If you're trying to live the American Dream of having it all, Silicon Valley is very expensive. My brother and his wife make $100,000 a year. They bought a brand new house in Morgan Hill at the height of the 2007 real estate market, which now has an underwater mortgage and they can't retire until they sell the house. They buy $180 designer blue jeans and lease new cars every three years. They have it all and they're miserable.
I gave up on the American Dream years ago. I make $50,000 a year. I live in a studio apartment for the last ten years, watching my rent go from $800 to $1,300. I pay $20 for blue jeans. The last car I had was a 20-year-old junker that I bought for $1,600 in cash and cost $100 in registration, $400 for insurance and $1,000 in repairs per year. I currently take the express bus to work in Palo Alto, one hour each way, for $170 per month. I'm happy as a clam because I'm living a very modest lifestyle.
Congratulations! You read the link. You did more than most people do when evaluating a statement and took the time to evaluate the facts rather than accept face value.
No. I was pointing out that it wasn't ordinary shoplifter that the SWAT team destroyed a building over. That and that hostages involved were key details that the OP left out. If you didn't bother to check out the link, and accepted the OP at face value, it's a different message. Too many people are willing to accept statements at face value without fact checking the statements.
A recent WSJ article mentioned that Silicon Valley is "running out of building space" for tech companies. That's Palo Alto (SAP/Tesla/vmWare), Mountain View (Google) and Menlo Park (Facebook). The northern end of Silicon Valley that has the shortest commute from San Francisco.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of building space in San Jose and Santa Clara, as two-story tilt-ups are torn down and replaced by four- to seven-story buildings. Recruiters are even offering more pay and perks to get young hipsters from San Francisco to brave a longer commute to southern Silicon Valley.
Please move to Texas. When a fertilizer plant explodes in your neighborhood, wipes out the volunteer fire department and burns down half the town, you will appreciate why California has taxes and regulations.
From the article: "But Texas has also had the nation's highest number of workplace fatalities - more than 400 annually - for much of the past decade. Fires and explosions at Texas' more than 1,300 chemical and industrial plants have cost as much in property damage as those in all the other states combined for the five years ending in May 2012."
Try converting BASIC Games into a modern programming language. I'm doing that with Python to learn the finer points of the language while remembering the tricks needed to get PITA BASIC to work back in the day.
You forgot to mention from the article that the shoplifter was armed and took a woman and child as hostage in a standoff with police. Although the property damages was extreme in the particular case, the SWAT team's response to the hostage situation wasn't. It's not the same as the police destroying a black neighborhood 30 years ago to evict people from a house.
I'm getting sick and tired of explaining to people that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are not the same place. Every time the news media does a story on Silicon Valley, they show a tech company campus (typically Google) and the Golden Gate Bridge. The two places are 50 miles apart.That's like claiming Florida as a New York City suburb.
This is Slashdot. The person updating the production servers was probably screwing the pooch from marketing. Everything is fine now. Nothing to see here. Move along.
You're more likely to find a job using Indeed, especially if you poll the website frequently and jump on a job post when it becomes available. If you respond within 15 minutes, you're likely to get an interview. I've gotten many interviews through Indeed. DICE, meh.
My greatest victory in Counterstrike when I took down the top player at my job by running towards him with only one health point and a knife. He managed to miss me with his desert eagle at close range. I gutted him and won that round with 20 coworkers cheering.
A melon field can be plowed under one season and replanted the next season. Almonds, or any kind of orchard, takes years to become productive and don't survive well during a prolong drought. If farmers were paying for metered water, the economics for certain cash crops would change in a hurry.
I mean, can you really blame farmers for planting more profitable crops when nobody raised any objections?
If farmers were paying for metered water, they wouldn't be growing almonds as it would be too expensive during a drought. Most water in the Central Valley are pumped from wells. The water table in some areas are collapsing because too much water is being pumped out..
By the way, another way to end the California water crisis would be for people like you to leave.
I have no problems with people leaving and returning the Central Valley to the desert. If weather patterns are changing permanently (i.e., west gets less water, east gets too much water), farmers should farm where water is more abundant.
This wouldn't be a problem if farmers and Southern California wasn't trying to suck the Sacramento delta dry. Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a terrible waste during a drought.
Not sure why this is marked as troll. Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a substantial amount of the water assigned to agricultural use. Unlike the produce fields that can lie fallow during a drought, an almond grove must be watered all the time. Even as almond groves are dying, new almond groves are being planted. Almonds should be grown somewhere else where water is available.
Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a substantial amount of the water assigned to agricultural use. If almond producers were told to leave the state, the water crisis would be over.
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Or you can take public transit in Silicon Valley.
If you're trying to live the American Dream of having it all, Silicon Valley is very expensive. My brother and his wife make $100,000 a year. They bought a brand new house in Morgan Hill at the height of the 2007 real estate market, which now has an underwater mortgage and they can't retire until they sell the house. They buy $180 designer blue jeans and lease new cars every three years. They have it all and they're miserable.
I gave up on the American Dream years ago. I make $50,000 a year. I live in a studio apartment for the last ten years, watching my rent go from $800 to $1,300. I pay $20 for blue jeans. The last car I had was a 20-year-old junker that I bought for $1,600 in cash and cost $100 in registration, $400 for insurance and $1,000 in repairs per year. I currently take the express bus to work in Palo Alto, one hour each way, for $170 per month. I'm happy as a clam because I'm living a very modest lifestyle.
Congratulations! You read the link. You did more than most people do when evaluating a statement and took the time to evaluate the facts rather than accept face value.
No. I was pointing out that it wasn't ordinary shoplifter that the SWAT team destroyed a building over. That and that hostages involved were key details that the OP left out. If you didn't bother to check out the link, and accepted the OP at face value, it's a different message. Too many people are willing to accept statements at face value without fact checking the statements.
A recent WSJ article mentioned that Silicon Valley is "running out of building space" for tech companies. That's Palo Alto (SAP/Tesla/vmWare), Mountain View (Google) and Menlo Park (Facebook). The northern end of Silicon Valley that has the shortest commute from San Francisco.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of building space in San Jose and Santa Clara, as two-story tilt-ups are torn down and replaced by four- to seven-story buildings. Recruiters are even offering more pay and perks to get young hipsters from San Francisco to brave a longer commute to southern Silicon Valley.
Please move to Texas. When a fertilizer plant explodes in your neighborhood, wipes out the volunteer fire department and burns down half the town, you will appreciate why California has taxes and regulations.
From the article: "But Texas has also had the nation's highest number of workplace fatalities - more than 400 annually - for much of the past decade. Fires and explosions at Texas' more than 1,300 chemical and industrial plants have cost as much in property damage as those in all the other states combined for the five years ending in May 2012."
Try converting BASIC Games into a modern programming language. I'm doing that with Python to learn the finer points of the language while remembering the tricks needed to get PITA BASIC to work back in the day.
You forgot to mention from the article that the shoplifter was armed and took a woman and child as hostage in a standoff with police. Although the property damages was extreme in the particular case, the SWAT team's response to the hostage situation wasn't. It's not the same as the police destroying a black neighborhood 30 years ago to evict people from a house.
I'm getting sick and tired of explaining to people that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are not the same place. Every time the news media does a story on Silicon Valley, they show a tech company campus (typically Google) and the Golden Gate Bridge. The two places are 50 miles apart.That's like claiming Florida as a New York City suburb.
I love the smell of brunt plastic in the morning. :/
Perhaps the Big Bang was a divide by zero error? That would explain a lot.
A divide by zero error. Happens all the time.
This is Slashdot. The person updating the production servers was probably screwing the pooch from marketing. Everything is fine now. Nothing to see here. Move along.
According to my electronics instructor, if we designed a circuit that divides by zero the Universe would explode.
You're more likely to find a job using Indeed, especially if you poll the website frequently and jump on a job post when it becomes available. If you respond within 15 minutes, you're likely to get an interview. I've gotten many interviews through Indeed. DICE, meh.
My greatest victory in Counterstrike when I took down the top player at my job by running towards him with only one health point and a knife. He managed to miss me with his desert eagle at close range. I gutted him and won that round with 20 coworkers cheering.
Nothing is being done. That's the problem.
A melon field can be plowed under one season and replanted the next season. Almonds, or any kind of orchard, takes years to become productive and don't survive well during a prolong drought. If farmers were paying for metered water, the economics for certain cash crops would change in a hurry.
According to the headlines, Mother Nature disagrees with you.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/california-plagued-by-dry-wells-as-drought-makes-water-elusive
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/california-pumping-water-fell-earth-20000-years-ago
As farmers like to say, California's biggest crop is grass, as in your lawn. Your lawns are not necessary.
All the lawns in my Silicon Valley neighborhood are various shades of brown.
I mean, can you really blame farmers for planting more profitable crops when nobody raised any objections?
If farmers were paying for metered water, they wouldn't be growing almonds as it would be too expensive during a drought. Most water in the Central Valley are pumped from wells. The water table in some areas are collapsing because too much water is being pumped out..
By the way, another way to end the California water crisis would be for people like you to leave.
I have no problems with people leaving and returning the Central Valley to the desert. If weather patterns are changing permanently (i.e., west gets less water, east gets too much water), farmers should farm where water is more abundant.
Please educate yourself. Your ignorance of this issue is shameful.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem-almonds
This wouldn't be a problem if farmers and Southern California wasn't trying to suck the Sacramento delta dry. Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a terrible waste during a drought.
Not sure why this is marked as troll. Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a substantial amount of the water assigned to agricultural use. Unlike the produce fields that can lie fallow during a drought, an almond grove must be watered all the time. Even as almond groves are dying, new almond groves are being planted. Almonds should be grown somewhere else where water is available.
Each almond nut requires one gallon of water, which is a substantial amount of the water assigned to agricultural use. If almond producers were told to leave the state, the water crisis would be over.