Come on people, the International Standards of Units and Measurements is head quartered in Paris.. But Paris is NOT a standard unit of measurement for area.
In the UK the area units of that order are the "Isle of Wight" and, next up, "Wales". Paris is obviously an EU unit, to be deprecated. However I thought that in the USA the nearest equivalent to the Isle of Wight or Paris is "The area a man can ride round on a horse in a day". Isn't that the way that Oklahoma was carved up in 1889?
One attack... slightly altered the AdChoices logo that is commonly used to disclose advertisements to fool the perceptual ad blocker.
Am I missing something here? A slight visual alteration can defeat the recognition of a ad graphic? Yet we are in an era of face recognition and self-driving perception software - and only waxwork dummies' faces look constantly the same, and I doubt that every road "Stop" sign is pixel-perfect identical.
Thank's for that informative post. I don't know why someone modded it as funny.
WRT the UK TV licence, it does not apply to radios. Many here think it is insane too, but it is a way of paying for the BBC TV service - a method that was established in low-tech days. Today there is no good reason why it cannot be made a subscription service like some other TV channels. The BBC licence scheme has got a bad name largely through the way that it is "enforced" - goons are employed to harass any householders without a licence.
Why do you need to talk to the cashier? You just need to pay them.
As for waiting in line, my supermarket has self-scanning checkouts as well as cashier checkouts, and there are queues at both types. The self-scanners have a permanent overseer and a lot of talking to them goes on because the self-scanners don't always work properly. In fact there is not only a queue for the self-scanners, there is also a wait to talk to the overseer. I find the touch screen does not work for me half the time - seems I have the wrong sort of conductivity.
I'm of the opinion that we might want to start charging the originator of the call, not the receiver.
Is the USA the only place in the World that charges the recipient something for the call? From the UK, I find charging the recipient anything is almost unbelievable to the point of insanity.
What a load of bullshit. News to me that tunnelling machines are diesel powered, although in a remote aea without electric power there can be diesel generators on the surface supplying the cutter motors by cable. In fact tunelling technology is doing fine without Musk - there have been a lot of big tunnelling projects in Europe recently, with the Crossrail project and the Northern Underground Line extension to Battersea in London alone.
I know things are a bit behind in the USA regarding railways, but even so, Musk deluding himself and his fans that he is the pioneer in railways (so he calls them by another name) and tunnels is a bit rich.
Once you have a 100% electric self driving fleet of personal automobiles you can divert surface traffic underground.... Given parallel development of all three technologies the boring company may be very timely in allowing municipalities to dig underground road networks that serve exclusively self driving electric vehicles and don't allow other types entry.
What is the "development of technology" with regard to the Boring company's tunnels? We've been digging major tunnels for about the last 200 years and the tech is now very developed. We have not been waiting for Musk to come along.
In fact the development of electric SD cars would make Musk's proposed sled and lift paraphernalia redundant. You just need ramps down from the surface roads to plain tunnels with a road surface floor that anybody could build. There would not be, nor need to be, anything special about Boring's tunnels.
His "rant" is not at all silly. It has touched a major weakness of the system. Having worked as an engineer for London Underground I can assure you that loading and unloading passengers from trains, and moving them up and down from street level, is a very major part of the system and involves extensive engineering in itself. The idea of queueing and loading cars takes things to an even greater level. Have you ever watched how slow it is to load/unload cars onto a river or sea ferry? And the parking/queuing areas for those ferries is enormous.
The Boring system will either end up as a conventional underground railway (which I would welcome) or a car-moving system for a wealthy few that will make little difference to street congestion and any differnce will be negative - only encouraging those wealthy few to bring their cars into the city instead of getting a train there.
Are you saying that you wouldn't use a system that could cut, say, an hour commute down to a 15 minute commute? And even if you didn't, the fact that others would would directly benefit you on the surface.
I was going to reply with something like your second sentence, then saw you had already written it. People will expect others to pay the toll to go via Boring and thus free up the roads for themselves without paying anything.
This happened with the SF Bart system. Everyone was in favour of it being built, saying things such as "it will be like adding another couple of lanes of freeway". But when it opened most of them expected to benefit from it by other people using BART, not themselves.
I... would like to point out that it should be possible to build embankments in a curved tunnel. Underground in a curved tunnel intended only to be run at speed you could angle the embankment of the rail on curves and the vehicle could take corners at higher speeds.
First of all you don't mean "embankments", which are raised earthworks in the open. You mean "banking" or "cant" (the latter is used in the UK railway world).
Secondly, I don't know about USA regulations, but in the UK the railway construction regulations do not permit more than a cetain modest amount of cant; AFAIR is is about 6 degrees. The reason is to avoid standing passengers falling over or merely being discomforted if the train has to stop at those places for signals or any other reason. You might think that rule is too cautious, but that is how it is and I have no doubt there are similar regulations concerning roads, although not for fairground rides.
It is another matter whether Musk considers himself above any such regulations - his denials (and those of his aides such as Rei here) that the Hyperloop is a railway (and hence he hopes he can duck established railway safety requirements even though the principle is the same) could be a clue. Perhaps he will claim that the Boring tunnels and Hyperloop are fairground rides.
Ah the real issue raises it's ugly head.... Tunnels are great when everybody wants to get from point A to point B and no place else, . But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless....
That explains why tunelling urban metros like the London Underground railway are always empty.
You havenâ(TM)t been on a busy train in one of these countries, have you?
Obviously he has not, the idea is laughable. Probably an American who has never been on a train - seems to think that trains usually have one set of doors and that having two sets would be a bright new idea. In fact on some metro trains like the London Underground, about half the side of the car opens up at each station.
This permits passengers -- particularly those on the platform -- to be directed to doors that will be less busy.
What in the hell makes you think they can be assed to move to a whole different area of the platform?
Exactly. Perhaps they intend to use sheepdogs, or bouncers with electric prods. I generally get on in the area where I know the exit is going to be at my destination.
What can put an end to all delays, even in the automated system is PED's, or Platform Edge Doors.
PEDs are just something else to go wrong and does nothing about the problem of people getting on blocking people getting off. Have you never been on a train delayed by a sliding door sticking or someone putting their foot in the way to make it wait for their friend? However many occasions that was, multiply it by two.
They purpose of PEDs is to stop people falling onto the track, and although that very occasionally (in the UK) does happen, the delays from that cause are a tiny blip in the lateness statistics.
Perhaps it was Rei who modded me down, which is why he cannot post. Or maybe he is quiet because he really is one of those guys who were fired - he certainly seems to have a senior position under Musk (or is he Musk himself?). Pity, I enjoy his posts, and I must admit I was hoping for "Funny" mods... oh well.
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If the crater material had negative mass it would have flown out of its own accord. No asteroid needed.
Come on people, the International Standards of Units and Measurements is head quartered in Paris.. But Paris is NOT a standard unit of measurement for area.
In the UK the area units of that order are the "Isle of Wight" and, next up, "Wales". Paris is obviously an EU unit, to be deprecated. However I thought that in the USA the nearest equivalent to the Isle of Wight or Paris is "The area a man can ride round on a horse in a day". Isn't that the way that Oklahoma was carved up in 1889?
That's because it is the consumer's fault. ... Consumers are also voters, you see.
Yes, I'm sure there is a tick box on USA voting forms that says "Kick Comcast up the arse". I guess you guys failed to spot it.
The UK is one nation but Scotland (and AFAIAA Northern Ireland) have some different laws from England
Yes.
FTFA :
One attack ... slightly altered the AdChoices logo that is commonly used to disclose advertisements to fool the perceptual ad blocker.
Am I missing something here? A slight visual alteration can defeat the recognition of a ad graphic? Yet we are in an era of face recognition and self-driving perception software - and only waxwork dummies' faces look constantly the same, and I doubt that every road "Stop" sign is pixel-perfect identical.
Thank's for that informative post. I don't know why someone modded it as funny.
WRT the UK TV licence, it does not apply to radios. Many here think it is insane too, but it is a way of paying for the BBC TV service - a method that was established in low-tech days. Today there is no good reason why it cannot be made a subscription service like some other TV channels. The BBC licence scheme has got a bad name largely through the way that it is "enforced" - goons are employed to harass any householders without a licence.
They were taken in by scam calls from "Windows" in India.
Why do you need to talk to the cashier? You just need to pay them.
As for waiting in line, my supermarket has self-scanning checkouts as well as cashier checkouts, and there are queues at both types. The self-scanners have a permanent overseer and a lot of talking to them goes on because the self-scanners don't always work properly. In fact there is not only a queue for the self-scanners, there is also a wait to talk to the overseer. I find the touch screen does not work for me half the time - seems I have the wrong sort of conductivity.
The cashier checkouts are quicker.
I'm of the opinion that we might want to start charging the originator of the call, not the receiver.
Is the USA the only place in the World that charges the recipient something for the call? From the UK, I find charging the recipient anything is almost unbelievable to the point of insanity.
What a load of bullshit. News to me that tunnelling machines are diesel powered, although in a remote aea without electric power there can be diesel generators on the surface supplying the cutter motors by cable. In fact tunelling technology is doing fine without Musk - there have been a lot of big tunnelling projects in Europe recently, with the Crossrail project and the Northern Underground Line extension to Battersea in London alone.
I know things are a bit behind in the USA regarding railways, but even so, Musk deluding himself and his fans that he is the pioneer in railways (so he calls them by another name) and tunnels is a bit rich.
Once you have a 100% electric self driving fleet of personal automobiles you can divert surface traffic underground.... Given parallel development of all three technologies the boring company may be very timely in allowing municipalities to dig underground road networks that serve exclusively self driving electric vehicles and don't allow other types entry.
What is the "development of technology" with regard to the Boring company's tunnels? We've been digging major tunnels for about the last 200 years and the tech is now very developed. We have not been waiting for Musk to come along.
In fact the development of electric SD cars would make Musk's proposed sled and lift paraphernalia redundant. You just need ramps down from the surface roads to plain tunnels with a road surface floor that anybody could build. There would not be, nor need to be, anything special about Boring's tunnels.
However, subway tunnels are often constructed with 12' or smaller diameter
Can you give an example ? A quick search showed that most are closer to 20'
The London Underground tube tunnels - nominal 12' diameter. The Glasgow underground tunnels are 11'.
His "rant" is not at all silly. It has touched a major weakness of the system. Having worked as an engineer for London Underground I can assure you that loading and unloading passengers from trains, and moving them up and down from street level, is a very major part of the system and involves extensive engineering in itself. The idea of queueing and loading cars takes things to an even greater level. Have you ever watched how slow it is to load/unload cars onto a river or sea ferry? And the parking/queuing areas for those ferries is enormous.
The Boring system will either end up as a conventional underground railway (which I would welcome) or a car-moving system for a wealthy few that will make little difference to street congestion and any differnce will be negative - only encouraging those wealthy few to bring their cars into the city instead of getting a train there.
Are you saying that you wouldn't use a system that could cut, say, an hour commute down to a 15 minute commute? And even if you didn't, the fact that others would would directly benefit you on the surface.
I was going to reply with something like your second sentence, then saw you had already written it. People will expect others to pay the toll to go via Boring and thus free up the roads for themselves without paying anything.
This happened with the SF Bart system. Everyone was in favour of it being built, saying things such as "it will be like adding another couple of lanes of freeway". But when it opened most of them expected to benefit from it by other people using BART, not themselves.
Stop shilling Rei. You aren't Elon Musk, you're just his wanna be.
Are we sure he isn't Musk?
I ... would like to point out that it should be possible to build embankments in a curved tunnel. Underground in a curved tunnel intended only to be run at speed you could angle the embankment of the rail on curves and the vehicle could take corners at higher speeds.
First of all you don't mean "embankments", which are raised earthworks in the open. You mean "banking" or "cant" (the latter is used in the UK railway world).
Secondly, I don't know about USA regulations, but in the UK the railway construction regulations do not permit more than a cetain modest amount of cant; AFAIR is is about 6 degrees. The reason is to avoid standing passengers falling over or merely being discomforted if the train has to stop at those places for signals or any other reason. You might think that rule is too cautious, but that is how it is and I have no doubt there are similar regulations concerning roads, although not for fairground rides.
It is another matter whether Musk considers himself above any such regulations - his denials (and those of his aides such as Rei here) that the Hyperloop is a railway (and hence he hopes he can duck established railway safety requirements even though the principle is the same) could be a clue. Perhaps he will claim that the Boring tunnels and Hyperloop are fairground rides.
Ah the real issue raises it's ugly head.... Tunnels are great when everybody wants to get from point A to point B and no place else, . But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless ....
That explains why tunelling urban metros like the London Underground railway are always empty.
Not really sure what this is supposed to mean.
This, just the first example I found :-
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Every attempt to built a Utopia turns out to be a Hell.
These for example :-
https://listverse.com/2016/05/...
That would take ages.
You havenâ(TM)t been on a busy train in one of these countries, have you?
Obviously he has not, the idea is laughable. Probably an American who has never been on a train - seems to think that trains usually have one set of doors and that having two sets would be a bright new idea. In fact on some metro trains like the London Underground, about half the side of the car opens up at each station.
This permits passengers -- particularly those on the platform -- to be directed to doors that will be less busy.
What in the hell makes you think they can be assed to move to a whole different area of the platform?
Exactly. Perhaps they intend to use sheepdogs, or bouncers with electric prods. I generally get on in the area where I know the exit is going to be at my destination.
What can put an end to all delays, even in the automated system is PED's, or Platform Edge Doors.
PEDs are just something else to go wrong and does nothing about the problem of people getting on blocking people getting off. Have you never been on a train delayed by a sliding door sticking or someone putting their foot in the way to make it wait for their friend? However many occasions that was, multiply it by two.
They purpose of PEDs is to stop people falling onto the track, and although that very occasionally (in the UK) does happen, the delays from that cause are a tiny blip in the lateness statistics.
Perhaps it was Rei who modded me down, which is why he cannot post. Or maybe he is quiet because he really is one of those guys who were fired - he certainly seems to have a senior position under Musk (or is he Musk himself?). Pity, I enjoy his posts, and I must admit I was hoping for "Funny" mods ... oh well.