I dont drive a super sized hummer, I drive a civic. Operating expenses for a civic are $0.12 (my real expenses as calculated over the past 4 years of ownership I average 44mpg on the highway at 75mph)
$273.60 there and back for 3 people plus all the luggage I can fit in the trunk. That is the real cost and is dead close as I have made this same run 4 times.
The people that actually do the work to make the product that makes the company money... Those people are FAR more important than a manager that manages managers.
CEO/Owner - > department managers. THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED. everyone in between are dead weight parasites.
The two times I used a towncar service it was great. Typically they know the best routes through the city and they pay attention to rider comfort above all else, they do not drive like maniacs and intentionally slow down smoothly. The towncar I used in Chicago 4 years ago did not even have a GPS, he knew the city, something that is rare now.
"or focus on rich people who don't want to travel with unprofessionals."
WE have always had that, It's called hiring a town car. In any town you can make a call and hire a personal drive in a nice BMW 5 or 7 series or Lincoln or other luxury car to drive you everywhere you want and be at your beck and call.
And during "peak uber" pricing, it's cheaper to call a town car company and ride in class instead of some fat guys prius.
A lot of that is directly coupled to the health of the rest of the body. Most old people eat like crap and just sit there. Look at highly active fit old people and you notice that they are not suffering the same effects. Old farmers that are well into their 80's that are still working their farm daily heal as fast as their 40 year old self.
Also the fault of scumbag business owners. Sorry but no you are not entitled to making obscene amounts of money, you are REQUIRED to pay an honest wage for an honest days work, and if benefits are part of HONEST pay then you are dishonest by avoiding it.
In the USA there are only 2 cities with "perfectly good" public transportation. NYC and Chicago. Everywhere else it's a steaming pile of poop. Why do we have people driving everywhere? Because we have to, there are no other options.
I will be driving from Chicago to Florida in 2 weeks. Why? because it's dramatically cheaper than Flying or taking the train. In fact taking the train from Chicago to Tampa is a 4 day ride that goes from chicago to WashingtonDC on down, and it's $450 per person plus $30 per bag. WTF is that?
Public transportation in the USA is a complete and utter joke.
Then start publicly shaming the bad drivers. This is the problem, you can drive like a complete asshole out there and do not have to worry about any responsibility. No fault state laws make it that way. Fight to get rid of "no fault" so that if someone causes an accident then they are 100% liable for ALL damages and losses. The asshole that is doing 80mph on the snow and ice covered roads that loses control crashes and takes out the K-rail? he also get's to pay for $5500 in K rail replacement and $10K of landscape repair, plus insurance gets to refuse to pay for his car because he was at fault.
Yes he does deserve to be financially devastated for being a moron.
then take your car to the track. It seems that those people can not control themselves on the public roads so they need to have the ability to drive themselves taken away from them. no you dont have the right to drive 85 in a 55, and you are who is ruining it for the rest of us.
They already are. You have cars that will brake themselves, keep themselves in the lane, even adaptively match speed of the car in front. Everything is there for self driving except one thing, real computer readable markers in the roadways. Until we force all states at gunpoint to embed in the pavement what is needed we will be stuck with trying to make human markings readable by a computer, and then force all car makers, again at gunpoint, to all use a common standard. Yes this does work and you benefit from it. ODB-II was a forced requirement on all car makers, and it improved things for everyone by forcing car makers to stop being assholes.
Embedding magnetics in the roadway is cheap and easy. road side transponders delivering data is cheap and easy. Problem is as a society it is not important, Killing other people in other countries is far more important. until the united states stops being a war mongering country led by war hungry leaders we will have very slow progress.
If it was really destroying the most redundant and ineffective people, then why is it not destroying upper and middle management? They are the most worthless parts of any company.
I have a solution. Nasa always get's 50% of the military budget. Nobody in Congress can make any adjustment to it without a 100% vote in both house and senate as well as President. Plus no politician direction. They have ZERO SAY in the operations. They can suggest.
That way NASA has enough funding and the fat idiots in Washington cant tell them what to do.
Actually yes, interfering with police business by photographing them or videotaping them IS THE ANSWER.
Because if you freak out with someone videotaping you from tens of feet away, you are mentally unstable and need to be documented. Cops more so as they are armed and dangerous.
Will never EVER happen. Comcast (and other cable companies) will not upgrade bandwidth unless someone holds a gun to their head after being beaten bloody.
Video editing, Photoshop, system administration, Accounting (spreadsheets are WIDE as they are TALL, so there's an argument for Square monitors)
I can fin a lot of reasons that landscape is more useful. How about monitors not sucking and have the ability to rotate easily when needed AND have the polarizer wide enough that you dont get the wierd visual effects when you turn an LCD sideways.... I.E. cheap and crap monitors from AOC and LG.
my portable USB AOC monitor is useless when in portrait.. it has just enough of a contrast difference between my left and right eye in that mode to be distracting as hell.
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I dont drive a super sized hummer, I drive a civic. Operating expenses for a civic are $0.12 (my real expenses as calculated over the past 4 years of ownership I average 44mpg on the highway at 75mph)
$273.60 there and back for 3 people plus all the luggage I can fit in the trunk. That is the real cost and is dead close as I have made this same run 4 times.
The people that actually do the work to make the product that makes the company money... Those people are FAR more important than a manager that manages managers.
CEO/Owner - > department managers. THAT IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED. everyone in between are dead weight parasites.
The two times I used a towncar service it was great. Typically they know the best routes through the city and they pay attention to rider comfort above all else, they do not drive like maniacs and intentionally slow down smoothly. The towncar I used in Chicago 4 years ago did not even have a GPS, he knew the city, something that is rare now.
The Goth community will buy this stuff by the bucket full.
"or focus on rich people who don't want to travel with unprofessionals."
WE have always had that, It's called hiring a town car. In any town you can make a call and hire a personal drive in a nice BMW 5 or 7 series or Lincoln or other luxury car to drive you everywhere you want and be at your beck and call.
And during "peak uber" pricing, it's cheaper to call a town car company and ride in class instead of some fat guys prius.
A lot of that is directly coupled to the health of the rest of the body. Most old people eat like crap and just sit there. Look at highly active fit old people and you notice that they are not suffering the same effects. Old farmers that are well into their 80's that are still working their farm daily heal as fast as their 40 year old self.
Also the fault of scumbag business owners. Sorry but no you are not entitled to making obscene amounts of money, you are REQUIRED to pay an honest wage for an honest days work, and if benefits are part of HONEST pay then you are dishonest by avoiding it.
In the USA there are only 2 cities with "perfectly good" public transportation. NYC and Chicago. Everywhere else it's a steaming pile of poop. Why do we have people driving everywhere? Because we have to, there are no other options.
I will be driving from Chicago to Florida in 2 weeks. Why? because it's dramatically cheaper than Flying or taking the train. In fact taking the train from Chicago to Tampa is a 4 day ride that goes from chicago to WashingtonDC on down, and it's $450 per person plus $30 per bag. WTF is that?
Public transportation in the USA is a complete and utter joke.
Then start publicly shaming the bad drivers. This is the problem, you can drive like a complete asshole out there and do not have to worry about any responsibility. No fault state laws make it that way. Fight to get rid of "no fault" so that if someone causes an accident then they are 100% liable for ALL damages and losses. The asshole that is doing 80mph on the snow and ice covered roads that loses control crashes and takes out the K-rail? he also get's to pay for $5500 in K rail replacement and $10K of landscape repair, plus insurance gets to refuse to pay for his car because he was at fault.
Yes he does deserve to be financially devastated for being a moron.
then take your car to the track. It seems that those people can not control themselves on the public roads so they need to have the ability to drive themselves taken away from them. no you dont have the right to drive 85 in a 55, and you are who is ruining it for the rest of us.
They already are. You have cars that will brake themselves, keep themselves in the lane, even adaptively match speed of the car in front. Everything is there for self driving except one thing, real computer readable markers in the roadways. Until we force all states at gunpoint to embed in the pavement what is needed we will be stuck with trying to make human markings readable by a computer, and then force all car makers, again at gunpoint, to all use a common standard. Yes this does work and you benefit from it. ODB-II was a forced requirement on all car makers, and it improved things for everyone by forcing car makers to stop being assholes.
Embedding magnetics in the roadway is cheap and easy. road side transponders delivering data is cheap and easy. Problem is as a society it is not important, Killing other people in other countries is far more important. until the united states stops being a war mongering country led by war hungry leaders we will have very slow progress.
In reality, 90% of the population will sit at home watching TV, as a species we are pretty damn lazy.
It's in the upper 25 percentile. $100,000 a year is in the rich zone, no matter if you want to admit it or not.
I for one look foreward to the Eugenic wars. I want the strength of 10 men and the roid rage that goes with it!
If it was really destroying the most redundant and ineffective people, then why is it not destroying upper and middle management? They are the most worthless parts of any company.
So write the software. Nobody is stopping you.
I have a solution. Nasa always get's 50% of the military budget. Nobody in Congress can make any adjustment to it without a 100% vote in both house and senate as well as President. Plus no politician direction. They have ZERO SAY in the operations. They can suggest.
That way NASA has enough funding and the fat idiots in Washington cant tell them what to do.
Actually yes, interfering with police business by photographing them or videotaping them IS THE ANSWER.
Because if you freak out with someone videotaping you from tens of feet away, you are mentally unstable and need to be documented. Cops more so as they are armed and dangerous.
It's because Fords programmers are morons. They refuse to hire real UI designers that have a clue about automotive design and operation.
" Nothing worse than driving a ten year old car with outdated technology,"
Correction.. Nothing worse than driving a ten year old car with outdated technology, that started out with crap technology.
10 year old BMW X3 base model... The tech in this thing is still 3 years ahead of anything in a 2015 ford/gm/chrysler.
Will never EVER happen. Comcast (and other cable companies) will not upgrade bandwidth unless someone holds a gun to their head after being beaten bloody.
Only losers have 4K... 8K is the way to go!
Sadly you cant get 4K content yet, Although a 50 inch 8K display on my desk would be a wonderful thing for my work computer.
Someone needs to organize a flash mob of people just showing up and recording police in public all over the city.
Force those thugs they call police to behave.
Video editing, Photoshop, system administration, Accounting (spreadsheets are WIDE as they are TALL, so there's an argument for Square monitors)
I can fin a lot of reasons that landscape is more useful. How about monitors not sucking and have the ability to rotate easily when needed AND have the polarizer wide enough that you dont get the wierd visual effects when you turn an LCD sideways.... I.E. cheap and crap monitors from AOC and LG.
my portable USB AOC monitor is useless when in portrait.. it has just enough of a contrast difference between my left and right eye in that mode to be distracting as hell.
it tastes funny.