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Ardennes posted:Really, California isn't 2 states, it is like 6 or 7 of them. Pretty sure everyone agrees on: WEEEEEEST SIDE! and gently caress TEXAS! though. 
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All Of The Dicks posted:Tell me more about SLO vs Santa Maria regionalism. (I'm serious, I love this stuff)
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Ron Jeremy posted:Where do the towns north of slo on 101 fit in? Atascadero and paso Robles seemed pretty redneck to me. Do they belong to the valley?
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Ron Jeremy posted:Where do the towns north of slo on 101 fit in? Atascadero and paso Robles seemed pretty redneck to me. Do they belong to the valley? 
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agarjogger posted:I feel like there's been a medium security penetentiary in or outside every California city I've ever visited.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1zgtEyDd0
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Trabisnikof posted:Oh yes. I would love to see this chaos. Shocking. He dropped 24 million to try and force public money to be given to private schools. He seems pretty awesome. http://ballotpedia.org/Timothy_C._Draper http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_38,_School_Vouchers_%282000%29
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Hog Obituary posted:Orange county is in a different state from LA County. 
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agarjogger posted:It's kind of amazing how every single political idea coming out of the tech world is irredeemably awful. I'm just not sure I trust these people to design my mousepads any longer. Where did they go so loving wrong. Just beat their rear end and steal their poo poo then they suddenly like police and taxes again. Also right wing CRAZY people write good stories sometimes. (This can help with making money in marketing and games .. like that idiot Draper.) Enders Game was a good story. 300 and Sin City were good stories. They were all crafted in the brain of an unbalanced right wing loon. When they write fiction its great! When they think their brains are good for understanding reality... not so great.
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Miss-Bomarc posted:It's really surprising to read the original short story of "Ender's Game" and realize how much of the book is complete bullshit that exists only to set up a backstory for "Speaker For The Dead". OSC apparently hates the hippy bullshit he wrote though. (I have a memory(?) of him not liking some of the more thoughtful messages from the three following EG, but the internet is awash in stuff from the movie and OMG homophobe (rightly AFAIK) and I cant find it.)
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Leperflesh posted:Also his oldest novels he had editors who insisted on changing things. I read a novel OSC published which contained a giant novella that was basically him bitching about how heavy-handed editors had hosed this old story too much and now he finally had the power to publish his own version and it was way better for that, and probably everyone who messed with his stories was just anti-mormon bigots. I have never met anyone that admitted to actually reading that. Kind of like Coulters "Treason".
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Leperflesh posted:During the school year I mostly read novels instead of doing homework. This was before the Web
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Leperflesh posted:After Fukushima, it's going to be politically next to impossible to build nuclear power plants in California, what with our fault lines. Which is dumb, because Fukushima was hosed by a tsunami and it should be easy enough to avoid such a danger, but there you go.
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All Of The Dicks posted:I read that thing about the Resnicks and I can't even process it. It would take like some charts and stuff. What more is there to know than 
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Leperflesh posted:Huh. I just read all about that and it's really interesting. LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY Thorium Remix 2009 - LFTR in 25 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHdRJqi__Z8
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Rudager posted:Also, any suggestions in for what to do general would be great, I've looked through the thread but there doesn't seem to be much but about where not to go. Sant Diego Zoo/Wild Animal Park (thats two places) 1-3 hours south depending on traffic. (All time in LA is "depending on traffic".) In LA... GET A CAR. On the upside car rentals in LA are very cheap on a lucky week. Try hotwire for cross-comparison of rates then once you get to the place press them for AAA discounts or whatever you can come up with. Ive seen LA car rental rates down to 1/4 of some parts of the rest of the State.
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For the SF area (if youre going to explore outside of the bay area at all) the drive down to Santa Cruz will put you in the middle of some amazing Redwood areas. (Look up Ben Lommond and Boulder Creek, particularly Big Basin State Park.)
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Trabisnikof posted:Yeah, I think I was kinda excluding time spent in ... LA traffic Yeah never do this to a poor foreigner. Stop in Monterey for white sand beaches, and Santa Cruz for cliff/cove beaches. e: beaten Dont stop in Salinas, thats a mean joke. The 1 looks best between Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and then again from Big Sur to SC. Make sure and drive through Moss Landing on the way into SC.
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RandomPauI posted:If you do drive up the PCH there's a stretch of the PCH that isn't actually on the Coast, the part that goes through Oxnard ... We also house ...
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Keyser S0ze posted:those idiotic basketball hoops (also against CC&R's) are set up every 10 feet in the middle of the streets  There will be silence! Oh yes... there will be silence...
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WampaLord posted:Do NOT go to Tijuana. If this is a pleasure trip (and not a comedy-trainwreck/risk-tourism trip) its probably not worth it. Breaking Bad is a cool show, not so great in real life. FRINGE fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Miss-Bomarc posted:According to the State of California, homeless people are now pollution. quote:Jones -- a retired 22-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department OTOH its a legit issue, its the tone they are addressing it with that is the problem. quote:"Basically what it comes down to," said Fish and Wildlife Lt. Byron Jones, who filed the complaint Wednesday with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, "is they accept the encampments, they feel no sense of urgency to remove them, nor have they ever. It's always been about the next cleanup. It's never been about ending the practice of illegally camping and being in proximity to water." So the urgency should be "remove them" not "house them". Well said ex-cop! FRINGE fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Trabisnikof posted:I'm glad to hear you've learned how to make trash and human waste no longer pollute waterways. quote:OTOH its a legit issue, its the tone they are addressing it with that is the problem.
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Pook Good Mook posted:Luckily for the rest of us California is: A)Enormous
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Pook Good Mook posted:LA is a ... town full of ... people
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Reminder to people moving to LA: the LAPD is (in)famous for a reason. Your every interaction with them could be your last and its something you need to fully understand before you interact (carefully) with them. https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/04/11/cops-shoot-kill-daniel-tosh-staff-member/ quote:“Monday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department mistakenly shot and killed a production assistant for Tosh.0 after mistaking the 30-year-old for a stabbing suspect. They killed the hero, and unloaded towards a house full of victims. (Three of them started firing, and only managed to put one bullet in the intended target at close range.) This is not that uncommon (it just happens that this time the victim was attached to someone famous so its news). Like that old meme goes treat them like rabid animals and interact with them cautiously and at a distance, and hopefully not in the direction they are "aiming". quote:"It's just a really sad story," he told the Times, adding: "He basically went to help some neighbors and ends up getting shot." http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-admits-mistakenly-killing-tv-producer-in-west-hollywood-20140410,0,1972682.story quote:The Sheriff’s Department’s initial news release the day after the shooting made no mention of the mistaken identity and said the two people shot had “aggressed the deputies.” I know this will turn into a white-knight invasion from another subforum, so I will not post about it again, but this is actually something to think about if youre moving into the LA area. The police here are very dangerous and very much immune to repercussions. Interact with them when you need to, but never forget this. edit: From last year: Watering your lawn in a non-submissive way can get you killed (without warning) as well. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-ln-water-nozzle-shooting-20130404 FRINGE fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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FCKGW posted:will cause They should be treating as local dangers though. *Use as needed. *Use at own risk.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Everyone I've ever met who has lived in LA was not murdered by the police, explain that one señor safety. 
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Leperflesh posted:Also if you've never lived somewhere with ridiculously bad traffic before, hoo boy are you in for a treat. "The map says if we just run down Pico its a pretty short trip!"
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Xaris posted:But LA is almost marvelous in how bad traffic is. It can be like 11 PM at night and you'll get into traffic in an 8 lane freeway for no apparent reason.
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I didnt even know Fuddruckers existed anymore.
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Blinkman987 posted:LA/OC is a Verizon town.
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Twinkie Fat Sac posted:cheap living http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10741-E-R-14-Ave-Littlerock-CA-93543/2105880855_zpid/ OR! Twinkie Fat Sac posted:good nightlife, jobs, just general cool stuff? http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1630-Clay-St-APT-4-San-Francisco-CA-94109/2106279003_zpid/ Pick. Trabisnikof posted:Don't say Fresno, say Fres-yes! 
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mobby_6kl posted:What's the deal with one-way car rent? Hopefully someday Zipcar and things like that will be nation-wide.
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Beans are wasted space. More meat and rice can go where those beans were.
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Papercut posted:Driving in SF is not a big deal at all if you've ever driven in a city. The lanes aren't all 85 feet wide like in the burbs but the drivers aren't complete assholes like on the East Coast and all of the one-way streets actually make things much simpler. Leperflesh posted:Driving when you're unfamiliar with where you are or where you're going sucks, because signage is poor, there's a lot of double-parking (and as someone else mentioned, construction) that forces you into lanes that are suddenly going where you don't want to go, and in addition to paying attention to signs and other drivers you also have to pay attention to a lot of people just blatantly jaywalking, crossing against lights, wandering aimlessly into the streets, etc. If you're also trying to find a place to park while doing all that, it can get pretty hairy. I would say SF is worse than LA or Seattle. Even though LA eats up way more time.
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nm posted:Trick question. It comes from a truck in Oakland.
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Kenning posted:in California
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In case anyone in SoCal didnt know about this... http://mashable.com/2015/12/24/methane-gas-leak-california-aliso/#2mZSCvvR.653 quote:A massive natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon, California, about 25 miles north of Los Angeles, has been spewing about 62 million standard cubic feet of methane per day into the air since a well casing mysteriously suffered damage on Oct. 23 of this year. For scale: "The leak has increased the state's greenhouse gas emissions from methane by 25%" Also same old energy/mining companies: quote:Companies are being pushed to contain leaks in their natural gas pipelines and at facilities that burn natural gas, but underground storage areas, of which there are more than 300 nationwide, aren't subjected to specific standards that might have prevented this leak.
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Speedboat Jones posted:How far does this leak reach? I'm pretty close by in Santa Clarita. http://www.porterranchlawsuit.com/porter-ranch-gas-leak-map/ quote:Porter Ranch Gas Leak Map http://la.curbed.com/tags/the-public-health http://www.wdsu.com/national/porter-ranch-gas-leak-state-of-emergency-in-ca/37310132 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-socal-gas-lawsuit-porter-ranch-gas-leak-20160126-story.html http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-porter-ranch-greenhouse-20160124-story.html quote:1-24-16
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and says it cannot complete one until after the leak has stopped.