

After all these decades, Special Ed haven't changed that much from when I was a student.

The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.

The assumption is that 28% of their employees will take public transportation. Where does that number come from? I would assume it's because that's what their employees do now.
"Currently, the main Apple campus has a 28 percent transportation demand management rate, which means that 28 percent of employees at that campus use an alternate mode of transportation, other than a single-occupancy vehicle,"

My observation, which you seem to have entirely missed, is that the number of people that take public transport changes from day to day. The limits of that variation is what matters. It's not a fixed number. Few things are.

The assumption that 28% of people will take public transport is wrong. When there is bad weather, more people take their car. When there are events, more people from outside the company visit the campus. So the number varies a lot and then unless you've catered for the worst case, you run out of parking spots.

The assumption is that 28% of their employees will take public transportation. Where does that number come from? I would assume it's because that's what their employees do now. "Currently, the main Apple campus has a 28 percent transportation demand management rate, which means that 28 percent of employees at that campus use an alternate mode of transportation, other than a single-occupancy vehicle,"

The opposite should be true. After all, the "woman are wonderful effect" is very well known. Both men and woman have an unconscious pro-bias towards woman as well. Ranging from social to material interests. But you can look all over society and find cases where this isn't true because of the problems it brings.

And those problems? You can thank false allegations, socjus, fake sexual harassment, cases like this or Ellen Pao and the ability of a woman to destroy your career and life over a false claim. I'll bet that nearly every person that reads this comment and is currently working in a corporate environment of some kind has seen the shift where men leave doors open, or have one or more individuals in the same room with them when talking to a woman. There's a reason for it.

And it's to the point where that even if proven false in the court of law that a man's choices are commit suicide or try to work through it, by picking up and moving to another part of the world to try and start over. It's not worth the trouble, and this is a result of people trying to limit and protect themselves from a potential fallout. I'm sure someone is going to bring up a "but it really doesn't destroy them..." No? Find anyone who's been the subject of a false claim, and you'll find a person who's lost friends, family, career, connections, and are ostracized even when innocent, the person recanted, or was dismissed by the courts with prejudice against the accuser.

Feds approve $647 million grant for Caltrain electrification project http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/22/federal-fta-grant-caltrain-electrification/

San Francisco Bay Area police departments have been using this technology for years.

ShotSpotter has been used for several years in six Bay Area cities. Police say ShotSpotter has helped them respond more quickly to crime scenes and capture suspects, and provide court evidence to solve homicide cases. Oakland police started using the gunshot detection technology in 2006; it now covers 80 percent of the city, said Capt. Ersie Joyner.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/11/11/shotspotter-has-long-history-with-bay-area-police/

What cities,regions are shattering the records? I bet you can't even name one?

SF Bay Area? It happened 2 days ago.

http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

Although many Californians think that population growth is the main driver of water demand statewide, it actually is agriculture. In an average year, farmers use 80 percent of the water consumed by people and businesses — 34 million of 43 million acre-feet diverted from rivers, lakes and groundwater, according to the state Department of Water Resources.

“Cities would be inconvenienced greatly and suffer some. Smaller cities would get it worse, but farmers would take the biggest hit,” said Maurice Roos, the department’s chief hydrologist. “Cities can always afford to spend a lot of money to buy what water is left.”

Roos, who has worked at the department since 1957, said the prospect of megadroughts is another reason to build more storage — both underground and in reservoirs — to catch rain in wet years.

In a megadrought, there would be much less water in the Delta to pump. Farmers’ allotments would shrink to nothing. Large reservoirs like Shasta, Oroville and San Luis would eventually go dry after five or more years of little or no rain.

Farmers would fallow millions of acres, letting row crops die first. They’d pump massive amounts of groundwater to keep orchards alive, but eventually those wells would go dry. And although deeper wells could be dug, the costs could exceed the value of their crops. Banks would refuse to loan the farmers money.

The federal government would almost certainly provide billions of dollars in emergency aid to farm communities.

“Some small towns in the Central Valley would really suffer. They would basically go away,” said Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis.

“But agriculture is only 3 percent of California’s economy today,” Lund said. “In the main urban economy, most people would learn to live with less water. It would be expensive and inconvenient, but we’d do it.”

Farmers with senior water rights would make a huge profit, he noted, selling water at sky-high prices to cities. Food costs would rise, but there wouldn’t be shortages, Lund said, because Californians already buy lots of food from other states and countries and would buy even more from them.

In urban areas, most cities would eventually see water rationing at 50 percent of current levels. Golf courses would shut down. Cities would pass laws banning watering or installing lawns, which use half of most homes’ water. Across the state, rivers and streams would dry up, wiping out salmon runs. Cities would race to build new water supply projects, similar to the $50 million wastewater recycling plant that the Santa Clara Valley Water District is now constructing in Alviso.

"I am always faster when using a tool I designed myself"

Faster at what? Running a company into the ground? Firing male workers? Complaining of sexism?

HUD says if you make less than 103K$ you are "poor"... http://www.mercurynews.com/201... I'm glad my buddy DJ in Southeast Oklahoma busts his ass to cut firewood and feed people's cows, fix fences, do brush and tractor work so he can ship money off to "poor" people in the SF BA via his tax return. I'll make sure to call him on his feature phone in the land of zero data bars to tell him this. Maybe y'all will be able to hear his head explode from the coasts. I'll call at noon Central time tomorrow, let's see if the call gets through.

made by big SV companies was an obvious antitrust violation, but a non-compete agreement signed by the two biggest CATV companies regarding mobile phone services is not?

#MakeAmericaGreatAgain
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While I disagree with the mockery of the dead, 170k salary and 4k rent is far far better than the typical American 45k salary and 1k rent.

You need to rethink your assessment of his income and quality of life.

A 170k salary in SF equates to roughly 8k monthly income (after taxes, 401k, benefits contribution). Of that 8k, in SF and close to SF, 4k will go directly to rent. Add to that utilities etc, and you'll be looking at 4300. That leaves 3700. Add a car payment ($300), car insurance ($100) and preschool for 1 child (~$800) and now you have $2500 left for a family of 4.

Don't look at the gross income, look at disposable income. See also this: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

San Francisco and San Mateo counties have the highest limits in the Bay Area - and among the highest such numbers in the country. A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered "low income."

Yes, you read that right. A 6 figure income can qualify as "low income" based on ALL the factors.

Ah yes, watching that movie few months ago and like "Inner Space" to see what Silicon Valley and SF was like back in the days even hyped by the movies.

But wait, this is not the first airship to be based at Moffett in the 21st century. There was a Zeppelin regular people can buy rides though expensive in order of $500. The "Eureka" was debuted at 75th anniversary of Moffett Field in 2008 and at the time it was the only airship you can buy tickets to ride in (others like Goodyear blimp you have to be a crew member). This startup only lasted a few years. I wished I plunked down some money because this thing would slowly cruise around the bay area and you can walk around and get a good aerial view. Can't do that with airliners as you only get a 30 seconds of view. Or if rich enough for your own airplane or helicopter (but kind of noisy). SETI people rented it for scouting Sierra Nevada foothills for meteoroid remains in 2012. Airship can take its time slowly cruising over the area. Helicopters are short duration, fixed wing too fast. Overall, airships have a niche market but maybe too small to scale up to huge numbers.

I must have been spending too much time on the forums to noticed this Google airship has been around as described in this 2015 article of Hanger 2, http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

I know what you're saying. But the big question is, why did the Yahoo Board of Directors make such a HUGE mistake.

A few of the Marissa Meyer stories, over several years. Major problems were reported almost 5 years ago:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations (Jul. 17, 2012) Quote: "She used to make people line up outside of her office, sit on couches and sign up with office hours with her. Then everybody had to publicly sit outside her office and she would see people in five minute increments. She would make VPs at Google wait for her. It's like you've got to be kidding."

Yahoo! CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go - RealMoney.com (Oct. 21, 2015)

Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership - Forbes (Nov. 20, 2015) Five reasons people don't like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (Oct. 7, 2016)

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male employees, lawsuit charges (Oct. 6, 2016)

How was Marissa Mayer viewed within Google? - Quora

What made Marissa Mayer an incompetent CEO? - Quora

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Thoroughly Failed on Promise to Not Screw Up Tumblr (Jun. 16 2016)

I know what you're saying. But the big question is, why did the Yahoo Board of Directors make such a HUGE mistake.

A few of the Marissa Meyer stories, over several years. Major problems were reported almost 5 years ago:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations (Jul. 17, 2012) Quote: "She used to make people line up outside of her office, sit on couches and sign up with office hours with her. Then everybody had to publicly sit outside her office and she would see people in five minute increments. She would make VPs at Google wait for her. It's like you've got to be kidding."

Yahoo! CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go - RealMoney.com (Oct. 21, 2015)

Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership - Forbes (Nov. 20, 2015) Five reasons people don't like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (Oct. 7, 2016)

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male employees, lawsuit charges (Oct. 6, 2016)

How was Marissa Mayer viewed within Google? - Quora

What made Marissa Mayer an incompetent CEO? - Quora

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Thoroughly Failed on Promise to Not Screw Up Tumblr (Jun. 16 2016)

2 more felonies - now total 3 felonies; 3 strikes rule kicks in and they're gone for life for being down an out and a bad desperate choice.

Bullshit. California has the toughest 3-strikes law in the country, and even there two of the three felonies must be serious or violent crimes.

Kelly Turner went to prison for life for writing a bad check, but the other two convictions were for armed robbery, not "missing an appointment".

America's prison system has many serious problems. The reality is bad enough without you making up nonsense.

$21/hour is basically $2,800/month take home after taxes, with no other withholdings (401k, medical, etc.). In the Bay Area where your rent is likely to be $2,500 a month even in Oakland or the South Bay, yeah, that's shitty pay. You would be forced to have a roommate or a spouse just to eat, much less find a way to get from your 'cheap' apartment in the South Bay to Fremont so you can bust your ass all day assembling cars.

Furthermore, that program was intended to be a money loser. The idea was to invest in high-risk technologies that wallstreet wouldn't touch because they had no risk models for brand new tech in a brand new market. The expectation was that the price of whatever losses the loan program took would be outweighed by the social good of jumpstarting cutting-edge tech. Like Tesla, which paid back their loan 10 years ahead of schedule. So, a $5 billion dollar profit is just icing on the cake.

"genderqueer", whatever that is

"Genderqueer" just means "doesn't fit neatly into any other gender categories", "queer" being in the older sense of "weird".

Sounds like a form of Special Snowflake Syndrome.

Facebook now has over 50 ways of defining your gender. If a person feels that none of those groups fits them well enough for them to be comfortable identifying with it, I find it somewhat amusing their solution is to come up with a whole new term that doesn't have any qualifications. Here's a brilliant idea -- don't answer the question at all. Just like I choose "prefer not to answer" on customer service surveys that ask about my household income, you can choose not to discuss your gender (or lack thereof) at all if you don't want to be pigeonholed.

Trying to label yourself as "unclassifiable" reeks the same level of stuck-up I get from hipster music groups that don't want to admit they're Folk Rock.

Every time someone posts that "California pays for all the mid-country rednecks" , I feel like the internet gets stupider.

http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

California doesn't pay for the rest of the economy. California has been so deep in debt from spending money it doesn't have that it can't even count the debt anymore. Here's an in-depth look at California's state finances: https://ballotpedia.org/Califo....

The Feds throw California another 30% on top of their budget, and they their arrears are astonishing.

I'm not anti-California or pro-anywhere-else.... but Jesus. Find something worth bragging on. It's not California's Revenue vs. Expenditures or money management skills - because the only competition California has for financial mismanagement is New York and Detroit.

Is it not an even douche-baggier thing to do to dump lava onto someone else's property to keep them off of it, than to buy up every piece of surrounding property and try to prevent their access by blocking the easements that are required to prevent just such a thing?

It seems like a common thing for rich douche-bags to attempt to commandeer public property like...

* Vinod Khosla (martin's beach), or
* Warren Lent, Simon/Daniel Mani, and David Geffen (malibu beach)

It's not stretch for rich douche-bags to think they can outspend/outlawyer a lowly citizen...

FWIW this shit happens all the time. Sadly I got to see this when I was young, when my father bought some property to build a house, but unbeknownst to us at the time, a big real-estate developer who was mad that he didn't get the property, quickly bought an adjacent ~1-foot strip wide easement next to the property to prevent access from the nearest street in hopes to convince my dad to sell him the property. Fortunately, my dad was able to negotiate street access through an adjacent subdivision on the other side, rendering his strip-property worthless (a couple years later, he quit-claim titled the strip to my dad to avoid being required by the city to make sidewalk improvements all along his 1-foot wide easement next to street).

This is not as straightforward as you would make it out. Lawsuits and other tactics to slow or stop development are a known problem in the state of California. Holding up a dedicated left turn signal for a year to a beach because of an environmental impact is lunacy, and that is how the authorities saw it.

When such actions create artificial distortions and impact others negatively, their right to impose such problems on others stops.

For something that *costs* about $8, even $100 is not "super cheap"... http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

Read this horrific story from UC Santa Cruz about 80k books being destroyed or sent elsewhere, it sounds like most from the science library...

What the purge rules overlook, and this article points out is that a lot of reference books are never checked out - they are looked at, something gleaned from the contents, and then put back where they were without a librarian being involved. As a result some books people did use from year to year are purged. And in this story at least you can't even get a list of what they threw out, because it was "lost"...

So do whatever you have to do noble librarians to fight the power and the Purge.

http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

"Cupertino-based Apple now has about 25,000 employees in the Santa Clara Valley, but a series of long-term leases and building and land acquisitions over the past four years, including its new under-construction "spaceship" campus for as many as 13,000 workers, would allow the company to nearly double that workforce in the coming years." source.

Yes, Apple gets the majority of its revenues from outside the US, but still most design & software development is done in the US.

Threaten to kill the President-elect: It was just a joke
Physically attack another girl for posting a pro-Trump message on social media: We don’t want a mistake during a highly emotional and intense time to affect her long-term future

Claim that someone pulled on your hijab with no physical evidence: We will Not Tolerate “Hate Crimes” in San José

You may not, but the problem is that too many of the politicians you vote for do. HRC is on record many times this campaign saying she wants to see the "Australian model" implemented in the US. That means forced confiscation of all personally owned firearms under the guise of "buybacks." The buybacks are mandatory, and you go to prison is you don't comply.

Here's a list of politicians talking about confiscating guns, just from a short period in 2013:

Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...

New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breit...

Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-...

VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/201...

NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/ba...

Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...

CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bre...

And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Do you notice any common political party among the people calling for confiscation?

The only shopping mall that they have in Cupertino has no stores, unable to compete with other shopping malls in the region. No stores = no sales tax. The newest proposal is to convert the shopping mall into a mix development of shops and housing. With the new Apple HQ down the street, it makes sense to throw in more housing. However, less sales tax.

http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_29822286/vallco-mall-empties-out-tenants-begin-settle-elsewhere

Hmmm .. from Apple's new headquarters gains approval of Cupertino City Council back in 2013

The Cupertino City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to reduce the annual tax break it gives Apple (AAPL) -- America's most valuable company by market capitalization, with a net income last year of $41.7 billion -- by 15 percent. Having wrung that concession from its richest corporate resident, the council then voted unanimously to give its final blessing to Apple's proposed new headquarters. The spaceship-shaped building has now officially landed.

Back in 1997, when Apple was on the verge of collapse, the city agreed to return 50 percent of the taxes generated each year from Apple's business-to-business sales as a way to help maintain the company's health and, more importantly, its Cupertino address.

Sounds like someone made a deal with the devil and now has a bit of buyers remorse.

To do that you have to look at the history of climates to see what the patterns are in the first place.

I fully agree.

http://www.mercurynews.com/sci...

And the last drought was due to a strong La Nina, as they often are. California has had horrendous droughts, some of which have lasted for centuries, over the last 2000 years. Climates always are changing, and California's has actually been comparatively benign (for California) for most of the last 160 years, with the exception of the Great Dust Bowl years and a few other minidroughts that are more or less identical to the one just ended, or at least paused, by the strong El Nino.

The problem with the AGW assertions -- a problem so severe that they changed the entire assertion to ACC ("climate change", not "global warming") is that it is very, very difficult to separate anecdotes from statistically meaningful evidence. Indeed, the only other human discipline that seems to incorporate a worse rate of anecdotal assertion as statistical truth is -- maybe -- health care. Maybe not! A second, closely related problem is the near impossibility of separating out causal factors for any statistically meaningful change that is observed. Is the CA drought caused by or part of -- note the separate assertions:

a) Anthropogenic (specifically, caused by anthropogenic CO2, not other anthropogenic silliness like land use change or oversubscribing the water supply ten times over)
b) Global (not local -- part of a global, statistically discernible pattern and not a local anecdote)
c) Warming and/or Climate Change?

How can one even begin to answer this question? Is the drought different in magnitude, duration, timing, from any of the ten odd droughts that have occurred over the period of scientific records? Is it exceptional on the basis of e.g. tree ring data? Even if "exceptional", is it truly a statistical outlier or just at the level of statistical noise and the imperfection of records, truly indistinguishable from many of the past droughts? Is it part of a pattern of increasing drought? And even if it is exceptional, part of a pattern, an outlier, is it caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the specific sense that if humans had done everything else that they did to California -- tap the available water to support far more people than the land should support, plant huge farms, cover vast stretches of countryside with roads and malls and houses -- but done it without burning anything so CO2 was still order of 300 ppm, there would be no La Nina associated droughts, or those droughts would not be so severe?

We have answers to some of these questions. The drought was not particularly exceptional, and its impact was greatly enhanced by non-CO2 (but anthropogenic) factors, specifically the fact that California is carrying far more people than it should given its history of being mostly desert for most of the last 2000 years. We have no possible way to answer others, specifically the attribution to anthropogenic CO2.

But that never stops the media, politicians, and even some scientists who should know better from doing it anyway. The study in the top article is remarkable in that it states something that most people have long since observed and noted even without the help of "Science". The climate today is far better than it was 60 years ago, or 100 years ago, or 150 years ago. It is much closer to a climate "optimum" that the Earth was during the Little Ice Age. It isn't just humans that have benefited, either. The entire biosphere is -- on average -- far better off. The planet was starved for CO2 in the middle of the Wisconsin glaciation -- levels dropped to the edge of mass extinction for certain classes of respiring plants.

Here's a thought for the day. Of the world's seven billion people, one billion will dine today courtesy of the additional plant growth d

It's important to remember this argument isn't about encryption, but rather what a company and/or individuals rights are with regards to their encrypted data. Apple's horribly designed and implemented anti-theft system was actually enforced by California law. This kill switch on the encrypted data is the problem. Again, this kill switch only exists because Apple apparently selectively decides when they will follow intrusive laws. The kill switch is what Apple was served a warrant to help the FBI navigate, not the encryption.

Because bad guys never go to restaurants?

$50K? Ha! BART has a strong union - the top paid train operator makes $150K (including benefits) BART salarys consistently outrank salaries at other area transit providers.

Not to mention these cushy jobs are extremely difficult to get, for outsiders.

math challenged? the thyristors are $1K each. if an operator makes $50K then firing each one nets 50 thyristors.

$50K? Ha! BART has a strong union - the top paid train operator makes $150K (including benefits) BART salarys consistently outrank salaries at other area transit providers.

...when all their money is going to high salaries and benefits for union employees?

Over 200 BART employees earned over $200,000 a year in total compensation...

Those look mostly like executives, which are definitely NOT Union positions. The Unions are the ones trying to get some of that executive salary down to the real workers.

...when all their money is going to high salaries and benefits for union employees?

Over 200 BART employees earned over $200,000 a year in total compensation...

The world now knows about PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and how helpful US brands can be.
This will just make domestic collect it all legal in open domestic courts. No more parallel construction, raw signals intelligence from any phone is US court ready.
Re "It will only be used once and once it exists they won't be forced to repeat or release the tool"
Apple reveals other FBI demands for iPhone unlocking around U.S. (02/23/2016 )
http://www.mercurynews.com/cri...

There are irate posters on both sides. Scientists, those that continue to review the evidence and not assume they are correct when an association has not satisfied all criteria for proof of causation, would note that California had 200 year long droughts when Heidelberg first started as a university, long before the industrial revolution or little ice age. Then the weather/climate would rapidly shift.

Climate science is far from settled. Most of the peer-reviewed papers are cautious in their conclusions. Most of the journalists that misreport and misunderstand the conclusions in the abstracts resort to calling people religious terms like 'deniers.'

Worthless Stone Age native activists in Hawaii have managed to sabotage construction of the 30 Meter Telescope.

This guy probably wished he had a radio.

can you please FIX THE FUCKING POTHOLES???

This is in Los Angeles. There is no freeze-thaw cycle there, and as a result, few potholes. I live in San Jose, 350 miles north of LA, and even here there are very few potholes.

Not sure if serious

Meanwhile, many more licenses will be issued specifically to those who can't follow simple rules.

Hi Mr. APK. You're the coding community's equivalent of this person:
http://www.mercurynews.com/pen...

You should check into a mental health institution. They have useful meds for people like you.

And a much newer article from the same site with data that this is the worst drought in at least 1200 years:

http://www.mercurynews.com/dro...

Yeah because that doesn't happen anyway
http://www.mercurynews.com/sci...

But hey never let a good crisis go to waste, when you can lie to move your agenda.