We need a greater willingness for the government to manage transportation in general before we go down the route of singling out roads for funding by general taxation. As it is, both government spending and government policies are far too skewed towards car travel as it is.
Maybe he doesn't acknowledge it because it's not true? Public transportation is used by people inside cities, which are sometimes expensive, sometimes not, depending on whether the local government has managed to beat back the State DoT or not and allow redevelopment.
Public transportation outside of cities is generally unusable due to Suburbanist planning policies.
While visual quality is definitely good these days, everything else about modern TVs suck. They're complicated to set up, have awful menus, and the whole TV+Boxes+Receiver combo generally makes control awkward, with multiple steps needed to turn on the TV or switch a source unless you're either willing to sacrifice, say, audio quality, or something similar.
This is actually one market I'd really welcome Apple dipping its toe into. I doubt I'd buy what they have to sell, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the industry would learn from it and we'd see improvement.
Licensed, legitimate, crab companies also use the high barrier of entry in many places to keep out competitors in order to artificially inflate prices.
Virtually every location I've ever been to that heavily regulates taxis regulates fares too. So no, the taxi company doesn't get to "inflate fares" by taking advantage of a lack of competition.
This here town ain't big enough to support two companies
What about New York City? Have you seen any pictures of Manhattan made in the last 60 years? Are you familiar with streets clogged with taxis?
The medallion system exists for a reason. If it were just a way to keep fares high, New Yorkers - not known for their willingness to take shit lying down - would have had the concept thrown out by now.
You're still moving the goalposts. You said subsidies. Now you're saying cash infusions. Until the airlines pay for their own security and own ATC and own airport maintenance/upkeep/property tax losses/etc, they're subsidized.
Trains are pretty much the only form of transportation that for some reason are held to a level of profitability no other form of transportation is held to. Fares are supposed, according to the anti-train mob, to cover rolling stock, fuel, and direct staffing like airlines or buses, but 100% of infrastructure, as opposed to 30-60% for road vehicles, and close to 0% for airlines, and ticket payers are supposed to pay property taxes on rights of way (not paid by road users) and cover all kinds of other ancillary costs too. Every dollar not covered is considered a subsidy by opponents of passenger rail, yet not a single one whines about the same issues when it comes to other forms of transportation.
The results, ironically, are that while rail consistently comes close to covering all of that (and thus having the lowest practical subsidy of all), politicians who claim to be in favor of fiscal responsibility keep undermining it and moving people to the worst, most heavily subsidized, forms of transportation instead.
You can only "move to the center" if you're a third party. If the Democrats move to what was the center (as they keep doing and have kept doing over the last three or four decades), the center moves as a result and they're no longer at it. Worse, their attempt to look less extreme helps their opposition, which now also looks like it's closer to the center.
The Republicans understand this somewhat better, and have drifted to the right, knowing that this, too, moves the center, but moves it rightwards, leaving both parties looking slightly more extreme rather than just the party that's made the move.
You write as if there's some great principle involved that anyone's claiming to upkeep (and being taken seriously when they do) that involves the best place to exert power.
Truth is that all these positions are based upon where someone believes they can politically win power. If the country as a whole, and hence the Feds lean X, then expect supporters of the opposing position Y to support slightly more local locations of power.
Pro-Slavers were very, very, happy to be opposed to "States rights" back when they were proposing (and passing) Fugitive Slaves laws that imposed huge immoral burdens on the Free States. As soon as it looked like the anti-slaves might win power at a Federal level, suddenly they back-pedalled.
There are a bunch of things going on here so bear with me.
1. The speed immediately before the curve is 80mph. The curve itself is rated for 80mph but the official speed limit is 50. Why the difference? Because rail companies take passenger comfort seriously and 80mph through that curve would require passengers wear seatbelts and might possibly cause slight travel sickness. As an aside trains generally start at Philly by accelerating with an open (full) throttle. When they reach 80mph, it's usually at the point in the journey where the train now needs to slow to 50mph to pass the curve. Supposedly the brakes weren't activated and throttle closed, possibly because the driver was distracted by having a rock thrown at him, but... WE DON'T KNOW THIS and the headline of this story is premature.
2.Both ATC and PTC do as you describe. They include mechanisms to monitor the speed of trains and slow them if they're speeding. PTC even includes a GPS element. ATC is older, creakier, but...
3. ATC was not installed on the section immediately North of Philly because, reportedly, Amtrak engineers at the time didn't believe any trains would actually reach 80mph before hitting that curve. This was probably true at the time.
4. In the last year, Amtrak has introduced new locomotives, including the one used for Amtrak 188. These locomotives are considerably more powerful than the "Meatballs" they replaced.
So, that's currently the thinking. The most likely scenario right now appears to be that the engineer was distracted by rocks being thrown at the train at the critical moment where he was supposed to close the throttle and engage the brakes. Because it was a newer, more powerful, locomotive than the safety systems there were originally designed for, the train was able to accelerate to 105mph during that distracted period. Because there were no ATC or PTC systems active in that area, the train wasn't stopped automatically.
That's the _most likely_ scenario. There are many other possibilities, including a software problem on the locomotive (which, depending on the nature of the bug) could have rendered PTC or ATC ineffectual given they rely upon the loco to, you know, respond to its commands. The latter is unlikely, but it hasn't been ruled out yet.
We should do what commonsense requires, the accident may or may not have been caused by a lack of ATC, but we do know now that there exists the possibility of speed related accidents in that area and need it to be addressed. In the mean time, we should wait for the NTSB to do its job.
I don't think the EPA is involved. But yes, the FCC has been a major hold-up on the antennas issue. The other major obstacle along the same lines interestingly enough are several Indian reservations. While in the rest of the country the FCC can override pretty much any local authority when it comes to allowing antennas to be built, reservations are an exception and several freight railroads have had problems getting the permission of tribal authorities in those areas.
No, your correction is misleading. We _don't_ know what would have prevented the accident, the GP was entirely correct in saying that. You are right in saying that he confused ATC with PTC and shouldn't, but the idea that any automatically controlled speed limiting system would have prevented the accident relies upon several factors being ruled out, which have not yet been.
I entirely agree the GP shouldn't have said PTC, but implying that the headline wasn't misleading as a result is completely inappropriate.
Before you espouse socialism, understand what it is first. Socialism means that the government takes over the means of production, which is destructive on the economy for the same reason that monopolies are destructive (socialism effectively is the same thing as a monopoly.)
No. Not even close. If it were, Robert Owens wouldn't be considered the father of socialism. Neither would Trade Unions wouldn't be considered socialist movements. Anarchism and socialism wouldn't be considered by practitioners of either sister movements. My advice is that before starting a sentence with "Before you espouse socialism, understand what it is first", take some time to find out what it is first.
There's a gaping difference between people who do it just for the money, and people who want to do it, but only have time to because they can make it their living.
I love software development, but frankly I'd be doing very little of it if I had to drive taxis all day in order to actually earn enough money to put food on my family's table.
That's kinda irrelevant in this case. The crash that just happened happened on the NEC, a stretch of track from DC to Boston that has tighter clearances than most of the rest of the US, in part because the rest of the US was kind of developed haphazardly.
On the NEC, passenger trains have a maximum height from top of rail to top of car of 14.5 feet. The maximum width is 10.5 feet, but that's usually the case elsewhere too. 14.5 feet isn't excessively high, I believe similar heights are used throughout Europe with the exception of the UK, where 12.5 foot (and 9.5 ' widths) are standard.
GNU/Linux only gets away with a centralized package management system (which I agree, is a good system) because there are so many distributions to choose from and there's no reason for any distro to discriminate against contributors.
If Microsoft tried the same thing, it'd be a shitfest, even assuming they themselves acted 100% morally and ethically in operating the repositories.
It really isn't. This is why the NFS 'intr' option exists BTW, it's to ensure that you don't end up with zombies because something's waiting on an NFS operation that'll never take place.
Don't overestimate the degree to which the Feds are involved in this, by and large employers are more than willing to engage in it pro-actively.
The major "government forcing urine tests" example I can think of isn't a Federal one, it's a State one, and even Florida recognized it better keep the unnecessary drug testing to its own employees, rather than try to force the same on contractors and face likely legal consequences.
Why is Florida drugs testing its own employees? Because Governor Rick Scott, who instituted the practice, just happens to own a large "Healthcare" megacorp that includes drugs testing labs as one of its services. (Yes, he still owns it, he didn't even divest to a trust or anything when he became governor, like other politicians would do.)
The entire concept is a scam. But between anti-drugs nutballs and scam artists, we're stuck with it, and unlikely to see legal relief any time soon.
There's a difference between getting a ruling in your favor because your employer accidentally broke some, say, obscure notification rule that happened to cover its bad behavior this time, but not specifically because it was invading your privacy, and getting a ruling in your favor because the thing you were complaining about is illegal.
What the people here are asking for is not merely for the victim here to win, but to win because the law explicitly protects off-hours privacy.\
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I don't fit into the category of men that today's women want; you know the type. All muscle no brain, the kind that will only screw her for one night and leave her with a child and no child support. Oh, I'm sorry... I let my cynicism show through there.
Not your cynicism so much as your lack of interaction with women, forcing you rely upon media stereotypes as your primary source of information about this apparently inscrutable species.
If you really feel that way and can't understand why, make some women friends. Friends friends, I mean, not girlfriends. Real friends, not cynical "I need to know more about this strange creature so I shall befriend it and learn its secrets" friends. It'll be worth your while.
IIRC these "binary" logs you speak of are simply text files with indexing information attached. They're not encrypted or compressed, you can, at worst, use the "strings" command to pull the information, and if you're doing raw sector dumps from a hard drive then you'll be able to read them there too.
Of course, if the log files are zero'd out, like the bug report you quote, then it doesn't matter whether they're "binary" or text, you're screwed. That has nothing to do with systemd.
I'm sorry, but what? This has to be the most amazing amount of wishful thinking I've ever seen. If it were true, expect the various *BSD communities to be having a mini-freakout right now as they try to handle a massive influx of people completely unfamiliar with how BSD does things, and who - having switched solely because of 'init' - are finding that BSD's version is even less like sysvinit than systemd.
And unless Windows has become amazingly secure and sanely designed over the last few years, I think it's safe to say that systemd is completely unlike anything Windows has to offer.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure what westlake just did constituted a felony because he failed to explain how not doing your job properly is in some way illegal...
I suspect you haven't been through many. Essentially, yes, you get some warnings. 9/10 of those warnings end up going nowhere, with the hurricane making landfall 100 miles North or South, or sweeping by and hitting North Carolina.
But be that as it may, most smaller businesses know they're going to be crippled anyway in the event of a major hurricane hitting. They expect to offer little but a skeleton service after the hurricane, if that, and many businesses just close for a week until the power comes back on.
Businesses in that sort of situation would not expect any need to do something special because they've switched to SSDs. SSDs are widely advertized as a drop-in replacement for hard drives based upon similar store technologies to that in your camera or cellphone. Those never lose data, so why would you expect your brand new Dell PC with the super-fast SSD disk to either?
Finally, to answer your other post: 100 degrees indoors in buildings without AC a couple of days after the hurricane is quite normal. We have a home we're refitting as a rental that currently only has the AC active for a couple of hours a night, mostly to maintain humidity. I've been there during the day during the summer and it's been in the high nineties when I entered the home, warmer in than out.
And if you're about to say "But the high 90s isn't 100...", yes, but the house is at least getting some AC.
Interesting, because that could affect quite a few businesses in Florida.
1. Business switches to SSDs. Uses them in a 75 degree air conditioned environment.
2. Hurricane.
3. Business unable to get power for a week. Computers down. No power to SSDs. No power for air conditioning. Temperature in office rises to over 100 degrees during the day.
That's a very likely scenario, especially for smaller businesses (but not small) that wouldn't be organized enough to have back-up power or work from home capabilities.
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We need a greater willingness for the government to manage transportation in general before we go down the route of singling out roads for funding by general taxation. As it is, both government spending and government policies are far too skewed towards car travel as it is.
Maybe he doesn't acknowledge it because it's not true? Public transportation is used by people inside cities, which are sometimes expensive, sometimes not, depending on whether the local government has managed to beat back the State DoT or not and allow redevelopment.
Public transportation outside of cities is generally unusable due to Suburbanist planning policies.
While visual quality is definitely good these days, everything else about modern TVs suck. They're complicated to set up, have awful menus, and the whole TV+Boxes+Receiver combo generally makes control awkward, with multiple steps needed to turn on the TV or switch a source unless you're either willing to sacrifice, say, audio quality, or something similar.
This is actually one market I'd really welcome Apple dipping its toe into. I doubt I'd buy what they have to sell, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the industry would learn from it and we'd see improvement.
Virtually every location I've ever been to that heavily regulates taxis regulates fares too. So no, the taxi company doesn't get to "inflate fares" by taking advantage of a lack of competition.
What about New York City? Have you seen any pictures of Manhattan made in the last 60 years? Are you familiar with streets clogged with taxis?
The medallion system exists for a reason. If it were just a way to keep fares high, New Yorkers - not known for their willingness to take shit lying down - would have had the concept thrown out by now.
You're still moving the goalposts. You said subsidies. Now you're saying cash infusions. Until the airlines pay for their own security and own ATC and own airport maintenance/upkeep/property tax losses/etc, they're subsidized.
Trains are pretty much the only form of transportation that for some reason are held to a level of profitability no other form of transportation is held to. Fares are supposed, according to the anti-train mob, to cover rolling stock, fuel, and direct staffing like airlines or buses, but 100% of infrastructure, as opposed to 30-60% for road vehicles, and close to 0% for airlines, and ticket payers are supposed to pay property taxes on rights of way (not paid by road users) and cover all kinds of other ancillary costs too. Every dollar not covered is considered a subsidy by opponents of passenger rail, yet not a single one whines about the same issues when it comes to other forms of transportation.
The results, ironically, are that while rail consistently comes close to covering all of that (and thus having the lowest practical subsidy of all), politicians who claim to be in favor of fiscal responsibility keep undermining it and moving people to the worst, most heavily subsidized, forms of transportation instead.
Madness.
You can only "move to the center" if you're a third party. If the Democrats move to what was the center (as they keep doing and have kept doing over the last three or four decades), the center moves as a result and they're no longer at it. Worse, their attempt to look less extreme helps their opposition, which now also looks like it's closer to the center.
The Republicans understand this somewhat better, and have drifted to the right, knowing that this, too, moves the center, but moves it rightwards, leaving both parties looking slightly more extreme rather than just the party that's made the move.
You write as if there's some great principle involved that anyone's claiming to upkeep (and being taken seriously when they do) that involves the best place to exert power.
Truth is that all these positions are based upon where someone believes they can politically win power. If the country as a whole, and hence the Feds lean X, then expect supporters of the opposing position Y to support slightly more local locations of power.
Pro-Slavers were very, very, happy to be opposed to "States rights" back when they were proposing (and passing) Fugitive Slaves laws that imposed huge immoral burdens on the Free States. As soon as it looked like the anti-slaves might win power at a Federal level, suddenly they back-pedalled.
There are a bunch of things going on here so bear with me.
1. The speed immediately before the curve is 80mph. The curve itself is rated for 80mph but the official speed limit is 50. Why the difference? Because rail companies take passenger comfort seriously and 80mph through that curve would require passengers wear seatbelts and might possibly cause slight travel sickness. As an aside trains generally start at Philly by accelerating with an open (full) throttle. When they reach 80mph, it's usually at the point in the journey where the train now needs to slow to 50mph to pass the curve. Supposedly the brakes weren't activated and throttle closed, possibly because the driver was distracted by having a rock thrown at him, but... WE DON'T KNOW THIS and the headline of this story is premature.
2.Both ATC and PTC do as you describe. They include mechanisms to monitor the speed of trains and slow them if they're speeding. PTC even includes a GPS element. ATC is older, creakier, but...
3. ATC was not installed on the section immediately North of Philly because, reportedly, Amtrak engineers at the time didn't believe any trains would actually reach 80mph before hitting that curve. This was probably true at the time.
4. In the last year, Amtrak has introduced new locomotives, including the one used for Amtrak 188. These locomotives are considerably more powerful than the "Meatballs" they replaced.
So, that's currently the thinking. The most likely scenario right now appears to be that the engineer was distracted by rocks being thrown at the train at the critical moment where he was supposed to close the throttle and engage the brakes. Because it was a newer, more powerful, locomotive than the safety systems there were originally designed for, the train was able to accelerate to 105mph during that distracted period. Because there were no ATC or PTC systems active in that area, the train wasn't stopped automatically.
That's the _most likely_ scenario. There are many other possibilities, including a software problem on the locomotive (which, depending on the nature of the bug) could have rendered PTC or ATC ineffectual given they rely upon the loco to, you know, respond to its commands. The latter is unlikely, but it hasn't been ruled out yet.
We should do what commonsense requires, the accident may or may not have been caused by a lack of ATC, but we do know now that there exists the possibility of speed related accidents in that area and need it to be addressed. In the mean time, we should wait for the NTSB to do its job.
I don't think the EPA is involved. But yes, the FCC has been a major hold-up on the antennas issue. The other major obstacle along the same lines interestingly enough are several Indian reservations. While in the rest of the country the FCC can override pretty much any local authority when it comes to allowing antennas to be built, reservations are an exception and several freight railroads have had problems getting the permission of tribal authorities in those areas.
No, your correction is misleading. We _don't_ know what would have prevented the accident, the GP was entirely correct in saying that. You are right in saying that he confused ATC with PTC and shouldn't, but the idea that any automatically controlled speed limiting system would have prevented the accident relies upon several factors being ruled out, which have not yet been.
I entirely agree the GP shouldn't have said PTC, but implying that the headline wasn't misleading as a result is completely inappropriate.
No. Not even close. If it were, Robert Owens wouldn't be considered the father of socialism. Neither would Trade Unions wouldn't be considered socialist movements. Anarchism and socialism wouldn't be considered by practitioners of either sister movements. My advice is that before starting a sentence with "Before you espouse socialism, understand what it is first", take some time to find out what it is first.
There's a gaping difference between people who do it just for the money, and people who want to do it, but only have time to because they can make it their living.
I love software development, but frankly I'd be doing very little of it if I had to drive taxis all day in order to actually earn enough money to put food on my family's table.
That's kinda irrelevant in this case. The crash that just happened happened on the NEC, a stretch of track from DC to Boston that has tighter clearances than most of the rest of the US, in part because the rest of the US was kind of developed haphazardly.
On the NEC, passenger trains have a maximum height from top of rail to top of car of 14.5 feet. The maximum width is 10.5 feet, but that's usually the case elsewhere too. 14.5 feet isn't excessively high, I believe similar heights are used throughout Europe with the exception of the UK, where 12.5 foot (and 9.5 ' widths) are standard.
GNU/Linux only gets away with a centralized package management system (which I agree, is a good system) because there are so many distributions to choose from and there's no reason for any distro to discriminate against contributors.
If Microsoft tried the same thing, it'd be a shitfest, even assuming they themselves acted 100% morally and ethically in operating the repositories.
They wanted to do that, but law enforcement shot it down and killed it.
It really isn't. This is why the NFS 'intr' option exists BTW, it's to ensure that you don't end up with zombies because something's waiting on an NFS operation that'll never take place.
Don't overestimate the degree to which the Feds are involved in this, by and large employers are more than willing to engage in it pro-actively.
The major "government forcing urine tests" example I can think of isn't a Federal one, it's a State one, and even Florida recognized it better keep the unnecessary drug testing to its own employees, rather than try to force the same on contractors and face likely legal consequences.
Why is Florida drugs testing its own employees? Because Governor Rick Scott, who instituted the practice, just happens to own a large "Healthcare" megacorp that includes drugs testing labs as one of its services. (Yes, he still owns it, he didn't even divest to a trust or anything when he became governor, like other politicians would do.)
The entire concept is a scam. But between anti-drugs nutballs and scam artists, we're stuck with it, and unlikely to see legal relief any time soon.
There's a difference between getting a ruling in your favor because your employer accidentally broke some, say, obscure notification rule that happened to cover its bad behavior this time, but not specifically because it was invading your privacy, and getting a ruling in your favor because the thing you were complaining about is illegal.
What the people here are asking for is not merely for the victim here to win, but to win because the law explicitly protects off-hours privacy.\
Not your cynicism so much as your lack of interaction with women, forcing you rely upon media stereotypes as your primary source of information about this apparently inscrutable species.
If you really feel that way and can't understand why, make some women friends. Friends friends, I mean, not girlfriends. Real friends, not cynical "I need to know more about this strange creature so I shall befriend it and learn its secrets" friends. It'll be worth your while.
IIRC these "binary" logs you speak of are simply text files with indexing information attached. They're not encrypted or compressed, you can, at worst, use the "strings" command to pull the information, and if you're doing raw sector dumps from a hard drive then you'll be able to read them there too.
Of course, if the log files are zero'd out, like the bug report you quote, then it doesn't matter whether they're "binary" or text, you're screwed. That has nothing to do with systemd.
I'm sorry, but what? This has to be the most amazing amount of wishful thinking I've ever seen. If it were true, expect the various *BSD communities to be having a mini-freakout right now as they try to handle a massive influx of people completely unfamiliar with how BSD does things, and who - having switched solely because of 'init' - are finding that BSD's version is even less like sysvinit than systemd.
And unless Windows has become amazingly secure and sanely designed over the last few years, I think it's safe to say that systemd is completely unlike anything Windows has to offer.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure what westlake just did constituted a felony because he failed to explain how not doing your job properly is in some way illegal...
I suspect you haven't been through many. Essentially, yes, you get some warnings. 9/10 of those warnings end up going nowhere, with the hurricane making landfall 100 miles North or South, or sweeping by and hitting North Carolina.
But be that as it may, most smaller businesses know they're going to be crippled anyway in the event of a major hurricane hitting. They expect to offer little but a skeleton service after the hurricane, if that, and many businesses just close for a week until the power comes back on.
Businesses in that sort of situation would not expect any need to do something special because they've switched to SSDs. SSDs are widely advertized as a drop-in replacement for hard drives based upon similar store technologies to that in your camera or cellphone. Those never lose data, so why would you expect your brand new Dell PC with the super-fast SSD disk to either?
Finally, to answer your other post: 100 degrees indoors in buildings without AC a couple of days after the hurricane is quite normal. We have a home we're refitting as a rental that currently only has the AC active for a couple of hours a night, mostly to maintain humidity. I've been there during the day during the summer and it's been in the high nineties when I entered the home, warmer in than out.
And if you're about to say "But the high 90s isn't 100...", yes, but the house is at least getting some AC.
Interesting, because that could affect quite a few businesses in Florida.
1. Business switches to SSDs. Uses them in a 75 degree air conditioned environment.
2. Hurricane.
3. Business unable to get power for a week. Computers down. No power to SSDs. No power for air conditioning. Temperature in office rises to over 100 degrees during the day.
That's a very likely scenario, especially for smaller businesses (but not small) that wouldn't be organized enough to have back-up power or work from home capabilities.