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Almost $82K salary buys a median-priced SD home
Does this take into account the thousands of additional taxes the guy making $82K is paying in California every year?— February 20, 2014 8:04 a.m.
Airport cabbies Uber angry
Just another antiquated business model that's sinking into obscurity, even as the "Old Guard" desperately tries to hang on to what they know instead of taking that big scary leap into the future.— February 20, 2014 8 a.m.
E-cigs face enormous obstacles
Until there's some kind of evidence that e-cigarettes are harmful to others (and that would be a HUGE stretch, considering how the supposed dangers of "second hand smoke" were so overblown, only to be largely disproven), government has no business getting involved. I think smoking is stupid. I think e-cigarettes are stupid. When I hear the term "vaping", I want to punch someone in the throat. But just because I feel that way doesn't give me any right to stop others from doing what they want to do.— January 17, 2014 11:06 a.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
Build it, and they will come. Applies to stinky sea lions / seals as well as stinky bums. If you welcome and protect and shelter and encourage something, you get more of it. If what you're getting is a problem, then the answer is to DISCOURAGE it.— January 17, 2014 11:03 a.m.
Panhandler turf battle at freeway exit
This is why I never give people money. All you do is encourage them to become even more brazen, to demand more, to believe that they are owed more. And to think that roughly half of the country believes in voting for more freebies… I don't understand how someone can take two pebbles, add two more, and be completely befuddled that they have four pebbles when they expected five. Well, clearly, the math is wrong, so we just decide that 2+2 now equals 5, and that if we keep on doing it over and over and over again, everyone will believe it's true, and then it will become true, just like in 1984.— January 13, 2014 3:51 p.m.
U-T's moves raise employees’ fears of layoffs
Sounds like a terrible place to work. The abused employees should quit. Oh, wait, that isn't what they want! They have a right to "their" job, and a right to keep receiving the compensation they've always received, and should be 100% immune from any change they would consider to be negative. Sorry, but like government pensions, "there is no money" still means there is no money. The newspaper business is dying. I know some people have this childish idea that a few 1%ers are raking in all the money they ever raked in and are just stingier with it. Bollocks. Rich people rarely get that way by being stupid, and one of the first precepts of business is, you do not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. If you have a profitable business, you keep running it profitably (which means you keep people around who can do the job profitably). But if the skill set in question is in greater supply than demand, sorry kids… compensation goes down. Don't like it? Learn to do something where the demand exceeds supply so you can earn more. The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.— January 13, 2014 3:45 p.m.
Protest over Mission Trails mountain-bike trail closures
If you don't care about my being able to enjoy my recreational activity, why should I care when you can't enjoy yours any more? Thanks for demonstrating CaptainObvious' point. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."— January 13, 2014 3:34 p.m.
Construction begins on Jamul casino despite controversy
Well, you can't grudgingly allow casinos only in the most remote, inaccessible places but then make those places less remote and inaccessible. If we were to legalize gaming, nobody would need to drive way out in the sticks to do it. But no… we decided to stick the Indians way out in the hinterlands, and then start to grump when they build their casinos out there instead of closer in. You want it both ways, and you can't have it both ways. Nobody is forced to drive those windy mountain roads. I drove a straight truck along 94 for a while, among other oddball places. I won't be hauling my rear out to Jamul to gamble. Harrah's Rincon is wild enough for me. But if I decide that the risk of death in a fiery, drunken crash isn't worth the trip, I don't have to go. People like to gamble. Either accept that and let them do it safely, or try to stop them and accept that they're going to ignore you and avoid you and maybe some bad things are going to happen.— January 13, 2014 3:31 p.m.
Chula Vista's UltraStar theater to close
Umm, I do. And I pay whatever the going rate for food and beer and drinks is, too. I got tired of regular theaters a long time ago, and stopped going. Noisy, crowded, and uncomfortable. You should try Cinepolis… it's nice to stretch out like you're in your own living room, or to press a button and summon someone to bring you a beer without having to get up. Traditional theaters are slowly dying. "Luxury" theaters are where we're going.— January 3, 2014 1:45 p.m.
SDG&E in legal tangle with Montana wind farms
The problem with distillation / desalination is you're left with huge amounts of heavy brine which would devastate any section of ocean it was dumped into.— December 30, 2013 11:52 a.m.