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The median home price in Seattle is $722,000. I'd say, at the very least, it's a factor.

https://www.seattletimes.com/b...

At 13.9% you also have the highest tax rate. Do you know what the tax rate in that my state is? It's 0%.

States impose many different taxes on individuals, including income, sales, and property taxes. I also live in a state with no income tax. So poor people pay an effective tax rate of 16.8%.

You also have one of the fastest growing homeless problems. You share that with New York. Wonder what you and NY have in common?

Uh, cities?

Sales prices are more tied to supply and demand. Good paying jobs close to nice areas create competition and price pressure upwards. In Seattle, where housing prices have set a national record - interest rates are going up, so are housing prices. Some areas are up 18% year after year.
https://www.seattletimes.com/b...
It's common for bidding wars to drive prices 10's of thousands over asking price.

Is Jeff Bezos careful to be logical? It seems to me the answer is no, if you judge by how Amazon is managed. More evidence, added to the evidence in the parent comment:

A Slashdot comment: "you still can't sort prime-only items by price correctly (it includes the lowest priced non-prime seller)..."

And: "... Amazon literally still builds their rich pages using their normal grid layout, and in the most impossible to navigate way possible.

Amazon: Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (Bloomberg, Feb. 19, 2013)

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Amazon: Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

Amazon: The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon: Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018) Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Safe space flight depends on careful thinking. Everyone involved with flight into space must be logical. Maybe Jeff Bezos just needed to find a place to put his money; maybe he doesn't influence Bllue Origins much. But even if that is true, he has influence, and that is scary. My opinion.

Evergreen is no stranger to protests, but college President George Bridges said some students went too far in May when they interrupted faculty member Bret Weinstein’s class, and a day later pushed furniture against doors to create barricades during a takeover of the library building.

Surely you must agree that hardly qualifies as 'patrolling the campus with baseball bats on a seek-and-destroy mission against "nazis"'.

You're right. It's not. That, sir, is an x86 instruction, which the x86 translation layer takes as input and passes to a RISC core. Intel, at least, has been doing this since the Core series was released.

No, since the Pentium Pro in 1995, which already employed microcode translation; not with the Pentium IV, which was deliberately brain damaged to win the MHz war (I don't even know how to classify the trace cache, except ungodly hot); again with the Core Duo, after that (god bless Israel).

How Israel saved Intel

What you are calling a RISC core has more proprietary CISC-world abstraction violations than you could shake a stick at (these are primarily performance hacks, but nonetheless).

Explain to me why micro-op fission gets more air time in your lexicon than macro-op fusion? Because modern x86 processors use both tricks to obtain a working representation which minimizes in-flight resource consumption (which is similar to RISC, but is not directly motivated by either "simple" or "reduced"—hasty is a better proxy—and none of this is reflected in the instruction set, as is patently obvious). And even then, the micro-op fission remains semantically distinct from an actual RISC instruction stream deep into the pipeline in small yet critical details (internal modern x86 micro-ops are fuzzy creatures, but these implementation tricks aren't publicly documented).

There's actually a more basic level underneath RISC: readers and writers attached to separate busses. But this is so low level is tends to make your ISA non-portable to the next iteration, so no-one sane goes here (I'm looking at you, Itanium, even though after you started here, you went another 100 miles downstream).

write_assert rA to register_bus_1
read rB from register bus_1
read rC from register bus_1
write_deassert rA to register_bus_1

Register files tend to be multiple ported, so there would be other register busses available concurrently. That's all one clock cycle if your macro-op fusion puts Humpty back together again (and not analogous to any RISC instruction).

mov ebx, eax
mov ecx, eax

In a transport triggered architecture-like world, these two instructions could be fused into a single assertion of eax, and a simultaneous read by register file ebx and register file ecx off the same bus.

But you'd still call it a RISC core, wouldn't you, so long as the internal representation was granulated into some kind of small, vaguely uniform ops? (Macro or micro, who cares?)

Between 1985 and 1995, I must have read many dozen articles in computer magazines about how x86 CISC could never grow up to compete against the Big Boys (where RISC was the prototypical Big Boy). This was a potent brew of aesthetic disgust (with which I largely concurred), competitive ambition, and mentally defective bullshit—as history now records. In order to advance this kind of claim in a falsifiable way, RISC has to actually mean something.

Back when I wrote a fair amount of 486 code, I mainly worked in a RISC subset (most of which dated back to the 8086 or were simple extensions), heavily augmented with non-RISC ModR/M sib addressing modes. There was no OOO, so there was no need for an intermediate micro-op representation: the complex read/modify/write instruction were decomposed into RISC primitives (load,operation,store) by an execution-engine state machine (which I suppose you could call a micro-op sequencer on the understanding that the machine supported exactly one in-flight macro-op. A non-distinction without a difference?) Compared to 386, 486 felt a bit RISCy because many of your core operations had a single-cycle execution time (and you tended to ignore program fetch delays, because of the concurrent internal i-cache).

Once you get into OOO, you need track multiple i

I'm very interested to hear what Boeing vice president Phil Musser has to say about this event given his reported comment just 2 days ago in response to the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle 'that the company has “rigorous IT and security protocols.”'.

In some cases, removed pay phones have been restored by request: Pay phone at ranger station near Big Four Ice Caves is reinstalled.

And who remembers terms like COCOT?

I'm sure all this is nothing but a coincidence:

Chicago 2/28 – Are Rideshares Increasing Traffic Congestion?
Denver 2/25 – Studies suggest Uber, Lyft cause traffic congestion
Boston 2/25 – Uber, Lyft drivers are making city traffic worse
Seattle 2/12 – Do Uber, Lyft worsen Seattle’s traffic congestion?
Manhattan 2/26 – Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. Should You Pay a Fee to Ride?
Washington, DC 2/28 – Ride sharing services such as Uber are causing causes of traffic congestion

Some people are in bad shape and need medical attention or at least monitoring during their ride to the hospital. They clearly shouldn't be using Uber.

But others are stable and just need a ride. They clearly shouldn't be tying up an ambulance that someone else actually needs. In fact, Phoenix has a program where the fire department calls (and pays for) a cab for people like this who call 911.

So a bright-line rule for Uber drivers not to take people to hospitals would be bad. And as noted in the article but cropped from the summary, people take taxis to the hospital all the time. Both taxi and Uber drivers need to (gasp) use their judgment to decide whether to take a given passenger on a given ride. This sort of situation doesn't seem any different.

Your second question: who's being extorted?
The DOT took away 1 regular traffic lane and built a toll lane, leaving 2 toll lanes. If you don't "pay to play", you end up sitting in traffic 3 hours on a 25mile drive. I live in Mukilteo and my wife worked in Redmond taking the 405 daily. Yes, I purchased a goodtogo pass, even after the savings of the fees, still cost $75 per week which is $3900 per year. Even in the toll lane, her commuter was 45min to an hour per way. Without the toll lane, in regular traffic lanes (for those who can't afford the $4K per year in tolls), it's 1-2 hours per way for 25 miles... That's obscene.
Add on top of the $4000 traffic tools the DOUBLING of my vehicle registration for the Sound Transit $54BILLION expansion, and the increased property taxes, again for the Sound Transit Expansion, and yes, the State is extorting money.
Is the 405 paying for itelf? It was passed into law under the conditions of the law states the two-year anniversary requirement that the toll lanes meet the 45 mph standard and collect at least enough money to meet operating costs or they “must be terminated as soon as practicable.” The estimated $18M in collection fees is actually $30M, but the speed is no where near 45 MPH average. Yet it's not terminated, like most legislators, ours are addicted to tax money.
Additionally, there's a new tunnel into Seattle being dug that will be a toll. The Seattle area has become the worst traffic area in the Country
https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
and all the State wants to do is capitalize on traffic jams, create revenue and fund homeless and drug "safe sites" where addicts get free needles and doctor supervision. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Not sure what you are smoking but https://www.seattletimes.com/s...

This has been happening for years. Adorable that you think your llicense plate is private though!

https://www.seattletimes.com/b... https://www.frbsf.org/economic... https://www.mathematica-mpr.co...

Yeah not so much anymore. They typically replaced all the paper in the cockpit with iPads. They've done this on several airlines and it's FAA approved.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TE...
http://www.padgadget.com/2011/...
http://www.todaysiphone.com/20...
http://old.seattletimes.com/ht...

So you are saying they should just include their 175k some peers in the lawsuit?

https://www.seattletimes.com/b...

So that's where it went!

https://www.seattletimes.com/s...

Seattle too. Westin Building to Amazon campus.

http://www.seattletimes.com/bu...

Except May 4, 2017, apparently.

This sounds exactly like the kind of equipment you would want overhead in a major combat operation.

Well, only 8% of Seattle voted for Trump, so he may be looking for the 92% of Seattle voters that obviously must have committed voter fraud.

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

Hmmmm ... Fake News'? Looks like Fake Houses at that location ... what are they trying to hide?
http://www.seattletimes.com/bu...

Technology giants like Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Google, Twitter

We are repeatedly told, "net neutrality protects the little guy" — a notion made rather suspect by the concern of the giants like Amazon.

scrap the open internet protections installed in 2015 under the Obama administration

OMG, how did we live in 2014?..

Those consumer protections mean providers such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon are prevented from blocking or slowing down access to the web.

Translation: owners of the networking equipment and cables are prevented from doing what they want with their property. War is peace. Regulations are liberty.

1) Apple makes their own hardware. They do not force other manufacturers into agreements.

2) Apple's market share is falling.

3) Apple and Microsoft are likely behind all of this anti-trust business.

Re did I miss something?
"Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media" (June 25, 2017)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
China law would outlaw insults to Communist heroes, martyrs (March 13, 2017)
http://www.seattletimes.com/na...

> Intel never hauled AMD to court for AM64

Not claimed in post. Post said, if YOU did it. Basically, anyone but AMD.

Because Intel DID haul AMD to court about x86 stuff.
http://old.seattletimes.com/ht...

AMD has always had some type of agreement to point to or buttress. If they didn't, and they made AMD64, Intel would have been up their butt way harder.

The rest of your post is pretty spot-on though. But no one else could have innovated the way AMD did with AMD64, because no one else was sitting on a cross license agreement and a bunch of legal precedent- or at least, not without very costly legal battles.

Here in Seattle's 405 loop, our DOT added tolling to the HOV lanes with this sort of variable pricing about a year and a half ago. Result? $10 for a one-way trip during rush hour for just 15-20 miles or so (not exactly sure of the distance). They hit the max price they promised the public, and was STILL too crowded.

Please learn from our mistakes. This doesn't work. People HAVE to get from Point A to Point B at a certain time every day, because their job demands it. It's going to happen, no matter what financial disincentives you put in the way.

I am also curious about the money the government never sees: Ballmer was tax dodger in chief Microsoft as it kept $120 billion off shore. http://www.seattletimes.com/bu... and https://crosscut.com/2014/08/w... I posted this story with more context about his tax dodging and Slashdot declined it.

CryptoStorm was created and is partially run by previously convicted drug smuggler and known zoophile, Douglas Spink, He is known for running a bestiality farm.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

There have been concerns about his involvement with CryptoStorm for a while.

https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/8...
https://www.wilderssecurity.co...

Ahem, no. 1.7 miles, 3.37 Billion as of June 2016 http://www.seattletimes.com/se....

Did you read the link I posted? It was six months more recent than yours, and from the same Seattle Times news source, and had the headline "taxpayers rejoice! Bertha progress cuts into cost overruns."

Also the $3.37b you quoted is for the entire Highway99 replacement plan: $1b of that was for non-tunnel parts of the plan.

So: cost overruns reduced $3.37b down to $3.1b, of which $1b is for non-tunnel parts, so the tunnel cost is $2.1b. For a 1.7mile tunnel that's $1.2b/mile.

Ahem, no. 1.7 miles, 3.37 Billion as of June 2016 http://www.seattletimes.com/se.... With a number of outstanding lawsuits that will likely push final costs higher.

BTW, costs of Boston's "Big Dig" were probably in the same ballpark (total somewhere between 15B and 24B depending on who does the math) or higher although it's a more complex project and it's difficult to come up with a comparable cost per mile..

Tunnels under cities can apparently be kind of EXPENSIVE.

You might also have mentioned that your Seattle highway 99 tunnel is on its way to running about $2,000,000,000 a mile .. for two lanes in each direction.

The actual figure for Seattle is half that: $1b/mile for the tunnel. (more precisely, $2.1 billion for a nearly-two-mile tunnel).

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

Yup, it's all the women's fault.

Of course not. It is an object lesson in making all problems the fault of the males though. A good example is what happened in primary and secondary schools. Finding a male teacher outside of say a football coach is getting very difficult. But even back in my high school days I heard that male teachers are very suspicious - why would a man who in't a pedophile be interested in teaching? And now, males are becoming extinct in teaching http://professionallyspeaking....

So the crime of teachers engaging in sex with underage students has gone completely away - we totally fixed the problem.

Then again, perhaps I am assuming the gender of these teachers who like to fuck children:

http://www.zimbio.com/The+50+Most+Infamous+Female+Teacher+Sex+Scandals . Fortunately, the female teacher's are once again, the victims. http://www.ign.com/boards/thre... Males - is there anything they do that isn't wrong? Child male rapists, wearing down the defenses of the selfless adult women that the child then proceeds to rape. A 34 year old woman who is defenseless against a child male, merely points out the insidious level of the patriarchy. Lest you think this is an isolated case there is more teacher rape by male rapist children: http://rare.us/rare-news/whats...

http://www.seattletimes.com/li... It isn't abuse - it's a relationship.

Conspiracy Theory: Vincent Cerf while employed for Google argues for a 'level playing field' that ultimately helps Google escape the transportation costs of it's massive as-snooping traffic that the NSA considers a benefit to national security. Perhaps less sellable under Trump than Obama post-Snowden. Because despite what the FCC said in 10-201 about the nature of the 'level playing field' I always said to myself that I'd believe it when I saw it. And I've never seen it.

The bottom line- while I may also be able to compete by partnering with
existing cloud infrastructure services companies, am I free to compete on my own, paying the
same published rates for my data traffic on the 'general purpose technology'6 of the internet as
my neighbor?

https://lwn.net/Articles/657561/

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7522219498

http://cloudsession.com/dawg/downloads/misc/kag-draft-k121024.pdf

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/google-neutrality/

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-accused-of-betraying-its-net-neutrality-stance/ (some facts wrong in article)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/google-fiber-now-explicitly-permits-home-servers/

P. T. Barnum famously quoted "There's a sucker born every minute". If these idiots want to slave for sub-minim wages, spending days away from their family, sleeping in cars, subjected to high risk of street crime, let them. True freedom includes the freedom to fail.
I think on a bigger scale, the real travesty is that there seems to be a general decline of critical thought process in modern America.
Seattle for example, just voted to have "safe" places where heroin users could use their drugs while being "safely" monitored.
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
BBD- Beyond Brain Damage!

Apples and Oranges. Building one train line like this is relatively simple, compared to urban light rail.

A more apt comparison would be to compare Puget Sound's Sound Transit 3 to LA's Measure M. Both are rather complex light rail expansions. Measure M's projected cost was $121 billion, compared to Sound Transit 3's 54 billion.

Also, Sound Transit's tax base is three counties, not two.

a mere $3B? no big deal, chump change
The liberal voters in Seattle pushed through a $54B transportation bill for only 64 MILES of track....Ya, with "B"..
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
Every property owner in 2 counties will get the benefit of higher taxes ($400+ per year) on top of our already 10+% sales tax.

Sure, traffic is awful, but I can't fathom over $843M per mile of light rail. What a testament to government bloat, payola and incompetence...
California tax payers should consider themselves lucky with such a paltry number.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We are not conducting a criminal trial here and aren't bound by the "innocent until proven guilty" rule.

The fact is, California is ruled by the same Party, which for years objected — and continues to object — to any and all attempts to verify voters' status. It has a large — and growing — number of cities, which offer official sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

They have a motive — illegals tend to support Democrats. They have the opportunity — White House is controlled by a fellow Democrat. We have anecdotal evidence of illegals being registered to vote — and not being prosecuted. Democrats admit it too — when caught on hidden camera. In such a situation, absence of evidence becomes evidence of presence, so to speak. The burden of proof is on those like yourself denying anything is wrong. We do not know the exact scale, and that's a problem...

antagonizes Israel

If I was sending someone $3.1 billion per year I'd think they'd let me antagonize them as much as I wanted.

The Right is flipping out over Obama's $85M in 'vacation costs', that's all of 10 days of money sent to Israel.

The federal debt under Obama has increased by $8,946,567,665,023.71. That's just the debt, not the whole spending. The real problem here is not Israel.

antagonizes Israel

If I was sending someone $3.1 billion per year I'd think they'd let me antagonize them as much as I wanted.

The Right is flipping out over Obama's $85M in 'vacation costs', that's all of 10 days of money sent to Israel.

I guess maybe you were still in diapers back then, but MS was investigated by the DOJ and subsequently sued by the DOJ:

"The company barely escaped being split up after it was ruled an unlawful monopolist in 2000 for using its stranglehold on the PC market with its Windows operating system to cripple competitors, such as Netscape’s Navigator Web browser.

A court settlement approved in 2002 and a consent decree curbing some of its practices saved Microsoft."

http://www.seattletimes.com/bu...

FB, Apple, etc. are pulling the same bullshit and so far Obama, a Democrat, has done zero about it because they are all run by big liberals.

Also, just be aware that Trump is not a conservative, he is a populist, which is significantly different in that he is specifically looking for what is best for the people rather than what is best for big business (being against TPP is one example of him being a populist). So you may very well be surprised by what he does, but because he has been such a loose cannon on the campaign trail we will literally have to wait and see what he actually does in office.

We have recently begun to realize just how 'accurate' these models are up here in the Pacific Northwest.

The storm of the century was promised from the remnants of Super Typhoon and there was squat.

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

If they can't even predict weather 10 days in advance, they have zero credible chances of predicting it 10 years in advance.

You mean the woman who got punched after she smashed the windows of somebody's van with a hammer while they were in it?

[citation needed]

Y'all always talk about needles in the parks, but I've yet to see even a single one in three years of living here. I did once see one in a back alley, though.

Anecdotes are not useful. Here, I did a thirty-second google for you.

More than 3/4 of our homeless are from Seattle. 90% are from Washington State. http://www.seattletimes.com/se... [seattletimes.com]

Interesting. Thanks. It appears that hipsters don't even take their virtue signalling seriously enough to keep the homeless in their own capital city so that they can pretend to care about the less fortunate.

Sorry, it's against my lease. Doesn't mean I haven't bent the rules to let someone shower & crash on my couch for a night, but it's kinda cramped with me and my fiancee already.

Then don't be so quick to say that others should sacrifice. Perhaps others have their own problems, rent, leases, obligations to shoulder.

And by Homeless hate on reddit you are talking about the people complaining of being assaulted in their own homes

You mean the woman who got punched after she smashed the windows of somebody's van with a hammer while they were in it?

the needles in the parks

Y'all always talk about needles in the parks, but I've yet to see even a single one in three years of living here. I did once see one in a back alley, though.

or the aggressive and sometimes verbally sexual comments that people now have to live with on a daily basis

If you think it's primarily homeless men that are verbally aggressive and sexual to women in the streets, perhaps you haven't ever walked by a bar? I've only been harassed by white guys dressed like they just got off of work.

because of the massive increase of homeless people in Seattle that have flooded here from all over the country.

More than 3/4 of our homeless are from Seattle. 90% are from Washington State. http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

People say they care about homeless.. you have a home let some homeless people stay there.

Sorry, it's against my lease. Doesn't mean I haven't bent the rules to let someone shower & crash on my couch for a night, but it's kinda cramped with me and my fiancee already.

the autoinjector is intended to be used by untrained people.

The "training" in this case takes literally 5 minutes if you are a slow reader. I refuse to have that used as an excuse for a $600 (or even a $50) "auto-injector". Blah blah blah you're not qualified to say this what are you a doctor? Yes. Yes I am a medical doctor.

First, thank you for saying this.

Second, the EpiPen is NOT "idiot-proof"! Studies have shown that only about 16% of patients use epinephrine autoinjectors correctly. (Here's the original 2015 study.)

Yes, this study only tracked 102 patients with epinephrine, but it's a large enough group to see the problem. (Also, other earlier studies are cited in the one above showing correct use to be around 22%.) The most common error was failing to hold the device on the thigh for at least 10 seconds (required to guarantee full dose). Many people just stab and release after a second or two, which generally results in a much smaller dose than needed or expected. (I wonder whether this has anything to do with the current recommendation for carrying two EpiPens -- they've only been sold in pairs for the past five years or so. Is it because that many people require two doses? Or because many people fail to administer the first dose correctly?)

And of the 84% who had errors, 56% had errors in three or more steps. Other common errors: using the wrong end, failure to depress the device forcefully enough to activate the injector, and even forgetting to remove the safety cap (about 1/3 of the time).

Also, note that all the people in this study were people who had actually been prescribed epinephrine or parents of minor children who had the device. So these weren't exactly completely ignorant people or random bystanders who might be expected to use a device... they were people actually aware of and prescribed the EpiPen.

But instead, have a pre-filled syringe with a correct dose from a nurse or a pharmacist. You have tactile and visual confirmation that the drug goes in correctly and completely. Even a small child knows which end of the needle goes in; everyone has had a "shot" and has seen the doctor draw up the needle and inject. And you clearly see and feel how much of the dose is going through the syringe.

I'd like to see actual data showing how many "untrained people" would misuse a pre-filled syringe vs. misuse an EpiPen. I think many people would be surprised.

It's a truckload worth of bees, Literally.

Two candidates. One is a cunt, the other is a Democrat.

http://www.seattletimes.com/na...

The Seattle Times ran a tech piece the other day about this issue, the take being that poor old Microsoft is losing a ton of money on this effort. No mention of what Microsoft mole Elop did to Nokia in order to get the price down to where MS would by it, nor how bad Microsoft (read "Balmer") handled the whole thing. Here's the link:

Something not mentioned in the post. Here's a much better article: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

  So they arrested the clients and let the webmaster unmolested?

They did indeed arrest the webmaster, too. His website was 'product-specific', so he is probably in it deep. But, then again, this is prostitution, where the court system and legislators tend to let people off light.

Compare this to the treatment of Ross Ulbricht, whose Silk Road was simply a libertarian version of ebay, with a few restrictions – "no child porn, no guns, no violence" – something like that. The 'murder-for-hire' allegations were invented by the FBI to make him look bad at trial. They were thrown-out of evidence – meaning that the news outlets could report on these 'allegations' freely without "tainting the jury pool." It was a nasty move by the FBI, who've even stated that they are "making an example" to warn others. That is inequitable enforcement of law.

BTW: Ross is engaging in his own type of socially-positive 'revenge' – TEACHING fellow inmates about math, chemistry, physics, and so on. He has a an MS in Engineering. They will emerge from their sentences having learned as much as they wanted/could about topics that will help get one a job, or at least understand the world that they live in, once released. That is – his fellow residents are getting an in-custody education (up to the college level) for free.

It probably also helps to keep Ross sane while in confinement.

More about Seattle:

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers.

These are the real reasons for Seattle's terrible traffic.

"The rich control everything in Seattle. Bill Gates ... wants obedient little workers that never, ever, EVER ask questions."

More quotes:

"Now there's Jeff Bezos and his army of autistic sociopaths at Amazon. Their corporate culture is an absolute rejection of all human qualities..."

"Seattle lacks culture due to all the neurotic, arrogant, immature, rule obsessed, passive aggressive, conformists who couldn't socialize or drive to save their lives..."

"Seattle: Hateful people. People who never smile. People here always seem mean. No one ever seems happy here. Lots of bullies here. Lots of ... people here with weird neurotic hang-ups. People here lack ANY social skills... Socially retarded is the word."

Our Social Dis-ease: Beyond the smiles, the Seattle Freeze is on

Something not mentioned in the post. Here's a much better article: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

  So they arrested the clients and let the webmaster unmolested?

Amazon isn't in the delivery business. They're in the retail business.

You haven't been keeping up with the news.

But some analysts believe that Amazon is putting together the pieces across the globe to launch a package-delivery service that will one day compete with UPS, FedEx and others. In addition to the Colis Prive deal, Amazon acquired the right to purchase 4.2 percent of Yodel, a United Kingdom parcel-delivery company, in 2014. Last month, Amazon announced adding thousands of trucks to its U.S. fleet to handle the growing load of packages it is shipping.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-delivery-ambitions-take-on-industry-giants/