If they've had working prototypes for that long then why isn't in operation anywhere? Germany does not need them, we sold basically the "TransRapid" to the Chinese (a mag lev train outside of a vacuum tube). In Switzerland the plan was, and still is, to bore tunnels under the mountains. So far no one really decided to build something like this.
So in other words, you just made my point for me- no one is using them anywhere, even after decades of fucking around with the idea. Gee, why is that? Not enough hyperloop nutters to lobby the government? Or is it just an impractical idea with no raison d'être?
We're far, far more likely to go to the Moon again than build a working hyperloop. Fantasize all you like, but it's not going to happen.
We talk about a vacuum tube, where an air thight cabine under pressure of 1 atmosphere is traveling... on mag level rail. There is nothing it can crash into.
Unless something comes loose inside, or the rail develops a fault, or one of the cars drops a part, or the tube becomes deformed, or some asshole shoots the tube with a deer rifle, or a car is driven into it, or some crazy fuck sets an explosive charge under part of it, or there's an earthquake*, etc etc.
Yes, clearly it would be impossible for anything to ever go wrong. Accidents never happen, which is why there's no word for "accident".
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*Earthquakes never happen in California, by the way. Except the the magnitude-5.2 earthquake that rocked Southern California early last Friday. But other than that one, they never ever happen.
"...whether employment law requires corporations to have the sort of common decency we expect from individuals"
Anyone that expects a corporation to have "common decency" hasn't been paying attention for the last 100 years or so.
Humans are just another disposable resource that a corporation will use, abuse, and then discard in the interests of keeping the bottom line down. Corporations are like the Terminator in that they have no feelings or empathy, and they act in their own self-interest to the exclusion of all other factors.
No corporation gives a shit about human beings; if anything humans are an inconvenient part of their Primary Mission, which is to make as much money as possible. If corporations had their way they'd be allowed to throw your body into a hopper and recycle you for spare parts and minerals when you got killed on the job. And they'd bill you for the cost of the electricity and disposal fees to do so.
Oh Christ, save us from AC's with claims that they're supersavers and anecdotal stories of people blowing their wages.
Exactly.
All you self-righteous supersavers: Try and save up for heart surgery or a cerebral aneurysm. Just try. Or try and save up for 30 days in a critical care unit. Let me know how that works out for ya.
The narrow view taken by people that "I dont' want to pay for it" ignores the fact that you do end up paying for it in many other ways. Refusing to cover peoples' health just kicks the can further down the road, and costing everyone a lot more money.
And that's it in a nutshell. We all need to pay in ahead of time to avoid much, much higher costs (and worse outcomes) later.
this is why i cant stand liberal democrats, always thinking other people should pay for their decisions
Like the decision to get sick or have a genetic condition? Yeah, you should have picked better parents, you loser!
Seriously, dude, this is how insurance and social programs work. We all pay in.
Like when you crash your car....all those other people who aren't crashing their cars are paying for yours to be fixed. Like when your house catches fire...other people whose houses haven't caught fire are helping to pay for yours to be rebuilt. Like when your children go to school...all those other people who don't even have children are helping pay for the school your kids go to.
If I recall, not having the option to edit was an intentional decision. Since this site is about the users having technical threaded discussions, it makes sense to make the posts fixed as it preserves the integrity of the discussion (i.e. no going back to edit out the part where you were wrong)
Oh please, a grace-period of one minute would solve all this shit, including the pantywaists who moan about retroactively editing posts to make them look dumb. Chances are they already look dumb and no editing would be required to show that.
Are these chicken-shit fuckers SO SCARED that someone would edit their post within one minute to make them look foolish? If so, then I'd say the problem is with them and not the content of the discussion.
You don't need to be in constant, *pointless* communication with your friends. Or your coworkers.
But they think they do. Partly from FOMO (fear of missing out) and partly because they're inept at forming substantive relationships that can weather short periods of being apart.
Take away their phones and facebook, messenger, etc and most of their "relationships" and "friends" would completely disappear in a week or two, and virtually ALL of them would be gone after a month or more.
Being in constant contact is wearying for most people even if they won't admit it (or can't recognize it).
There is an uncomfortable amount of truth in this, especially the comments about Australis Firefox, GNOME 3, and Windows 8 to 10.
Many of them were so taken with the ability to code some interesting or novel UI feature that they never stopped to ask if "interesting" or "novel" was better than what was already in use. In most cases it wasn't.
Newsflash- even forums with preview buttons allow you to edit your post for at least a short time. Welcome to the 90s!
For proof, please see any forum written in the last 20 years or so: SMF, VBulletin, Agora, phpBB, myBB, FluxBB, PunBB, Vanilla Forums, Invision, Phorum, FudForum, Beehive, BBPress, UBB.threads, XenForo, Ikonboard.....
What's more embarrassing is your inability to proof-read before submitting off the fucking handle like the majority of you tend to do.
It's an honor to speak with such an ascended being like you, who has obviously never made a mistake in your entire life. Let us all bask in your wisdom.
thunderf00t's arguments reminded me of early arguments why it would not be possible for a steam engine locomotive to pull a train of cars. Locomotive's wheels would just slip and spin, they said...
And despite the grim outlook, millions of planes fly every year with very few deadly accidents.
And despite your cheerleading, it'll never be built to any real scale or carry passengers in any quantity over any distance. It's sounds like a cool idea, but it's not practical.
Why don't you just zoom down to the test site in your flying car, check it out and report back on the progress?
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If they've had working prototypes for that long then why isn't in operation anywhere?
Germany does not need them, we sold basically the "TransRapid" to the Chinese (a mag lev train outside of a vacuum tube).
In Switzerland the plan was, and still is, to bore tunnels under the mountains. So far no one really decided to build something like this.
So in other words, you just made my point for me- no one is using them anywhere, even after decades of fucking around with the idea. Gee, why is that? Not enough hyperloop nutters to lobby the government? Or is it just an impractical idea with no raison d'être?
We're far, far more likely to go to the Moon again than build a working hyperloop. Fantasize all you like, but it's not going to happen.
We talk about a vacuum tube, where an air thight cabine under pressure of 1 atmosphere is traveling ... on mag level rail. There is nothing it can crash into.
Unless something comes loose inside, or the rail develops a fault, or one of the cars drops a part, or the tube becomes deformed, or some asshole shoots the tube with a deer rifle, or a car is driven into it, or some crazy fuck sets an explosive charge under part of it, or there's an earthquake*, etc etc.
Yes, clearly it would be impossible for anything to ever go wrong. Accidents never happen, which is why there's no word for "accident".
-
*Earthquakes never happen in California, by the way. Except the the magnitude-5.2 earthquake that rocked Southern California early last Friday. But other than that one, they never ever happen.
"...whether employment law requires corporations to have the sort of common decency we expect from individuals"
Anyone that expects a corporation to have "common decency" hasn't been paying attention for the last 100 years or so.
Humans are just another disposable resource that a corporation will use, abuse, and then discard in the interests of keeping the bottom line down. Corporations are like the Terminator in that they have no feelings or empathy, and they act in their own self-interest to the exclusion of all other factors.
No corporation gives a shit about human beings; if anything humans are an inconvenient part of their Primary Mission, which is to make as much money as possible. If corporations had their way they'd be allowed to throw your body into a hopper and recycle you for spare parts and minerals when you got killed on the job. And they'd bill you for the cost of the electricity and disposal fees to do so.
Oh Christ, save us from AC's with claims that they're supersavers and anecdotal stories of people blowing their wages.
Exactly.
All you self-righteous supersavers: Try and save up for heart surgery or a cerebral aneurysm. Just try. Or try and save up for 30 days in a critical care unit. Let me know how that works out for ya.
The narrow view taken by people that "I dont' want to pay for it" ignores the fact that you do end up paying for it in many other ways. Refusing to cover peoples' health just kicks the can further down the road, and costing everyone a lot more money.
And that's it in a nutshell. We all need to pay in ahead of time to avoid much, much higher costs (and worse outcomes) later.
this is why i cant stand liberal democrats, always thinking other people should pay for their decisions
Like the decision to get sick or have a genetic condition? Yeah, you should have picked better parents, you loser!
Seriously, dude, this is how insurance and social programs work. We all pay in.
Like when you crash your car....all those other people who aren't crashing their cars are paying for yours to be fixed.
Like when your house catches fire...other people whose houses haven't caught fire are helping to pay for yours to be rebuilt.
Like when your children go to school...all those other people who don't even have children are helping pay for the school your kids go to.
I feel your pain, Fr%E9d%E9ric.
If I recall, not having the option to edit was an intentional decision. Since this site is about the users having technical threaded discussions, it makes sense to make the posts fixed as it preserves the integrity of the discussion (i.e. no going back to edit out the part where you were wrong)
Oh please, a grace-period of one minute would solve all this shit, including the pantywaists who moan about retroactively editing posts to make them look dumb. Chances are they already look dumb and no editing would be required to show that.
Are these chicken-shit fuckers SO SCARED that someone would edit their post within one minute to make them look foolish? If so, then I'd say the problem is with them and not the content of the discussion.
"I'd be okay wish such a feature..."
O The Irony
I'd be okay wish such a feature as long as the grace period ended as soon as the first reply to your post was made.
I agree, but such a feature is far too complex to ever be added to slashdot. And the weiner-dicks would moan about it endlessly.
You don't need to be in constant, *pointless* communication with your friends. Or your coworkers.
But they think they do. Partly from FOMO (fear of missing out) and partly because they're inept at forming substantive relationships that can weather short periods of being apart.
Take away their phones and facebook, messenger, etc and most of their "relationships" and "friends" would completely disappear in a week or two, and virtually ALL of them would be gone after a month or more.
Being in constant contact is wearying for most people even if they won't admit it (or can't recognize it).
There is an uncomfortable amount of truth in this, especially the comments about Australis Firefox, GNOME 3, and Windows 8 to 10.
Many of them were so taken with the ability to code some interesting or novel UI feature that they never stopped to ask if "interesting" or "novel" was better than what was already in use. In most cases it wasn't.
not being able to edit a post
That's what the Preview button is for.
Newsflash- even forums with preview buttons allow you to edit your post for at least a short time. Welcome to the 90s!
For proof, please see any forum written in the last 20 years or so: SMF, VBulletin, Agora, phpBB, myBB, FluxBB, PunBB, Vanilla Forums, Invision, Phorum, FudForum, Beehive, BBPress, UBB.threads, XenForo, Ikonboard.....
What's more embarrassing is your inability to proof-read before submitting off the fucking handle like the majority of you tend to do.
It's an honor to speak with such an ascended being like you, who has obviously never made a mistake in your entire life. Let us all bask in your wisdom.
Did you warn them? Did you?
I tried but I got an error when I tried to open the file for writing.
but $73,500 sounds like chump change for a mistake that could quite literally ruin your life even after a retraction.
That was my first reaction too.
$73K is nothing for what this poor guy went through. $7.3 million would be more along the lines of what I'd consider fair.
Agreed, and not being able to edit a post (for even a 1-minute grace period) is fucking embarrassing, not to mention infuriating.
It's even more embarrassing when you consider that this is a forum where discussions of programming and technology take place.
1991 called and wants its text-file forum back.
thunderf00t's arguments reminded me of early arguments why it would not be possible for a steam engine locomotive to pull a train of cars. Locomotive's wheels would just slip and spin, they said...
[citation needed]
Please don't cry when your hyperloop wet-dream never materializes.
Maybe you've forgotten a little too much.
I really can't recall if I have or not.
I'm sure the hyperloop can be built too, we just know it won't fly. Hopefully.
Why hasn't it been done before and why isn't it in wide use today?
If it's practical to do then hyperloops should be all over the place, but they aren't. Why is that?
And despite the grim outlook, millions of planes fly every year with very few deadly accidents.
And despite your cheerleading, it'll never be built to any real scale or carry passengers in any quantity over any distance. It's sounds like a cool idea, but it's not practical.
Why don't you just zoom down to the test site in your flying car, check it out and report back on the progress?
But they have looked closely at the issues, and have come to a different conclusion, so your statement is false.
We'll see. Or rather, we won't. :)
It'll never be built or used on any substantial scale for passenger transport, period. Not even for runs of short distances.
This is not a new idea, it's been tried before and it's always been abandoned as ridiculously impractical. And it will be this time too.
Hyperloop tube gets a hole. Air streams in. Air slows down the cabin, probably to a halt.
Yes, just like in this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Shoot a hole in that tank before it undergoes collapse and you'll have a violent decompression, not some gentle "air streams in" scenario.
As someone said below, "Instead of denying science, do us all a favor and prove Thunderf00t and the Mythbusters wrong with your pseudo science."
The hyperloop has no such forces.
Seriously, do you even know what we're talking about? Because it sure doesn't sound like it.