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on Friday October 13 2017, @04:12PM
from the had-better-stop-driving-when-you-reach-the-ocean dept.
from the had-better-stop-driving-when-you-reach-the-ocean dept.
Three cities in Colorado — a state whose fortunes have been tied to the boom and bust of oil, gas and other commodities — are among the top 10 leading destinations for the nation's best and brightest as old cow and mining towns morph into technology hubs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Boulder, the small college town located just north of Colorado's capital, is ranked No. 1 nationally in the Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index, which tracks business formation as well as employment and education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fort Collins and Denver follow at No. 4 and No. 10, respectively.
Are the best and brightest taking up skiing, or seeking higher ground amid rising sea levels?
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... I don't know why but, suddenly, I want to discuss declining I.Q.
LEVELS with a blue ribbon SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:01PM (6 children)
Well, I picked out the Denver/Boulder area as the city I want to move to on that basis. Everybody thinks it's a joke, but think about it.
I'm a libertarian. If the science shows that big government's "facts" about why it needs to keep something illegal, despite how stupid the idea of contraband is in the first place, are bunkum, that's one thing. The voters never listen to science anyway.
Except in Colorado, they did. Then, no only that, in Colorado, voters decided to change their government's mind about it.
And then the change happened.
Make your 420 jokes if you want. And yeah, I like the stuff myself. Saved my life, probably literally.
However, the people of Colorado showed me what a functional government that respects its people's wishes looks like, or else they showed me what people who are capable of intimidating politicians look like.
Either way, their dedication to freedom and liberty put the rest of the nation to shame while the dipshits everywhere else were screaming zombie apocalypse. Now, the rest of the US, at least in blue regions, is sheepishly admitting that perhaps prohibition was silly.
Maybe some states will go one way or the other, but that's politics. I'm more interested in the place where the people told their politicians to go fuck themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:09PM (5 children)
While I generally am amiable to libertarian views (thought I think literal anarchy is the more logically-consistent ideology), compare and contrast your views on Colorado and its government with its recent "high capacity magazine ban", which prompted private businesses like Magpul to pull up roots and move to Wyoming (a State still clinging to Neoprohibition with both fists and at least one clawed foot).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:37PM (4 children)
No one is perfect, and his point is that the Gov of Colorado is responsive. Did the people of Colorado want to ban high capacity mags?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:44PM (1 child)
Good point - I don't recall reports of "the people" doing a whole lot in that regard. The bans happened as a result of knee-jerk politics from the government's version of Newtown/Sandy Hook, as I recall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:48PM
Those damn knee-jerks been on my ass for 20 years non-stop.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:30AM
Being responsive to the majority's calls to take away people's rights is actually a bad thing; that is one of the situations where the government should be entirely unresponsive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:29AM
People shooting back at a maniac killer(s) aren't likely to carry a bunch of extra ammunition. Your gun is useful for self-defense only as long as it has ammunition.