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Comment Re:Homelessness (Score 0) 522

Or we try this pesky thing called moving... ya know there is the whole middle of the country that's wide open with cheap housing and plenty of new job openings after all the deportations going on... bus tickets are less than $275 per person...

Or you employ said homeless to build their affordable housing and learn job skills at the same time. Handouts do nothing but continue to keep people poor and disengaged. There is no need for people to starve in the streets but there's no need to hand them everything except opportunity to work and contribute.

The altruistic concept makes sense in a 30 second fly by of being robin hood to take from the rich to give to the poor but as they're seeing the backlash you forget that the rich won't just lay down and take being used either.

The "threat" of them moving jobs being public tells you they've already started making changes to compensate and this will lead to a further cycle of harm between the city and the corporation. Think you got homeless problems now? Dump 40,000 jobs over night which is their right to do and see how much you're going to have to charge the remaining companies in town to fill in the massive gap they just created.

You'll get more with a carrot than a stick, how about tax incentives to employ these people or dollar matching charitable investment into the construction between the city and the company.

I would definitely feel singled out if my city went after a small number of companies based on income to unfairly dump their problems on the corporation. Seattle can kiss my ass with that one, you want to reach out and just steal $11,000,000 (40k employees) worth of these "donations". None of this helps anyone but I do hope Seattle gets a strong lesson in discrimination against corporations or people unfairly is still wrong.

Comment Yup I remember the good ol days (Score 1) 87

It was so much better back then, so much less absolute crap.

The internet was filled with just information and mostly intelligent people, the masses had no fucking clue.

It's been a wild ride seeing the internet develop, if only we could take modern hardware / network speed back then to the better content / contributors

Comment Carborators (Score 0) 182

Yeah theyll never think to use vehicles with carborators and simple ignition systems that dont care about your fucking microwave.

Theyll never guess an object in motion tends to stay in motion ie a few hundred meters is nothing with enough high speed mass

Comment Censorship is the root of all evil (Score 0) 451

Allowing censorship to start spreading now at the corporate level is just awful.

This is where the start of the rise of these movements really begins to gain mainstream traction as this goes against everything this nation stands for.

The right of all people to express their views whether they be political or religious regardless of whether anyone agrees with them or not.

If you want to go down this road then be fair in your censorship and ban the violent leftists extremists.

To be fair to the whole situation if these morons weren't protesting in the street and actually organized a real protest not on public streets none of this would happen but nobody wants to acknowledge the real truth that there is blame on both sides.

Moral of the story don't be a fucking moron and get out of the street.

Comment Re:Baking political correctness in society (Score 0) 367

I'll take my freedom of speech and deal with having to read some things I don't like to not give up my right to be heard in society at large.

No censorship has ever helped anyone, if someone is truly posting something so profane then maybe as a society we should be looking at the root cause of that anger to begin with?

Think of how much hate speech you wouldn't have to tolerate from either side of the globe if the US would quit playing in the sand pits of the middle east and focus on tending to her own people instead.

Comment How is promoting diversity not discriminatory? (Score 0) 343

Can anyone rationally explain to me how "promoting diversity" is not causing discrimination against the white males?

I seriously do not understand how anyone can claim to be promoting diversity by specifically targeting a group of individuals based purely on their ethnicity & sex.

Real diversity means keeping an open system that is truly fair to all, if only white male presenters turned up to be speakers then that shouldn't be an issue. It's not racism or discrimination that makes that happen, they were merely the only ones willing & able to speak at the event.

Stop this horrible version of discrimination against white males in the name of equality!

Comment Re:Oh Lord. (Score 0) 506

It's ridiculous how few times they actually do any engineering to validate the speeds on roads.

Arizona in general makes a retarded amount of money by creating speed zone traps and automated camera systems.

The roads here are WIDE and VERY VERY FLAT with little to go wrong comparative to other places I've been.

I got nailed with a speeding ticket here last year, the officer was hiding behind a wall to get me... yes I'm a horrible speeder... as I slowed to a red light and got pulled over while stopped. Yeah that really helped improve the safety around here and totally wasn't a revenue scam... a massive like 6 mph over on a flat straight road with nearly 1 mile in visibility in either direction.

Comment Never too old... till you stop (Score 5, Insightful) 772

I firmly believe you're too old to learn the day you stop learning.

Never ever quite learning the latest and greatest in programming, to do any less is condemning ones own career path.

Having recently joined the ranks of older programmers I still find that I can completely crush the new kids by leveraging that vast experience I already have.

Dust off the learning hat and get back into the fight man, 40 isn't a time to lay down and die... last I heard 30 was the new 20 and 40 was the new 30... and we're all going to be broke in this economy so who cares in the end?

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