Sounds like Columbus sucks. Buffalo used to be similar but the city has done a great job in recent years growing some neighborhoods.
Also please speak to your countrymen about CDG airport. It is not only a toilet for the many homeless that inhabit it, but also a huge pain in the ass to traverse. Otherwise, I like your nation just fine, what I have seen of it.
If it was up to me rail would be doing 90% of that.
I have no problem paying for lifestyle problems, just like the rock climbing example I would gladly pay for that to make sure everyone can get healthcare.
The day you find yourself unemployed and the HSA spent you might change your mind. Probably not, I have an uncle like that, he talked the same talk and now gladly accepts medicare but still talks bad about the 47%. He never gets that he is part of it.
This is true and easily fixable, stop slowing down the damn train. I have been on the ICE and screamed through towns just as you describe.
In just a few generations we can eliminate that population group. If we work to make visits to train stations a yearly school function we might be able to get it done even faster.
To go from Frankfurt to my Uncles home, you can take a plane or train to Stuttgart then another train to a nearby small city Goppingen and in good weather walk or in poor weather take a taxi or bus the last couple miles.
Sounds like either you are a liar or France needs to fix that. In Germany you can get from just about anywhere to anywhere else on the train. To go from Frankfurt to my Uncles home, you can take a plane or train to Stuttgart then another train to a nearby train and in good weather walk or in poor weather take a taxi or bus the last couple miles. I know shocking that an American would consider walking an acceptable method of transportation.
What we actually need is better public transit in the cities as well. I go downtown all the time, that is where the non-chain good restaurants are, the interesting shops and the arts/museums. As I live in Buffalo I would consider that pretty comparable to Columbus size wise.
Busses are only cheaper because they get to ride on the road that tax dollars provides.
I do it pretty regularly. You don't have to take the peace bridge you know. Actually you keep taking it, leaves the other bridges free for me.
1. No but it offers connections. 2. Amtrack website disagrees 3. It is not that much fun. 4. I do usually get a hotel outside of town and take the train in. Driving in Toronto is a total shitshow.
I love train travel, I use it all the time in Europe. I wish I could use it here. In the states though we seem to have no trouble subsidizing roads, but for some reason we view trans as some socialist evil. I think it has a lot to do with trains being a more democratic form of travel, I sit in the same seat as the rich. On the road they can show off their cars.
The booze factor may get me to tolerate a 4 hour rid to toronto though. On vacation I like to keep my BAC up.
WTF are you talking about? They are a giant sinkhole of money. The only way they are a success is if you are in the oil, auto or road building business.
Wow, already in the first couple sentences you are wrong.
Look at the actual numbers, for population density then think about it again. France 303/sq mile vs NY state 412.3 inhabitants per square mile. Spain is even lower. Germany only slightly higher. We have states that have very comparable population rates and relatively few hub cities. NY state has only NYC, Buffalo, Rochester. Still there is no good rail travel between them. Those 3 cities hold almost the entire population of the state.
Berlin is not even the biggest airport in Germany, much less some hub city. Way to piss off the entire Western and Southern parts of that country.
China I cannot speak too.
The USA has 60 Major metros, 90% of which don't even have subway systems and sure as hell could be linked with HSR to each other.
Planes are heavily subsidized and burn fuel at rates that will not continue to be possible. The advantage is if we build HSR now we can still use it when we don't have the oil to spare for jets.
I ride trains when I am in Europe. In the USA it is not just that you have to be not in a hurry, but you have to be retired or independently wealthy. I just checked to visit my brother in TX, would take one overnight train to Chicago, a long layover, and another overnight train onward. So I am supposed to pay more than airplane tickets, and take two days?
With the TSA now moving towards inspecting my testicles for train rides that slim advantage is also disappearing.
We have the population density in some areas, yet it it still not built there. Much of Europe has similar densities yet damn near every town has a train station. Here in the Northeast many towns do not even have one in an hours drive.
Buffalo to Toronto takes 4.5 hours. You claiming those places have to low a population density?
To go from Buffalo NY to Toronto Canada by car takes about 1.44 hours, by train it takes 4.5 hours. As a trip I make on a fairly regular basis for pleasure it would be great to be able to avoid driving as I do not need a car once I arrive. Wasting half of a day of vacation on a train is not something I intend to do.
RWD has little impact on fun to drive, and I am not sure what road conditions benefit from it. Surely not Snow and Ice, AWD or FWD are much preferred then.
So far no teenagers have driven into a restaurant killed a waitress and made a child an orphan. The old bat then tried to drive off. She is only losing her license. If a teenager did that they would be going to prison. In my part of the state there have been 3 similar accidents in recent months.
So we are paying about a 6% premium on the cheapest cars for safety. That seems pretty acceptable to me. I think I would accept that level of cost for safety.
I am not saying people are not willing to pay for safety, I am suggesting people are not willing to pay 10X for a very small increase in safety. If the cheapest cars were suddenly $150k instead of $15k, people would feel differently.
You could copy the files to some unprivileged user home dir and have the servers run a cronjob to mv and chown the files as needed. That way if they get the management server all they can do is bork the config files.
If you are that worried about it you could disable the use of ssh keys. No one is going to be guessing the keys anyway, but it is a concern if someone copied one.
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I feel sorry for you :P
Sounds like Columbus sucks. Buffalo used to be similar but the city has done a great job in recent years growing some neighborhoods.
Also please speak to your countrymen about CDG airport. It is not only a toilet for the many homeless that inhabit it, but also a huge pain in the ass to traverse. Otherwise, I like your nation just fine, what I have seen of it.
If it was up to me rail would be doing 90% of that.
I have no problem paying for lifestyle problems, just like the rock climbing example I would gladly pay for that to make sure everyone can get healthcare.
The day you find yourself unemployed and the HSA spent you might change your mind. Probably not, I have an uncle like that, he talked the same talk and now gladly accepts medicare but still talks bad about the 47%. He never gets that he is part of it.
There are a lot of AWD sports cars. No sure what a purist in this respect would be other than old.
So I have to pay taxes to fund that shit, even though my commute is under 5 miles?
Sounds like you are the fatty eating bonbons here.
This is true and easily fixable, stop slowing down the damn train. I have been on the ICE and screamed through towns just as you describe.
In just a few generations we can eliminate that population group. If we work to make visits to train stations a yearly school function we might be able to get it done even faster.
Slashdot, get a fucking edit button.
To go from Frankfurt to my Uncles home, you can take a plane or train to Stuttgart then another train to a nearby small city Goppingen and in good weather walk or in poor weather take a taxi or bus the last couple miles.
Sounds like either you are a liar or France needs to fix that. In Germany you can get from just about anywhere to anywhere else on the train. To go from Frankfurt to my Uncles home, you can take a plane or train to Stuttgart then another train to a nearby train and in good weather walk or in poor weather take a taxi or bus the last couple miles. I know shocking that an American would consider walking an acceptable method of transportation.
What we actually need is better public transit in the cities as well. I go downtown all the time, that is where the non-chain good restaurants are, the interesting shops and the arts/museums. As I live in Buffalo I would consider that pretty comparable to Columbus size wise.
Busses are only cheaper because they get to ride on the road that tax dollars provides.
I do it pretty regularly. You don't have to take the peace bridge you know. Actually you keep taking it, leaves the other bridges free for me.
1. No but it offers connections.
2. Amtrack website disagrees
3. It is not that much fun.
4. I do usually get a hotel outside of town and take the train in. Driving in Toronto is a total shitshow.
When I am retired I plan to do just that.
I love train travel, I use it all the time in Europe. I wish I could use it here. In the states though we seem to have no trouble subsidizing roads, but for some reason we view trans as some socialist evil. I think it has a lot to do with trains being a more democratic form of travel, I sit in the same seat as the rich. On the road they can show off their cars.
The booze factor may get me to tolerate a 4 hour rid to toronto though. On vacation I like to keep my BAC up.
WTF are you talking about?
They are a giant sinkhole of money. The only way they are a success is if you are in the oil, auto or road building business.
You could do customs like it is done on planes, at the destination.
Even a group of cars would not take more than an hour, this is adding 3 hours to the trip we are talking about.
Wow, already in the first couple sentences you are wrong.
Look at the actual numbers, for population density then think about it again. France 303/sq mile vs NY state 412.3 inhabitants per square mile. Spain is even lower. Germany only slightly higher. We have states that have very comparable population rates and relatively few hub cities. NY state has only NYC, Buffalo, Rochester. Still there is no good rail travel between them. Those 3 cities hold almost the entire population of the state.
Berlin is not even the biggest airport in Germany, much less some hub city. Way to piss off the entire Western and Southern parts of that country.
China I cannot speak too.
The USA has 60 Major metros, 90% of which don't even have subway systems and sure as hell could be linked with HSR to each other.
Planes are heavily subsidized and burn fuel at rates that will not continue to be possible. The advantage is if we build HSR now we can still use it when we don't have the oil to spare for jets.
I ride trains when I am in Europe. In the USA it is not just that you have to be not in a hurry, but you have to be retired or independently wealthy. I just checked to visit my brother in TX, would take one overnight train to Chicago, a long layover, and another overnight train onward. So I am supposed to pay more than airplane tickets, and take two days?
With the TSA now moving towards inspecting my testicles for train rides that slim advantage is also disappearing.
So should we get rid of the interstates as well?
What about airports? Should they all be closed for the same reason?
I propose HSR not for any romantic notions, but because I have ridden it in Europe. I have been on the damn things and seen how well they work.
How about you name a method of travel that meets those goals so we can compare it to HSR.
What would an airplane crash look like?
Heavy thing going fast can indeed lead to trouble, no point in worrying about just this one.
You could have hit the airport and been there in far less time. Leaving you time to eat at a nice restaurant and sleep in a hotel.
Do they even have booze on Amtrack?
We have the population density in some areas, yet it it still not built there. Much of Europe has similar densities yet damn near every town has a train station. Here in the Northeast many towns do not even have one in an hours drive.
Buffalo to Toronto takes 4.5 hours. You claiming those places have to low a population density?
Times to NY city are also insanely long.
Still faster than 90% of Amtrack.
To go from Buffalo NY to Toronto Canada by car takes about 1.44 hours, by train it takes 4.5 hours. As a trip I make on a fairly regular basis for pleasure it would be great to be able to avoid driving as I do not need a car once I arrive. Wasting half of a day of vacation on a train is not something I intend to do.
RWD has little impact on fun to drive, and I am not sure what road conditions benefit from it. Surely not Snow and Ice, AWD or FWD are much preferred then.
Was this your attempt to be as vague as possible?
Other than more fuel being burned from increased weight, what are you trying to say?
You left out the elderly.
So far no teenagers have driven into a restaurant killed a waitress and made a child an orphan. The old bat then tried to drive off. She is only losing her license. If a teenager did that they would be going to prison. In my part of the state there have been 3 similar accidents in recent months.
So we are paying about a 6% premium on the cheapest cars for safety. That seems pretty acceptable to me. I think I would accept that level of cost for safety.
I am not saying people are not willing to pay for safety, I am suggesting people are not willing to pay 10X for a very small increase in safety. If the cheapest cars were suddenly $150k instead of $15k, people would feel differently.
Which is why we have things like chroot and rssh. Limiting the scope of the damage is a vital practice with those kinds of accounts.
You could copy the files to some unprivileged user home dir and have the servers run a cronjob to mv and chown the files as needed. That way if they get the management server all they can do is bork the config files.
If you are that worried about it you could disable the use of ssh keys. No one is going to be guessing the keys anyway, but it is a concern if someone copied one.