No offense, but the TSA couldn't care less how much you spend on air travel. They are government employees and get all of their power from elected officials. Voting with your wallet only works when dealing with organizations that are directly impacted by your spending, and even then some form of organized boycott is usually necessary if the change you are seeking is not directly related to the product provided.
You could argue that some congressman somewhere will get a call from an upset constituent who is losing money because some guy didn't come from Britain, but if that is your strategy then I wish you luck.
Yeah, it's almost as if there were a crazy transit workers union that keeps on winning arbitration cases to make it impossible to get old and deprecated work rules removed.
You can't write that into statute, and if you don't pay Apple you're technically stealing their design.
The government grants patents, why can't they take them away? Just make a law that says anything adopted as a mandatory standard revokes the patent for that use blah blah blah. It is no different than telling Apple that they can't use their patent - either way it is worthless.
Also long charge times are not a facet of Micro USB
If you are restricted to 5V with a little tiny connector like that, you won't be able to charge power-hungry devices. Sure, you can use the same connector with higher voltages, but then it won't be "USB" anymore. There is a high-voltage USB spec, but that's not what is being considered at the moment and I'm not aware of any devices which use it.
presumably because it's not interested in helping non-Apple devices.
More likely the MacBook doesn't have a driver for your phone, and so it defaults to 500mA, which is what the spec says it should do.
Trust might be too strong of a word, but you do need to defer to authority if you interact with society at all. I don't think it is possible to be an expert in everything that you use or interact with on a daily basis and - unless you eschew medical care - you will defer to someone with a medical education at several times in your life. So no, you don't need to trust Schneier or anyone else in cryptography. But your only alternatives are to not use it at all for the purpose you were considering or become educated enough in the field to make your own judgements.
Back on topic, even if you don't trust that the encryption won't frustrate the NSA, it is probably fine for most people's business purposes.
Nonsense. You download straight from MS and then crack.
Luckily for me, Oo writes PDFs and everyone takes those.
We got away with that for almost a year before we gave up. Collaboration with people using Office 2010 was not feasible. Or at least not worth struggling when the cost to install Office was so low.
The subway is not a jobs program. If positions are unnecessary, the public should not be burdened with the cost.
This treatment of public employees really angers me
In NY State, transit workers are not allowed to strike. They are paid far above market wages, so I think that is a reasonable compromise and something to consider when you work there. You are right, it's not about me - it's about the millions of people the few transit workers and terrible MTA management put in the position that they did. It's worth noting that the poor were disproportionately affected. During the strike, Manhattanites could walk, bike, or car pool easily enough. Most of the working poor live in the outer boroughs, and they were in a much worse spot. Me? I fired up my laptop and telecommuted - so yeah, it wasn't about me.
I don't know about your salary numbers and don't have the time to go into them,
I suspect you take the 5 whole minutes it takes to Google and compare the average conductor salary (over $60,000) to the average police officer salary (just under $60,000). Considering that you could put rookies on the trains at a whopping $37k each, you could actually save money by ensuring public safety with a cop on every single train. This is only salary - I concede that I did not calculate benefits.
I'm less impressed. In the case of Northern Ireland, they didn't "jaw-jaw" until after "war-war" went on for decades. That is probably the norm, not the exception.
So, on the whole, I'd say that Ireland is more pleased about the Good Friday Agreement than some of the southern US states will ever be about the outcome of the Civil War.
Do you really want to get into an atrocity count of the US vs. GB? I mean, we score pretty high with our native American policy since independence and our keeping slavery a few extra years, but I mean, have you seen the list of countries that have been invaded by GB? I can hardly hope to compete with that, though we've tried to use it as a checklist in the last century or so. Jim Crow only gets us so far.
All I can say is that I can only find one other transit agency in the world with conductors on their subways, and that is Toronto. NYC is not the only busy transit system in the world, even if it is the busiest in the US.
Stopping visits is not the same as running away, matey.
It certainly isn't "brave". You are accusing someone of being a coward.
jaw-jaw
I'm not really familiar with that phrase, but Google says it means to talk. I thought the UK was wall-to-wall closed circuit cameras? I'm also not sure that Ireland would agree that it was dealt with through discussion. The terror threat isn't a country-by-country contest - I think we're on the same team.
It depends. The lecture hall at my wife's school has a hookup for your own laptop, but most people just bring stuff on a USB stick. She's not going to haul in her personal laptop just for a presentation. When many people are expected to lecture (such as when they are doing case presentations), the secretary will collect the presentations ahead of time and queue them up so there isn't a bunch of down time as people wrestle with their video cards. Many of the conferences now are "paperless" and they distribute a CD or USB stick with the presentations or other visual aids on them, so you have to send your PowerPoints/PDFs out ahead of time (and by a certain deadline).
If she wanted to really push the issue, I'm sure she could get a work laptop, but it would be one of those crappy locked-down-by-corporate-IT things like the atrocious iPhone they gave her. That thing is so gimped that she has to carry around a personal phone along with it.
Personally, what got me thinking about it was when they went on strike and left all of us carless residents to our own devices. When they justified their job as being a warm body on the train that can answer questions and prevent crime, I nearly flipped because they make more than cops, who would be better suited to both tasks and who would be more accessible.
1) The conductor manages the train while it's operating. The train operator can make announcements and fiddle with other things while the train is stopped at a station. the train operator should not be making announcements while simultaneously operating the train. Nor should the train operator be fooling around with the automated announcements or whatnot. You would want your train operator to be focused on operating the train too, no?
First of all, there shouldn't be a train operator, either. But, this being NYC with a strong MTU and an inability to maintain - let alone upgrade - infrastructure, the best I can hope for is a mastery of door closing. Announcements on the newer trains are automated (e.g. the "Disney" 4-5-6 trains). Other announcements (usually useless), like "the train is stopped waiting on traffic ahead" can happen when, well, the train is stopped. If the driver gets distracted, then the train is stopped and no harm comes.
2) The conductor handles queries from passengers. The conductor is the public-facing individual of the train crew. The conductor handles everything from puzzled tourists (which there are a lot of) to sick passengers to any crime (for which they can only radio in). While the operator can do this duty too, the operator sits at the front of the train, which is fairly difficult to reach from the other end. Yes, the back of the train has significantly degraded service even with two crew members, but it's not as bad as having to run to the front for anything.
For what they pay those conductors, you can put a cop on every single train.
I say you probably haven't ridden in more than five lines in the entire time you're here, one of which is your commute, and none of it involves waiting for a train in Midtown during rush hour.
I'd suggest the opposite is true of you - you seem to have little experience outside of NYC, where subway conductors are pretty much unheard of. I rode enough to see the conductors as useless given modern technology. I was certainly transient, but I spent a fair amount of time on the train and buses. We sold our cars before we moved there. My experience with the outer boroughs was limited to mostly weekend trips, but I definitely had enough quality time with the Manhattan rush hour.
I was offering up the platform door as one solution, but it is hardly the only one. Besides NYC and Toronto, are there any conductors left in the world on subway trains? This strongly suggests that they are unnecessary. I don't pretend to be an expert on subway systems, but conductors seem to be anachronistic.
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No offense, but the TSA couldn't care less how much you spend on air travel. They are government employees and get all of their power from elected officials. Voting with your wallet only works when dealing with organizations that are directly impacted by your spending, and even then some form of organized boycott is usually necessary if the change you are seeking is not directly related to the product provided.
You could argue that some congressman somewhere will get a call from an upset constituent who is losing money because some guy didn't come from Britain, but if that is your strategy then I wish you luck.
Yeah, it's almost as if there were a crazy transit workers union that keeps on winning arbitration cases to make it impossible to get old and deprecated work rules removed.
Yes, the joys of efficiency.
How you treat the people that "work for you" says a lot about you.
You sound like you have an entitlement issue. I cannot help you with that.
Googling for 5 whole minutes is not research.
No, but it would confirm my numbers.
On the other hand, farmers buy untaxed diesel all the time, as do homeowners (though it is technically "heating oil").
You can't write that into statute, and if you don't pay Apple you're technically stealing their design.
The government grants patents, why can't they take them away? Just make a law that says anything adopted as a mandatory standard revokes the patent for that use blah blah blah. It is no different than telling Apple that they can't use their patent - either way it is worthless.
Also long charge times are not a facet of Micro USB
If you are restricted to 5V with a little tiny connector like that, you won't be able to charge power-hungry devices. Sure, you can use the same connector with higher voltages, but then it won't be "USB" anymore. There is a high-voltage USB spec, but that's not what is being considered at the moment and I'm not aware of any devices which use it.
presumably because it's not interested in helping non-Apple devices.
More likely the MacBook doesn't have a driver for your phone, and so it defaults to 500mA, which is what the spec says it should do.
Technically you could run untaxed gas on private property, though logistically it would only be worth it if you used a LOT of gas.
Trust might be too strong of a word, but you do need to defer to authority if you interact with society at all. I don't think it is possible to be an expert in everything that you use or interact with on a daily basis and - unless you eschew medical care - you will defer to someone with a medical education at several times in your life. So no, you don't need to trust Schneier or anyone else in cryptography. But your only alternatives are to not use it at all for the purpose you were considering or become educated enough in the field to make your own judgements.
Back on topic, even if you don't trust that the encryption won't frustrate the NSA, it is probably fine for most people's business purposes.
you're just begging to be pwned.
Nonsense. You download straight from MS and then crack.
Luckily for me, Oo writes PDFs and everyone takes those.
We got away with that for almost a year before we gave up. Collaboration with people using Office 2010 was not feasible. Or at least not worth struggling when the cost to install Office was so low.
I wasn't going to go there but you dipped back into the 1860s :)
You win the internets today.
The subway is not a jobs program. If positions are unnecessary, the public should not be burdened with the cost.
This treatment of public employees really angers me
In NY State, transit workers are not allowed to strike. They are paid far above market wages, so I think that is a reasonable compromise and something to consider when you work there. You are right, it's not about me - it's about the millions of people the few transit workers and terrible MTA management put in the position that they did. It's worth noting that the poor were disproportionately affected. During the strike, Manhattanites could walk, bike, or car pool easily enough. Most of the working poor live in the outer boroughs, and they were in a much worse spot. Me? I fired up my laptop and telecommuted - so yeah, it wasn't about me.
I don't know about your salary numbers and don't have the time to go into them,
I suspect you take the 5 whole minutes it takes to Google and compare the average conductor salary (over $60,000) to the average police officer salary (just under $60,000). Considering that you could put rookies on the trains at a whopping $37k each, you could actually save money by ensuring public safety with a cop on every single train. This is only salary - I concede that I did not calculate benefits.
I'm less impressed. In the case of Northern Ireland, they didn't "jaw-jaw" until after "war-war" went on for decades. That is probably the norm, not the exception.
So, on the whole, I'd say that Ireland is more pleased about the Good Friday Agreement than some of the southern US states will ever be about the outcome of the Civil War.
Do you really want to get into an atrocity count of the US vs. GB? I mean, we score pretty high with our native American policy since independence and our keeping slavery a few extra years, but I mean, have you seen the list of countries that have been invaded by GB? I can hardly hope to compete with that, though we've tried to use it as a checklist in the last century or so. Jim Crow only gets us so far.
All I can say is that I can only find one other transit agency in the world with conductors on their subways, and that is Toronto. NYC is not the only busy transit system in the world, even if it is the busiest in the US.
and talk about the ultimate Hypocrisy... you Yanks are constantly waving your precious free market and "vote with your dollars" in our faces
Me? I did that? Well, then I apologize.
In other words, wherever there was terrorism?
Stopping visits is not the same as running away, matey.
It certainly isn't "brave". You are accusing someone of being a coward.
jaw-jaw
I'm not really familiar with that phrase, but Google says it means to talk. I thought the UK was wall-to-wall closed circuit cameras? I'm also not sure that Ireland would agree that it was dealt with through discussion. The terror threat isn't a country-by-country contest - I think we're on the same team.
You call him a coward, yet your solution to the same problem is to run away.
Yeah, I'm sure he'd much rather be famous for yelling "Don't touch my junk bro!" on YouTube.
It depends. The lecture hall at my wife's school has a hookup for your own laptop, but most people just bring stuff on a USB stick. She's not going to haul in her personal laptop just for a presentation. When many people are expected to lecture (such as when they are doing case presentations), the secretary will collect the presentations ahead of time and queue them up so there isn't a bunch of down time as people wrestle with their video cards. Many of the conferences now are "paperless" and they distribute a CD or USB stick with the presentations or other visual aids on them, so you have to send your PowerPoints/PDFs out ahead of time (and by a certain deadline).
If she wanted to really push the issue, I'm sure she could get a work laptop, but it would be one of those crappy locked-down-by-corporate-IT things like the atrocious iPhone they gave her. That thing is so gimped that she has to carry around a personal phone along with it.
Perhaps your priorities are exactly what I am lampooning? I'd much rather my kid get knocked up than be beheaded.
The point is that I think we'd all agree that boobs are not as horrible as a beheading, and yet Facebook allows only the latter.
Personally, what got me thinking about it was when they went on strike and left all of us carless residents to our own devices. When they justified their job as being a warm body on the train that can answer questions and prevent crime, I nearly flipped because they make more than cops, who would be better suited to both tasks and who would be more accessible.
Thank God, because that would be obscene!
1) The conductor manages the train while it's operating. The train operator can make announcements and fiddle with other things while the train is stopped at a station. the train operator should not be making announcements while simultaneously operating the train. Nor should the train operator be fooling around with the automated announcements or whatnot. You would want your train operator to be focused on operating the train too, no?
First of all, there shouldn't be a train operator, either. But, this being NYC with a strong MTU and an inability to maintain - let alone upgrade - infrastructure, the best I can hope for is a mastery of door closing. Announcements on the newer trains are automated (e.g. the "Disney" 4-5-6 trains). Other announcements (usually useless), like "the train is stopped waiting on traffic ahead" can happen when, well, the train is stopped. If the driver gets distracted, then the train is stopped and no harm comes.
2) The conductor handles queries from passengers. The conductor is the public-facing individual of the train crew. The conductor handles everything from puzzled tourists (which there are a lot of) to sick passengers to any crime (for which they can only radio in). While the operator can do this duty too, the operator sits at the front of the train, which is fairly difficult to reach from the other end. Yes, the back of the train has significantly degraded service even with two crew members, but it's not as bad as having to run to the front for anything.
For what they pay those conductors, you can put a cop on every single train.
I say you probably haven't ridden in more than five lines in the entire time you're here, one of which is your commute, and none of it involves waiting for a train in Midtown during rush hour.
I'd suggest the opposite is true of you - you seem to have little experience outside of NYC, where subway conductors are pretty much unheard of. I rode enough to see the conductors as useless given modern technology. I was certainly transient, but I spent a fair amount of time on the train and buses. We sold our cars before we moved there. My experience with the outer boroughs was limited to mostly weekend trips, but I definitely had enough quality time with the Manhattan rush hour.
I was offering up the platform door as one solution, but it is hardly the only one. Besides NYC and Toronto, are there any conductors left in the world on subway trains? This strongly suggests that they are unnecessary. I don't pretend to be an expert on subway systems, but conductors seem to be anachronistic.