Jun 14
robotslave commented on Despite His Claims, City Attorney Pete Holmes Is Not a Paragon for Open Government.
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Despite His Claims, City Attorney Pete Holmes Is Not a Paragon for Open Government.
OK, so you've got an email from Feb. 13 announcing the formation of a group, and you've got meeting notes for that group from Feb. 9?
And you have other documents that indicate the group was in fact fully assembled and meeting regularly between its announcement on 2/13/2012 and the first meeting notes you've received, dated 7/10/2012?
You say you could go on; would you do that, please? I think there's plenty of room on The Stranger's server for more comments containing the details of the rest of the gaps you've noticed :)
And you have other documents that indicate the group was in fact fully assembled and meeting regularly between its announcement on 2/13/2012 and the first meeting notes you've received, dated 7/10/2012?
You say you could go on; would you do that, please? I think there's plenty of room on The Stranger's server for more comments containing the details of the rest of the gaps you've noticed :)
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Despite His Claims, City Attorney Pete Holmes Is Not a Paragon for Open Government.
OK, I'm all for transparency in government, but after reading this post and the previous one, I have no idea, Howard, what you believe to be missing from the documents you've received to date.
If there's a "gap" in the stuff the city has handed over, could you describe that gap in more detail, so we have some inkling of what you're talking about?
If it really does look like something's missing, then let's go get it-- but I can't for the life of me figure out if it looks like that's the case, or if this is just the all-too-common situation where a complete document dump shows signs of malfeasance, but simply doesn't contain a "smoking gun," for whatever reason (most commonly: the dirtiest bits were done verbally).
If there's a "gap" in the stuff the city has handed over, could you describe that gap in more detail, so we have some inkling of what you're talking about?
If it really does look like something's missing, then let's go get it-- but I can't for the life of me figure out if it looks like that's the case, or if this is just the all-too-common situation where a complete document dump shows signs of malfeasance, but simply doesn't contain a "smoking gun," for whatever reason (most commonly: the dirtiest bits were done verbally).
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Olive Way Starbucks Vandalized.
@3
Dick move or no, The Stranger is bound by law to share that kind of stuff with the police, if they ask for it with a warrant. And I don't think any judge would deny a warrant, given the content of the comment linked to @3.
All of which, I think, lends credence to the notion that these anarchists are stupid.
Dick move or no, The Stranger is bound by law to share that kind of stuff with the police, if they ask for it with a warrant. And I don't think any judge would deny a warrant, given the content of the comment linked to @3.
All of which, I think, lends credence to the notion that these anarchists are stupid.
Jun 13
robotslave commented on South Seattle Watch.
If that is your neck of the woods, then why do you spend your days siting and writing at the center of a very different woods?
Capitol Hill is where you live your prime hours, it is where you go when you want to think and write. And Capitol Hill is 80% white, whiter than your entire city, even with all those northern un-neighborhoods averaged in.
We know where your woods are, Charles. You can tell yourself otherwise all you like, but we know.
Capitol Hill is where you live your prime hours, it is where you go when you want to think and write. And Capitol Hill is 80% white, whiter than your entire city, even with all those northern un-neighborhoods averaged in.
We know where your woods are, Charles. You can tell yourself otherwise all you like, but we know.
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Save Capitol Hill: Don't Kill Anyone.
@4
With the corporate headquarters of Starbucks less than four miles away, you could have very easily done something to disrupt only the managerial class that maintains the corporate hierarchy.
Instead you chose to do something that disrupts the lives of the workers at the bottom.
Your choice. But we do notice these things.
With the corporate headquarters of Starbucks less than four miles away, you could have very easily done something to disrupt only the managerial class that maintains the corporate hierarchy.
Instead you chose to do something that disrupts the lives of the workers at the bottom.
Your choice. But we do notice these things.
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Olive Way Starbucks Vandalized.
Given that the store was less than 4 miles from Starbucks international headquarters, this makes it look like our local anarchists are more interested in harming the worker and the workplace at the lowest level, and less interested in harming the managerial class and the offices where the corporate hierarchy is established and maintained.
If this interpretation of their actions was not the intended one, then they are, in fact, stupid.
If this interpretation of their actions was not the intended one, then they are, in fact, stupid.
Jun 13
robotslave commented on Nickelsville Responds to City Council's Move to Evict Them.
@7
OK, if you consider the city parks "available land," then do you have any objection to multiple camps? Would you be OK with people coming in from out of town and making their homes on more of the available land in Seattle?
OK, if you consider the city parks "available land," then do you have any objection to multiple camps? Would you be OK with people coming in from out of town and making their homes on more of the available land in Seattle?
Jun 12
robotslave commented on Nickelsville Responds to City Council's Move to Evict Them.
@5
Yes, yes, of course, but tents where? Do you want to keep them confined to their present site, or would you favor letting them set those tents up in a nicer city park, or in a more walkable neighborhood, if that's what they wanted to do?
Yes, yes, of course, but tents where? Do you want to keep them confined to their present site, or would you favor letting them set those tents up in a nicer city park, or in a more walkable neighborhood, if that's what they wanted to do?
Jun 12
robotslave commented on Nickelsville Responds to City Council's Move to Evict Them.
@1
So you're saying we should allow anyone to establish long-term group campsites on any publicly owned open space? Or would you prefer to keep that camp right where it is now, conveniently far away from your own home?
So you're saying we should allow anyone to establish long-term group campsites on any publicly owned open space? Or would you prefer to keep that camp right where it is now, conveniently far away from your own home?
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When you follow up, Phil, could you include the full text of your request? It's very hard to figure out what the city might be withholding when we're in the dark about what's been requested.