Change when you get to work if you get too sweaty. Putting a change of clothes in a bag is not hard.
Err...changing alone in the summer in New Orleans, ain't gonna cut it. You need a shower.
What? No shower in the work place? Ok, while i've read posts here that some people actually have this, I've never personally seen a shower available at a worksite.
Also, again...on a bicycle..riding for I'm guessing 15 miles or maybe less....I'm to carry a bag with clothes (how do I keep the pressed and neat wadded up in a bag/backpack), my lunch, my laptop at times, my gym clothes (for workouts after work)....and make it to work on a nice May/June day with 90F and near 90% humidity at times.
I won't even go into doing this during the rainy season, with the accompanying light street flooding...and cars splashing water on you as they drive by.....
There is no reason that Lincoln couldn't have been developed in a dense and mass-transit friendly way over the last 75 years. If it had been, then you wouldn't have people living as far out at Denton commuting by car into Lincoln.
So, your solution is to have everyone move out, tear down the city and whole infrastructure...and redo it in a mass transit friendly manner?
We should do that most every city in the US?
Ok, I'm a little overboard with the shuttering of the city thing, but really....even before the economic downturn, how would you propose we basically redo our infrastructure to be mass transit friendly?
You can look at the past with rose colored glasses all you want saying "it could have been done different"....reality is what's in front of you now.
Ok, I grab the keys, jump in the car (I happen to keep in in good mechanical condition, which I assume you'd do for a bike too)...I drive like a bat outta hell (not that much traffic on the first road), turn onto a 4 lane busy street (not a highway mind you, a city street)...I'm at the grocery store.
Or, I get on a bike...and let's not assume it isn't May with 95F degrees and near 90% humidity, I ride up the first road. I turn on the 4 lane street (did I mention the large neutral ground between them, so only crossing here and there)....and *BAM*
You get hit by a car and die....'cause you're the only idiot anyone has ever seen attempt to drive on this road on a bicycle....
The alternative is to live closer to your primary destinations.
1. Cost of housing
2. Crime
3. School system (if you have kids)
4. Taxes
5. Quite often people change jobs, you expect to buy and sell a house every time you move for a new job? Hell, even before the housing mkt took a nose dive, this isn't really feasible.
I think this is why younger people are focusing their lives in the urban centres where possible. The benefit of mass (cheap) transit and shorter commutes trump rural idylls. Eventually it will be come untenable to live in the countryside unless you have work there.
Where are you that you see this as a major trend? I have to believe it is not in the US.
Most people avoid the dense urban city centers due to increased crime (want to walk on a dangerous street in a dangerous neighborhood?)...and then there is the cost of living. What's the rent for a one room low end apt in NYC?
Same amount of money could buy you a very nice place somewhere else....
No shit, Sherlock. So your answer to that would be, what? Continuing with the same stupid behavior and hoping for the best? Or should we grow up, and recognize that they way we've been doing things is not sustainable and pursue a course that is?
What is your suggestion then? Rip up all the cities, force everyone to move to cities...rip up and redo all the infrastructure?
Especially given the current state of the economy, how do you propose we pay for all of this?
I'm just trying to figure out how we'd redo Houston, that alone would be a major endeavor.....huge spralling city, with nothing but highways around. How would we do that one?
People manage to bike in third-world and developing countries in the tropics. Take a nice easy pace and it is no more strenuous than walking, and you create for yourself a nice breeze.
They also don't have to show up at work in suits or nice business casual dress....not be sweat soaked and not smell like a rhino.
Biking in the south, during the middle of summer for people with real jobs...is not an option.
I don't buy the biking long distances (most people live miles, often 30 min to an hour from work by car) in cold either....most people aren't in shape to win the Iron Man marathon....
While true, it is important to remember that the lower population densities and sprawling suburbs of the USA are an intentional creation of the auto industry, not just an accidental development or a law of nature.
As true as that might be...it is in fact, the current situation, and it isn't like we can rip up all our cities and infrastructure and start over...
For the most part, people have been moving to mass transit and more cycling (better cycle lanes), rather than renewable fuels. Also, people are moving more into cities, and investments are being made to make them more livable.
What country are you speaking about? Certainly not the US....
You know...we shouldn't be paying such high prices for this in the US.
We have not used that much oil this year for heating oil, due to the mild winter in the NE.
We also have lots of oil coming in domestically...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
We should try to mandate that more domestically drawn oil is kept for domestic use!!
In the meantime in addition to looking to generate new resources for energy, for God's sake, start giving out leases for oil in the Gulf again....let the fscking pipeline from Canada go through...start drilling for more oil that is being discovered domestically in the US.
Hell, I've heard rumors that there is oil in the Dakotas and area enough to supply the US with oil for decades....
XP is 11 years old (Vista is 5 years old, and 7 is going on 3). Running XP today would be the equivalent of running Debian Woody, Ubuntu Wary Warthog, or the initial version of OS X 10.0 Cheetah. If someone were to complain about Linux based on their only experience being a decade old release, they'd be laughed off of Slashdot. Why is it accepted to do that with Windows?
I dunno...why don't you ask the multitude of private businesses....not to mention FEDERAL govt. entities many of which are still running XP.
Just now upgrading on contracts I know of...soon some will move from XP to Win7...but many business and govt branches are in no hurry for the expense and trouble of an update that massive.
OTOH I own a Windows phone and really like the metro interface, and I think you'll see the design philosophy adopted more and more on the web. I also think ribbons are great, making a huge improvement to Office 2007+.
About the only time I touch it is at work..and that is XP.
I've never known a reason before to hit the windows button...I just did it, brings up the Start Menu..but when I started typing the first letters of a program it didn't go to it.
Perhaps this is a Win7 thing?
I only VERY recently had a laptop purchased for me to do some work on later for someone that has Win7...I've only fired it up to install some stuff on it...but when I get home, i'll give the windows button a try.
The GP maybe assumed someone that was familiar with Win 7, or possibly Vista which might have this feature?
I have to believe this is one of the new "sales" type posts on slashdot. The part saying "inspired by the lovely and intuitive presentation found in Windows Phone" sounds more like a sales brochure, than a post about a new OS product on a Slashdot front page...?
Hmm...that's why I think the contractor model is the better one.
You negotiate for you bill rate, and part of that bill rate is what you put aside for your healthcare. A high deductible emergency insurance policy (used to be termed major medical), and sock away as much as you can pre-tax into a HSA.
Then, your employer...has nothing to say about it.
Employer medical compensation, is relatively new....and a mistake IMHO. Once you got bean counters into the mix...health care costs skyrocketed....etc.
This is about access to healthcare, pure and simple.
You make it sounds like it is an innate human right to have someone else pick up the tab for your healthcare....
Ok, if I get to do that, do I get to mandate you quit smoking, stop eating junkfood and feeding it to your increasingly obese offspring?
No, I am not here to be my brothers keeper.....the gov should only be here to make sure opportunity is there, but if you fail...well, you should be free to fail, and if you're not prepared enough to take care of yourself, then...maybe you should be free to die?
Seat belts have an effect on everyone -- society ends up paying for your injuries in various forms and by various means, so the more severe they are, the more everyone else pays
Funny, I heard the same arguments for when our damned gov (Blank-stare...err Blanco) re-instated the mandatory helmet law here in LA.
You know, with all those savings on injuries and all...I'd have expected my motorcycle insurance to go down. I didn't.
I don't think we saw it drop when seatbelts were made mandatory.
Frankly, I wear both (ok I did sometimes go without helmet in summer)....but if someone wants to take themselves out of the gene pool, that's ok by me...perhaps one reason we're seeing so many idiots running around today is that we've been interfering with natures way of putting chlorine into the gene pool....
There is a ton of work here in New Orleans, for shooting with 5D mk2..and soon with mk3. I already have offers to come on board with crews here for multi-camera shoots...and I can borrow some of their glass on these.
I figure I get this camera from like amazon, 1yr interest free....and I should be able to get money from it to help pay it off fairly quickly....and also be buying my own glass.
I want to shoot stills and all too...but the 5D line offers opportunities to earn some $$, that I already will have lined up when I can get it....
Slashdot Mirror
But then again, I gotta be honest with you. I am only really concerned about keeping my sports cars and style of life for my lifetime.
I won't be around in 50 years...so, really don't care what happens then.
Err...changing alone in the summer in New Orleans, ain't gonna cut it. You need a shower.
What? No shower in the work place? Ok, while i've read posts here that some people actually have this, I've never personally seen a shower available at a worksite.
Also, again...on a bicycle..riding for I'm guessing 15 miles or maybe less....I'm to carry a bag with clothes (how do I keep the pressed and neat wadded up in a bag/backpack), my lunch, my laptop at times, my gym clothes (for workouts after work)....and make it to work on a nice May/June day with 90F and near 90% humidity at times.
I won't even go into doing this during the rainy season, with the accompanying light street flooding...and cars splashing water on you as they drive by.....
So, your solution is to have everyone move out, tear down the city and whole infrastructure...and redo it in a mass transit friendly manner?
We should do that most every city in the US?
Ok, I'm a little overboard with the shuttering of the city thing, but really....even before the economic downturn, how would you propose we basically redo our infrastructure to be mass transit friendly?
You can look at the past with rose colored glasses all you want saying "it could have been done different"....reality is what's in front of you now.
Ok, I grab the keys, jump in the car (I happen to keep in in good mechanical condition, which I assume you'd do for a bike too)...I drive like a bat outta hell (not that much traffic on the first road), turn onto a 4 lane busy street (not a highway mind you, a city street)...I'm at the grocery store.
Or, I get on a bike...and let's not assume it isn't May with 95F degrees and near 90% humidity, I ride up the first road. I turn on the 4 lane street (did I mention the large neutral ground between them, so only crossing here and there)....and *BAM*
You get hit by a car and die....'cause you're the only idiot anyone has ever seen attempt to drive on this road on a bicycle....
Well, I do usually check to make sure I have a nice cold beer with me....
I/We do....err, or what that a rhetorical statement you made?
1. Cost of housing
2. Crime
3. School system (if you have kids)
4. Taxes
5. Quite often people change jobs, you expect to buy and sell a house every time you move for a new job? Hell, even before the housing mkt took a nose dive, this isn't really feasible.
Where are you that you see this as a major trend? I have to believe it is not in the US.
Most people avoid the dense urban city centers due to increased crime (want to walk on a dangerous street in a dangerous neighborhood?)...and then there is the cost of living. What's the rent for a one room low end apt in NYC?
Same amount of money could buy you a very nice place somewhere else....
What is your suggestion then? Rip up all the cities, force everyone to move to cities...rip up and redo all the infrastructure?
Especially given the current state of the economy, how do you propose we pay for all of this?
I'm just trying to figure out how we'd redo Houston, that alone would be a major endeavor.....huge spralling city, with nothing but highways around. How would we do that one?
They also don't have to show up at work in suits or nice business casual dress....not be sweat soaked and not smell like a rhino.
Biking in the south, during the middle of summer for people with real jobs...is not an option.
I don't buy the biking long distances (most people live miles, often 30 min to an hour from work by car) in cold either....most people aren't in shape to win the Iron Man marathon....
As true as that might be...it is in fact, the current situation, and it isn't like we can rip up all our cities and infrastructure and start over...
What country are you speaking about? Certainly not the US....
We have not used that much oil this year for heating oil, due to the mild winter in the NE.
We also have lots of oil coming in domestically...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
We should try to mandate that more domestically drawn oil is kept for domestic use!!
In the meantime in addition to looking to generate new resources for energy, for God's sake, start giving out leases for oil in the Gulf again....let the fscking pipeline from Canada go through...start drilling for more oil that is being discovered domestically in the US.
Hell, I've heard rumors that there is oil in the Dakotas and area enough to supply the US with oil for decades....
I dunno...why don't you ask the multitude of private businesses....not to mention FEDERAL govt. entities many of which are still running XP.
Just now upgrading on contracts I know of...soon some will move from XP to Win7...but many business and govt branches are in no hurry for the expense and trouble of an update that massive.
I'm sorry, you lost me at 'ribbons are great'....
1. Everyone else is, if I don't, I'll get run over.
2. Speed limits posted are WAY lower than they should be with a modern car.
3. I'm in a hurry.
4. It is fun, I didn't buy a sports car to put around town in at 35mph.
About the only time I touch it is at work..and that is XP.
I've never known a reason before to hit the windows button...I just did it, brings up the Start Menu..but when I started typing the first letters of a program it didn't go to it.
Perhaps this is a Win7 thing?
I only VERY recently had a laptop purchased for me to do some work on later for someone that has Win7...I've only fired it up to install some stuff on it...but when I get home, i'll give the windows button a try.
The GP maybe assumed someone that was familiar with Win 7, or possibly Vista which might have this feature?
Hmm..I've never tried doing that before.
I'm guessing this would be new to a LOT of people too besides me...?
I have to believe this is one of the new "sales" type posts on slashdot. The part saying "inspired by the lovely and intuitive presentation found in Windows Phone" sounds more like a sales brochure, than a post about a new OS product on a Slashdot front page...?
You negotiate for you bill rate, and part of that bill rate is what you put aside for your healthcare. A high deductible emergency insurance policy (used to be termed major medical), and sock away as much as you can pre-tax into a HSA.
Then, your employer...has nothing to say about it.
Employer medical compensation, is relatively new....and a mistake IMHO. Once you got bean counters into the mix...health care costs skyrocketed....etc.
You make it sounds like it is an innate human right to have someone else pick up the tab for your healthcare....
Ok, if I get to do that, do I get to mandate you quit smoking, stop eating junkfood and feeding it to your increasingly obese offspring?
No, I am not here to be my brothers keeper.....the gov should only be here to make sure opportunity is there, but if you fail...well, you should be free to fail, and if you're not prepared enough to take care of yourself, then...maybe you should be free to die?
Funny, I heard the same arguments for when our damned gov (Blank-stare...err Blanco) re-instated the mandatory helmet law here in LA.
You know, with all those savings on injuries and all...I'd have expected my motorcycle insurance to go down. I didn't.
I don't think we saw it drop when seatbelts were made mandatory.
Frankly, I wear both (ok I did sometimes go without helmet in summer)....but if someone wants to take themselves out of the gene pool, that's ok by me...perhaps one reason we're seeing so many idiots running around today is that we've been interfering with natures way of putting chlorine into the gene pool....
After this mandate, soon they will mandate DVR of the camera, and then...well, next natural thing would be mandating front cameras with recorders.
Insurance and gov would love that...easy to catch you speeding!!!
I'd read people saying it had some kind of 'back focus' problem...is this something you're familiar with or have run into yourself?
There is a ton of work here in New Orleans, for shooting with 5D mk2..and soon with mk3. I already have offers to come on board with crews here for multi-camera shoots...and I can borrow some of their glass on these.
I figure I get this camera from like amazon, 1yr interest free....and I should be able to get money from it to help pay it off fairly quickly....and also be buying my own glass.
I want to shoot stills and all too...but the 5D line offers opportunities to earn some $$, that I already will have lined up when I can get it....