This can't possibly be for quality of life of the employees, given some of the other finalists. Nor is it likely for the largest subsidies, given how places like Newark were ready to throw everything plus the kitchen sink at them.
Perhaps it's for an employee base more amenable to CIA/NSA work
True, Coward, mathematically, but I don't think local Seattle politicians have that kind of patience. We're not talking about the Damned Rothschilds here, patiently hatching century-long schemes.
Note what some folks have said in the past on this... they support the Seattle income tax proposal, as a "test case" to get the entire statewide prohibition on income taxes tossed out, so that Washington can have a state income tax.
I live in Seattle. You can debate the merits of having an income tax, or not. But you'd have to be an outright moron to think they would keep the threshold at $250K.
Now they're saying "we'll have an income tax at $250K, we'll solve the homeless problem with the money". In 4 years, homeless issue will be worse, and they'll say "we'll make it $175K and we'll solve the homeless problem". 4 more years, "Let's make it $100K and we'll solve the homeless problem".
Once the mechanism is in place they (the gummint) won't be able to control themselves.
Yes, the summary twice says people are "still" using the DVD service, as if it's an Abacus. Especially if you like some obscure and/or non-US movies, the DVD inventory is the only place to find most of what you want to watch.
I've noticed this issue for a couple years now, but I scroll down by clicking the scroll bar above the "down" arrow. Am I the only person who scrolls that way?
Good grief, what crannies of Seattle do you commenters live in? I was in West Seattle and now SLU. Our building gets Gig eithernet next month.
Are you in the northwest part, the part that doesn't even have sidewalks?
The Onion, fifteen years ago, published what is still the most accurate article about public transportation ever written
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Seattle has zoning out the ying-yang, and the streets specifically need to be zoned to townhouse height to build the townhouses. That designation has been spreading over the last decade+.
As far as aesthetics, just go to a neighborhood Design Review Board meeting, where the dozen or so busybodies in each neighborhood go and throw rotten vegetables at developers for hours, ruthlessly hounding them to get their designs more in line with the aesthetics of the busybody junta.
(A sufficiently small townhouse project can evade the board, much to the chagrin of the busybodies).
The problem with the townhouses is not that they're ugly or don't "fit in" but that too many of them get build without parking, as the anti-car elements on design boards and in the gummint browbeat developers into not offering parking.
I looked at a lot of the new Ballard construction when house shopping in 2013, before buying a condo in another 'hood, they're not bad, the kitchens especially are generally being done very nicely, but you can't please everyone with how they look from the outside, I guess.
I have found (while reading through resumes trying to find candidates) that the response of most applicants to this phenomenon is to just apply for jobs for which they aren't really qualified at all, because no one is completely qualified. Which leads to probably the exact situation employers are trying to avoid (having tons of unqualified people apply)
And for me personally, when I'm looking for work, it has the opposite effect - I try to not apply for something unless I really look like a fit, but with these Les Miserables-sized qualification lists, I'm not qualified for anything at all. So I think I end up under-applying for jobs.
The only changes I've noticed in my Yahoo! stuff since Mayer took over is that they started sending a daily "stories" email to all my Yahoo! accounts (which I promptly turned off).
If ramping up a daily headlines email was a key component of strategy.... yeesh... this is 2014 not 1995
Are there any actual cases of a community engaging in this top down "we're gonna make ourselves a high tech hub" endeavor and actually succeeding? It's usually crappy places that will not succeed, no matter how hard they try.
I guess there's some subjectivity in calling something "very small", but I'd call a 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1,000,000 chance of a disorder to be "very small", not 1 in 100.
Free your mind. The thing here is probably that it's tougher for tech companies in LA to recruit. I live in Seattle and you'd probably have to pay me 50% more to live in LA.
Lots of people'd like to live in Seattle, for the reasons you describe, so there's plenty of job candidates.
Is there some benefit to these super duper broadband speeds besides talking about how cool it is? It takes a tiny fraction of this speed to send a HD movie.
It seems like the fundamental assumption of all the critics of this is that there's *no way in hell* that the base price being paid is going to go down. Of course it will go down. The cable companies may be crazy, but they're not that crazy.
I haven't had cable in six years, but if this all ends up in me being able to get enough stuff I want at say a $20-25/month price point I may just hop back on board.
ESPN sucks so much blood from the cable bill - just ditching their stuff should result in a nice savings.
This (from wikipedia) would make the things I grew up with in New Jersey traffic circles, not roundabouts:
Although the term roundabout is sometimes used for a traffic circle even in the United States, U.S. traffic engineers now make the distinction that in a roundabout entering traffic must always yield to traffic already in the circle, whereas in a traffic circle entering traffic is controlled by Stop signs, or is not formally controlled.
You needed local knowledge to know what the hell to do in those circles - the Hamilton circle (removed a long long time ago for the Hamilton Mall) and the more recently removed Cardiff circle near the Shore Mall.
Have they bothered thinking about other cancers in all of this? I had testicular cancer last year, and my phone spends a lot more time in my jacket or pants pocket than it does up against my head.
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This can't possibly be for quality of life of the employees, given some of the other finalists. Nor is it likely for the largest subsidies, given how places like Newark were ready to throw everything plus the kitchen sink at them.
Perhaps it's for an employee base more amenable to CIA/NSA work
True, Coward, mathematically, but I don't think local Seattle politicians have that kind of patience. We're not talking about the Damned Rothschilds here, patiently hatching century-long schemes.
Note what some folks have said in the past on this... they support the Seattle income tax proposal, as a "test case" to get the entire statewide prohibition on income taxes tossed out, so that Washington can have a state income tax.
I live in Seattle. You can debate the merits of having an income tax, or not. But you'd have to be an outright moron to think they would keep the threshold at $250K. Now they're saying "we'll have an income tax at $250K, we'll solve the homeless problem with the money". In 4 years, homeless issue will be worse, and they'll say "we'll make it $175K and we'll solve the homeless problem". 4 more years, "Let's make it $100K and we'll solve the homeless problem". Once the mechanism is in place they (the gummint) won't be able to control themselves.
Yes, the summary twice says people are "still" using the DVD service, as if it's an Abacus. Especially if you like some obscure and/or non-US movies, the DVD inventory is the only place to find most of what you want to watch.
I've noticed this issue for a couple years now, but I scroll down by clicking the scroll bar above the "down" arrow. Am I the only person who scrolls that way?
maybe they're only planning to forward to other companies that are also scanning the email.
Good grief, what crannies of Seattle do you commenters live in? I was in West Seattle and now SLU. Our building gets Gig eithernet next month. Are you in the northwest part, the part that doesn't even have sidewalks?
It sounds fine if you use Monster HDMI cable
The Onion, fifteen years ago, published what is still the most accurate article about public transportation ever written http://www.theonion.com/articl...
As you know, the whole "it rains there every day" thing is a canard dreamed up by the people already here, to stop more people from coming.
Seattle has zoning out the ying-yang, and the streets specifically need to be zoned to townhouse height to build the townhouses. That designation has been spreading over the last decade+.
As far as aesthetics, just go to a neighborhood Design Review Board meeting, where the dozen or so busybodies in each neighborhood go and throw rotten vegetables at developers for hours, ruthlessly hounding them to get their designs more in line with the aesthetics of the busybody junta.
(A sufficiently small townhouse project can evade the board, much to the chagrin of the busybodies).
The problem with the townhouses is not that they're ugly or don't "fit in" but that too many of them get build without parking, as the anti-car elements on design boards and in the gummint browbeat developers into not offering parking.
I looked at a lot of the new Ballard construction when house shopping in 2013, before buying a condo in another 'hood, they're not bad, the kitchens especially are generally being done very nicely, but you can't please everyone with how they look from the outside, I guess.
I have found (while reading through resumes trying to find candidates) that the response of most applicants to this phenomenon is to just apply for jobs for which they aren't really qualified at all, because no one is completely qualified. Which leads to probably the exact situation employers are trying to avoid (having tons of unqualified people apply) And for me personally, when I'm looking for work, it has the opposite effect - I try to not apply for something unless I really look like a fit, but with these Les Miserables-sized qualification lists, I'm not qualified for anything at all. So I think I end up under-applying for jobs.
The only changes I've noticed in my Yahoo! stuff since Mayer took over is that they started sending a daily "stories" email to all my Yahoo! accounts (which I promptly turned off). If ramping up a daily headlines email was a key component of strategy.... yeesh... this is 2014 not 1995
Are there any actual cases of a community engaging in this top down "we're gonna make ourselves a high tech hub" endeavor and actually succeeding? It's usually crappy places that will not succeed, no matter how hard they try.
I guess there's some subjectivity in calling something "very small", but I'd call a 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1,000,000 chance of a disorder to be "very small", not 1 in 100.
Free your mind. The thing here is probably that it's tougher for tech companies in LA to recruit. I live in Seattle and you'd probably have to pay me 50% more to live in LA. Lots of people'd like to live in Seattle, for the reasons you describe, so there's plenty of job candidates.
My RSS reader doesn't italicize, so I see "Urban Terror Code Stolen"... I was like, "NOOOOO.... uh... what's an Urban Terror Code?"
Is there some benefit to these super duper broadband speeds besides talking about how cool it is? It takes a tiny fraction of this speed to send a HD movie.
Maybe if enough DMV projects around the country tank, governments will realize their DMVs are far too complex
Infoworld is flogging this relentlessly, but I'm not seeing it at my company and friends are not seeing it at their companies. Anecdotal, I know.
It seems like the fundamental assumption of all the critics of this is that there's *no way in hell* that the base price being paid is going to go down. Of course it will go down. The cable companies may be crazy, but they're not that crazy. I haven't had cable in six years, but if this all ends up in me being able to get enough stuff I want at say a $20-25/month price point I may just hop back on board. ESPN sucks so much blood from the cable bill - just ditching their stuff should result in a nice savings.
This story feels a bit like one of those "suits are making a comeback!" stories.
Although the term roundabout is sometimes used for a traffic circle even in the United States, U.S. traffic engineers now make the distinction that in a roundabout entering traffic must always yield to traffic already in the circle, whereas in a traffic circle entering traffic is controlled by Stop signs, or is not formally controlled.
You needed local knowledge to know what the hell to do in those circles - the Hamilton circle (removed a long long time ago for the Hamilton Mall) and the more recently removed Cardiff circle near the Shore Mall.
Have they bothered thinking about other cancers in all of this? I had testicular cancer last year, and my phone spends a lot more time in my jacket or pants pocket than it does up against my head.