>>How fucking classic is it that the submitter linked the words "granted INTERPOL full diplomatic immunity" to an article that explicitly states in caps and everything that this is NOT a granting of diplomatic immunity?
Because the Slashdot editors mangled my entry. There was no link to the ABC News article in what I submitted, but I did have a link to the story on unpaid UN parking tickets.
What really irks me is that this actually is a granting of full diplomatic immunity. If you go through the list of all the possible options for diplomatic immunity (it comes in different kinds), INTERPOL now has them all. So, yeah, I called it full diplomatic immunity.
>>what it didn't do is grant diplomatic immunity, and what it did do is grant a limited amount of immunity mostly related to taxes and document seizure
It did grant full diplomatic immunity. They had partial immunity before.
>>INTERPOL to do their work without participating nations worrying that the U.S. will spy on them by reading these organization's records.
Yes, heaven forfend we have transparency in our law enforcement agencies.:p
>>but that's a hell of a lot less than diplomatic immunity and not as hard to revoke
It's full diplomatic immunity.
>>I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I do know the summary was classic bullshit.
>>Indeed, and the reason that diplomatic immunity is not a "do whatever you want" license is that any laws you break result in embarrassing complaints to your home country, who will recall you and punish you in their own system.
Sometimes. America is well known for not removing immunity from its staffers overseas so they can be tried abroad. Other countries have been willing to remove immunity the other way though.
However, the parking tickets outside the UN are a rather famous sort of ongoing joke between the ambassadors and the NYPD. Or perhaps, "on the NYPD, by the ambassadors" would be a better way of putting it. Around 2002, the state department put the screws to the foreign countries that owned money by witholding foreign aid to countries that didn't pay their parking tickets, and that stopped most of it, but there's still something like *twenty million dollars* of unpaid tickets still owed by the ambassadors and their staff.
>>Interpol has no police force. It conducts no investigations. It doesn't arrest anyone. As an international organization it was not subject to FOIA requests anyway, because it's not a department of the federal government.
It has an office, it has employees, it has files. They are now immune to search and seizure by the federal government.
>>As a previous poster noted, this is NOT DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
It is diplomatic immunity. Learn to fucking read. There's more kinds of diplomatic immunity than the immunities given to diplomats.
>>This is immunity from attachment of any property that Interpol may have in the USA.
Yes.
>>Any employees of Interpol, if any, stationed in the USA can and would still be arrested for crimes they commit
No, they are immune to suit and legal proceedings for anything they did while acting as an employee of interpol.
>>In summary, both the original submitter and basically every comment I've seen so far are not just wrong, they are comically wrong.
>>The title and summary are pretty misleading, it appears the only thing Obama did was exempt INTERPOL from certain taxes and provided them with immunity from search and seizure. The article explicitly states that it is not the same thing as diplomatic immunity.
That's because they edited my submission and mangled it.
INTERPOL is already immune to suit and legal process (Section 7). This made them immune to search, seizure, and paying taxes. And their families, if I'm reading it right.
>>Allocations are provided to ISPs for re-assigning. Once re-assigned, the IPs belong to the end user, for use with services provided by the ISP.
Hmm, when I first got my cable modem it came with 5 (public) IP addresses. After a couple years, Time Warner suddenly revoked all the extra IP addresses, giving us only one instead, that we had to NAT through. I called to complain, and the manager said, essentially, that we were shit out of luck, but that we could buy additional IP addresses for a couple bucks a month each.
You're certainly willing to try it, if you'd like, but Dastar certainly doesn't apply in this case, since we're not talking about using material in the public domain, but creation of new works using the Mickey Mouse character. I wouldn't. =)
Right, income equality, as stated, is an imaginary, nonsensical statement. By your measure, as I've pointed out, a bunch of people living in mud have a better income equality than one in which every middle class family makes $300k but has a number of Bill Gates characters living in it.
When I asked what point you were trying to make, you said, quote: "That we make less per hour than anywhere in the developed world (even when adjusted for cost of living)". That exact point was refuted. I'm willing to agree to disagree on the socialist philosophy thing you have going on, but I am sort of worried that you've based such philosophies on facts that are the polar opposite of reality.
>>So instead they say things like:/* yeah, I don't like this either */
Yeah, we've all seen bad comments like that, but there have been a number of times when comments have been life savers, beyond simply saying what it is a block of code is doing:
Once, when using a weird language, there was a note to not add any new member variables after a certain one. You could add new member variables above, but the ones below that point had to be fixed in place for the interpreter to function correctly. Without that comment, I'd have spend hours going insane trying to figure out what was crashing my code.
Similarly notes in code that say something along the lines of, "If you change this, look at module X over there to make sure you don't break it." Even when you use encapsulation and patterns like connectors, sometimes you just get stuck in a situation where two different modules have to know about each other, and the logic interfacing them has to go somewhere.
>>I can pull out statistics, you can pull out statistics
Really? Do you have a reference to something that shows that you're not precisely the opposite of being correct about the US having the lowest purchasing power hourly wages in the developed world?
>>If Mickey Mouse is no longer copyrighted, then anyone can make movies, comics, books, etc. featuring that character. Then the customers for those goods cannot expect all of them to originate from some common source, and the trademark goes generic.
That's not exactly true. A trademark is used to signify a manufacturer of a specific product, so people wouldn't be able to make, say, Mickey Mouse jeans and sell them. The Mickey Mouse insignia would still be a protected product by Disney, and they'd do everything they could (which means lawsuits) to ensure it doesn't go generic. Copyrights apply to specific WORKS, so you'd be able to take Steamboat Willie and put it up on Youtube, or remix it, or whatever, but it's certainly not clear if you would be able to go out and make your own Mickey Mouse movies, because Mickey Mouse is a protected symbol.
At my last 2 jobs developers have had security exceptions for local admin rights. The combination of money lost due to wasted time otherwise plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users is apparently enough to persuade even management.
Wait, what?
At my last office job (~100 people in the company), the developers WERE the system admins.
It's all "computers", right?:p
Actually, I lie. We ended up getting so fed up with being taken off task to fix peoples email that we actually hired a full time IT guy, but he was so intimidated by us that I couldn't imagine him trying to lock us out of our computers.
>>Perhaps 7 years automatic for free, with the next 7 years costing $1,000, and the next costing $10,000, and the next costing $100,000, then $1,000,000, and so forth. A 10x increase for each extension.
Hmm, I'd give 30 years for free... that's long enough to milk all the money you're going to get out of your novel, box office receipts, betamax sales, VHS sales, Blockbuster Rentals, DVD sales, Blu-Ray sales, Netflix sales, etc.
After that, an exponentially increasing pay structure would make a lot of sense. How much is it worth to keep Mickey Mouse from entering the public domain?
Not that Mickey Mouse would actually enter the public domain - he's a trademark, and trademarks don't expire.
The ones in my car dashboard definitely flicker. When I move my eyes they leave a series of discrete dots on my retina, as opposed to the streak that incandescents leave. It's annoying as hell
>>The ideal control group would, of course, be a group taking a "science-based medicine" drug which has been proven to have some effect on memory, attention, etc. Just to prove that the study is actually able to detect the thing it's supposed to be looking for.
You mean caffeine?
But the entire point of the study was to determine, scientifically, if ginko is effective or not.
You can't just wave your hands and assume that all alt med drugs don't work.
>>From the traffic manuals I've helped write, the LED traffic lights do indeed offer significantly improved functionality over incandescent lights in ways that are not related to "being green".
But LED lights flicker at 60Hz. This irritates me to no end, especially with the becoming-more-common prevalence of using LED lights on taillights on cars. The flickering on the back of Caddies keeps drawing my attention to them, pulling it away from the cars in front of me. They're actually very dangerous, in my opinion.
And its getting worse. The status lights inside of my new Civic are all LEDs, and the flickering drives me insane.
>>I don't know about CustomTF, but I know Valve changed the mechanics for Sniper for TF2.
The mechanics for the sniper are actually unchanged, except that you can't charge the rifle while zoomed out.
A heavy (300/100 in TF1) could be one-shot in vanilla TF1, but in CustomTF it requires a minimum of two shots to take out (either fully charged chest shots, or less charged head shots).
>>*Overhealing may be new to TF2 as well. Basically, a medic can heal a target to 150% health, which would be 450 on a Heavy (300 + 150).
Yeah, I've played TF2. Too simplistic for my taste after playing CustomTF.
They didn't post the source code to it, either, which is disappointing, but expected. I'd love to make a CustomTF2.
From someone who actually writes one of these games you're complaining about...
In quake1, a direct rocket shot deals 120 damage, or splashes for 80-90. If you have no armor on, that's an instant kill with a direct hit. If you have red (200/100) armor, yeah, it'll take 3-4 hits, but you have to recall the firing rate on a RL is around one per second, which is a lot faster than in real life as well. I've played those CoD style games with realistic rocket launchers, and it's just not very fun being able to get instant killed by someone who has no skill and no need to aim who just fires a panzerfaust in your general direction.
In designing CustomTF, I've gone back and forth on hitscan weapons. In a certain sense, they're too good. It's simply too easy to headshot someone with a sniper rifle in TF from a half mile away. If there's no cover, then a game simple degenerates into a sniper fest. Which is boring. So I've tweaked sniper damage a half-dozen times, and basically set it at a point where you can one-shot anyone with less than red armor and full health, and two shots will kill anyone. You can buy (expensive) upgrades to your sniper rifle to be able to one-shot 200/100s, but this might leave you weak yourself on speed or armor, which is kinda the point. Defensively, people can pick up kevlar armor to halve damage from snipers, which helps break up sniper domination of games, but again, it's somewhat expensive.
IRL, bullets don't travel at the speed of light, which is part of the problem - from a half mile away, a bullet takes a bit less than a second to reach the target. So I put in a non-hitscan sniper rifle with just a very very fast projectile (~1000 m/s velocity) which costs half as much, but deals the same damage. So people with skill can be rewarded with having more cash for other purchases in the game, and people that get hit by them from a distance don't feel like they've been cheaply killed. Both options are available in the game.
Counterstrike, as you said, is incredibly annoying due to the inaccuracy of the bullets. It's like the bullets fly out sideways from the barrel. You can hold a gun to a guy's head and miss with an entire clip.
>>Is it really necessary to politicize even the purest scientific discoveries, and to turn even the slightest enrichment of our collective knowledge into an opportunity for a fleeting partisan jab?
Next you'll be telling me the increase of temperature on Mars isn't due to the 6-wheeled SUVs we've been flooding the planet with.
It has come up many, many times before but each time the airline lobbies kill it dead. Its really amazing just how powerful this collection of interests has proved to be over time. Generally speaking, they almost always get everything they want.
The general rule of thumb is, if the airline lobbies want something, its almost a sure thing to be bad for you, me, and Joe consumer.
Right, because we saw so many airline ads attacking Prop 1A.
Sometimes a conspiracy theory is just a theory, dude.
I'm all for high speed rail (I voted for 1A), but if you run the numbers, it's just really hard to compete against airlines in both cost effectiveness and speed. There's sort of a sweet spot for high speed rail at medium distances around 200 to 500 miles... shorter than that and it's usually easier to drive, and longer than that the hassle of going through security at the airport gets made up by the faster speeds of the planes.
San Francisco to San Diego by car is around 8 hours, 10 hours if there's traffic in LA. San Francisco to San Diego by high speed rail (200MPH and own right of way) is going to be around 3 to 3.5 hours, counting stops and showing up early to the station. San Francisco to San Diego by plane takes around 2.5 to 3 hours, counting showing up early, 75 minutes in flight, and waiting for your baggage.
With numbers like that, I'd take the high speed rail, just to avoid the lines at the airport, and assuming the price is cost competitive. Any longer than that (high speed rail would take 12 hours to get to DC, versus less than half that by air) and air wins.
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>>How fucking classic is it that the submitter linked the words "granted INTERPOL full diplomatic immunity" to an article that explicitly states in caps and everything that this is NOT a granting of diplomatic immunity?
Because the Slashdot editors mangled my entry. There was no link to the ABC News article in what I submitted, but I did have a link to the story on unpaid UN parking tickets.
What really irks me is that this actually is a granting of full diplomatic immunity. If you go through the list of all the possible options for diplomatic immunity (it comes in different kinds), INTERPOL now has them all. So, yeah, I called it full diplomatic immunity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity#Diplomatic_immunity_in_the_United_States
>>what it didn't do is grant diplomatic immunity, and what it did do is grant a limited amount of immunity mostly related to taxes and document seizure
It did grant full diplomatic immunity. They had partial immunity before.
>>INTERPOL to do their work without participating nations worrying that the U.S. will spy on them by reading these organization's records.
Yes, heaven forfend we have transparency in our law enforcement agencies. :p
>>but that's a hell of a lot less than diplomatic immunity and not as hard to revoke
It's full diplomatic immunity.
>>I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I do know the summary was classic bullshit.
If you weren't wrong, I'd agree with you.
>>Indeed, and the reason that diplomatic immunity is not a "do whatever you want" license is that any laws you break result in embarrassing complaints to your home country, who will recall you and punish you in their own system.
Sometimes. America is well known for not removing immunity from its staffers overseas so they can be tried abroad. Other countries have been willing to remove immunity the other way though.
However, the parking tickets outside the UN are a rather famous sort of ongoing joke between the ambassadors and the NYPD. Or perhaps, "on the NYPD, by the ambassadors" would be a better way of putting it. Around 2002, the state department put the screws to the foreign countries that owned money by witholding foreign aid to countries that didn't pay their parking tickets, and that stopped most of it, but there's still something like *twenty million dollars* of unpaid tickets still owed by the ambassadors and their staff.
Ok, let's take that one at a time.
>>Interpol has no police force. It conducts no investigations. It doesn't arrest anyone. As an international organization it was not subject to FOIA requests anyway, because it's not a department of the federal government.
It has an office, it has employees, it has files. They are now immune to search and seizure by the federal government.
>>As a previous poster noted, this is NOT DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
It is diplomatic immunity. Learn to fucking read. There's more kinds of diplomatic immunity than the immunities given to diplomats.
>>This is immunity from attachment of any property that Interpol may have in the USA.
Yes.
>>Any employees of Interpol, if any, stationed in the USA can and would still be arrested for crimes they commit
No, they are immune to suit and legal proceedings for anything they did while acting as an employee of interpol.
>>In summary, both the original submitter and basically every comment I've seen so far are not just wrong, they are comically wrong.
Learn to read. It helps in life.
Some references:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/International_Organizations_Immunities_Act
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12425
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
>>The title and summary are pretty misleading, it appears the only thing Obama did was exempt INTERPOL from certain taxes and provided them with immunity from search and seizure. The article explicitly states that it is not the same thing as diplomatic immunity.
That's because they edited my submission and mangled it.
For the actual law in question, read this:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/International_Organizations_Immunities_Act
INTERPOL is already immune to suit and legal process (Section 7). This made them immune to search, seizure, and paying taxes. And their families, if I'm reading it right.
There's different kinds of diplomatic immunity, read this for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity#Diplomatic_immunity_in_the_United_States
They now have all the entries on that table, so if you don't want to call it full diplomatic immunity, you're welcome to come up with a better term.
I prefer MUSE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsp3_a-PMTw
83% success rate? Good enough for government work!
>>Allocations are provided to ISPs for re-assigning. Once re-assigned, the IPs belong to the end user, for use with services provided by the ISP.
Hmm, when I first got my cable modem it came with 5 (public) IP addresses. After a couple years, Time Warner suddenly revoked all the extra IP addresses, giving us only one instead, that we had to NAT through. I called to complain, and the manager said, essentially, that we were shit out of luck, but that we could buy additional IP addresses for a couple bucks a month each.
You think that qualifies as fraud?
You're certainly willing to try it, if you'd like, but Dastar certainly doesn't apply in this case, since we're not talking about using material in the public domain, but creation of new works using the Mickey Mouse character. I wouldn't. =)
Right, income equality, as stated, is an imaginary, nonsensical statement. By your measure, as I've pointed out, a bunch of people living in mud have a better income equality than one in which every middle class family makes $300k but has a number of Bill Gates characters living in it.
When I asked what point you were trying to make, you said, quote: "That we make less per hour than anywhere in the developed world (even when adjusted for cost of living)". That exact point was refuted. I'm willing to agree to disagree on the socialist philosophy thing you have going on, but I am sort of worried that you've based such philosophies on facts that are the polar opposite of reality.
>>So instead they say things like: /* yeah, I don't like this either */
Yeah, we've all seen bad comments like that, but there have been a number of times when comments have been life savers, beyond simply saying what it is a block of code is doing:
Once, when using a weird language, there was a note to not add any new member variables after a certain one. You could add new member variables above, but the ones below that point had to be fixed in place for the interpreter to function correctly. Without that comment, I'd have spend hours going insane trying to figure out what was crashing my code.
Similarly notes in code that say something along the lines of, "If you change this, look at module X over there to make sure you don't break it." Even when you use encapsulation and patterns like connectors, sometimes you just get stuck in a situation where two different modules have to know about each other, and the logic interfacing them has to go somewhere.
>>I can pull out statistics, you can pull out statistics
Really? Do you have a reference to something that shows that you're not precisely the opposite of being correct about the US having the lowest purchasing power hourly wages in the developed world?
If not, then just admit you're wrong, dude.
>>If Mickey Mouse is no longer copyrighted, then anyone can make movies, comics, books, etc. featuring that character. Then the customers for those goods cannot expect all of them to originate from some common source, and the trademark goes generic.
That's not exactly true. A trademark is used to signify a manufacturer of a specific product, so people wouldn't be able to make, say, Mickey Mouse jeans and sell them. The Mickey Mouse insignia would still be a protected product by Disney, and they'd do everything they could (which means lawsuits) to ensure it doesn't go generic. Copyrights apply to specific WORKS, so you'd be able to take Steamboat Willie and put it up on Youtube, or remix it, or whatever, but it's certainly not clear if you would be able to go out and make your own Mickey Mouse movies, because Mickey Mouse is a protected symbol.
I certainly wouldn't try it, at least.
At my last 2 jobs developers have had security exceptions for local admin rights. The combination of money lost due to wasted time otherwise plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users is apparently enough to persuade even management.
Wait, what?
At my last office job (~100 people in the company), the developers WERE the system admins.
It's all "computers", right? :p
Actually, I lie. We ended up getting so fed up with being taken off task to fix peoples email that we actually hired a full time IT guy, but he was so intimidated by us that I couldn't imagine him trying to lock us out of our computers.
>>Perhaps 7 years automatic for free, with the next 7 years costing $1,000, and the next costing $10,000, and the next costing $100,000, then $1,000,000, and so forth. A 10x increase for each extension.
Hmm, I'd give 30 years for free... that's long enough to milk all the money you're going to get out of your novel, box office receipts, betamax sales, VHS sales, Blockbuster Rentals, DVD sales, Blu-Ray sales, Netflix sales, etc.
After that, an exponentially increasing pay structure would make a lot of sense. How much is it worth to keep Mickey Mouse from entering the public domain?
Not that Mickey Mouse would actually enter the public domain - he's a trademark, and trademarks don't expire.
What? Not going to admit that you're wrong? I'm kind of disappointed in you.
The ones in my car dashboard definitely flicker. When I move my eyes they leave a series of discrete dots on my retina, as opposed to the streak that incandescents leave. It's annoying as hell
>>The ideal control group would, of course, be a group taking a "science-based medicine" drug which has been proven to have some effect on memory, attention, etc. Just to prove that the study is actually able to detect the thing it's supposed to be looking for.
You mean caffeine?
But the entire point of the study was to determine, scientifically, if ginko is effective or not.
You can't just wave your hands and assume that all alt med drugs don't work.
>>From the traffic manuals I've helped write, the LED traffic lights do indeed offer significantly improved functionality over incandescent lights in ways that are not related to "being green".
But LED lights flicker at 60Hz. This irritates me to no end, especially with the becoming-more-common prevalence of using LED lights on taillights on cars. The flickering on the back of Caddies keeps drawing my attention to them, pulling it away from the cars in front of me. They're actually very dangerous, in my opinion.
And its getting worse. The status lights inside of my new Civic are all LEDs, and the flickering drives me insane.
Yeah, I thought about doing something similar to this back when I was in grad school for a thesis or paper.
Essentially you can just hook into an application writing or reading from the registry and redirect it to a local file in its folder instead.
Too much work, though.
>>Of course I can' t think of a single map like that.
Did you even play Team Fortress?
Think about 2Forts for a second.
>>How does latency figure into your timing?
There's code that server admins can enable that adjusts damage based on the latency of the shooter. Most people didn't use it though.
>>I don't know about CustomTF, but I know Valve changed the mechanics for Sniper for TF2.
The mechanics for the sniper are actually unchanged, except that you can't charge the rifle while zoomed out.
A heavy (300/100 in TF1) could be one-shot in vanilla TF1, but in CustomTF it requires a minimum of two shots to take out (either fully charged chest shots, or less charged head shots).
>>*Overhealing may be new to TF2 as well. Basically, a medic can heal a target to 150% health, which would be 450 on a Heavy (300 + 150).
Yeah, I've played TF2. Too simplistic for my taste after playing CustomTF.
They didn't post the source code to it, either, which is disappointing, but expected. I'd love to make a CustomTF2.
From someone who actually writes one of these games you're complaining about...
In quake1, a direct rocket shot deals 120 damage, or splashes for 80-90. If you have no armor on, that's an instant kill with a direct hit. If you have red (200/100) armor, yeah, it'll take 3-4 hits, but you have to recall the firing rate on a RL is around one per second, which is a lot faster than in real life as well. I've played those CoD style games with realistic rocket launchers, and it's just not very fun being able to get instant killed by someone who has no skill and no need to aim who just fires a panzerfaust in your general direction.
In designing CustomTF, I've gone back and forth on hitscan weapons. In a certain sense, they're too good. It's simply too easy to headshot someone with a sniper rifle in TF from a half mile away. If there's no cover, then a game simple degenerates into a sniper fest. Which is boring. So I've tweaked sniper damage a half-dozen times, and basically set it at a point where you can one-shot anyone with less than red armor and full health, and two shots will kill anyone. You can buy (expensive) upgrades to your sniper rifle to be able to one-shot 200/100s, but this might leave you weak yourself on speed or armor, which is kinda the point. Defensively, people can pick up kevlar armor to halve damage from snipers, which helps break up sniper domination of games, but again, it's somewhat expensive.
IRL, bullets don't travel at the speed of light, which is part of the problem - from a half mile away, a bullet takes a bit less than a second to reach the target. So I put in a non-hitscan sniper rifle with just a very very fast projectile (~1000 m/s velocity) which costs half as much, but deals the same damage. So people with skill can be rewarded with having more cash for other purchases in the game, and people that get hit by them from a distance don't feel like they've been cheaply killed. Both options are available in the game.
Counterstrike, as you said, is incredibly annoying due to the inaccuracy of the bullets. It's like the bullets fly out sideways from the barrel. You can hold a gun to a guy's head and miss with an entire clip.
>>Is it really necessary to politicize even the purest scientific discoveries, and to turn even the slightest enrichment of our collective knowledge into an opportunity for a fleeting partisan jab?
Next you'll be telling me the increase of temperature on Mars isn't due to the 6-wheeled SUVs we've been flooding the planet with.
>>George Bush called. He wants credit for this one, too. /slaps own forehead
Right! Damn, I forgot to add Bush into my proof.
Bush is ALWAYS a valid reason for any negative conclusion.
Forgetting to add Bush as a cause to any effect is worth a full letter grade deduction on a proof.
Right, because we saw so many airline ads attacking Prop 1A.
Sometimes a conspiracy theory is just a theory, dude.
I'm all for high speed rail (I voted for 1A), but if you run the numbers, it's just really hard to compete against airlines in both cost effectiveness and speed. There's sort of a sweet spot for high speed rail at medium distances around 200 to 500 miles... shorter than that and it's usually easier to drive, and longer than that the hassle of going through security at the airport gets made up by the faster speeds of the planes.
San Francisco to San Diego by car is around 8 hours, 10 hours if there's traffic in LA.
San Francisco to San Diego by high speed rail (200MPH and own right of way) is going to be around 3 to 3.5 hours, counting stops and showing up early to the station.
San Francisco to San Diego by plane takes around 2.5 to 3 hours, counting showing up early, 75 minutes in flight, and waiting for your baggage.
With numbers like that, I'd take the high speed rail, just to avoid the lines at the airport, and assuming the price is cost competitive. Any longer than that (high speed rail would take 12 hours to get to DC, versus less than half that by air) and air wins.