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  1. Then decide 'no worries, it's a sign on an overpass'...

  2. Not sure what the rate is. They are surely not well paid.

  3. Translation: I think no women are whores.

  4. Re:The want to act like taxis ... on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How many people speak actual french in Quebec? They all speak whatever their local creole is called. I bet an actual french speaker would fail the test.

  5. Re:China should have been allowed to join the ISS on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Best thing for them. Did you even read your own cite?

  6. Re:Maybe your business, not mine. State Farm minim on California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Never filed a claim? Otherwise you'd know better.

  7. Re:Why not covered by insurance? on EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody pays the $100k.

    Insurance and government pay a small % of bill amount. So hospitals charge a high % to offset the fact they know they will get stiffed.

    It's just fiction.

  8. Re:Great, but on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Plant and animal hormones share a chemical structure.

    We're evolved to eat 'pseudo estrogens'. Picking a particular plant to fear, misses be basic point.

  9. Re:Maybe your business, not mine. State Farm minim on California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Non profits minimize profit by paying their big cheeses all their profits. It's not the same as a for profit business, but more like them than different.

    'State Farm' is not a good example to use, they are as bad as insurance companies get in terms of fucking their customers every chance they get. Citing them is like citing 'The United Way' as an example of a good charity. Makes me think you're living in a different universe.

  10. Re:Attack Of The Killer Soy Beans? on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Evolution 'seeks' local maximums. It isn't necessarily the optimum solution.

  11. You are thinking of 'Golden Gate Park', but without any rules.

  12. Kids grow out of having a mental age of 12, the chronic homeless will not. If anything the drugs they take makes them regress into even more self centered, one dimensional thinkers/consumers. More like 6 year olds, but with adult strength.

    That's before you consider the long term effects of schizophrenia. About 1 IQ point lost per episode. Long term, they remember being smart, but are now really really dim. Too dim to realize it. There are a few /.ers I could point to.

  13. It's been about 50 years since and 'working homeless' could afford to live in SF.

    SF's problem is with 'crazy drug-addicted unemployable homeless'. Working homeless have the sense to move.

  14. No it doesn't.

    Find a bum in Half Moon Bay or Pacifica. They aren't there for long before the cops arrest them and 'help them (leave)'.

    The billionaire neighborhoods already have the answer to homelessness. Zero tolerance.

  15. Re:Lots of cheap housing in US, just not in San Fr on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he meant central valley, not SI valley.

    Stockton is dirt cheap. But it's too close, the bums will just hitchhike back to SF in a day.

  16. Re:Lots of cheap housing in US, just not in San Fr on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If they had jobs, they wouldn't be bums living on the streets.

    The main problem is 'the homeless' relocate themselves to relatively warm places with stupid, over generous, homeless policies (e.g. SF, Seattle).

  17. Re:Not enough affordable housing? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody builds new slums.

    But the people that move into new construction were previously living somewhere That place is now open, it won't be rented to a bum either, but at the end of the moves there will be a place open that's better than a homeless camp.

    Unless the housing market is just broken, then the bum should move.

  18. Re:Not enough affordable housing? on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few middle class people in SF proper. Mostly kids that are renting and slowly getting smart enough to move the fuck out.

    If you own property in SF, you are not middle class. Granting many are highly leveraged, their property values are no more guaranteed than anyone else's.

    SF has been like Manhattan for _decades_. The bitching for the last few years are trust fund people who's trust fund no longer covers SF rent.

  19. 30 miles is far too close. The bums will walk back in a day.

    I think Utah is a good place to start, perhaps send them to 'burning man' (the playa anyhow).

    If you really want the homeless dealt with, send them to 'half moon bay'.

  20. Nonsense, obviously never seen a brick oven in use.

    The quote is old propaganda. 100% made up (by old 'what's his name', the one killed in his bath and made a martyr). Do you also quote 'Goebbels' like the things he said were meaningful?

  21. If your plan was implemented, neighbors would burn down houses after they are foreclosed on. Banks would switch to 100% forced short sales to protect the properties.

    Nobody wants a house full of bums in their neighborhood. Unless you had one sleeping on your couch last night, you are a hypocrite.

    A better plan is 'homeless camps' in empty dry countries in Utah. With razor wire and guards. The first step for most of the homeless IS DETOX.

  22. Clue train coming...there is no homeless problem in Half Moon Bay or Pacifica. Billionair neighborhoods already know how to handle the homeless problem.

    Second clue train. What's wrong with Fargo, Huntsville or the Twin Cities? No local talent, no local venture cap, can't get talent to move there at any price (seriously, the tundra?).

  23. The fact that reds are putting together the 'quality of life' indexes certainly help.

    Not unlike the 'health care' index that that they are so embarrassed by, they won't repeat it.

  24. Nobody builds new slums. Developers build new luxury housing, everybody moves up and what is leftover is the slums. When nothing is left, the bums have a choice, move or live on the street. Being bums, they chose poorly.

  25. The extortionist show their hands...Let them, they will die in a hail of bullets and the problem will finally be solved.

    The homeless aren't the only people that can go to guns. The average competence/sobriety/arms of the homeless doesn't make it look good for them.

    Nobody wants to go 'Philippines' on the bums, but if it happens, it would end like the the Philippines are.