SEPTA Regional Rail is great if it goes where you want to go.
But mostly it doesn't. It's not really "regional transport for Southeast PA", it's commute-in-and-out-of-Philadelphia-county...where there are few jobs worth having. Consequently, it has to be subsidized by taxes on other transportation modes that are meeting real transport needs.
Unfortunately, I don't see the "Keystone Corridor" project serving an everyday trasnportation need for many people. Philly to Harrisburg to Pittsburgh?
Why? Where is the demand for that route? Just because electrifying this route was paid for by the last government depression bailout in the 1930's?
The new service to Reading through Norristown makes a lot more sense, but it will never be a TGV bullet train, as sexy as that is.
No, King of Prussia is named for the bar that the town grew up around. The bar was named for Fredrick the Great (aka "Frederick the Queer"), some say in the hope of attracting the business of Prussian mercenaries encamped at nearby Valley Forge.
everything useful has already been done, done well, and made available for free
"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." - Henry Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, 1843.
They tried to put a lot of money for ACORN in the bailout, but the Republicans stopped them. Considering that a lot of the crap mortgages are ACORN's fault, it's only fair...
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I have many co-workers that use Eclipse everyday, but that never got hold of point of the joke in the name.
The name isn't the only joke about Eclipse.
IF, on the other hand, they treat public transportation as a "business" like most US cities do...
Public transportation hasn't been a viable business since the early 1960's.
Around the time of the "War on Poverty", in fact.
SEPTA Regional Rail is great if it goes where you want to go.
But mostly it doesn't. It's not really "regional transport for Southeast PA", it's commute-in-and-out-of-Philadelphia-county...where there are few jobs worth having. Consequently, it has to be subsidized by taxes on other transportation modes that are meeting real transport needs.
Unfortunately, I don't see the "Keystone Corridor" project serving an everyday trasnportation need for many people. Philly to Harrisburg to Pittsburgh?
Why? Where is the demand for that route? Just because electrifying this route was paid for by the last government depression bailout in the 1930's?
The new service to Reading through Norristown makes a lot more sense, but it will never be a TGV bullet train, as sexy as that is.
"One mistake and you have to support it forever."
How about sitting next to a guy who can't stop bashing President Bush three months after he left office?
Doesn't Biden get a private office? Nobody sits next to him.
Can't wait until there's enough Muslims there for *them* to start logrolling for *their* religion, too.
And yet he was intelligible, though not grammatical.
I eschewed using "intelligibility", which is fortunate because then I would have been forced to say "grammaticality".
spelling < intelligible
more coffee > *
OK, "Plain Old Text" apparently does not include unmolested <
intelligable < grammatical
intelligible grammatical
This just in: the wealthy buy more of *everything* than anyone else.
Stop them now!
Chaka Fatah is proving once again what a moron he is.
Silly. There's no requirement that it be willful. Look at the education system.
Did you even know there was an addition to the space station before it was on The Colbert Report? I didn't.
Did that stop you from trying to turn the name of it into a joke?
"Unlimited" states a volume, not the speed you can get it at.
Um, if you're paying for X bandwidth, but getting less than that, wouldn't you consider that a "limit"?
...otherwise the kids won't be able to read it.
As a Microsoft Preffered Partner, don't you have access to spell-check? You're probably already bent over far enough, though.
No, King of Prussia is named for the bar that the town grew up around. The bar was named for Fredrick the Great (aka "Frederick the Queer"), some say in the hope of attracting the business of Prussian mercenaries encamped at nearby Valley Forge.
The Turnpike comes though here too...
BHO is POTUS now, you'll be able to see it on YouTube for free.
BHO won the election. You have to put up with this for four years now.
everything useful has already been done, done well, and made available for free
"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." - Henry Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, 1843.
Like Monica?
Isn't BHO opposed to that?
Sign up for a free account, get in-world, do a search for "combat sims" and teleport to one to see how wrong you are. :-)
They tried to put a lot of money for ACORN in the bailout, but the Republicans stopped them. Considering that a lot of the crap mortgages are ACORN's fault, it's only fair...