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  1. Re:You're wrong. They ARE being forced. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The only poors in SF for the last 50 years have been homeless and 'Hunters Point'. Haight Ashbury was a LONG time ago, and it ended very badly. Hunters Point is gone and good riddance.

    Retail workers live at the end of BART, their commute isn't my problem. Market rates for unskilled work in SF will creep up, it's already crept up, just enough to cover rent in Benicia. All as it should work. Even Oakland is becoming a decent neighborhood.

    SF isn't even a 'nice place to visit'. The twits can have it, but fuck their complaints. Fuck their claim that 'the gays' made it a good place to live. That's just bullshit, only true for other gays.

    SF is just like any other 'high rent douchebaggery'. Manhattan west. Great for finding $300 pre distressed blue jeans, not much use for anything else. This has been true for decades.

  2. The real shit Decatur is in Illinois. It's where ADM processes 90% of the USA's soy crop. The whole town smells like a tofu eater puked in the corner (of every room).

    You don't even want to be downwind of it.

  3. Re:GET A JOB YOURSELF WUMPUS FAGGOT. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's the thing with clients. They sometimes make you wait. But the hourly rate makes up for it.

    You've been here for the last two years. Basically non-stop idiocy. Get a McJob.

  4. Re:That is not entirely true on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody builds new slums. When it's time to doze, they aren't going to build crackhouses. Duh.

    Poors get whatever is leftover, sucks to be you, living in clearlake.

  5. Re:Only 4% fraud on 'government tit'? Bullshit! on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    When free shit is being handed out, it's _always_ more than 4% scam.

  6. Re:This isn't hard to solve. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The _worst_ managers have degrees in management. I blame the frontal lobotomy givin business majors, the follow up electroshock for MBAs.

    The problem isn't the things they don't know, it's the wrong things they think they know. Management training is largely a bad joke. Incompetents training the ignorant.

  7. Re:You're wrong. They ARE being forced. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you have 'clients' you will never go back to 'job'.

    You might understand, once you get your first job.

  8. Re:That is not entirely true on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I typed what I meant.

    The poors are 'on fire', they should be grateful they get pissed on

    The point remains, nobody in their right mind will purpose build a slum. Slums are the luxury housing of 1910, and that works.

  9. Re:Only 4% fraud on 'government tit'? Bullshit! on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let that strawman crush you.

    It's obviously about being cost effective. Not even looking at 90% of scammers while only finding 20% in error is clearly not investigating enough leeches.

    The key number would be ratio of cost of an investigation vs. cost of an undetected ongoing scam. As this is rent (expensive bene), they can and should be investigating _all_of_them_, about once/year. Same as SS disability grifters in the USA. But first they should investigate the government 'workers' assigned to investigate the scumbags. They are always a big part of the problem.

  10. Re:That is not entirely true on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The free market puts the poors where they belong, at the far end of BART.

    Nobody in their right mind builds new slums. You build new high end and existing inventory tinkles down. As always, sucks to be poor, sucks worse to be poor and be waiting for someone else to do something about it.

  11. Re:You're wrong. They ARE being forced. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Austin always sucked, you've just grown up and can't stand the fucking posers anymore.

    They were never cool, you just thought they were, now you see what they've always been ('they can get the same vibe just about anywhere').

    Abe Simpson said it best. Everybody 'gets over' being 'hip and withit', realizes it's phony bullshit and always was.

  12. Re:Bubble burst in 3 ... 2 ... 1.5 ... 1.25 ... on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So did Pets.com, you fucking genius.

    You must like their 'burn to book ratio'. I suggest you invest your life savings, in a single share.

  13. Only 4% fraud on 'government tit'? Bullshit! on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They do need to work on their error rate, but they should be working on the false negatives. The false positives can be handled with a human investigator.

  14. Re:You're wrong. They ARE being forced. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    SF has been the realm of the idle rich for _many_decades_. It's not like the poors were able to spend $3k/month a few years ago.

    There are many reasons why people like SF. The Chinese are superstitious, SF has awesome Fungsi, that's not going to change. They're not there for the (turd burglary/artsy fartsy reasons) in the first place.

    What makes SF and Manhattan so strong for entertainment? People with money being served, same as London and Paris.

  15. Re:That's six bedroom, 6,500 SQ feet in Dallas on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    SF is surrounded by water, Dallas is surrounded by shit. Shit is easier to build on.

    SF isn't an independent city. Think Manhattan, it can only exist in context.

    The bay area in general is building out. Just the core is full, the good tech isn't in SF anyhow, just the new bubble companies (Uber etc).

  16. Re:Bubble burst in 3 ... 2 ... 1.5 ... 1.25 ... on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Pets.com's business model is back. The fools are trying to sell bags of dry dog food over the net, just like 2000.

  17. Re:You're wrong. They ARE being forced. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Price goes up, demand decreases. All working as it should.

  18. Re:Everyone Taking the Brazilian Model on Cringely's Final Predictions: Apple Becomes a Financial Service and Hedge Fund (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the 'shiney loving moron model'. It's worldwide to varying degrees and why about half of Americans have a negative net worth.

  19. Re:Apple does buy up competition on Cringely's Final Predictions: Apple Becomes a Financial Service and Hedge Fund (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    You might have missed the whole 'playstation' thing. Pretty sure they all outsold the walkman.

    Also cameras, bet your phone has a Sony CCD in it. Of course I could be wrong, your phone might have a shitty camera.

  20. All good. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody is being forced to live in 'that', good for the landlords. This is how it's _supposed_ to work.

    Sucks to be a grey haired trust funder who's trust no longer covers rent, but fuck them. They can live in Benicia or Gilroy, or get their first job.

  21. Re:Do it, faggot. on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    I need you to run rStabInEye.exe and install some custom hardware.

  22. Re:Depends on the music you are listening to on Does Listening to Music Have a Negative Impact on Creativity? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of music with words triggering your language processing centers.

    Just as _terrible_ boring music triggers your 'god this sucks, get me out of here' fight/flight centers.

  23. Re: fucking idiots on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    You read it somewhere...but didn't understand it.

    Define QoS?

    You can flood the network with high priority packets. Which will cause _your_ network's users pings to get longer for lower priority packets. Until they just ban you for being a dick.

    Keep doubling down on wrong. Fucking moron.

  24. Good news: High/medium density housing is not only legal, it's _empty_ and waiting for you to move in.

  25. Re: fucking idiots on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    You _obviously_ don't even know what QoS is.

    What you describe is only possible for the admins at the other players ISP or the server admin. In either case, it's not done via QoS.

    If you are capable of embarrassment, you should be.