Except in a very few densely packed urban areas buses and light rail are just not useful paradigms.
For example where I work people come from as close as 1 mile away to 40 or 50 miles away. They live in every direction. Some in very rural areas. Some in suburban level density.
What kind of light rail or bus system is going to be useful for them?
Even in urban areas if you take public transportation you are trading time for using it. When I worked in Chicago it took me 90 minutes to get to work by public transportation and less than 20 minutes by car, and Chicago has one of the most comprehensive public transportation systems in the U.S. The only time it was worthwhile to take public transportation was when going downtown, and that was only because I lived a couple of blocks from the El. In that case it was 12 minutes by train and 45 minutes by car. That is an edge case.
In most place and for most people public transportation only make sense if you're too poor to own a car or can't have a license.
It's not applicable here because the person in question wasn't an Uber driver (which Uber claims is a contractor) but a self-driving vehicle test monitor working for Uber as part of their division that is developing a self driving car.
I'm pretty sure that Uber would have fire their testing monitor if they knew they were streaming Hulu while they were suppose to be monitoring the operation of the test car.
This is just BS. Anyone who has ever worked in the food service business knows that a good looking woman will get double or more times the tips that a guy gets.This is particularly true any place that serves drinks and well as food.
The military's job is to protect the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic. Sometimes that means killing people, but that is always a collateral effect, never a goal. Well almost never. It is so rare that the few times it does happen, i.e. bin Laden, it becomes a big deal.
Most military members never kill anyone in the course of their duties, so pretending that killing is the main purpose of the military shows a general lack of intelligence and an acceptance of the worst kind of liberal propaganda, the kind that demeans police officers and border agents. And the kind that typically lives in the protective bubble maintained by the efforts of all of those people.
However the correct document to go to is not the Constitution of the United States but rather its actual preamble: The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..
Unalienable, means they cannot be taken away. It continues later:
Governments are instituted among men , deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed...when ever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter o to abolish it...
It is incumbent on the people to both remain vigilant and remained armed so as to allow them to do this. Which is why if the Nazi's had had invaded they might have had a much harder time conquering than your average unarmed nation. A fact that scares Progressives who basically have the same motives. Hence the great outcry for banning weapons.
No real admiral is going to throw away the chance to stop Pearl Harbor just because his planes might not make it back. Tell them to sink the Japanese attack fleet and then reroute to Hickam Field if the carrier has returned to the present.
Typical Hollywood idiocy. They don't understand how people in the real world act. They don't know how technology works. They have no understanding of anything outside their own little screwed up lives.
Breaking up an asteroid spreads out the energy over multiple incidents. If you make the fragments small enough they might all burn up in the atmosphere rather than making groundfall. Maybe turning an extinction level event into a bunch of city killers. That's a good trade.
We might have the technology to put people on the moon for extended periods.
We absolutely do not have the ability to get to Mars. As related above we do not have the capability at this time to deal with the radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field. Until that problem is solved no one is surviving interplanetary flight and all our efforts will be in low Earth orbit.
Academic science is in crisis. One point you did not even mention is the reproducibility problem. Studies are not be reproduced, not only because they cannot be, but also because there is no incentive to even try to reproduce.
I've got to say, I just don't go to enough movies in a year to justify MoviePass. When I do go the probabilities are that I'm going to the most popular movies on the opening weekend.
So it's like MoviePass is actively working to make their service unattractive to me.
I agree with a lot of others here. Their service is unsustainable. There just aren't enough movies being produced in a year to see more than a couple of movies a month in the high release months. In most months there's little I'd want to see anyway.
A president is president of the entire country. This behaviour, that of trying to stoke hatred and rage is not the sign of a leader, unless your talking the leader of some rabid cult.
Coming from a likely Democrat that is just so rich. Stoking racial divide and general victimhood is the hallmark of the Democratic party and Obama & Clinton are masters of the art.
But surely some who calls her opponents "deplorables" isn't trying to stoke hatred now are they? Obama made his entire political career on seeding racial tension. So don't talk to me about imagined hatred stoking because someone supports the rule of law. Don't like immigration law? Change it. But somehow when Democrats held the presidency and both houses of congress they had no interest in fixing immigration. Why was that? Could it be because they wanted to perpetrate the problem for political reasons?
If this is an honest question: Yes it means that a husband and wife cannot work in the same managerial chain irregardless of their past relationship.
This is the policy at the company I work for. Spouses cannot work in the same department. One cannot be the boss of the other. They shouldn't even be dating.
Spouses can work in different departments, even if one is a boss and the other not.
During interviews we ask if you know anyone at the company or are related to them. If the answer is yes and hiring you would cause a policy conflict we don't hire you. If you lie and we find out later you're terminated.
I remember one case where two married workers from associated departments ran into a problem when one was up for promotion. The position managed both departments. The spouse was moved to a third department so that they wouldn't be in violation of the policy.
Well you know the government sure seems to actively interfere with the decision of most people who decide to kill another human being.
The are no potential humans. You are either human or you're not. Making people not persons is how you get slavery. Its how you get people like Peter Singer who thinks it's alright to kill babies and toddlers because they're not real persons.
As for people who bring their children along during the commission of a crime, I think I'd probably seriously consider revoking parental rights for someone who brought their children along with them while they committed breaking and entering or risked their lives by entering a country illegally or turning them over to human traffickers. Yes I think we should protect all the children. Lets pass real immigration reform and have a secure border so that people don't risk their children's lives.
Nah. Any CEO or company owner worth their salt knows you contribute to both political parties. That way who ever wins you're guy is in charge. If you only contribute to one or the other when the other guy wins (and they always win eventually) they always get back at you.It's not about policy its about survival.
He was impeached because he lied under oath. I never understood why he did. By that time he was already in his second term. He could have told the truth and no one could have done anything to him, except wag their finger. Stooping an intern is neither a high crime nor misdemeanor. A president can't be impeached for such an action. He probably can't even be sued over it, at least not until he's out of office. Was he afraid of looking bad? He certainly couldn't have been worried about Hillary. She had covered before for him. He was probable just worried everyone would realize he's pond scum.
Humans are a social animal. Social animals are almost always hierarchical. Hierarchy works in most situations. Even highly democratic societies (such as the ancient Roman and Greek republics) typically elected leaders when threatened and imposed hierarchical structures on themselves.
When you have hierarchy built in to the culture if you don't want it to become a dictatorship then you need checks and balances. Non-fraternization rules are a check against bosses and managers exploiting their positions to force workers to prostitute themselves to keep their jobs.
And so you have the reason marriage was invented. A contract by which ownership is divided between two people so that one does not (theoretically) have power over the other.
This guy is married to someone else. I doubt they care a whole lot about whether it made things better at work. Plus this is the CEO, which means lots of money is in play. No company wants to be on the hook during divorce proceedings for a lawsuit for contributing to alienation of affection. Plus if you have a policy, know it's being violated it also opens you up to lawsuits by other employees.
It got regulated out of existence. You need the VC money just to be able to hire the lawyers and tax accountants so you can start a business without other lawyers and the IRS putting out of business before you even come to market.
Actually she wasn't. She was and is a horribly flawed candidate, who only got the nomination because the DNC subverted their own primary process. You want to know the real reason she lost? She T'ed off enough Bernie Sanders voters by stealing the primary from him that they stayed home.
With Trump, we don't have a leader. He's making a fool out of us on the World stage.
He's doing that how? Let me tell you something about the world stage. Nobody is your friend. Each and every world leader is more interested in their own people than in anyone else's people. As they should be. I didn't elect Angela Merkel and I don't expect her to take into account whether her policies are good for me or not. Likewise it's not Trump's job to make Germans or Brits or Canadians happy. Likewise Putin doesn't have my best interest at heart, and I don't expect him too. That doesn't make him evil (or not evil for that matter.) That just makes him not someone I would expect to do good things for me.
Illegal immigration was never that big a deal. It was blown out of proportion by right-wing media because their audience of old white male conservatives like it that way.
There are only seven states in the United States that have populations higher than the total number of illegal immigrants in the US. To me that sounds like a pretty big problem.
I suspect the parents of children killed by illegal immigrants might think it's a pretty big problem too. If you think they're mostly old white people let me fix that for you. Most of them are Hispanic. And they're being killed by gang members who are making their neighborhoods unsafe places to be. Maybe your nice upper middle class neighborhood doesn't have this problem.
And the Evangelical Christians losers who continually support him have shown themselves to be stupid, hypocritical, disgusting human beings.
So we've established that you're into identity politics. Would you care to make a comment about Jews or African Americans now?
Others voted for him for change and he's doing everything but.
I suggest you take a look at what he's done. Basically he's actually keeping his campaign promised, which is terrifying both mainstream Democrats and Republicans. A politician actually keeping his campaign promises is certainly a change.
And then the Republicans who are a bunch of pussies won't stand up to him because the Republican base is a bunch of ignorant Bible thumping morons who still think the orange orangutan in the Whitehouse is going to save them - they are just too ignorant to understand that Trump is a member of the very small group of people who are shafting them but they want to continue to believe the nonsense that it's immigrants and leftists and progressives who are keeping them down.
It's nice to see you are so tolerant of people who disagree with you. The "keeping me down" mantra is the mantra of the left, not the right. No one thinks illegals are keeping them down. No one thinks illegals are taking their jobs. No one thinks progressives are keeping them down.
What people who disagree with you see is vast numbers of people advocating ignoring laws they either cannot or will not change, creating what is likely to become a lawless society. I don't need Trump or any one else to save me, except from the policies that people like you would impose on me at the point of a government goon's gun, after you take mine away.
The Republicans have shown that they cannot govern or lead. They just have vapid talking points for the ignorant masses to gobble down.
Looks to me like you're the one ignorantly parroting talking points. I don't agree with everything Trump has done, but at least I fully believe he's the one calling the shots in the White House, not some unelected political adviser, like the last empty suit-in-chief or the husband-in-chief that we ducked in the last election, could you sure don't think Hillary was going to be running things do you? She couldn't even keep track of Bill.
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Except in a very few densely packed urban areas buses and light rail are just not useful paradigms.
For example where I work people come from as close as 1 mile away to 40 or 50 miles away. They live in every direction. Some in very rural areas. Some in suburban level density.
What kind of light rail or bus system is going to be useful for them?
Even in urban areas if you take public transportation you are trading time for using it. When I worked in Chicago it took me 90 minutes to get to work by public transportation and less than 20 minutes by car, and Chicago has one of the most comprehensive public transportation systems in the U.S. The only time it was worthwhile to take public transportation was when going downtown, and that was only because I lived a couple of blocks from the El. In that case it was 12 minutes by train and 45 minutes by car. That is an edge case.
In most place and for most people public transportation only make sense if you're too poor to own a car or can't have a license.
It's not applicable here because the person in question wasn't an Uber driver (which Uber claims is a contractor) but a self-driving vehicle test monitor working for Uber as part of their division that is developing a self driving car.
I'm pretty sure that Uber would have fire their testing monitor if they knew they were streaming Hulu while they were suppose to be monitoring the operation of the test car.
This is just BS. Anyone who has ever worked in the food service business knows that a good looking woman will get double or more times the tips that a guy gets.This is particularly true any place that serves drinks and well as food.
This was even a Mythbuster episode.
You're an idiot.
The military's job is to protect the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic. Sometimes that means killing people, but that is always a collateral effect, never a goal. Well almost never. It is so rare that the few times it does happen, i.e. bin Laden, it becomes a big deal.
Most military members never kill anyone in the course of their duties, so pretending that killing is the main purpose of the military shows a general lack of intelligence and an acceptance of the worst kind of liberal propaganda, the kind that demeans police officers and border agents. And the kind that typically lives in the protective bubble maintained by the efforts of all of those people.
Ah No.
However the correct document to go to is not the Constitution of the United States but rather its actual preamble: The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..
Unalienable, means they cannot be taken away. It continues later:
Governments are instituted among men , deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed...when ever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter o to abolish it...
It is incumbent on the people to both remain vigilant and remained armed so as to allow them to do this. Which is why if the Nazi's had had invaded they might have had a much harder time conquering than your average unarmed nation. A fact that scares Progressives who basically have the same motives. Hence the great outcry for banning weapons.
Yeah, dumbest movie ever.
No real admiral is going to throw away the chance to stop Pearl Harbor just because his planes might not make it back. Tell them to sink the Japanese attack fleet and then reroute to Hickam Field if the carrier has returned to the present.
Typical Hollywood idiocy. They don't understand how people in the real world act. They don't know how technology works. They have no understanding of anything outside their own little screwed up lives.
That's why you have to send Bruce Willis and his boys to do the drilling.
Of course the radiation will kill them after they get the job done. Still bet you'd find people who would do it, just for the cred.
Breaking up an asteroid spreads out the energy over multiple incidents. If you make the fragments small enough they might all burn up in the atmosphere rather than making groundfall. Maybe turning an extinction level event into a bunch of city killers. That's a good trade.
NASA--The only organization in existence which can make something like space flight boring.
We might have the technology to put people on the moon for extended periods.
We absolutely do not have the ability to get to Mars. As related above we do not have the capability at this time to deal with the radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field. Until that problem is solved no one is surviving interplanetary flight and all our efforts will be in low Earth orbit.
Academic science is in crisis. One point you did not even mention is the reproducibility problem. Studies are not be reproduced, not only because they cannot be, but also because there is no incentive to even try to reproduce.
Yeah your stupid little fandom is cute. But hollywood is in the business of money. You're not currently giving them any so you don't matter.
And don't even pretend you'll boycott their movies. We all know you won't. You'll take every turd they push your way and dress up like it anyway.
So sit down and shut the fuck up. Your fandom is built around a corporate product. Now be good little sheeple consumers and go buy something.
captcha: comply (see. even it knows.)
Yeah that kind of attitude has worked real well for Disney & Star Wars.
Hows that Solo movie doing at the box office?
I've got to say, I just don't go to enough movies in a year to justify MoviePass. When I do go the probabilities are that I'm going to the most popular movies on the opening weekend.
So it's like MoviePass is actively working to make their service unattractive to me.
I agree with a lot of others here. Their service is unsustainable. There just aren't enough movies being produced in a year to see more than a couple of movies a month in the high release months. In most months there's little I'd want to see anyway.
A president is president of the entire country. This behaviour, that of trying to stoke hatred and rage is not the sign of a leader, unless your talking the leader of some rabid cult.
Coming from a likely Democrat that is just so rich. Stoking racial divide and general victimhood is the hallmark of the Democratic party and Obama & Clinton are masters of the art.
But surely some who calls her opponents "deplorables" isn't trying to stoke hatred now are they? Obama made his entire political career on seeding racial tension. So don't talk to me about imagined hatred stoking because someone supports the rule of law. Don't like immigration law? Change it. But somehow when Democrats held the presidency and both houses of congress they had no interest in fixing immigration. Why was that? Could it be because they wanted to perpetrate the problem for political reasons?
I think his spouse not knowing might still open an avenue for blackmail.
If this is an honest question: Yes it means that a husband and wife cannot work in the same managerial chain irregardless of their past relationship.
This is the policy at the company I work for. Spouses cannot work in the same department. One cannot be the boss of the other. They shouldn't even be dating.
Spouses can work in different departments, even if one is a boss and the other not.
During interviews we ask if you know anyone at the company or are related to them. If the answer is yes and hiring you would cause a policy conflict we don't hire you. If you lie and we find out later you're terminated.
I remember one case where two married workers from associated departments ran into a problem when one was up for promotion. The position managed both departments. The spouse was moved to a third department so that they wouldn't be in violation of the policy.
Well you know the government sure seems to actively interfere with the decision of most people who decide to kill another human being.
The are no potential humans. You are either human or you're not. Making people not persons is how you get slavery. Its how you get people like Peter Singer who thinks it's alright to kill babies and toddlers because they're not real persons.
As for people who bring their children along during the commission of a crime, I think I'd probably seriously consider revoking parental rights for someone who brought their children along with them while they committed breaking and entering or risked their lives by entering a country illegally or turning them over to human traffickers. Yes I think we should protect all the children. Lets pass real immigration reform and have a secure border so that people don't risk their children's lives.
Nah. Any CEO or company owner worth their salt knows you contribute to both political parties. That way who ever wins you're guy is in charge. If you only contribute to one or the other when the other guy wins (and they always win eventually) they always get back at you.It's not about policy its about survival.
He was impeached because he lied under oath. I never understood why he did. By that time he was already in his second term. He could have told the truth and no one could have done anything to him, except wag their finger. Stooping an intern is neither a high crime nor misdemeanor. A president can't be impeached for such an action. He probably can't even be sued over it, at least not until he's out of office. Was he afraid of looking bad? He certainly couldn't have been worried about Hillary. She had covered before for him. He was probable just worried everyone would realize he's pond scum.
Humans are a social animal. Social animals are almost always hierarchical. Hierarchy works in most situations. Even highly democratic societies (such as the ancient Roman and Greek republics) typically elected leaders when threatened and imposed hierarchical structures on themselves.
When you have hierarchy built in to the culture if you don't want it to become a dictatorship then you need checks and balances. Non-fraternization rules are a check against bosses and managers exploiting their positions to force workers to prostitute themselves to keep their jobs.
And so you have the reason marriage was invented. A contract by which ownership is divided between two people so that one does not (theoretically) have power over the other.
This guy is married to someone else. I doubt they care a whole lot about whether it made things better at work. Plus this is the CEO, which means lots of money is in play. No company wants to be on the hook during divorce proceedings for a lawsuit for contributing to alienation of affection. Plus if you have a policy, know it's being violated it also opens you up to lawsuits by other employees.
It got regulated out of existence. You need the VC money just to be able to hire the lawyers and tax accountants so you can start a business without other lawyers and the IRS putting out of business before you even come to market.
Clinton was the better choice.
Actually she wasn't. She was and is a horribly flawed candidate, who only got the nomination because the DNC subverted their own primary process. You want to know the real reason she lost? She T'ed off enough Bernie Sanders voters by stealing the primary from him that they stayed home.
With Trump, we don't have a leader. He's making a fool out of us on the World stage.
He's doing that how? Let me tell you something about the world stage. Nobody is your friend. Each and every world leader is more interested in their own people than in anyone else's people. As they should be. I didn't elect Angela Merkel and I don't expect her to take into account whether her policies are good for me or not. Likewise it's not Trump's job to make Germans or Brits or Canadians happy. Likewise Putin doesn't have my best interest at heart, and I don't expect him too. That doesn't make him evil (or not evil for that matter.) That just makes him not someone I would expect to do good things for me.
Illegal immigration was never that big a deal. It was blown out of proportion by right-wing media because their audience of old white male conservatives like it that way.
There are only seven states in the United States that have populations higher than the total number of illegal immigrants in the US. To me that sounds like a pretty big problem.
I suspect the parents of children killed by illegal immigrants might think it's a pretty big problem too. If you think they're mostly old white people let me fix that for you. Most of them are Hispanic. And they're being killed by gang members who are making their neighborhoods unsafe places to be. Maybe your nice upper middle class neighborhood doesn't have this problem.
And the Evangelical Christians losers who continually support him have shown themselves to be stupid, hypocritical, disgusting human beings.
So we've established that you're into identity politics. Would you care to make a comment about Jews or African Americans now?
Others voted for him for change and he's doing everything but.
I suggest you take a look at what he's done. Basically he's actually keeping his campaign promised, which is terrifying both mainstream Democrats and Republicans. A politician actually keeping his campaign promises is certainly a change.
And then the Republicans who are a bunch of pussies won't stand up to him because the Republican base is a bunch of ignorant Bible thumping morons who still think the orange orangutan in the Whitehouse is going to save them - they are just too ignorant to understand that Trump is a member of the very small group of people who are shafting them but they want to continue to believe the nonsense that it's immigrants and leftists and progressives who are keeping them down.
It's nice to see you are so tolerant of people who disagree with you. The "keeping me down" mantra is the mantra of the left, not the right. No one thinks illegals are keeping them down. No one thinks illegals are taking their jobs. No one thinks progressives are keeping them down.
What people who disagree with you see is vast numbers of people advocating ignoring laws they either cannot or will not change, creating what is likely to become a lawless society. I don't need Trump or any one else to save me, except from the policies that people like you would impose on me at the point of a government goon's gun, after you take mine away.
The Republicans have shown that they cannot govern or lead. They just have vapid talking points for the ignorant masses to gobble down.
Looks to me like you're the one ignorantly parroting talking points. I don't agree with everything Trump has done, but at least I fully believe he's the one calling the shots in the White House, not some unelected political adviser, like the last empty suit-in-chief or the husband-in-chief that we ducked in the last election, could you sure don't think Hillary was going to be running things do you? She couldn't even keep track of Bill.