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It's not. The idea is living and working in a town center (or generally just living near where you work). Google, for instance, busses its employes from dense neighborhoods in San Francisco to the middle of nowhere. Were it not for the shuttle busses, a large chunk of these commuters would chose instead to live close to where they work, in the middle of nowhere.

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/01/21/study-40-percent-of-s-f-shuttle-riders-would-move-without-chartered-bus-service/

http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...

"the photographs were taken by W. H. Sheldon, who believed there was a relationship between body shape and intelligence and other traits."

Just so you don't think I'm pulling it out of my ass:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...
Official police statistics show that there were more than 40 cell phone muggings in November. The number may not seem high, but it is unsettling with just a portion of the crimes reported, and virtually all of them involve a gun, knife or physical assault.

http://mashable.com/2012/12/20...
Officer Gordon Shyy, media relations unit of the San Francisco Police Department, tells Mashable they don't have any data about whether cellphones deterred crime in the 90s, but said today cellphone muggings are "an epidemic nationwide."
From January 2012 through Nov. 30, 2012, there were approximately 1,732 cellphone related thefts reported in San Francisco out of a total of 3,487 robberies — making 50% of all robberies cellphone related.

Smartphone robberies are spiking crime rates. If thieves were aware that a stolen phone was useless then the crimes should go down.

As seems to be the case in Australia where they are already doing this.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/An-easy-way-to-curb-smart-phone-thieves-2344797.php

Australian here, this doesn't work.

Firstly because it's IMEI blocking on participating carriers. So all you need to do is sell the stolen phone overseas where the carriers don't give a fat rats clacker about the IMEI's Australia blocks. Secondly, you end up with unsuspecting people buying stolen phones with blocked IMEI's.
1. Theif sells phone
2. Purchaser doesn't know phone on Ebay (or Gumtree) is stolen
3. Purchaser gets useless phone
There's no shortage of idiots to fill the role in step 2.

Carrier based phone bricking also doesn't work because you can disable it by removing the SIM card and then selling it on Ebay. Also selling it overseas ensures that you never connect to another Australian carrier ever again.

Also there are people who never report their phone stolen. I know someone who loses phones on a regular basis (every 3 or 4 months). He wouldn't even think of reporting one as stolen.

Smartphone robberies are spiking crime rates. If thieves were aware that a stolen phone was useless then the crimes should go down.

As seems to be the case in Australia where they are already doing this.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/An-easy-way-to-curb-smart-phone-thieves-2344797.php

The second-row doors "are like gull-wing doors, but we call them 'falcon-wing' doors," Musk said at the unveiling. They offer the easiest access to the rear seats of any luxury vehicle, he said."
No where else do I see anything that refers to gull wings and his statement. If you parsed that as musk saying that these are gull wing doors, then it is obvious why you have such difficulty with TFA.

BTW, a gull wing door, is a FIXED door that is hinged at the top, rather than the side.
A falcon wing has 2 sets of hinges so that it does not swing wide and crash into other cars which was one of the main issues with the gull-wing doors. Tesla solved the issue by coming up with a new design.

Your hatred has clouded your judgement badly, or you just simply lied. The fact that you lied about the above link that you gave, speaks volumes.

These doors are not like gull-wing doors

You're right, they are not like gullwing doors.

They are gullwing doors, even by Musk's own admission. "We call them 'falcon wing'" doesn't change the fact that, by design, they are a type of gull-wing door.

Tone down your hatred slightly

Tone down your fanboy-ism, it's clouding your judgement.

I wish the government would work on things that will be a big problem in the future, if we don't start working on them now.

Here's what I think is important:

1) Get control of our national spending and our national deficit.

2) Ensure a water supply. See Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust. We have become reliant on aquifers, whose water supply is dwindling fast.

3) Ensure a food supply. The US used to be a net food exporter. Now we're a net food importer.

4) Preserve our natural resources, including helium.

5) Make a list of things the US must have. Ex: food, machine tools, factories, vital electronics like communication systems, and people who know how to manufacture those things. Then make sure the US has those things and skilled workers.

6) Watch for signs of natural disasters, like being hit by a comet or megatsunami ). Do research, set aside supplies, train people, etc. to prepare for those disasters.

7) Listen to warnings of future medical problems - for example, bacteria that are becoming resistant to anti-bacterial drugs. See Report links antibiotics at farms to human deaths.

8) See what we can do to help Mexico become prosperous and stable. It would be much better for both countries, if Mexicans could get jobs with good wages, in Mexico.

9) The US population is growing fast. What's the largest number of people that can live here, with a good quality of life? As our numbers increase, not only is more food needed, but also farms get bought and replaced with houses, streets, etc. We can't support unlimited numbers of people.

I'm especially concerned about our food and water supply about 30 years in the future. The US will have an even higher population - more people to feed and to supply with water. There will be fewer farms, because some farms will have been replaced by housing. Plus the aquifers in our midwest will be empty or almost empty, which will hurt our food supply as well as our water supply. (How will the midwest farmers water their crops?) Plus temperatures will be higher, which will place even more strain on our water supply, as well as possibly killing the crops. (Remember 2012, when a lot of crops in the Midwest died from high temperatures and lack of rain?)

I wish politicians talked about these things in their campaign speeches.

Robbing the nation to provide pork to your constituents back home ...

I realize we have to flog Sarah Palin at every opportunity we get, but If you are talking Washington politics, which is where the money for those bridges was to come from, the "bridge to nowhere" was the baby of Ted Stevens and Don Young, not Sarah Palin. Sara Palin was a state official, not a member of Congress that had a hand in the funding.

Alaska's 'bridges to nowhere'

Two Alaska Republicans with clout in Congress, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, are pushing for funds that could send the Anchorage suburbs leapfrogging into those hinterlands.

Alaska 'bridge to nowhere' funding gets nowhere / Lawmakers delete project after critics bestow derisive moniker

In Many (most??) Public Schools are teaching Islam Tolerance and how great Islam is, with the help of CAIR. Including Field Trips to Mosques where they teach students to pray to Allah.

http://www.islaminourschools.c...

Oh, I know, Christian Fundamentalists gone WILD!!!!! Dismiss. FAUX news ... DISMISS!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/politics...

www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/08/08/tennessee-five-pillars-of-islam-in-public-school/

I know the big leftwing teaching the is the "Evils of Christianity", while teaching "Islam is a peaceful religion" in a kind of over compensating sort of Liberal "can't we all get along" sort of way. BUT the fact is, Islam will kill the pver sexualizing liberals first, when they get power. You best be praying to Cthulhu that will kill everyone first.

In short, if they ever did create a map of Islamic Teaching in America, CAIR would protest and it would be revoked.

Now it's 2014 and the President is using the IRS, EPA, and ATF to harass and attack his political opponents.

Yeah, using the IRS, the Secret Service, the FBI, and perhaps the CIA against political opponents isn't a good thing.

No, I think you'll find that cities guard their mass transit federal handouts "earned" by providing the least suitable services that just barely qualify, as if they were the goose that lays the golden egg.

They even pulled their precious obsolete streetcars off the line for fear of looting and rampage after last week's Football game.

Not all schools are ignoring power Engineering. Last I checked, Washington State University was graduating more than 20 EEs with a focus on power per year. They are even expanding to include a online degree program.

Netflix, in its old life as a small Blockbuster-fighting DVD-maiing rebel is already dead, after a bout of insanity in apparent pursuit of dark knowledge and money. Its current form, ostensibly an independent being but truly a zombie* raised by the vile magicks of Big Media, aims for exclusive deals with cable providers (who just happen to be ISPs) and to make its own content** as an excuse to lobby for tougher copyright. I would avoid touching the shambling corpse, lest you come down with something and be damned to eternal unrest, availability excuses that involve repeated chants of "distributors", "market segmentation", and "contracts", and high fees.

*It didn't quite manage lichform, but almost certainly tried.

**Which would lead to the whole "doing DRM'd streaming video by breaking HTML5 with DRM-friendly extensions" thing, if HTML5 was a stable or good standard in any sense but name.

Do you live in SF? San Francisco has rent control, so it's not really all "long time residents" who are pissed.

Just look at the protesters so far (and note the number of hoodies, knit caps and stupid hipster beards) - ie. a lot of them are the 20-somethings who don't work at Google (ie. don't make 100k+) but want to live in the city so they can spend most of their disposable income buying $12 drinks instead of paying extra rent. Face it, SF is expensive. Expensive to live, to eat, to go out. Private parking spaces can cost $400+/mo. But it's not the only place to live in the Bay Area. And you don't hear these people complaining that San Carlos or Menlo Park is also becoming less affordable. Why? Because 20-something hipsters don't want to live there. Wah wah.

And despite what people may want you to think, it's not only the tech employees who are making $100k+ a year there. According to the Chronicle, over 1 in 3 *public* city employees makes over $100k, and the article was from 3 years ago (and doesn't even count their ridiculous health benefits or pensions).

Are the Google programmers not old enough to drive or what's going on there? Why does Google have to drive them to school^wwork like a soccer mom?

One bus displaces 30 to 60 cars.

If more companies did this our streets would be less crowded.

It seems the main point of contention here is that these buses made an arrangement with the city to use existing
bus stops, (which didn't inconvenience anybody and simply made better use of a public resource).

Had they set up their own bus stops, on private property, perhaps near park-and-ride lots I suspect the protests
would have been exactly the same.

Because this issue isn't about the buses. Its racism, pure and simple.

These Google employees bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the communities they live in.
That creates jobs and income for everything from the groceries bagger to the car dealers and the condo builders.
It also drives out crime, because educated affluent people demand better policing and more police.
Oakland, of all cities needs crime reduction, by any means possible, including affluent tax payers.

But crime doesn't like to be driven out. And the gangs start fighting back by stirring up trouble, trying
to build an US vs THEM sentiment in the community. Make no mistake, "Gentrification" is a racist concept.

It is legal for their buses to use the bus stops.

No it's not. It's not legal for any vehicle other than a city bus to use a city bus stop. At least that's the way it's been up until very recently. Now, the bus operators will have to pay to use the stops.

One issue that studies never seem to take into account is responsibility.

If a group of people will be killed but you could decide to kill a single person, there is a third option: you could choose not to decide.

When you switch the tracks you are taking responsibility for making the decision, and all consequences thereto. There will be an inquest, you will be brought up under charges for manslaughter, your actions will be made public in the newspaper... all sorts of bad things will happen, and your life will be forever changed.

For a recent example, consider the recent Asiana Airlines Flight 214, where a woman was run over by a fire truck. The battalion chief responsible for directing operations was put through the wringer by over-zealous bureaucrats looking for someone to blame. His helmet cam footage was all that saved him. Blameless, he only narrowly escaped taking the blame.

If you simply walk away, then it's not your problem. The responsibility lies somewhere else, no one can blame you for not making the decision. You weren't expected to handle it, it's not your fault.

This makes perfect sense in the current study: there's no consequences for killing virtual people, so it's easy to make the moral choice.

Real morality takes courage, and the willingness to sacrifice.

CA is broke.

California has a $2.4 billion surplus, about same as Texas.

Software developers (especially at Google and Apple) do not make "at, or less, than minimum wage"; this is absolutely absurd. According to sfgate.com the average salary in San Francisco right is $110,950 for application developers and slightly higher for systems developers.

According to the same link, food service workers make and average of $22,180 a year in San Francisco. That's a very wide income gap, indeed.

So engineers at some companies work long hours, so what? Most engineers (myself included) love the work they do, and it's a far cry from working multiple jobs with little or no benefits to barely be able to feed your family and be unable to afford a nice place to live.

Not only will you win an Irony award from me, but you'll get arrested for obstructing traffic too -- and rightfully so. Time and place. First two things you learn in activism. Time. Place. Learn it.

The time and place for activism: somewhere with a lot of impact and that probably means it should be extremely disruptive to a lot people. Sure it's a pain in the ass to have your commute screwed up by striking transit employees or something like this bus protest. But that's a cost of democracy, and we're all better off if people are free to protest and to be disruptive. Without disruption, protests are too easily ignored and the power of the masses is too easily constrained. To hell with "free speech zones" and protest permits. I agree that protestors shouldn't overdo it, or they'll lose the support of the masses. Unfortunately in the US, they rarely get any support at all. People cling to their sense of entitlement and have no willingness to stomach some inconvenience for the sake of the greater good.

Pretty much every business that can has already left the state of California. We are left with service industry and tourism jobs that don't come anywhere close to a living wage, especially when you consider the real estate costs.

San Francisco is practically a wasteland these days - all of the tech companies that have no fixed assets thus can move easily have already left. You can stand in the middle of 101 at 8:30am and not see a single car for hours. Real estate has never been so low - landlords are offering 6 months free rent to anyone that comes, and multiple landlords are getting into reverse bidding wars to try to win you over with low prices.

Yeah, all of the businesses in California have packed up and left, leaving nothing but wildlife behind - which explains why Coyotes are moving into San Francisco

I expect that if lawsuits become a problem in this regard that a previous solution for a similar problem will be reused. Actually, that very solution may apply in this case in some regards.

Obama administration backs telecom immunity

On what grounds do you base that?

Go eat it. See what e coli does to you. These are the kind of irrationalities ant-GMO fanatics get into (I'm not saying you are a fanatic, just that fanatics get caught in these irrationalities).

Using cow manure has killed people in the past, and it will continue to kill people in the future if it is used. When glyphosate is used on food, it is safe by the time it gets to the store.

And counter with:
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Good-news-California-Surplus-is-2-4-billion-4997158.php

There's another article on Karen Chin and the fossilized turds online, which complements TFA nicely

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-Poop-on-Dinosaurs-Menlo-Park-2950982.php

On the other hand, Dr. Karen Chin's site at Colorado U turns up with a picture of a bison
http://www.colorado.edu/geolsci/faculty/chin.html

I was just reading about another competitor for online payment called Dwolla. Dwolla has the backing of major financial institutes, which makes it more likely to be successful. It seems to me that bitcoin prices are artificially high because people are essentially hording it instead of using it as a currency.

The biggest influence on the prices in the bay area isn't a tech bubble, it's investment from China. Trying to buy here is an effort in frustration as each bid is trumped by an all-cash offer over asking. And that cascades to the rental market as people who should be buying end up renting instead.

I wouldn't mind what the the tech bubble popping might do to San Francisco rental prices.

It would also reduce commute times on Hwy 101. When the dotcom bubble popped back in 2001, it took 20 minutes off my morning commute.

I think I'd start busking rather than live in a shoebox. Yuppie slums are now legal in the US. How long before they're mandatory in the "Hip and Happening" places. I weep for my children.

I wouldn't mind what the the tech bubble popping might do to San Francisco rental prices.

It would also reduce commute times on Hwy 101. When the dotcom bubble popped back in 2001, it took 20 minutes off my morning commute.

Because you could collect your unemployment check from home?

I wouldn't mind what the the tech bubble popping might do to San Francisco rental prices.

It would also reduce commute times on Hwy 101. When the dotcom bubble popped back in 2001, it took 20 minutes off my morning commute.

Not that I would want to wish bad things like lost of income or livelihood on anyone, but as someone who moved here long before this bubble started, I wouldn't mind what the the tech bubble popping might do to San Francisco rental prices.

it's not the problem of vegetables having clocks or not, but more the cows. the farmer must wake up to milk the cows because the dairy truck stops by one hour later (or earlier). for the last 6 months, the cows have been accustomed to being milked at 4 AM, but as of today, it's actually 5 AM, and damn is it painful, and apparently even a health issue for our cattle. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Daylight-saving-not-good-for-cows-3225026.php

M'k... There seems to be some pushback on whether that has an effect in reality.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Higher-Speed-Limits-Lower-Death-Rates-2981119.php

and

http://www.vollynet.org.nz/Speed%20Limit%20Law%20and%20Fatality%20Rates.pdf

and

"A study by researchers from KDOT, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas into the effect of the 1996 change to 70 mph â" the last time the state raised the speed limit â" found no statistically significant increases in crashes and fatality rates on rural or urban interstate highways as of 1998."

All I'm saying is cars are a *lot* safer nowdays than when that study was performed, and handle a lot better.
I'm sure 65 is more dangerous than 55, but is it a lot more dangerous... I doubt that, and it seems others do too..

And they were using cell phones.

Most of the 9/11 calls were from Airfones, not cell phones -

http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/cmcginnis/2010/12/16/airfone250x187.jpg

Airfones have mostly gone away, but a dozen years ago they were pretty common.

When I notice my fellow passengers playing Candy Crush on their phones you can plainly see the NO SERVICE displayed on the top. This is because they don't know how to go into Airplane Mode so their radios are on, but the phone can't lock to a tower at 35K feet travelling at a ground speed of 500 mph.

If you will recall, this was proven on 9/11/2001.

Most of the 9/11 calls were from Airfones, not cell phones -

http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/cmcginnis/2010/12/16/airfone250x187.jpg

Airfones have mostly gone away, but a dozen years ago they were pretty common.

When I notice my fellow passengers playing Candy Crush on their phones you can plainly see the NO SERVICE displayed on the top. This is because they don't know how to go into Airplane Mode so their radios are on, but the phone can't lock to a tower at 35K feet travelling at a ground speed of 500 mph.

That's the true goal of these companies, and a big reason they're all so keen on H1B1.

These big tech fucks move into a town, drive the real estate prices sky-high so you basically have to be upper management to own a place outside the "campus", and if not then you must either live well outside the critical radius and spend at least an hour commuting (good luck with your family), or opt to live within company provided housing ( http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Facebook-partner-to-build-Menlo-Park-housing-4860826.php ).

But this has been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town. Sigh. So wearisome.

How does it weaken society? By reducing suffering?

Reduce suffering? You really don't get the problems with the law do you?

First, it's a misallocation of public funding and a large inefficiency in the economy. Rather than spend a lot of money to make medical care more expensive (via the large health insurance subsidies plus those mandates on insurers), wouldn't it be better used to pay for federal level law enforcement and disaster response? Roads? National defense? The more you spend on feel good stuff the less you have for the things that actually matter and the things that the federal government is actually tasked to do.

Second, it creates several perverse incentives such as an employer shift to part time employment and reducing personal income to meet subsidy requirements.

These are part of why this is remarkably bad law even by Washington, DC. The US can handle some level of bad law, but it keeps piling up year after year.

"A man with a history of mental illness has pleaded guilty in connection with a thwarted plot to start a civil war by detonating what he thought was a car bomb outside an Oakland bank - but was actually a phony weapon provided by an undercover agent." ref

You haven't read the links carefully if you didn't see what I wrote. Take the video for example, in the follow up the woman is very careful to explain that she was beaten for turning down a man instead of being a snitch. The presumption was that anyone being attacked like that must have been a snitch. Luckily the neighborhoods like Oakland are very much the exception, and the vast majority of America is statistically safer than Europe. A few more examples for you to think on:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fuck-the-police
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Many-young-black-men-in-Oakland-are-killing-and-3299781.php

Seeing a shrink isn't going to help with a cultural issue. The culture that rules these types of neighborhoods celebrates violence, (this is where most US murders come from) and ruthlessly kills anyone that speaks up about a crime they witness. To quote the SFgate article:

Witnesses are cowed into silence because snitches have been known to disappear. Nearly half of all murders in Oakland go uncharged for lack of a willing witness, so a shooter knows he has about a 50-50 chance of getting away with it.

Except you failed to read the article. (I know, its slashdot).

These aren't rich people we are talking about.
They are ride sharing people, waiting for their ride. Rich people don't share rides.

They are all standing around in a convenient place location and a thug walks up with a gun and starts collecting wallets and phones.

Why do you have to turn that into class warfare? It has nothing to do with rich or poor, but in this case it was just working stiffs getting robbed.

They don't need an 10 new police officers 24/7, they need 3 or 4, for at most a couple hours at quitting time every afternoon.

Donuts and a radar gun? Have you ever been to Oakland? Fix this:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_22622926/an-oakland-murder-trial-against-teenager-that-sadly

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23890186/oakland-12-people-shot-less-than-24-hours

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6b_1364321154&comments=1

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0708a/copyright/snitch.html

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oakland-snitch-killing-brings-65-to-life-term-2414713.php

This is far beyond smoking pot and speeding. This is a culture that actively celebrates murder and beats or kills those that cooperate with the police. You can't fix this by hiring new cops that ignore people smoking pot and breaking the speeding limit. Until you fix the culture Oakland will continue to be a hell hole for the residents that live there.

...The once powerful Yahoo grasps at straws to attract developers back after fucking them over for a few years...

Perhaps even the non-developers — the Yahoo! Yodeler, Wylie Gustafson is one that comes to mind from over a decade ago.

Major Wolfe of the local police said, "You can't ignore it. We don't know at what time that game becomes reality."

Cops can't tell the difference between games and reality. Give Major Wolfe some credit for honesty!

Also, they can't tell the difference between a gun and a taser. Sorry about that.

C'mon, people, it's hard to find PhD rocket surgeons willing to violently suppress peaceful demonstrators for craptastic pay. Cut the PD some slack!

At first glance, one would think "Oracle" is a company devoted to catering high end golf outings and boat racing.

They make software, right?

Only as a means of raising the money for high end golf outings and boat racing.

With blackjack and hookers....

You mean strippers, right?

Don't ANY of us know how to read a news story and think for ourselves, anymore?

There's a methodology used to substantiate this kind of BULLSHIT claim. It can be described as shooting an arrow towards a wall, then drawing a bulls-eye around it, after the fact.

For another metaphor? Here's the word you get to drive your Mack truck through:

"Affiliated"

When you have the NYPD secretly assign all Mosques the "Terrorist Organization" label, and you have the CIA recruiting for record numbers of native Arabic speakers, for translation?

Call it "Psyop Ju-Jitsu". This is an all-star set up, to make a positive scare-tactic out of the negative public relations resulting from Snowden's revelations.

By-the-fucking-way, what else do you expect, when you let this kind of shit go down? Objective and agenda-less reporting of fact?

USA. It's like a police-state with Tesla Model S and overnight shipping, instead of Bread and Circuses.

They have been caught trying to cover their asses, and now are backtracking on their self-serving decision:

. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/SFFD-backtracks-may-allow-helmet-cameras-4744090.php

In an apparent about-face, San Francisco Fire Department officials said Monday they will revisit restrictions on firefighters' use of helmet-mounted cameras after concluding that footage from the Asiana Airlines crash showed the value of the devices.

I'm as confused as the next guy with all the conflicting news reports about this:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFFD-backtracks-may-allow-helmet-cameras-4744090.php

jtownatpun.net snarled:

The only reason you could want to ban cameras is to hide your mistakes.

Yep. And that that's the reason behind the imbecile SF Fire Chief's ban is so obvious that she's already walking it back.

Can you say "Streisand Effect", anybody?"

"In an apparent about-face, San Francisco Fire Department officials said Monday they will revisit restrictions on firefighters' use of helmet-mounted cameras after concluding that footage from the Asiana Airlines crash showed the value of the devices."

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFFD-backtracks-may-allow-helmet-cameras-4744090.php

They (partially) backtracked and may allow cameras:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFFD-backtracks-may-allow-helmet-cameras-4744090.php

In an apparent about-face, San Francisco Fire Department officials said Monday they will revisit restrictions on firefighters' use of helmet-mounted cameras after concluding that footage from the Asiana Airlines crash showed the value of the devices.