ve wawona good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back from the break. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 11, 2023 regular meeting of land use and Transportation Committee of the board of supervisors. I am supervisor melgar chair and joined by vygotskies chair supervisor dean preston and board supervisor president supervisor peskin. The Committee Clerk is brent jalipa. Thank you. You would like to acknowledge james at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk . For those here make sure to silence Electronic Devices not to interrupt the chamber. Convening hybrid meetings allow in person and Public Comment and Remote Access and Public Comment. Public comment will be taken on each item. Those in person will speak first then those on the line. For those remote the comment call in number is streaming and when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but mou exclude in listening mode. When your item come up and Public Comment is called those in person line xup those
Going to be having a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan. Hosted y posted this witht have done the partnership of the Senior Advisor here. Thank you, tony. Will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs, and two or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg from the afghanistan pakistan office. He has served in the toughest places in the world for the United States. Patriot, a really qualified individual. Thank god he agreed to do public service. Up. , come on [applause] it is very nice to see many of my old friends here, particularly my friend from cairo. He has done a lot of things that need to be done in afghanistan. Great to see all of you. I look forward to meeting all of those i have not met. I would like to see say a few words about the strategy, and a few points on how that relates role in afghanistan and pakistan, and talk about the specif
Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
His main purpose was to encourage users to use refurbished computers instead of buying new ones. I know that if you were to make copies of their license or their seal ways youre directly stealing from microsoft and you deserve to go to prison but if youre providing the restore cd which is the free thing that you can download for free or thats given to you with your computer if you provide that to consumers youre giving them the ability to repair their legally owned property and i see no problem with that i believe in extending the life cycle of electronics and i believe that it helps us be more efficient in society if were able to use these computers as long as they last i was very surprised when microsoft put me in that same circle with the people that are out there hacking or stealing their licenses or seal ways i mean that is a crime crime that deserves to be punished because you directly stealing from somebody all i was attempting to do was help consumers use what they legally own
Branded racist the ringleaders of the rod room grooming going last year i think the distant relatives of mine but you know what it doesnt change the responsibility that people like me have on tackling this particular issue so ive been campaigning against Child Sexual Exploitation and street gang grooming gangs who are predominantly of a pakistani origin for over ten years the investigation into rather abuse or has cost ten Million Pounds so far four individuals have been convicted eighteen have been charged and thirty eight have been arrested no one senior has been held to account and with just seventeen percent of the victims interviewed so far all this may just be the tip of the iceberg. There no one likes a slow computer but having to replace your old one can be expensive the california electronics recyclers though thought. He had the perfect solution until it got him into trouble with the tech giant microsoft is accused of creating thousands of illegal copies of its software he arg