Of course, if you don't care about the applicant's age there is no problem, but if you do then Facebook offers handy tools to save you some cash.
Sure, you save cash by getting to hire cheap labor by avoiding directly discriminating against applicants... Or did you mean in the advertising bill for impressions? All the same, you save some cash right;^)
Lying is wrong, Murder is wrong. Intent may be important to determining the gravity of the wrongness. But it should not decide, whether it is wrong at all.
Right or wrong is merely window dressing for the masses. If a child "accidentially" kills a person by their act and they aren't charged with a crime is it not "wrong"?
Not special maybe, though more special and rare than the abundant but artificially limited supply of mined ones. As for not real? WTF? they are as real as any other diamond, what makes a diamond is its chemical makeup and structure not whether it was lab created or mined.
Just a matter of semantics. If a diamond is defined as being dug up from the ground, then it isn't a diamond even if it has the same chemical makeup and structure.
Some people call this type of semantics the No True Scotsman fallacy.
It's just human nature to think my run-off-the-mill stuff is something special. Entire industries are built on this kind of thinking: art, antiques, sports memorabilia, comic book collections, pet rocks...
Even worse, people use this type of thing to denigrate other people all the time or single them out for exclusion. For example people that look down on programmers that don't get degrees but learned as a hobby (or if they did, they didn't get their degree from a *prestigious* toilet paper producer). Or the time worn old-wealth vs new-wealth. Or the traditional immigrant vs the new-immigrant,...
Even when it is all the same, mine is better... Can't you see that?;^)
I got that impression too, but that means it wouldn't be braking excessively in the first place.
The OEM radar based AEB in the volvo was disabled to not interfere with the self driving control module. What I was talking about was the Uber specific camera based AEB code in their self driving module, but was discovered in this report to be disabled as well by Uber.
It is likely they have no horse in this race, but the Dutch have had more than their fair share of horses in that part of SE asia since the days of the Dutch East India Company...
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed. That doesn't seem like an obviously ridiculous arrangement, even if having the computer ping the driver would have been better.
I suspect that the alerting the driver wasn't gonna be any better. This is all speculation, but if Uber turned off the AEB (automatic emergency braking) system in self driving mode because it would have actuated the brakes too often making the driving erratic, simply notifing the driver about the same potential collisions would eventually result in alert fatigue in the driver.
Then the driver would start ignoring the alerts for basically the same reason that they turned off the AEB system originally.
If you've ever taught someone to drive who was overly cautious and braked all the time you know how that goes. The flaw is that simply seeing the pedestrian isn't enough to make the braking decision and the driver has to learn to anticipate the actions in the environment to drive successfully.
The driving instruction not only has to anticipate the environment, but also the driver to know when to intervene (grab steering wheel or apply the brake). Most self driving systems don't give these driving observers (not instructors) enough information and training to anticipate what the system is going to do to make them effective at intervening.
This is the problem of allowing people to walk before they can crawl... Sometimes you can't bypass stages of learning. If the system's AEB system activates too much, you kind of have to let it do that until it can learn not to do that.
Why do you think credit card transaction fees exist?
It's to cover fraud/theft with some margin for profit.
Unfortunately transaction fees don't cover the costs for fraud/theft. Basically credit card issuing banks are permitted to charge usury interest rates from people who carry monthly balances (and demographically are generally poor) to make their profit.
The merchants and issuing banks pay transaction fees to the VISA/MC, but the banks charge the interest (and assume the fraud/theft risk).
Just last year, VISA+MC received only $7.8B+$6.1B in worldwide transaction processing fees, but Citibank (one of the largest V/M card issuers ~15%) made a whopping $4B in credit card interest on a loan balance of $146B in the USA and Canada alone.
Note the transaction fees are not only payed to Visa/MC, payment processors (like square) also take a cut of the fees paid by merchants before it even gets to Visa/MC.
(fwiw, Visa also made $6B on currency exchange operations last year which is a profit center for them nearly equivalent to transaction processing fees).
And if you are wondering where them money for "rewards" cards come from, basically it comes directly from the merchants who pay more to payment processors to clear rewards cards than cards without rewards...
$20 trillion is a lot of jobs created and with more people dying from the effects of climate change that could really boost wages/s
Don't worry, because in the future most people will be on Universal Basic Income by then because jobs will be scarce. There's no reason to boost wages, only people who want to work will work, because they don't have to work because... </sarcasm>
I just hope that guy who claims to be from the future is just a hoax.
Because he says 2019 there will be two nuclear strikes, NC will hit Hawaii and US will hit back. Then in 2020 there would be WWIII which will last for 3 years.
Short background on Korea vs Corea (aka Chosun empire).
John Ross, was a Scottish Protestant missionary to Northeast China who established Dongguan Church in Shenyang. He is also known for translating the first Korean Bible and wrote the famous first book on the History of Corea (where he westernized the Hangul spelling as "COREA")... Nobody knows when the common westernized spelling actually changed to Korea, but some suspect that the Japanese had some influence on that during the Treaty of Shimonoseki on the spelling (because K is after J)...
Indeed. The reason fascist states can still be constructed is that there is a large population of morally-challenged morons that a) are willing to apply any amount of violence to anybody that is not like them and b) that have no clue that they are just a bit later in the chain of victims.
Ironically, I think you just described ANTIFA members too... Many are a bit morally challenged, they are willing to apply violence to anybody like them and it is inevitable that left will turn against them when the tides of public opinion change about free speech...
Or you could mount rockets on the moon and use it as a gravitational tugboat - no messy impacts threatening to wipe out most life on the planet that way, much finer control, and assuming you're planning on taking the moon with anyway, there's no difference in impulse needed to modify the Earth's orbit.
Neither is particularly feasible with today's technology though - unless you simply mean "no fundamentally new technology would have to be discovered"
Small matter of conservation of momentum.
Basically you'd have to get some momentum coming from somewhere else to add to the moon-earth system to reach solar escape velocity. Developing a rocket that first generates that amount of momentum (using action/reaction) would take lots of mass or a more limited mass would have to be accelerated to quite a velocity quickly. A rocket engine that could generate high thrust at high specific impulse would qualify as fundamentally new technology as rocket concepts today are only known to generate high thrust at lower specific impulse, or high specific impulse, but low thrust (like an ion drive).
For example, if the "rocket" were to consume the moon to use as ejection mass that might solve the mass problem, but of course that might not be a desired solution... Accelerating things that fast with reasonable sized rockets and minimal mass would probably require lots of energy which would have to come from somewhere and something to withstand that energy conversion...
Getting the momentum from other celestial bodies (e.g.,rogue asteroids) is probably the only feasible way to inject that much momentum into the joint earth-moon system...
On the other hand, if you had a few billion more years, you could get away with less, but then again where would you go anyhow?
Rudyard Kipling, the guy that invoked the "white-man's burden" as an ongoing theme in his poetry... Yeah, we should definitely worship everything he has ever written...;^)
An object as remotely located as "planet nine," would be part of the Kuiper belt.
Like most of the planets in the solar system are mostly in a similar plane, the Kuiper belt (like the asteroid belt) is mostly like a disc also on a plane (maxing out at about 15 degree inclination from that plane)
The recently discovered dwarf object BP519 is on a different plane about 50 degrees inclined (Pluto is only about 17 degrees inclined) which is why some scientists think it is potential evidence of another planet at extreme inclination: the postulated highly inclined "planet 9".
Of course if an object is far enough, it might be part of the Oort cloud (which is more spherical, but out past 2000AUs). However, this object has an orbit that varies from 30AU to 250AUs where the Kupier belt objects tend to have lower orbital eccentricity varying only from 30-50AUs and nearer to our orbital plane...
Reveal the ICO to be a scam, and claim the losses on your taxes.
Profit!
I have this terrible feeling in my gut that all this speculation will incite yet another banking crisis. In order to avoid complete devastation, the government will do a bailout.
Guess who gets to pay for the speculators losses . . . ?
People were using this tax scam long before ICOs...
To partially counteract this, the IRS limits passive loss write-off to at most the passive gains you report in a tax year. This means you could avoid paying about 1/2 the taxes on your legitimate investments in the best case...
Why 1/2? Because you could taken that money you used to declare a loss and invested it in your actual investments and presumably doubled the gain.
an app (really a giant AI in the background) providing alternative solutions that you can decide between could be Utopian.
I would suggest to you that even this level of choice is going to be largely an Illusion. The AI will simply give you a choice, one that it has identified the most likely decision you will make already (95% confidence level), the choice being an illusion of control, when the reality the AI doesn't really need your input, but asks just to be "nice".
Because we know what happens when AI doesn't act "nice"...
As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth... --The Architect
The real problem is that it was passed by voters, which means fixing it will either take a long petition/proposition/vote process, or require a large majority in the legislature. Making adjustments in this case is not easy.
The Dems have a supermajority in California legislature which matches the voter demographics. The problem is a majority of people (voters and/or legislators) are still pro-label and anti-change, not that this is difficult to fix, but labelling still appears to represent the majority view...
That's the probably a symptom of democracy. We are collectively subject to the will of the majority..
I spent probably 23 hours inside. Between work, my car, and home - i'm inside most of the time.
I've heard there's this thing called teh sun that emits radiation. I don't want skin cancer.
I've heard there's this thing called uranium that emits radiation which transforms it into this thing called radon that emits more radiation. In many homes this stuff can build up and you don't want to breathe in too much of it and get lung cancer either...
Also, i'm in Los Angeles, where our motto is, "never trust air you can't see."
If I'm not mistaken, the Alabama was an Ohio-class submarine, not Los Angeles;^)
Imagine this: plume of water vapor erupts from deep within Europa, hundreds of miles high. Most of that never leaves the vicinity of Jupiter, but a little of it manages to escape, freezes, and floats around the solar system for a while.. eventually coming into the gravitational influence of a young Earth. It makes it through the atmosphere, eventually finding it's way into Earths' oceans, carrying the seeds of primitive life..
On the other hand, people have also been imagining we be Martians...
Of course, maybe the Martians came from Europa...;^)
With wide spread betting, I'm guessing it will be easier for small-time point shaving rackets to operate... It'll even be less important who will win, but the line will be closely watched. I'm sure you'll see more than more coach or ref taken for task for actions during garbage time.
As if it couldn't get any worse, right now you need to go off shore to bet on High School sports (was offered at 5dimes for a while)... I'm guessing it won't take long for that to change...
"was notified that some U.S. mail, intended for UPS employees at the company's headquarters address, was redirected by an unauthorized change of address by a third party. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) corrected the issue and the USPS Postal Inspector is investigating the incident."
I don't know about you, but I don't get my personal mail delivered to my company's headquarter's address. The mail addressed to me delivered to my company's address is basically work stuff. Although missing the occasional letter among the junk mail might impact the company, rarely has a specific impact on me these days (other than potentially creates more paperwork and hassle for me on the job, it doesn't generally affect my personal life or finances)...
I supposed you could theoretically have something important (replacement credit card, passport/visa) delivered to you at work, but why would you use the USPS for something actually important?
More specifically in this case, if you were a UPS employee, wouldn't you just use UPS for something like that? AFAIK, UPS doesn't' have a way to submit a change of address form and they always deliver to the street address on the package/letter.
Hmm....why do I see in the future...one good earthquake, and BOOM...tunnels fill up and kill 1000's...?
HEY, wait a minute, maybe I have it backwards....Elon is taking his cue from the Superman movie (Christopher Reeves)....and like Lex Luthor, he's trying to cause the faults out there to trigger and drop off a bunch of CA into the ocean, and create "new" beach front property.
This time, however, he's using a drill instead of missiles!!!
He IS a genius!!!
Perhaps he's actually taking a cue from Max Zorin in A view to a kill...
Of course this whole LA tunnel train is so what's old is new again... Been there, done that...
And yet for three decades several hundred trolley cars rattled through the 4,325-foot-long tunnel each day. When it opened for service on December 1, 1925, L.A.’s first subway shaved 15 minutes off travel time between downtown and other points like Hollywood and Glendale.
And oh, yeah, the The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was (like many of that era) a privately owned mass transit system...
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That's why when I'm looking for a job, I'm actually LOOKING for a job and not surfing facebook and wait for job ads to pop up.
I don't think you know how it works. Today, the ad platform is looking for you, you aren't looking for ads...
Of course, if you don't care about the applicant's age there is no problem, but if you do then Facebook offers handy tools to save you some cash.
Sure, you save cash by getting to hire cheap labor by avoiding directly discriminating against applicants... ;^)
Or did you mean in the advertising bill for impressions?
All the same, you save some cash right
Lying is wrong, Murder is wrong. Intent may be important to determining the gravity of the wrongness. But it should not decide, whether it is wrong at all.
Right or wrong is merely window dressing for the masses. If a child "accidentially" kills a person by their act and they aren't charged with a crime is it not "wrong"?
Not special maybe, though more special and rare than the abundant but artificially limited supply of mined ones. As for not real? WTF? they are as real as any other diamond, what makes a diamond is its chemical makeup and structure not whether it was lab created or mined.
Just a matter of semantics. If a diamond is defined as being dug up from the ground, then it isn't a diamond even if it has the same chemical makeup and structure.
Some people call this type of semantics the No True Scotsman fallacy.
It's just human nature to think my run-off-the-mill stuff is something special. Entire industries are built on this kind of thinking: art, antiques, sports memorabilia, comic book collections, pet rocks...
Even worse, people use this type of thing to denigrate other people all the time or single them out for exclusion. For example people that look down on programmers that don't get degrees but learned as a hobby (or if they did, they didn't get their degree from a *prestigious* toilet paper producer). Or the time worn old-wealth vs new-wealth. Or the traditional immigrant vs the new-immigrant, ...
Even when it is all the same, mine is better... Can't you see that? ;^)
I got that impression too, but that means it wouldn't be braking excessively in the first place.
The OEM radar based AEB in the volvo was disabled to not interfere with the self driving control module.
What I was talking about was the Uber specific camera based AEB code in their self driving module, but was discovered in this report to be disabled as well by Uber.
Well, the Dutch don't have a horse in this race. I'd much rather trust them than an Anonymous Coward.
I don't know if I would give the Dutch a free pass about anything in Malaysia or Indonesia...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is likely they have no horse in this race, but the Dutch have had more than their fair share of horses in that part of SE asia since the days of the Dutch East India Company...
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed. That doesn't seem like an obviously ridiculous arrangement, even if having the computer ping the driver would have been better.
I suspect that the alerting the driver wasn't gonna be any better. This is all speculation, but if Uber turned off the AEB (automatic emergency braking) system in self driving mode because it would have actuated the brakes too often making the driving erratic, simply notifing the driver about the same potential collisions would eventually result in alert fatigue in the driver.
Then the driver would start ignoring the alerts for basically the same reason that they turned off the AEB system originally.
If you've ever taught someone to drive who was overly cautious and braked all the time you know how that goes. The flaw is that simply seeing the pedestrian isn't enough to make the braking decision and the driver has to learn to anticipate the actions in the environment to drive successfully.
The driving instruction not only has to anticipate the environment, but also the driver to know when to intervene (grab steering wheel or apply the brake). Most self driving systems don't give these driving observers (not instructors) enough information and training to anticipate what the system is going to do to make them effective at intervening.
This is the problem of allowing people to walk before they can crawl... Sometimes you can't bypass stages of learning. If the system's AEB system activates too much, you kind of have to let it do that until it can learn not to do that.
Why do you think credit card transaction fees exist?
It's to cover fraud/theft with some margin for profit.
Unfortunately transaction fees don't cover the costs for fraud/theft. Basically credit card issuing banks are permitted to charge usury interest rates from people who carry monthly balances (and demographically are generally poor) to make their profit.
The merchants and issuing banks pay transaction fees to the VISA/MC, but the banks charge the interest (and assume the fraud/theft risk).
Just last year, VISA+MC received only $7.8B+$6.1B in worldwide transaction processing fees, but Citibank (one of the largest V/M card issuers ~15%) made a whopping $4B in credit card interest on a loan balance of $146B in the USA and Canada alone.
Note the transaction fees are not only payed to Visa/MC, payment processors (like square) also take a cut of the fees paid by merchants before it even gets to Visa/MC.
(fwiw, Visa also made $6B on currency exchange operations last year which is a profit center for them nearly equivalent to transaction processing fees).
And if you are wondering where them money for "rewards" cards come from, basically it comes directly from the merchants who pay more to payment processors to clear rewards cards than cards without rewards...
If everyone was after you, you would be paranoid too.
And “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” - Catch 22
$20 trillion is a lot of jobs created and with more people dying from the effects of climate change that could really boost wages /s
Don't worry, because in the future most people will be on Universal Basic Income by then because jobs will be scarce.
There's no reason to boost wages, only people who want to work will work, because they don't have to work because...
</sarcasm>
I just hope that guy who claims to be from the future is just a hoax.
Because he says 2019 there will be two nuclear strikes, NC will hit Hawaii and US will hit back.
Then in 2020 there would be WWIII which will last for 3 years.
Short background on Korea vs Corea (aka Chosun empire).
John Ross, was a Scottish Protestant missionary to Northeast China who established Dongguan Church in Shenyang. He is also known for translating the first Korean Bible and wrote the famous first book on the History of Corea (where he westernized the Hangul spelling as "COREA")... Nobody knows when the common westernized spelling actually changed to Korea, but some suspect that the Japanese had some influence on that during the Treaty of Shimonoseki on the spelling (because K is after J)...
Indeed. The reason fascist states can still be constructed is that there is a large population of morally-challenged morons that a) are willing to apply any amount of violence to anybody that is not like them and b) that have no clue that they are just a bit later in the chain of victims.
Ironically, I think you just described ANTIFA members too... Many are a bit morally challenged, they are willing to apply violence to anybody like them and it is inevitable that left will turn against them when the tides of public opinion change about free speech...
Or you could mount rockets on the moon and use it as a gravitational tugboat - no messy impacts threatening to wipe out most life on the planet that way, much finer control, and assuming you're planning on taking the moon with anyway, there's no difference in impulse needed to modify the Earth's orbit.
Neither is particularly feasible with today's technology though - unless you simply mean "no fundamentally new technology would have to be discovered"
Small matter of conservation of momentum.
Basically you'd have to get some momentum coming from somewhere else to add to the moon-earth system to reach solar escape velocity. Developing a rocket that first generates that amount of momentum (using action/reaction) would take lots of mass or a more limited mass would have to be accelerated to quite a velocity quickly. A rocket engine that could generate high thrust at high specific impulse would qualify as fundamentally new technology as rocket concepts today are only known to generate high thrust at lower specific impulse, or high specific impulse, but low thrust (like an ion drive).
For example, if the "rocket" were to consume the moon to use as ejection mass that might solve the mass problem, but of course that might not be a desired solution... Accelerating things that fast with reasonable sized rockets and minimal mass would probably require lots of energy which would have to come from somewhere and something to withstand that energy conversion...
Getting the momentum from other celestial bodies (e.g.,rogue asteroids) is probably the only feasible way to inject that much momentum into the joint earth-moon system...
On the other hand, if you had a few billion more years, you could get away with less, but then again where would you go anyhow?
Rudyard Kipling, the guy that invoked the "white-man's burden" as an ongoing theme in his poetry... ;^)
Yeah, we should definitely worship everything he has ever written...
... even if it's premature speculation.
An object as remotely located as "planet nine," would be part of the Kuiper belt.
Like most of the planets in the solar system are mostly in a similar plane, the Kuiper belt (like the asteroid belt) is mostly like a disc also on a plane (maxing out at about 15 degree inclination from that plane)
The recently discovered dwarf object BP519 is on a different plane about 50 degrees inclined (Pluto is only about 17 degrees inclined) which is why some scientists think it is potential evidence of another planet at extreme inclination: the postulated highly inclined "planet 9".
Of course if an object is far enough, it might be part of the Oort cloud (which is more spherical, but out past 2000AUs). However, this object has an orbit that varies from 30AU to 250AUs where the Kupier belt objects tend to have lower orbital eccentricity varying only from 30-50AUs and nearer to our orbital plane...
But it helps if you want to keep it.
It's a great tax savings plan:
Set up your own scammy ICO in a fake name.
Buy it all up yourself.
Transfer the cash to the Cayman Islands.
Reveal the ICO to be a scam, and claim the losses on your taxes.
Profit!
I have this terrible feeling in my gut that all this speculation will incite yet another banking crisis. In order to avoid complete devastation, the government will do a bailout.
Guess who gets to pay for the speculators losses . . . ?
People were using this tax scam long before ICOs...
To partially counteract this, the IRS limits passive loss write-off to at most the passive gains you report in a tax year. This means you could avoid paying about 1/2 the taxes on your legitimate investments in the best case...
Why 1/2? Because you could taken that money you used to declare a loss and invested it in your actual investments and presumably doubled the gain.
an app (really a giant AI in the background) providing alternative solutions that you can decide between could be Utopian.
I would suggest to you that even this level of choice is going to be largely an Illusion. The AI will simply give you a choice, one that it has identified the most likely decision you will make already (95% confidence level), the choice being an illusion of control, when the reality the AI doesn't really need your input, but asks just to be "nice".
Because we know what happens when AI doesn't act "nice"...
As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth...
--The Architect
The real problem is that it was passed by voters, which means fixing it will either take a long petition/proposition/vote process, or require a large majority in the legislature. Making adjustments in this case is not easy.
The Dems have a supermajority in California legislature which matches the voter demographics. The problem is a majority of people (voters and/or legislators) are still pro-label and anti-change, not that this is difficult to fix, but labelling still appears to represent the majority view...
That's the probably a symptom of democracy. We are collectively subject to the will of the majority..
I spent probably 23 hours inside. Between work, my car, and home - i'm inside most of the time.
I've heard there's this thing called teh sun that emits radiation. I don't want skin cancer.
I've heard there's this thing called uranium that emits radiation which transforms it into this thing called radon that emits more radiation. In many homes this stuff can build up and you don't want to breathe in too much of it and get lung cancer either...
Also, i'm in Los Angeles, where our motto is, "never trust air you can't see."
If I'm not mistaken, the Alabama was an Ohio-class submarine, not Los Angeles ;^)
Guess I should get a construction job. It looks like I'm disappointing someone, again.
I'm sure that the air quality around construction sites will be disappointing to someone...
Imagine this: plume of water vapor erupts from deep within Europa, hundreds of miles high. Most of that never leaves the vicinity of Jupiter, but a little of it manages to escape, freezes, and floats around the solar system for a while.. eventually coming into the gravitational influence of a young Earth. It makes it through the atmosphere, eventually finding it's way into Earths' oceans, carrying the seeds of primitive life..
On the other hand, people have also been imagining we be Martians...
Of course, maybe the Martians came from Europa... ;^)
Well Wallas are Beltas... Pashang fong!.
With wide spread betting, I'm guessing it will be easier for small-time point shaving rackets to operate...
It'll even be less important who will win, but the line will be closely watched. I'm sure you'll see more than more coach or ref taken for task for actions during garbage time.
As if it couldn't get any worse, right now you need to go off shore to bet on High School sports (was offered at 5dimes for a while)... I'm guessing it won't take long for that to change...
From the F'ing summary (emphasis mine):
"was notified that some U.S. mail, intended for UPS employees at the company's headquarters address, was redirected by an unauthorized change of address by a third party. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) corrected the issue and the USPS Postal Inspector is investigating the incident."
I don't know about you, but I don't get my personal mail delivered to my company's headquarter's address. The mail addressed to me delivered to my company's address is basically work stuff. Although missing the occasional letter among the junk mail might impact the company, rarely has a specific impact on me these days (other than potentially creates more paperwork and hassle for me on the job, it doesn't generally affect my personal life or finances)...
I supposed you could theoretically have something important (replacement credit card, passport/visa) delivered to you at work, but why would you use the USPS for something actually important?
More specifically in this case, if you were a UPS employee, wouldn't you just use UPS for something like that? AFAIK, UPS doesn't' have a way to submit a change of address form and they always deliver to the street address on the package/letter.
Hmm....why do I see in the future...one good earthquake, and BOOM...tunnels fill up and kill 1000's...?
HEY, wait a minute, maybe I have it backwards....Elon is taking his cue from the Superman movie (Christopher Reeves)....and like Lex Luthor, he's trying to cause the faults out there to trigger and drop off a bunch of CA into the ocean, and create "new" beach front property.
This time, however, he's using a drill instead of missiles!!!
He IS a genius!!!
Perhaps he's actually taking a cue from Max Zorin in A view to a kill...
Of course this whole LA tunnel train is so what's old is new again... Been there, done that...
And yet for three decades several hundred trolley cars rattled through the 4,325-foot-long tunnel each day. When it opened for service on December 1, 1925 , L.A.’s first subway shaved 15 minutes off travel time between downtown and other points like Hollywood and Glendale.
And oh, yeah, the The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was (like many of that era) a privately owned mass transit system...
So what happened? The question you might want to ask is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Maybe Dave has HAL fooled too ;^)