If you can't afford to always fly business class than you couldn't afford to fly at all
This is still my motto. If I can't swing a business class ticket, I haven't saved up enough money for that vacation. Fuck coach. I'll still get stuck in it from time to time on short-hauls to a hub, but I'll be damned if I'll ever do more than an hour and a half in the prole pens again.
For better or worse, roads are largely financed in the US through fuel and vehicle taxes. So yes, you do pay in proportion to use. (Although a lot of your "use" may be 18-wheelers delivering products to your nearest grocery store...)
The problem is that the UK is a very physically small country with a very dense population. Take the longest imaginable drive in the UK - without getting on a ferry, that would be roughly from Porthcurno in Cornwall to Canisbay in Scotland. It's 836 miles, which is about 100 miles shorter than the commute I made several times a year to go to college. Assuming the non-freeway portions aren't just awful, you could easily do it in a day.
Protip: get a shuttle (not a taxi! those are expensive! and we already know you don't value time all that highly on vacation!) to take you to a normal off-airport car rental.
Well, it runs from lovely Lorton - which is really almost halfway from DC to Fredericksburg, FWIW - to Sanford, which is slightly farther northeast of downtown Orlando than Walt Disney World is southwest of it. So unless you live in some of the less desirable NoVa suburbs, you're going to burn about an hour driving there, and you'll have an hour (at least) drive at the end of it, and at that point you've saved yourself 13 hours in the car with the kids. It's not cheap, though, and if you've got plenty of money you'd fly and rent a car there. It's one of those things that's really a decent idea in search of a market.
High speed rail will not work in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor because nowhere else has the kind of density needed to make it work. 1000 km in the US is a quick trip - the example he gives, Denver to SF, is more than double that. And rail requires a large and expensive infrastructure, one which is going to have to be duplicated (because our existing rail system is optimized for freight hauling, at which task it is one of the most efficient in the world). It's a cool idea, and in some places it makes sense. But not here.
And you can't do the math. India was, in 2001, 13.4% Muslim according to Wikipedia, which also puts its population at 1.21 billion these days. Assuming that that percentage has not changed much, that's 162 million Muslims, all of whom are neighbors with an estimated 175 miillion Muslims (180 million people * 97%) in Pakistan and 134 million Muslims (152.5 million people * 89.7% ) in Bangladesh, with whom they shared certain experiences under the Raj. The only Muslim country that outranks these three in population is Indonesia, 204 million Muslims (237.6 million * 86.1% ).
If accusing Muslim terrorists who talk about taking down the West and everyone else in the name of Islam is bigoted and hateful in your mind, you should check your reference points. Just because most Muslims are normal people living normal lives who are as likely to hurt me as the rabbits in my back yard does not mean that Islamic terrorism is not an entity.
Depends on the kind of matchmaking. If you're talking about an Ashley Madison type site, aimed at people who are trying to look for people to cheat on their spouses with, then it does make sense.
This defendant is easy to find and easy to force payment from.
Not that small claims court is necessarily a bad thing, but unless they have some business presence in your state you're not really going to be able to do much about it except win a default judgement that you'll have quite a time collecting, no?
If you cannot distinguish between a national government that actively blocks adult attempts to access the internet on connections they pay for themselves, and an elementary or middle-school administration blocking children from it while at school on the school's connection, then I suppose there's really no point in trying to discuss the matter.
I cannot imagine any actual important secret that I would entrust to an elementary or middle-school child's confidence, but if I really had one I wouldn't tell it to anyone over the phone. I'd announce that I was coming to pick them up, that there were some urgent family matters to deal with, and that they could not wait until school let out. Then I'd pick them up and tell them whatever it was so important to get a 13-year-old's opinion on right now.
Then they can provide unfiltered internet at home. Or, if they really have a compelling school usage, they can present their case to a teacher, who can then go to bat for them. I'm not a fan of censorship in general but this is more like just maintaining decorum in public. It's like the eternally nude people in SF: it bothers me not because I think that the human body is evil, but because it's someone who can't be bothered to make the most simple concessions to public decency and hygiene. Tanning your whole body in a quiet park is one thing; flying your junk like a flag as you roll down the street (or shop in a store!) is just being a jerk.
Sorry, I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself there. Power users who want VoIP may not burn all that much bandwidth on VoIP alone, but at this point VoIP is still early adopter material. And a disproportionate percentage of those guys are the ones you see on XDA or Howard Forums talking about how they pushed 56 GB through their unlimited data plan last month.
The tenth largest city in the US is San Jose, with a population just under a million. 540k would be the 33rd largest city in the country. Don't know what you're smoking.
T-Mo and Sprint are already the lowest cost providers, both barely able to play the game at all, and you want them to take on a bunch of VoIP data hogs and a revenue cut? We already know what that premium service looks like: VZW will sell you 20 GB of data transfer for $110/mo (plus the $20 fee per device on these plans, even if your only use is going to be for a MiFi. After fees it's probably just under $150. That's the price for the kind of service you're talking about: the Ma Bell price. You get the absolute best quality, period, and you pay for it.
You'll pull a lot of people upside down when the value of their home falls 20% overnight because family budgets just went down by a couple hundred a month.
Maybe you should consider that intelligent female hackers and "groupies" might be separate, non-overlapping groups. The goth-looking girl who wants to date a bad boy but not one who is likely to get beaten to death in the line of work - she's a groupie. You had just thought she was boring after about ten seconds and decided to move on, thinking nothing more of her.
I suggest you - and other geeks - acquire game. It's certainly been turned into the sort of subject that is amenable to geekery - there's plenty of stuff out there. No, you can't recover your teens, and the price you pay is that you don't get to sleep with 15 year old virgins. But you can sure make a difference in your life today. They're not responding to your money alone; they're responding to the more-alpha social position your money gives you. If you're interested in getting girls (and not everyone is, even when they're straight), you can really boost your odds.
However, that's why I said that most of the girls at these events are more groupie than hacker.
If your point is that being an intellectually brilliant woman is a cruel fork between being a mother and being a careerist of some kind, with most people choosing to muddle along halfway between and ill-satisfied with either part. then yes, you're right. But that doesn't change reality, and I'd be willing to bet there were more groupies (especially, given the stereotype of the clientele, the professional ladies) than female hackers at most of these.
I'm not a hacker. However, I'm a doctor married to a doctor, so I've got a very good idea of the difficulties of women trying to get recognized and respected without becoming professionally male.
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If you can't afford to always fly business class than you couldn't afford to fly at all
This is still my motto. If I can't swing a business class ticket, I haven't saved up enough money for that vacation. Fuck coach. I'll still get stuck in it from time to time on short-hauls to a hub, but I'll be damned if I'll ever do more than an hour and a half in the prole pens again.
That's about a third more than a first-class ticket today. Makes sense.
For better or worse, roads are largely financed in the US through fuel and vehicle taxes. So yes, you do pay in proportion to use. (Although a lot of your "use" may be 18-wheelers delivering products to your nearest grocery store...)
The problem is that the UK is a very physically small country with a very dense population. Take the longest imaginable drive in the UK - without getting on a ferry, that would be roughly from Porthcurno in Cornwall to Canisbay in Scotland. It's 836 miles, which is about 100 miles shorter than the commute I made several times a year to go to college. Assuming the non-freeway portions aren't just awful, you could easily do it in a day.
Protip: get a shuttle (not a taxi! those are expensive! and we already know you don't value time all that highly on vacation!) to take you to a normal off-airport car rental.
Well, it runs from lovely Lorton - which is really almost halfway from DC to Fredericksburg, FWIW - to Sanford, which is slightly farther northeast of downtown Orlando than Walt Disney World is southwest of it. So unless you live in some of the less desirable NoVa suburbs, you're going to burn about an hour driving there, and you'll have an hour (at least) drive at the end of it, and at that point you've saved yourself 13 hours in the car with the kids. It's not cheap, though, and if you've got plenty of money you'd fly and rent a car there. It's one of those things that's really a decent idea in search of a market.
Acquiring land for a new right of way would be astronomically expensive and require coordination across at least seven governments. Not a good choice.
High speed rail will not work in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor because nowhere else has the kind of density needed to make it work. 1000 km in the US is a quick trip - the example he gives, Denver to SF, is more than double that. And rail requires a large and expensive infrastructure, one which is going to have to be duplicated (because our existing rail system is optimized for freight hauling, at which task it is one of the most efficient in the world). It's a cool idea, and in some places it makes sense. But not here.
And you can't do the math. India was, in 2001, 13.4% Muslim according to Wikipedia, which also puts its population at 1.21 billion these days. Assuming that that percentage has not changed much, that's 162 million Muslims, all of whom are neighbors with an estimated 175 miillion Muslims (180 million people * 97%) in Pakistan and 134 million Muslims (152.5 million people * 89.7% ) in Bangladesh, with whom they shared certain experiences under the Raj. The only Muslim country that outranks these three in population is Indonesia, 204 million Muslims (237.6 million * 86.1% ).
If accusing Muslim terrorists who talk about taking down the West and everyone else in the name of Islam is bigoted and hateful in your mind, you should check your reference points. Just because most Muslims are normal people living normal lives who are as likely to hurt me as the rabbits in my back yard does not mean that Islamic terrorism is not an entity.
I suspect that it's a lot easier to do with licensed spectrum than over unlicensed bands. That's got to be part of their success...
Depends on the kind of matchmaking. If you're talking about an Ashley Madison type site, aimed at people who are trying to look for people to cheat on their spouses with, then it does make sense.
This defendant is easy to find and easy to force payment from.
Not that small claims court is necessarily a bad thing, but unless they have some business presence in your state you're not really going to be able to do much about it except win a default judgement that you'll have quite a time collecting, no?
If you cannot distinguish between a national government that actively blocks adult attempts to access the internet on connections they pay for themselves, and an elementary or middle-school administration blocking children from it while at school on the school's connection, then I suppose there's really no point in trying to discuss the matter.
which is an obvious invasion of privacy
I cannot imagine any actual important secret that I would entrust to an elementary or middle-school child's confidence, but if I really had one I wouldn't tell it to anyone over the phone. I'd announce that I was coming to pick them up, that there were some urgent family matters to deal with, and that they could not wait until school let out. Then I'd pick them up and tell them whatever it was so important to get a 13-year-old's opinion on right now.
Then they can provide unfiltered internet at home. Or, if they really have a compelling school usage, they can present their case to a teacher, who can then go to bat for them. I'm not a fan of censorship in general but this is more like just maintaining decorum in public. It's like the eternally nude people in SF: it bothers me not because I think that the human body is evil, but because it's someone who can't be bothered to make the most simple concessions to public decency and hygiene. Tanning your whole body in a quiet park is one thing; flying your junk like a flag as you roll down the street (or shop in a store!) is just being a jerk.
Sorry, I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself there. Power users who want VoIP may not burn all that much bandwidth on VoIP alone, but at this point VoIP is still early adopter material. And a disproportionate percentage of those guys are the ones you see on XDA or Howard Forums talking about how they pushed 56 GB through their unlimited data plan last month.
The tenth largest city in the US is San Jose, with a population just under a million. 540k would be the 33rd largest city in the country. Don't know what you're smoking.
T-Mo and Sprint are already the lowest cost providers, both barely able to play the game at all, and you want them to take on a bunch of VoIP data hogs and a revenue cut? We already know what that premium service looks like: VZW will sell you 20 GB of data transfer for $110/mo (plus the $20 fee per device on these plans, even if your only use is going to be for a MiFi. After fees it's probably just under $150. That's the price for the kind of service you're talking about: the Ma Bell price. You get the absolute best quality, period, and you pay for it.
It's sequitur. 3rd person singular passive.
You'll pull a lot of people upside down when the value of their home falls 20% overnight because family budgets just went down by a couple hundred a month.
OK thx. Had a couple of drinks and couldn't figure out whether deep or stupid.
Maybe you should consider that intelligent female hackers and "groupies" might be separate, non-overlapping groups. The goth-looking girl who wants to date a bad boy but not one who is likely to get beaten to death in the line of work - she's a groupie. You had just thought she was boring after about ten seconds and decided to move on, thinking nothing more of her.
Or just about anything else that was more serious than the typical Pirate Bay fare. Where are you guys going? I've been resorting to eMule.
I suggest you - and other geeks - acquire game. It's certainly been turned into the sort of subject that is amenable to geekery - there's plenty of stuff out there. No, you can't recover your teens, and the price you pay is that you don't get to sleep with 15 year old virgins. But you can sure make a difference in your life today. They're not responding to your money alone; they're responding to the more-alpha social position your money gives you. If you're interested in getting girls (and not everyone is, even when they're straight), you can really boost your odds.
However, that's why I said that most of the girls at these events are more groupie than hacker.
If your point is that being an intellectually brilliant woman is a cruel fork between being a mother and being a careerist of some kind, with most people choosing to muddle along halfway between and ill-satisfied with either part. then yes, you're right. But that doesn't change reality, and I'd be willing to bet there were more groupies (especially, given the stereotype of the clientele, the professional ladies) than female hackers at most of these.
I'm not a hacker. However, I'm a doctor married to a doctor, so I've got a very good idea of the difficulties of women trying to get recognized and respected without becoming professionally male.