Mustaches are not professional? I'm a professional and I have a gigantic, huge mustache. Do you have something against facial hair?
Perhaps you don't understand the point of successful branding, which involves getting your name/logo/colors out there in front of as many people as possible, so people will remember you, use your service, thus making you a profit. This is called being professional.
I don't think that word professional means what you think it means.
You are aware of Google's policies against working from home? If those massive amounts of workers were forced to live somewhere where there was less traffic, then they would need to drive further to work, thus creating...traffic.
You understand taxicabs, which belong to private companies, use those same streets. They pay for the use of those streets with their tax dollars. Are you opposed to taxis?
The funny thing is people who support the Google buses point out the similarities between those buses and taxis all the time and I've never heard a cogent response from people who oppose the buses.
What I find amusing is the idea that people think all techies work at startups in SF. There are a ton of people who work in tech who handle Hospital IT, or work for a legal firm, or manage the servers for a real estate company, who are in tech but have nothing in common with the new wave of techies moving in. And that is all it is, a wave.
That is true, except that it is incredibly difficult to afford to rent in SF, let alone enough for a mortgage. You people in the rest of the country, unless you live in Manhattan, don't really have much of a clue. "Saving up" to buy a 1.5 million $ home is very difficult here unless you have a very very good job.
Except it is paid for. The buses pay the city to use the infrastructure. What is this infrastructure you ask? It's a space on a street. When it is vacated, the city bus, on the rare occasions it's right behind a google bus, will move in and "use the infrastructure." More often than not it's the other way around because city buses are slow, ponderous, and take a long time to get people on them.
I'm assuming you have no issues with taxicabs or Uber drivers using "infrastructure" to pick up passengers for private gain, do you? Right? Do you understand?
I've always wanted to go, just so I can say I have been. Also, Greenland has quite possibly the coolest flag in the world, next to Nepal. Also, Iceland is rather icy, especially in the middle. Like greenland.
What is the incentive for the doctors in Africa treating Ebola? Are they doing it for money? Or perhaps they are doing it out of a sense of goodwill towards their fellow human beings (that and the fact that many Christians believe God commands them to do these sorts of things).
Perhaps an "incentive" for Pharmaceutical companies who are making money hand over fist with other drugs would be to make a drug that would cure or vaccinate against a horrible disease because, i don't know...it's the right thing to do?
"Shrimp: Mild shrimp flavor"...as opposed to shrimp with an intense shrimp flavor? What about shrimp that taste like mere shrimp, how common are those?
Ah, so they build tunnels into Israel to circumvent the boycott? As though, coming out the other side in the middle of a field, near nothing but a kibbutz, they will be able to conduct trade and bring food, diapers and other necessities into Gaza? From a field? Are you high?
Perhaps it's a perfect place to end a tunnel so they can send through militants to massacre civilians.
And how do you know it is bullshit? Do you have better evidence, or are you making it up? Pulling it out of your bottom? Making up "bullshit", as it were?
Well, I can dream of a lot of cow farts, not that I do, but it turns out that cow fart fusion is an integral part of the spacefaring civilization that exists on Regulus VII..
It also powers their weapons, a fact which you shall surely soon discover.
Well, slashdot removed the greater than or less than signs from my comment.. So my comment is, If X is less than or greater than 1 in your little equation, it's not true.
You don't know that he lied. The people who produced the document are the ones he exposed. It is not in their interests to show that Snowden was telling the truth, and so if there were other emails with more detailed concerns about NSA policy, they are unlikely to see the light of day.
Why do you folks keep accusing him of lying when a single email has come out? Surely you realize the government does not stand to benefit by affirming the truth of what Snowden has said, and in fact has already accused him of lying. How can you be so silly to think they would actually release the emails Snowden says he sent, even if they have them?
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So pink is not professional?
Mustaches are not professional? I'm a professional and I have a gigantic, huge mustache. Do you have something against facial hair?
Perhaps you don't understand the point of successful branding, which involves getting your name/logo/colors out there in front of as many people as possible, so people will remember you, use your service, thus making you a profit. This is called being professional.
I don't think that word professional means what you think it means.
Even worse, he's ashamed to ride in a car with a mustache on it, which, as a mustached-American, I find quite offensive.
You are aware of Google's policies against working from home? If those massive amounts of workers were forced to live somewhere where there was less traffic, then they would need to drive further to work, thus creating...traffic.
It's not. It's a bunch of tech-hate from activists who live in the city. They are livid at the 1$ a stop fee, although that has gone up somehow to 4$.
Are those private shuttles ferrying people to work?
You understand taxicabs, which belong to private companies, use those same streets. They pay for the use of those streets with their tax dollars. Are you opposed to taxis?
The funny thing is people who support the Google buses point out the similarities between those buses and taxis all the time and I've never heard a cogent response from people who oppose the buses.
What I find amusing is the idea that people think all techies work at startups in SF. There are a ton of people who work in tech who handle Hospital IT, or work for a legal firm, or manage the servers for a real estate company, who are in tech but have nothing in common with the new wave of techies moving in. And that is all it is, a wave.
That is true, except that it is incredibly difficult to afford to rent in SF, let alone enough for a mortgage. You people in the rest of the country, unless you live in Manhattan, don't really have much of a clue. "Saving up" to buy a 1.5 million $ home is very difficult here unless you have a very very good job.
San Francisco has had rent control for decades. The Mission, despite all of the recent histrionics, is still a primarily lower-wage Hispanic area.
Except it is paid for. The buses pay the city to use the infrastructure. What is this infrastructure you ask? It's a space on a street. When it is vacated, the city bus, on the rare occasions it's right behind a google bus, will move in and "use the infrastructure." More often than not it's the other way around because city buses are slow, ponderous, and take a long time to get people on them.
I'm assuming you have no issues with taxicabs or Uber drivers using "infrastructure" to pick up passengers for private gain, do you? Right? Do you understand?
This ^^^
Certainly more appropriate then fecal stem cells.
I've always wanted to go, just so I can say I have been. Also, Greenland has quite possibly the coolest flag in the world, next to Nepal.
Also, Iceland is rather icy, especially in the middle. Like greenland.
What is the incentive for the doctors in Africa treating Ebola? Are they doing it for money? Or perhaps they are doing it out of a sense of goodwill towards their fellow human beings (that and the fact that many Christians believe God commands them to do these sorts of things).
Perhaps an "incentive" for Pharmaceutical companies who are making money hand over fist with other drugs would be to make a drug that would cure or vaccinate against a horrible disease because, i don't know...it's the right thing to do?
"Shrimp: Mild shrimp flavor" ...as opposed to shrimp with an intense shrimp flavor? What about shrimp that taste like mere shrimp, how common are those?
Ah, so they build tunnels into Israel to circumvent the boycott? As though, coming out the other side in the middle of a field, near nothing but a kibbutz, they will be able to conduct trade and bring food, diapers and other necessities into Gaza? From a field? Are you high?
Perhaps it's a perfect place to end a tunnel so they can send through militants to massacre civilians.
And how do you know it is bullshit? Do you have better evidence, or are you making it up? Pulling it out of your bottom? Making up "bullshit", as it were?
So...what is it? It's certainly something other than just "is".
Well, I can dream of a lot of cow farts, not that I do, but it turns out that cow fart fusion is an integral part of the spacefaring civilization that exists on Regulus VII..
It also powers their weapons, a fact which you shall surely soon discover.
I, for one, welcome our new virii overl...oh forget it, this meme is no longer funny.
Wow. A world cup insult targeting Japan for some reason. I never thought I'd see the day. How random.
Well, slashdot removed the greater than or less than signs from my comment.. So my comment is, If X is less than or greater than 1 in your little equation, it's not true.
Uh, if X is 1 in your little equation, it's not true.
There's something like 250,000 apps available on the iPhone, most or many of which are free. I call BS.
You don't know that he lied. The people who produced the document are the ones he exposed. It is not in their interests to show that Snowden was telling the truth, and so if there were other emails with more detailed concerns about NSA policy, they are unlikely to see the light of day.
Why do you folks keep accusing him of lying when a single email has come out? Surely you realize the government does not stand to benefit by affirming the truth of what Snowden has said, and in fact has already accused him of lying. How can you be so silly to think they would actually release the emails Snowden says he sent, even if they have them?