And in my city, you'll have plenty of time to do those other things, because the transit system assumes all trips are going downtown, so it takes 3x as long to get where you are actually going than if you just drive.
I can do all that stuff you mention with the time I save by not using the shitty transit system here.
I work (remotely) for a company that closed it's San Mateo and San Francisco offices in favor of a couple buildings in the east bay close to the Dumbarton Bridge, and there has been no end of complaints from people, even though as you say, it's "not that big of a relocation".
Turns out when you live in the city or on the peninsula, you don't really like having to deal with the bridges all of a sudden because some upper management type decided to move.
Clearly you were not in California during 1994. The Northridge Earthquake was estimated to have caused $20B ($34B in 2018) in direct damage, and $54B ($92B in 2018) in economic loss.
Haven't seen a hurricane drop cast bridge segments onto cars suddenly without notice.
Because uprooting an entire corporation and re-hiring and retraining all the people that won't relocate is completely free.
Please let me know what corporation you are a board member of, so I can short the shit out of it. If you're providing guidance and oversight to management, that management is set up to fail spectacularly.
You act like wasting time on political witch hunts isn't what the United States House of Representatives hearings are all about. It's what they do, regardless of who's in charge.
What the hell is "year-round daylight-saving time" ? Isn't that just "time"?
Or are they suggesting that California rates it's own time zone now, where they are essentially Mountain Time until spring, when Oregon and Washington join them by moving forward an hour? Because that doesn't get confusing at all.
Shockingly, the phone book is still thrown on my doorstep at least once a year too. From there it goes right into the recycling can, never even making it inside.
Is the UK going to try to block Facebook? That's a pretty good way to piss off your citizens as well as the government of one of your major trading partners (the United States); to say nothing about inviting the asking of serious questions about the power of the state to censor, etc.
Will they deny him entry into Commonwealth entities? That might be inconvenient, but that would be all.
I'm sure there are other levers to pull, but I'm not sure what they would be.
Tunnels are largely safer during earthquakes than being on an elevated structure where it can sway and fall over, and have multiple pre-cast highway segments moving at different rates / directions.
Consider a 10 mile commute, not horribly long and ridiculous, but still beyond reasonable walking distance. If 1 mile of that commute is severely congested and takes 30 minutes to get through, and the remaining 9 miles are at full freeway speed, it still takes you ~45 minutes for that 10 miles.
Literally nobody except you came to the conclusion that he was talking about an 8-block 50-mile anything.
You must not own land if you are advocating to make it easier for a government entity to take it away.
Making laws that only affect "other people" is a brilliantly short-sighted way to fuck yourself over when you become "other people" to someone else who wants shitty laws passed.
You are still thinking of massive multi-hundred passenger trains. Smaller vehicles with sidetracks at "stations" allow for more through traffic on the main tunnel lines. If the vehicle size is smaller, building a sidetrack to get the vehicle off the main line becomes cheaper, and allows vehicles that don't need to stop at that station to bypass it easily. Much like cars on a freeway. If you don't need to exit, you don't.
Yes, this will take some sophisticated traffic management in order to make it happen safely.
Huh. I guess the literally millions of people that use the tunnel system under Manhattan and get off at points in between the far ends of a route don't exist? I completely forgot that the New York Subway system was "kind of useless"...
Your language parser needs work. "Some folks" != "All tablet users ever"
Your anecdotal experience just means you are not included in his set of "some folks." But hey, thanks for checking in, I guess. Enjoy using a device that works for you.
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Until Disney buys some shit you do care about and makes it exclusive to this service.
Not like they're hurting for money.
And in my city, you'll have plenty of time to do those other things, because the transit system assumes all trips are going downtown, so it takes 3x as long to get where you are actually going than if you just drive.
I can do all that stuff you mention with the time I save by not using the shitty transit system here.
In countries that aren't run by tin pot dictators, warrants for arrest and asset forfeiture are responses to breaking laws.
Are you really arguing for authoritarian, nationalist actions?
I work (remotely) for a company that closed it's San Mateo and San Francisco offices in favor of a couple buildings in the east bay close to the Dumbarton Bridge, and there has been no end of complaints from people, even though as you say, it's "not that big of a relocation".
Turns out when you live in the city or on the peninsula, you don't really like having to deal with the bridges all of a sudden because some upper management type decided to move.
Not yet. Just wait for the Google autonomous tanks to start rolling down 85 towards Cupertino...
Clearly you were not in California during 1994. The Northridge Earthquake was estimated to have caused $20B ($34B in 2018) in direct damage, and $54B ($92B in 2018) in economic loss.
Haven't seen a hurricane drop cast bridge segments onto cars suddenly without notice.
Because uprooting an entire corporation and re-hiring and retraining all the people that won't relocate is completely free.
Please let me know what corporation you are a board member of, so I can short the shit out of it. If you're providing guidance and oversight to management, that management is set up to fail spectacularly.
You act like wasting time on political witch hunts isn't what the United States House of Representatives hearings are all about. It's what they do, regardless of who's in charge.
What the hell is "year-round daylight-saving time" ? Isn't that just "time"?
Or are they suggesting that California rates it's own time zone now, where they are essentially Mountain Time until spring, when Oregon and Washington join them by moving forward an hour? Because that doesn't get confusing at all.
Maybe it's time DST just goes away altogether?
Now only if Android on a tablet wasn't an infuriating shit show mish-mash of applications that don't rotate or scale properly to the larger screen.
Shockingly, the phone book is still thrown on my doorstep at least once a year too. From there it goes right into the recycling can, never even making it inside.
Can we make both of them go away?
I guess my first question would be "or what?"
Is the UK going to try to block Facebook? That's a pretty good way to piss off your citizens as well as the government of one of your major trading partners (the United States); to say nothing about inviting the asking of serious questions about the power of the state to censor, etc.
Will they deny him entry into Commonwealth entities? That might be inconvenient, but that would be all.
I'm sure there are other levers to pull, but I'm not sure what they would be.
This is the kind of post that I'd love to mod as "informative"
You do know that the point of this venture is to bring down the cost of tunnels, right?
"Tunnels are too expensive" is a pretty useless argument against a company who's stated goal is to bring down the cost of tunneling.
Well, one thing that is somewhat remarkable is that it didn't take them 4 years to do it, like most tunnels that are dug by governmental departments.
That doesn't really necessitate all the fanfare and public exhibition though.
Tunnels are largely safer during earthquakes than being on an elevated structure where it can sway and fall over, and have multiple pre-cast highway segments moving at different rates / directions.
Your reading comprehension needs work.
Consider a 10 mile commute, not horribly long and ridiculous, but still beyond reasonable walking distance. If 1 mile of that commute is severely congested and takes 30 minutes to get through, and the remaining 9 miles are at full freeway speed, it still takes you ~45 minutes for that 10 miles.
Literally nobody except you came to the conclusion that he was talking about an 8-block 50-mile anything.
You must not own land if you are advocating to make it easier for a government entity to take it away.
Making laws that only affect "other people" is a brilliantly short-sighted way to fuck yourself over when you become "other people" to someone else who wants shitty laws passed.
You are still thinking of massive multi-hundred passenger trains. Smaller vehicles with sidetracks at "stations" allow for more through traffic on the main tunnel lines. If the vehicle size is smaller, building a sidetrack to get the vehicle off the main line becomes cheaper, and allows vehicles that don't need to stop at that station to bypass it easily. Much like cars on a freeway. If you don't need to exit, you don't.
Yes, this will take some sophisticated traffic management in order to make it happen safely.
Huh. I guess the literally millions of people that use the tunnel system under Manhattan and get off at points in between the far ends of a route don't exist? I completely forgot that the New York Subway system was "kind of useless"...
Your language parser needs work. "Some folks" != "All tablet users ever"
Your anecdotal experience just means you are not included in his set of "some folks." But hey, thanks for checking in, I guess. Enjoy using a device that works for you.
Trying to read a book on a phone sounds miserable. No thanks.
I disagree, given various values of speaker setups.
Headphones can't deliver physical vibration the way a subwoofer can.
How is it mandatory? The user chooses when to install. Don't want it? Don't install it.
Did Apple Fuck up? You bet. But people that install massive updates on day 1 are asking for it. The bleeding edge can cut you.
Any system with remote management features made in the last decade have ways of being woken up remotely. Wake-on-LAN, vPro / AMT, etc