Be careful, the later Bill novels were not written by Harrison but just had his name put to them. I believe he's said he regrets doing it and rightly he should as they are quite bad.
The first two null-A books are great and contain some great ideas. I was having trouble finding the third book and finally ordered it from Amazon after a ten year gap. Unfortunately, he himself left a long gap between the first two and the final and the story suffers for it. It leaves behind the interesting ideas being developed in the first two and becomes something of a "John Carter of Mars" type romp (Not that I don't enjoy Burroughs works). Very disappointing.
My friend was always ranting about Elric as a kid so I finally got around to reading the series recently. I have to say, it was pretty tough going and not especially entertaining. A product of its time I think.
You think Google should have just let themselves be at the mercy of Apple? Did you not read the stories of the deals they forced authors and Amazon into? I'm not saying inventing a whole new phone OS was necessarily the right or best answer but it was clear that were Apple left to dominate the market, they would have been several times worse than Microsoft ever were in the PC market.
Neither is acceptable but opting for the pat down means it uses up a bunch of their time, some poor chap (or chapess) has to do something he'd probably rather not be doing and it exposes the process for what it actually is (which is why I always opt for having it in public), an unlawful search, rather than hiding as something "quick and convenient". If everyone opted out, they'd have to make some changes for sure (probably they'd just make the scanner mandatory but still)
Even with that, it's still not a big issue. Just with a company like that, I'm sure there's a bunch of bureaucracy to go through and other things that are higher priority.
Is it really 1m2 area though? If the bus lane is empty otherwise, you also have to add all the space between the bus and the bus in front of it.
The true measure is probably mean velocity per person (though parking may play into the equation too). That likely means not having the bus lanes be exclusively for buses. Maybe for taxis (though they are typically single passenger so not so useful), motorcycles and full occupancy vehicles or have a light system that helps ensure the bus lane is empty when a bus is going to use it but allow traffic to use it when not.
I have no doubt that there are those out there for whom the possibility of their insurance rates being affected certainly *would* produce at least a moments' hesitation and that could be all the time needed to avoid an accident.
You can see why compulsory 3rd party is a good thing. You would hate it if somebody crashed into your car but then turned around and said "Would love to help out mate but I'm a bit skint at the moment".
You would think so at first glance but it turns out that a lot of people who wouldn't have insurance if it wasn't required will go ahead and drive without it anyway. Suddenly the price of your insurance goes up because "I just can't afford it" is no longer an option and you're still no better off. This has proven to be the case in states where laws have been adopted and policies are now more expensive than when "uninsured driver" was part of a standard policy.
The idea is nice but it seems like you're trying to get something for nothing which generally doesn't tend to work out in the real world. This prize is probably a good idea to take a look at things from the other end rather than just trying to scale up small-scale experiments (and continually failing if it's genuinely not possible).
I'd love to be wrong in this case but it seems possible it's something that's in the realm of perpetual motion, FTL travel and anti-gravity to my mind.
At&T used to offer shared data on their family plans. Unfortunately, they changed it to individual shortly before we went to smart phones. Unfortunately, it's AT&T or Verizon in this area and at the time, the plans worked out slightly cheaper under AT&T. If there was someone who offered something with sane pricing, I'd be on them in an instant but there's that whole government enforced monopoly (quadropoly?)/cartel thing going on. I'm thinking of going prepay which actually seems to offer the better pricing model.
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However, it takes quite a lot of the former to cause the same level of grief as a few of the latter.
Be careful, the later Bill novels were not written by Harrison but just had his name put to them. I believe he's said he regrets doing it and rightly he should as they are quite bad.
The first two null-A books are great and contain some great ideas. I was having trouble finding the third book and finally ordered it from Amazon after a ten year gap. Unfortunately, he himself left a long gap between the first two and the final and the story suffers for it. It leaves behind the interesting ideas being developed in the first two and becomes something of a "John Carter of Mars" type romp (Not that I don't enjoy Burroughs works). Very disappointing.
"As logic named Joe", that is.
It's available for free from the Baen library.
My friend was always ranting about Elric as a kid so I finally got around to reading the series recently. I have to say, it was pretty tough going and not especially entertaining. A product of its time I think.
They didn't help matters that one chap was gatewaying Teletext on to the web and they shut him down. Short-sightedness abounds.
You think Google should have just let themselves be at the mercy of Apple? Did you not read the stories of the deals they forced authors and Amazon into? I'm not saying inventing a whole new phone OS was necessarily the right or best answer but it was clear that were Apple left to dominate the market, they would have been several times worse than Microsoft ever were in the PC market.
I do hope you're not talking about Terry Pratchett who tends to make footnotes just a part of the fun.
Seriously
Neither is acceptable but opting for the pat down means it uses up a bunch of their time, some poor chap (or chapess) has to do something he'd probably rather not be doing and it exposes the process for what it actually is (which is why I always opt for having it in public), an unlawful search, rather than hiding as something "quick and convenient". If everyone opted out, they'd have to make some changes for sure (probably they'd just make the scanner mandatory but still)
Apply that to Stalone in Demolition man too and you could extend that into The Expendables.
Or not.
Even with that, it's still not a big issue. Just with a company like that, I'm sure there's a bunch of bureaucracy to go through and other things that are higher priority.
He may be waiting a while. "W" is towards the end of the alphabet.
And it's important to vote for winners. Which is why I wait to vote until after the election.
Is it really 1m2 area though? If the bus lane is empty otherwise, you also have to add all the space between the bus and the bus in front of it.
The true measure is probably mean velocity per person (though parking may play into the equation too). That likely means not having the bus lanes be exclusively for buses. Maybe for taxis (though they are typically single passenger so not so useful), motorcycles and full occupancy vehicles or have a light system that helps ensure the bus lane is empty when a bus is going to use it but allow traffic to use it when not.
It is standard wordage so that's pretty much the end of any discussion about semantics.
I have no doubt that there are those out there for whom the possibility of their insurance rates being affected certainly *would* produce at least a moments' hesitation and that could be all the time needed to avoid an accident.
You can see why compulsory 3rd party is a good thing. You would hate it if somebody crashed into your car but then turned around and said "Would love to help out mate but I'm a bit skint at the moment".
You would think so at first glance but it turns out that a lot of people who wouldn't have insurance if it wasn't required will go ahead and drive without it anyway. Suddenly the price of your insurance goes up because "I just can't afford it" is no longer an option and you're still no better off. This has proven to be the case in states where laws have been adopted and policies are now more expensive than when "uninsured driver" was part of a standard policy.
Not so much a profession as as a psychological disorder
I could argue with you but it looks like I agree with your main point of your original post so I'll just leave it at that.
The idea is nice but it seems like you're trying to get something for nothing which generally doesn't tend to work out in the real world. This prize is probably a good idea to take a look at things from the other end rather than just trying to scale up small-scale experiments (and continually failing if it's genuinely not possible).
I'd love to be wrong in this case but it seems possible it's something that's in the realm of perpetual motion, FTL travel and anti-gravity to my mind.
Nonsense.
Does that count as a rant?
At&T used to offer shared data on their family plans. Unfortunately, they changed it to individual shortly before we went to smart phones. Unfortunately, it's AT&T or Verizon in this area and at the time, the plans worked out slightly cheaper under AT&T. If there was someone who offered something with sane pricing, I'd be on them in an instant but there's that whole government enforced monopoly (quadropoly?)/cartel thing going on. I'm thinking of going prepay which actually seems to offer the better pricing model.
Unfortunately it's not a pension scheme, it's simply a wealth transfer scheme. It too suffers from demographic issues.