It's basically how (and when) the rail systems have grown up, partnered and died over time.
Additionally, the northern states have generally been more industrialized, leading to "outsized" growth of rail systems there.
Chicago, when the rail lines were first coalescing, was a natural economic hub into the west and generally right on the demarcation line of what was The United States and the western territories. St. Louis also shares this to a certain extent. Heading south from there, the next major east-west hub would have been Memphis. And while it IS a transport hub, it's still a Johnny-Come-Lately due to the aforementioned dichotomy between industrialization in the north vs the south.
Additionally, for a while, every railroad venture was building on its own gauge of track. By the middle of the 19th century, there had been a major push towards a standard gauge. Current standard gauge (Stephenson gauge, international gauge or normal gauge) is 1435mm (4'8" in the US) distance between the inside of each rail. And it's used in roughly 55% of the world's track systems.
Again, the south, being behind, especially after the US Civil War was still mired in competition between rail lines. So businessmen didn't want their equipment potentially falling into the hands of rivals. So the proliferation of non-standard gauges continued MUCH longer. And because of this, lack of standardization, replacement parts were orders of magnitude more expensive. Because they had to be built on-spec, rather than just being pulled from a standard parts bin. This expense eventually became unmanageable and rail lines in the south started dying off.
What routes existing in the southern US now are either relative new builds or are legacies of rail line builders who settled (or just happen to have built) on/near standard gauge.
Yes, not everybody has forgotten, and the worst thing is that Dagobert "grab em by the pussy" Trump is still in charge, continuing to cripple his country and the rest of the world, as if nothing had ever happened!
Man. SOMEONE'S pussy sounds awful sandy right now.
Go stand over the bidet for a couple minutes. Maybe that'll change your disposition...
It happens. And he SHOULD get in a bit of trouble for it. That's how you learn "don't do that". I don't think they deserve to lose their job though.
The CTO and all the people in charge of the backups need to be on the street YESTERDAY though. That the dev COULD do something like this is a major fuckup on their part. They simply didn't have their production system locked down properly.
The fact that their backup system was non-functional is double-plus unforgiveable. The dev is merely the highlight for their massive cluster-fuck of a setup.
Then you tell them something they don't want to hear and the Adjustable English Comprehension Knob gets turned down to "I'm ignoring you." and they truck on doing whatever they want.
a strategic IT workforce team to respond better in what he called "this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment.
Translation: For the price of 125 Americans, we can use 3 American managers to manage 500 incompetent Indian wage slaves that nobody will be able to understand due to accents so thick you need a Death Star superlaser to cut it. As such, calling these support personnel will be about as useful as an enema of fecal material and people will stop using it. Thus allowing us to eventually kill the unit off and save even MORE money!
He was a spectacularly awful CEO of Microsoft. He managed to bring on board a successor who was less spectacular, but every bit as awful. As to his monetary situation. He's just a chump who was in the right place at the right time around the right people. You can't depend on luck.
Why the hell would ANYONE in their right mind listen to him?
Hyperloop currently has a quarter-mile test track that takes forever to pump the atmosphere out of. They have yet to have even ONE experimental passenger carrier make it to the other end of the test track.
So talking about plans for Europe? They haven't built an American Hyperloop yet. They haven't had a successful test of a functional, full-sized system carrying real people. They haven't had a successful unmanned test on their test track! Their marketing wonks are so far ahead of their actual deliverables that they've gone plaid and Musk's brains have been crushed down into his feet.
Oh bullshit, bullshit and I say thee thrice BULLSHIT.
You have to have ID to do fucking EVERYTHING in this country. Banking, driving,, buying stuff with a credit card. buying alcohol and cigarettes, claiming state/federal benefits, etc.
And with the Homeland Security Theater RealID initiative in full swing, most state drivers' licenses and state ID cards (for those who don't/can't drive) are now RealID compliant. So they're defacto federal ID.
Also, you generally need ID to vote ANYHOW. As you go into your polling place, they check your ID before handing you, what should, ostensibly be, YOUR ballot. And, failing to find your ballot, they use that ID to register your use of the polling location BEFORE registering a blank ballot for you.
So stop with the bullcrap about about disenfranchisement.
There are also certain sectors of the population where, with enough children, a person simply MAKES more off welfare and benefits than they could possibly make off even a decently paying job.
And it's seeing cases like this that we know welfare for the truly broken system it is.
In the US the 'free market' has created entrenched players who can stifle any advancement to suit their own profits
the free market is way too oversold, I would love to have some socialism driving the development of new technology
"Have you read your manifesto today comrade?"
Yes/No
No? Well, you have been reported to the wifi secret police. Stay where you are. We're coming to award you a free stay in Club Gulag.
I'm sorry, but socialism has basically fucked up just about everything it's ever been exposed to (to a greater or lesser extend). So when some yutz comes along and goes, "I know it doesn't work. But you know what we need? MORE SOCIALISM!" I tend to look at them like the inbred, indoctrinated mouth-breather that they are.
[Mumbai Accent] Hello, this is Bob from Microsoft. We have detected that you are infecticated with a computer virus. We would like to enter your system and fix this for you. We just need access and a credit card...
Slashdot Mirror
Move on to develop new means of surveilling criminals and terrorists.
They sound like a buggy whip salesmen trying to pass a statute forcing people to buy buggy whips regardless of need.
What? Didn't you see Goldeneye?
Then buy engineered "dimensional lumber" instead of standard builder-grade lumber.
It's basically how (and when) the rail systems have grown up, partnered and died over time.
Additionally, the northern states have generally been more industrialized, leading to "outsized" growth of rail systems there.
Chicago, when the rail lines were first coalescing, was a natural economic hub into the west and generally right on the demarcation line of what was The United States and the western territories. St. Louis also shares this to a certain extent. Heading south from there, the next major east-west hub would have been Memphis. And while it IS a transport hub, it's still a Johnny-Come-Lately due to the aforementioned dichotomy between industrialization in the north vs the south.
Additionally, for a while, every railroad venture was building on its own gauge of track. By the middle of the 19th century, there had been a major push towards a standard gauge. Current standard gauge (Stephenson gauge, international gauge or normal gauge) is 1435mm (4'8" in the US) distance between the inside of each rail. And it's used in roughly 55% of the world's track systems.
Again, the south, being behind, especially after the US Civil War was still mired in competition between rail lines. So businessmen didn't want their equipment potentially falling into the hands of rivals. So the proliferation of non-standard gauges continued MUCH longer. And because of this, lack of standardization, replacement parts were orders of magnitude more expensive. Because they had to be built on-spec, rather than just being pulled from a standard parts bin. This expense eventually became unmanageable and rail lines in the south started dying off.
What routes existing in the southern US now are either relative new builds or are legacies of rail line builders who settled (or just happen to have built) on/near standard gauge.
Yes, not everybody has forgotten, and the worst thing is that Dagobert "grab em by the pussy" Trump is still in charge, continuing to cripple his country and the rest of the world, as if nothing had ever happened!
Man. SOMEONE'S pussy sounds awful sandy right now.
Go stand over the bidet for a couple minutes. Maybe that'll change your disposition...
The entire company should be fired and cease to exist. You should also be fired, chazz.
Thanks! Now I can go home and catch up on my sleep! Later!
*Burnout noises*
He's a new guy. And the onus is on him for attention to detail.
However, he's a new guy. Fuckups are to be expected.
I've had fuckups at new jobs myself. This is how we LEARN.
And yes, in that environment he was set up to fail.
Okay, the guy fucked up ROYALLY.
It happens. And he SHOULD get in a bit of trouble for it. That's how you learn "don't do that". I don't think they deserve to lose their job though.
The CTO and all the people in charge of the backups need to be on the street YESTERDAY though. That the dev COULD do something like this is a major fuckup on their part. They simply didn't have their production system locked down properly.
The fact that their backup system was non-functional is double-plus unforgiveable. The dev is merely the highlight for their massive cluster-fuck of a setup.
Yeah. "Oh. With a bit of management.."
Yeah. Right.
Then you tell them something they don't want to hear and the Adjustable English Comprehension Knob gets turned down to "I'm ignoring you." and they truck on doing whatever they want.
a strategic IT workforce team to respond better in what he called "this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment.
Translation: For the price of 125 Americans, we can use 3 American managers to manage 500 incompetent Indian wage slaves that nobody will be able to understand due to accents so thick you need a Death Star superlaser to cut it. As such, calling these support personnel will be about as useful as an enema of fecal material and people will stop using it. Thus allowing us to eventually kill the unit off and save even MORE money!
Because the amount of software that works on Windows 10 S bites syphilitic camel wang.
The only people who give a shit about whether or not he tweets are mental defectives, Democrats or reporters.
As for which is the worst of that ugly group? Let's just say there's lots of overlap...
He was a spectacularly awful CEO of Microsoft.
He managed to bring on board a successor who was less spectacular, but every bit as awful.
As to his monetary situation. He's just a chump who was in the right place at the right time around the right people. You can't depend on luck.
Why the hell would ANYONE in their right mind listen to him?
Hyperloop currently has a quarter-mile test track that takes forever to pump the atmosphere out of.
They have yet to have even ONE experimental passenger carrier make it to the other end of the test track.
So talking about plans for Europe?
They haven't built an American Hyperloop yet.
They haven't had a successful test of a functional, full-sized system carrying real people.
They haven't had a successful unmanned test on their test track!
Their marketing wonks are so far ahead of their actual deliverables that they've gone plaid and Musk's brains have been crushed down into his feet.
YOUR car and YOUR body being inefficient aren't really being subsidized by everyone else.
It's the world's largest garage queen and not a plane...
So we're going to continue being as arbitrary and vague about this as possible as we implement our agenda.
Oh bullshit, bullshit and I say thee thrice BULLSHIT.
You have to have ID to do fucking EVERYTHING in this country. Banking, driving,, buying stuff with a credit card. buying alcohol and cigarettes, claiming state/federal benefits, etc.
And with the Homeland Security Theater RealID initiative in full swing, most state drivers' licenses and state ID cards (for those who don't/can't drive) are now RealID compliant. So they're defacto federal ID.
Also, you generally need ID to vote ANYHOW. As you go into your polling place, they check your ID before handing you, what should, ostensibly be, YOUR ballot.
And, failing to find your ballot, they use that ID to register your use of the polling location BEFORE registering a blank ballot for you.
So stop with the bullcrap about about disenfranchisement.
There are also certain sectors of the population where, with enough children, a person simply MAKES more off welfare and benefits than they could possibly make off even a decently paying job.
And it's seeing cases like this that we know welfare for the truly broken system it is.
Ah. Lacking in an ACTUAL argument, you simply fall back on name calling.
Very adult of you. Are you going to fight me next? Maybe book me in the hall?
How cute!
In the US the 'free market' has created entrenched players who can stifle any advancement to suit their own profits
the free market is way too oversold, I would love to have some socialism driving the development of new technology
"Have you read your manifesto today comrade?"
Yes/No
No? Well, you have been reported to the wifi secret police. Stay where you are. We're coming to award you a free stay in Club Gulag.
I'm sorry, but socialism has basically fucked up just about everything it's ever been exposed to (to a greater or lesser extend). So when some yutz comes along and goes, "I know it doesn't work. But you know what we need? MORE SOCIALISM!" I tend to look at them like the inbred, indoctrinated mouth-breather that they are.
Why would it make it any more difficult?
"Three million violent economic migrants signed a Change.org petition to let a murdering rapist go."
"I don't visit Change.org, therefore, not even a single pico-fuck is given."
"But you're going to get a copy delivered to you to."
"This is what a trashcan is for. Single pico-fuck STILL ungiven."
It's because they aren't given knowledge of a platform/technology.
They're taught just what they need to know to pass a test and regurgitate the book on demand.
[Mumbai Accent] Hello, this is Bob from Microsoft. We have detected that you are infecticated with a computer virus. We would like to enter your system and fix this for you. We just need access and a credit card...
Basically, these people will never admit that they're wrong and their views are cockeyed.
The most they'll ever do is devolve into autistic screeching if you try to force a real answer out of them.