"f the US had subsidized rail infrastructure as much as they subsidized roadways, we'd probably have good passenger rail from more suburbs to urban centers, as well as between cities. Unfortunately, we don't, because the US didn't subsidize that way."
Honest question from someone who has never lived around trains and having them actually used to go to/from work.
You get on a train in the suburbs (I'm guessing your wife drops you off, or you drive to train depot and park. Once you get to the 'city', how do you get to/from your work site? I'm quite sure the train doesn't drop you off anywhere near the front door of your office for most people, so, how do you get to and from work? If you try to walk..what happens when weather is bad?
To me, especially living in the climate I do, that is the greatest impediment to any type of mass transit to go to work daily. It would take me much longer to catch and switch busses all over town, to get to my work...not to mention that there is not a bus stop very near either my home or office. So, if I were to do this during the summer...I'd be a sweat soaked heap by the time I got there....and the travel time would be hours instead of the 10 min or so it takes me to get there on motorcycle or car (I drive quite fast), and on the route, a bicycle wouldn't cut it. What if you need to go to the gym or shop after work on the way home?? How do you live like that without a car...I just have a hard time seeing how you do that and have any resemblance to a normal life and life schedule.
"I leads me momentarily to wonder if lots of men around me really feel this concealed seething discontent with 51% of the world, but then I remember that slashdot is filled with sad, lonely people."
The broad answer is yes....at least the majority of men who figured 'it' out feel that way. Most do to some extent, don't kid yourself.
They don't tell women that, of course.....doing that leads to NOT getting laid, which, of course, is the end goal for most interactions with women.
"I'm running towards 40, i find myself enjoying watching woman of all ages. If you are 20, of course you will not be interested in a 45-year old lady, just as i will not be interested in a 17-year old girl. Nature made this happen to us, not sure how nature did it before mirrors were invented, but it works. "
I dunno about you, but I would NEVER get tired of screwing 17 (if legal in that state) women...I just don't get that chance as often anymore.
Younger women are great in that everything is where it should be, gravity hasn't taken its toll, and things are still 'tight'.
I had a conversation with a lady once..saying she couldn't understand an older guy wanting a younger girl.
I said...hey, I liked fucking them when I was that age...what would make me NOT want to fuck them now??
Sure, some older women have traits that are good...the same life experiences and all...but, I'm not looking to settle down. Given the choice between some good 19-20 yr old pussy, and something 40+ years old, with attitude and sagging...
Well, I can tell you, I'm gonna be in that long line of guys waiting for the good stuff.
"I am afraid I am speaking with people who have already closed their minds to the possibility that what they do not/cannot understand with logic must inherently not exist or be explainable with something besides logic."
Trust me...I didn't come up with this outside of LOTS of experience. Sadly, it took me quite a few years to glean the truth. I wished I'd learned what many of my other male friends learned much earlier than I. It would have saved me a lot of personal heartache...
Once I learned how things really are, I've been much happier, felt freer in relationships, etc. I'm upfront on where I stand how I act and will act in the future in relationships. Learning how to actually hold back and be able to more easily 'let go', has helped me more in keeping women around and interested in me, than back when I would do 'anything' for her, and open up 100%, etc. You just get whacked mentally doing that shit, and frankly, women don't respect you. If they don't respect you, they aren't gonna be around long.
"You guys are both kind of sad individuals. You should really hear yourselves. I'm sorry you have both lost touch with what it is to be human and how to interact with others:-("
Not really...we're just not afraid of saying just what most men know or find out.
Not really....most of them really are that way. You really can't ever trust them 100%. Some are better than others, but, you always have to be cautious when dealing with them.
They may say they love you and you are the most important thing, but, you are not. Their financial stability and care of their kids will always outweigh you as their man.
It has been said that women have it made. They have half the money and ALL the pussy.
With the latter, they can get another many to replace you in no time at all. They may be more generally emotional creatures, but, they can turn it all off in a snap too. Guys seem to have the opposite problem, they take awhile to let the shields down, but, after they do...the pretty much lose it if their woman leaves them. That's why you so often see the obsessional behavior of a dumped guy. You rarely see that as much from the womans point of view.
Of course, there are always exceptions and outliers to the rule.
The trick is...as a guy, never let yourself totally go, and never trust them all the way. If you do, YOU lose the dominant role, and you are open to really getting fscked both emotionally, and financially.
"In other news: a recent study by the American Wave Mechanics Society suggests wishful thinking may explain quantum mechanics."
I don't think neither wave mechanics nor quantum mechanics can figure out how women think. I think that is pretty much beyond comprehension to anything less than a supreme being.
"With advertising and PR you're also buying into the image that comes with it. iPods that make you part of the trendy crowd, shoes that make you a super basketball player or a car that attracts all the babes. Sure, it may be a good product but how many people would be willing to buy the equivalent product that has little or no image / cool factor attached to it?"
It is only an 'image' thing, if you take this stuff out, and try to show/flaunt it in public so people can see you with it. I have some mac stuff, but people rarely see it. I use my computers at home. When I take out my iPod or shuffle...no one sees me using it at my desk at work, and at the gym, the shuffle is pretty hard to see clipped to the bottom of my shirt...I don't use the crappy white earphones that come with the thing...I use some higher ended Shure ones, but, no one knows what those are looking at them.
Sometimes, you DO get what you pay for. I prefer to get Polo button down dress shirts. Yes, they are expensive (actually I have access to a store discount which helps a LOT). I don't wear them because of the horsey on them, I find that they:
A. They look good
B. They LAST a long time.
That last part is important. I get many many wears out of the shirts without them fading or falling apart. I tend to run all my stuff to the laundry service, so I know that is rough on the clothes, and with ironing and heavy starch...well, it takes a good quality shirt to stand up to that.
I like to save money as much as anyone, but, I find some things need to be looked at over the long haul for value. Sometimes, the name brand that is more $$, IS the better value. I feel the same way about cookware. I save and spend money on All-Clad stainless steel cookware. Yes, a fry pan is over $100. But, it works better than most cheap stuff I've tried. And I will likely never need to buy another one the rest of my life. I like Wusthoff Trident knives....they are $$, but, again, they are quality and last forever.
Are these status symbol things? Not to me...no one ever really sees me use them or knows I do. I research and buy things I want that are the highest quality I can afford.
"You can tune performance using company owned modems as well. At the tyme the modem I had failed, when the tech replaced it he offered to do a tuneup but I said I'd do it myself. Speedguide.net [speedguide.net] can help as can others [google.com]."
I checked these links...they all seemed to have to do with tuning windows rather than tuning the modem....
Are there things you can do to the actual modem itself to 'tune' it? I run 99% linux and a couple of osx boxes...so, the windows stuff doesn't do me much good...
"If you buy a new modem off the shelf, based on your own research and subject to your own maintenance, it's unlikely it would just flame out after a year. If it did, it would probably still be under warranty. Also, if you are maintaining your own cable modem, you can really tune the performance and get measurable speed increases 24/7."
Can you give some info on how you 'tune' your modem? I'd not heard you could do that before?
Turn them all into "Cash Cabs"....that one looks clean on tv, and it would force people to learn a little bit. Hell, start them ALL off with US civics questions, these days, we need the people to know what the government is supposed to be.
"he only reason why we have a "waste problem" in the US is because the government won't allow separating the dangerous-part-which-decays-quickly from the very-long-half-life-but-reusable-as-fuel parts. The reason why we can't do this separation is because we don't want to encourage rogue nations like Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons."
Actually, you can thank the Carter administration for that policy on recycling nuclear waste so it can be reused.
I don't know why we can't do it, hell, look at France, they've done very well using nuclear energy this way. Fsck North Korea. They're gonna try to do what they want to do no matter what example we give.
"Maybe they should ship everyone a mode with a digital meter right there on the front that starts to change colors the closer you get to your cap."
Well, they'd better do it for free.
I bought and paid for my own cable modem to save money...I don't like having to pay rental fees, or the high $$ they charge you that you can buy for significantly less elsewhere.
Are they trying to no LIMIT people who have and have had for awhile, the advertised 'unlimited' plan?
Yeah, I could see how they'd get pissed.
I could see Time Warner trying to set this up with NEW customers, but, with existing ones...how can they change it in the middle of the game? I know they say in the TOS they can change some things, but, can they legally change the basic service agreement on what a person contracted with them to provide?!?!
"deletion of email to prevent discovery in a lawsuit,"
Ok, I can understand if you are deleting to prevent discovery, but, does it mandate how long or how you store email if you are NOT involved in a lawsuit?
I'll go look it up myself some more, but, if you could give a quick answer. Or, does sox just say you have to have a policy and stick by it, but, doesn't mandate how long or how you keep emails?
"Yea, it would be REALLY NICE if MSFT would put Exchange inside of something other than a Jet engine database... Then maybe I could have a high performance database that wasn't capped at 200GB for performance reasons, and I could have one big database per server cluster instead of 12-16... and I could front end that with a half a dozen exchange servers and have all 20,000 users inside of a single database and eliminate all the wasted space from single indexing!"
Well, I supposed they could use PostgreSQL. It wouldn't cost them a penny.
"Sprint/nextel have sim cards. They used to be built into the phones and I remember having to actually take one completely apart to remove one when I changed a phone once. Any phone you get now will most likely have a sim car somewhere in it. It just may be hidden and not considered user accessible."
They do? Interesting...I thought they were only for the GSM phones?
Hmm, well looking here it appears we both may be right. The equivalent in a UMTS phone is called a UICC, in a CDMA device, it might be a R-UIM or no card of this type at all...with the phone info hard coded into the handset somewhere.
"I wish on stars for some things, and I still havent gotten my rifle. Granted, I live near the capitol, and unlike AZ, TX, and other border states, we need a LOT of ID in order to get a gun."
NOt if you just buy it with cash from a private individual.
Slashdot Mirror
Honest question from someone who has never lived around trains and having them actually used to go to/from work.
You get on a train in the suburbs (I'm guessing your wife drops you off, or you drive to train depot and park. Once you get to the 'city', how do you get to/from your work site? I'm quite sure the train doesn't drop you off anywhere near the front door of your office for most people, so, how do you get to and from work? If you try to walk..what happens when weather is bad?
To me, especially living in the climate I do, that is the greatest impediment to any type of mass transit to go to work daily. It would take me much longer to catch and switch busses all over town, to get to my work...not to mention that there is not a bus stop very near either my home or office. So, if I were to do this during the summer...I'd be a sweat soaked heap by the time I got there....and the travel time would be hours instead of the 10 min or so it takes me to get there on motorcycle or car (I drive quite fast), and on the route, a bicycle wouldn't cut it. What if you need to go to the gym or shop after work on the way home?? How do you live like that without a car...I just have a hard time seeing how you do that and have any resemblance to a normal life and life schedule.
The broad answer is yes....at least the majority of men who figured 'it' out feel that way. Most do to some extent, don't kid yourself.
They don't tell women that, of course.....doing that leads to NOT getting laid, which, of course, is the end goal for most interactions with women.
I dunno about you, but I would NEVER get tired of screwing 17 (if legal in that state) women...I just don't get that chance as often anymore.
Younger women are great in that everything is where it should be, gravity hasn't taken its toll, and things are still 'tight'.
I had a conversation with a lady once..saying she couldn't understand an older guy wanting a younger girl.
I said...hey, I liked fucking them when I was that age...what would make me NOT want to fuck them now??
Sure, some older women have traits that are good...the same life experiences and all...but, I'm not looking to settle down. Given the choice between some good 19-20 yr old pussy, and something 40+ years old, with attitude and sagging...
Well, I can tell you, I'm gonna be in that long line of guys waiting for the good stuff.
I'm happily un-married if that is what you mean.
It also means I don't lose half my shit whenever I decide to trade up to a 'newer' model woman.
Trust me...I didn't come up with this outside of LOTS of experience. Sadly, it took me quite a few years to glean the truth. I wished I'd learned what many of my other male friends learned much earlier than I. It would have saved me a lot of personal heartache...
Once I learned how things really are, I've been much happier, felt freer in relationships, etc. I'm upfront on where I stand how I act and will act in the future in relationships. Learning how to actually hold back and be able to more easily 'let go', has helped me more in keeping women around and interested in me, than back when I would do 'anything' for her, and open up 100%, etc. You just get whacked mentally doing that shit, and frankly, women don't respect you. If they don't respect you, they aren't gonna be around long.
Not really...we're just not afraid of saying just what most men know or find out.
Not really....most of them really are that way. You really can't ever trust them 100%. Some are better than others, but, you always have to be cautious when dealing with them.
They may say they love you and you are the most important thing, but, you are not. Their financial stability and care of their kids will always outweigh you as their man.
It has been said that women have it made. They have half the money and ALL the pussy.
With the latter, they can get another many to replace you in no time at all. They may be more generally emotional creatures, but, they can turn it all off in a snap too. Guys seem to have the opposite problem, they take awhile to let the shields down, but, after they do...the pretty much lose it if their woman leaves them. That's why you so often see the obsessional behavior of a dumped guy. You rarely see that as much from the womans point of view.
Of course, there are always exceptions and outliers to the rule.
The trick is...as a guy, never let yourself totally go, and never trust them all the way. If you do, YOU lose the dominant role, and you are open to really getting fscked both emotionally, and financially.
Well, you could always try:
emerge googleearth
I don't think neither wave mechanics nor quantum mechanics can figure out how women think. I think that is pretty much beyond comprehension to anything less than a supreme being.
It is only an 'image' thing, if you take this stuff out, and try to show/flaunt it in public so people can see you with it. I have some mac stuff, but people rarely see it. I use my computers at home. When I take out my iPod or shuffle...no one sees me using it at my desk at work, and at the gym, the shuffle is pretty hard to see clipped to the bottom of my shirt...I don't use the crappy white earphones that come with the thing...I use some higher ended Shure ones, but, no one knows what those are looking at them.
Sometimes, you DO get what you pay for. I prefer to get Polo button down dress shirts. Yes, they are expensive (actually I have access to a store discount which helps a LOT). I don't wear them because of the horsey on them, I find that they :
A. They look good
B. They LAST a long time.
That last part is important. I get many many wears out of the shirts without them fading or falling apart. I tend to run all my stuff to the laundry service, so I know that is rough on the clothes, and with ironing and heavy starch...well, it takes a good quality shirt to stand up to that.
I like to save money as much as anyone, but, I find some things need to be looked at over the long haul for value. Sometimes, the name brand that is more $$, IS the better value. I feel the same way about cookware. I save and spend money on All-Clad stainless steel cookware. Yes, a fry pan is over $100. But, it works better than most cheap stuff I've tried. And I will likely never need to buy another one the rest of my life. I like Wusthoff Trident knives....they are $$, but, again, they are quality and last forever.
Are these status symbol things? Not to me...no one ever really sees me use them or knows I do. I research and buy things I want that are the highest quality I can afford.
I checked these links...they all seemed to have to do with tuning windows rather than tuning the modem....
Are there things you can do to the actual modem itself to 'tune' it? I run 99% linux and a couple of osx boxes...so, the windows stuff doesn't do me much good...
Thanks in advance!
Can you give some info on how you 'tune' your modem? I'd not heard you could do that before?
" in a bid to tackle ethical pitfalls before they become a problem."
Ok, I'm stumped, what are the ethical pitfalls of the current things like twitter, facebook, etc?
Aside from a great deal of inane banter, and some bad webpages...what is ethically bad about these things?
Turn them all into "Cash Cabs"....that one looks clean on tv, and it would force people to learn a little bit. Hell, start them ALL off with US civics questions, these days, we need the people to know what the government is supposed to be.
Actually, you can thank the Carter administration for that policy on recycling nuclear waste so it can be reused.
I don't know why we can't do it, hell, look at France, they've done very well using nuclear energy this way. Fsck North Korea. They're gonna try to do what they want to do no matter what example we give.
Well, they'd better do it for free.
I bought and paid for my own cable modem to save money...I don't like having to pay rental fees, or the high $$ they charge you that you can buy for significantly less elsewhere.
At least that's what I get from Cox cable....
I have got to start reading before I hit submit:
Are they trying to start to LIMIT people who have and have had for awhile, the advertised 'unlimited' plan?
Yeah, I could see how they'd get pissed.
I could see Time Warner trying to set this up with NEW customers, but, with existing ones...how can they change it in the middle of the game? I know they say in the TOS they can change some things, but, can they legally change the basic service agreement on what a person contracted with them to provide?!?!
Ok, I can understand if you are deleting to prevent discovery, but, does it mandate how long or how you store email if you are NOT involved in a lawsuit?
I'll go look it up myself some more, but, if you could give a quick answer. Or, does sox just say you have to have a policy and stick by it, but, doesn't mandate how long or how you keep emails?
Again, thanks in advance
I hear about SOX this and that, but, I don't know exactly what it requires of what types of companies.
Can you tell me what SOX features are that Exchange will have and will help to do what?
TIA
Well, I supposed they could use PostgreSQL. It wouldn't cost them a penny.
They do? Interesting...I thought they were only for the GSM phones?
Hmm, well looking here it appears we both may be right. The equivalent in a UMTS phone is called a UICC, in a CDMA device, it might be a R-UIM or no card of this type at all...with the phone info hard coded into the handset somewhere.
NOt if you just buy it with cash from a private individual.