That is not the strategy at all. The strategy is "10 years from now, I'll have moved on from my position here as CEO of XYZ Energy Co., so what do I care about investing in infrastructure? I want a bigger bonus!"
Two problems: 1) extra insulation is only going to do so much to reduce energy consumption. Sure, you might reduce consumption 10-20% in some older buildings, but that's not going to make a giant difference in the overall power consumption.
2) If you make peoples' houses more efficient, many of them will simply crank up the A/C even more, so they end up using the same amount of power as before.
And finally, even if #2 didn't happen, the population is constantly increasing, so energy usage is going to increase along with it. Improving efficiency is just delaying the inevitable (although, to be fair, this factor doesn't apply to Japan, but I'm not sure about SK).
This isn't unusual, and it isn't a case of "both parties working together", just two Congresscritters from both parties working together on something the rest of their cohorts in Congress may have no interest in. Another recent example is the proposed privacy act that Rand Paul and some Democrat sponsored. Rand's a Republican, but he probably doesn't speak for the rest of the Republicans on that bill. This "SHIELD" bill may be co-sponsored by a Democrat, but it probably isn't going to be too popular among the other Democrats, since they generally favor litigiousness.
The thing that surprised me the most was how hard it was to find a decent Mexican restaurant in the PHX area.
Yep, the higher-end places are all "fake Mexican"; you'll find a much more authentic Mexican meal at Filiberto's. There are some places to get really authentic Mexican food, but they're tiny holes in the wall and hard to find.
The drinking water is absolutely terrible unless you get an RO system or get bottled water.
Yes, exactly. Luckily, there are big RO vending machines at many stop-and-rob stores, but it's a pain having to get your drinking water out of a machine all the time.
This is purely subjective, but the PHX area has a lot of evangelicals and conservative religious types. And don't forget the plain old (and I mean old) conservatives.
Yes, but don't forget all the Mormons in the east valley.
There's nothing "distictive" about Mill Avenue these days except for a bunch of shitty bars. All the interesting stores have been run out of town. Once in a while they'll have a little art festival, but that's about it. Downtown Phoenix has nothing interesting, just a few places that might be OK for lunch for the crowd that works downtown, and everything closes at 6PM. Old Town Scottsdale is the only thing on that list that's really worth spending any time there at all, and even that's mainly a bunch of art shops catering to tourists with the same fake western crap art.
The "low cost of living" thing is a total lie. Sure, it's cheaper than Silicon Valley (what isn't?), but you can live cheaper in most large cities on the east coast.
Yep, pretty much. We've got the road-rage shootings that Houston has, but without the decent places to eat. Not that there aren't any, but they're pretty few and far between for a city of this size. Sure, there's tons of shitty corporate chain restaurants like TGI Friday's, plus all the typical fast-food garbage and then some, but if you want a quality meal made with quality ingredients, and good service to go along with it, it's pretty hard to find. I've found a handful of really good places, but it gets a little boring eating at the same ~4 places all the time, or having to drive 30 minutes to go someplace else. Worse, consistent with the generally incompetent service people here in every industry, the food service here is really bad too; you can't have a meal with your significant other without having some stupid waiter bust into your intense conversation every 5 minutes asking "How's that tasting for you?!?!", and then right after that some fat-ass manager coming around and asking the same thing because he has nothing better to do. It seems no one around here has any clue how to provide decent service at any restaurant that's less than $50/plate. And then if you do go to a high-priced restaurant at one of the resorts, you're likely to get some Mexican waiter who gives you an attitude when your wife speaks up and orders for herself instead of deferring to you, the man (true story).
"tooyoung"'s description is exactly right. There are some tech jobs here, at large companies like Intel, but for the size of the city (metro area) it's not much, and everyone there is married with kids, living in a gated compound in Gilbert or Chandler, surrounded by giant strip malls.
There's a big difference between a kiss and fucking. And again, I don't see the difference between this and the idea that it's wrong for people to excel at their job, because this makes the incompetent ones feel bad.
if someone else is using the data CL worked to gather, and uses that data to take page views (read: customers) away from CL, then I feel they have a legitimate complaint*
Nope. Go look for a place on PadMapper.com. Find a listing that comes from Craigslist. Click on it. It directs you to the CL ad that it scraped. These aggregation services (also including searchtempest.com and many others) merely redirect you to the CL ad you're looking for, and provide a much better way of finding it.
Actually, I'm moving to the greater NYC area soon, and I don't see anything like that in that area. In fact, pickups are pretty rare, as are shitty H-D motorcycles.
Also, the idea that Canada is free of such things is probably quite wrong; I haven't been there myself, but from what I read, Alberta isn't exactly a place known for high culture.
No, it just spouts a lot of lies, such as the ridiculous notion that you can rent a 3BR place for $850/month. The only place you might find a place for that price is in the ghetto on the west side.
They made a very short post, which you could infer various different things from. To me, "technological shithole" with regards to apartment shopping means that it isn't very helpful in that pursuit, and that is indeed the case, since they can't even be bothered to use a map like any decent site. It has nothing to do with "simplistic coding", but with a lack of actual utility in the site. Of course, "simplistic coding" does correlate to that to a certain extent, because you can't create a sophisticated site that shows apartments on a draggable map unless you do some fairly sophisticated coding on both the front and back ends (i.e., you have to do AJAX), but this extends well beyond simple style issues that you seem to be pointing to.
If you want to look at a site that has an older style, but is still highly functional, check out reddit.com; it's far more functional than this place, yet it looks like it came straight out of 1999. But it's not a problem, because it does all it needs to do (and though it looks old-style, it does seem to use a good amount of javascript to implement its UI). Craigslist isn't like this. It looks like shit, but worse, it performs like shit, because it really isn't very helpful in actually helping you find a place to live. And now that some sites like PadMapper have sprung up and use CL's data to actually make apartment-hunting easy for people, the assholes at CL are trying to stop them, instead of fixing their shitty site.
There is nothing wrong with that. 1996 technology is perfectly adequate for what CL is doing.
Bullshit. If you want to see how an apartment-finding (or room-for-rent-finding) website should look, check out PadMapper.com. Here's a hint: if you're in a new area, looking for a room/apartment to rent/sublet, you don't know the name of every stupid little 1-mile-wide town packed into the urban area. But you can pick out on a map where you'd like to live, based on where your new job is located, so you know you want to live with an X-mile radius of that spot. With PadMapper, you can see all the listings on a MAP. With stupid CL, you have to guess at town names, and then try to look up street addresses on a separate google maps tab to figure out just how far from your job that place is. Heck, many times, it's hard just to figure out exactly which xxxx.craigslist.org site you should be going to, for instance if you're looking in a dense urban area like NYC/NJ where there's several different CLs that serve that area.
CL is obviously cheaper than Ebay, but you get what you pay for. CL is nearly unusable for many things; you can't find anything on there, and because it's so locally-oriented, many things are never posted there to begin with. Ebay and CL really serve two different markets much of the time. If you're looking for something small and shippable, then Ebay is the place to go, and you'll have a relatively easy time finding it. If you're looking for a piece of bulky used furniture in your local area, CL is a better bet, though it'll be a pain in the ass to wade through all the ads to find it because the site's design and organization sucks so hard. If you're looking for a room for rent or a sublet, Ebay doesn't serve that market at all (though PadMapper is a much better choice here since they have the brilliant idea of putting them on a map, something that's obviously far too advanced a concept for the people at CL).
Yes, Ebay's fees really suck, but at least they put a lot of thought into site design and usability, unlike Craigslist. I'm not saying that Ebay is the epitome of site design (there's other, smaller auction sites that are largely as good), but compared to the shithole that is Craigslist, it sure looks like it.
Because they're the employees you want in a startup. The older people with families and mortgages aren't about to spend their time on something that doesn't pay well, and has a 90% chance of going nowhere and leaving them unemployed in a year. Young people will do it because they like pioneering something new, and because they can afford the risk (if the startup succeeds, they stand to make a lot of money, but the chances for failure are high). If it doesn't work out, they'll just go get another job, but they don't depend on a stable income at that stage in their lives.
So you think everyone should avoid showing any affection in public because it'll make you feel bad? I'm sorry, that's pathetic.
I guess you also think no one should excel at their job, because it'll make some incompetent people feel bad. And we should stop using signs with text everywhere, because it'll make illiterate people feel bad. And we should stop using signs at all, because it'll make blind people feel bad. We should also stop talking, because that'll make deaf people feel bad. Hell, just how are we going to communicate or conduct ourselves anyway, without making someone feel bad?
I think it's a relative thing, not binary. There's some warm places that are pretty nice (San Diego is coming to mind right now), but they don't get *that* hot. Heck, Hawaii is really nice, and it gets rather warm there, but never as hot as Phoenix.
Yeah, it's full of a bunch of $30,000-a-year millionaires. Ever gone to south Scottsdale?
Scottsdale is little better than the rest of the Phoenix area, and worse in some ways than some other parts. The people there are pretentious jerks (aka, $30k/year millionaires, and also people who do have some money but again are pretentious jerks), there's nothing much to do (though I will say old town Scottsdale is a lot better than Mill Avenue these days; there's a few places to go there and some interesting shops, but I've been to small towns in other states that offer just as much), there's some shitty tech companies there like GoDaddy, and it's full of a bunch of shitty, overpriced homes made out of cardboard.
And South Scottsdale isn't much better than Sunnyslope.
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Are you stupid? Exactly what technology is available which is "cleaner and cheaper" than nuclear?
That is not the strategy at all. The strategy is "10 years from now, I'll have moved on from my position here as CEO of XYZ Energy Co., so what do I care about investing in infrastructure? I want a bigger bonus!"
Two problems: 1) extra insulation is only going to do so much to reduce energy consumption. Sure, you might reduce consumption 10-20% in some older buildings, but that's not going to make a giant difference in the overall power consumption.
2) If you make peoples' houses more efficient, many of them will simply crank up the A/C even more, so they end up using the same amount of power as before.
And finally, even if #2 didn't happen, the population is constantly increasing, so energy usage is going to increase along with it. Improving efficiency is just delaying the inevitable (although, to be fair, this factor doesn't apply to Japan, but I'm not sure about SK).
No, don't, because then I'll be offended. Please refer to them as congresscritters.
This isn't unusual, and it isn't a case of "both parties working together", just two Congresscritters from both parties working together on something the rest of their cohorts in Congress may have no interest in. Another recent example is the proposed privacy act that Rand Paul and some Democrat sponsored. Rand's a Republican, but he probably doesn't speak for the rest of the Republicans on that bill. This "SHIELD" bill may be co-sponsored by a Democrat, but it probably isn't going to be too popular among the other Democrats, since they generally favor litigiousness.
But this is normal for judges; they think they're little demigods, in or out of court.
The thing that surprised me the most was how hard it was to find a decent Mexican restaurant in the PHX area.
Yep, the higher-end places are all "fake Mexican"; you'll find a much more authentic Mexican meal at Filiberto's. There are some places to get really authentic Mexican food, but they're tiny holes in the wall and hard to find.
The drinking water is absolutely terrible unless you get an RO system or get bottled water.
Yes, exactly. Luckily, there are big RO vending machines at many stop-and-rob stores, but it's a pain having to get your drinking water out of a machine all the time.
This is purely subjective, but the PHX area has a lot of evangelicals and conservative religious types. And don't forget the plain old (and I mean old) conservatives.
Yes, but don't forget all the Mormons in the east valley.
There's nothing "distictive" about Mill Avenue these days except for a bunch of shitty bars. All the interesting stores have been run out of town. Once in a while they'll have a little art festival, but that's about it. Downtown Phoenix has nothing interesting, just a few places that might be OK for lunch for the crowd that works downtown, and everything closes at 6PM. Old Town Scottsdale is the only thing on that list that's really worth spending any time there at all, and even that's mainly a bunch of art shops catering to tourists with the same fake western crap art.
The "low cost of living" thing is a total lie. Sure, it's cheaper than Silicon Valley (what isn't?), but you can live cheaper in most large cities on the east coast.
At least convince the members of my HOA that requiring grass lawns is a bad idea.
Hahahaha, good luck with that. HOA board members aren't generally known for practicality.
Yep, pretty much. We've got the road-rage shootings that Houston has, but without the decent places to eat. Not that there aren't any, but they're pretty few and far between for a city of this size. Sure, there's tons of shitty corporate chain restaurants like TGI Friday's, plus all the typical fast-food garbage and then some, but if you want a quality meal made with quality ingredients, and good service to go along with it, it's pretty hard to find. I've found a handful of really good places, but it gets a little boring eating at the same ~4 places all the time, or having to drive 30 minutes to go someplace else. Worse, consistent with the generally incompetent service people here in every industry, the food service here is really bad too; you can't have a meal with your significant other without having some stupid waiter bust into your intense conversation every 5 minutes asking "How's that tasting for you?!?!", and then right after that some fat-ass manager coming around and asking the same thing because he has nothing better to do. It seems no one around here has any clue how to provide decent service at any restaurant that's less than $50/plate. And then if you do go to a high-priced restaurant at one of the resorts, you're likely to get some Mexican waiter who gives you an attitude when your wife speaks up and orders for herself instead of deferring to you, the man (true story).
"tooyoung"'s description is exactly right. There are some tech jobs here, at large companies like Intel, but for the size of the city (metro area) it's not much, and everyone there is married with kids, living in a gated compound in Gilbert or Chandler, surrounded by giant strip malls.
There's a big difference between a kiss and fucking. And again, I don't see the difference between this and the idea that it's wrong for people to excel at their job, because this makes the incompetent ones feel bad.
if someone else is using the data CL worked to gather, and uses that data to take page views (read: customers) away from CL, then I feel they have a legitimate complaint*
Nope. Go look for a place on PadMapper.com. Find a listing that comes from Craigslist. Click on it. It directs you to the CL ad that it scraped. These aggregation services (also including searchtempest.com and many others) merely redirect you to the CL ad you're looking for, and provide a much better way of finding it.
Actually, I'm moving to the greater NYC area soon, and I don't see anything like that in that area. In fact, pickups are pretty rare, as are shitty H-D motorcycles.
Also, the idea that Canada is free of such things is probably quite wrong; I haven't been there myself, but from what I read, Alberta isn't exactly a place known for high culture.
No, it just spouts a lot of lies, such as the ridiculous notion that you can rent a 3BR place for $850/month. The only place you might find a place for that price is in the ghetto on the west side.
They made a very short post, which you could infer various different things from. To me, "technological shithole" with regards to apartment shopping means that it isn't very helpful in that pursuit, and that is indeed the case, since they can't even be bothered to use a map like any decent site. It has nothing to do with "simplistic coding", but with a lack of actual utility in the site. Of course, "simplistic coding" does correlate to that to a certain extent, because you can't create a sophisticated site that shows apartments on a draggable map unless you do some fairly sophisticated coding on both the front and back ends (i.e., you have to do AJAX), but this extends well beyond simple style issues that you seem to be pointing to.
If you want to look at a site that has an older style, but is still highly functional, check out reddit.com; it's far more functional than this place, yet it looks like it came straight out of 1999. But it's not a problem, because it does all it needs to do (and though it looks old-style, it does seem to use a good amount of javascript to implement its UI). Craigslist isn't like this. It looks like shit, but worse, it performs like shit, because it really isn't very helpful in actually helping you find a place to live. And now that some sites like PadMapper have sprung up and use CL's data to actually make apartment-hunting easy for people, the assholes at CL are trying to stop them, instead of fixing their shitty site.
There is nothing wrong with that. 1996 technology is perfectly adequate for what CL is doing.
Bullshit. If you want to see how an apartment-finding (or room-for-rent-finding) website should look, check out PadMapper.com. Here's a hint: if you're in a new area, looking for a room/apartment to rent/sublet, you don't know the name of every stupid little 1-mile-wide town packed into the urban area. But you can pick out on a map where you'd like to live, based on where your new job is located, so you know you want to live with an X-mile radius of that spot. With PadMapper, you can see all the listings on a MAP. With stupid CL, you have to guess at town names, and then try to look up street addresses on a separate google maps tab to figure out just how far from your job that place is. Heck, many times, it's hard just to figure out exactly which xxxx.craigslist.org site you should be going to, for instance if you're looking in a dense urban area like NYC/NJ where there's several different CLs that serve that area.
Yep, I ran into this recently too; one "landlord" was "temporarily" living in Africa and wanted applications sent there.
Sounds nice, except that, as the OP pointed out, Craigslist IS broken, and all these years later still isn't fixed at all.
CL is obviously cheaper than Ebay, but you get what you pay for. CL is nearly unusable for many things; you can't find anything on there, and because it's so locally-oriented, many things are never posted there to begin with. Ebay and CL really serve two different markets much of the time. If you're looking for something small and shippable, then Ebay is the place to go, and you'll have a relatively easy time finding it. If you're looking for a piece of bulky used furniture in your local area, CL is a better bet, though it'll be a pain in the ass to wade through all the ads to find it because the site's design and organization sucks so hard. If you're looking for a room for rent or a sublet, Ebay doesn't serve that market at all (though PadMapper is a much better choice here since they have the brilliant idea of putting them on a map, something that's obviously far too advanced a concept for the people at CL).
Yes, Ebay's fees really suck, but at least they put a lot of thought into site design and usability, unlike Craigslist. I'm not saying that Ebay is the epitome of site design (there's other, smaller auction sites that are largely as good), but compared to the shithole that is Craigslist, it sure looks like it.
It's all the same metro area.
Why is cool, young, and hip important?
Because they're the employees you want in a startup. The older people with families and mortgages aren't about to spend their time on something that doesn't pay well, and has a 90% chance of going nowhere and leaving them unemployed in a year. Young people will do it because they like pioneering something new, and because they can afford the risk (if the startup succeeds, they stand to make a lot of money, but the chances for failure are high). If it doesn't work out, they'll just go get another job, but they don't depend on a stable income at that stage in their lives.
So you think everyone should avoid showing any affection in public because it'll make you feel bad? I'm sorry, that's pathetic.
I guess you also think no one should excel at their job, because it'll make some incompetent people feel bad. And we should stop using signs with text everywhere, because it'll make illiterate people feel bad. And we should stop using signs at all, because it'll make blind people feel bad. We should also stop talking, because that'll make deaf people feel bad. Hell, just how are we going to communicate or conduct ourselves anyway, without making someone feel bad?
I think it's a relative thing, not binary. There's some warm places that are pretty nice (San Diego is coming to mind right now), but they don't get *that* hot. Heck, Hawaii is really nice, and it gets rather warm there, but never as hot as Phoenix.
Yeah, it's full of a bunch of $30,000-a-year millionaires. Ever gone to south Scottsdale?
Scottsdale is little better than the rest of the Phoenix area, and worse in some ways than some other parts. The people there are pretentious jerks (aka, $30k/year millionaires, and also people who do have some money but again are pretentious jerks), there's nothing much to do (though I will say old town Scottsdale is a lot better than Mill Avenue these days; there's a few places to go there and some interesting shops, but I've been to small towns in other states that offer just as much), there's some shitty tech companies there like GoDaddy, and it's full of a bunch of shitty, overpriced homes made out of cardboard.
And South Scottsdale isn't much better than Sunnyslope.