There's no reason it shouldn't take a similar amount of time to board a plane as a train. Door count is the current major factor possibly along with seating density and requirements to stow luggage securely.
I don't think he was saying that the TSA isn't a stupid, wasteful abomination, merely that as soon as rail travel gained any real usage, it would be similarly encumbered as air travel in the US.
Point being that many of the "issues" with air travel are due to bureaucratic nonsense and not issues inherent to the type of travel. Not so long ago, air travel in the US was apparently not so different to getting on a bus. There is a small airport a 5 minute drive from my house. Imagine if things had progressed unfettered. That would probably be linked into the air system, likely with small taxi-like passenger planes. Instead I need to worry about schlepping my family and luggage 40 miles into the nearest big city.
I carried one of these around in my wallet for a few years until I lost it. Glass is actually pretty strong and as a small bead in a cushioned area, it would take some major trauma do damage it.
With that said, this is still a retarded idea and has approximately zero to do with Bitcoin.
I had just landed at CLT airport from abroad. Turned on my Verizon phone and the little "roaming" triangle was flickering over the signal bars. Then I received some random text about subscribing to juice bar alerts (I get very few spam texts). So it may not be only the government up to this kind of shenanigans.
It's not quite "sheriff investigates the outlaw of the week" and your criteria was "at least one space ship at some point" which there has been although a bit obliquely. I can't say you'd like it but it does walk a line somewhere down the middle and has some interesting alien cultures. I've seen a lot worse on the idiot box.
Yes but the fact that there are zero incidents arising from these sightings implies there should be a considered and measured response, not people running around with their hair on fire.
Just as a data-point, I am run my own email services on Comcast but chose not to go with a business account. I use easyDNS's email forwarding inbound to get around port 25 blocking and use Comcast's email servers as a smarthost outbound and have never seen any issues.
I vacationed in the UK recently and because I was using an IP from a different country than usual, both Google and Yahoo decided to lock up my accounts with their services in ways that potentially could only be resolved in ways that may not have been available because I was abroad (text/call to phone and/or logging in from a previous logged location). Fortunately, I was not relying on either of these services for anything critical such as booking confirmation numbers and did happen to have ways to re-enable the accounts but it could potentially have caused a lot of trouble.
In some ways it doesn't matter. If it's going to be as big a cluster as it appears over the next couple of years, all they have to do is have Obama and the Dems be seen to be obstructing its repeal. The corporate mandate is going to make things very painful for a lot of people.
It's probably even in the Republican party's interest to not be able to override a veto, in fact.
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You know what the major by-products of combustion of regular gasoline are, right?
Insert obligatory "Call that a history?" comment.
Apparently they can learn that it's yet another way to buy votes.
God help us all.
Haselton has gone meta.
Android doesn't come with a terminal emulator. The command line is there.
I heard something about too much Rs breaking the internet.
Ah, if you're going to just pull speculation out your arse, there's really nowhere to go with this.
What's your point?
And by "securely", I mean "not loose in the cabin during turbulence" not "keeping simps happy"
There's no reason it shouldn't take a similar amount of time to board a plane as a train. Door count is the current major factor possibly along with seating density and requirements to stow luggage securely.
I don't think he was saying that the TSA isn't a stupid, wasteful abomination, merely that as soon as rail travel gained any real usage, it would be similarly encumbered as air travel in the US.
Point being that many of the "issues" with air travel are due to bureaucratic nonsense and not issues inherent to the type of travel. Not so long ago, air travel in the US was apparently not so different to getting on a bus. There is a small airport a 5 minute drive from my house. Imagine if things had progressed unfettered. That would probably be linked into the air system, likely with small taxi-like passenger planes. Instead I need to worry about schlepping my family and luggage 40 miles into the nearest big city.
TSA is already involved with ground transportation and is likely to be moreso, especially if speeds and usage increase.
I carried one of these around in my wallet for a few years until I lost it. Glass is actually pretty strong and as a small bead in a cushioned area, it would take some major trauma do damage it.
With that said, this is still a retarded idea and has approximately zero to do with Bitcoin.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...
I had just landed at CLT airport from abroad. Turned on my Verizon phone and the little "roaming" triangle was flickering over the signal bars. Then I received some random text about subscribing to juice bar alerts (I get very few spam texts). So it may not be only the government up to this kind of shenanigans.
It's not quite "sheriff investigates the outlaw of the week" and your criteria was "at least one space ship at some point" which there has been although a bit obliquely. I can't say you'd like it but it does walk a line somewhere down the middle and has some interesting alien cultures. I've seen a lot worse on the idiot box.
Yes but the fact that there are zero incidents arising from these sightings implies there should be a considered and measured response, not people running around with their hair on fire.
Just as a data-point, I am run my own email services on Comcast but chose not to go with a business account. I use easyDNS's email forwarding inbound to get around port 25 blocking and use Comcast's email servers as a smarthost outbound and have never seen any issues.
I vacationed in the UK recently and because I was using an IP from a different country than usual, both Google and Yahoo decided to lock up my accounts with their services in ways that potentially could only be resolved in ways that may not have been available because I was abroad (text/call to phone and/or logging in from a previous logged location). Fortunately, I was not relying on either of these services for anything critical such as booking confirmation numbers and did happen to have ways to re-enable the accounts but it could potentially have caused a lot of trouble.
Yup.
So what is the ratio of sightings to collision incidents?
You're going to be firing bullets into the air? Sounds like a smart move.
why don't you start your own news tech website? No, seriously.
Please. I'll give you money...
Yeah, but then they will just be "stolen" instead when the kids ditch them out of embarrassment.
In some ways it doesn't matter. If it's going to be as big a cluster as it appears over the next couple of years, all they have to do is have Obama and the Dems be seen to be obstructing its repeal. The corporate mandate is going to make things very painful for a lot of people.
It's probably even in the Republican party's interest to not be able to override a veto, in fact.
Don't worry, this is Slashdot. There will be a new one along shortly.