In the case of my roommate above, for example, she discovered that there was an express bus that took her from the bus station near our house to a bus stop just down the block from where she worked. She didn't know about it until she looked--she always said that, "Oh, it would take too long." And she's right--if she had to take city busses, it would have taken an extra hour to get home (she missed the express bus one day and discovered that).
I'll admit that taking the bus or train or whatever doesn't work everywhere. Like you said, if I live in Suburb A and I work in Suburb B, most mass transit is optimized to get you from Suburb A to City or Suburb B to City--not from Suburb A to Suburb B.
I only ask that people look rather than the knee-jerk reaction of "Gosh, there's no way it would work for me." I mean, it's the Internet age. You can look up bus & train schedules on line. Hell, Google can tell you how to get to someplace by a certain time via mass-transit.
It's one of those questions I always ask people: "Have you looked into alternatives? Tried them out?"
Many times, using the car is a path of least resistance. "Yes, I could take the bus or the train and maybe bike the rest of the way, but that just seems like too much work and, in the mornings, I just don't want that hassle."
There's also the expense. "I have a $400 a month car payment and you want me to spend $100 a month on bus/train fare just to do the same thing I could do with my car?"
My roommate was convinced that there was just absolutely no way she could take the bus to work. It would take too long, cost too much, be a pain in the ass. Then her company started offering to subsidize people who did not drive to work. So she took a little time and figured that, if she took the bus, it'd take her an extra 20 minutes to get home and it would cost her about $2. This versus the $7-8 a day she was spending on gas (not to mention wear-and-tear, oil changes, etc.).
Once she had a little bit of incentive to look, she figured out that it wasn't quite so impossible.
I'd like to see a "Don't Drive To Work" day. Give people a chance to check out the alternatives. Yeah, maybe those alternatives aren't viable. But at least you tried them and you know they aren't viable. Because it's pretty easy to just say, "Naw, I couldn't do that."
I used to hate driving. But after saying, "Y'know, if I'm going to spend an hour-and-a-half a day in my car, five days per week, I'm going to get a car that I don't mind being in." So I went and bought a nice car. And I didn't hate driving anymore.
There are plenty of people who look at a car as a necessary evil--"I just need something that will get me from Point A to Point B." They buy that and then they complain that it isn't comfortable to drive for two hours. Well, maybe you should have included that in your requirements.
An old friend of mine used to work in the medical software/hardware field. They had also sorts of interesting software and hardware for doctors to use. Doctors, in general, weren't interested. They didn't want "a screen" between them and their patients. They needed to look at the person, see what they're saying and how they're saying it, sometimes drag details out of them that they don't want to give, etc.
Dentists, on the other hand, loved tech. The more the better.
Musk proposes that each vehicle carry only 8 to 16 passengers. A full subway train, in contrast, carries over 1000 passengers.
I think that your numbers might be a bit off or confused between a vehicle and a train. While a train may carry over 1000 passengers, that train consists of a number of cars. But your basic point is correct--a typical subway car has a capacity of far more than 8 to 16 people.
No no no! Republicans will keep the option of having protection for pre-existing conditions. You'll be able to choose! Isn't that great! And all those people without pre-existing conditions won't have to pay more to support those leaches with pre-existing conditions! I mean, if they have pre-existing conditions, they should have to pay more, right? Won't somebody think of the insurance companies!?
And some of that comes from "design over all else." You make a beautiful machine and then, next year, CPUs change and the thermal system can't handle it without a redesign. Redesigns are expensive, so Apple doesn't do it and keeps cranking out the same stuff as last year.
I'm waiting to see what happens when Intel comes out with the next generation of Xeons and how long it takes for Apple to update the iMac Pro. As I've said before, if I'm spending $5000 for a computer, I expect it to have the latest and greatest.
While I wouldn't put it that way, it's an interesting point...
Currently, you have various people complaining about "free speech" issues on the Internet. The argument is that I shouldn't have my Twitter account shut down because of something I said might have offended somebody. Of course, corporations don't have to adhere to "free speech" principles and I would imagine it's the same with ISPs. If I said something horrible, my cable provider could decide that they don't want to sell me Internet access. And they'd be perfectly within their rights.
Only the government has that rule that says that they'll make no law infringing on my right to free speech. So if you're concerned about free speech, you should totally be for municipal broadband because only the government has rules about infringing on your speech.
"'Leader-Follower' technology will enable convoys of autonomous vehicles to follow behind one driven by a human, It's a direct response to the improvised explosive devices that caused nearly half the casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Umm...wouldn't it be smarter if the unmanned vehicles were in front of the one driven by a human? I mean, they'll hit the IED first...
The examples I saw weren't necessarily people doing two jobs as much as having a job that supports them and another job that they enjoy. Singing, photography, acting, etc. While I can think of plenty of actors who wait tables, a friend of mine on Wall Street had an assistant who was an aspiring actor. He made pretty good money working as an assistant but his passion was acting. The job was such that he could manage to take a few hours off during the day to go to auditions and the like.
do they pay the city for the privilege of using up acres of sidewalk space?
Do motorists pay the city for using up acres of road space (i.e., on-street parking)?
In some cases, yes.
Don't get me wrong, I think the things are a nuisance for just the reasons you describe: there's no place to put them so people just leave them where-ever--the assholes leave them in the middle of the sidewalk while the nice people might try to find a somewhat out of the way place if possible.
My attitude on things like bike/e-bike/scooter type rentals is that they should be required to rent a parking space for their scooter parking. Any scooter found not parked in that space will generate a fine for the company (which they are free to pass on to the person who rented the bike).
And, no, if the city does offer free parking for cars, I have no problem with them taking a parking space on each block and saying, "Scooter/Bike Parking Only" (and the companies don't have to pay the city for the parking space rental).
"In France, everything is allowed unless it's explicitly denied,
in Germany, everything is denied unless it's explicitly allowed,
in Russia, everything is denied even if it's explicitly allowed,
and in Italy, everything is allowed especially if it's explicitly denied."
My roommate and I just got back from Italy and I was surprised that this Italian company had no problem renting her a Vespa without an International driver's license. "Just look out for the police."
Is it just a bluetooth keyboard? I mean, I have no problem with Google charging $200 for a keyboard, as long as I can also use my $35 keyboard. If I feel so inclined, I'll buy Google's.
But if Google's keyboard is the only one that works with it? No thanks.
Seriously, growing up we had a CBS affiliate and an ABC affiliate. Never saw any of the NBC shows in the 1970s/1980s. I don't think I missed much, though...
Back in the '80s, I was working with a contractor who was writing an external process to do some work for the main process that I was working on. We were developing this and doing some testing and his process crashed. So I gave him a call to let him know what messages I was sending it when it crashed. I called him up and said, "Hey, Phil, I just got a child died event..."
*Click*. He hung up the phone.
I called back. No answer.
My co-worker, sitting next to me, told me that I really fucked up. "How so?" "Phil's kid died about 2 months ago. SIDS."
It didn't really matter that the header identified it as a "Child Died Event." And parent/child processes are a common term, as is having a process "die." And I had no idea that this had happened to his kid.
But I still felt like an absolute jerk for the pain that I brought him. And to this day, I try to avoid that terminology when I can.
Dare I say it, there may be terminology that brings up really bad memories in other people. Not everyone has the same experiences as you and certain things may offend them more than they would offend you because of those experiences.
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Here's a list of airlines that offer Premium Economy/Economy Plus.
Perhaps you should consider using those airlines.
Looks like you checked it out.
In the case of my roommate above, for example, she discovered that there was an express bus that took her from the bus station near our house to a bus stop just down the block from where she worked. She didn't know about it until she looked--she always said that, "Oh, it would take too long." And she's right--if she had to take city busses, it would have taken an extra hour to get home (she missed the express bus one day and discovered that).
I'll admit that taking the bus or train or whatever doesn't work everywhere. Like you said, if I live in Suburb A and I work in Suburb B, most mass transit is optimized to get you from Suburb A to City or Suburb B to City--not from Suburb A to Suburb B.
I only ask that people look rather than the knee-jerk reaction of "Gosh, there's no way it would work for me." I mean, it's the Internet age. You can look up bus & train schedules on line. Hell, Google can tell you how to get to someplace by a certain time via mass-transit.
It's one of those questions I always ask people: "Have you looked into alternatives? Tried them out?"
Many times, using the car is a path of least resistance. "Yes, I could take the bus or the train and maybe bike the rest of the way, but that just seems like too much work and, in the mornings, I just don't want that hassle."
There's also the expense. "I have a $400 a month car payment and you want me to spend $100 a month on bus/train fare just to do the same thing I could do with my car?"
My roommate was convinced that there was just absolutely no way she could take the bus to work. It would take too long, cost too much, be a pain in the ass. Then her company started offering to subsidize people who did not drive to work. So she took a little time and figured that, if she took the bus, it'd take her an extra 20 minutes to get home and it would cost her about $2. This versus the $7-8 a day she was spending on gas (not to mention wear-and-tear, oil changes, etc.).
Once she had a little bit of incentive to look, she figured out that it wasn't quite so impossible.
I'd like to see a "Don't Drive To Work" day. Give people a chance to check out the alternatives. Yeah, maybe those alternatives aren't viable. But at least you tried them and you know they aren't viable. Because it's pretty easy to just say, "Naw, I couldn't do that."
It is an interesting point...
I used to hate driving. But after saying, "Y'know, if I'm going to spend an hour-and-a-half a day in my car, five days per week, I'm going to get a car that I don't mind being in." So I went and bought a nice car. And I didn't hate driving anymore.
There are plenty of people who look at a car as a necessary evil--"I just need something that will get me from Point A to Point B." They buy that and then they complain that it isn't comfortable to drive for two hours. Well, maybe you should have included that in your requirements.
An old friend of mine used to work in the medical software/hardware field. They had also sorts of interesting software and hardware for doctors to use. Doctors, in general, weren't interested. They didn't want "a screen" between them and their patients. They needed to look at the person, see what they're saying and how they're saying it, sometimes drag details out of them that they don't want to give, etc.
Dentists, on the other hand, loved tech. The more the better.
Dang! Just noticed it as I hit the button...
"Actually, I think it's HQ-2.1 and HQ-2a. Just so neither feels like it's third-best..."
Actually, I think it's HQ-2.1 and HW-2a. Just so neither feels like it's third-best...
Musk proposes that each vehicle carry only 8 to 16 passengers. A full subway train, in contrast, carries over 1000 passengers.
I think that your numbers might be a bit off or confused between a vehicle and a train. While a train may carry over 1000 passengers, that train consists of a number of cars. But your basic point is correct--a typical subway car has a capacity of far more than 8 to 16 people.
I'm old enough to remember. Yeah, they were super powerful.
Yeah...they had their own police force!
Would you consider Florida uninhabitable because some fragile wood frame houses get blown away by a hurricane ever half century or so?
Nope. I would consider Florida uninhabitable because of Palmetto Bugs.
And the fact that it's Florida.
No no no! Republicans will keep the option of having protection for pre-existing conditions. You'll be able to choose! Isn't that great! And all those people without pre-existing conditions won't have to pay more to support those leaches with pre-existing conditions! I mean, if they have pre-existing conditions, they should have to pay more, right? Won't somebody think of the insurance companies!?
...and down the street.
Look out for that bicyclist!
And some of that comes from "design over all else." You make a beautiful machine and then, next year, CPUs change and the thermal system can't handle it without a redesign. Redesigns are expensive, so Apple doesn't do it and keeps cranking out the same stuff as last year.
I'm waiting to see what happens when Intel comes out with the next generation of Xeons and how long it takes for Apple to update the iMac Pro. As I've said before, if I'm spending $5000 for a computer, I expect it to have the latest and greatest.
While I wouldn't put it that way, it's an interesting point...
Currently, you have various people complaining about "free speech" issues on the Internet. The argument is that I shouldn't have my Twitter account shut down because of something I said might have offended somebody. Of course, corporations don't have to adhere to "free speech" principles and I would imagine it's the same with ISPs. If I said something horrible, my cable provider could decide that they don't want to sell me Internet access. And they'd be perfectly within their rights.
Only the government has that rule that says that they'll make no law infringing on my right to free speech. So if you're concerned about free speech, you should totally be for municipal broadband because only the government has rules about infringing on your speech.
Who is the #2 payment processor behind Paypal? I have no idea, and neither do you.
You're right, I have no idea, either.
But I've always heard "Ignorance is no excuse." You might have to do some research.
"'Leader-Follower' technology will enable convoys of autonomous vehicles to follow behind one driven by a human, It's a direct response to the improvised explosive devices that caused nearly half the casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Umm...wouldn't it be smarter if the unmanned vehicles were in front of the one driven by a human? I mean, they'll hit the IED first...
It's a good point.
The examples I saw weren't necessarily people doing two jobs as much as having a job that supports them and another job that they enjoy. Singing, photography, acting, etc. While I can think of plenty of actors who wait tables, a friend of mine on Wall Street had an assistant who was an aspiring actor. He made pretty good money working as an assistant but his passion was acting. The job was such that he could manage to take a few hours off during the day to go to auditions and the like.
do they pay the city for the privilege of using up acres of sidewalk space?
Do motorists pay the city for using up acres of road space (i.e., on-street parking)?
In some cases, yes.
Don't get me wrong, I think the things are a nuisance for just the reasons you describe: there's no place to put them so people just leave them where-ever--the assholes leave them in the middle of the sidewalk while the nice people might try to find a somewhat out of the way place if possible.
My attitude on things like bike/e-bike/scooter type rentals is that they should be required to rent a parking space for their scooter parking. Any scooter found not parked in that space will generate a fine for the company (which they are free to pass on to the person who rented the bike).
And, no, if the city does offer free parking for cars, I have no problem with them taking a parking space on each block and saying, "Scooter/Bike Parking Only" (and the companies don't have to pay the city for the parking space rental).
I read something recently that made me chuckle:
"In France, everything is allowed unless it's explicitly denied,
in Germany, everything is denied unless it's explicitly allowed,
in Russia, everything is denied even if it's explicitly allowed,
and in Italy, everything is allowed especially if it's explicitly denied."
My roommate and I just got back from Italy and I was surprised that this Italian company had no problem renting her a Vespa without an International driver's license. "Just look out for the police."
Somewhat in their defense, that's ECC memory.
Is it just a bluetooth keyboard? I mean, I have no problem with Google charging $200 for a keyboard, as long as I can also use my $35 keyboard. If I feel so inclined, I'll buy Google's.
But if Google's keyboard is the only one that works with it? No thanks.
[...] getting hurt or killed in a car crash is actually a good thing.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think it was the famous philosopher Kelly Clarkson who said that.
You had 3?! We only had two!
Seriously, growing up we had a CBS affiliate and an ABC affiliate. Never saw any of the NBC shows in the 1970s/1980s. I don't think I missed much, though...
See, that's the cleverness of Musk again. He's charging someone for something that is free.
Depends on whether you've experienced it.
Back in the '80s, I was working with a contractor who was writing an external process to do some work for the main process that I was working on. We were developing this and doing some testing and his process crashed. So I gave him a call to let him know what messages I was sending it when it crashed. I called him up and said, "Hey, Phil, I just got a child died event..."
*Click*. He hung up the phone.
I called back. No answer.
My co-worker, sitting next to me, told me that I really fucked up. "How so?" "Phil's kid died about 2 months ago. SIDS."
It didn't really matter that the header identified it as a "Child Died Event." And parent/child processes are a common term, as is having a process "die." And I had no idea that this had happened to his kid.
But I still felt like an absolute jerk for the pain that I brought him. And to this day, I try to avoid that terminology when I can.
Dare I say it, there may be terminology that brings up really bad memories in other people. Not everyone has the same experiences as you and certain things may offend them more than they would offend you because of those experiences.