FB sells geographically targeted advertising. It would not be unreasonable to bar them from selling ads that target Seattle. Essentially saying, do whatever you want in other cities, but you are not free to do business in our city.
Now whether that is desirable public policy is a whole different question.
There's no such thing as all of you before the law. Never has been, probably never will be. The law is but a tool of the powerful for the oppression of the masses.
Freeway traffic neutrality sounds like a fine idea. Allowing the rich to pay for better streets than the masses are allowed to drive on is a deeply corrupt policy.
Also, earning "six figures" - i.e. $1nn,000 - in Silicon Valley gets you a shitty rented studio apartment in a bad neighborhood. I guess that's "overpaid" compared to people who have to live with roommates. But it's pretty modest pay compared with the actual cost of living.
I dunno. I've worked for a lot of small companies. In general they use the "chicken with its head off" style of management, have little/no opportunity for professional advancement, and are lacking in resources.
What industry do you work in? Back when I was consulting, I had the displeasure of visiting a couple dozen software offices in several states. Aggregate number of appealing women in all those offices combined: zero. The software industry is a desert.
If I found a company that provided private offices for programmers, and was located somewhere nice like the urban parts of LA or Miami, then I would totally consider working on-site.
Alas, the typical software job involves sitting in a horrible open plan office or a cube farm; and is located in a soul-crushing suburban office park in a God-forsaken hellhole like Northern California.
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So if these folks know their tech, are paid well, and have a decent working environment - why can't they perform at the job?
You tell 'em, Osama!
All of them. In Soviet America everyone is guilty. Feed the Gulag!
Good morning, Boris! How's the weather in Kiev today?
FB sells geographically targeted advertising. It would not be unreasonable to bar them from selling ads that target Seattle. Essentially saying, do whatever you want in other cities, but you are not free to do business in our city.
Now whether that is desirable public policy is a whole different question.
There's no such thing as all of you before the law. Never has been, probably never will be. The law is but a tool of the powerful for the oppression of the masses.
So you're saying the city should send out the pigs and toss some FB execs in the clink until the company pays up?
C'mon, if we're going to have a police state - and we already do - we might as well put it to good use.
Freeway traffic neutrality sounds like a fine idea. Allowing the rich to pay for better streets than the masses are allowed to drive on is a deeply corrupt policy.
"if you're really motivated maybe even try to get them changed"
Pardon me brother, can you spare a couple hundred million dollars? I need to "lobby" some congressmen to change a badlaw.
This legal-formalist shill post was brought to you thanks to the generous support of idea monopolists.
"Idea monopolists - we're working hard to make the world a shittier place!"
So instead of good parenting we need more quasi-penal bureaucrats and institutions. Brilliant!
I believe it's a euphemism for "slime bag".
You mean CNN?
Do you allow remote work? It opens up a huge field of candidates.
Also, earning "six figures" - i.e. $1nn,000 - in Silicon Valley gets you a shitty rented studio apartment in a bad neighborhood. I guess that's "overpaid" compared to people who have to live with roommates. But it's pretty modest pay compared with the actual cost of living.
I dunno. I've worked for a lot of small companies. In general they use the "chicken with its head off" style of management, have little/no opportunity for professional advancement, and are lacking in resources.
What industry do you work in? Back when I was consulting, I had the displeasure of visiting a couple dozen software offices in several states. Aggregate number of appealing women in all those offices combined: zero. The software industry is a desert.
"need some intellectual human interaction"
Then hang out with an intellectual crowd in your free time. You sure as fuck aren't going to find that at your average office.
If I found a company that provided private offices for programmers, and was located somewhere nice like the urban parts of LA or Miami, then I would totally consider working on-site.
Alas, the typical software job involves sitting in a horrible open plan office or a cube farm; and is located in a soul-crushing suburban office park in a God-forsaken hellhole like Northern California.
Go back to Reddit.
Does the NGO still pay you just $0.25 every time you post the word "faggot" on Slashdot?
Those are some nice, shiny jack boots you've got there.
Bicycles and tire traffic don't mix well. That's why cities need to build buffered or fully separated bike lanes.
Also - rest assured the average bicycle commuter has at least as dim a view of motorists as you have of cyclists.
Are you on crack?
Anyone who doesn't trust the semi-official propaganda organs is a bumpkin who believes in lizard people!!1!