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Comment Re:Hotel tax??? (Score 1) 319

It's a tax. It's so some people can spend money without going to the trouble of earning it.

It takes a lot of money to run a city. Several of California's larger cities are near bankrupt (yeah, yeah, don't honor contracts on retirement, blah, blah, blah) Keeping SFO afloat means the city is always looking for a way to stick it to people. One of these days Golden Gate Park will be crammed with parking meters (or those pay stations) The city is becoming less friendly to tourism. Why bother with festivals and stuff when you keep robbing visitors.

Comment Timely... (Score 2) 37

We're moving development into HTML5 and CSS3, with more users interested in apps which they can use on tabs or mobiles.

Big trick is figuring how to make apps work on a smaller screen and not totally suck (like fb does.)

Comment Re:Freedom of Speech? (Score 5, Insightful) 328

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

And, as we learned from "People vs. Larry Flint" (and other, less popular, sources), porn is speech...

However disgusting, "revenge porn" ought to remain legal...

Cough. Your freedoms end where other's begin. Cough.

Comment Re:The internet of things...that might get you kil (Score 1) 128

Some things are important enough to

a) keep simple, and
b) keep offline

While that's true, it's also flying in the face of Progress We must strive to make things as complicated and feature rich as possible (and also shiny).

See, it worked, it detected the fire by melting. Success!

Comment Re:Go out and smell the flowers once in a while (Score 1) 257

Seriously, a little work-life balance? Radical concept, I know.

My oldest sister informed her work-aholic husband she was tired of him not coming home from the office, he was already a success and it was time to delegate some responsibility. He didn't take it seriously and was shocked when she finally filed for divorce.

IMHO, she could have found more to do with her own time, but guess she was too lovey-dovey to be alone.

Comment Re:Chinese getting uncomfortable... (Score 3, Insightful) 100

Or you know, a well known totalitarian government stamping out a black market currency, you know, to control their citizens, like they've been doing forever.

Funny how they can be all quiet on things like this, then go at them like a rancor beast.

Fear is a great motivator. Anything they can't control makes their fearful.

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