AH the old "I can't win an argument so I'll whip out the name calling" tactic. Good one! Wow, I don't think I have a witty comeback to "you're a moron".
Is it profiling when dealing with someone with a legal infraction to prove who they are? And if they can't, taking additional steps to verify that they are legal residents? And if they can't taking additional steps to repatriate them back to their own country, is that profiling?
Well you see, that is where the problem is. Those protesting the new law, which does exactly what I describe, thinks that this is "racial profiling" simply and solely because MOST of the illegals are indeed Hispanic. If Most of the illegals were from... say... Britain, it wouldn't be, but because they are from south of the boarder, it is.
You see the logical fallacy in the argument being made yet? Only one group is using "race" to justify their position. GUESS WHICH SIDE??
That was my point. And you call me a moron. Sheesh .
You need to quote the whole paragraph, if you want to see the point I was making... here, I show you the REAL point, which you obviously missed.
It is funny listening to some of the people complaining, because they make stupid comments like "We can't profile Hispanics, just because most of the undocumented/illegal aliens are Hispanic". Uh, you just did asshole.
You see that last part in bold? That is called pointing out hypocrisy of the argument. Lets face it, we all know where the 10 - 30 million people here illegally come from. If we can't simply admit it in trying to address the problem there is no way to solve the problem.
I don't begrudge Hispanics wanting to come to this country and if I was south of the boarder and living in any of those crappy countries, I'd head north too. Especially if I knew that if I managed to stay in the US long enough I'd get Amnesty.
However we cannot absorb the hoards fleeing their broken countries in the numbers that are coming any longer without something breaking.
Simply not addressing the problem isn't helping.
We have to stop the floodgates (boarder control), and start telling people to go back to their home country(you're not welcome here). If you think I'm a racist for that, that is your problem.
For those that think this is not a solution, please put for a suggestion, and including Amnesty is not a solution (it's been tried), as it doesn't address those streaming across the boarder at a rate of about a million people a year.
What I don't understand is where are the environmentalists in all this? The desert Southwest is a trash heap and environmental disaster.
You do know that lawful resident aliens are required to carry their green cards at all times? RIGHT?? YOU KNEW THAT???
If you're driving and get pulled over, you have to provide a DRIVER'S LICENCE. You know this? RIGHT??
If a police office see you walking down the street, he has no "lawful encounter" just because you look like an illegal alien from... say... Pakistan. RIGHT?
I have a solution for this problem. We check the legal status of EVERYONE that has a "legal encounter" with a police officer. WHITE, BLACK, HISPANIC, or OTHER*
It is funny listening to some of the people complaining, because they make stupid comments like "We can't profile Hispanics, just because most of the undocumented/illegal aliens are Hispanic". Uh, you just did asshole.
This is the worst part of our current system, is that juries are not informed of all the duties that are necessary for them to perform. In this case you were led to believe that your only duty was to judge the facts, and apply those facts to the law.
However every member of society has every right, while on any jury, to judge not only the facts of the case, but the law and how they are being applied. This is the ONLY real safeguard to a free people, and the real power of the Jury.
My biggest sadness is that you felt compelled to convict the man, because the fact and the law told you to. Just so you know, you've admitted that you've proven the state has enslaved us all to laws we can't possibly obey.
Take a look here, and after that, I leave you with two questions....
Processes are there to prevent abuse, but are often the very tools that are used to abuse the system.
It is a catch-22 until you realize that the problem isn't the process, it is the people. People will use whatever rules are available to get away with as much as they can.
The ONLY way that we can get away from this is to realize that more rules aren't going to fix things, that we sometimes need to allow people to abuse the system, identify the people and shun them as a society, pushing them to the edge where they want to live.
I call this the Asshole principle. Assholes don't do anything illegal, or against the rules, they just stay on the right side of them, but everyone knows that they are assholes. Sometimes the only thing you can do with them, is to say "yeah, you're an asshole" and walk away, and try to avoid them as much as possible, and warn others that they are assholes.
Justifying bad behavior by pointing to bad behavior is just stupid. The fact is, regardless who's "watch" it came on, is this is completely unacceptable.
However neither the (R) or (D) is going to step up and say what is really needed. We need to cut government back to an almost unhealthy level, before we can address how to make it better. Hiring more incompetent and lazy people is not going to solve the problems we are facing. And leaving things as they are isn't solving them either.
We need the equivalence of a forest fire to burn through, and while it hurts temporarily, it is ultimately healthy (healthier) for the forest.
Justice system as it currently stands, doesn't care about justice directly. It cares about process. Did we go through all the hoops correctly?
We set up more and more hoops all the time, regardless of the effectiveness of those hoops to prevent abuses and errors in the process. The problem is that the hoops become more important than actually finding out what the truth actually is.
I suggest that people concerned with Google Tracking them via SSID and Wardriving, setup a trading federation that swaps WIFI Gear on a regular basis. Perhaps having a local "WIFI Gear Swap" at the local Swapmeet or TinFoilHat Club.
Data is only good if the assumptions about it remain true. The assumption is that WIFI gear doesn't move much (fairly reasonable assumption), that it is on all the time, etc.
Break free from the assumptions, and the data becomes useless and meaningless.
"Try to use reasons that might actually be valid on Planet Earth, if you please."
Don't confuse people with facts, because they don't matter. Talking to people using reason and facts makes no sense whatsoever when facts and reason don't matter.
Try getting someone to explain mandating me to buy goods or services I neither want nor desire, nor can afford.
No, it is like... a phonebook with your name, address and phone number nicely alphabetized for easy locating the info, then complaining that... OMG they've identified me and where I live OMG WTF !!!!
It is like being born in the USA and having subset of 536 people (congress/president) tell you that you need to buy Health Insurance or else face fines and persecution by the IRS.
("Yes, sir, we truly believe you need that, it's all for your own good!")
A person, continuing to violate laws and harm people doesn't have rights. They don't have a right to trial, to remain silent or anything else.
Rights are only established once they've been apprehended and in safe custody. However, someone shooting people from a tower has no rights, because they don't care about other people's rights.
This is the problem with our society today, we are too emasculated to actually state what is obvious, for fear of offending those that need to be offended.
You know those High Speed Car Chases? Those would end as soon as police were allowed to shoot to stop/kill the assholes putting everyone else's lives in danger, just the same as they are allowed to shoot someone wielding a gun and shooting it randomly into the air.
I'm sorry, but not catching a bad guy because we might, just might, hurt their "wittle feewings" (awww) or our sense of "fairness" or whatever is just as evil as the bad guys raping girls and killing people.
If they surrender immediately upon contact with law enforcement, great, if they try to get away so that they can continue their crime spree, then fuckem, all bets are off.
Hogwash. Other than commercial iPhone Apps, you don't have to buy anything from their store. MP3s you buy at other places run just fine on iPods, iPhones and whatnot.
And anyone can get the developer kit for iPhone and install any app they want. It just isn't standard part of the deal.
The funny thing is, people like you keep perpetuating myths because you don't like Apple for whatever reason.
I don't see you complaining that you can't run some exclusive Xbox game on your PS/3 or Wii. Nor Wii games on your Xbox. Which is what is really going on here, the appliancing of devices by everyone.
As for Apple buying ARM holdings again, it makes perfect sense. Apple doesn't need to be anticompetative against Droid or Palm. They are just hedging their position in certain markets. But it also provides Apple with the ability to complete a vertical market, and not be beholden to the likes of Intel, IBM and others for products they need to succeed. Remember when Apple was stagnating because of IBM's processor wasn't keeping up with Intel/AMD?
And finally, one must remember that ARM holdings licenses ARM technology to other companies to make their own specialized versions of ARM processors. They don't actually make all the ARM chips going into devices. I doubt that this will go away anytime soon.
So, preventing the mass killing of other human beings by killing the murderer is extremist?
I wonder how you view Hitler, after all, he called the Jews "Non-human" and that killing them was... not murder.
And before you call Goodwin's Law on me, this is actually a valid point. Just because YOU don't view full term pregnancy "a human" doesn't mean it isn't. And before you pull out the "life of mother" argument, full term abortions are not any safer than actually having the baby, especially if you count the life of the baby in the process.
The problem is that nobody wants to define when a fetus becomes viable "person" short of actual delivery of a baby (and sometimes even afterwards).
And I'm not even bringing "religion" into this, so don't even bother going there.
Lastly, I wonder if there is anything you're willing to "kill" for? Because whatever you come up with, short of "nothing", I can turn and make you look like an "extremist". And if you're not willing to kill for anything, then you're just a slave who is just waiting for a master.
Not necissarily for the parent / grandparent . THIS is for those who whine about Apple lockin and lack of options for Apple products...
Begin Rant:
If you want a PC, buy a PC, and stop complaining that Apple locks you in. SERIOUSLY, there is no monopoly except on "Cool" and Apple has that in spades.
Zune is better than iPod, as is many other devices, nobody is stopping you from listening to your music, your way. You just can't do everything you want on an iPod, and thus the iPod is not for you, you want a Zune (or other MP3)
Same with the iPad. There are other devices, and products that do everything you want, some less, some more expensive than iPad. The iPad is not for you, you want a Kindle or Netbook.
For all intents and purposes, you want a toaster oven, not a toaster. A toaster toasts bread. That's all it does. A Toaster oven can actually cook other things besides bread. Big Whoop. Do you complain that a toaster has "vendor lockin" because you can't reheat pizza (well you could, but it would be messy)?
You don't understand the marketplace, nor what Apple is making. Just because you sound good in your rants doesn't mean you're smarter than you think. You're not smarter, you're just showing your ignorance and lack of understanding.
Don't buy an iPad. There are plenty of other devices that do everything you want to do. The iPad is not for you. You can run all the crappy stuff you want when that German Linux Pad comes out, and it won't be nearly as slick as the iPad and will fail miserably because while it does everything a "geek" wants, there just aren't enough of us to make a difference in the market. And you'll still want an iPad, because it just works (makes toast) don't buy it. Just remember, you can't cook your pizza in it, and geeks eat pizza not toast.
Obligations and people to care for to what standard of living? Standard of Living is a choice too you know.
How do I know? I live at my standard of living BY CHOICE. I could live above my standard of living (bigger house, more expensive car, closer to a big city, or further from one), but I chose not to. I've taken a job that affords me the standard of living I'm comfortable living. If I lived in the big city, I wouldn't be able to, unless I lived in a cube doing the bidding of my overlords for more hours in a day than I would like.
I also make a lot less than I would living in a cube. Big house, car, fine dishes and expensive watches don't make up for living in a cube.
I have clothes (not designer), my shoes are needing replacement after 15 months of use, and cost me $25 when I buy them. Last care I bought was a used Ford Taurus that cost me $12,000 (two years old) four years ago. I'll get another two or three years out of it (maybe more).
ALL BY CHOICE.
As a result, I'm debt free. I have never owned a credit card (in my mid 40's).
You can see from the things in my house, I'm not lacking nice things, I just wait till I can afford them before I buy them, and usually at a discount (52" LCD 1280p SONY TV $1200 when circuit city went out of business).
ALL choices. If you THINK you HAVE to live in a CUBE because you're in a place where you have NO OTHER OPTION, that is usually due to choices one has made all along.
So, while you disagree with me, I'm living proof that lifestyle is a choice. I could have worked in a cube, making more money than I do, subject to the whims of Corporate Overlords... but I have chosen (it was a choice) a different path, one that is much more sustainable.
The problem is, nobody wants to hear that their choices in life have consequences. Of course it is easier to just tell people that their life is everyone else's fault.
I've built a system that uses WDS Legacy, DriverPacks and includes all the patches up to the last Patch Tuesday. It intalls a FRESH fully patched version of WindowsXP, has drivers installed for most Sound, Video, and all Network cards. If the system is new enough that DriverPacks doesn't have the right Audio/Video drivers, or on occasion there is just something bad with the DriverPacks drivers, I have those drivers on a Network store somewhere to manually install.
The Setup takes about 2 hours to install EVERYTHING automatically that I need (Office, AV, misc apps), using AD policy (MSI Installers/answer files, silent installers). A freshly installed system is about 1/2 again faster than a system that is about 2 years old on the same hardware.
Tech time on such a setup is about ten minutes. Couple of F12s and network credentials to start and two hours later some fine tuning. Mean time, I can do other stuff.
From Nor Cal to So Cal by train takes somewhere between 20-24 hours (Sacramento to Grand Central LA). Most of that is by BUS. It costs more than a ticket on Southwest Airlines from the nearest Airport.
The last mile is not the problem. The problem is the backbone is slow, has too many slow points, stops every 20 miles to pick up new people.
So, why would anyone take a train(unless they have a fear of flying)?
To make the train make sense, they'd have to start letting people drive their cars onto the train, and make longer than 100 mile segments so the train can actually go 120-150 MPH for distance.
I would love to be able to drive my car to the Train Depot, drive it onto the train, sit and relax for an hour or two, and get 200 miles away. In fact, I would augment or replace long stretches of empty highway with Trains that hauled cars.
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AH the old "I can't win an argument so I'll whip out the name calling" tactic. Good one! Wow, I don't think I have a witty comeback to "you're a moron".
Is it profiling when dealing with someone with a legal infraction to prove who they are? And if they can't, taking additional steps to verify that they are legal residents? And if they can't taking additional steps to repatriate them back to their own country, is that profiling?
Well you see, that is where the problem is. Those protesting the new law, which does exactly what I describe, thinks that this is "racial profiling" simply and solely because MOST of the illegals are indeed Hispanic. If Most of the illegals were from ... say ... Britain, it wouldn't be, but because they are from south of the boarder, it is.
You see the logical fallacy in the argument being made yet? Only one group is using "race" to justify their position. GUESS WHICH SIDE??
That was my point. And you call me a moron. Sheesh .
You need to quote the whole paragraph, if you want to see the point I was making ... here, I show you the REAL point, which you obviously missed.
It is funny listening to some of the people complaining, because they make stupid comments like "We can't profile Hispanics, just because most of the undocumented /illegal aliens are Hispanic". Uh, you just did asshole.
You see that last part in bold? That is called pointing out hypocrisy of the argument. Lets face it, we all know where the 10 - 30 million people here illegally come from. If we can't simply admit it in trying to address the problem there is no way to solve the problem.
I don't begrudge Hispanics wanting to come to this country and if I was south of the boarder and living in any of those crappy countries, I'd head north too. Especially if I knew that if I managed to stay in the US long enough I'd get Amnesty.
However we cannot absorb the hoards fleeing their broken countries in the numbers that are coming any longer without something breaking.
Simply not addressing the problem isn't helping.
We have to stop the floodgates (boarder control), and start telling people to go back to their home country(you're not welcome here). If you think I'm a racist for that, that is your problem.
For those that think this is not a solution, please put for a suggestion, and including Amnesty is not a solution (it's been tried), as it doesn't address those streaming across the boarder at a rate of about a million people a year.
What I don't understand is where are the environmentalists in all this? The desert Southwest is a trash heap and environmental disaster.
You do know that lawful resident aliens are required to carry their green cards at all times? RIGHT?? YOU KNEW THAT???
If you're driving and get pulled over, you have to provide a DRIVER'S LICENCE. You know this? RIGHT??
If a police office see you walking down the street, he has no "lawful encounter" just because you look like an illegal alien from ... say ... Pakistan. RIGHT?
I have a solution for this problem. We check the legal status of EVERYONE that has a "legal encounter" with a police officer. WHITE, BLACK, HISPANIC, or OTHER*
It is funny listening to some of the people complaining, because they make stupid comments like "We can't profile Hispanics, just because most of the undocumented /illegal aliens are Hispanic". Uh, you just did asshole.
Two Words .... Jury Nullification
This is the worst part of our current system, is that juries are not informed of all the duties that are necessary for them to perform. In this case you were led to believe that your only duty was to judge the facts, and apply those facts to the law.
However every member of society has every right, while on any jury, to judge not only the facts of the case, but the law and how they are being applied. This is the ONLY real safeguard to a free people, and the real power of the Jury.
My biggest sadness is that you felt compelled to convict the man, because the fact and the law told you to. Just so you know, you've admitted that you've proven the state has enslaved us all to laws we can't possibly obey.
Take a look here, and after that, I leave you with two questions ....
The Average Person Commits Three Felonies a Day"
Question one, are you willing to go to jail for doing something that is right, even if it is against the law?
If not, why did you do that to someone else?
The Feds can get you anytime you want ...
The Average Person Commits Three Felonies a Day"
You're absolutely right! Ann has been much funnier than Al for YEARS!!!
Live Long and Prosper.
Processes are there to prevent abuse, but are often the very tools that are used to abuse the system.
It is a catch-22 until you realize that the problem isn't the process, it is the people. People will use whatever rules are available to get away with as much as they can.
The ONLY way that we can get away from this is to realize that more rules aren't going to fix things, that we sometimes need to allow people to abuse the system, identify the people and shun them as a society, pushing them to the edge where they want to live.
I call this the Asshole principle. Assholes don't do anything illegal, or against the rules, they just stay on the right side of them, but everyone knows that they are assholes. Sometimes the only thing you can do with them, is to say "yeah, you're an asshole" and walk away, and try to avoid them as much as possible, and warn others that they are assholes.
You can't outlaw assholes. They exist.
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Justifying bad behavior by pointing to bad behavior is just stupid. The fact is, regardless who's "watch" it came on, is this is completely unacceptable.
However neither the (R) or (D) is going to step up and say what is really needed. We need to cut government back to an almost unhealthy level, before we can address how to make it better. Hiring more incompetent and lazy people is not going to solve the problems we are facing. And leaving things as they are isn't solving them either.
We need the equivalence of a forest fire to burn through, and while it hurts temporarily, it is ultimately healthy (healthier) for the forest.
No in companies, surfing porn can and often gets you fired. In Government doing the same just gets you transferred to the next site/department.
It is just too f'n hard to fire people in government.
See the difference?
Justice system as it currently stands, doesn't care about justice directly. It cares about process. Did we go through all the hoops correctly?
We set up more and more hoops all the time, regardless of the effectiveness of those hoops to prevent abuses and errors in the process. The problem is that the hoops become more important than actually finding out what the truth actually is.
I was born on a Leap Day (Feb 29th) you insensitive clod.
I suggest that people concerned with Google Tracking them via SSID and Wardriving, setup a trading federation that swaps WIFI Gear on a regular basis. Perhaps having a local "WIFI Gear Swap" at the local Swapmeet or TinFoilHat Club.
Data is only good if the assumptions about it remain true. The assumption is that WIFI gear doesn't move much (fairly reasonable assumption), that it is on all the time, etc.
Break free from the assumptions, and the data becomes useless and meaningless.
"Try to use reasons that might actually be valid on Planet Earth, if you please."
Don't confuse people with facts, because they don't matter. Talking to people using reason and facts makes no sense whatsoever when facts and reason don't matter.
Try getting someone to explain mandating me to buy goods or services I neither want nor desire, nor can afford.
No, it is like ... a phonebook with your name, address and phone number nicely alphabetized for easy locating the info, then complaining that ... OMG they've identified me and where I live OMG WTF !!!!
IIB
No no no no.
It is like being born in the USA and having subset of 536 people (congress/president) tell you that you need to buy Health Insurance or else face fines and persecution by the IRS.
("Yes, sir, we truly believe you need that, it's all for your own good!")
A person, continuing to violate laws and harm people doesn't have rights. They don't have a right to trial, to remain silent or anything else.
Rights are only established once they've been apprehended and in safe custody. However, someone shooting people from a tower has no rights, because they don't care about other people's rights.
This is the problem with our society today, we are too emasculated to actually state what is obvious, for fear of offending those that need to be offended.
You know those High Speed Car Chases? Those would end as soon as police were allowed to shoot to stop/kill the assholes putting everyone else's lives in danger, just the same as they are allowed to shoot someone wielding a gun and shooting it randomly into the air.
I'm sorry, but not catching a bad guy because we might, just might, hurt their "wittle feewings" (awww) or our sense of "fairness" or whatever is just as evil as the bad guys raping girls and killing people.
If they surrender immediately upon contact with law enforcement, great, if they try to get away so that they can continue their crime spree, then fuckem, all bets are off.
Hogwash. Other than commercial iPhone Apps, you don't have to buy anything from their store. MP3s you buy at other places run just fine on iPods, iPhones and whatnot.
And anyone can get the developer kit for iPhone and install any app they want. It just isn't standard part of the deal.
The funny thing is, people like you keep perpetuating myths because you don't like Apple for whatever reason.
I don't see you complaining that you can't run some exclusive Xbox game on your PS/3 or Wii. Nor Wii games on your Xbox. Which is what is really going on here, the appliancing of devices by everyone.
As for Apple buying ARM holdings again, it makes perfect sense. Apple doesn't need to be anticompetative against Droid or Palm. They are just hedging their position in certain markets. But it also provides Apple with the ability to complete a vertical market, and not be beholden to the likes of Intel, IBM and others for products they need to succeed. Remember when Apple was stagnating because of IBM's processor wasn't keeping up with Intel/AMD?
And finally, one must remember that ARM holdings licenses ARM technology to other companies to make their own specialized versions of ARM processors. They don't actually make all the ARM chips going into devices. I doubt that this will go away anytime soon.
So, preventing the mass killing of other human beings by killing the murderer is extremist?
I wonder how you view Hitler, after all, he called the Jews "Non-human" and that killing them was ... not murder.
And before you call Goodwin's Law on me, this is actually a valid point. Just because YOU don't view full term pregnancy "a human" doesn't mean it isn't. And before you pull out the "life of mother" argument, full term abortions are not any safer than actually having the baby, especially if you count the life of the baby in the process.
The problem is that nobody wants to define when a fetus becomes viable "person" short of actual delivery of a baby (and sometimes even afterwards).
And I'm not even bringing "religion" into this, so don't even bother going there.
Lastly, I wonder if there is anything you're willing to "kill" for? Because whatever you come up with, short of "nothing", I can turn and make you look like an "extremist". And if you're not willing to kill for anything, then you're just a slave who is just waiting for a master.
Not necissarily for the parent / grandparent . THIS is for those who whine about Apple lockin and lack of options for Apple products ...
Begin Rant:
If you want a PC, buy a PC, and stop complaining that Apple locks you in. SERIOUSLY, there is no monopoly except on "Cool" and Apple has that in spades.
Zune is better than iPod, as is many other devices, nobody is stopping you from listening to your music, your way. You just can't do everything you want on an iPod, and thus the iPod is not for you, you want a Zune (or other MP3)
Same with the iPad. There are other devices, and products that do everything you want, some less, some more expensive than iPad. The iPad is not for you, you want a Kindle or Netbook.
For all intents and purposes, you want a toaster oven, not a toaster. A toaster toasts bread. That's all it does. A Toaster oven can actually cook other things besides bread. Big Whoop. Do you complain that a toaster has "vendor lockin" because you can't reheat pizza (well you could, but it would be messy)?
You don't understand the marketplace, nor what Apple is making. Just because you sound good in your rants doesn't mean you're smarter than you think. You're not smarter, you're just showing your ignorance and lack of understanding.
Don't buy an iPad. There are plenty of other devices that do everything you want to do. The iPad is not for you. You can run all the crappy stuff you want when that German Linux Pad comes out, and it won't be nearly as slick as the iPad and will fail miserably because while it does everything a "geek" wants, there just aren't enough of us to make a difference in the market. And you'll still want an iPad, because it just works (makes toast) don't buy it. Just remember, you can't cook your pizza in it, and geeks eat pizza not toast.
Obligations and people to care for to what standard of living? Standard of Living is a choice too you know.
How do I know? I live at my standard of living BY CHOICE. I could live above my standard of living (bigger house, more expensive car, closer to a big city, or further from one), but I chose not to. I've taken a job that affords me the standard of living I'm comfortable living. If I lived in the big city, I wouldn't be able to, unless I lived in a cube doing the bidding of my overlords for more hours in a day than I would like.
I also make a lot less than I would living in a cube. Big house, car, fine dishes and expensive watches don't make up for living in a cube.
I have clothes (not designer), my shoes are needing replacement after 15 months of use, and cost me $25 when I buy them. Last care I bought was a used Ford Taurus that cost me $12,000 (two years old) four years ago. I'll get another two or three years out of it (maybe more).
ALL BY CHOICE.
As a result, I'm debt free. I have never owned a credit card (in my mid 40's).
You can see from the things in my house, I'm not lacking nice things, I just wait till I can afford them before I buy them, and usually at a discount (52" LCD 1280p SONY TV $1200 when circuit city went out of business).
ALL choices. If you THINK you HAVE to live in a CUBE because you're in a place where you have NO OTHER OPTION, that is usually due to choices one has made all along.
So, while you disagree with me, I'm living proof that lifestyle is a choice. I could have worked in a cube, making more money than I do, subject to the whims of Corporate Overlords ... but I have chosen (it was a choice) a different path, one that is much more sustainable.
The problem is, nobody wants to hear that their choices in life have consequences. Of course it is easier to just tell people that their life is everyone else's fault.
Heck, Maybe this time fire isn't so hot. OUCH! Yup, still hot, maybe next time it won't be so hot.
I'm simply amused by people who are eternally optimistic even in the face of all reason.
I've built a system that uses WDS Legacy, DriverPacks and includes all the patches up to the last Patch Tuesday. It intalls a FRESH fully patched version of WindowsXP, has drivers installed for most Sound, Video, and all Network cards. If the system is new enough that DriverPacks doesn't have the right Audio/Video drivers, or on occasion there is just something bad with the DriverPacks drivers, I have those drivers on a Network store somewhere to manually install.
The Setup takes about 2 hours to install EVERYTHING automatically that I need (Office, AV, misc apps), using AD policy (MSI Installers/answer files, silent installers). A freshly installed system is about 1/2 again faster than a system that is about 2 years old on the same hardware.
Tech time on such a setup is about ten minutes. Couple of F12s and network credentials to start and two hours later some fine tuning. Mean time, I can do other stuff.
From Nor Cal to So Cal by train takes somewhere between 20-24 hours (Sacramento to Grand Central LA). Most of that is by BUS. It costs more than a ticket on Southwest Airlines from the nearest Airport.
The last mile is not the problem. The problem is the backbone is slow, has too many slow points, stops every 20 miles to pick up new people.
So, why would anyone take a train(unless they have a fear of flying)?
To make the train make sense, they'd have to start letting people drive their cars onto the train, and make longer than 100 mile segments so the train can actually go 120-150 MPH for distance.
I would love to be able to drive my car to the Train Depot, drive it onto the train, sit and relax for an hour or two, and get 200 miles away. In fact, I would augment or replace long stretches of empty highway with Trains that hauled cars.
Talk about efficiency!