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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Thanks to growing up near North San Jose I get confused when someone says downtown and it's not a desolate borefest. It's looking like they kind of want it to be a slightly less terrible Santanna Row, mixed with University Ave in Palo Alto. I dunno, it's really not my thing and it's probably going to take a long time, but honestly, I can't blame them for wanting it. It seems inevitably bland and capable of attracting bored citizenry from nearby cities. It seems very Fremont. If I had a house in this town I'd be doing cartwheels and holding onto selling it for a bit longer.
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doctorfrog posted:http://www.fremont.gov/1655/Downtown not accurate since the crowd isn't 90% Indian
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etalian posted:not accurate since the crowd isn't 90% Indian Come on, half Chinese/half Indian would be most accurate for Fremont.
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Fremont is home to the largest population of Afghans in the US!
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Space-Bird posted:I have someone in my building who smokes like the dankest OG Kush ever + ground up tires, and it seeps up into my apartment around Midnight, 4 am, and 6 am...it constantly wakes me up and I think I have an electrical fire. I've had to buy multiple air purifiers to deal with it. I applaud anyone who makes the effort to smoke on the street or in a public space.....just don't do it in your bathroom in a multi-unit building. Cigarette smoke on the other hand has become entirely laughable to me, I swear whatever this person is smoking....oh my god... Why not talk to them about it?
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Metropolitan Water District to vote on rationing water in southern California next week.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Metropolitan Water District to vote on rationing water in southern California next week. quote:Local agencies that need more water than the MWD allocation will be required to pay punitive surcharges of up to $2,960 an acre-foot for the extra deliveries. http://www.iid.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=4325 posted:Water Rate 
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Really, we all know who to blame for the drought: environmentalists.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/carly-fiorina-california-drought-116711.html?hp=lc2_4 posted:Carly Fiorina is blaming liberal environmentalists for what she calls a “man-made” drought in California.
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What is up with former HP CEO's and running for office? I understand that egotistical executives make a mental connection of "I can run a corporation = I can run a country", but out of the pool of companies HP doesn't exactly strike me as proof of any CEO's success and leadership. 
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Apr 7, 2015 18:16
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Trabisnikof posted:Really, we all know who to blame for the drought: environmentalists. Carly putting the last fork in irony by complaining that someone is putting their ideas ahead of other's livelihoods...
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Sydin posted:What is up with former HP CEO's and running for office? I understand that egotistical executives make a mental connection of "I can run a corporation = I can run a country", but out of the pool of companies HP doesn't exactly strike me as proof of any CEO's success and leadership. Carly Fiorina couldn't run HP. Spectacularly so. First result of a lazy google search, but it runs down the main problems: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-rise-fall-of-carly-fiorina/
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I remembered equally crazy ideas from signs on the side of 5 near LA and looked up what, if any, their explanation is for the drought being 'man made':http://www.familiesprotectingthevalley.com/AboutUs-i-63-63.html posted:Current attacks on the Valley’s water take two forms. One is the view that water is nothing but a commodity and must be sold to the highest bidder. This is a foolhardy concept which, if followed, will condemn the United States to depend upon foreign sources with unreliable health protections for its food supply.
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Trabisnikof posted:Really, we all know who to blame for the drought: environmentalists. I hate these articles, because the little details matter: the pumps are almost certainly running anyways, since the delta ruling previously just limited the amount the pumps can run during certain months. The San Luis reservoir has been receiving a lot of water when there's water to be had (5k+ AF/day) from the pumps. The San Joaquin valley has gotten jack poo poo for rain this year compared to the north (which was still really low), so it's not coming from there. Anyways, the bill (buried somewhere): http://valadao.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hr5781.pdf It's pretty bad. Sydin posted:What is up with former HP CEO's and running for office? I understand that egotistical executives make a mental connection of "I can run a corporation = I can run a country", but out of the pool of companies HP doesn't exactly strike me as proof of any CEO's success and leadership. She ran the company in to the ground, and must have a whole group of yes-men around her for her to not realize that she's absolutely loathed for what she did. On the day her departure was announced the market responded by the value of HP increasing by like 3B+ or something, which really shows how her leadership was viewed. I really hope somehow she ends up picked for VP (she won't) just because her record is so horrible. edit: snyprmag posted:I remembered equally crazy ideas from signs on the side of 5 near LA and looked up what, if any, their explanation is for the drought being 'man made': Pure PR. The reality is that the Trinity River issue finally being addressed in the early 2000's left the CVP with an overall deficit of 500k+ AF/year, and rather than deal with that they have just come up with increasingly stupid ways of attempting to either gently caress the salmon/smelt in the Delta more than they used to (increased pumping, changing water quality measurements) so that they can continue delivering the amount of water they were previously. The diversions and management of the Trinity was loving illegal under Federal law, and regardless of how much money the feds threw at habitat restoration you can't make a habitat without water, and eventually a ruling was handed down as such after decades of mismanagement. The fact that we're now in a historic drought is also somehow lost in their messaging. Pervis fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Keyser S0ze posted:There are decent downtown pockets in most of the South Bay places, unlike most of the East Bay (except Oakland/Berkeley). ProperGanderPusher posted:Let me add a few to this: I live in the middle of the peninsula, and a lot of those towns have great downtowns depending on what you consider great. Palo Alto has degraded a lot in the ten years I've lived in the Bay Area: the small funky stores have been pushed out by high rents, and downtown is now mostly restaurants and chain stores. It is still fun to walk around in. Menlo Park has a great downtown for shopping, but it's definitely slanted toward 50something upper-middle-class people; the Sunday farmer's market is year-round and excellent. Redwood City has turned its downtown around and is now full of things to do; it has a much younger vibe than any of the other places around here, including a spectacular movie-theater complex in the downtown. It also has a thriving commercial district. San Carlos has a very pretty downtown and is very walkable/bikable; the downtown is very much slanted to upper-middle-class thirtysomethings with kids. The downtown has some fun 1920s and 1930s buildings. The restaurant scene is spectacular; there are too many expensive Italian places, but there's also Burmese, Moroccan, barbecue, izakawa Japanese, a couple of beer/wine pubs, and the usual conglomeration of Thai, Middle Eastern, and Chinese. I've lived in the suburbs of a Southern state and a New England state, and the Bay Area suburbs are far, far more full of interesting things to see, do, and buy than are the post-50s heavily-zoned suburbs I've lived in elsewhere. Furthermore, if you pick your suburb and your location carefully, CalTrain, with all its faults, will get you up to the city and down to San Jose.
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I honestly don't understand why somebody who, after massive money investments, failed to win statewide office TWICE thinks she's remotely likely to primary into the Presidency.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I honestly don't understand why somebody who, after massive money investments, failed to win statewide office TWICE thinks she's remotely likely to primary into the Presidency. She is likely to primary into an increase in her speaking fees and maybe a book deal.
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Trabisnikof posted:Really, we all know who to blame for the drought: environmentalists. Yes the problem was we didn't build any reservoirs to hold the water that isn't there. Got it.
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Trabisnikof posted:She is likely to primary into an increase in her speaking fees and maybe a book deal.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Yes the problem was we didn't build any reservoirs to hold the water that isn't there. Got it. It falls into that infuriating but all too common narrative in America that there are actually infinite amounts of all resources and those crafty liberals are just pulling the wool over everybody's eyes in the form of climate science and environmental awareness in order to tax everyone to death or ruin their businesses out of spite. See also: The mostly unsubstantiated idea that there are oceans of oil a little deeper down from where we are currently drilling so we shouldn't have to worry about alternative sources of energy.
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There's also this other idea, which is that if an environmental regulation actually inconveniences us in some way - such as putting some "resource" off-limits - that this means the regulation over-reached or was bad. Like... what's the alternative, environmental regulations that do not actually matter or do anything? The whole point of environmental regulations is that they restrict use! Yes, there are endangered species, and we've decided that it's important to not drive them to extinction, and that means sometimes doing without some piece of land or some amount of water or some reserve of oil. That's not "overreaching" environmentalism. It's just... environmentalism. It's literally the whole thing about giving a poo poo about the environment. Changing behavior, placing some things off-limits. "But we neeeeeed it" isn't an argument. We don't need more pistachios anyway, but even if we did, that still wouldn't be an argument. It's just whining about regulation being more effective than you wished it were.
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Are we still talking about housing issues? Then how about that case SCOCA heard yesterday, California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose which seeks to strike down San Jose's inclusionary housing ordinance. Builders claim it's discriminatory and unfairly penalizes them without cause.quote:“Under basic constitutional principles, government may not single out specific individuals or groups of property owners to bear the burden of paying for needs they didn’t create, and for general social programs that are the responsibility of the entire community,” said Francois [who represented the builders in oral arguments]. “Politicians are not permitted to extort property owners by demanding property that is unrelated to the permits they are seeking.”
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Are we still talking about housing issues? Then how about that case SCOCA heard yesterday, California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose which seeks to strike down San Jose's inclusionary housing ordinance. Builders claim it's discriminatory and unfairly penalizes them without cause. Cuz that's some impressively blackhearted lawyering there if it is.
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"millionaires don't want to live in nor buy the overpriced hipster lofts in San Jose above a bunch of common folk, move to Oakland hippies!" - Real Estate Developer
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Keyser S0ze posted:"millionaires don't want to live in nor buy the overpriced hipster lofts in San Jose above a bunch of common folk, move to Oakland hippies!" - Real Estate Developer More lofts for millionaires will help everybody therefore we should let them do whatever they want.
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Keyser S0ze posted:"millionaires don't want to live in nor buy the overpriced hipster lofts in San Jose above a bunch of common folk, move to Oakland hippies!" - Real Estate Developer This is my favorite quote about Palo Alto: 
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U.S. Representative Lois Capps won't run for reelection, probably because she'd be blown up with how lovely her last campaign was. She took her opponent's quote, which was, "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District to bring back baseball fields. That's not why I am going. I am going to fight for my country, and I happen to come from the 24th District." and put this part in her commercial: "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District." Then she claimed it was an honest mistake and her campaign pulled the ad as soon as there were complaints. (It still ran for plenty of time, right before the election.) Anyway, she barely scraped by, so who knows if CA-24 will flip GOP!
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CPColin posted:U.S. Representative Lois Capps won't run for reelection, probably because she'd be blown up with how lovely her last campaign was. She took her opponent's quote, which was, "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District to bring back baseball fields. That's not why I am going. I am going to fight for my country, and I happen to come from the 24th District." and put this part in her commercial: "I do not intend to go to Washington to represent the 24th District." Then she claimed it was an honest mistake and her campaign pulled the ad as soon as there were complaints. (It still ran for plenty of time, right before the election.) That's pretty surprising to me. I would have assumed that Santa Barbara was fairly solidly Democratic, especially with the university there.
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That and college kids often will still vote absentee to their parents address (or not vote).
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VikingofRock posted:That's pretty surprising to me. I would have assumed that Santa Barbara was fairly solidly Democratic, especially with the university there. Santa Barbara is unbelievably rich.
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Keyser S0ze posted:oldest of old money surrounded by farms and military Reagan's ranch was located just outside of Santa Barbara, after all. I wouldn't worry about the seat flipping in 2016, assuming Team D can field a quality candidate. Dems have a very strong advantage in Presidential election years. Holding it in 2018, on the other hand...
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San Luis Obispo County is in the same district and generally leans more to the right. So do the 100k people living in Santa Maria. The district borders are actually really well done, in my opinion, because whoever wins might actually have to compromise, once in a while, instead of coasting along forever, like Capps did, after she rode her husband's death straight to D.C. in the special election to replace him (she took his seat). The final vote tally was 103,228 to 95,566, so I guess there's some margin there.
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The New Yorker wrote a pretty dumb article the other day on how all sides are to blame and have equal responsibility in the drought: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/whos-to-blame-for-californias-drought quote:The state also revealed figures showing that water use in cities was only three per cent lower in February than in February of 2013—a figure that Felicia Marcus, the chairwoman of the state water-resources control board, called “totally disheartening” on a call with reporters. (Last year, cities were asked to reduce their water use voluntarily.) The state asked some communities in Southern California, which actually saw an increase in water use, to explain themselves. They responded, according to the board, that the hotter weather had inspired more landscape watering (“not a great reason,” Marcus said), and that economic growth and tourism had prompted more general water use. She admits that the farms use the most water by far, but she just can't help being the reasonable centrist adult in the room and lay the blame on those selfish city folk who want things like drinking water and daily showers.
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VikingofRock posted:That's pretty surprising to me. I would have assumed that Santa Barbara was fairly solidly Democratic, especially with the university there. Santa Barbara is like the apotheosis of FYGM. The rest of the county loathes the university and the community college.
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snyprmag posted:That and college kids often will still vote absentee to their parents address Which is a good thing than constantly changing your address every six months. I'd rather my vote affect my permanent residence than my temporary one.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Which is a good thing than constantly changing your address every six months. I'd rather my vote affect my permanent residence than my temporary one. I switched mine because my college was in a more conservative county than my parent's residence (Yolo vs San Mateo) and I wanted to vote on city measures. Thankfully only had to move every two years and haven't had to move back in with my folks.
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FilthyImp posted:Is this... is this taking aim at practices that mandate that mixed-use development include a percentage of low-cost housing?
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FRINGE posted:real estate developers are Saviors Said no one ever. But go ahead, keep embarrassing yourself by arguing against ridiculous strawmen you set up.
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enraged_camel posted:Said no one ever. But go ahead, keep embarrassing yourself by arguing against ridiculous strawmen you set up.
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Trabisnikof posted:This is my favorite quote about Palo Alto: Shallow Alto is a horrible place
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