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2019-12-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

San Francisco's ‘poor street conditions' a factor in city's loss of $64M Oracle tech conference: reports

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-11 11:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Larry Ellison used to put on a heckuva show for Oracle OpenWorld. I remember one huge party at the Cow Palace that featured performances by Lenny Kravitz and Stevie Nicks. Everything, well everything legal anyway, that you could possibly want in a party was there. The conferences, exhibits and keynotes were all extremely interesting for nerds like me.

I think it was about 2013 when I last attended. After that I refused to go anymore. The conference was still great but anywhere I went outside of Moscone Center I ran into weirdos, deviants, perverts, bums, panhandlers, pee and poop. I imagine it's gotten worse since then but I wouldn't know because I'll never go back to San Francisco.

Oracle Corporation is based in Redwood City which is just south of San Francisco. I think just about all of his life, Ellison has been a denizen of the Bay Area. For them to move OpenWorld to Las Vegas says a lot.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-11 14:37|| 2019-12-11 14:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I can echo that Abu. Last time I attended was in 2009 and they blocked of the streets around Moscone.
Open world attracted the best and brightest. Now all SF attracts are flies.

For 9 years I rode BART into the city from the East Bay. Happy in Idaho now...never going back

Posted by Warthog 2019-12-11 17:22|| 2019-12-11 17:22|| Front Page Top

#3 It's sad. Can't even walk through the touristy zones near Civic Center anymore. A literal Shitshow.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-11 17:26|| 2019-12-11 17:26|| Front Page Top

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