Comments on: Protesting a Google bus

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:41:37 +0000

Greetings Mate, I am writing from Bowral-Mittagong Australia. We have had a lot of bushfires the last few months and I’ve only just been able to log onto the internet Thanks so much for the easy to read post. It assisted me a lot with my school design research. God Bless the internet !

By: Thoreau

Thoreau — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:15:36 +0000

Watch out – I think Google actually owns butter.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:58:17 +0000

Bing.com

By: Captain Lemon

Captain Lemon — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:04:35 +0000

Sorry, “works in the city.”

By: Bobaduh

Bobaduh — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:42:06 +0000

Spot on. I’ve been in the same spot in the Mission since the early 90s and have seen the exact same shit you describe ever since I got here.

By: Captain Lemon

Captain Lemon — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:19:10 +0000

And if their spouse lives in the city, then what? Live in separate places?

By: Captain Lemon

Captain Lemon — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:17:39 +0000

As soon as they start ticketing all the church goers that take up a whole lane of Dolores every Sunday we can worry about the Google buses using MUNI stops.

By: umm

umm — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:37:18 +0000

1. those of us that work fulltime jobs and use the already crowded public transportation would seriously not benefit from all of these folks hopping on MUNI/BART instead of taking their private buses.

2. if you think you should get to decide who lives where based on their job or any other factor you are an uber elitist facist douche.

3. it sounds like you have a whole lot of misplaced anger, most of your issues seem to be with the City and not with these companies or their employees. why not block traffic at city hall?

By: El Dedo

El Dedo — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:33:56 +0000

close. the haters want SF to be a static incarnation of that first night they spent at the albion ‘back in the day’ when they were all hanging out with their cool friends, seeing some shitty band at El Rio and talking about how rad that art show thrown by their friend ‘lightswitch’ on Valencia was (it wasn’t rad at all)
They want to live in that amazing old vic 2 BR flat but they don’t want to pay for it (or share it with someone else) OR if they do pay for it, they only want to pay two or three hundred bucks so they can brag to all of their cool friends about that amazing old vic 2 BR flat they scored on the cheap (and no, you can’t share it with me). Plus it’s easier on the pocketbooks of their parents if they get the cheap place to live, god forbid they knuckle down and get a job where they have to get up before 11:30am.
They want to express their lament for the poor in this city but they certainly do not want to go work in a soup kitchen or volunteer or [gasp] give money to local charities, because “All those [yuppies],[bankers],[_and the hate dujour TECHIES] should pay for that shit not them. They’re too busy keepin’ it real! Which basically means they wake up late, go work 3 or 4 hours at the low wage dead end job that only those talentless, ambition challenged deadbeats can manage to keep. Then the rest of the day getting shitty at DP on PBR and cheap weed while working on their tied yarn mobile/sculpture “art project” which is closer to a formless knot of yarn than anything anyone would consider artistic.

Since living in SF since 1989 I’ve met literally hundred of these people. I’ll take the yuppy/techie anyday thanks. At least they pay taxes and buy shit.

By: K

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:41:22 +0000

Have you tried demanding improvements from a slumlord under advisement from the tenants union and rent board? Cause it takes a very long time. Or do you live on one of those side streets where Google bought up real estate to offer housing to its employees? Does your hubby ride a razor scooter to the bus after you wipe his ass in the morning?

You assume in your comment that the legal system is this flawless thing with zero emissions and health benefits. Legal responsibility has been sold to people like you. People who assume I had enough money to choose where I wanted to live when I signed a lease. I, in fact, just found the cheapest place near my job.

By: Bingenheimer

Bingenheimer — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:30:46 +0000

Hi Selene. You suck at understanding things other people say.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:36:24 +0000

Everyone suffering sounds good to me.

By: DinglingBerry

DinglingBerry — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:08:15 +0000

SF tax breaks are a rounding error compared to this shit:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2012/12/27/facebook-mirrors-googles-offshore-tax-scheme/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/08/01/apple-google-among-top-u-s-companies-parking-cash-offshore-to-reduce-taxes-study-says/

Sickening.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:39:17 +0000

You know Google currently has an SF office right? Currently being expanded.

By: heyballsack

heyballsack — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:20:48 +0000

Try harder.