In America, we don't see much POINT in doing it (trains, etc)...we all already have cars which still are working quite well for us.
Aside from the few cities like NY or the like, that have large parts of their populations without cars and using public transportation, in the rest of the US, we all own cars and use them.
To the avg US citizen, you'd be hard pressed to explain and convince them that giving up their car and having to take public transportation would be a good thing and make their lives better.
Hell, I can't think of how it would make my life easier and better, and I can think of a whole lot that would make my life a PITA having to depend on public transport. Hell, just grocery shopping for the week on Saturday, hitting 2-4 different stores to get the best specials and hauling it all back (not even mentioning weeks I go to warehouse stores like Sam's Club).
I can't imagine having to do that and try to get it all back on public transport.
Hell, about the only thing that sucks about it...is having to work outdoors and under houses....often at times when the weather isn't the best, but still, good money, and you're independent, etc.
ow much do you think public transport actually costs the end user?
The worst price I could find doing some quick checks of major metro areas is $5/day in LA. The key is to get a pass instead of paying one-time fares. Most cities have 7-day passes, allowing unlimited rides for a limited amount of time.
Taxis, on the other hand, are that expensive. So maybe that's what you meant. Although, I'm not aware of any publicly owned taxi services (apart from ones for disabled/elderly that require registration).
Yeah, but riding the buses around town with all the smelly bums and street people?
Not my idea of fun on a trip...and what about carrying things around with you, like if going to the beach,e tc on vacation? Carting the kids around with you..on a bus?
That's not even mentioning the extreme inconvenience of public transportation generally NOT stopping or going wherever you'd like to go, or having to change busses/trains numerous times taking forever to get from place A to B.
Who wants to eat up so much of their time with public transportation when on a trip for business or vacation?
Which does nothing to explain why the areas of the US with high population densities don't have high speed rail either.
Well, there is a lot of NIMBY.
That and I'm guessing there would have to be a LOT of eminent domain used to break through all the developed homes/land/cities where you'd want to put all these high speed rails through, since it is largely all already in use (hence the high population density).
Anyhow, I think it's important to talk about the costs of education. People talk about education loans these days as if they're mandatory - ignoring options like scholarships, grants, less expensive school choices, or part time work during college. But this Tesla thing is just an attention grab.
And let's face it, not everyone needs to go to college, nor can they cut it in college. Go be a plumber or something.
Sorta like arguing we shouldn't pass a law that says it's ok for gay people to get married "because it might later get extended to cover beastialty and people getting married to toads!". I
But, could it not be opening the door to polygamy?
I mean, if marriage changes from one man and one woman....to 2x men or 2x women. Well, isn't that discrimatory to new 'families' of 3-5 or more ? I mean, limiting it to two people, that's not fair is it?
At that point, what relationship (legal) is out of bounds then?
no. Some drugs will destroy your life immediately.
You're post if an over reaction from having drugs that are illegal that have less consequences then alcohol. Some drugs should be kept illegal.
But, why?
I mean, if someone wants to take themselves out of the gene pool, should they not have that right? Who are you and I to stop and protect someone from themselves?
You think that anybody who wants to take drugs isn't already taking them?
Yes. I think they are tens if not hundreds of millions that have a mild interesting in using drugs. They would use drugs if they were easily available but won't go to the trouble to get them now.
You know...while conventional thinking would lead you this conclusion, in practice you just don't see it.
In Portugal, where they pretty much decriminalized ALL drugs, they didn't see the huge spike (I think initially there was a small one), and in some areas, they saw a drop in usage overall to a maintainable and acceptable level. I think the youth use dropped there too overall!!
2. She's a girl, that is actually speaking to him.
3. The objective here, is to get laid.
So, like any self respecting male you tell her whatever she wants to hear so you can get in her pants. It isn't like most relationships are about anything but getting laid. You do this as often as you can with as many women as you can...and along the way, you find one that keeps your interests over and above fucking her, and you pause to decide if you want to stay with her as a mate and possibly have offspring.
But that is definitely NOT on the top of the list, it is something that happens as you make your young years trying to get laid by as many women as you can.
But I'm always amazed at how "move with one stick and control the camera with the other" seems to work so well, even though it seems very unrelated to what we do in real life. Even if you're walking in one direction and looking in another, you don't likely change *walking* direction without also looking that way briefly.. But somehow it works in game controls without disorienting people (like 3D can, since we don't have the physical consequences along with the visual ones).
Yeah, that camera thing, 3rd person view I'm calling it...is what confuses me.
I've only played first person shooters in the past (Doom, Descent, etc).
As soon as action hits...that camera is what does me in....I'm looking all over the place in a panic...ahaha.
I'll figure it out, but sure isn't easy for me to learn so far in the few times I've had time to play it. In some ways, it sucks to get old.
'm pretty sure that Netflix will develop support for the PS4, although it may or may not be there on release day. As far as blu-ray player goes, you might be better off getting a dedicated blu-ray player as I've known a lot of people with dead drives on their PS3, possibly from playing so many movies. And the same problem happened with DVDs on the PS2.
Well, I'm hoping that when the PS4 comes out..that Sony doesn't turn of the network and make my PS3 console useless for streaming, etc....
The PS3 was a pretty good deal when I bought it for BR and streaming, of course now, I'd get something else....I doubt I'll buy a PS4. Then again, if I find maybe 2 weekends in a row or take time off work and hang at home, I might dedicate some hours to try to master these controllers and play the games.
I watch people play them and they sure do look like fun. Much more like being in a movie.....that the old Nintendo days, and the Fairchild system I had way before that. More more involving....
If by "interacting with other people" you mean "online play", Sony is known for closing these titles' matchmaking servers with DNAS error -103 ("This software title is not in service") to make you buy the sequel. If by "interacting with other people" you mean something else, please elaborate.
Yeah, I'm a bit concerned on this front, but for a different reason.
I bought my PS3 a few years back because then it was a reasonable price for:
1. 3D Bluray player
2. It streamed Netflix
3. Now, it also streams Amazon Prime
4. Oh...apparently it plays games too.
I use it a great deal for watching HD YouTube these days, and streaming NF and AP.
I've bought like 3 games, I tried Red Dead Redemption and love the game, but can never get the hang of it.
I used to could play game quite well as a kid, but I can't seem to get the real memory and muscle memory to get down all the freakin' controls on the dual shock. Two joy sticks (that also are press-able buttons) and the other plethora of buttons, and then on top...this new (to me) 3rd person view.
I do ok till a gunfight hits, and next thing I know, I'm staring at the sky or the ground and blood stains are filling the screen.
I guess I need to find 2-3 weekends in a row, with nothing else to do but sit down and learn the damned controller.
The games look cool, I would thing that the Batman Arkham Asylum would be fun, but shit, I don't think I stand a chance to play that one till I can somehow develop the muscle memory for the controllers.
Anyway, I digress, but I bought the PS3 mostly as a nice BR player and streaming machine.
I hope those functionalities aren't dropped anytime soon after the PS4 comes out.
Interesting, I might have to contact Oracle support on that one (when I tried to install Solaris 11 on a client's server, I got a "your system isn't supported" error.
I ran into a similar problem years back, trying to put Oracle on a RHEL box....I found the file that the installer was looking for to get versioning info, and changed that to something it liked, and install went perfectly.
So what right does it have to know what explosives, tanks, assault helicopters and nuclear weapons you have?
Actutally, they way the Constitution reads...they really don't.
It wasn't all THAT long ago, that every day citizens, with no special licensing could own fully automatic weapons in the US.
Just curious, you're not from the US, why does this seem to bother you so much? I believe you're in the UK, and if you're happy with the laws there, cool, but curious why you seem so interested in how we conduct our own business and laws and lifestyle here? Our gun laws don't affect you at all there in the UK...
In other words, you don't actually care about making any progress on this front and are attaching impossible to fulfill conditions in order to permit you to pretend to be reasonable.
What is unreasonable about doing background checks while at the same time, ensuring said information isn't going to be made available to scope creep, and create a national gun registry?
If all you are asking for is reasonable background checks, that's one thing, but are you insisting on a national gun registry too? If so, for what purpose?
That's a common way of doing it in the US. I don't agree with it; it's basically saying "Hey your needs trump the needs of the social group", but.. that's very American.
Yep....social group? New term on me...fuck the 'social group' I guess.
What's important to me, is me...my family and friends, in that order.
1. No, but never run into anything like that where I live and drive.
2. Yes, quite effectively
3. No, but I keep a VERY keen eye out for the types of unmarked cop cars in my area, and so far, so good.
Also, I have a CB in my car too, and on longer HWY trips, I usually know way in advance of any cops out there patrolling from talking to truckers on the road. I usually know where the traps are way in advance of the detector going off.
[knock wood], I've had only one speeding ticket in about 11-14 years that I can recall, and when on the hwy, my minimum speed is between 85-90mph. Hell, down here, if you go much slower than that, other drivers will run you off the road.
I would be willing to bet, that the background check thing would pass IF you embeded in the bill, very tight restrictions, that required that once the information was used to check if the person could buy the weapon, that that information was immediately and irrevocably deleted and destroyed.
What bothers so many on the option that is being put forward is that it is to build or would be easy to build, a federal, national registry of guns and gun owners.
First, we've seen what has happened recently with such things on the state level in some states, this info went public and puts various people in jeopardy, and if nothing else, violated peoples' rights to privacy.
And second, well, if it came to them wanting to take weapons from the populace, well, this list would be nice.
I remember during Katrina, cops illegally confiscated peoples' weapons that stayed in the city and were needing them to defend themselves from looters and criminals. A nice computerized list would have made that MUCH easier, and to this day...many of those weapons have never been returned to their owners.
The govt really has NO business knowing what weapons I own, nor how many. If we want to background check, ok...many would go along with it, but only if there were unbreakable stipulations that this information once collected for use, could be used to build a database of guns and their owners.
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Either way..what's the problem with the US doing this? We need to combat the Chinese on the import/export front.
In America, we don't see much POINT in doing it (trains, etc)...we all already have cars which still are working quite well for us.
Aside from the few cities like NY or the like, that have large parts of their populations without cars and using public transportation, in the rest of the US, we all own cars and use them.
To the avg US citizen, you'd be hard pressed to explain and convince them that giving up their car and having to take public transportation would be a good thing and make their lives better.
Hell, I can't think of how it would make my life easier and better, and I can think of a whole lot that would make my life a PITA having to depend on public transport. Hell, just grocery shopping for the week on Saturday, hitting 2-4 different stores to get the best specials and hauling it all back (not even mentioning weeks I go to warehouse stores like Sam's Club).
I can't imagine having to do that and try to get it all back on public transport.
And that is only one example.
Hell, about the only thing that sucks about it...is having to work outdoors and under houses....often at times when the weather isn't the best, but still, good money, and you're independent, etc.
Yeah, but riding the buses around town with all the smelly bums and street people?
Not my idea of fun on a trip...and what about carrying things around with you, like if going to the beach ,e tc on vacation? Carting the kids around with you..on a bus?
That's not even mentioning the extreme inconvenience of public transportation generally NOT stopping or going wherever you'd like to go, or having to change busses/trains numerous times taking forever to get from place A to B.
Who wants to eat up so much of their time with public transportation when on a trip for business or vacation?
Well, there is a lot of NIMBY.
That and I'm guessing there would have to be a LOT of eminent domain used to break through all the developed homes/land/cities where you'd want to put all these high speed rails through, since it is largely all already in use (hence the high population density).
And let's face it, not everyone needs to go to college, nor can they cut it in college. Go be a plumber or something.
I'm long out of school. Now, if they give this kind of deal, AND..they start making Tesla Roadsters again that are eligible for this deal, I'm IN!!
I don't need a family car (S car has too many seats), but I'd love an electric performance sports car with a nice tax break and loan built in!!
But, could it not be opening the door to polygamy?
I mean, if marriage changes from one man and one woman....to 2x men or 2x women. Well, isn't that discrimatory to new 'families' of 3-5 or more ? I mean, limiting it to two people, that's not fair is it?
At that point, what relationship (legal) is out of bounds then?
I mean as long as we're redefining things...
And what does "SpicyWith" have to do with Brown or Yale.....? Is the term supposed to mean something?
But, why?
I mean, if someone wants to take themselves out of the gene pool, should they not have that right? Who are you and I to stop and protect someone from themselves?
You know...while conventional thinking would lead you this conclusion, in practice you just don't see it.
In Portugal, where they pretty much decriminalized ALL drugs, they didn't see the huge spike (I think initially there was a small one), and in some areas, they saw a drop in usage overall to a maintainable and acceptable level. I think the youth use dropped there too overall!!
I'm glad its back....one say of nonsense is good.
1. He's a guy
2. She's a girl, that is actually speaking to him.
3. The objective here, is to get laid.
So, like any self respecting male you tell her whatever she wants to hear so you can get in her pants. It isn't like most relationships are about anything but getting laid. You do this as often as you can with as many women as you can...and along the way, you find one that keeps your interests over and above fucking her, and you pause to decide if you want to stay with her as a mate and possibly have offspring.
But that is definitely NOT on the top of the list, it is something that happens as you make your young years trying to get laid by as many women as you can.
I'm VERY happy they brought it back this year...missed it the last couple of years.
Yeah, that camera thing, 3rd person view I'm calling it...is what confuses me.
I've only played first person shooters in the past (Doom, Descent, etc).
As soon as action hits...that camera is what does me in....I'm looking all over the place in a panic...ahaha.
I'll figure it out, but sure isn't easy for me to learn so far in the few times I've had time to play it. In some ways, it sucks to get old.
Well, I'm hoping that when the PS4 comes out..that Sony doesn't turn of the network and make my PS3 console useless for streaming, etc....
The PS3 was a pretty good deal when I bought it for BR and streaming, of course now, I'd get something else....I doubt I'll buy a PS4. Then again, if I find maybe 2 weekends in a row or take time off work and hang at home, I might dedicate some hours to try to master these controllers and play the games.
I watch people play them and they sure do look like fun. Much more like being in a movie.....that the old Nintendo days, and the Fairchild system I had way before that. More more involving....
Yeah, I'm a bit concerned on this front, but for a different reason.
I bought my PS3 a few years back because then it was a reasonable price for:
1. 3D Bluray player
2. It streamed Netflix 3. Now, it also streams Amazon Prime
4. Oh...apparently it plays games too.
I use it a great deal for watching HD YouTube these days, and streaming NF and AP.
I've bought like 3 games, I tried Red Dead Redemption and love the game, but can never get the hang of it.
I used to could play game quite well as a kid, but I can't seem to get the real memory and muscle memory to get down all the freakin' controls on the dual shock. Two joy sticks (that also are press-able buttons) and the other plethora of buttons, and then on top...this new (to me) 3rd person view.
I do ok till a gunfight hits, and next thing I know, I'm staring at the sky or the ground and blood stains are filling the screen.
I guess I need to find 2-3 weekends in a row, with nothing else to do but sit down and learn the damned controller.
The games look cool, I would thing that the Batman Arkham Asylum would be fun, but shit, I don't think I stand a chance to play that one till I can somehow develop the muscle memory for the controllers.
Anyway, I digress, but I bought the PS3 mostly as a nice BR player and streaming machine.
I hope those functionalities aren't dropped anytime soon after the PS4 comes out.
I ran into a similar problem years back, trying to put Oracle on a RHEL box....I found the file that the installer was looking for to get versioning info, and changed that to something it liked, and install went perfectly.
Might be something that simple on your problem?
Actutally, they way the Constitution reads...they really don't.
It wasn't all THAT long ago, that every day citizens, with no special licensing could own fully automatic weapons in the US.
Just curious, you're not from the US, why does this seem to bother you so much? I believe you're in the UK, and if you're happy with the laws there, cool, but curious why you seem so interested in how we conduct our own business and laws and lifestyle here? Our gun laws don't affect you at all there in the UK...
Well, so far....I've been gathering stats for about 30 years...and so far they prove me right.
What is unreasonable about doing background checks while at the same time, ensuring said information isn't going to be made available to scope creep, and create a national gun registry?
If all you are asking for is reasonable background checks, that's one thing, but are you insisting on a national gun registry too? If so, for what purpose?
Yep....social group? New term on me...fuck the 'social group' I guess.
What's important to me, is me...my family and friends, in that order.
1. No, but never run into anything like that where I live and drive.
2. Yes, quite effectively
3. No, but I keep a VERY keen eye out for the types of unmarked cop cars in my area, and so far, so good.
Also, I have a CB in my car too, and on longer HWY trips, I usually know way in advance of any cops out there patrolling from talking to truckers on the road. I usually know where the traps are way in advance of the detector going off.
[knock wood], I've had only one speeding ticket in about 11-14 years that I can recall, and when on the hwy, my minimum speed is between 85-90mph. Hell, down here, if you go much slower than that, other drivers will run you off the road.
What bothers so many on the option that is being put forward is that it is to build or would be easy to build, a federal, national registry of guns and gun owners.
First, we've seen what has happened recently with such things on the state level in some states, this info went public and puts various people in jeopardy, and if nothing else, violated peoples' rights to privacy.
And second, well, if it came to them wanting to take weapons from the populace, well, this list would be nice.
I remember during Katrina, cops illegally confiscated peoples' weapons that stayed in the city and were needing them to defend themselves from looters and criminals. A nice computerized list would have made that MUCH easier, and to this day...many of those weapons have never been returned to their owners.
The govt really has NO business knowing what weapons I own, nor how many. If we want to background check, ok...many would go along with it, but only if there were unbreakable stipulations that this information once collected for use, could be used to build a database of guns and their owners.
He can turn off his dash cam, but he might not be able to shut off your google glass (as that he might not know what it is and that it is recording).
Just a nice, conspiracy addled thought.
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