- Google to implement super high speed national network.
- Google also makes buzz blunder.
- Apple MacWorld Expo underway.
- IPCC under more pressure.
- MySpace CEO already out of a job.
- USA Today says Silicon Valley dying.
- AT&T serious about blowing out 3G/4G network.
- Facebook opening chat.
- YouTube cranking up filters.
- Google Superbowl ad becomes a new meme.
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If I’m wrong about my data I’m sure someone will correct me. California is not a congenial environment for a business due to numerous laws including tax codes.
For the individual you have a 10% sales tax and a 10% income tax and something else that you are in theory going to get back but amounts to another 10% for a total of 30% to the state plus various fees. Then you have local taxes and fees. For all I know lower income people may be exempt but they don’t run businesses or hire people either.
The location may be beautiful but there are other beautiful locations that are a heck of lot cheaper to live in.
If this bleep keeps up you are going to need to be a pot head not to be looking for some other place to live and do business.
John,
AT&Ts 4G Network build will be with a yet again, another new technology called LTE (Long Term Evolution). Neither the Ipad or Iphone will work on the this new network at that new technologies rated speed. I’m pretty sure it will require new user equipment. I imagine this will be a repeat of what they did with the Iphone for 2G and 3G. Testing the waters with the old network (and a two year customer contract…)and then making everyone upgrade to new equipment on a new network with yet another contract…
Charlie
Don’t know if California is congenial to business. I am sure that there are places with less taxes, etc. What I do know is that California has one of the biggest state economies. Many companies are headquartered in California and do much business there.
deowll, you are correct. California consistently rates among the worst states for a business (just above New York and New Jersey).
First, “I’ve got da power”. So I am able to read this at home. But the US Mail delivery has been held up. So much junk mail travels by planes these days, it’s surprising.
Second, “IPCC under more pressure”? GOOD! My home is currently buried under almost four feet of snow! HOW THE HELL IS THIS A WARMING TREND? We broke all records for snow accumulation. The last biggie was back in 1995. Well into the era of GW. And the snows of 2003, weren’t no damn picnic either! So we’re talkin well beyond this being a fluke. I had a feeling it be a cold winter, back in October. But I didn’t think it would be THIS bad.
I noticed that no other states are bitching about drought conditions, so far this year. California had it’s fill of mud slides? Which may be the real reason Silicon Valley is dying. “The weather started getting rough.”
Maybe the real estate market is finally coming to its senses. Any place that’s subject to earthquakes, brush fires, and flash floods, should be cheaper to live in. Only insane land speculation drove the prices up. In fact just about anything that depends on inflated figures, to sustain it, ought to be considered “INSANE”. AKA the IPCC.