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Haha, yeah, well in those days they didn't have giant Box stores all over the place. Did Sears have the 4K or so stores nationwide that Walmart has today. At it's height, A&P had 15,000 stores nationwide (I think)... did all of those have rails running up to it?
It's just not practical.
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Railways are privately owned and handle most freight in the US by weight/mile. But you cannot build a rail line to every Walmart/Shaws in the US.
You need to touch up your economics... or at least take a basic primer. And in regards to McCain-Feingold, you're either too myopic or unable to see that it's in complete violation of the first amendment.
Well... ok, I'm all for fair credit reporting, but on the other hand maybe people need to borrow less money? Consumer debt is at an all-time high in Western countries (not just in the US, look it up).
The fact that you need to pay interest at all should piss you off. And yes, I know that it's impossible to own a house without going into debt, but do you really need the size/expensive houses we build now?
Light rail is a waste... it's too slow, it's usually considered dangerous by people in the area which it's serving and it takes up valuable street space. The whole advantage of monorails and subways is that they don't take up street space.
Monorail is probably the most cost effective form of mass transit available. It's implementation cost is low, it takes up hardly any ground space (just the pylons, which is much less than light rail), it's efficient and so on and so forth. If it could get over it's association with the Simpsons episode, people might start recognizing it's good points.
Actually I read somewhere that law is the one of the fastest things being outsourced... not the actual barred lawyers but the researchers and back-end people.
If you're comparing the US to Zimbabwe, then you're screwed up even by the standards of this shoddy site. Besides the accusation isn't that the US is a one party state, the accusation is that it's a two party state. And don't give that "they're both the same crap" look at partisan websites on the internet, democrats and republicans really do not agree on much.
Third parties will become more prolific when people start voting for them. In the meantime, the current president was elected with a greater percentage of the popular vote than the PM's of many more "democratic" (supposedly) countries.
Hey, the ignorance of Slashdotters in matters of politics, history, even technical matters that pertain to their small niche market amazes me. The mistaken assumptions they make about the US especially.
Yeah but a few years of warm climate tendencies do not a manmade trend make. People have been saying the sky was falling since "The Population Bomb"... and you know how that book turned out.
People say that the environment has been wrecked by the president but I don't see it, personally. Hell, LA just had it's cleanest year on record didn't it? Republicans breathe the same air you breathe... and way back when they smoked the same cigarettes, there is no usual slashdot 'spiracy here.
Let's face, unpopular opinions are modded down on Slashdot with censorship being the intended effect. Slashbots are the densest people on earth... how many sucker headlines and urban legends have the fell for?
Google is in a massive conspiracy (with Diebold, SCO, and Microsoft no doubt) to deny you pictures you've probably seen a million times on the news... that is if you can stop popping your zits for 2 seconds.
I have challenged Republicans I know to justify why destroying the environment in the name of business profiteering is a good idea considering causal costs could be much greater than the short term gains (ex. huge healthcare costs for increased cancer). To date, not one has stepped up to the plate to make a clear and concise defense of (largely) their practice.
Well for one, you kinda answered your own question when you used the word "could"... in other words, is global warming really a proven fact yet?
Republicans breathe the same air you do and so will their children. I think that a lot of Bush's actual record has been blown out of proportion on pollution (is the environment *really* worse since he took office?) plus I think that a lot of Republican arguments are misinterpretted.
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If you don't like, buy cheaper stuff. PC stuff is pretty damn cheap compared to what it used to be 15 years ago.
Only the idiots pay for incoming messages (like yourself, apparently).
Haha, yeah, well in those days they didn't have giant Box stores all over the place. Did Sears have the 4K or so stores nationwide that Walmart has today. At it's height, A&P had 15,000 stores nationwide (I think)... did all of those have rails running up to it?
It's just not practical.
Railways are privately owned and handle most freight in the US by weight/mile. But you cannot build a rail line to every Walmart/Shaws in the US.
You need to touch up your economics... or at least take a basic primer. And in regards to McCain-Feingold, you're either too myopic or unable to see that it's in complete violation of the first amendment.
Slashdot is hardly comparatively smart... in terms of an American crowd it could be "dumber" than the public at large.
Well... we don't have hate-speech laws like you or Canada... I'd say that's a pretty big infringement of individual liberty.
Well... ok, I'm all for fair credit reporting, but on the other hand maybe people need to borrow less money? Consumer debt is at an all-time high in Western countries (not just in the US, look it up).
The fact that you need to pay interest at all should piss you off. And yes, I know that it's impossible to own a house without going into debt, but do you really need the size/expensive houses we build now?
Or we could just let taxpayers keep our money and keep the socialist's filthy mits off of it. :)
The US has the third highest internet penetration rate in the world, beat by such "countries" as Sweden and Hong Kong. That's higher than Canada or South Korea.
Light rail is a waste... it's too slow, it's usually considered dangerous by people in the area which it's serving and it takes up valuable street space. The whole advantage of monorails and subways is that they don't take up street space.
Monorail is probably the most cost effective form of mass transit available. It's implementation cost is low, it takes up hardly any ground space (just the pylons, which is much less than light rail), it's efficient and so on and so forth. If it could get over it's association with the Simpsons episode, people might start recognizing it's good points.
Why are people on /. so ignorant about unemployment? Unemployment insurance and the unemployment rate have nothing to do with each other.
Actually I read somewhere that law is the one of the fastest things being outsourced... not the actual barred lawyers but the researchers and back-end people.
If you're comparing the US to Zimbabwe, then you're screwed up even by the standards of this shoddy site. Besides the accusation isn't that the US is a one party state, the accusation is that it's a two party state. And don't give that "they're both the same crap" look at partisan websites on the internet, democrats and republicans really do not agree on much.
The IHS is supported by the "right to post roads" mentioned in the Constitution, not interstate commerce.
Third parties will become more prolific when people start voting for them. In the meantime, the current president was elected with a greater percentage of the popular vote than the PM's of many more "democratic" (supposedly) countries.
Hey, the ignorance of Slashdotters in matters of politics, history, even technical matters that pertain to their small niche market amazes me. The mistaken assumptions they make about the US especially.
There is an update to NAV to allow the Windows Security Center to detect it. But NAV is pure crap, go get Avast... it's much better and it's free.
If you don't even know how to disable rebooting when you get a blue screen then you obviously don't know squat about XP. Hate to break it to you.
Yeah but a few years of warm climate tendencies do not a manmade trend make. People have been saying the sky was falling since "The Population Bomb"... and you know how that book turned out.
People say that the environment has been wrecked by the president but I don't see it, personally. Hell, LA just had it's cleanest year on record didn't it? Republicans breathe the same air you breathe... and way back when they smoked the same cigarettes, there is no usual slashdot 'spiracy here.
Let's face, unpopular opinions are modded down on Slashdot with censorship being the intended effect. Slashbots are the densest people on earth... how many sucker headlines and urban legends have the fell for?
Google is in a massive conspiracy (with Diebold, SCO, and Microsoft no doubt) to deny you pictures you've probably seen a million times on the news... that is if you can stop popping your zits for 2 seconds.
Or... braindead Slashbot morons make another Clippy joke?
Well for one, you kinda answered your own question when you used the word "could"... in other words, is global warming really a proven fact yet?
Republicans breathe the same air you do and so will their children. I think that a lot of Bush's actual record has been blown out of proportion on pollution (is the environment *really* worse since he took office?) plus I think that a lot of Republican arguments are misinterpretted.