If sufficient numbers of people felt that way, Pepsi would take out annoying ads "supporting" Coca-cola
That sort of thing has been done. In the 1980 USA presidential campaign, won by Reagan, the opposing Democrats braodcast clips from Reagan's old films, as they were so cringeworthy.
why did they have separate [electrical] generators on the cars, rather than just drawing from the massive diesel generators in the locomotive?
The trains use air brakes and don't depend on any other connections. If the air brake connection is broken because cars are separated, then the brakes are automatically applied.
What has that got to do with the electrical power supplies?
Toting around rooftops full of smelly, dirty, non-paying parasites costs money in wasted fuel. Just removing the freeloaders and grifters alone will improve fuel economy considerably.
Who says the roof riders aren't paying? If not, then the ones inside are probably not paying either.
If those people on top of the trains are freeloaders who aren't paying, this whole solar panels thing may just be an excuse to get rid of them for good.
I can't see that stopping them. Even overhead electric catenary doesn't (NSFW):-
What did they get wrong? It seems like they got the right mythological creature.
They were right, it's sirens. They lived on an island and lured sailors to try to land by their enchanted singing; the ships were then shipwrecked on the rocks. The sailors did not need to be drunk though, or horny - in the ancient stories it was the song, not the sex. There were various descriptions of them, but generally half woman and half bird, and there are various stories that feature them, the most famous being Homer's Odyssey.
Google and FB have shown how profitable consumer data actually is
Profitable for them as long as there are buyers for it. It is another matter whether it is profitable for those buyers, the marketing people, to have bought it, but FTTB the buyers are assuming that it is; but who knows? I suspect that the value of this data to the marketing people is vastly over-estimated, and one day they will realise this and the bubble will burst.
Yes. That data is useless. All they will know is that you spent 237 dollars at Julie Wongs BDSM Emporium.
Some of it is useless, some isn't. If you spent it at a fishing tackle shop rather than an emporium they would know you are probably interested in fishing
You know what is even more obscene? Parents getting upset over this instead of bands of kids setting sleeping homeless men and women on fire for the thrill of it
Setting fire to people is not "obscene", it is "wicked". To use "obscene" is a wrong use of the word.
Anyway, are you suggesting that we should not be concerned about anything less than kids setting fire to people? Then I take it you never bother to wash up your plates.
So far we have rail lines, urban subway lines, power utility lines with towers (above and belowground), state and federal highways, oil and gas pipelines (above and belowground), and water pipelines. It doesn't appear that hard to run transportation lanes of any type.
Don't know about the USA, but in the UK it took years of public hearing, legal processes, parliamentary debates, safety studies, and economic studies to build about 100 miles of railway from the Channel Tunnel to London. Most of those existing railways and roads you refer to were built at least 100 years ago when you could just drive peasants, rednecks and Red Indians away from the proposed route using men with shotguns.
And when someone is dead set on not selling or leasing the land the lane is routed around which is not an uncommon practice.
Not as easy with Hyperloop as with a road or even a conventional railway. Hyperloop will require extremely gentle curvatures if the passengers are not to be subject to intolerably high g forces.
It will never move! It will never sail! It will never fly! It will never break the sound barrier! It will never make it to orbit!
Faggots like you must be exhausted being constantly wrong.. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over.
Your examples of "It will never.." are all technical attributes. If you actually read my post instead of knee-jerking I actually said "It will never be a mass transit system", which is an economic attribute, and you might also have spotted my words "It could be built". I'll go further and say that a Hyperloop line probably will be built, but only one or two fairly short ones - and soon becoming mere tourists' novelties.
My point was that it would fail as business proposition, only propped up by Musk's money and that of the fans who invest in him.
BTW, I don't think you know what a "mass transit system" means. It means something like the New York or London underground systems, or BART, shifting millions of people for short distances. I don't think Musk would want to comapre Hyperloop with any of those anyway.
While it sounds really cool.....I'm wondering of the practicality of it in becoming anywhere near a mass transit system.
It will never be a mass transit system. If a Hyperloop line is built it will only ever be a novelty attraction, perhaps for tourists going to Las Vegas or some Arab Sheik's toy in the desert. At the speeds they are ultimately aiming for it will need to be built in almost straight lines, so across anything but flat landscapes it will need some spectacular viaducts or tunnels - all costly to build to say nothing of the running costs.
It could be built. Anything that does not contravine the laws of physics can be built if you throw enough money and ego at it, and Musk has enough of both. But it will not be operated for long once Musk or that Sheik get bored with it.
In the UK the media focussed on an incident in which a demonstrator stood in the road in the path of a tank and the tank stopped. We were shown that clip over and over and over again.
I never did figure out the point that the media and UK politicians were trying to make. What crossed my mind was that if you did that in Whitehall you would be promptly run over by a car. But that would be OK as you would have been run over democratically.
I get a couple of calls a week from the IRS and Credit Card scammers... I wonder how many of those people think they are actually doing legitimate work?
Maybe his father: (1) didn't want to deal with selling a "used" gas can as new if people did return them (potential legality issues, on a practical level have to clean the can pretty well for it not smell used)
He should have kept a couple of cans just for lending. I once worked at an all-night filling station, and that's what we did.
(2) didn't want to deal with customers complaining that "a new can only costs $10"
otherwise there wouldn't be an issue with losing umbrellas as they would know who had the missing umbrella in their possession.
Good luck with chasing 300,000 particular people in China, even assuming they all gave their names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers etc just to hire an umbrella.
I can go whenever and for however long and not worry about bills, ecept to make sure there is enough money in the account.
That's the sting in the tail, isn't it?
One of my banks (in the UK) whacked me for a £20 fee when a Direct Debit Payment that I had been unaware of took me about £2 overdrawn. My preferred method is to pay bills by on-line banking so I control when the payment is made and can ensure that my balance covers it.
when having to post something you have to stand in fucking line forever because some dumb old cunt is paying their bills and slowly fumbling around But yes you can pay bills and even expiations at a post office.
Paying their bills? Yes, after they have described their life story to the counter clerk, with enlargement to micro-detail for the last week since they were last in.
EU is so poor that restaurants charge money for water
In the UK there is an old law that you can go into any public house and be given a free drink of water if you ask for it, and then leave. AFAIK that law still exists but I have never seen anyone invoke it.
Children used to in olden days. Charlie Chaplin described (in memoirs?) doing so in The Crown pub in Borough High Street (just south of London Bridge) c1900. The significance was that the landlord turned out to be one of the great poisoners, and one of his poisoned wives was dying in the room above Chaplin as he drank.
... Amex as a corporate card. Maybe 50% chance it'll be accepted in Europe. It's crap.
Nowhere near 50%. In the UK I still have an AMEX card in theory, but not used it for 5 years. I used to use it for the Brownie points cash-back it gave, but now you need to spend about a billion pounds a day to get any cashback at all, and more and more places now refuse it anyway (I gather it costs retailers much more than other cards); those that do tend to be hotels and up-market restaurants.
Yes, it's awful. "Microsoft", "salesforce" and "layoffs" in the same sentence! I never thought I'd see the day, you should see my tears. I'm starting a collection to support those poor guys until they can land a job in some Indian "Windows" support call centre..
That's probably what gave away that the scam doesn't actually originate in India.
It is common for scams in the UK to be master-minded from Indians within the UK (for the local knowledge and easier access to banks etc) but fronted from India. That way it appears that the perpetrators are out of the reach of UK law, so the police don't bother with it. Also, SWJ's feel sorry for people in India (as demonstrated in this very news item) and start a riot if you suggest that anyone in India could be doing anything wrong.
Bearing in mind that every Indian is brother or uncle or nephew to every other Indian, (they claim it themselves when they try to immigrate into the West) it is easy for Indian crooks in the UK to recruit accomplices in India.
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If sufficient numbers of people felt that way, Pepsi would take out annoying ads "supporting" Coca-cola
That sort of thing has been done. In the 1980 USA presidential campaign, won by Reagan, the opposing Democrats braodcast clips from Reagan's old films, as they were so cringeworthy.
why did they have separate [electrical] generators on the cars, rather than just drawing from the massive diesel generators in the locomotive?
The trains use air brakes and don't depend on any other connections. If the air brake connection is broken because cars are separated, then the brakes are automatically applied.
What has that got to do with the electrical power supplies?
Toting around rooftops full of smelly, dirty, non-paying parasites costs money in wasted fuel. Just removing the freeloaders and grifters alone will improve fuel economy considerably.
Who says the roof riders aren't paying? If not, then the ones inside are probably not paying either.
If those people on top of the trains are freeloaders who aren't paying, this whole solar panels thing may just be an excuse to get rid of them for good.
I can't see that stopping them. Even overhead electric catenary doesn't (NSFW) :-
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What did they get wrong? It seems like they got the right mythological creature.
They were right, it's sirens. They lived on an island and lured sailors to try to land by their enchanted singing; the ships were then shipwrecked on the rocks. The sailors did not need to be drunk though, or horny - in the ancient stories it was the song, not the sex. There were various descriptions of them, but generally half woman and half bird, and there are various stories that feature them, the most famous being Homer's Odyssey.
Google and FB have shown how profitable consumer data actually is
Profitable for them as long as there are buyers for it. It is another matter whether it is profitable for those buyers, the marketing people, to have bought it, but FTTB the buyers are assuming that it is; but who knows? I suspect that the value of this data to the marketing people is vastly over-estimated, and one day they will realise this and the bubble will burst.
Yes. That data is useless. All they will know is that you spent 237 dollars at Julie Wongs BDSM Emporium.
Some of it is useless, some isn't. If you spent it at a fishing tackle shop rather than an emporium they would know you are probably interested in fishing
You know what is even more obscene? Parents getting upset over this instead of bands of kids setting sleeping homeless men and women on fire for the thrill of it
Setting fire to people is not "obscene", it is "wicked". To use "obscene" is a wrong use of the word.
Anyway, are you suggesting that we should not be concerned about anything less than kids setting fire to people? Then I take it you never bother to wash up your plates.
So far we have rail lines, urban subway lines, power utility lines with towers (above and belowground), state and federal highways, oil and gas pipelines (above and belowground), and water pipelines. It doesn't appear that hard to run transportation lanes of any type.
Don't know about the USA, but in the UK it took years of public hearing, legal processes, parliamentary debates, safety studies, and economic studies to build about 100 miles of railway from the Channel Tunnel to London. Most of those existing railways and roads you refer to were built at least 100 years ago when you could just drive peasants, rednecks and Red Indians away from the proposed route using men with shotguns.
And when someone is dead set on not selling or leasing the land the lane is routed around which is not an uncommon practice.
Not as easy with Hyperloop as with a road or even a conventional railway. Hyperloop will require extremely gentle curvatures if the passengers are not to be subject to intolerably high g forces.
It will never move!
It will never sail!
It will never fly!
It will never break the sound barrier!
It will never make it to orbit!
Faggots like you must be exhausted being constantly wrong.. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over.
Your examples of "It will never .." are all technical attributes. If you actually read my post instead of knee-jerking I actually said "It will never be a mass transit system", which is an economic attribute, and you might also have spotted my words "It could be built". I'll go further and say that a Hyperloop line probably will be built, but only one or two fairly short ones - and soon becoming mere tourists' novelties.
My point was that it would fail as business proposition, only propped up by Musk's money and that of the fans who invest in him.
BTW, I don't think you know what a "mass transit system" means. It means something like the New York or London underground systems, or BART, shifting millions of people for short distances. I don't think Musk would want to comapre Hyperloop with any of those anyway.
While it sounds really cool.....I'm wondering of the practicality of it in becoming anywhere near a mass transit system.
It will never be a mass transit system. If a Hyperloop line is built it will only ever be a novelty attraction, perhaps for tourists going to Las Vegas or some Arab Sheik's toy in the desert. At the speeds they are ultimately aiming for it will need to be built in almost straight lines, so across anything but flat landscapes it will need some spectacular viaducts or tunnels - all costly to build to say nothing of the running costs.
It could be built. Anything that does not contravine the laws of physics can be built if you throw enough money and ego at it, and Musk has enough of both. But it will not be operated for long once Musk or that Sheik get bored with it.
President Xi should study his people's history. Every dynasty eventually loses the 'mandate of heaven'.
Happens in all civilisations. So what do you expect Xi to do - say "OMG, I never knew that!", and top himself?
"Tianmen Square" was a big deal in Western media
In the UK the media focussed on an incident in which a demonstrator stood in the road in the path of a tank and the tank stopped. We were shown that clip over and over and over again.
I never did figure out the point that the media and UK politicians were trying to make. What crossed my mind was that if you did that in Whitehall you would be promptly run over by a car. But that would be OK as you would have been run over democratically.
I get a couple of calls a week from the IRS and Credit Card scammers... I wonder how many of those people think they are actually doing legitimate work?
None
Maybe his father:
(1) didn't want to deal with selling a "used" gas can as new if people did return them (potential legality issues, on a practical level have to clean the can pretty well for it not smell used)
He should have kept a couple of cans just for lending. I once worked at an all-night filling station, and that's what we did.
(2) didn't want to deal with customers complaining that "a new can only costs $10"
Then tell them to buy one.
otherwise there wouldn't be an issue with losing umbrellas as they would know who had the missing umbrella in their possession.
Good luck with chasing 300,000 particular people in China, even assuming they all gave their names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers etc just to hire an umbrella.
I can go whenever and for however long and not worry about bills, ecept to make sure there is enough money in the account.
That's the sting in the tail, isn't it?
One of my banks (in the UK) whacked me for a £20 fee when a Direct Debit Payment that I had been unaware of took me about £2 overdrawn. My preferred method is to pay bills by on-line banking so I control when the payment is made and can ensure that my balance covers it.
With those numbers on the bottom of each check you write ... someone could withdraw whatever they like from your checking account.
How?
when having to post something you have to stand in fucking line forever because some dumb old cunt is paying their bills and slowly fumbling around But yes you can pay bills and even expiations at a post office.
Paying their bills? Yes, after they have described their life story to the counter clerk, with enlargement to micro-detail for the last week since they were last in.
EU is so poor that restaurants charge money for water
In the UK there is an old law that you can go into any public house and be given a free drink of water if you ask for it, and then leave. AFAIK that law still exists but I have never seen anyone invoke it.
Children used to in olden days. Charlie Chaplin described (in memoirs?) doing so in The Crown pub in Borough High Street (just south of London Bridge) c1900. The significance was that the landlord turned out to be one of the great poisoners, and one of his poisoned wives was dying in the room above Chaplin as he drank.
... Amex as a corporate card. Maybe 50% chance it'll be accepted in Europe. It's crap.
Nowhere near 50%. In the UK I still have an AMEX card in theory, but not used it for 5 years. I used to use it for the Brownie points cash-back it gave, but now you need to spend about a billion pounds a day to get any cashback at all, and more and more places now refuse it anyway (I gather it costs retailers much more than other cards); those that do tend to be hotels and up-market restaurants.
Something ain't right..... mass layoffs in sales?
Yes, it's awful. "Microsoft", "salesforce" and "layoffs" in the same sentence! I never thought I'd see the day, you should see my tears. I'm starting a collection to support those poor guys until they can land a job in some Indian "Windows" support call centre..
I have never ever made use of a computer warranty. I don't see the point.
Have you ever owned a laptop?
Yes
If so, has its power jack ever failed?
No
If so, what did you do to get it repaired?
Not applicable, but I'd do it myself.
That's probably what gave away that the scam doesn't actually originate in India.
It is common for scams in the UK to be master-minded from Indians within the UK (for the local knowledge and easier access to banks etc) but fronted from India. That way it appears that the perpetrators are out of the reach of UK law, so the police don't bother with it. Also, SWJ's feel sorry for people in India (as demonstrated in this very news item) and start a riot if you suggest that anyone in India could be doing anything wrong.
Bearing in mind that every Indian is brother or uncle or nephew to every other Indian, (they claim it themselves when they try to immigrate into the West) it is easy for Indian crooks in the UK to recruit accomplices in India.
The Met don't have jurisdiction in India.
But Microsoft seem to.