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The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 03 2017, @11:58PM (10 children)
The Portland javascript admirers meet up always has lots of free pizza.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:15AM (9 children)
...and they have their circle-jerk, and then pose an implicit series of questions to determine why they all like each other, believe the same things, etc. They're the same bunch of idiots who still believe that open workspaces were a good idea.
Good thing the rest of the world isn't Portland, or the Bay Area, or Boston, etc.
Damn shame, I used to love camping in Ashland or driving up through Klamath Falls, or running the track in Eugene with the big Donald Duck in the background. This was before hipster scum existed, and someday, I hope the world could return to that state.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:19AM (1 child)
The price of housing has shot way up. Rent too, with the result that many long-time residents are now homeless.
Oregon law allows no-fault eviction. So if you're not getting enough rent, you evict your tenants then rent to some whiz-kid from California.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:36AM
It's no different here. But then again those who can make a living on the cheap won't tell you about the sweet spots. We have plenty of Oregonian scum headed south towards here, unfortunately, only the douchebaggist of them, as we are attracting only the douchebaggist from all provinces, counties, and nations; as I suspect Portland is also.
(Score: 2, Informative) by crafoo on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:44AM (4 children)
Californians ruin everything. They are the dumbest people I have ever met. They vote for idiots. They vote for retarded laws. They destroy the local economy. What do they care that their ridiculous, shit-for-brains policies make life unfordable for the average resident? Fuck those people! Don't they know what's good for them and the environment?!
Then, after their retarded policies ruin everything around them they bitch about it like little pussies and start googling for "hip new trending communities". They cash out of their $750k homes. They pack their post-modern art. They move to the beautiful new place and do the exact same shit.
Oregon is ruined.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:56AM
Don't blame me, fuckface. I hate my own kind and have been warning about you, and I, for it, for awhile.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:15AM (1 child)
Pretty much. I miss when Seattle was at the high-end of backwater. Before the Californians and idiots from other parts of the country moved here and brought their incompetence with them. Now, the city is pretty much destroyed, rents are unaffordable, traffic is even worse and we can't do anything about the homeless problem because of the ultra-leftwing morons that flooded the area.
It wasn't enough for those morons to ruin the part of the world from whence they came, they had to bring that self-destruction with them to loose upon the city.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:44AM
You moron, Nintendo of America had Redmond as its headquarters since before 1990. It was the prototype of HipsterFaggotVille before hipsters were even a thing.
I remember having to call their overpriced hotline a few times, once in particular to get the 747 MHz frequency of Startropics since I rented the game without the manual, and once again to get the hidden key in Little Nemo's Night Sea stage going into the hidden dead-end.
Before then, my buddy and I used to prank-call it when we were 9 years old. It would start with this canned recording, "Hello! This is a-Mario!" Then once we got a live human on the other end we would try to order pizza and other "Italian" food before the person on the other line hung up on us.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Whoever on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:57AM
That's why Californian's are poor. Oh, wait, they aren't. Perhaps California's policies actually result in a healthy economy.
$750K? That's a shack around here. Not even a fixer-upper.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @09:54AM (1 child)
GO KANSAS!! California is a total waste-land, what they need is some tax cuts to fix everything.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:50PM
You know what makes it a wasteland? Mexicans.