As someone else said, I get very frustrated because MS products don't have everything I need or obfuscate important functions.It was better before the ribbon methods of doing everything, but in the ribbon method it's horrible. If it takes 15 minutes to add a button or learn a magic keystroke for something, I have just wasted 15 minutes of my time.
Many very basic things are always broken to boot. Importing CSV for example is a nightmare in any MS product. They auto assign what ever the hell they want for a delimiter including what you select. I usually have to run CSV data through Perl to massage the format enough to keep Excel from adding it's own formatting.
Not claiming OO is better mind you, but rather correcting your claim that MS is that much better than everyone else. 10 years ago I would have agreed with you, but not recently.
We find vigilante justice like this because the normal justice system is not working. The US system of justice has been broken for a long time now, so these acts will only grow more common. Show me one official that went to jail over Fast and Furious, starting a war in Iraq based on false premises, one bank CEO that was fired or went to jail for fraud. These things are not new, but are also growing in frequency and getting more notice.
The story of Robin Hood is not popular because he stole money, it is popular because he stole money from people that abused their power to get it.
What? I think you misunderstood something in the parent post. The parent poster was claiming that it's impossible (or at least very difficult) to win high elections, like US Senate elections, unless you are a career politician. He was making a claim about the current political system of the United States. Plato's "Republic" certainly does not contain any information about how difficult it is to obtain high office in the current US if you are not a career politician.
The US currently does things the right way and we only elect the best people for office? That is hardly true, perhaps one time long ago it was but not in the last 40 or so years at least (I can only attest to what I have been aware of). What the Republic spells out is that there can not be career politicians because human nature combined with this being allowed leads to corruption. No, it's not one sentence that states this but rather a concept laid out over several books.
By whom? How would you know? Do you even know who the poster is? Were you present during his training?
Propaganda does this, and has done this for decades. As an example, a single event in the past can prevent a person from holding an office, no matter how long ago it was. This is of course _if_ the entrenched don't want this person in office. In other cases, events are hidden and buried. The examples of this occurring are too many to count and very easy to find. Who in the media denounced Bush or the Republican party for the blackmailing of Ross Perot? The answer is nobody in media did any such thing, the issue was buried and no connection to Bush was ever attempted. This is one example of thousands where propaganda is used to tell you how a person in office is supposed to "be".
There are thousands of other examples of manipulation in different ways. For example in order to become a US Citizen there are questions related to who can run for office, and what the two political parties in the US are. So yes, people are being educated to believe that you can only vote for one of these two parties. The rhetoric that has been spread around for 40 years again of "if you don't vote for one of the two parties you waste your vote" are also too common to count.
No, there is no opposite belief that is taught in school either. Give me one class that is required nationally where young people learn about the concepts behind the US Constitution. Hell, even when I was young we had to memorize a few names out of the Bill of Rights, but we never had to understand where these came from or what they were about.
You are making a statement about the motives of people who create college curricula. Are college professors all really part of the political agenda which you're implying (to suppress information in Plato's Republic)? What evidence do you have to support that?
This is another easy target to find. There is no shortage of data regarding professors that were suspended and fired for teaching certain subjects and no shortage of data showing that the Government has restricted education and controlled learning. This is not new, it started back in the McCarthy era and continues today. Read various college Philosophy classes and count how many teach the full of Plato's Republic. You won't find many, if you find any at all. Show me any college that suggests students read the complete work and again you will come up short.
That's not to state that the Republic should be required, though honestly I believe it should be to some extent. That is to say that people are pushed away from learning these works and any other works that people in power believe would endanger their position.
You are a liar, either due to ignorance or intentionally. We could debate perhaps what Socrates meant when he talked about "Philosopher Kings", but even that is spelled out very clearly. Socrates did not have three classes of people, he had one class for all people. He was against slavery, and believed that women should hold the same positions as men. No, I'm not going to paraphrase hundreds of pages of translated text to show you are wrong. Simply read what was stated and keep things in context.
Really, you have no samples you can find? Start with the cops in California that beat a homeless man to death, and extend from there. There is no citation needed. Video cameras have been around for a while, so the excuse of "it happened and we just didn't film it" does not work.
There is no irrationality if you study history. Irrational may be worrying about whether or not what's happening because of a luciferian cult, but not by observing and showing fear over what has been happening. To have no fear at all indicates delusion or compliance, unless of course you are ignorant to history.
Citizens in the US are well armed, and much of our Military and Police force would turn on the government if Obama tried to implement a full blown police state. This is why these things are staged and planned. Not to Godwin the discussion, but Hitler didn't immediately go out shooting detractors, it took him many years of propaganda to get Germany to a police state. Stalin and Mao were able to do things much quicker, but the populace had no ability to defend themselves and lots of turmoil leading up to their police state.
Those are three very easy to study examples showing it's very rational to be concerned/worried/fearful of what's happening. You could look at more history both modern and older and see the same things happening over and over.
Claiming that the people giving warning are to blame for normalizing this is laughable, sorry. You perhaps see nothing wrong so don't want to hear about it, but you have a choice to ignore warnings. History shows how well that works for the populace too, contemplate on that one for a while.
Except by default someone has to be a career politician to get anywhere.
Nope, they don't. You have been trained to have this belief, but that belief is nowhere near reality. Study Plato's "The Republic", the answer has been known for thousands of years (about 2,500 that we know of). This is why people are not taught this information, and in most College classes you will only study a few of the books.
That out of the way, I agree with your statements about decentralizing power. This is how the US was founded, and we functioned for a short duration with these principles.
The lottery method is not a better version of what Socrates laid out. It may seem good because it's simple, but simple is not necessarily better when it comes to Government.
Nothing of value is being done, which reflects the politicians which are offering no valuable solutions. End the programs, end the corruption, and for pity sake end the careers of these corrupt politicians. The data collection and paid shilling are useless to the population. They have value to an entrenched group of people who use all available means (illegal and legal) to further entrench themselves.
Claiming that FISA courts can't release any data is idiocy and completely against the spirit of the Constitution/Bill of Rights. John Doe could be redacted from the court documents so that we could see what is happening without assisting John Doe. If Company A may be a risk, Company A could also be redacted for the same purposes.
Nobody should be surprised at this decision, Obama stated that nothing would change except for who is holding the data that is collected. The solution is to vote out every career politician and elect people of high moral character.
All governments engage in espionage to some extent, and our goal should not be to remove our "poison garden" and blind ourselves, but to ensure that state secrets are not used as a weapon against the populace.
What? Honestly I'm not sure if you meant to say what you said because you contradict yourself. Either a typo, disingenuous, or schizophrenic. You state that evidence should not be gained by illegal means, which should imply that the poison fruit, tree, and garden are all simply wrong. Instead, you claim that for some reason we need the poison and just can't use it on certain people.
The poison tree won't work, because it will always impact innocent people. This is an absolute historically accurate statement. The only way to be safe is to not produce the poison.
A common issue is that people blur the line between espionage and intelligence gathering. Further, people ignore the fact that when the state has secrets there is no way of knowing "what" they are keeping secret. As JFK stated "The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society." Our founders knew this, which is why there were no provisions for spying in the Constitution. And before someone abuses the JFK statement, the US Government may not have given away battle plans during wars, but it was essential that the populace knew we were at war (and why, and who was leading the troops, etc..). Lies beget more lies, immorality leads to further immorality, and dishonesty leads to further dishonesty.
You sound like a rare company with some rare rules, which is a good thing. Good on you, and I hope you can find someone.
On the BS question issue, I have never seen this be beneficial. I had a company interview me about a year ago and started me about the packet structure for a particular protocol. Not just the basics, but in depth knowledge would be required which basically made me not care about the remainder of the interview. If I had claimed on my resume to have developed software utilizing this protocol I could understand, or if I was applying for a development job that would require this knowledge. Turns out that this company asks random protocol questions of SAs, SEs, Devs, etc.. and you are supposed to study in advance for their interview.
I have 25 years of experience and have no interest in playing games with companies. Many companies see the interview process as a game, and if you play their game you have a chance at getting a job (*cough Google/Apple/Microsoft*). Then they are shocked when people jump ship at easy opportunities, or never answer another interview request. Not that these companies are full of bad people, just that they chase away many good people by making the interview process a game.
I'm sure that the pay being asked for or offered has something to do with the quality of the candidates. In the SF bay area, some people are offering less than 100K for senior level people with specialized knowledge. You get lots of bullshit candidates that way, because as a senior level person I just ignore these types of offers. Many companies have an interview process which includes asking bullshit questions, which makes it difficult to not be a bullshitter during interviews. Some ask if you use their products and what you think of their products as interview questions, or ask questions about things that have no place in the real world or about some obscure technology not on your resume.
Perhaps you are the one in a million that truly want's top notch talent and are willing to pay for it. Truth is most people making this claim really don't, they want what they can afford as long as it increases their chance for a bonus.
Imagine the "whale" being taken to Krispy Kream donuts for "free".. *sigh* Nothing to worry about here, and I'm assuming that TFA used that term due to it's multipurpose nature.
I never gave a number and said X busses = X cars. I stated that the number 2 was wrong, and under no circumstances would be it correct. Traffic simulation will show you very easily the same thing that basic geometry will show you. 2 cars is not less than 1 bus, and never will be.
The actual numbers would vary depending on numerous factors. This is what traffic simulation is for, and there are numerous programs both commercial and private that do just this.
You are trying to argue that I'm wrong about claiming someone's fabricated number 2 is wrong, yet there is no science that will show 1 bus is less than or equal to 2 cars in traffic. None, anywhere! Your imagination may show that, but science will not. Your imagination has been the whole of this debate. Imaginary tax rules, imaginary sizes of vehicles, and imaginary traffic rules. There is no possible way to debate your imagination, so there is no more to debate.
So by your logic, a car can't be 15' long it's as long as the actual length plus the "safe area" that you can change at will to suite an invalid argument. Where your logic is completely broken is that you only add the safe distance to the cars and not the buses, genius! Great skills with repeatable and reasonable logic you have there. You should realize that traffic simulators show you are wrong also, because of the acceleration and braking issues I mentioned.
Man, read and understand what you're responding to.
I did, and it was made obvious.
Cars are larger per traveller than buses. If the bus has 2 people or more on it, it takes less space on the freeway than a car.
Is what you started with, and it's wrong. It does not take an engineer or a "typical engineer response" to be wrong, it takes junior high level knowledge of geometry to know you are wrong.
Your insinuation that the buses are only on 101 is also wrong, as is your knowledge of taxes. Your ignorance perfectly explains your use of ad hominem, it's the only way for you to feel intelligent.
I do allow scripts, as is true with most people that use NoScript. The reason to use something like NoScript is to control where you allow scripts to run from. If there was no desire to run any scripts I'd use a browser without JS support.
If you blindly trust everything on the web, that's your issue.
The bug being introduced in both does not show that it was not intentional. Google developers probably spend a lot of time working on the OSS version. For example, HP WebOS was open source. HP had several dozen developers working on the OSS source full time in addition to many dozens of other staff for the OSS software.
Cars are larger per traveller than buses. If the bus has 2 people or more on it, it takes less space on the freeway than a car.
You not only show extreme ignorance, but a failure to correct that ignorance with a basic web search. This is a basic geometry problem and you are WRONG! A bus is at least 60' long by 8.5'. A mid sized car can not exceed 15.6' by 5.5', so we can use the max as the "average" car though in the bay area there are many more smaller cars than mid or large sized cars.
I think from there you can do some basic geometry and see that you are completely wrong. 510sq ft vs 85.6sq ft per passenger car means you have 6 people per bus to save space.
Now if you look at emissions that those 2 people have in a bus vs. a mid-sized car, there is still no comparison. The large diesel engines are not "clean" by anyone's standards.
This does not even address the main issue people have with congestion, which is that these buses block traffic by stopping in lanes to load and unload in addition to using the bus stops and blocking municipal bus services. They can not accelerate like a car, or brake like a car, so impede traffic much more than 6 cars would do.
Not surprisingly, your tax statements miss the mark completely. I already had to explain basic geometry for you, so I'm not wasting more time trying to explain the differences between city, county, state, and federal tax revenue.
I think it's prudent to question whether this bug in Google's browser is intentional or unintentional. The list of underhanded and outright shitty things we know about being done is pretty long.
If I bump into a person and it seems like an accident I can get away with apologizing. When I do it a second time, the apology should be taken with a grain of salt. When it happens a third time the person has the right to believe it was intentional and react. This is the point we should be at with not just the NSA and Google, but Politicians, Microsoft, RSA, etc.. Continuing to believe that everything is a friendly accident is delusional.
I realize that it's easier to be an asshole than think and read, but failing to educate yourself makes you "just" an asshole.
I live near Google and see these buses all the time. Many times these buses are empty, and driving to stops with no people. It's not a door to door limousine service, it's a bus route paid for by private funds. Just like any other bus service, there are peak and off hours. The difference between public and private is that routes can be changed when the pubic sees money being wasted. Google may keep a bus route for 1 person they believe "key" in a project, and reschedule buses at will.
Buses are much larger than cars (obviously) and they block traffic and cause congestion which omits what they are supposed to be doing (relieving congestion and carbon emissions). When you have numerous buses blocking a lane for several minutes, it's not doing any one other than the company and employee any favors.
In terms of city revenue, it also hurts. Tax revenue for cities that house these companies suffer as a result of people _not_ moving closer to work. They don't need to move closer to work, because they have a free shuttle service and get counted as working on the bus.
It also makes the companies more money, because by shuttling people in they don't have to pay the same rates.
The excuse that it's "Greener" is questionable at best, if not dishonest. It's convenient for the companies and more profitable for the companies. If you truly believe it's greener show me some stats that prove that since these bus services started there has been improvement in traffic in the bay area. You can't, because there has been no such improvement.
Noscript makes this site unusable, unless I also enable a random looking cloudfront server scripts as well. Yeah, I did that to peek and no I refuse to enable google-analytics. Not as bad as slashdot with scripts, but still.
If you look at numerous images, you can tell what happened with basic physics. Before the "magic" rock shows up, there is an image of a small protrusion which is a bit pointy, let us call it "horn" shaped for ease in dialogue. You can also see after the "magic" rock hows up, this point is moved from it's original location and is facing a different direction. So the "horn" shaped rock could have tiddly winked the bigger rock we are calling the magical "jelly donut" or it could have been part of the same rock which broke under stress. Either way, the movement is easily explained without winds, or an asteroid. No insult intended in the use of the term "magic", just easier than typing 'unexplained' over and over.
Well, what you said is a more humorous version of my thoughts. What I was thinking was that if they didn't stop his tube and he did go over the cliff, 6 Korean men would find themselves living in a prison camp.
Further, the guy keeps talking about how nice the Korean people are to him and Rodman. Is this because if they were not nice they would be in the gulag? I'm sure that my views of DPRK are biased, because they mostly come from a biased media. That said, I have read reports from South Korea from people that escaped, so my view is not _that_ biased.
Thank you for your irrelevant, biased, and fallacy ridden input Cold Fjord. Now that you stopped using your personal karma poor account please create a new named account so that it's easier to ignore you.
Your red herring and false analogy arguments are identical no matter how you log in. Go pound some sand and choke on your master's wanker.
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As someone else said, I get very frustrated because MS products don't have everything I need or obfuscate important functions.It was better before the ribbon methods of doing everything, but in the ribbon method it's horrible. If it takes 15 minutes to add a button or learn a magic keystroke for something, I have just wasted 15 minutes of my time.
Many very basic things are always broken to boot. Importing CSV for example is a nightmare in any MS product. They auto assign what ever the hell they want for a delimiter including what you select. I usually have to run CSV data through Perl to massage the format enough to keep Excel from adding it's own formatting.
Not claiming OO is better mind you, but rather correcting your claim that MS is that much better than everyone else. 10 years ago I would have agreed with you, but not recently.
We find vigilante justice like this because the normal justice system is not working. The US system of justice has been broken for a long time now, so these acts will only grow more common. Show me one official that went to jail over Fast and Furious, starting a war in Iraq based on false premises, one bank CEO that was fired or went to jail for fraud. These things are not new, but are also growing in frequency and getting more notice.
The story of Robin Hood is not popular because he stole money, it is popular because he stole money from people that abused their power to get it.
What? I think you misunderstood something in the parent post. The parent poster was claiming that it's impossible (or at least very difficult) to win high elections, like US Senate elections, unless you are a career politician. He was making a claim about the current political system of the United States. Plato's "Republic" certainly does not contain any information about how difficult it is to obtain high office in the current US if you are not a career politician.
The US currently does things the right way and we only elect the best people for office? That is hardly true, perhaps one time long ago it was but not in the last 40 or so years at least (I can only attest to what I have been aware of). What the Republic spells out is that there can not be career politicians because human nature combined with this being allowed leads to corruption. No, it's not one sentence that states this but rather a concept laid out over several books.
By whom? How would you know? Do you even know who the poster is? Were you present during his training?
Propaganda does this, and has done this for decades. As an example, a single event in the past can prevent a person from holding an office, no matter how long ago it was. This is of course _if_ the entrenched don't want this person in office. In other cases, events are hidden and buried. The examples of this occurring are too many to count and very easy to find. Who in the media denounced Bush or the Republican party for the blackmailing of Ross Perot? The answer is nobody in media did any such thing, the issue was buried and no connection to Bush was ever attempted. This is one example of thousands where propaganda is used to tell you how a person in office is supposed to "be".
There are thousands of other examples of manipulation in different ways. For example in order to become a US Citizen there are questions related to who can run for office, and what the two political parties in the US are. So yes, people are being educated to believe that you can only vote for one of these two parties. The rhetoric that has been spread around for 40 years again of "if you don't vote for one of the two parties you waste your vote" are also too common to count.
No, there is no opposite belief that is taught in school either. Give me one class that is required nationally where young people learn about the concepts behind the US Constitution. Hell, even when I was young we had to memorize a few names out of the Bill of Rights, but we never had to understand where these came from or what they were about.
You are making a statement about the motives of people who create college curricula. Are college professors all really part of the political agenda which you're implying (to suppress information in Plato's Republic)? What evidence do you have to support that?
This is another easy target to find. There is no shortage of data regarding professors that were suspended and fired for teaching certain subjects and no shortage of data showing that the Government has restricted education and controlled learning. This is not new, it started back in the McCarthy era and continues today. Read various college Philosophy classes and count how many teach the full of Plato's Republic. You won't find many, if you find any at all. Show me any college that suggests students read the complete work and again you will come up short.
That's not to state that the Republic should be required, though honestly I believe it should be to some extent. That is to say that people are pushed away from learning these works and any other works that people in power believe would endanger their position.
You are a liar, either due to ignorance or intentionally. We could debate perhaps what Socrates meant when he talked about "Philosopher Kings", but even that is spelled out very clearly. Socrates did not have three classes of people, he had one class for all people. He was against slavery, and believed that women should hold the same positions as men. No, I'm not going to paraphrase hundreds of pages of translated text to show you are wrong. Simply read what was stated and keep things in context.
Really, you have no samples you can find? Start with the cops in California that beat a homeless man to death, and extend from there. There is no citation needed. Video cameras have been around for a while, so the excuse of "it happened and we just didn't film it" does not work.
How soon do you think it will be before they can search your home without a warrant?
Katrina and the Boston Marathon bombing make it clear that this can happen and has happened, and they are trying to normalize it by not discussing it.
There is no irrationality if you study history. Irrational may be worrying about whether or not what's happening because of a luciferian cult, but not by observing and showing fear over what has been happening. To have no fear at all indicates delusion or compliance, unless of course you are ignorant to history.
Citizens in the US are well armed, and much of our Military and Police force would turn on the government if Obama tried to implement a full blown police state. This is why these things are staged and planned. Not to Godwin the discussion, but Hitler didn't immediately go out shooting detractors, it took him many years of propaganda to get Germany to a police state. Stalin and Mao were able to do things much quicker, but the populace had no ability to defend themselves and lots of turmoil leading up to their police state.
Those are three very easy to study examples showing it's very rational to be concerned/worried/fearful of what's happening. You could look at more history both modern and older and see the same things happening over and over.
Claiming that the people giving warning are to blame for normalizing this is laughable, sorry. You perhaps see nothing wrong so don't want to hear about it, but you have a choice to ignore warnings. History shows how well that works for the populace too, contemplate on that one for a while.
Except by default someone has to be a career politician to get anywhere.
Nope, they don't. You have been trained to have this belief, but that belief is nowhere near reality. Study Plato's "The Republic", the answer has been known for thousands of years (about 2,500 that we know of). This is why people are not taught this information, and in most College classes you will only study a few of the books.
That out of the way, I agree with your statements about decentralizing power. This is how the US was founded, and we functioned for a short duration with these principles.
The lottery method is not a better version of what Socrates laid out. It may seem good because it's simple, but simple is not necessarily better when it comes to Government.
Nothing of value is being done, which reflects the politicians which are offering no valuable solutions. End the programs, end the corruption, and for pity sake end the careers of these corrupt politicians. The data collection and paid shilling are useless to the population. They have value to an entrenched group of people who use all available means (illegal and legal) to further entrench themselves.
Claiming that FISA courts can't release any data is idiocy and completely against the spirit of the Constitution/Bill of Rights. John Doe could be redacted from the court documents so that we could see what is happening without assisting John Doe. If Company A may be a risk, Company A could also be redacted for the same purposes.
Nobody should be surprised at this decision, Obama stated that nothing would change except for who is holding the data that is collected. The solution is to vote out every career politician and elect people of high moral character.
All governments engage in espionage to some extent, and our goal should not be to remove our "poison garden" and blind ourselves, but to ensure that state secrets are not used as a weapon against the populace.
What? Honestly I'm not sure if you meant to say what you said because you contradict yourself. Either a typo, disingenuous, or schizophrenic. You state that evidence should not be gained by illegal means, which should imply that the poison fruit, tree, and garden are all simply wrong. Instead, you claim that for some reason we need the poison and just can't use it on certain people.
The poison tree won't work, because it will always impact innocent people. This is an absolute historically accurate statement. The only way to be safe is to not produce the poison.
A common issue is that people blur the line between espionage and intelligence gathering. Further, people ignore the fact that when the state has secrets there is no way of knowing "what" they are keeping secret. As JFK stated "The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society." Our founders knew this, which is why there were no provisions for spying in the Constitution. And before someone abuses the JFK statement, the US Government may not have given away battle plans during wars, but it was essential that the populace knew we were at war (and why, and who was leading the troops, etc..). Lies beget more lies, immorality leads to further immorality, and dishonesty leads to further dishonesty.
You sound like a rare company with some rare rules, which is a good thing. Good on you, and I hope you can find someone.
On the BS question issue, I have never seen this be beneficial. I had a company interview me about a year ago and started me about the packet structure for a particular protocol. Not just the basics, but in depth knowledge would be required which basically made me not care about the remainder of the interview. If I had claimed on my resume to have developed software utilizing this protocol I could understand, or if I was applying for a development job that would require this knowledge. Turns out that this company asks random protocol questions of SAs, SEs, Devs, etc.. and you are supposed to study in advance for their interview.
I have 25 years of experience and have no interest in playing games with companies. Many companies see the interview process as a game, and if you play their game you have a chance at getting a job (*cough Google/Apple/Microsoft*). Then they are shocked when people jump ship at easy opportunities, or never answer another interview request. Not that these companies are full of bad people, just that they chase away many good people by making the interview process a game.
I'm sure that the pay being asked for or offered has something to do with the quality of the candidates. In the SF bay area, some people are offering less than 100K for senior level people with specialized knowledge. You get lots of bullshit candidates that way, because as a senior level person I just ignore these types of offers. Many companies have an interview process which includes asking bullshit questions, which makes it difficult to not be a bullshitter during interviews. Some ask if you use their products and what you think of their products as interview questions, or ask questions about things that have no place in the real world or about some obscure technology not on your resume.
Perhaps you are the one in a million that truly want's top notch talent and are willing to pay for it. Truth is most people making this claim really don't, they want what they can afford as long as it increases their chance for a bonus.
Imagine the "whale" being taken to Krispy Kream donuts for "free".. *sigh* Nothing to worry about here, and I'm assuming that TFA used that term due to it's multipurpose nature.
I never gave a number and said X busses = X cars. I stated that the number 2 was wrong, and under no circumstances would be it correct. Traffic simulation will show you very easily the same thing that basic geometry will show you. 2 cars is not less than 1 bus, and never will be.
The actual numbers would vary depending on numerous factors. This is what traffic simulation is for, and there are numerous programs both commercial and private that do just this.
You are trying to argue that I'm wrong about claiming someone's fabricated number 2 is wrong, yet there is no science that will show 1 bus is less than or equal to 2 cars in traffic. None, anywhere! Your imagination may show that, but science will not. Your imagination has been the whole of this debate. Imaginary tax rules, imaginary sizes of vehicles, and imaginary traffic rules. There is no possible way to debate your imagination, so there is no more to debate.
So by your logic, a car can't be 15' long it's as long as the actual length plus the "safe area" that you can change at will to suite an invalid argument. Where your logic is completely broken is that you only add the safe distance to the cars and not the buses, genius! Great skills with repeatable and reasonable logic you have there. You should realize that traffic simulators show you are wrong also, because of the acceleration and braking issues I mentioned.
Man, read and understand what you're responding to.
I did, and it was made obvious.
Cars are larger per traveller than buses. If the bus has 2 people or more on it, it takes less space on the freeway than a car.
Is what you started with, and it's wrong. It does not take an engineer or a "typical engineer response" to be wrong, it takes junior high level knowledge of geometry to know you are wrong.
Your insinuation that the buses are only on 101 is also wrong, as is your knowledge of taxes. Your ignorance perfectly explains your use of ad hominem, it's the only way for you to feel intelligent.
I do allow scripts, as is true with most people that use NoScript. The reason to use something like NoScript is to control where you allow scripts to run from. If there was no desire to run any scripts I'd use a browser without JS support.
If you blindly trust everything on the web, that's your issue.
The bug being introduced in both does not show that it was not intentional. Google developers probably spend a lot of time working on the OSS version. For example, HP WebOS was open source. HP had several dozen developers working on the OSS source full time in addition to many dozens of other staff for the OSS software.
Cars are larger per traveller than buses. If the bus has 2 people or more on it, it takes less space on the freeway than a car.
You not only show extreme ignorance, but a failure to correct that ignorance with a basic web search. This is a basic geometry problem and you are WRONG! A bus is at least 60' long by 8.5'. A mid sized car can not exceed 15.6' by 5.5', so we can use the max as the "average" car though in the bay area there are many more smaller cars than mid or large sized cars.
I think from there you can do some basic geometry and see that you are completely wrong. 510sq ft vs 85.6sq ft per passenger car means you have 6 people per bus to save space.
Now if you look at emissions that those 2 people have in a bus vs. a mid-sized car, there is still no comparison. The large diesel engines are not "clean" by anyone's standards.
This does not even address the main issue people have with congestion, which is that these buses block traffic by stopping in lanes to load and unload in addition to using the bus stops and blocking municipal bus services. They can not accelerate like a car, or brake like a car, so impede traffic much more than 6 cars would do.
Not surprisingly, your tax statements miss the mark completely. I already had to explain basic geometry for you, so I'm not wasting more time trying to explain the differences between city, county, state, and federal tax revenue.
I think it's prudent to question whether this bug in Google's browser is intentional or unintentional. The list of underhanded and outright shitty things we know about being done is pretty long.
If I bump into a person and it seems like an accident I can get away with apologizing. When I do it a second time, the apology should be taken with a grain of salt. When it happens a third time the person has the right to believe it was intentional and react. This is the point we should be at with not just the NSA and Google, but Politicians, Microsoft, RSA, etc.. Continuing to believe that everything is a friendly accident is delusional.
I realize that it's easier to be an asshole than think and read, but failing to educate yourself makes you "just" an asshole.
I live near Google and see these buses all the time. Many times these buses are empty, and driving to stops with no people. It's not a door to door limousine service, it's a bus route paid for by private funds. Just like any other bus service, there are peak and off hours. The difference between public and private is that routes can be changed when the pubic sees money being wasted. Google may keep a bus route for 1 person they believe "key" in a project, and reschedule buses at will.
Buses are much larger than cars (obviously) and they block traffic and cause congestion which omits what they are supposed to be doing (relieving congestion and carbon emissions). When you have numerous buses blocking a lane for several minutes, it's not doing any one other than the company and employee any favors.
In terms of city revenue, it also hurts. Tax revenue for cities that house these companies suffer as a result of people _not_ moving closer to work. They don't need to move closer to work, because they have a free shuttle service and get counted as working on the bus.
It also makes the companies more money, because by shuttling people in they don't have to pay the same rates.
The excuse that it's "Greener" is questionable at best, if not dishonest. It's convenient for the companies and more profitable for the companies. If you truly believe it's greener show me some stats that prove that since these bus services started there has been improvement in traffic in the bay area. You can't, because there has been no such improvement.
Noscript makes this site unusable, unless I also enable a random looking cloudfront server scripts as well. Yeah, I did that to peek and no I refuse to enable google-analytics. Not as bad as slashdot with scripts, but still.
If you look at numerous images, you can tell what happened with basic physics. Before the "magic" rock shows up, there is an image of a small protrusion which is a bit pointy, let us call it "horn" shaped for ease in dialogue. You can also see after the "magic" rock hows up, this point is moved from it's original location and is facing a different direction. So the "horn" shaped rock could have tiddly winked the bigger rock we are calling the magical "jelly donut" or it could have been part of the same rock which broke under stress. Either way, the movement is easily explained without winds, or an asteroid. No insult intended in the use of the term "magic", just easier than typing 'unexplained' over and over.
Well, what you said is a more humorous version of my thoughts. What I was thinking was that if they didn't stop his tube and he did go over the cliff, 6 Korean men would find themselves living in a prison camp.
Further, the guy keeps talking about how nice the Korean people are to him and Rodman. Is this because if they were not nice they would be in the gulag? I'm sure that my views of DPRK are biased, because they mostly come from a biased media. That said, I have read reports from South Korea from people that escaped, so my view is not _that_ biased.
Thank you for your irrelevant, biased, and fallacy ridden input Cold Fjord. Now that you stopped using your personal karma poor account please create a new named account so that it's easier to ignore you.
Your red herring and false analogy arguments are identical no matter how you log in. Go pound some sand and choke on your master's wanker.