Wouldn't it be a better idea for people to walk those short distances, given how fat people are these days?
I don't know if this is sound logic.
It's not sound logic for more reasons than you state. Moving fat people isn't the stated goal of mass transit. It's also not the responsibility of mass transit to give people a workout. Fat is a public health issue, not a public transit issue.
We need to consider this outside the scope of fat. Moving sidewalks work inside airports. I want to see if they can work outdoors. And then, I envision a pedestrian-only downtown area with city blocks where each edge of each block is 90% (by distance, not area) moving sidewalk. This would get people to their destination within the pedestrian area faster. When they get there, they don't need to find a parking space. Without a need for parking spaces, we have the room for moving sidewalks. Personal vehicles can be parked at a parking garage on the edge of this larger ped-only area. Freight and maintenance vehicles can use what road remains. The desired result would be to reduce the need for cars in an area, and expanding that area, not blindly, but smartly so people aren't simply forced to be without a car, but instead have a real alternative.
Now, maybe that wouldn't work out so well. Maybe it would. Ped-only areas are here and there, mostly small, mostly catering to small expensive local restaurants etc. I guess my point is I don't see why I should throw these dreams away because people are fat. And intellectual thought stops there. Sounds like giving up on a problem by avoiding it.
If lots of people paid attention to where other people are and gravitated towards them, spontaneous gatherings of people could occur much like a planet would form in a young solar system.
But yet another article that uses the phrase "Fastest supercomputer" for attention because it can qualify in the article which list out of the dozens it's on. We have a fastest supercomputer almost every week of varying speeds. See Roadrunner.
"Fastest supercomputer uses Slashdot" The fastest supercomputer in Skreech's living room has posted a post on Slashdot.
Remember when you were little and some kid said they were gonna tell on you because you called them a poo-poo head? Yeah, that's what this is going to be like.
Actually, it was more like some whiny kid who learned how to manipulate their parents to get the retribution they wanted against someone. Did some kid fairly take the last cookie? Go tell on him for stealing your cookie right out of your hands. Heh, as if there's not enough of that going around in Grown-Up Land with the legal system already.
lobbied through by appealing to simple-minder think-of-the-children rhetoric Appealing to the simple-minded seems to be the popular thing to do these days! Or actually forever.
You'd either had spent 6 years getting that PhD so you could tell the idiots what to do (instead of the other way around), or idiots with PhDs would be telling you what to do. Thank your lucky stars that you are smarter than you think you are.
I guess... sigh. I guess. Thanks. I forgot about that part in my blind angst. P-chem was something I remember hearing about a lot, and the part about just about having to have a PhD. I just feel like I could have chosen almost any other degree program and done just as well after graduation after seeing an English major get hired as a junior programmer.
I don't need to even read the article. I've read enough of them, and I'm living this shitty fucking student life learning this dumbed down curriculum after getting all excited about learning C/C++ just in time for universities to switch away from it!
When I signed up to go to the Uni right out of High School I was programming to the side for fun, so I figured... hey! I'll keep computers as a hobby... no need to make drudgery work out of something I think is fun. I'll be a biochemist!
When I didn't want to be a biochemist anymore, I switched to computer science mid-way. Fuck, at least I was learning something as a biochemist. I have never had a lower opinion about higher education in general as I've had after I switched degree programs. I feel like I haven't learned a damn thing. This is a charade. It's obvious to me that any additional learning to what I knew before is going to come from outside of class. Everything I thought I'd learn about... I'm not. I think I used a pointer once in assembly class.
All of this while I watch classmates write shitty fucking programs, and fall asleep during classes, all the while I'm wide awake and attentive, waiting for little nuggets of something I might not already know. Both of us get the same grades.
Then I watch someone get hired at my fiancee's work to do some programming... he's fresh out of college with a fucking English degree. CS is a mistake and it's made me hate life! How's that then? Is that the vital feedback these CS programs wanted? I was right in the beginning... get a degree in something else if you grew up programming. Far as I'm concerned undergrad CS is worthless.
I would mod you up but I'd rather reinforce your hypothesis directly.
Being young and barely having a notion of what I really wanted, I wanted a copy of OS/2 Warp just to mess with it. I might have been... 11? I couldn't find a copy, even after a trip to St. Louis (not only would I ride in the back seat, but I had to sit in the middle!) What 11 year old wanted to try a new and different operating system? I mean what the hell. Well, nonetheless, it just wasn't available where ever I was able to look, or where ever Mom helped me look.
But I had my Slackware version 1 CDs! So I messed with Linux, barely knowing what I was doing, barely getting anywhere really, but learning. That's an impressionable time! And I didn't spend it learning OS/2 for lack of availability. I specifically remember the random guy at the software store in St. Louis not knowing what-the-fuck when I asked about OS/2. Damn it. It's the city, they're suppose to have that shit.
Oh well! I guess if OS/2 had been worth learning then I could have found a copy and I would have messed with it. But I couldn't, legal or not. Your post reminded me of that.
Ah, as a matter of fact, I do. That was a while ago, I think I played around with that when I was about 7. Thanks for reminding me! I can't remember the gameplay but I instantly recognize those screenshots.
At least nobody I care about is gonna die for Bush...I guess that's a silver lining. Well that, and the big smirk I get every morning when I find out how much worse things have gone in Iraq. Well aren't you just as smug as a bug on a rug. Glad you derive smirk-worthy enjoyment from the Iraq war. I bet it's all just a big reality TV show to you.
Yeah, I guess that everybody has the right to take advantage of the public without being outed as a borderline fraud. That would be in-line with the rest of the corporate-friendly political environment, you know, the one that enacts legislation to protect horrible business models.
We don't want "sophistication," we want reliability. We want? Hell I don't want this. If it satisfies the course case then fine, if it doesn't then it's still not my problem really. Heh.
Could this not be entrapment because they're looking for pre-existing material? I don't actually know, and I would love to be proven wrong such that the MPAA is, in fact, performing entrapment.
It seems their philosophy is that it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. It's like a DoS against the government and the people such that the system can't keep up with the flood of their dubious or illegal actions, and they can otherwise afford to pay fines in exchange for scaring people until there's an injunction against the site. Hell, fines were probably factored into the budget for this fake website.
I guess the general public is not paying enough for their service to be ad-free. I would like to know, for once, how much money each cable subscriber would have to pay for their TV service if it paid for all the advertisement that would normally be there?
When there's any method to avoid exposure to advertisements, it's only a matter of time until it's overcome. Either by ingenuity or contract terms or otherwise. When DVRs first came on the market I could only imagine advertiser's chagrin at the ability to skip ads. It weakens the value of advertising on TV. But the cable company itself was offering such a feature? I guess it's a battle between revenue from loyal subscribers vs revenue from advertisers.
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Wouldn't it be a better idea for people to walk those short distances, given how fat people are these days?
I don't know if this is sound logic.
It's not sound logic for more reasons than you state. Moving fat people isn't the stated goal of mass transit. It's also not the responsibility of mass transit to give people a workout. Fat is a public health issue, not a public transit issue.
We need to consider this outside the scope of fat. Moving sidewalks work inside airports. I want to see if they can work outdoors. And then, I envision a pedestrian-only downtown area with city blocks where each edge of each block is 90% (by distance, not area) moving sidewalk. This would get people to their destination within the pedestrian area faster. When they get there, they don't need to find a parking space. Without a need for parking spaces, we have the room for moving sidewalks. Personal vehicles can be parked at a parking garage on the edge of this larger ped-only area. Freight and maintenance vehicles can use what road remains. The desired result would be to reduce the need for cars in an area, and expanding that area, not blindly, but smartly so people aren't simply forced to be without a car, but instead have a real alternative.
Now, maybe that wouldn't work out so well. Maybe it would. Ped-only areas are here and there, mostly small, mostly catering to small expensive local restaurants etc. I guess my point is I don't see why I should throw these dreams away because people are fat. And intellectual thought stops there. Sounds like giving up on a problem by avoiding it.
You already know one philosophy. You don't "unlearn" it by learning another. You just learn more. Gain experience!
It's effectively impossible for any of your confidential information to be stolen as a result of leaving the toilet seat up...
I'd probably use it to find where people aren't.
If lots of people paid attention to where other people are and gravitated towards them, spontaneous gatherings of people could occur much like a planet would form in a young solar system.
Right?
American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was "meritless" and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two.
Oh boy, I can only hope. Oh please.
Good for open science.
But yet another article that uses the phrase "Fastest supercomputer" for attention because it can qualify in the article which list out of the dozens it's on. We have a fastest supercomputer almost every week of varying speeds. See Roadrunner.
"Fastest supercomputer uses Slashdot"
The fastest supercomputer in Skreech's living room has posted a post on Slashdot.
Remember when you were little and some kid said they were gonna tell on you because you called them a poo-poo head? Yeah, that's what this is going to be like.
Actually, it was more like some whiny kid who learned how to manipulate their parents to get the retribution they wanted against someone. Did some kid fairly take the last cookie? Go tell on him for stealing your cookie right out of your hands. Heh, as if there's not enough of that going around in Grown-Up Land with the legal system already.
This concept has to die.
"Click anywhere on the screen to accept."
Is n the distance you're traveling? If so, I think I'll stick with n airlines rather than nlogn airlines.
n^2 airlines is complete trash though.
You'd either had spent 6 years getting that PhD so you could tell the idiots what to do (instead of the other way around), or idiots with PhDs would be telling you what to do. Thank your lucky stars that you are smarter than you think you are.
I guess... sigh. I guess. Thanks. I forgot about that part in my blind angst. P-chem was something I remember hearing about a lot, and the part about just about having to have a PhD. I just feel like I could have chosen almost any other degree program and done just as well after graduation after seeing an English major get hired as a junior programmer.I don't need to even read the article. I've read enough of them, and I'm living this shitty fucking student life learning this dumbed down curriculum after getting all excited about learning C/C++ just in time for universities to switch away from it!
When I signed up to go to the Uni right out of High School I was programming to the side for fun, so I figured... hey! I'll keep computers as a hobby... no need to make drudgery work out of something I think is fun. I'll be a biochemist!
When I didn't want to be a biochemist anymore, I switched to computer science mid-way. Fuck, at least I was learning something as a biochemist. I have never had a lower opinion about higher education in general as I've had after I switched degree programs. I feel like I haven't learned a damn thing. This is a charade. It's obvious to me that any additional learning to what I knew before is going to come from outside of class. Everything I thought I'd learn about... I'm not. I think I used a pointer once in assembly class.
All of this while I watch classmates write shitty fucking programs, and fall asleep during classes, all the while I'm wide awake and attentive, waiting for little nuggets of something I might not already know. Both of us get the same grades.
Then I watch someone get hired at my fiancee's work to do some programming... he's fresh out of college with a fucking English degree. CS is a mistake and it's made me hate life! How's that then? Is that the vital feedback these CS programs wanted? I was right in the beginning... get a degree in something else if you grew up programming. Far as I'm concerned undergrad CS is worthless.
I would mod you up but I'd rather reinforce your hypothesis directly.
Being young and barely having a notion of what I really wanted, I wanted a copy of OS/2 Warp just to mess with it. I might have been... 11? I couldn't find a copy, even after a trip to St. Louis (not only would I ride in the back seat, but I had to sit in the middle!) What 11 year old wanted to try a new and different operating system? I mean what the hell. Well, nonetheless, it just wasn't available where ever I was able to look, or where ever Mom helped me look.
But I had my Slackware version 1 CDs! So I messed with Linux, barely knowing what I was doing, barely getting anywhere really, but learning. That's an impressionable time! And I didn't spend it learning OS/2 for lack of availability. I specifically remember the random guy at the software store in St. Louis not knowing what-the-fuck when I asked about OS/2. Damn it. It's the city, they're suppose to have that shit.
Oh well! I guess if OS/2 had been worth learning then I could have found a copy and I would have messed with it. But I couldn't, legal or not. Your post reminded me of that.
Ah, as a matter of fact, I do. That was a while ago, I think I played around with that when I was about 7. Thanks for reminding me! I can't remember the gameplay but I instantly recognize those screenshots.
On the other hand, the people are responsible by tolerating a government that does things like this.
Yeah, I guess that everybody has the right to take advantage of the public without being outed as a borderline fraud. That would be in-line with the rest of the corporate-friendly political environment, you know, the one that enacts legislation to protect horrible business models.
A series of pipes.
Could this not be entrapment because they're looking for pre-existing material? I don't actually know, and I would love to be proven wrong such that the MPAA is, in fact, performing entrapment.
It seems their philosophy is that it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. It's like a DoS against the government and the people such that the system can't keep up with the flood of their dubious or illegal actions, and they can otherwise afford to pay fines in exchange for scaring people until there's an injunction against the site. Hell, fines were probably factored into the budget for this fake website.
I already have an SR-72.
p
http://www.apogeerockets.com/SR72_Darkbird_Kit.as
It doesn't go 4,000mph, though. It just sits there. I think I was ripped off.
It's yet to be seen, though, if the 800 pound gorilla even noticed the kick. I'm thinking pleather bean bag chairs vs a lightly tossed baby sneaker.
I guess the general public is not paying enough for their service to be ad-free. I would like to know, for once, how much money each cable subscriber would have to pay for their TV service if it paid for all the advertisement that would normally be there?
When there's any method to avoid exposure to advertisements, it's only a matter of time until it's overcome. Either by ingenuity or contract terms or otherwise. When DVRs first came on the market I could only imagine advertiser's chagrin at the ability to skip ads. It weakens the value of advertising on TV. But the cable company itself was offering such a feature? I guess it's a battle between revenue from loyal subscribers vs revenue from advertisers.