Huh? That's not my understanding at all (about it being a "dating site"); I thought it was supposed to be a meeting site for swingers, no more, no less. If you want to date, you go to match.com or something like that; if you want to find some people to have a threesome with or someone to screw your wife while you watch, you go to adultfriendfinder.com. Not that I'm endorsing this or anything, just relating what my perception of what that site is all about and what crowd it caters to.
Then again, I do find it hard to believe there'd be enough swingers out there to make that site as prominent and profitable as it appears to be, so maybe there is some other activity going on there.
Even with Hendrix, compare Little Wing to All Along the Watch Tower to Star Spangled Banner.
That's not really relevant, because at least the two latter ones are both cover songs: AAtWT was written and performed by Bob Dylan first, and SSB obviously was not Jimi's own song, though he certainly added his own interpretation of it. I can point to lots of bands that released albums full of cover songs. Heck, I'm sure if Katy Perry made an album of cover songs, they'd also sound different from each other.
One thing I find interesting about metal these days is that it's mostly dead here in the USA, but it appears to be very strong still in both Europe and Japan.
As for new music, I haven't heard anything new I have any interest in, except for new albums from old bands that are still working and making music like they used to.
I'm perfectly fine with loud concerts, thanks to this wonderful invention called "foam earplugs". They attenuate all the echoes from the arena so they can't be heard and reduce the volume of the primary signal so it's at a perfectly comfortable volume.
You mean like how, if you were locked in a box with thousands of photos of Joe Biden eating a sandwich for a year, you'd become a connoisseur of such photos?
Funny, but it wasn't quite so bad here before so many people moved in and overdeveloped the place with concrete and asphalt, creating a giant heat island. It used to get nice and cool in the evenings even in the middle of the summer (and still does, if you go way out into the open desert far from the cities), but now it just stays 100+ all night long. It's hotter, and stays hotter longer, than it did only 10-20 years ago.
The point is, just because a bunch of people live there, that doesn't mean that it's a particularly nice place, let alone an ideal location for "the next Silicon Valley".
Don't be an ass, I knew perfectly well that you were talking about Silicon Valley since the quote you included mentioned it, and you even mentioned "thousands of other companies in the same field", something Phoenix does not have. I was just pointing out that Phoenix, the subject of TFA, does not have anything like intelligent conversations, a sentiment echoed by another person who replied to your post. Do try to keep up.
It's worse than that. Phoenix is a 3-4 hour drive away from those nice places like Prescott, Flagstaff, etc. Back on the east coast, a 3-4 drive will take you all the way to the next state or more. Saying Phoenix is nice because of Flagstaff is like saying Philly is nice because of Maine.
Um, I think he was talking about the Bay Area aka Silicon Valley. I live in Phoenix too, and you're right about everything you said there.
To be fair, though, there are some nice desert parks here in and around the city that are fun to hike in, for about 2 months out of the year at the very most.
Most humans don't like temperatures that are hotter than their body temperature; it's pretty hard to stay cool, and it's extremely easy to get heatstroke.
In cold weather, if you're cold, you can just put on some more clothes; as long as it's above 0F, it's really not that bad. When it's 120 degrees outside, there isn't much you can do to cool down except stay inside all day in the A/C.
I have a problem with H1B workers, or more specifically the system that creates them. They shouldn't exist. If we want them to come here and do tech jobs, then they should be allowed to just immigrate here and work, without any strings. Instead, we have an evil system that ties them to the employer that sponsored their visa, so they're unable to leave if that employer mistreats or underpays them. This essentially makes them into indentured servants.
No, we don't. We suffer through the heat as we walk from the edges of giant parking lots to our wonderful new outdoor shopping centers like Tempe Marketplace that the developers here have told us that "everyone wants now"
Being in the pool doesn't prevent you from getting massive sunburn, unless you can breathe underwater and stay under there the whole time.
Sorry, but Mesa is absolutely part of the Phoenix metro area, regardless of your personal opinion. So are Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, Peoria, Glendale, Sun City, Buckeye, etc.
Sorry, but when you look at population, Phoenix (metro area) IS Arizona. There's over 4 million people in Phoenix, and about 6.5 million in the entire state according to Wikipedia. The rest of the state is a minority compared to Phoenix.
What about Arizona's tax-and-spend habit? I live here in Phoenix and the taxes are pretty high: income tax, 9.0+% sales tax, property tax, etc. It's NOT cheap to live here. Maybe compared to the Bay Area it's cheap, but compared to most of the rest of the country, it's expensive as hell, and you aren't getting anything for it, because this city is a shithole. Back on the east coast, the sales taxes are all around 5%, and in states like Oregon, there's no income tax.
You hit the nail on the head with your description of the "culture" here. Don't forget all the shaved-headed tattooed freaks driving around in jacked-up pickups, and similar-looking people (male and female) riding muffler-less H-D motorcycles.
The houses are already too expensive, even after the crash, and yes, it is hot and miserable. Thankfully I'm headed out, finally; I can't wait to leave this hellhole. I'm tired of seeing tattooed methheads driving around in jacked-up pickup trucks everywhere.
I live here too; it sucks, and I can't wait to leave. The whole idea of this being the next Silicon Valley is insane. The weather alone should quash any notions of that, but if that's not enough how about the shitty "culture" here? Half the inhabitants are illegals, the other half are on meth.
Fabs aren't places where you want to build start-ups near; they're just factories, with factory workers in them. It's nice that they've located them here instead of China perhaps, but they don't do any more to attract high-tech startups than do auto assembly plants, now that shipping is cheap and easy.
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Huh? That's not my understanding at all (about it being a "dating site"); I thought it was supposed to be a meeting site for swingers, no more, no less. If you want to date, you go to match.com or something like that; if you want to find some people to have a threesome with or someone to screw your wife while you watch, you go to adultfriendfinder.com. Not that I'm endorsing this or anything, just relating what my perception of what that site is all about and what crowd it caters to.
Then again, I do find it hard to believe there'd be enough swingers out there to make that site as prominent and profitable as it appears to be, so maybe there is some other activity going on there.
Even with Hendrix, compare Little Wing to All Along the Watch Tower to Star Spangled Banner.
That's not really relevant, because at least the two latter ones are both cover songs: AAtWT was written and performed by Bob Dylan first, and SSB obviously was not Jimi's own song, though he certainly added his own interpretation of it. I can point to lots of bands that released albums full of cover songs. Heck, I'm sure if Katy Perry made an album of cover songs, they'd also sound different from each other.
Because Slashdot is fading fast, while Reddit is taking over as being the most relevant such website.
What country was she from?
One thing I find interesting about metal these days is that it's mostly dead here in the USA, but it appears to be very strong still in both Europe and Japan.
As for new music, I haven't heard anything new I have any interest in, except for new albums from old bands that are still working and making music like they used to.
I'm perfectly fine with loud concerts, thanks to this wonderful invention called "foam earplugs". They attenuate all the echoes from the arena so they can't be heard and reduce the volume of the primary signal so it's at a perfectly comfortable volume.
I haven't looked into this group, but if it isn't "ClearChannel pop", then isn't it not-pop by definition?
You mean like how, if you were locked in a box with thousands of photos of Joe Biden eating a sandwich for a year, you'd become a connoisseur of such photos?
Funny, but it wasn't quite so bad here before so many people moved in and overdeveloped the place with concrete and asphalt, creating a giant heat island. It used to get nice and cool in the evenings even in the middle of the summer (and still does, if you go way out into the open desert far from the cities), but now it just stays 100+ all night long. It's hotter, and stays hotter longer, than it did only 10-20 years ago.
The point is, just because a bunch of people live there, that doesn't mean that it's a particularly nice place, let alone an ideal location for "the next Silicon Valley".
Don't be an ass, I knew perfectly well that you were talking about Silicon Valley since the quote you included mentioned it, and you even mentioned "thousands of other companies in the same field", something Phoenix does not have. I was just pointing out that Phoenix, the subject of TFA, does not have anything like intelligent conversations, a sentiment echoed by another person who replied to your post. Do try to keep up.
That sounds exactly like Phoenix actually: mormons and fundies are everywhere here (along with illegals and meth-heads).
It's worse than that. Phoenix is a 3-4 hour drive away from those nice places like Prescott, Flagstaff, etc. Back on the east coast, a 3-4 drive will take you all the way to the next state or more. Saying Phoenix is nice because of Flagstaff is like saying Philly is nice because of Maine.
Um, I think he was talking about the Bay Area aka Silicon Valley. I live in Phoenix too, and you're right about everything you said there.
To be fair, though, there are some nice desert parks here in and around the city that are fun to hike in, for about 2 months out of the year at the very most.
It's where you can go for lunch and overhear intelligent conversations everywhere.
I live in the Phoenix area, and one thing you will almost NEVER overhear here is an intelligent conversation.
Most humans don't like temperatures that are hotter than their body temperature; it's pretty hard to stay cool, and it's extremely easy to get heatstroke.
In cold weather, if you're cold, you can just put on some more clothes; as long as it's above 0F, it's really not that bad. When it's 120 degrees outside, there isn't much you can do to cool down except stay inside all day in the A/C.
I have a problem with H1B workers, or more specifically the system that creates them. They shouldn't exist. If we want them to come here and do tech jobs, then they should be allowed to just immigrate here and work, without any strings. Instead, we have an evil system that ties them to the employer that sponsored their visa, so they're unable to leave if that employer mistreats or underpays them. This essentially makes them into indentured servants.
No, we don't. We suffer through the heat as we walk from the edges of giant parking lots to our wonderful new outdoor shopping centers like Tempe Marketplace that the developers here have told us that "everyone wants now"
Being in the pool doesn't prevent you from getting massive sunburn, unless you can breathe underwater and stay under there the whole time.
Sorry, but Mesa is absolutely part of the Phoenix metro area, regardless of your personal opinion. So are Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, Peoria, Glendale, Sun City, Buckeye, etc.
Sorry, but when you look at population, Phoenix (metro area) IS Arizona. There's over 4 million people in Phoenix, and about 6.5 million in the entire state according to Wikipedia. The rest of the state is a minority compared to Phoenix.
What about Arizona's tax-and-spend habit? I live here in Phoenix and the taxes are pretty high: income tax, 9.0+% sales tax, property tax, etc. It's NOT cheap to live here. Maybe compared to the Bay Area it's cheap, but compared to most of the rest of the country, it's expensive as hell, and you aren't getting anything for it, because this city is a shithole. Back on the east coast, the sales taxes are all around 5%, and in states like Oregon, there's no income tax.
Omaha, Nebraska is a pretty decent-sized city too, but it isn't exactly known for technology or culture.
You hit the nail on the head with your description of the "culture" here. Don't forget all the shaved-headed tattooed freaks driving around in jacked-up pickups, and similar-looking people (male and female) riding muffler-less H-D motorcycles.
The houses are already too expensive, even after the crash, and yes, it is hot and miserable. Thankfully I'm headed out, finally; I can't wait to leave this hellhole. I'm tired of seeing tattooed methheads driving around in jacked-up pickup trucks everywhere.
I live here too; it sucks, and I can't wait to leave. The whole idea of this being the next Silicon Valley is insane. The weather alone should quash any notions of that, but if that's not enough how about the shitty "culture" here? Half the inhabitants are illegals, the other half are on meth.
Fabs aren't places where you want to build start-ups near; they're just factories, with factory workers in them. It's nice that they've located them here instead of China perhaps, but they don't do any more to attract high-tech startups than do auto assembly plants, now that shipping is cheap and easy.