Soviet what? What a soviet? Soviet Union was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991. That's over 25 years ago. It only existed for 73 years. Who cares about Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, or anything else which hasn't existed for generations now. Russian Federation and Ukraine are separate independent countries. The fact that USSR contained both of them is no more relevant than the fact that Poland was once part of the Russian Empire. It's over... long time over.
People may ask why I run Windows XP. It's because I have some old software that I like and it won't run on my newer Windows 10 computer.
It's why people virtualize old PCs now. You run your old PC in a window.
One of the Windows XP computers claims to have been on for over 15 years.
32 bits of milliseconds is 49 days. Windows XP is a 32 bit system and a common way to measure how long it's been up is by issuing a system call which returns the number of milliseconds since the system startup.
Thanks. I spend (as in present tense -- not past tense) quite a bit of time there. Lovely place. Real Estate prices are too much for me. I live on the Eastside. And yeah, I haven't had a reason to visit for about a month now.
I live here. The city you're describing is nothing like Seattle.
May I suggest that you are not exactly objective and just a tad bit defensive?
About a month ago. You've seen foot traffic somewhere other than the Pike market? From my experience even the Space Needle is always empty... with the possible exception of Christmas.
Or were you perhaps comparing it unreasonably against ultra-crowded cities?
I am comparing it to Manhattan because that's the rate of sprawl it's been experiencing... close to that of Manhattan in the 90s. The foot traffic puts it on the level of Cleveland or so.
You guess, and I am telling you about how the city actually feels when walk down its streets. Imagine all the built-out at the level of modern Tribeca, but with day-time crowds at the level of Manhattan at 5am on Tuesday. This is every-day Seattle.
NY has a few good public high schools which are very competitive to get in. The rest are failing. NY elites most certainly do not go to public schools in the city. They go to private schools.
Ok. Chicago is a garbage can. I am sorry, I have nothing against the people there. They used to be lovely. They used to complain about how rude the people from other parts of the country were. And they had good reason for it. But with all the frustration they must be going though, even the people have turned nasty. Chicagoans are now ruder than New Yorkers. Do Amazon developers make that kind of money? The ones who can afford a family in Seattle do. But they won't stay. Amazon is the premier tech company and its developers are highly mobile. This is just another good news for Texas, if it will have them.
Oh, it will be poorer for other reason, too. Because the insurance companies are extremely risk-averse. It will be much more difficult to get funding for new business or new construction while the litigation is going on. Insurance companies will not underwrite because there will always remain a chance of losing in courts (because the judges are beholden to politicians). And then the newly-built properties' values will drop into oblivion. All new development is done with overcommitted money. It's usually more than 10:1 or even 20:1 of borrowed money to existing capital. So if the values drop by even 5%, the properties will be underwater (lenders will start losing on principle).
You must be joking. Why do you think drove the real estate boom in NJ? Companies leaving NY. NY has failing schools and hasn't been able to afford a new subway line in many, many years. Oh, and you should take a drive through Chicago if you ever look to get depressed. It's certainly the nastiest place in the country that I have ever been to. And I have been to many.
You also missed the whole point about company town. This is specifically a tax on Amazon developers. They the main block of new residents driving up all the prices. And once a large enough percentage of them go, Amazon will have no reason, heck no ability, to stay. If even 5% or 10% of Amazon employees will leave because of this, Seattle will turn into Detroit. It's population will not reduce significantly, but the financial commitments it has already made will not be met. Future planning always projects best-case scenario. And city planners overcommit based on the bast-case scenario. So when the worst case scenario comes about, its impact on the cities' budgets is multiples of its impact on cities' overall economy. And, of course, infrastructure and schools are effected first.
Washington state doesn't have an income tax. But it has 10% retail sales tax and 2% tax on all real estate sales (not on the profit -- on the full amount of the sale).
No, it won't. It will complain about the impact of all unfinished construction projects and will to unsuccessfully sue corporations which abandoned them. The office space will be useless in Seattle because it will be impossible to hire anyone after they left for jobs on the Eastside or other parts of the country. Seattle has always been a ghost city. Even the Space Needle is usually empty. It has all the build out to welcome crowds of people minus the crowds. In the recent years, it's enjoyed a sprawl mostly due to growth of Amazon. But Amazon is so spread out around the country, that they can shift positions to different locations as their employees leave. That's one of the rules to running a company town -- don't chase out the company.
"Redress" is a word used as the legal term for recouping damages resulting from someone's illegal activity. Since the private individual's actions were not illegal (because the amounted to exercising his legal right to free speech), no redress can be due.
If CNN is announcing the person's name for the purposes of intimidation, they may still be afoul of the law. You may not like it, but no one threatened CNN by posting a mockery of them (you can argue that by retweeting it the President invited violence against them, but that's between them and the President). Yeah, racist snark is not fun to cope with, but causing some unsuspecting dope to become a subject of national attention, because he took the President's side in the CNN vs President information war, is a pretty low-life move on CNN's part.
What "redress"? Racist speech is protected under the 1st amendment. They were not a victim of libel or slander. They were a target of mockery. That's protected speech both because it was clearly a parody and because it was political speech.
Although they have a reputation to protect, they could have done this in a much better way.
No. *Because* they have a reputation to maintain they had to do in a better way. Now they just look like monsters. They threatened all private individuals not to mock them or risk becoming their target. Anytime you see CNN now, you have to ask yourself "what other information are they suppressing?"
The better option would be not to threaten him and anyone who dares to mock them on the air. They are an multinational corporation. He/she is a private individual. Threatening a private individual not to mock CNN is, at the very least, petty.
What if this is simply the same development that you see in this industry in the US? What if it's just rampant age discrimination taking place in India in the same way it takes place in the US? The industry had experienced a long period of expansion in India, but it the expansion had to plateau at some point. And the number of younger workers willing to do simpler work for lower wages only increases. In India it could simply be the beginning of a bursting bubble. Do remember that all the tech executives were warning that if don't let these tech workers in, then they'll just go to other countries around the globe. Because there is a presumed shortage of them. And that's one thing I never believe -- complains of shortages of trained workers made at the same time as there are massive lay offs.
Or are Russians being coy? Not responding to a secure channel meant to prevent a nuclear war for months? And then responding with a denial? This is the kind of thing you do if want to do something that no one would believe you did. Reminds me of the episode of "The Practice" where a drug dealer who was certain he'd get caught came up to a cop and said "officer, I have drugs on me, please, arrest me." The judge didn't believe the cop when he used this as a justification for a search without a warrant. Except the drug dealer really did it. This is so absurd, I can't believe it happened and I can't believe WaPo would be dumb enough to make it up.
You might be onto something with song lyrics. As I mentioned in another post, I wasn't able to find a single country radio station on a recent drive through all of Ohio. At least 1/3 of the stations played rap though.
I don't think Ohio and Pennsylvania are what everyone is used to thinking of them. I recently drove coast to coast and I have to say that Pennsylvania just didn't have that feeling of a poor, ran down place anymore. It's nice and clean and just gave off the ritzy rather than gritty vibe.. The biggest shock was Ohio. I couldn't find a single country station during the whole drive through it. I also couldn't find a single Country Kitchen in Ohio. It's like the whole North East doesn't end until Chicago nowadays. You don't feel like you are in midwest until Minnesota.
What makes you think I didn't notice it? It's was just a demonstration for the guy who thought that 1-statement blocks without parenthesis were readable. Oh, and I like Python. I've used it since version 1.2.
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Soviet what? What a soviet? Soviet Union was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991. That's over 25 years ago. It only existed for 73 years. Who cares about Soviet Union, Tsarist Russia, or anything else which hasn't existed for generations now. Russian Federation and Ukraine are separate independent countries. The fact that USSR contained both of them is no more relevant than the fact that Poland was once part of the Russian Empire. It's over... long time over.
Well, I, for one, am appalled (appalled!) that Democrats post their views online.
People may ask why I run Windows XP. It's because I have some old software that I like and it won't run on my newer Windows 10 computer.
It's why people virtualize old PCs now. You run your old PC in a window.
One of the Windows XP computers claims to have been on for over 15 years.
32 bits of milliseconds is 49 days. Windows XP is a 32 bit system and a common way to measure how long it's been up is by issuing a system call which returns the number of milliseconds since the system startup.
The Space Needle is tourist trap.
Yeah, without the tourists.
If you're going to pretend to have some local knowledge, at least name drop neighborhoods where people actually live and work.
Seriously?
You visited Seattle Congratulations.
Thanks. I spend (as in present tense -- not past tense) quite a bit of time there. Lovely place. Real Estate prices are too much for me. I live on the Eastside. And yeah, I haven't had a reason to visit for about a month now.
I live here. The city you're describing is nothing like Seattle.
May I suggest that you are not exactly objective and just a tad bit defensive?
When's the last time you were actually there?
About a month ago. You've seen foot traffic somewhere other than the Pike market? From my experience even the Space Needle is always empty... with the possible exception of Christmas.
Or were you perhaps comparing it unreasonably against ultra-crowded cities?
I am comparing it to Manhattan because that's the rate of sprawl it's been experiencing... close to that of Manhattan in the 90s. The foot traffic puts it on the level of Cleveland or so.
For who? SDE? If you are a principle and making less than 200k, there is more than 2 people dipping into your salary (agents, agents' managers, etc.).
You guess, and I am telling you about how the city actually feels when walk down its streets. Imagine all the built-out at the level of modern Tribeca, but with day-time crowds at the level of Manhattan at 5am on Tuesday. This is every-day Seattle.
NY has a few good public high schools which are very competitive to get in. The rest are failing. NY elites most certainly do not go to public schools in the city. They go to private schools.
Ok. Chicago is a garbage can. I am sorry, I have nothing against the people there. They used to be lovely. They used to complain about how rude the people from other parts of the country were. And they had good reason for it. But with all the frustration they must be going though, even the people have turned nasty. Chicagoans are now ruder than New Yorkers. Do Amazon developers make that kind of money? The ones who can afford a family in Seattle do. But they won't stay. Amazon is the premier tech company and its developers are highly mobile. This is just another good news for Texas, if it will have them.
Oh, it will be poorer for other reason, too. Because the insurance companies are extremely risk-averse. It will be much more difficult to get funding for new business or new construction while the litigation is going on. Insurance companies will not underwrite because there will always remain a chance of losing in courts (because the judges are beholden to politicians). And then the newly-built properties' values will drop into oblivion. All new development is done with overcommitted money. It's usually more than 10:1 or even 20:1 of borrowed money to existing capital. So if the values drop by even 5%, the properties will be underwater (lenders will start losing on principle).
I don't see rich people fleeing Chicago or NYC.
You must be joking. Why do you think drove the real estate boom in NJ? Companies leaving NY. NY has failing schools and hasn't been able to afford a new subway line in many, many years. Oh, and you should take a drive through Chicago if you ever look to get depressed. It's certainly the nastiest place in the country that I have ever been to. And I have been to many.
You also missed the whole point about company town. This is specifically a tax on Amazon developers. They the main block of new residents driving up all the prices. And once a large enough percentage of them go, Amazon will have no reason, heck no ability, to stay. If even 5% or 10% of Amazon employees will leave because of this, Seattle will turn into Detroit. It's population will not reduce significantly, but the financial commitments it has already made will not be met. Future planning always projects best-case scenario. And city planners overcommit based on the bast-case scenario. So when the worst case scenario comes about, its impact on the cities' budgets is multiples of its impact on cities' overall economy. And, of course, infrastructure and schools are effected first.
Washington state doesn't have an income tax. But it has 10% retail sales tax and 2% tax on all real estate sales (not on the profit -- on the full amount of the sale).
No, it won't. It will complain about the impact of all unfinished construction projects and will to unsuccessfully sue corporations which abandoned them. The office space will be useless in Seattle because it will be impossible to hire anyone after they left for jobs on the Eastside or other parts of the country. Seattle has always been a ghost city. Even the Space Needle is usually empty. It has all the build out to welcome crowds of people minus the crowds. In the recent years, it's enjoyed a sprawl mostly due to growth of Amazon. But Amazon is so spread out around the country, that they can shift positions to different locations as their employees leave. That's one of the rules to running a company town -- don't chase out the company.
"Redress" is a word used as the legal term for recouping damages resulting from someone's illegal activity. Since the private individual's actions were not illegal (because the amounted to exercising his legal right to free speech), no redress can be due.
If CNN is announcing the person's name for the purposes of intimidation, they may still be afoul of the law. You may not like it, but no one threatened CNN by posting a mockery of them (you can argue that by retweeting it the President invited violence against them, but that's between them and the President). Yeah, racist snark is not fun to cope with, but causing some unsuspecting dope to become a subject of national attention, because he took the President's side in the CNN vs President information war, is a pretty low-life move on CNN's part.
What "redress"? Racist speech is protected under the 1st amendment. They were not a victim of libel or slander. They were a target of mockery. That's protected speech both because it was clearly a parody and because it was political speech.
Although they have a reputation to protect, they could have done this in a much better way.
No. *Because* they have a reputation to maintain they had to do in a better way. Now they just look like monsters. They threatened all private individuals not to mock them or risk becoming their target. Anytime you see CNN now, you have to ask yourself "what other information are they suppressing?"
The better option would be not to threaten him and anyone who dares to mock them on the air. They are an multinational corporation. He/she is a private individual. Threatening a private individual not to mock CNN is, at the very least, petty.
What if this is simply the same development that you see in this industry in the US? What if it's just rampant age discrimination taking place in India in the same way it takes place in the US? The industry had experienced a long period of expansion in India, but it the expansion had to plateau at some point. And the number of younger workers willing to do simpler work for lower wages only increases. In India it could simply be the beginning of a bursting bubble. Do remember that all the tech executives were warning that if don't let these tech workers in, then they'll just go to other countries around the globe. Because there is a presumed shortage of them. And that's one thing I never believe -- complains of shortages of trained workers made at the same time as there are massive lay offs.
Or are Russians being coy? Not responding to a secure channel meant to prevent a nuclear war for months? And then responding with a denial? This is the kind of thing you do if want to do something that no one would believe you did. Reminds me of the episode of "The Practice" where a drug dealer who was certain he'd get caught came up to a cop and said "officer, I have drugs on me, please, arrest me." The judge didn't believe the cop when he used this as a justification for a search without a warrant. Except the drug dealer really did it. This is so absurd, I can't believe it happened and I can't believe WaPo would be dumb enough to make it up.
You might be onto something with song lyrics. As I mentioned in another post, I wasn't able to find a single country radio station on a recent drive through all of Ohio. At least 1/3 of the stations played rap though.
I don't think Ohio and Pennsylvania are what everyone is used to thinking of them. I recently drove coast to coast and I have to say that Pennsylvania just didn't have that feeling of a poor, ran down place anymore. It's nice and clean and just gave off the ritzy rather than gritty vibe.. The biggest shock was Ohio. I couldn't find a single country station during the whole drive through it. I also couldn't find a single Country Kitchen in Ohio. It's like the whole North East doesn't end until Chicago nowadays. You don't feel like you are in midwest until Minnesota.
What makes you think I didn't notice it? It's was just a demonstration for the guy who thought that 1-statement blocks without parenthesis were readable. Oh, and I like Python. I've used it since version 1.2.
Oh, and if you don't have any evidence, then I have a follow up question. Do you have any decency... Sir?