Things are getting worse and worse in SF, SiVal/Peninsula and bay area in general.
The public schools are terrible, the cost of living is outrageous even with the high salaries, all families are dual income so most of the kids are latch-key, and my kids - we have to work overtime to protect them from how bad the kids are in general. There are a ton of richie rich kids who have money and they do bad things, drugs, etc. Cupertino, supposedly a great school district, polled kids and found that 75% had tried illegal drugs by 12th grade.
Also most of the universities here have non-California kids in ever increasing numbers. That means the land of milk and honey is not producing high end high school graduates.
I have a plan to relocate out of here within 18 months now. I refuse to say where because I can only hope that others wont follow and bring the pain and suffering and horribly low standard of living with them yet again.
And I've recently been to japan and switzerland. The public transportations STINKs here, the quality of life is far lower than either of those two places and in they have better primary/grade schools in both those places.
This is not living here. There is also little room for a family lifestyle. And the facebook pop has caused a lot of places to be one-percenter-only. All houses under 2 million are horrible, shabby and full of asbestos and mold. Built in the 1950s/60s to a very low standard.
Roads are fairly in poor repair despite there being no winter. Certain areas are crime ridden but the houses are 700K+. Schools - even greatschools-10 schools and blue ribbon schools - are a joke. They are a shadow of schools Ive seen in other places.
Please, never come here thinking you will be better off. Coming here is just like playing the lottery. Dont even think being smart will make you wealthy enough to get a real life here. you have to be either very lucky , or smart and lucky. Nobody earns their way to the top. Also there is a big time old boys club mentality. Inferior people will be much farther than you even if you work 80 hours a week and bleed for work.
The bay area is no longer about technology anymore. its about big gigantic pan national business and the monetization of the internet.
Google has the best, smartest, most driven brightest people in the world working day and night to not cure cancer, or invent new things (they bought a thermostat company for 3billion) but to Shovel Ads in Your Face. Thats it. Same with F-book
Question, if the vax works so well, why then are the vaxxed so worried about the few who dont. Dont give me this herd immunity rubbish. I want the people who make these things to expose themselves to the pathogens to prove they actually work.
The world is controlled by two things: Those who create, broker and distribute energy. And those who create, broken and distribute capital (debt instruments known as modern currency).
The last thing the people in charge of the world would like is cheap or free, limitless energy.
Dont kid yourself, the scientists do little jack russel terrier flips and jumps for money, and if the money brokers of the world dont want cheap and free energy, guess who is not getting funding.
I remember at openstack portland Shuttleworth gave a live demo that failed. Ubuntu fails constantly. While Redhat tries to normalize the high rates of change in Linux, Ubuntu injects massive changes all the time while providing no stability. I have many years now working with a development team where we use Ubuntu as both product appliance and infrastructure. I have never seen a bigger mess than the trash that gets pumped out by Canonical. I used to know many Ubuntu acolytes who are converting away. Shuttleworth has spent a LOT of political capital and his promises are empty. I really dislike Canonical, I dislike Ubuntu, and I really dislike this arrogant loser Shuttleworth. Bad packages, kabi and abi changes. A preseed/install system that is pathetic, instability, bleeding edge, bad stable kernel management, horrible backporting fixes, unstable userland.
The poor dont need free bus rides to shuttle them from hours away to get to a wage slave job serving the modern patrician. If this was sim city, or an ancient Rome city, the slaves were properly called such (just as we wage slaves are today) and the rich had a place for them to live close by. A heck of a lot better than driving 4 hours a day to slave away for money thats being constantly inflated to prevent people from climbing up and out.
Google is the best brightest and smartest most driven people who day in an day out figure out how to shovel ads in our faces.
Yes, because Google searches are so unbiased, no tweaking to PageRank. None. His Excellency Lord Eric Schmidt the Honorable, who serves the three letter agencies and his masters in FEDGOV, has no agenda to promote politically biased search results. In fact, none of the Google searches you done and none of the things on Wikipedia are manipulated. Yes, we know this all to be true. The answer is always whatever Google says is the most viewed or most linked to version of Truth they say it.
Also, the link, at skeptical science, is printed truth, with proper referencing so all of what is said there is truth./sarcasm
Pioneering was toyota which can make well over 1 million Priuses a year. Popular in Japan, US and worldwide, the car is reliable, has good safety record.
Elon is a showman who is making a prototype a product. I know someone who has a Tesla roadster, rich guy, that was built with borrowed public money. Anyway, he went on vacation for a month and the car was not plugged in. Bricked the battery, $40k to replace, no warranty. Tesla treated him like garbage and they never fixed the battery.
Elon is great at leveraging other's people money and ricking OPM to do a prototype. The sales numbers of the Tesla S relative to Toyota is pathetic. And if Toyota felt that they could offer a 100% electric product, they would, if it could possibly be done reliably. I've been to Japan many times and its a matter of national pride to save energy, they are motivated now all the nuclear plants are off to save money and in time they will offer an all electric offering when the technology can be warranted reliably for 8 / 125,000 miles. I have had many toyotas, a friend had one go for 400,000 miles.
Elon is a circus man. There is a man in a lab right now quietly working on the cure for cancer, but Elon has to run around talking about himself and feeding his ego. And his car is a prototype. No doubt over the next few years we will see how his prototype will continue to disappoint the ultra wealthy one-percenters that can afford his radically overpriced 4 door sedan.
Also, having ridden and driven in the Tesla roadster, the paneling was pathetic, the door didnt fit well (seemed the hinges were weak), the trunk lid was hard to close and the car was uncomfortable (not in terms of being small, just garbage ergonomics).
So this whole Elon worship thing is done mostly by people who dont even own or have driven his stupid products. The sales numbers are dismal. 5000 cars a quarter. Unauthorized firmware updates. Bricking batteries without warranty if left uncharged. Lies about the range. No backup motor. Time to charge absurd, so on long trips layovers need to be planned - its worse than trains and riding a bus, and those are BAD.
People think this is a Tucker? Ha! More like snake oil.
This concept will be validated when a car company with actual 50+ years of building experience decides to productize this technology. until then this is just marketing and propaganda done with other people's money.
With me? You either see the truth or not. There is no "with." You want to deny reality and not see the police state and believe you have a choice, put your petal to the metal with whatever crap political viewpoint you have, because until you people stop lying to yourselves, it needs to get worse before it get better. Keep it up. Keep it up. Pedal to the metal. Because until you stop the drug of buying propaganda, we are in a spiral downwards.
Yes, lets crib about the Koch brothers. Let's do PSAs with Richard Nixon in it as Oliver Stone laments lost liberties. Let's not talk about the current political situation that has: Drone killing. No 4th amendment, warrant-less searches. Executive kill orders. Dragnets. NSA spying. Google being co-opted to spy. All emails being read. All calls being logged. Foreign leaders being spied on. The money being debased. Arms being channeled to criminal cartels for sting purposes. Suspicious withholding of force in defense of an embassy. IRS being used to target political enemies. We have become a police state. Freedom, liberty and natural rights are granted by government. Taxes are for the middle class end-to-end are confiscatory. Massive firearms purchases for sections of government not normally associated with police action. No posse comitatus. No Glass Steagall. Let's not pretend that any government in the USA in recent history has been populist or represents the cause of freedom and liberty.
I live and work in Silicon Valley. Its so bad I'll be leaving within 1-2 years now. The schools are bad, must go private, the cost of living is astonishing, everyone is dual income, all the latch-key-kids have nose rings and colored hair, the cost of living is so bad, the total lack of morality and controls is very very hard on parents. Also, there are no real home-grown winners here, the bulk of the successful people here are from some other country and the kids that grow up here don't do that well unless they are super wealthy and go to private schools and tutors, etc, helicopter parented. Kids dont play, everything is an "activity", play dates not ad hoc playing, then when the kids get one ounce of freedom because up until the teenage years they have had none they rebel.
This environment is bad. And we have billionaires like
Exactly. Where in the world would someone get the idea the markets aren't totally generated and artificially sustained monopoly money. Its a joke. Transactions should require settlement (transfer of non-electronic wealth).
Its a joke and a fraud and its bankrupting main st and making the rainmakers and market manipulators rich.
This event is clearly for those with lots of disposable income. The spirit of the thing is lost. Its a orgiastic romp of drugs and supposed freewill which comes at a rather big price tag. This isnt woodstock summer of love, this is designer drugs and hedonism that is rather unappealing to look at. At one point I had some desire to see this spectacle, but it has clearly degraded to the point where it is being attended to by rats like Eric Schmidt, a philandering spying money grubber.
Who says Im not making it. If you believe those folks arent hardworking AND lucky AND politically connected AND after a point they have reached a threshold of too big to fail, then you are nuts.
Not that I hold up Warren Buffet as someone holy, but he is quite rich and quite willing to explain how the system is rigged.
We live in a oligarchical collectivist police state where a banking cabal, central governments, the military industrial complex and megacorps control everything.
The little guy, the small business, freedom, liberty. Gone.
Welcome to wage slavery, plebeians. And you voted your captors in.
Most people making things with software also expect the customer to know what they want. They dont. Get the requirements, get them again, get them a third time and even do a round of mockups and make sure the stuff you plan on building will meet or exceed all the requirements.
I have 2 billion people in mind who done give a hoot about copyright: All of india, and all of china. So thats 2 billion holes to plug. Its hilarious too, with the great red firewall, that piles of copyrighted software and content pours out of there.
Get real, RIAA, MPAA and whatever other rackets exist to try and create and use police state to shake down small timers.
In Police State USA, 2013, logic and reason have been abandoned for the lust for power, and that power is bought by the banking cabal, the oligarchical collectivist megacorps, the military and medical industrial complexes and the self-serving minions of the police state.
We the People have no voice. Now wage slave away, plebeians.
I wish I got paid by a huge company to make vacuous motherhood statements. He also talks about interplanetary inter-networking like its a widespread problem.
I know people who worked with this guy back in the day when the things he got done done when he made a name for himself. Let's say he is good at making a name for himself and if it wasnt for the fact he stood on the shoulders of giants to get that name he wouldnt be anywhere today. In other words he is good at taking credit. Given the junk he has done lately, its not hard to see he doesnt do the work, just talks smack.
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Things are getting worse and worse in SF, SiVal/Peninsula and bay area in general.
The public schools are terrible, the cost of living is outrageous even with the high salaries, all families are dual income so most of the kids are latch-key, and my kids - we have to work overtime to protect them from how bad the kids are in general. There are a ton of richie rich kids who have money and they do bad things, drugs, etc. Cupertino, supposedly a great school district, polled kids and found that 75% had tried illegal drugs by 12th grade.
Also most of the universities here have non-California kids in ever increasing numbers. That means the land of milk and honey is not producing high end high school graduates.
I have a plan to relocate out of here within 18 months now. I refuse to say where because I can only hope that others wont follow and bring the pain and suffering and horribly low standard of living with them yet again.
And I've recently been to japan and switzerland. The public transportations STINKs here, the quality of life is far lower than either of those two places and in they have better primary/grade schools in both those places.
This is not living here. There is also little room for a family lifestyle. And the facebook pop has caused a lot of places to be one-percenter-only. All houses under 2 million are horrible, shabby and full of asbestos and mold. Built in the 1950s/60s to a very low standard.
Roads are fairly in poor repair despite there being no winter. Certain areas are crime ridden but the houses are 700K+. Schools - even greatschools-10 schools and blue ribbon schools - are a joke. They are a shadow of schools Ive seen in other places.
Please, never come here thinking you will be better off. Coming here is just like playing the lottery. Dont even think being smart will make you wealthy enough to get a real life here. you have to be either very lucky , or smart and lucky. Nobody earns their way to the top. Also there is a big time old boys club mentality. Inferior people will be much farther than you even if you work 80 hours a week and bleed for work.
The bay area is no longer about technology anymore. its about big gigantic pan national business and the monetization of the internet.
Google has the best, smartest, most driven brightest people in the world working day and night to not cure cancer, or invent new things (they bought a thermostat company for 3billion) but to Shovel Ads in Your Face. Thats it. Same with F-book
Hardly noble.
Welcome to SillyCON Valley.
Question, if the vax works so well, why then are the vaxxed so worried about the few who dont. Dont give me this herd immunity rubbish. I want the people who make these things to expose themselves to the pathogens to prove they actually work.
The biggest big government police state lover Swinestein is mad at the evil police state she helped create?
Of course this is Agenda 21 food control propaganda with a little police state and PETA peppered in.
They want o feed use soylent green and pig feed while they enjoy steaks and sushi.
The world is controlled by two things: Those who create, broker and distribute energy. And those who create, broken and distribute capital (debt instruments known as modern currency).
The last thing the people in charge of the world would like is cheap or free, limitless energy.
Dont kid yourself, the scientists do little jack russel terrier flips and jumps for money, and if the money brokers of the world dont want cheap and free energy, guess who is not getting funding.
I remember at openstack portland Shuttleworth gave a live demo that failed. Ubuntu fails constantly. While Redhat tries to normalize the high rates of change in Linux, Ubuntu injects massive changes all the time while providing no stability. I have many years now working with a development team where we use Ubuntu as both product appliance and infrastructure. I have never seen a bigger mess than the trash that gets pumped out by Canonical. I used to know many Ubuntu acolytes who are converting away. Shuttleworth has spent a LOT of political capital and his promises are empty. I really dislike Canonical, I dislike Ubuntu, and I really dislike this arrogant loser Shuttleworth. Bad packages, kabi and abi changes. A preseed/install system that is pathetic, instability, bleeding edge, bad stable kernel management, horrible backporting fixes, unstable userland.
Im done with Canonical and Shuttleworth.
I dont need emacs because I already have an operating system.
The poor dont need free bus rides to shuttle them from hours away to get to a wage slave job serving the modern patrician. If this was sim city, or an ancient Rome city, the slaves were properly called such (just as we wage slaves are today) and the rich had a place for them to live close by. A heck of a lot better than driving 4 hours a day to slave away for money thats being constantly inflated to prevent people from climbing up and out.
Google is the best brightest and smartest most driven people who day in an day out figure out how to shovel ads in our faces.
Yes, because Google searches are so unbiased, no tweaking to PageRank. None. His Excellency Lord Eric Schmidt the Honorable, who serves the three letter agencies and his masters in FEDGOV, has no agenda to promote politically biased search results. In fact, none of the Google searches you done and none of the things on Wikipedia are manipulated. Yes, we know this all to be true. The answer is always whatever Google says is the most viewed or most linked to version of Truth they say it.
Also, the link, at skeptical science, is printed truth, with proper referencing so all of what is said there is truth. /sarcasm
Pioneering was toyota which can make well over 1 million Priuses a year. Popular in Japan, US and worldwide, the car is reliable, has good safety record.
Elon is a showman who is making a prototype a product. I know someone who has a Tesla roadster, rich guy, that was built with borrowed public money. Anyway, he went on vacation for a month and the car was not plugged in. Bricked the battery, $40k to replace, no warranty. Tesla treated him like garbage and they never fixed the battery.
Elon is great at leveraging other's people money and ricking OPM to do a prototype. The sales numbers of the Tesla S relative to Toyota is pathetic. And if Toyota felt that they could offer a 100% electric product, they would, if it could possibly be done reliably. I've been to Japan many times and its a matter of national pride to save energy, they are motivated now all the nuclear plants are off to save money and in time they will offer an all electric offering when the technology can be warranted reliably for 8 / 125,000 miles. I have had many toyotas, a friend had one go for 400,000 miles.
Elon is a circus man. There is a man in a lab right now quietly working on the cure for cancer, but Elon has to run around talking about himself and feeding his ego. And his car is a prototype. No doubt over the next few years we will see how his prototype will continue to disappoint the ultra wealthy one-percenters that can afford his radically overpriced 4 door sedan.
Also, having ridden and driven in the Tesla roadster, the paneling was pathetic, the door didnt fit well (seemed the hinges were weak), the trunk lid was hard to close and the car was uncomfortable (not in terms of being small, just garbage ergonomics).
So this whole Elon worship thing is done mostly by people who dont even own or have driven his stupid products. The sales numbers are dismal. 5000 cars a quarter. Unauthorized firmware updates. Bricking batteries without warranty if left uncharged. Lies about the range. No backup motor. Time to charge absurd, so on long trips layovers need to be planned - its worse than trains and riding a bus, and those are BAD.
People think this is a Tucker? Ha! More like snake oil.
This concept will be validated when a car company with actual 50+ years of building experience decides to productize this technology. until then this is just marketing and propaganda done with other people's money.
5000 cars a quarter. Laugh.
With me? You either see the truth or not. There is no "with." You want to deny reality and not see the police state and believe you have a choice, put your petal to the metal with whatever crap political viewpoint you have, because until you people stop lying to yourselves, it needs to get worse before it get better. Keep it up. Keep it up. Pedal to the metal. Because until you stop the drug of buying propaganda, we are in a spiral downwards.
Yes, lets crib about the Koch brothers. Let's do PSAs with Richard Nixon in it as Oliver Stone laments lost liberties. Let's not talk about the current political situation that has:
Drone killing. No 4th amendment, warrant-less searches. Executive kill orders. Dragnets. NSA spying. Google being co-opted to spy. All emails being read. All calls being logged. Foreign leaders being spied on. The money being debased. Arms being channeled to criminal cartels for sting purposes. Suspicious withholding of force in defense of an embassy. IRS being used to target political enemies. We have become a police state. Freedom, liberty and natural rights are granted by government. Taxes are for the middle class end-to-end are confiscatory. Massive firearms purchases for sections of government not normally associated with police action. No posse comitatus. No Glass Steagall. Let's not pretend that any government in the USA in recent history has been populist or represents the cause of freedom and liberty.
I live and work in Silicon Valley. Its so bad I'll be leaving within 1-2 years now. The schools are bad, must go private, the cost of living is astonishing, everyone is dual income, all the latch-key-kids have nose rings and colored hair, the cost of living is so bad, the total lack of morality and controls is very very hard on parents. Also, there are no real home-grown winners here, the bulk of the successful people here are from some other country and the kids that grow up here don't do that well unless they are super wealthy and go to private schools and tutors, etc, helicopter parented. Kids dont play, everything is an "activity", play dates not ad hoc playing, then when the kids get one ounce of freedom because up until the teenage years they have had none they rebel.
This environment is bad. And we have billionaires like
Exactly. Where in the world would someone get the idea the markets aren't totally generated and artificially sustained monopoly money. Its a joke. Transactions should require settlement (transfer of non-electronic wealth).
Its a joke and a fraud and its bankrupting main st and making the rainmakers and market manipulators rich.
This event is clearly for those with lots of disposable income. The spirit of the thing is lost. Its a orgiastic romp of drugs and supposed freewill which comes at a rather big price tag. This isnt woodstock summer of love, this is designer drugs and hedonism that is rather unappealing to look at. At one point I had some desire to see this spectacle, but it has clearly degraded to the point where it is being attended to by rats like Eric Schmidt, a philandering spying money grubber.
Ask them how perpetually borrowing against income you havent made yet to keep the bread and circus running is a good thing.
Ron Paul? And everyone thinks the 3rd option is a sick joke. They would rather go with the police state goons in uniform than try something new.
Who says Im not making it. If you believe those folks arent hardworking AND lucky AND politically connected AND after a point they have reached a threshold of too big to fail, then you are nuts.
Not that I hold up Warren Buffet as someone holy, but he is quite rich and quite willing to explain how the system is rigged.
Lol, wut?
Not sure about the rest of the crowd, but everything past Windows 7, and pretty much everything not-PC Microsoft does except Xbox is really not good.
Also, whats with 4+ platforms? Win, Winarm, XBOX, Surface, WinPhone? Talk about fragmentation.
IMHO, Windows 8 is the most serious UI regression I've ever seen.
This is nothing new.
We live in a oligarchical collectivist police state where a banking cabal, central governments, the military industrial complex and megacorps control everything.
The little guy, the small business, freedom, liberty. Gone.
Welcome to wage slavery, plebeians. And you voted your captors in.
Daily stand ups are stupid.
Most people making things with software also expect the customer to know what they want. They dont. Get the requirements, get them again, get them a third time and even do a round of mockups and make sure the stuff you plan on building will meet or exceed all the requirements.
Richards Guide to Software Development
I have 2 billion people in mind who done give a hoot about copyright: All of india, and all of china. So thats 2 billion holes to plug. Its hilarious too, with the great red firewall, that piles of copyrighted software and content pours out of there.
Get real, RIAA, MPAA and whatever other rackets exist to try and create and use police state to shake down small timers.
I want christopher eccleston to come back as the doctor named precisely Doctor christopher eccleston.
Man that was a good doctor in my opinion.
In Police State USA, 2013, logic and reason have been abandoned for the lust for power, and that power is bought by the banking cabal, the oligarchical collectivist megacorps, the military and medical industrial complexes and the self-serving minions of the police state.
We the People have no voice. Now wage slave away, plebeians.
I wish I got paid by a huge company to make vacuous motherhood statements. He also talks about interplanetary inter-networking like its a widespread problem.
I know people who worked with this guy back in the day when the things he got done done when he made a name for himself. Let's say he is good at making a name for himself and if it wasnt for the fact he stood on the shoulders of giants to get that name he wouldnt be anywhere today. In other words he is good at taking credit. Given the junk he has done lately, its not hard to see he doesnt do the work, just talks smack.