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LOL! -- The first result lists Deepak Chopra as a researcher! I bet his fans would quote this research anyway. All your points are valid, but being on the fringe, being weird, not disclosing exactly how the journals are included are the kinds of things that ask more questions that hopefully lead down the path of the scientific method, rather than into the network of social media forwards and retweets.

Even if it's dicey research, it's hopefully research someone can reproduce, point to similar studies, or point out methodological flaws, hopefully educating others who are listening along for the ride as to the scientific method's purpose/function/error-handling. It's not so that scientists can push their ideas to make the big bucks, except, ironically, in Wakefield's case.

Rubin: Trump has made it kosher for anti-Semitism to reenter the American mainstream - There has been a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic acts in the United States in 2017 over 2016.

Manning will always be 10+ times the man Kendall ever was

Is that because Manning hangs out with noted hate group founder Gavin "I'll prove I'm not gay by shoving this dildo up my ass" McInnes and the absolutely retarded Mike Cernobitch?

considering that you are well below the poverty line for your area that's quite remarkable

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

have you quit your silver stacking nonsense or stopped your funko pop collecting

The state is already running PG&E. Fixing prices on energy, denying the building of profitable power plants, extreme regulation of labor, supply and demand. Now they're bankrupt while across the country energy companies are some of the most profitable businesses.

Nope. "PG&E said its 2017 net profit was up 18 percent from a year earlier at $1.65 billion, but its 2017 revenue of $17.14 billion was down 3 percent over the same period." The simple truth is that if they weren't starting fires, PGE would be immensely profitable. But they didn't do what they were required to do, and now they're being held accountable. And they had the money to do it, but they instead gave the top executives big raises, and paid a substantial profit to shareholders (mostly blackrock, vanguard, and state street.)

The simplest explanation for the numbers is that they have more than enough money to do this maintenance, but they are choosing not to.

The state is already running PG&E. Fixing prices on energy, denying the building of profitable power plants, extreme regulation of labor, supply and demand. Now they're bankrupt while across the country energy companies are some of the most profitable businesses.

Nope. "PG&E said its 2017 net profit was up 18 percent from a year earlier at $1.65 billion, but its 2017 revenue of $17.14 billion was down 3 percent over the same period." The simple truth is that if they weren't starting fires, PGE would be immensely profitable. But they didn't do what they were required to do, and now they're being held accountable. And they had the money to do it, but they instead gave the top executives big raises, and paid a substantial profit to shareholders (mostly blackrock, vanguard, and state street.)

The simplest explanation for the numbers is that they have more than enough money to do this maintenance, but they are choosing not to.

PG&E is exactly what an economist would tell you will happen when government sets a price ceiling and supply isn't allowed to be reduced to compensate.

That, sir, is a load of hot cockery.

PG&E said its 2017 net profit was up 18 percent from a year earlier at $1.65 billion, but its 2017 revenue of $17.14 billion was down 3 percent over the same period.

So just to be clear, even after paying millions of dollars to executives who weren't doing their jobs, PGE was able to turn a profit of $1.65 billion up 18% from the prior year even though their revenues had fallen! How do you think they managed that? As long as they are failing to maintain infrastructure as they are legally obligated to do, every single dollar of that profit represents an effective theft from The People, let alone their customers.

In exchange for their various right-of-way monopolies, maintenance vehicle access and the like, they are obligated to maintain the infrastructure in safe condition, and do business in a fair manner. They are doing neither. PGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people who reside or even simply have financial interests in the area which they "serve". And beyond that: it has killed in the past, it has killed recently, and it will kill again. And those responsible will almost certainly not only face no punishment, but get to retain the majority of their ill-gotten gains.

Well, in their defense, they had to pocket most of that money so they could funnel millions and millions of dollars in bribes-er-contributions to Jerry Brown and other "elected officials" so they would appoint the right people to those $142,000/year CPUC positions...

Not just let them fail (which we should), but then fire every single sitting CPUC member, and bar them for life from ever running for public office or working for the State Government. CPUC is supposed to oversee these kinds of things - and they sit around earning $142,000 per year. Of course, it's a great way to get paybacks from the Governor (who appoints them), and when you have millions and millions getting funneled from the utilities into the Governor's mansion, well - you tend to put people into the CPUC who will do the bidding of the utility. Toss them all out - even the hand-picked "heir" to the Governor's mansion.

How about PUC do its damn job and watch over the utilities that it regulates, rather than take millions in campaign donations and illegal activities? Oh - it's because even Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown was involved in the scandals... Yeah, let the State regulate everything about the utility, let the utilities buy-off the regulators and Governor - and then when the SHTF, blame the CEO - and not the elected officials. Here's a hint: don't reward the bastards in Sacramento in the first place, by re-electing them (or electing their chosen heir) to their positions.

The UK is the size of a postage stamp compared to the USA. Literally the only part of the UK with population density as low as the US is the Pitcairn islands. California is a large state (e.g. England is 57% as large as California alone) and the regions that have just burned are hilly to mountainous. In fact, the round of fires before this last one occured mostly within the Mendocino national Forest. And all of them have been in severe earthquake country, which is pretty much all of California except the Klamath knot. That means frequent service, which means burial of cables becomes a bigger problem.

We bury lines where it is convenient. This problem was caused by pge skipping routine maintenance (cutting back trees which encroach on power lines) because doing so would encroach upon executive compensation. These people aren't doing their jobs, they don't deserve pay let alone bonuses. And since not doing their jobs has killed people and destroyed towns, they should really be prosecuted for manslaughter, destruction of property, and willful negligence all at once.

They're basically required to service areas that will never be profitable

Just take a look at this helpful link someone provided me, PG&E with uninsulated conductors in the middle of a forest!

Even if they are required to service areas they cannot make a profit on (which I question if it's actually all that true, but leave that to the side). Even if, there is no excuse for shoddy line work like this.

Electric companies in PLENTY of other states manage to run power lines to lots poorer areas than California has, in dry conditions without shoddy work like this and without causing fires.

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

San Francisco Orchestra Minimum Salary 141K average 171K

In addition to what epine said, California's tech industry is over 40% foreign-born. Any candidate who runs on an anti-immigrant platform (even if it's only bluster and dog whistling) could be seen as an existential threat to the sector as a whole.

Should pedestrians and public transit riders be forced to pay taxes for large freeways?

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

As a percentage of the pump price:

42%: oil
27%: transportation, refining, retailing and profit
13% state excise tax
6%: federal tax
4%: cap and trade tax
4%: other state and local tax
3% cleaner-burning fuel (what the hell does that mean?)
1%: low carbon fuel source (what the hell does that mean)

That's at least 27% tax. Might be 31% tax, depending on what "cleaning-burning fuel" and "low carbon fuel source" mean.

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

This is completely false.

In fact, some cities that depend on traffic ticket revenues are being hurt severely by Uber. They depend on those drunk driving arrests and tickets for revenue, and that revenue is dropping precipitously.

https://www.miamiherald.com/ne...

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

I get it. You hate Uber. You are going to shill away, no matter what reality says. But lets get real, worst case scenario, Uber is just another cab company. If they are bad in the ways that you believe, they'll crater on their own, without any need for FUD spreading.

Most did not vote for him because they like him, but because they hate the utter hypocrisy, corruption, and inefficiency of the standard political class. [...] people have rational decisions as to why they do what they do.

The problem with your argument is that there is nothing rational about voting for Trump because you are against hypocrisy, corruption, or inefficiency — because Trump's whole life has been based on those things. He says things about revering women, but he abuses them and has raped at least one, by definition if not conviction. He runs businesses into the ground deliberately in schemes which leave him holding the bag and his investors holding their dicks. And his repeated bankruptcies have cost us all money, due to the many court proceedings which decreased the efficiency of the legal system. Supporting Trump because you don't approve of the status quo is cutting off your face to spite your face. And the proof is in the pudding, because Trump voters are hurt most by Trump's policies.

Trump voters want to believe that they are as intelligent as other voters, so they are defending their decision to vote for Trump to the bitter end in spite of the ample evidence that it was a terrible idea, since Trump as president is actually worse than the status quo. This is known as cognitive dissonance.

I am not a Clinton fan. I am not even inclined to give her a pass on her email server. However, Trump is provably worse as president than Clinton would have been. He is literally a worse president than Richard Nixon.

Trying to reach Trump voters who refuse to acknowledge reality is a fat waste of time. The goal now is to reach people who didn't bother to vote, and convince them to vote against Trump to avoid more of this shit-show.

TL;DR: Voting for Trump because you don't like corruption is goddamned stupid, and no amount of polishing makes a turd into a diamond.

The other important factor with libraries is that books don't suddenly disappear en-masse

Unfortunately, that's not true. Many university libraries have been removing (or destroying) the books en-masse. See

https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/24/montgomery-on-ucscs-outrageous-mass-destruction-of-books/

and

http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/shelf-space-university-libraries-move-toward-workspaces-digital-collections/article_ffe3448f-e6d7-5e30-9129-1505b51caf63.html

Sort of. The actual decommissioning costs have turned out to be up to two orders of magnitude more than the cost originally estimated.

So current rate payers are basically paying the decommissioning costs while people 20-40 years ago got unrealistically cheap nuclear power.

Oh... and (at least so far), we don't have to pay $8 million dollars a year (for just one site) to protect the windmills from being stolen by terrorists to build a dirty bomb.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

  German utility E.ONâ(TM)s breakup has led to worries that funds set aside for decommissioning reactors will not suffice, but globally the cost of unwinding nuclear is uncertain as estimates range widely.

As ageing first-generation reactors close, the true cost of decommissioning will be crucial for the future of the nuclear industry, already ailing following the 2011 Fukushima disaster and competition from cheap shale gas, falling oil prices and a flood of renewable energy from wind and solar.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) said late last year that almost 200 of the 434 reactors in operation around the globe would be retired by 2040, and estimated the cost of decommissioning them at more than $100 billion.

But many experts view this figure as way too low, because it does not include the cost of nuclear waste disposal and long-term storage and because decommissioning costs - often a decade or more away - vary hugely per reactor and by country.

âoeHalf a billion dollars per reactor for decommissioning is no doubt vastly underestimated,â said Mycle Schneider, a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant.

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
Diablo Canyon costs warning issued while higher PG&E bills loom

https://www.reuters.com/articl...
According to Paul Genoa, director of policy development of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group for the nuclear power industry, decommissioning costs typically run at $500 million per unit. But actual costs vary based on the plantâ(TM)s size and design, and some have reached over $1 billion â" between 10 percent and 25 percent of the cost of constructing a nuclear reactor today. ...
The original decommissioning cost was estimated at $719 million; the company spent nearly $1.2 billion in the end. ...

https://www.iaee.org/documents...
A series of abstracts with information on further studies.

Even the biggest assholes are capable of doing a good interview. Especially those who are sociopaths, those dudes are downright likable as long as they get their way. But as soon as people aren't giving them what they want, they start acting like persecuted little children.

Musk loses his shit whenever there is a hint of criticism.

He treated his wife like an employee.
He fired his PA in the most dickish way possible after when she asked for a raise after 12 years
He used underpaid illegal immigrant labor to build his factory.
He uses illegal union-busting tactics.

In parts of California, they wanted to outfit garbage trucks with license plate readers as well: https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
Even more pervasive, since garbage trucks drive by each and every residential address, every week.

Here's some data: by an informal count of gender-recognizable top 1000 kernel contributors to Linux kernel I did several years ago, there were 8 women (I recognize western and slavic names, first names I didn't recognize were skipped). A more thorough count of all "key" packages (as defined by testing migration criteria) in Debian Stretch, where I tried to guess gender based on first name, ldap, ~60 seconds of web search for that person -- shown 0.9% of last uploaders being female, with each female having only 60% packages on the average (although, with low population of data, this last figure might be not significant enough).

your data is interesting. You go on to make a conclusion, however, that is not based in any way on that data. You conclude "Thus, I believe this is approximately the natural gender ratio of skilled software engineers." However, your data would just as reasonably fit a conclusion "Thus, I believe that there are things in the software community that discriminate against women and drive women away from the community."

Like, perhaps, constant and unrelenting harassment:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/06/brotopia-emily-chang-tech-sexual-harassment/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/28/google-lawsuit-sexual-harassment-bro-culture
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-silicon-valley-so-awful-to-women/517788/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/23/google-bro-culture-led-to-violence-sexual-harassment-against-female-engineer-lawsuit-alleges/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html

Since one of the things he was objecting to was a code of conduct saying
Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to: Violent threats or language directed against another person. Discriminatory jokes and language. Posting sexually explicit or violent material. Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”). Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms. Unwelcome sexual attention. Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.

I think he doesn't have any interest in solving this problem.

Another data point for how well Google engages users:

Tesla isn’t the only Silicon Valley tech giant with a bad BBB rating. Google currently has a “D.” But last week it had an “F.” The Mountain View company typically responds to complaints periodically, so its rating goes up and down, McFarland said.

No matter how good it gets, someone will always sue, claiming it isn't perfect. The law needs to be adjusted to accept the reality that nothing is perfect

Adjusted how? Self-driving cars already killed their first pedestrian, I don't see any manslaughter charges filed. Liability for damages could be, but you don't get infinite damages for a wrongful death even if it's due to faulty products or recklessness. Here for example $750000 for a life. Here's $2.2 million. Here's $2 million. Here's a $950000. Probably the most expensive one I saw that's actually settled is $9.5 millions, not juries making crazy judgement that'll go on appeal. This review (pdf) across 100+ cases say the same thing $1-2M on average. That's maybe not the value of a life, but it's the value of a life in court.

That's the missing number you can plug into your equation. Well that and the cost of maiming a person for life and property damage. It may be cruel to put it this way, but it all has a price tag. Even if some super-bug made the car run a red light and mow down pedestrians, it's not necessarily the end of the company. There are many companies with more blood on their hands, if you add up all their faulty products...

Here's a map from a few months ago:
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

The barrier had been removed for reasons that CalTrans has yet to explain:

https://www.mercurynews.com/20... (AdBlock Blocker, pause AdBlock to read the article)

The reality is that at highway speeds there would have been no time for any automated system to bring the vehicle to a stop in this situation (barrier where a lane splits.) Had the barrier been present it is likely the driver would have been less injured and still be alive, he had already survived the initial crash but was injured too badly and died at the hospital. The part of the barrier that had been removed is the part that is designed to crumple and absorb the energy of the impact prior to a vehicle striking the concrete barrier. The Mercury News article linked above has a photo from the day before the crash captured by a Google mapping car comparing the barrier to an older photo that shows what the original barrier looked like.

There's different obstacles on the route each time

Including this time.

The crash attenuator had been damaged and removed after a recent previous accident. And based on a bystander's photo, there were perhaps two traffic cones (one knocked over) and small bits of debris from the previous accident (article and photo here)

This exit ramp would look quite different to the sensors on the 85,001st time.

Well, maybe we should ask our cops in America to just look the other way and pretend crimes aren't happening, like your UK cops do.

How about instead we ask them to stop committing crimes, especially while on duty. They should especially stop raping so many women, and killing us at unprecedented rates even though it's the safest time in history to be a cop in America.

If google did this

How cute. Google already does. Only without the housing - they have homeless employees that live on campus.

Facebook at least wants to give the illusion that their employees are free to go as far as 100 ft to home. Actually, Google does have its own housing project but they seem to not be that interested.

California imports a great deal of water from the surrounding states, with a lions share of imported water coming from the Colorado river. A simple fact is that California uses more water than it produces. The fact that California has been under a drought for the past few years doesn't help. Here is some reading to bring you up to date on the California water problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://californiawaterblog.co...

https://www.mercurynews.com/20...

California has made great strides in managing its water issues but there still problem. California simply doesn't have native water resources to address its current usage.

Tesla on autopilot hits fire truck at 65mph on Monday morning in Culver City. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/22/tesla-on-autopilot-slams-into-parked-fire-truck-on-freeway/. Fire truck was parked at an accident scene along with CHP, lights flashing. Yes, a lane was partly blocked. Tesla and fire truck both badly damaged. This time it was morning commute and DUI was not immediately implicated. What is with these people?

There is a lovely job market here in California.

So, you can live in beautiful place with beautiful weather or an ugly place with horrible weather. It's not that different economically.

The person working at McDonalds or in the cafeteria at one of those glossy high tech centers might not agree with you. You either have a good job with high pay (compared to the same job elsewhere, like your wife) or you're in a world of hurt.

While it sneers at those "poor" Red states, wonderful, liberal California is one of the worse places in the nation for income inequality, and the large low end is in real poverty.

Walters: Why does California have the nation's highest poverty level?

With all the recent hoopla about California's record-low unemployment rate and the heady prospect of its becoming No. 5 in global economic rankings, it is easy to lose sight of another salient fact: It is the nation's most poverty-stricken state.

And when California residents ridicule Red states for lack of education, remember:

Other California metropolitan areas string out below, but the most startling revelation is that the bottom 10 - the nation's least educated communities - include five from California, Salinas (144), Fresno (145), Modesto (146), Bakersfield (147) and Visalia-Porterville (148).

Exactly. Median rent of a 1 bedroom sets you back a cool $2K a month ($24K/year). Skim 10% off the top for state income tax ($5K) and another $6K off the top for Federal income tax/social security, around $200 month ($2.4K/year) for electricty/cell phone/internet, and you're left with around $15K.

Start talking about a car note and you get into $1K/month territory of take-home pay -- which just isn't worth it. Google plans on actively making the problem worse by creating thousands of jobs in San Jose with no city planning on creating enough housing units to hold that many people...which raises housing costs, because of supply and demand.

The housing problem has been bad for over a decade and no politician dares talk about a real solution as it would mean a depreciation in home prices (supply and demand again -- economics works whether or not you choose to believe in it) which is political suicide.

Exactly. Median rent of a 1 bedroom sets you back a cool $2K a month ($24K/year). Skim 10% off the top for state income tax ($5K) and another $6K off the top for Federal income tax/social security, around $200 month ($2.4K/year) for electricty/cell phone/internet, and you're left with around $15K.

Start talking about a car note and you get into $1K/month territory of take-home pay -- which just isn't worth it. Google plans on actively making the problem worse by creating thousands of jobs in San Jose with no city planning on creating enough housing units to hold that many people...which raises housing costs, because of supply and demand.

The housing problem has been bad for over a decade and no politician dares talk about a real solution as it would mean a depreciation in home prices (supply and demand again -- economics works whether or not you choose to believe in it) which is political suicide.

the Haward/Calaveras is actually the same fault line and can possibly create a 7.4 quake. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/20/2-bay-area-earthquake-faults-found-to-be-connected/ I watch earthquake reports for the bay area every day, I would be interested to know if the increase in small quakes along the San Andreas south of SF over the past two months is something to worry about. I've not seen more than one or two earthquakes along there in such a short space in time over the last 10 years. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%2230day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B35.03899204678081%2C-124.76623535156251%5D%2C%5B38.98503278695909%2C-117.7349853515625%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22settings%22%2C%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D

It's well known and has been covered in liberal Bay Area newspapers.

"... I want repaired processors for free."

So do I. I want backdoor-free processors without payment. I will send Intel the faulty processors.

Intel CPU Backdoor Report (Jan. 1, 2018)

My opinion: Intel is a world-class company, with poor top-level management. Brian Krzanich is not the kind of person who is necessary. He is not a person with enthusiasm for technology combined with the social ability to lead a large company. One story about Krzanich: Intel CEO sold all the stock he could after Intel learned of security bug.

Paul Otellini, the previous CEO, was worse, in my opinion. Otellini "joined the finance department in 1974" I complained about Otellini 11 1/2 years ago in a Slashdot comment: More Intel employees should say in public what they have told me in private: Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not a competent leader. He lacks social ability. (June 09, 2006)"

Intel's health and strength is important to everyone on the planet, it seems to me. The technological part of the company can be excellent, but recent top management has not been able to handle the challenges.

The underlying issue, it seems to me, is that the process of choosing new CEOs tends to be defective. Perhaps all employees should have 50% of a vote, with the board of directors having 50%.

You act like race riots and political riots don't happen. Or that domestic terrorism doesn't exist.

As far as immigration goes, Miami has a larger percentage of immigrants than San Jose and note that Los Angeles is not very far behind San Jose. And the violent crime rates of Miami and Los Angeles dwarf that of San Jose. San Jose kind of bucks the trends - I think having billions and billions of dollars in "sillycon valley" makes that happen?

Or perhaps it's not the fact they're immigrant, but whether or not those immigrants are here legally? After all, illegal immigrants are about 3.4% of the population but they overwhelmingly commit most of the violent and drug crime in the US.

Or perhaps it has to do with the race of those immigrants? You do realize that 61.4% of all immigrants in San Jose are from Asia, and Asians have some of the lowest crime rates. So maybe the fact your immigrant neighbors are here legally, making big money, and from ethnic backgrounds that for whatever reason have a much lower crime rate, you're in a unique spot and cannot being to extrapolate your experience to nationwide - because it is so different than most of the rest of the US?

In addition to subscriptions to new journals, universities are also paying to continue accessing old journals that were "paid for" decades ago. This is because many universities are removing the books in their libraries.

http://mercurynews.com/2016/12/24/montgomery-on-ucscs-outrageous-mass-destruction-of-books

As a result, the universities have to pay the publishers for online access to the old, archival journals that used to sit on the library shelves.

Google leased Moffett Field from the government.

>> higher temperatures and dryer conditions providing more fuel I thought you needed WETTER conditions to get more fuel. Is anyone surprised that there are a bunch of large fires after California's water supply returned to normal and plants had a chance to grow back? (It was as green along Hwy 1 as I've ever seen it this year.) That stuff dries out...and then burns - science, yo. http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

Yeah, that was poorly worded. Higher temps and low humidity turn the abundant growth into more explosive fuel.

At least with the current rash of fires, firefighters haven't had to contend with extremely high temperatures; we've had highs in the low 70s all week.

Why should Google and Facebook be the only ones able to cash in on the internet?

Because they have a political party in their pocket? One that doesn't believe in free speech?

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

"straightforward, deeply practical determination shines"
Right!

https://sf.budgetchallenge.org... (this is an official SFO city page)
This projection reveals deficits of $86 million in FY 2016-17 and $161 million in FY 2017-18, a total deficit of approximately $246.4 million over the next two years.
This is simultaneous with their floating a $3.5 BILLION bond to desperately try to fix BART infrastructure: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...
Oh wait, not really: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
"Less than three months after voters passed a $3.5 billion BART bond for capital projects, transit officials presented budget forecasts in which the district reneges on its part of the deal."

And let's not forget:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...
Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a $122.5 billion budget for California and is warning of a possible $2 billion deficit in the coming fiscal year.

Not sure what the OP is peddling, but the fact is that SFO's budget is sheer fantasy already without adding the ridiculous cost of shoving fiber-internet everywhere.

Even in California you can't build infrastructure out of candy, unicorns, and rainbows.

Imagine the outcry had a Republican tried this...

Not surprising, though.

Poll: Most California Democrats want to restrict free speech

“I would have thought the liberals would be defending the right to demonstrate in general,” said Mark DiCamillo, who conducted the poll of California registered voters for the university’s Institute of Governmental Studies.

Obviously, Mark hasn't been paying attention to today's "liberals".

Google is accused of the same thing on a large scale. I guess the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?

I expect it to happen if drone operators continue to do stupid stuff that interferes with aircraft. I'm sorry, but there are too many stupid people playing with drones to have forced this because they clearly can't regulate themselves. Imagine the outcry when people die because of some stupid drone operator hitting an aircraft at some critical point. They have already caused mid-air collisions and have interfered with emergency responders.

Here's a case that resulted in damage to the helicopter:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Here's a possible hit with an A320:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
There have also been hundreds of close calls:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Interfering with firefighters:
http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/...
http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/...

They can't even control hitting other drones.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/faqs/

Also, it will take a century of full-bore apologizing to even begin to make up for Microsoft's past (and current) behavior.

Facebook carries out mass psychological experiments aimed at finding out, among other things, if they can make people depressed. Google is now accused of trade secret behavior on par with Microsoft back in the 1990s. Apple has now pioneered turning expensive computers into unfixable appliances. IBM, among other things, has basically gutted its American workforce and keeps a token presence stateside so they can avoid political pressure to delist their federal services component.

And Oracle? If you feel that way about Microsoft, I suspect you think nothing less than ordering STRATCOM to carpet bomb Oracle's campuses with tactical nukes is appropriate for how they behave.

This isn't the 90s. An entire generation has come and gone at Microsoft since the anti-trust trial. Give it a rest.

The catch is they just lost a Loon lawsuit. Google tried to steal technology and patents pretending to be interested in buying out a startup.

https://www.wired.com/story/th...

its not the first time Google flat out steals someone elses technology, to the point of being sued for racketeering http://www.mercurynews.com/201...