So you're saying that you won the culture war [...]
I survived the culture. When I was in college in the early 1990's, I took black social studies and women literature. Being the token white male in each class, I almost got lynched in one class and castrated in the other. Wonderful instructors put an end to that nonsense.
[...] the people who lived there 30 years ago have all been evicted [...] not being rich like you [...]
The Mexican-Americans left five years ago when the first of four corporations bought the apartment complex and charged "luxury" rents.
[...] not being rich like you [...]
I'm not rich. I live in Silicon Valley and make $50K per year as a virtual ditch digger.
Congratulations on your smug cultural imperialism.
It's called multiculturalism. I love the people around me.;)
Population growth in the U.S. is coming from immigration. Minorities will outnumber whites by mid-century, which has already happened in California. As one political analyst pointed out, Hillary ran a campaign for 2050.
I've overheard to black vets on the bus comparing cities: San Jose, they love; San Francisco and Oakland have issues but are mostly okay; and Stockton is worse than Chicago for walking down the street.
When an area has gone from 100% white to having a very small population of white people, that's clearly also ethnic cleansing.
Not in Silicon Valley. Many white people bought their homes for $30K to $60K in the 1960's and 1970's when the south bay was a still a bedroom community to San Francisco. If they kept their houses until the today, they could sell their house for $1M+, move out of the area or the state to buy a cheaper, larger house elsewhere, and retire off the remaining proceeds. The people buying the houses are likely to be young professionals of a different ethnic background. That's not ethnic cleansing, it's economics.
It's interesting how leftists consider the displacement of native people in foreign nations to be ethic cleansing, but consider it progressive and wonderful when the same thing happens in the west.
If you believe leftists are hiding underneath your bed, you need professional help.
Why do you hate yourselves so much?
I have a group of Jewish friends who are always complaining how this or that person is a self-hating Jew out to destroy Israel. One day I asked them: "Does a self-hating Jew actually think of themselves as a self-hating Jew or are they too busy living life to apply your label to themselves?" After a long silence, hey admitted that many self-hating Jews are probably too busy living life.
Google employees on your bus? Doesn't the GBus go where you live?
The GBus near my home goes to the main campus in Mountain View. From the main campus you could probably pick up a Google shuttle bus to the satellite offices in Palo Alto. For employees starting work at 7:00AM (like I do), the express bus is the fastest way into Palo Alto.
Stupid question, but couldn't you just split the electoral votes, instead of splitting a state that's been working fine so far?
Splitting the state would give the Republicans more control in the Senate. Why settle for two perennial Democratic senators when you can get ten more Republican senators?
If you ride the bus, you probably don't make as much as those who drive their car to work, which means you live with the poorer demographic.
I pay $140 per month to ride the express bus to Palo Alto (one hour each way) to avoid taking the local buses (two hours each way) and driving on the freeway (20 minutes in the morning, 45 to 90 minutes in the evening). I'm sure my fellow passengers who work at Tesla, SAP, vmWare, Google, HP, Lockheed and Stanford will get a kick out of being considered a "poor demographic" in Silicon Valley.
How many people that live in actual houses there are non-white or non-asian?
One of the Indian engineers who worked at HP complained about owning a five-year-old condo with 20-foot-tall ceilings.
[...] and poor black people tend to like run-down apartments [...]
My 50-year-old apartment complex looked like 1960's housing project when I first moved in nearly 12 years ago. After four different corporate owners in recent years, these "luxury" apartments with new paint and appliances are going for the same monthly rate as a new luxury apartment complex down the street.
At my place of work, about 1/2 the employees are white, about 1/4 are Hispanic (mostly Mexican, but a few from further south), about 1/8 are black and about 1/8 is from somewhere else (mostly the Marshall Islands or China).
I work in government IT. So half of my workplace is black and nearly everyone is ex-military with a zero tolerance for crap.
All in a part of the country that, if most think of it at all, most think of as utterly lily white.
My relatives in Idaho are lily white as can be and still be called a redneck. If they want to see a Mexican, they go to the Mexican restaurant. If they want to see a Chinese, they go to the laundromat. If the want to see a black, they go to the rodeo to see a black cowboy telling an off-color joke. I personally found it strange to be in an all white society when I went back to bury my mother with her parents. My lily-white relatives are terrified of Silicon Valley. Of course, they never been to San Francisco or Los Angeles or any big city on the coasts.
Even in cities with several ethnic groups the are all in clusters, like oil drops in water.
You mentioned Silicon Valley in the 1980's. That's not Silicon Valley today. I live in what used to be a predominately white apartment complex outside of downtown San Jose. Except for the folks in the leasing office, I'm the only white person in this complex. When I get on the bus, I'm usually the only white person on board and a half-dozen languages other than English is being spoken at any time. When I go to work in Palo Alto, I'm the only white person in the IT department.
California [...] the racial war zone it actually is.
As we say in California: "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
Congress still have to approved the election when they meet on January 6, 2017. A slim to none chance for more drama happening if elected officials start challenging ballots. It ain't over yet folks.
Too bad California didn't apportion it's electors, eh? That would have made Trump's electoral win even yuuge!
An initiative to divide California into six states didn't make the ballot this year. The population centers of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento are predominantly blue, but the Central Valley and northern hinterlands are predominately red. If California split into six states, it would unlock all those red voters that are drown out by a sea of blue voters.
California is demonstrably not "the future of this country."
Demographically, California is the future of the country. What you see in politics today is the dying breath of a white power structure that will surrender to a younger generation of mixed race Americans.
It's hard to be productive with crazy high taxation, brushfires, and earthquakes, too.
High taxation is an issue if you don't have your finances structured properly. Brush fires is more of an issue in Southern California with the Santa Ana winds. I'm still waiting for the Big One after 30+ years.
Noise is the cellphone ringing every 15 minutes, getting 50+ emails and following up on 20+ positions per day. It's been a long time since I had to do a full-on job search.
That link is the funniest piece of California satire I've read in years. Fortunately, it bares no resemblance to reality.
Why the hell would we want the folks in that state to have the ability to override the popular vote in the other 49 states [...]
California does represent 1/10th of the U.S. population — and the future of this country.
[...] when they can't even get their own state into the democratic socialist utopia they're trying to make?
The California Republican Party has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The Southern Strategy of pitting poor whites against everyone else doesn't work here. For every moderate conservative replaced with a right-wing nut job in each political cycle, the less relevant the Republican Party becomes in this state. You can't blame that on "the democratic socialist utopia" that doesn't exist.
But social security everyone isn't equal and it isn't lifelong (unless you're severely disabled).
That's not quite true. When the security program got started in the 1930's, there was 19 working people to pay benefits for every retiree. In 2030, there will be two working people to pay benefits for every retiree. Most retirees are living 20 to 30 years longer than the expected five to ten years after retirement. With baby boomers retired by 2030, two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security and Medicare.
The more you pay in the more you get out, but only after you retire.
Unless changes are made to Social Security in the near future, there will only be enough money to pay out three-quarters of the benefits owed in 2034.
Do newly formed business not look for customers for whom they can perform work?
A self-employed person shouldn't be collecting unemployment benefits. If my brother set up his business legal and proper, he wouldn't be hiring illegals and paying them underneath the table.
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So you're saying that you won the culture war [...]
I survived the culture. When I was in college in the early 1990's, I took black social studies and women literature. Being the token white male in each class, I almost got lynched in one class and castrated in the other. Wonderful instructors put an end to that nonsense.
[...] the people who lived there 30 years ago have all been evicted [...] not being rich like you [...]
The Mexican-Americans left five years ago when the first of four corporations bought the apartment complex and charged "luxury" rents.
[...] not being rich like you [...]
I'm not rich. I live in Silicon Valley and make $50K per year as a virtual ditch digger.
Congratulations on your smug cultural imperialism.
It's called multiculturalism. I love the people around me. ;)
Depends on who is "white" in the future.
Population growth in the U.S. is coming from immigration. Minorities will outnumber whites by mid-century, which has already happened in California. As one political analyst pointed out, Hillary ran a campaign for 2050.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you've been living inside a bubble.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the hipsters are fleeing San Francisco and moving to Oakland.
https://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/oaklands-hipster-invasion/
I've overheard to black vets on the bus comparing cities: San Jose, they love; San Francisco and Oakland have issues but are mostly okay; and Stockton is worse than Chicago for walking down the street.
When an area has gone from 100% white to having a very small population of white people, that's clearly also ethnic cleansing.
Not in Silicon Valley. Many white people bought their homes for $30K to $60K in the 1960's and 1970's when the south bay was a still a bedroom community to San Francisco. If they kept their houses until the today, they could sell their house for $1M+, move out of the area or the state to buy a cheaper, larger house elsewhere, and retire off the remaining proceeds. The people buying the houses are likely to be young professionals of a different ethnic background. That's not ethnic cleansing, it's economics.
It's interesting how leftists consider the displacement of native people in foreign nations to be ethic cleansing, but consider it progressive and wonderful when the same thing happens in the west.
If you believe leftists are hiding underneath your bed, you need professional help.
Why do you hate yourselves so much?
I have a group of Jewish friends who are always complaining how this or that person is a self-hating Jew out to destroy Israel. One day I asked them: "Does a self-hating Jew actually think of themselves as a self-hating Jew or are they too busy living life to apply your label to themselves?" After a long silence, hey admitted that many self-hating Jews are probably too busy living life.
Google employees on your bus? Doesn't the GBus go where you live?
The GBus near my home goes to the main campus in Mountain View. From the main campus you could probably pick up a Google shuttle bus to the satellite offices in Palo Alto. For employees starting work at 7:00AM (like I do), the express bus is the fastest way into Palo Alto.
Like who, your wife's son?
Baby boomers.
Stupid question, but couldn't you just split the electoral votes, instead of splitting a state that's been working fine so far?
Splitting the state would give the Republicans more control in the Senate. Why settle for two perennial Democratic senators when you can get ten more Republican senators?
If you ride the bus, you probably don't make as much as those who drive their car to work, which means you live with the poorer demographic.
I pay $140 per month to ride the express bus to Palo Alto (one hour each way) to avoid taking the local buses (two hours each way) and driving on the freeway (20 minutes in the morning, 45 to 90 minutes in the evening). I'm sure my fellow passengers who work at Tesla, SAP, vmWare, Google, HP, Lockheed and Stanford will get a kick out of being considered a "poor demographic" in Silicon Valley.
How many people that live in actual houses there are non-white or non-asian?
One of the Indian engineers who worked at HP complained about owning a five-year-old condo with 20-foot-tall ceilings.
[...] and poor black people tend to like run-down apartments [...]
My 50-year-old apartment complex looked like 1960's housing project when I first moved in nearly 12 years ago. After four different corporate owners in recent years, these "luxury" apartments with new paint and appliances are going for the same monthly rate as a new luxury apartment complex down the street.
At my place of work, about 1/2 the employees are white, about 1/4 are Hispanic (mostly Mexican, but a few from further south), about 1/8 are black and about 1/8 is from somewhere else (mostly the Marshall Islands or China).
I work in government IT. So half of my workplace is black and nearly everyone is ex-military with a zero tolerance for crap.
All in a part of the country that, if most think of it at all, most think of as utterly lily white.
My relatives in Idaho are lily white as can be and still be called a redneck. If they want to see a Mexican, they go to the Mexican restaurant. If they want to see a Chinese, they go to the laundromat. If the want to see a black, they go to the rodeo to see a black cowboy telling an off-color joke. I personally found it strange to be in an all white society when I went back to bury my mother with her parents. My lily-white relatives are terrified of Silicon Valley. Of course, they never been to San Francisco or Los Angeles or any big city on the coasts.
So what you're actually saying is: "California is the H1-B king of the U.S."
I haven't worked at Cisco since 2013.
Your life is the reason why war is inevitable.
Because I accept other people as human beings? Grow up!
But Trump's opponents appear to be almost entirely comprised of racists.
As they say on Avenue Q, everyone is a little bit racist. Denying the obvious doesn't help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovF1zsDoeM
Even in cities with several ethnic groups the are all in clusters, like oil drops in water.
You mentioned Silicon Valley in the 1980's. That's not Silicon Valley today. I live in what used to be a predominately white apartment complex outside of downtown San Jose. Except for the folks in the leasing office, I'm the only white person in this complex. When I get on the bus, I'm usually the only white person on board and a half-dozen languages other than English is being spoken at any time. When I go to work in Palo Alto, I'm the only white person in the IT department.
California [...] the racial war zone it actually is.
As we say in California: "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
Congress still have to approved the election when they meet on January 6, 2017. A slim to none chance for more drama happening if elected officials start challenging ballots. It ain't over yet folks.
Too bad California didn't apportion it's electors, eh? That would have made Trump's electoral win even yuuge!
An initiative to divide California into six states didn't make the ballot this year. The population centers of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento are predominantly blue, but the Central Valley and northern hinterlands are predominately red. If California split into six states, it would unlock all those red voters that are drown out by a sea of blue voters.
https://ballotpedia.org/%22Six_Californias%22_Initiative_(2016)
California is demonstrably not "the future of this country."
Demographically, California is the future of the country. What you see in politics today is the dying breath of a white power structure that will surrender to a younger generation of mixed race Americans.
The weather in Florida is just as good as California and no earthquakes.
Except Southern Florida is slipping into the ocean and speculators will be busy selling brand new beach front properties as they did in the 1930's.
It's hard to be productive with crazy high taxation, brushfires, and earthquakes, too.
High taxation is an issue if you don't have your finances structured properly. Brush fires is more of an issue in Southern California with the Santa Ana winds. I'm still waiting for the Big One after 30+ years.
Any of them you are qualified for?
Just about all of them.
Lots of noise in the inbox is not a good thing.
Noise is the cellphone ringing every 15 minutes, getting 50+ emails and following up on 20+ positions per day. It's been a long time since I had to do a full-on job search.
You can run Windows 7 on Skylake and Kabylake just fine.
From what I read elsewhere, it's the next gen processors that will require Windows 10 or Linux.
If New England was one state instead of several, you'd see basically the same landmass only with a bigger economy.
Except California doesn't have snow to deal with. It's hard to be productive in a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops during a blizzard.
and is hugely racist
That link is the funniest piece of California satire I've read in years. Fortunately, it bares no resemblance to reality.
Why the hell would we want the folks in that state to have the ability to override the popular vote in the other 49 states [...]
California does represent 1/10th of the U.S. population — and the future of this country.
[...] when they can't even get their own state into the democratic socialist utopia they're trying to make?
The California Republican Party has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The Southern Strategy of pitting poor whites against everyone else doesn't work here. For every moderate conservative replaced with a right-wing nut job in each political cycle, the less relevant the Republican Party becomes in this state. You can't blame that on "the democratic socialist utopia" that doesn't exist.
Recruiters aren't your friends.
LinkedIn calls them "connections" and I have 800+ connections from the last 20+ years.
Seriously, you are a product.
This product gets 20+ phone calls and emails per day from recruiters.
But social security everyone isn't equal and it isn't lifelong (unless you're severely disabled).
That's not quite true. When the security program got started in the 1930's, there was 19 working people to pay benefits for every retiree. In 2030, there will be two working people to pay benefits for every retiree. Most retirees are living 20 to 30 years longer than the expected five to ten years after retirement. With baby boomers retired by 2030, two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security and Medicare.
The more you pay in the more you get out, but only after you retire.
Unless changes are made to Social Security in the near future, there will only be enough money to pay out three-quarters of the benefits owed in 2034.
Do newly formed business not look for customers for whom they can perform work?
A self-employed person shouldn't be collecting unemployment benefits. If my brother set up his business legal and proper, he wouldn't be hiring illegals and paying them underneath the table.