Jeesh! Yes, it is. Annual tickets where I am currently cost exactly 365 Euros ("the whole town for an euro a day" is the marketing gag behind it), a fare is 2.20. Don't know about monthly tickets, but they're fairly affordable, too.
Living closer is no option since they probably already can barely afford living on the outskirts, so whatever alternative they will find means more traffic on the roads and more congested roads during rush hours.
Why you should pay for it? Because you don't want the through-roads that you use to get home turn into the biggest parking lot on the planet every day and your trip home takes 4 hours instead of 30 minutes.
Because one thing is certain, people who cannot use public transport will instead have to rely on private. And if a town can't afford to maintain public transport, they sure as hell can't afford buying premium land in downtown to pave and make new roads.
Your trip home would take longer. Every single day that you work. How much, well, that's up for debate, but what price would you attach to an hour of your time?
Wait 'til it gets old and maintenance becomes a real issue. Your public transport system is just about 20 years old, let's talk in another 10 years when trains start to fail and replacements would be required to retain a reliable schedule. Then we'll see whether private businesses are willing to "waste" money on new trains or whether they'll simply accept that some trains will run late. Or never.
The "profit" of a public transport system for the public is not money but having a transport system that takes pressure from your already congested roads.
Nah, I just ridicule people who have a vague hatred for "the elites" without even understanding what's going on. But as long as you have an enemy, the day has structure, I know.
10-minutes-hate over already or should I come back in 15?
I disagree. The topic at hand is to somehow keep the natives lulled, not to let them participate in meaningful activity. In other words, yes, the goal is to give the Kardasians (or however these useless cunts are spelled) to the masses.
If they can waste that much space in the phone that must mean that they have solved the problem of putting a replaceable battery in, put the charging port in a hard-to-destroy place and use enough solder to keep it in place (after all, a blob of solder needs WAY less space than 6 cameras, any sensible manufacturer would first get the important bits done before pondering what to waste the spare space on) and retain the headphone jack, along with adding a few more plugs for SD-Cards and USB devices to attach, so I can charge it and use it at the same time, right?
Then please you might tell me the idea behind selfies, I don't get it. I know where I am (in general, and if I don't, I'm usually in no condition to operate a phone). And even though I'm old I also remember where I was (again, in general, and if I don't, it's usually for the better).
What's the idea behind making a selfie? And, more importantly, what's the idea behind sending me said selfie? If I was remotely interested in where you are, I would either know or be there with you. If it's neither, a text message is already more information than I could possibly want.
You know a phone that actually has pointy corners? I don't. Even the old bar-style phones didn't exactly have any, hell, contemporary phones have edges, something the bars didn't even have, so they were even rounder than phones are today.
Hmm.... There's nothing about "elites" in Kernighan & Ritchie, the recent whitepaper from Schneier doesn't shed any light on them either... I turned to the bible for some insight and I found something about the "elites" in there, but mostly in the context of battles... is this some kind of military thing?
Are you against our brave fighting men and women? Why do you slander them? What kind of anti-patriotic yellow belly are you?
What do you want to attack? Want to steal back the trade secrets they got from us? How do you steal from someone who has nothing that you could possibly want? What kind of deterrent is it when you throw a nuke into a mostly void desert? It costs you a nuke and doesn't bother your enemy at all.
Instead get your defense up to speed! The itsec situation in most companies is atrocious. And I'm not talking about irrelevant mom'n'pop shops, we're talking large and very juicy targets for international criminal actors. If anything, the FBI should start treating sloppy IT security as what it is: A criminal offense.
But no, wait, we can't do that! Then our corporations would have to do something about their IT security! That could cut into their bottom line! No, let's instead wage a silly "cyber" war we can't win on taxpayer money. One silly, useless and unwinnable war that we get to foot the bill for more or less, who cares?
I now make about 2/3 of what I could earn in that Silly Valley. But I paid about 100k for my house and have living expenses of roughly 1000 bucks a month.
In other words, I have more money left at the end of the month. Despite our crazy high "socialist" taxes.
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Jeesh! Yes, it is. Annual tickets where I am currently cost exactly 365 Euros ("the whole town for an euro a day" is the marketing gag behind it), a fare is 2.20. Don't know about monthly tickets, but they're fairly affordable, too.
What town is this, Munich?
Living closer is no option since they probably already can barely afford living on the outskirts, so whatever alternative they will find means more traffic on the roads and more congested roads during rush hours.
Why you should pay for it? Because you don't want the through-roads that you use to get home turn into the biggest parking lot on the planet every day and your trip home takes 4 hours instead of 30 minutes.
Because one thing is certain, people who cannot use public transport will instead have to rely on private. And if a town can't afford to maintain public transport, they sure as hell can't afford buying premium land in downtown to pave and make new roads.
Your trip home would take longer. Every single day that you work. How much, well, that's up for debate, but what price would you attach to an hour of your time?
Wait 'til it gets old and maintenance becomes a real issue. Your public transport system is just about 20 years old, let's talk in another 10 years when trains start to fail and replacements would be required to retain a reliable schedule. Then we'll see whether private businesses are willing to "waste" money on new trains or whether they'll simply accept that some trains will run late. Or never.
The "profit" of a public transport system for the public is not money but having a transport system that takes pressure from your already congested roads.
Not every revenue is nickles and dimes.
Really? Government teaches people the processes in my company now?
Where do I sign up for that?
Ponder how interesting she is.
Now ponder how interesting anything she writes can be.
So you're that guy that ruins my Jesus jokes by saying that he wasn't real.
Worse. I'm assuming that consumers consider this a bigger problem than not having 6 cameras.
With this said, you must be a lot of fun at parties... ;-)
I don't know, I don't get invited to ...
oh...
I know. Selfies would only be about me if I made any myself.
Hey, it sounds way more sensible in French.
You should treasure such rare moments.
Nah, I just ridicule people who have a vague hatred for "the elites" without even understanding what's going on. But as long as you have an enemy, the day has structure, I know.
10-minutes-hate over already or should I come back in 15?
Yup, sounds like my parents. Granted, dad more pressed the bars than barred the presses, but still...
I disagree. The topic at hand is to somehow keep the natives lulled, not to let them participate in meaningful activity. In other words, yes, the goal is to give the Kardasians (or however these useless cunts are spelled) to the masses.
As broad as you define that, this includes your parents and your children. Maybe even your friends.
If they can waste that much space in the phone that must mean that they have solved the problem of putting a replaceable battery in, put the charging port in a hard-to-destroy place and use enough solder to keep it in place (after all, a blob of solder needs WAY less space than 6 cameras, any sensible manufacturer would first get the important bits done before pondering what to waste the spare space on) and retain the headphone jack, along with adding a few more plugs for SD-Cards and USB devices to attach, so I can charge it and use it at the same time, right?
RIGHT????
Then please you might tell me the idea behind selfies, I don't get it. I know where I am (in general, and if I don't, I'm usually in no condition to operate a phone). And even though I'm old I also remember where I was (again, in general, and if I don't, it's usually for the better).
What's the idea behind making a selfie? And, more importantly, what's the idea behind sending me said selfie? If I was remotely interested in where you are, I would either know or be there with you. If it's neither, a text message is already more information than I could possibly want.
6 cameras are required because the average human only has 5 fingers he can put in front of the lens to ruin the picture.
You know a phone that actually has pointy corners? I don't. Even the old bar-style phones didn't exactly have any, hell, contemporary phones have edges, something the bars didn't even have, so they were even rounder than phones are today.
Hmm.... There's nothing about "elites" in Kernighan & Ritchie, the recent whitepaper from Schneier doesn't shed any light on them either ... I turned to the bible for some insight and I found something about the "elites" in there, but mostly in the context of battles... is this some kind of military thing?
Are you against our brave fighting men and women? Why do you slander them? What kind of anti-patriotic yellow belly are you?
What do you want to attack? Want to steal back the trade secrets they got from us? How do you steal from someone who has nothing that you could possibly want? What kind of deterrent is it when you throw a nuke into a mostly void desert? It costs you a nuke and doesn't bother your enemy at all.
Instead get your defense up to speed! The itsec situation in most companies is atrocious. And I'm not talking about irrelevant mom'n'pop shops, we're talking large and very juicy targets for international criminal actors. If anything, the FBI should start treating sloppy IT security as what it is: A criminal offense.
But no, wait, we can't do that! Then our corporations would have to do something about their IT security! That could cut into their bottom line! No, let's instead wage a silly "cyber" war we can't win on taxpayer money. One silly, useless and unwinnable war that we get to foot the bill for more or less, who cares?
This.
I now make about 2/3 of what I could earn in that Silly Valley. But I paid about 100k for my house and have living expenses of roughly 1000 bucks a month.
In other words, I have more money left at the end of the month. Despite our crazy high "socialist" taxes.
What exactly are "the elites"? I keep hearing this title being used, but so far nobody could explain what exactly that's supposed to mean.
If you deliberately break a machine that you bought for a lot of money by skimping on cheap maintenance, you're too dumb to deserve profits.