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Paper ballots are a good, necessary start. However they are by no means sufficient to secure elections against organized corruption.

Consider for a moment several amusing stories of election antics from San Franshitsco: http://sfist.com/2016/11/04/ri...

I hear California is so full of shit that they are trying to take the left wing nuts and split the state so the normal people in California don't have to suffer this stupidity. http://sfist.com/2017/03/26/la...

Are we taking bets on whether rocket companies choose leftie California or normal, business friendly California?

That data only goes through 2014

Prop 47 wasn't passed until the end of 2014

http://sfist.com/2016/04/25/sf...

Yeah, it's corrupt. The whole city of San Francisco is as corrupt as the cesspools on market street. Former Mayor Willie Brown was paid to cover this problem up. Ed Lee (the current mayor) is extremely unpopular among the citizens, got appointed to that office initially. The state senator from the area was convicted of gun running! Notably he favored gun control laws, I guess he wanted to get rid of the competition. Another guy was demanding "protection" money.

That's just the surface, the ones who've been caught. I don't know how deep it goes, but it definitely extends into the police department.

Well, it has the highest property crime rate in the US.

There clearly will be some sort of paying business model, like yelp, BBB, and others to hide or influence things that are displayed about you. The simplest solution is to take the approach the band Primus did, or the Botto Bistro in San Francisco.

You would think so, but all of those services currently issue 1099s, not W-2s:
http://sfist.com/2014/09/18/are_startups_in_the_1099_economy_ta.php

The linked article is from LA, not SF. Local news sources covered it better, and seem to imply this was a PR stunt:

http://sfist.com/2014/02/26/vi...

Well since I was replying to this message.
"The problem is those area's are in Texas, North Carolina, and Florida.

None of which are known for their overly rational people."

I would say it is more rational to judge a whole city by a few people than several states. I am sure that their are rational people in SF. There are crazy and rational people just about everywhere. The problem is that SF is actually becoming even more hostile to business than before.
Of course there is this http://sfist.com/2013/05/09/41... as well.

Let's be fair here, Ellison isn't a rich out of touch moron, he just hasn't caught up on work lately because he's too busy working on his yacht racing. And it's an uphill battle. He even had to pay another team to race against him in a race that he's paying for.

for those that don't realize that this is a joke... this is fake news

Yes. And you will want to eat eyes.

(Bonus: captcha == peepers)!

From my quick analysis beyond the article, it seems like there really isn't much to see here other than Thomas Hawk raising a stink about being kicked out of the museum. This has received fairly good coverage on sfist.com.

In particular, in the first story you'll see a comment from another visitor who witnessed the event which points out that he was acting like a possible perv:

Yes, your analysis was certainly quick.
And using an anonymous comment on a messageboard as a source? Fail.

From my quick analysis beyond the article, it seems like there really isn't much to see here other than Thomas Hawk raising a stink about being kicked out of the museum. This has received fairly good coverage on sfist.com.

In particular, in the first story you'll see a comment from another visitor who witnessed the event which points out that he was acting like a possible perv:

Yes, your analysis was certainly quick.
And using an anonymous comment on a messageboard as a source? Fail.

From my quick analysis beyond the article, it seems like there really isn't much to see here other than Thomas Hawk raising a stink about being kicked out of the museum. This has received fairly good coverage on sfist.com.

In particular, in the first story you'll see a comment from another visitor who witnessed the event which points out that he was acting like a possible perv:

I was at the museum on Friday and saw this whole thing go down. Thomas Hawk's account of what happened is unabashedly one-sided. What he neglects to mention is that he was standing on a balcony with his camera pointed down, aiming directly into the shirt/cleavage of one of the female employees working at the museum. Simon Blint asked Thomas Hawk to stop taking photos in order to protect his staff from a creepy perv, not because he was using a dSLR or for whatever BS reason Thomas Hawk claims.

Of course, Mr. Hawk isn't just stopping with raising a minor internet stink, he's trying to get Simon Blint fired.

I'm sorry folks, but if you think this is censorship, you're 100% wrong. This isn't censorship, this isn't about 9/11, this isn't about terrorism. It's about people doing malsocial actions that make the other visitors and staff of a museum feel uncomfortable. Not uncomfortable because of false terrorism threats, but uncomfortable because he's being kinda creepy.

From my quick analysis beyond the article, it seems like there really isn't much to see here other than Thomas Hawk raising a stink about being kicked out of the museum. This has received fairly good coverage on sfist.com.

In particular, in the first story you'll see a comment from another visitor who witnessed the event which points out that he was acting like a possible perv:

I was at the museum on Friday and saw this whole thing go down. Thomas Hawk's account of what happened is unabashedly one-sided. What he neglects to mention is that he was standing on a balcony with his camera pointed down, aiming directly into the shirt/cleavage of one of the female employees working at the museum. Simon Blint asked Thomas Hawk to stop taking photos in order to protect his staff from a creepy perv, not because he was using a dSLR or for whatever BS reason Thomas Hawk claims.

Of course, Mr. Hawk isn't just stopping with raising a minor internet stink, he's trying to get Simon Blint fired.

I'm sorry folks, but if you think this is censorship, you're 100% wrong. This isn't censorship, this isn't about 9/11, this isn't about terrorism. It's about people doing malsocial actions that make the other visitors and staff of a museum feel uncomfortable. Not uncomfortable because of false terrorism threats, but uncomfortable because he's being kinda creepy.

From my quick analysis beyond the article, it seems like there really isn't much to see here other than Thomas Hawk raising a stink about being kicked out of the museum. This has received fairly good coverage on sfist.com.

In particular, in the first story you'll see a comment from another visitor who witnessed the event which points out that he was acting like a possible perv:

I was at the museum on Friday and saw this whole thing go down. Thomas Hawk's account of what happened is unabashedly one-sided. What he neglects to mention is that he was standing on a balcony with his camera pointed down, aiming directly into the shirt/cleavage of one of the female employees working at the museum. Simon Blint asked Thomas Hawk to stop taking photos in order to protect his staff from a creepy perv, not because he was using a dSLR or for whatever BS reason Thomas Hawk claims.

Of course, Mr. Hawk isn't just stopping with raising a minor internet stink, he's trying to get Simon Blint fired.

I'm sorry folks, but if you think this is censorship, you're 100% wrong. This isn't censorship, this isn't about 9/11, this isn't about terrorism. It's about people doing malsocial actions that make the other visitors and staff of a museum feel uncomfortable. Not uncomfortable because of false terrorism threats, but uncomfortable because he's being kinda creepy.

There's a good description here.

Here's an example of how SBC is trying to win back the consumer. (The reason for this blog was SBC's incredibly poor customer service. The U.S. lags considerably behind other countries on price and speed. Taiwan: $23 USD. Hong Kong: $19 USD. etc.)

You should probably know that SBC has expanded outside California, even before it merged with AT&T. And you are right about them having a bad name. Not that AT&T has a much better one.