Why don't people develop new typefaces to represent concepts in programming so we can have better character identifiers for concepts that we need to type out?
Disclosure: I lived in San Francisco (the Marina) from 1992 until 2006. Ex girlfriend's mother was one of the homeless. I knew one of the former mayors and was privy to some inside information on why the was such a terrible homeless problem in San Francisco.
Onwards
One important historical factor is that judges from states in counties far north of San Francisco would frequently hand problem repeat offenders who were habitual drug offenders one way bus tickets to San Francisco because of its tolerant care of the homeless.
Until Gavin Newsom stopped it, bi-weekly support checks would be cut by the city for many of the homeless. As a result of this reliable cash cow, many of these people directly took their checks to check cashing stores on Market St. and the heroin dealers would often stand in line by these stores to handle their customers who were these homeless.
Off of Haight Street is Golden Gate Park. Loads of homeless beg on Haight St. and then camp out in Golden Gate Park at night and shoot up. Under the bushes, you'll be hard pressed to not find years of dirty needles under bushes stinking of urine.
Years of dirty needles.
At the South of Market train station to Silicon Valley, there used to be several unoccupied buildings. These buildings were often occupied by several homeless drug addicts.
Several minutes after the trains would leave, it was common that these drug addicts (heroin/meth) would walk Townsend St. and break into cars to steal stereos that they would then fence to get a quick high.
One habitual drunk in the Mission district would occasionally become sober, but then drink so much that he was 1/2 naked, passed out and covered in his own urine and feces. After the police were regularly called, the fire department would be called to hose him off, then the ambulance would be called and he would be taken to San Francisco General. Of course he paid for none of this.
After he got out, he'd stay sober for a little while and start the process all over again. This one man cost the city of San Francisco $50,000 annually in police, ambulance and hospital fees.
Every year.
The problem is NOT the homeless.
The problem IS the drug addicted homeless. Heroin addicts, meth addicts and habitual/chronic street drunks. They have stopped being people and have started becoming problems. They have become addicts who have really lost all parts of their minds that do not pertain to getting the next score. Their high is so good, their habits so strong that they can't live life without being high or drunk and do anything they can for that next sweet score.
The problem is the tolerance of the dealers of heavily addicting drugs.
The problem is the counties who provide one way bus tickets to failure for their society's rejects.
After you see so many people on Van Ness St. who inject so much that their veins collapse and legs rot off, then wheel themselves out to beg another day, you see that these people will do nothing, can do nothing, to change their situation. They still will break into your car and cost you 2,500 dollars in damage. If you live on Haight St, they will still shit in your doorway every morning. They will still sit in a pool of their own urine to beg for enough money for their next score. They will not even recognize the face of their own daughter trying to give them food.
Empathy is the last thing you have for these people and for the reasons they have ended up in it.
Watching this for 14 years as you drive through the middle of it to battle the 101, 280, or East Bay traffic on your 1.5 hour commute you lose much more than all respect for them.
Empathy is the last thing you have for them.
It is a terrible situation they are in, but empathy is the last thing you have for them.
If those people are within our "herd" and one of their kids gets infected with ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, then they become a disease transmission vector to the rest of the herd.
And in that case, everyone who comes in contact with them becomes exposed to it and those who have not yet been immunized against ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, run the risk of getting infected.
Now, if that was polio, you get crippled and paralyzed. If that was mumps, there is no treatment, you suffer and hopefully don't get an additional disease (30% testicular atrophy). If that was measles, you get a 4 day whole body rash and a fever up to 104F (40C) If that was rubella, it's similar to measles, but slightly less severe. If that was varicella, well that's chicken pox and we mostly know what fun that's like. Plus possible scarring for life if the pix is severe + shingles later on in life.
We all know what little disease transmission factories kinder gardens are.
The parent who doesn't vaccinate their kids exposes everyone's kids (and their parents) to infection.
This approach was shown at the Wired NextFest a decade ago and in South San Francisco around the same time, some company made a device that projected onto a stream of mist, creating a "holographic" display.
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The problem is "law enforcement" agencies using enforcement as revenue streams for cities and states.
This puts law enforcement against the very people they are supposed to serve and protect.
This needs to be reposted in many places so that people know not to trust Toshiba.
why I used to call it Suck-ramento.
It sure looks like the so called "Creative Cloud" got bumped to the Internet's slow lane!
Either that, or it's trying to impersonate Valve's servers for TF2.
Generally it's* a proxy out
it's = it is
Learn this.
its* body
it's = it is
Learn this.
> ignores it's own Constitution,
ignores its* own constitution
it's = it is
Learn this.
I think it's somewhat of "we have all your data. If you are suspected of anything wrong, we will look at it. Don't do anything wrong."
Sadly, we can't take the luxury of distributing communications devices that we don't have the ability to tap.
Certainly says something about the state of the civilizations on this planet.
"Holy crap" comment from me.
Jeebus.
That's amazing.
My god, that interface is so painful, there's no way in hell I'd use it.
This iOS 7 "oversaturated colors on glaring white" GUI approach needs to die in a fire.
it's* called fire
it's = it is
Learn this.
Forgive me. A statement I made was in error. My former boss was Senior Assistant Postmaster General of the US in the early 1980s.
My former boss used to be Deputy Postmaster General of the US back in the early 1980s.
I can confirm that the customers are those 400 companies and that without them, the Postal Service would go broke.
He mentioned to me, "what do you want, junk mail, or no Postal Service?"
Junk mail is that important to the revenue stream of the USPS. Pretty sad.
iOS 7 looks like it was designed by Fisher Price for infant seeing eye dogs.
It's not a professional tool anymore. It's ugly and puts fluff, useless animation and a harder to use and see OS before function and usability.
Why don't people develop new typefaces to represent concepts in programming so we can have better character identifiers for concepts that we need to type out?
> They may have been damaged by their peers deliberately to prevent spells emanating from them
Same thing we do in my family.
It's hard to get a good night's sleep with all those spells emanating from grandpa's shallow grave.
Oh, here's a burger.
Disclosure:
I lived in San Francisco (the Marina) from 1992 until 2006. Ex girlfriend's mother was one of the homeless. I knew one of the former mayors and was privy to some inside information on why the was such a terrible homeless problem in San Francisco.
Onwards
One important historical factor is that judges from states in counties far north of San Francisco would frequently hand problem repeat offenders who were habitual drug offenders one way bus tickets to San Francisco because of its tolerant care of the homeless.
Until Gavin Newsom stopped it, bi-weekly support checks would be cut by the city for many of the homeless. As a result of this reliable cash cow, many of these people directly took their checks to check cashing stores on Market St. and the heroin dealers would often stand in line by these stores to handle their customers who were these homeless.
Off of Haight Street is Golden Gate Park. Loads of homeless beg on Haight St. and then camp out in Golden Gate Park at night and shoot up. Under the bushes, you'll be hard pressed to not find years of dirty needles under bushes stinking of urine.
Years of dirty needles.
At the South of Market train station to Silicon Valley, there used to be several unoccupied buildings. These buildings were often occupied by several homeless drug addicts.
Several minutes after the trains would leave, it was common that these drug addicts (heroin/meth) would walk Townsend St. and break into cars to steal stereos that they would then fence to get a quick high.
One habitual drunk in the Mission district would occasionally become sober, but then drink so much that he was 1/2 naked, passed out and covered in his own urine and feces. After the police were regularly called, the fire department would be called to hose him off, then the ambulance would be called and he would be taken to San Francisco General. Of course he paid for none of this.
After he got out, he'd stay sober for a little while and start the process all over again. This one man cost the city of San Francisco $50,000 annually in police, ambulance and hospital fees.
Every year.
The problem is NOT the homeless.
The problem IS the drug addicted homeless. Heroin addicts, meth addicts and habitual/chronic street drunks. They have stopped being people and have started becoming problems. They have become addicts who have really lost all parts of their minds that do not pertain to getting the next score. Their high is so good, their habits so strong that they can't live life without being high or drunk and do anything they can for that next sweet score.
The problem is the tolerance of the dealers of heavily addicting drugs.
The problem is the counties who provide one way bus tickets to failure for their society's rejects.
After you see so many people on Van Ness St. who inject so much that their veins collapse and legs rot off, then wheel themselves out to beg another day, you see that these people will do nothing, can do nothing, to change their situation. They still will break into your car and cost you 2,500 dollars in damage. If you live on Haight St, they will still shit in your doorway every morning. They will still sit in a pool of their own urine to beg for enough money for their next score. They will not even recognize the face of their own daughter trying to give them food.
Empathy is the last thing you have for these people and for the reasons they have ended up in it.
Watching this for 14 years as you drive through the middle of it to battle the 101, 280, or East Bay traffic on your 1.5 hour commute you lose much more than all respect for them.
Empathy is the last thing you have for them.
It is a terrible situation they are in, but empathy is the last thing you have for them.
So, how do you fix this?
As an American, I see Americans with terrible spelling of their own English and see many Germans with a better command of English.
This "no rules" bullshit is why Americans are so poor at English compared to many Europeans.
This will be terrible for Germans in the long run.
Let them spend the money.
Neil Armstrong feels the same way.
The problem is herd immunity.
If those people are within our "herd" and one of their kids gets infected with ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, then they become a disease transmission vector to the rest of the herd.
And in that case, everyone who comes in contact with them becomes exposed to it and those who have not yet been immunized against ebola-marburg-plague-mumps-pox, run the risk of getting infected.
Now, if that was polio, you get crippled and paralyzed.
If that was mumps, there is no treatment, you suffer and hopefully don't get an additional disease (30% testicular atrophy).
If that was measles, you get a 4 day whole body rash and a fever up to 104F (40C)
If that was rubella, it's similar to measles, but slightly less severe.
If that was varicella, well that's chicken pox and we mostly know what fun that's like. Plus possible scarring for life if the pix is severe + shingles later on in life.
We all know what little disease transmission factories kinder gardens are.
The parent who doesn't vaccinate their kids exposes everyone's kids (and their parents) to infection.
that's*
I'm not anti-you. I just think that you should learn fourth grade English.
to learn the difference between bioavailable mercury and non-bioavailable mercury.
Jenny needs a college biology degree.
This approach was shown at the Wired NextFest a decade ago and in South San Francisco around the same time, some company made a device that projected onto a stream of mist, creating a "holographic" display.
Nothing new to see here.