Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, and California envied Euro/Asian rail. We tore up rail in a scandalous conversion to automobiles; but that's water under the bridge (no pun intended). Now that we've got air/auto for most of our transit, it just doesn't make sense. The Eastern corridor is an exception; but even that won't achieve the highest possible speeds cheaply because it routes through such populated areas with curvy rights-of-way that were established over 100 years ago.
California is paying the price for rail envy. It's the right idea... for the early 20th century, not the early 21st. If hyperloops work out, it'll be obsolete before it even loads its first passenger.
Meanwhile, people are getting killed and injured at grade crossings in urban areas all over the state. Grade separation is key for real high speed, so why don't you fix the grades first, Mr. Brown? I grew up in NoVA, and always associated at-grade rail with sparsly populated rural areas or totally rundown parts of DC. To see it in places like Mountain View and Redwood City--swimming with hi tech money, was just insane to me when I came out here.
If you've got any money left over after fixing all the grade crossings, then maybe build an electrified self-driving autobahn from SF to LA. You could partner with Tesla to make that work. People would actually want it, and when they disconnected from the Electrobahn somewhere outside of LA, they wouldn't have to rent a car, because they'd already be in their own car, which is what they want.
It is akin to the war on snitches. You can argue that unlike a snitch, a whistleblower maintains allegiance to the larger kinship; but the kinship of power will always regard them as snitches and treat them accordingly. Whenever any authority says they are in favor of whistleblowers, it's as big a lie as "we support affordable housing". The two problems are not without their similarities, as many common people also say they want affordable housing--until they become owners who rely on increasing property values. Likewise, many common folk support the whistleblowers--until they realize they might get in trouble for walking out the office with a stapler.
Turn off DNR. They will stop booming and start hissing.
Seriously though, it's nice to see this analog format sticking around. It does have some advantages, and if I could actually *find* any of my old tapes I'm sure most of them would play--no codecs, no security issues. My boombox has some wonky knobs and a busted antenna, but the Russians have no idea what I'm playing on it.
It doesn't always work this way. Most fighters who want to take the belt from a champ would also post the first 3 lines. Most of them lose, as the typical champ has many career wins.
No biggy. This kind of cycles back to what I was saying too--we build up our impressions of car companies, and they can fall out of date sometimes. The one thing that I was a bit wary of on the car was the automatic transmission. I was told a long time ago that Japanese automatics don't work well. Aside from the seal under warranty it hasn't been a problem. Mileage is somewhere in the 120s now.
They are, if you include labor. Here's a vid of the labor involved if you're curious. I decided that this is not a DIY project for me. Note--that guy installs an afermarket mount. Hopefully he had better luck than I did.
Huh? What makes you think I bought a six? It's a 4-cylinder Civic. Reading around on the Honda forums, I know I'm not the only one with the problem. The mechanic told me the mount is gel, but I don't think it's active.
Maybe you're making the same mistake I did. Ford has come a long way, and the Japanese have slacked off. I bought a Honda and have had some real issues. My transmission seal leaked. At least that was under warranty. The visor is a hassle I had to fix with duct tape, and has been the subject of a class action lawsuit. My motor mount failed, and there is a bogus aftermarket part I got that didn't work. I have to go back for a real Honda mount that should give me another 100k; but I've never had any other car where the motor mount was an issue. Heck, I even had a 70s Ford (from the bad old days of Ford) and the motor mount was just fine after 30 years.
Meanwhile, I knew somebody who had 300k miles on their Explorer, with no real issues.
Yes, the plural of anecdote is not data; but I think there's a broad consensus that Ford has caught up in quality.
As hard as it is to lose your job, we've come a long way from the days when "consumption" would be diagnosed in 20-year olds who died a couple years later. Even in the USA where we tend to take worker safety more seriously, it's still a chance of death every time a worker goes underground.
The problem of what to do with displaced workers is not new. It's time we found a real solution. One that doesn't involve violent revolution/communism. Been there, done that. One that doesn't involve bogus "re-training" programs where they spend $100 million and can only point to 20 successful re-trained workers. I don't profess to have a magic answer, but it's probably going to look more like socialism than Republicans would like, and less like socialism than some Democrats would like. We're going to have to care for people without coddling them.
Remember when space was the coolest?. For a significant portion of Slashdot's demographic, the answer is "no" because they're not young any more. Younger people are probably dabbling in Maker stuff and might be wondering why this question is being asked.
When I was a little kid they still had tube testers in stores. You'd take the tubes out of your radio or TV, plug them into a socket on the tester, and it'd tell you if your tube was in spec. A lot of times you didn't even have to do that because it was obvious the filament in the tube had burned out.
Maybe one day they'll put a few computers in sockets in the TV, with nice warm reddish-orange LEDs that let you know they're working. Problems? unplug the little computers and take them to the computer tester. Unlike the tube tester, the computer tester could actually fix the computers by re-flashing them back to factory settings, or applying patches.
I might never buy anything with Bitcoin, but that doesn't mean it won't find its place. I've never had a merchant account or interacted with credit processing behind the swipe--but the stores do that all the time. Likewise, I've bought alcohol at retail; but I've never driven a beer truck. What I'm getting at here is that Bitcoin might turn out to be kind of a dud and/or a curiosity at the consumer level; but could find utility for the "wholesale" or "behind the scenes" transactions.
Stallman appears vindicated at this time because he's not in power. I'm glad the movement exists, but I'm also glad it's not in power. Why? Because a world without the competitive dynamic between closed and open is, IMHO, not as good.
A world without proprietary software is probably a world without today's relatively user-friendly Linux based desktops.
The two camps don't have to be enemies--they can, and do inspire each other. That's my real problem with RMS.
This. If you have NoScript and you pull up the list of domains on most sites, it's at least a dozen. If you want to see the content badly enough, you guess at what you need to enable. Sometimes that spawns more things you need to enable!
The browsers aren't slow. The web sites are. With all those domains, and all those network requests, your site is only as fast as the weakest link.
2000 people with a trust fund that runs out in a couple years does nothing to the economy. The real issue with UBI is what it does to an economy when *everybody* has it.
Snowden has a hammer, and everything looks like a nail. IMHO, the central problem of the future is finding enough affordable energy and being able to deploy it without wrecking the environment.
Also, being able to detect and prevent Earth-colliding asteroids. If we had two years to divert a planet-killer, suddenly not caring if FaceBoook knows I bought a dildo.
An amazing new breakthrough at the website reddit.com now provides clickbait-free journalism and unlimited information. It's based on a radical new concept known as the "circle jerk", which confines opinions into narrow areas known as "comfort zones". Initial results were not promising until scientists injected marijuana into the circle. Via a process known as "hot boxing", they squared the circle and provided unlimited information by slowing down the perception of time. Since perception is reality (P=mR squared), this provides infinite information.
This is part of the reason I never give at the checkout. That, and the cumulative inconvenience, annoyance, and contribution to the prevailing atmosphere of "everything's a shakedown".
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Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, and California envied Euro/Asian rail. We tore up rail in a scandalous conversion to automobiles; but that's water under the bridge (no pun intended). Now that we've got air/auto for most of our transit, it just doesn't make sense. The Eastern corridor is an exception; but even that won't achieve the highest possible speeds cheaply because it routes through such populated areas with curvy rights-of-way that were established over 100 years ago.
California is paying the price for rail envy. It's the right idea... for the early 20th century, not the early 21st. If hyperloops work out, it'll be obsolete before it even loads its first passenger.
Meanwhile, people are getting killed and injured at grade crossings in urban areas all over the state. Grade separation is key for real high speed, so why don't you fix the grades first, Mr. Brown? I grew up in NoVA, and always associated at-grade rail with sparsly populated rural areas or totally rundown parts of DC. To see it in places like Mountain View and Redwood City--swimming with hi tech money, was just insane to me when I came out here.
If you've got any money left over after fixing all the grade crossings, then maybe build an electrified self-driving autobahn from SF to LA. You could partner with Tesla to make that work. People would actually want it, and when they disconnected from the Electrobahn somewhere outside of LA, they wouldn't have to rent a car, because they'd already be in their own car, which is what they want.
It is akin to the war on snitches. You can argue that unlike a snitch, a whistleblower maintains allegiance to the larger kinship; but the kinship of power will always regard them as snitches and treat them accordingly. Whenever any authority says they are in favor of whistleblowers, it's as big a lie as "we support affordable housing". The two problems are not without their similarities, as many common people also say they want affordable housing--until they become owners who rely on increasing property values. Likewise, many common folk support the whistleblowers--until they realize they might get in trouble for walking out the office with a stapler.
I think I should like to code a small Newsbot that writes stories and posts them to Slashdot. I shall call him McKinsey.
Turn off DNR. They will stop booming and start hissing.
Seriously though, it's nice to see this analog format sticking around. It does have some advantages, and if I could actually *find* any of my old tapes I'm sure most of them would play--no codecs, no security issues. My boombox has some wonky knobs and a busted antenna, but the Russians have no idea what I'm playing on it.
It doesn't always work this way. Most fighters who want to take the belt from a champ would also post the first 3 lines. Most of them lose, as the typical champ has many career wins.
No biggy. This kind of cycles back to what I was saying too--we build up our impressions of car companies, and they can fall out of date sometimes. The one thing that I was a bit wary of on the car was the automatic transmission. I was told a long time ago that Japanese automatics don't work well. Aside from the seal under warranty it hasn't been a problem. Mileage is somewhere in the 120s now.
They are, if you include labor. Here's a vid of the labor involved if you're curious. I decided that this is not a DIY project for me. Note--that guy installs an afermarket mount. Hopefully he had better luck than I did.
Huh? What makes you think I bought a six? It's a 4-cylinder Civic. Reading around on the Honda forums, I know I'm not the only one with the problem. The mechanic told me the mount is gel, but I don't think it's active.
Maybe you're making the same mistake I did. Ford has come a long way, and the Japanese have slacked off. I bought a Honda and have had some real issues. My transmission seal leaked. At least that was under warranty. The visor is a hassle I had to fix with duct tape, and has been the subject of a class action lawsuit. My motor mount failed, and there is a bogus aftermarket part I got that didn't work. I have to go back for a real Honda mount that should give me another 100k; but I've never had any other car where the motor mount was an issue. Heck, I even had a 70s Ford (from the bad old days of Ford) and the motor mount was just fine after 30 years.
Meanwhile, I knew somebody who had 300k miles on their Explorer, with no real issues.
Yes, the plural of anecdote is not data; but I think there's a broad consensus that Ford has caught up in quality.
Nazis and aliens, at your service!
As hard as it is to lose your job, we've come a long way from the days when "consumption" would be diagnosed in 20-year olds who died a couple years later. Even in the USA where we tend to take worker safety more seriously, it's still a chance of death every time a worker goes underground.
The problem of what to do with displaced workers is not new. It's time we found a real solution. One that doesn't involve violent revolution/communism. Been there, done that. One that doesn't involve bogus "re-training" programs where they spend $100 million and can only point to 20 successful re-trained workers. I don't profess to have a magic answer, but it's probably going to look more like socialism than Republicans would like, and less like socialism than some Democrats would like. We're going to have to care for people without coddling them.
With no edit button, you have to *think* before you post, and own up to your mistakes. It isn't surprising that people are clamoring for edit.
Remember when space was the coolest?. For a significant portion of Slashdot's demographic, the answer is "no" because they're not young any more. Younger people are probably dabbling in Maker stuff and might be wondering why this question is being asked.
When I was a little kid they still had tube testers in stores. You'd take the tubes out of your radio or TV, plug them into a socket on the tester, and it'd tell you if your tube was in spec. A lot of times you didn't even have to do that because it was obvious the filament in the tube had burned out.
Maybe one day they'll put a few computers in sockets in the TV, with nice warm reddish-orange LEDs that let you know they're working. Problems? unplug the little computers and take them to the computer tester. Unlike the tube tester, the computer tester could actually fix the computers by re-flashing them back to factory settings, or applying patches.
I might never buy anything with Bitcoin, but that doesn't mean it won't find its place. I've never had a merchant account or interacted with credit processing behind the swipe--but the stores do that all the time. Likewise, I've bought alcohol at retail; but I've never driven a beer truck. What I'm getting at here is that Bitcoin might turn out to be kind of a dud and/or a curiosity at the consumer level; but could find utility for the "wholesale" or "behind the scenes" transactions.
Stallman appears vindicated at this time because he's not in power. I'm glad the movement exists, but I'm also glad it's not in power. Why? Because a world without the competitive dynamic between closed and open is, IMHO, not as good.
A world without proprietary software is probably a world without today's relatively user-friendly Linux based desktops.
The two camps don't have to be enemies--they can, and do inspire each other. That's my real problem with RMS.
This. If you have NoScript and you pull up the list of domains on most sites, it's at least a dozen. If you want to see the content badly enough, you guess at what you need to enable. Sometimes that spawns more things you need to enable!
The browsers aren't slow. The web sites are. With all those domains, and all those network requests, your site is only as fast as the weakest link.
2000 people with a trust fund that runs out in a couple years does nothing to the economy. The real issue with UBI is what it does to an economy when *everybody* has it.
Wow, yes. This. Craigslist has no more than 50 employees.. Craigslist. Let that sink in. A service with a much higher profile, used by a lot more people.
Worked for records. /sarc.
Snowden has a hammer, and everything looks like a nail. IMHO, the central problem of the future is finding enough affordable energy and being able to deploy it without wrecking the environment.
Also, being able to detect and prevent Earth-colliding asteroids. If we had two years to divert a planet-killer, suddenly not caring if FaceBoook knows I bought a dildo.
Gov: Whatcha huntin' Doc?
Trump: Ducks.
Gov: This is wabbit season.
Trump: Why. You. Little.... Grrrr (steam comes out of ears).
An amazing new breakthrough at the website reddit.com now provides clickbait-free journalism and unlimited information. It's based on a radical new concept known as the "circle jerk", which confines opinions into narrow areas known as "comfort zones". Initial results were not promising until scientists injected marijuana into the circle. Via a process known as "hot boxing", they squared the circle and provided unlimited information by slowing down the perception of time. Since perception is reality (P=mR squared), this provides infinite information.
This is part of the reason I never give at the checkout. That, and the cumulative inconvenience, annoyance, and contribution to the prevailing atmosphere of "everything's a shakedown".
That was the first thought that popped into my head, and you beat me to it. Cantstanja!