That may have been true five years ago; but it no longer holds today: http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

I've lived in SF off and on for ten years. The land is stunningly beautiful beyond compare; the food is good; and there's lots of public art. As a tenant of a rent-controlled apartment I have at least as many rights as the mortgaged owner of a condo in any other city. Unlike NYC, where rent control is an inherited privilege, here it applies to all buildings built before 1978 (~90% of the city's stock). It never snows and is often sunny. The air in many neighborhoods is clean & fresh due to the strong winds from the ocean. Californians on average are good drivers. The bike commuter lobby gets some respect from city hall.

Other than that, it sucks dogballs. The culture is smugly self-congratulatory like I've never seen anywhere else. Lots and lots of ultra smarmy trust fund man-children. The average woman is square, surly, and mannish; the average man effete and passive-aggressive. Something is badly wrong with the local education system - a fortune is spend educating the native yokels, yet they are often ignorant, aggressive, and/or openly bigoted - more so than the cheaply-educated poor folks I grew up with in the Rustbelt.

The weather is never actually "warm", the best we get is "kinda chilly". The architecture outside of downtown is hideous; and the buildings in all neighborhoods are ill-maintained. The live music scene in SF (not Oakland) is kinda lame. People from other cities - including NYC - are always shocked at how many street people we have (many/most are housed at City expense, and so not technically homeless) and how aggressive they are. The mayor is widely rumored to be a mob employee (not even the boss). The local bigmedia is crap even by bigmedia standards. Taxes are higher than Massachusetts.

And there you have captured the real point of the new Feminist jurisprudence: To impose on the population, at the literal point of a gun if necessary, an abhorrently Puritanical anti-sex morality.

Centrist tool. Republican = Democrat = Centrist = Fascist.

Really? So what's the point of being able to read files belonging to the owner? If the backdoor only permitted nuking of the filesystem, then it wouldn't be a big deal. This is pretty clearly an application to facilitate surveillance of citizens, and therefore can be fairly described as sinister.

Interstate commerce. 'Cuz the Supreme Kangaroo Kourt says everything counts as interstate commerce.

The grocer is mortal enemy to a starving, penniless man.

Naw dude, that's just the wingnuts who get mass media coverage.

Most environmentalists think reducing pollution is a splendid idea. However, most of them do NOT consider shutting down industrial civilization as an acceptable way to do that.

The bigmedia exclude most traditional "leftist" views from public discussion. It's Centrism (i.e. financialist totalitarianism) or nothing.

Don't like gravity? Flap your arms and fly.

Unjust and/or unwise laws are a good argument against the unchecked rule of lawyers; not a good argument in favor of injustice.

Why would you assume SF has fast wireless? This is 'Murika, son... we don't do fast internet.

Your internet isn't already censored??

Strongly disagree. Greed & selfishness are constants throughout history. However, while no legal system is perfect, not all of them are systemically biased to the point of illegitimacy like the current American system.

Funny.. I maintain a few small, GPLv3-licensed libraries. Every few months I receive a request from some random douche asking me to weaken the license to BSD or similar. How many of these requests come from people who have submitted Pull Requests, or at least filed some useful Issues? None, zero, nada, zilch. Just a bunch of opportunists hoping to enclose some Free Software for their own profit.