People paying fares as they get on the bus are the ones without a pass, who are either:
1) Regular riders who can't afford the monthly pass, so they dig through couch cushions or get change from buying smokes to pay for their fare
2) People who don't ride very often
And that is not even covering the subject of the old man that smells of puke in the back that is screaming passages from revelations and never get's off the bus.
Spoken like a true public-transitphobe.
Incidents like that happen, but are rare, and I've taken transit systems in multiple states. Most riders are "normal" people just trying to get to where they're going.
I gotta laugh at the "freedom of my car" bit.
On the days that I don't take public transit to work, the days where I drive, I'm more stressed out and more tired. I hate it.
Fighting for parking, getting fuel, dealing with the school zones, the motorcycle cops trying to nail people, the hordes of smartphone watchers pretending to be drivers...
Damn, for the extra half hour it costs me I would take public transit.
When I take public transit I can read, zone out on my smartphone, sleep, play Ingress, whatever.
The only times I hesitate is a really cold day, which rarely happens.
Snow days are great thought, I love seeing everyone struggling as I casually walk the 15 minutes to/from my stop to work through the unplowed sidewalks.
I ride both light rail and the bus. Light rail more though. However, I see wheelchair bound people riding the bus much more than light rail.
I would imagine the main reason is, you can get to a bus stop with only a wheel chair, where as you either have to drive to a light rail stop or be dropped off there by a bus.
I think it's their prerogative to block me because I'm blocking their ads, just as it's my prerogative to stop visiting their site in response to that block.
I agree completely and have actually stopped going to some sites for either this reason or similar.
I'm a big Football(American) fan and I love to read the analyses of this sport from many perspectives. There are a few NFL oriented sites that are such a clusterfuck that I just stopped going to them. It is not possible to selectively choose which things under their umbrella to allow through my browser, there is so much disparate gobblygook bullshit...
If I can't selectively block third party crap while just trying to read simple text then I won't hit the site at all.
If a site throws up a "We Hate Adblockers" page and won't let me in, then I won't hit that site either.
I know it sounds nutty, but I wonder if eventually this will drive people back to magazines, as the state of online media/content is just so "Wild Wild West".
Back in November we received some new PCs with very "niche" automation control software installed that we needed for some special hardware. The special software had many unique tweaks to get it to work with the hardware it was connected to.
The new PCs had Win8.1
We wanted 7 and tried to downgrade to it. However the license on the PCs wouldn't(easily) allow for that according to both MS and the company we bought the PCs/software from. Everyone happily said to just wipe and install 7, however we didn't want to lose the settings for the preinstalled/configured software... I spoke with someone at their company and I asked why they shipped these with 8.1 and not 7. They said we didn't ask for 7. They also told us in no uncertain terms were we to upgrade to WX, as that would break their software. They told me this as I was looking at the taskbar with "Get Windows 10 Upgrade", knowing that the clock was ticking on an automatic upgrade to 10, which would fubar the system. I told this to their developer and the irony was lost on him.
I backed up the preinstalled/configured software, wiped the PCs and installed 7, drivers, joined to the domain/GP, etc, the reinstalled the special software, then spent several days/emails/phone calls getting it working.
Other OSes distinguish between an app being in the foreground (on top of other apps), and having focus. Windows doesn't - the app in the foreground always has focus, and the app with focus is always in the foreground. One of the downsides of this approach is that if a warning dialog pops up while you're typing, your keyboard input is immediately directed to the dialog (it needs to be on top so it's in the foreground, and since it's in the foreground it has focus). When you hit space or enter, the OK button (which is usually pre-selected) receives that keyboard input as confirmation. So you'll be merrily typing away, a dialog flashes on your screen for a millisecond before disappearing, and you have no idea WTF you just agreed to. In the Unix systems I've used, the dialog pops up on top, but the app you were typing in retains focus and thus keeps getting all your keystrokes. To dismiss the dialog, you have to first click it to give it focus, then it'll accept your click or space or enter on OK.
Good Lord Sir, you have described something that has annoyed me to no end for years. I've never understood why Windows does this. It is anathem to good security, specifically because you can "press enter to continue" when an unknown dialog pops up while typing. I have had this happen, though not with WX, as I have been using GWX Control Panel for a while(works great!).
With 7+ Billion people and a large chunk of them in China and India in poor areas with little to no electricity, what happens when they start demanding access to the conveniences of the modern word?
I wonder how long rooftop solar will last.
People like Warren Buffett are trying like hell to kill it.
The power companies absolutely hate homeowners with rooftop solar and are fighting it tooth and nail.
That just tells me people with rooftop solar are doing the right thing.
Thats some interesting "cups and balls" logic you're using there to rationalize keeping more people employed.
The current trend, regardless of industry or skillsets, is that AI, or "increased productivity" from technology always leads to the same conclusion, less people necessary to complete a task, whether it is a 100 billion dollar software project or cooking a hamburger.
'Pensions' are what the old people who accuse you of being an entitled, lazy, little shit have.
You have that backwards:
The current Trump/Tea Party generation considers those who got pensions to be the entitled, lazy little shits.
Todays spiral to the bottom "thinking" wants everyone to be equal.
Equally poor, equally unhealthy, equally manipulated by demagogues.
That's why some IT executives are focusing talent management inward and investing in their current employees who are loyal and eager to learn, adapt, and grow with their company.
Wow, were back to this again?
Who would have thought!?
Donald Trump will wave his magic wand and force all American multinationals to keep jobs in the US.
If not Trump, then who do you recommend I vote for?
Thats a silly question. Its your vote.
My point is, the people who hold Trump up as some kind of populist savior for the working class are deluding themselves on an epic scale.
Trump would not(as Obama has not) stop the flow of jobs to cheaper overseas labor.
Trump would not be able to renegotiate trade deals(NAFTA, etc).
Trump would not build a wall on Mexicos dime.
Trump would not send 10 million illegal immigrants out of the US.
These are delusions meant to impress the easily delusional.
When presidential candidates start telling people exactly what they want to hear in grand, sweeping statements, my bullshit detection system goes off.
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us kooks who think cars are the biggest waste of money in our society
God bless you sir!
I couldn't agree more and I'm one of those kooks.
Cars are for losers(and I've owned plenty).
but public transport isn't as sexy I suppose.
Look at who the ridership is.
That is why.
At the best it is middle class people going to work, students, etc
At the worst it is people who can't get drivers licenses, the elderly, etc
Those groups don't hold a lot of concern with legislatures, etc who are too ready to grab the cash from their well heeled lobbyists.
People paying fares as they get on the bus are the ones without a pass, who are either:
1) Regular riders who can't afford the monthly pass, so they dig through couch cushions or get change from buying smokes to pay for their fare
2) People who don't ride very often
Yes, these people slow things down on this bus.
I couldn't agree more.
The article and its points are ridiculous, and obviously so.
And that is not even covering the subject of the old man that smells of puke in the back that is screaming passages from revelations and never get's off the bus.
Spoken like a true public-transitphobe.
Incidents like that happen, but are rare, and I've taken transit systems in multiple states. Most riders are "normal" people just trying to get to where they're going.
The bus as a transport option is slow and everyone who uses it knows this. As you say, it stops a lot.
Sure, there are "Express" busses that have very limited stops and go faster, but those are the rarity.
I gotta laugh at the "freedom of my car" bit.
On the days that I don't take public transit to work, the days where I drive, I'm more stressed out and more tired. I hate it.
Fighting for parking, getting fuel, dealing with the school zones, the motorcycle cops trying to nail people, the hordes of smartphone watchers pretending to be drivers...
Damn, for the extra half hour it costs me I would take public transit.
When I take public transit I can read, zone out on my smartphone, sleep, play Ingress, whatever.
The only times I hesitate is a really cold day, which rarely happens.
Snow days are great thought, I love seeing everyone struggling as I casually walk the 15 minutes to/from my stop to work through the unplowed sidewalks.
I ride both light rail and the bus. Light rail more though. However, I see wheelchair bound people riding the bus much more than light rail.
I would imagine the main reason is, you can get to a bus stop with only a wheel chair, where as you either have to drive to a light rail stop or be dropped off there by a bus.
The hate is strong with this one...
This is very very little in difference
WTF is this?!?
I think it's their prerogative to block me because I'm blocking their ads, just as it's my prerogative to stop visiting their site in response to that block.
I agree completely and have actually stopped going to some sites for either this reason or similar.
I'm a big Football(American) fan and I love to read the analyses of this sport from many perspectives. There are a few NFL oriented sites that are such a clusterfuck that I just stopped going to them. It is not possible to selectively choose which things under their umbrella to allow through my browser, there is so much disparate gobblygook bullshit...
If I can't selectively block third party crap while just trying to read simple text then I won't hit the site at all.
If a site throws up a "We Hate Adblockers" page and won't let me in, then I won't hit that site either.
I know it sounds nutty, but I wonder if eventually this will drive people back to magazines, as the state of online media/content is just so "Wild Wild West".
SteamOS/Linux Gaming is half the reason we even have any recourse from this bullshit.
Back in November we received some new PCs with very "niche" automation control software installed that we needed for some special hardware. The special software had many unique tweaks to get it to work with the hardware it was connected to.
The new PCs had Win8.1
We wanted 7 and tried to downgrade to it. However the license on the PCs wouldn't(easily) allow for that according to both MS and the company we bought the PCs/software from. Everyone happily said to just wipe and install 7, however we didn't want to lose the settings for the preinstalled/configured software... I spoke with someone at their company and I asked why they shipped these with 8.1 and not 7. They said we didn't ask for 7. They also told us in no uncertain terms were we to upgrade to WX, as that would break their software. They told me this as I was looking at the taskbar with "Get Windows 10 Upgrade", knowing that the clock was ticking on an automatic upgrade to 10, which would fubar the system. I told this to their developer and the irony was lost on him.
I backed up the preinstalled/configured software, wiped the PCs and installed 7, drivers, joined to the domain/GP, etc, the reinstalled the special software, then spent several days/emails/phone calls getting it working.
Go Mint or Go Home.
Good call.
Maybe they just removed the older updates from the update cache to make room?
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
Other OSes distinguish between an app being in the foreground (on top of other apps), and having focus. Windows doesn't - the app in the foreground always has focus, and the app with focus is always in the foreground. One of the downsides of this approach is that if a warning dialog pops up while you're typing, your keyboard input is immediately directed to the dialog (it needs to be on top so it's in the foreground, and since it's in the foreground it has focus). When you hit space or enter, the OK button (which is usually pre-selected) receives that keyboard input as confirmation. So you'll be merrily typing away, a dialog flashes on your screen for a millisecond before disappearing, and you have no idea WTF you just agreed to. In the Unix systems I've used, the dialog pops up on top, but the app you were typing in retains focus and thus keeps getting all your keystrokes. To dismiss the dialog, you have to first click it to give it focus, then it'll accept your click or space or enter on OK.
Good Lord Sir, you have described something that has annoyed me to no end for years. I've never understood why Windows does this. It is anathem to good security, specifically because you can "press enter to continue" when an unknown dialog pops up while typing. I have had this happen, though not with WX, as I have been using GWX Control Panel for a while(works great!).
Yes, I have done that...
At home.
Obviously things at work are an entirely different scenario.
At home I have an iPad, a Mint media server, a Zorin laptop and a Windows 7 pc used for gaming and recording.
I am using the GWX Control Panel now on that last machine.
I also don't plan on upgrading to 10.
I can guarantee though that MS knows they are losing a small amount of installs of 7/8 to Linux, all while gaining a massive amount of them to 10.
With 7+ Billion people and a large chunk of them in China and India in poor areas with little to no electricity, what happens when they start demanding access to the conveniences of the modern word?
I think a dictionary would be in order.
I wonder how long rooftop solar will last.
People like Warren Buffett are trying like hell to kill it.
The power companies absolutely hate homeowners with rooftop solar and are fighting it tooth and nail.
That just tells me people with rooftop solar are doing the right thing.
Thats some interesting "cups and balls" logic you're using there to rationalize keeping more people employed.
The current trend, regardless of industry or skillsets, is that AI, or "increased productivity" from technology always leads to the same conclusion, less people necessary to complete a task, whether it is a 100 billion dollar software project or cooking a hamburger.
Technology isn't stopping or changing.
'Pensions' are what the old people who accuse you of being an entitled, lazy, little shit have.
You have that backwards:
The current Trump/Tea Party generation considers those who got pensions to be the entitled, lazy little shits.
Todays spiral to the bottom "thinking" wants everyone to be equal.
Equally poor, equally unhealthy, equally manipulated by demagogues.
That's why some IT executives are focusing talent management inward and investing in their current employees who are loyal and eager to learn, adapt, and grow with their company.
Wow, were back to this again?
Who would have thought!?
Donald Trump will wave his magic wand and force all American multinationals to keep jobs in the US.
If not Trump, then who do you recommend I vote for?
Thats a silly question. Its your vote.
My point is, the people who hold Trump up as some kind of populist savior for the working class are deluding themselves on an epic scale.
Trump would not(as Obama has not) stop the flow of jobs to cheaper overseas labor.
Trump would not be able to renegotiate trade deals(NAFTA, etc).
Trump would not build a wall on Mexicos dime.
Trump would not send 10 million illegal immigrants out of the US.
These are delusions meant to impress the easily delusional.
When presidential candidates start telling people exactly what they want to hear in grand, sweeping statements, my bullshit detection system goes off.
Workers are also reporting work is being moved offshore to Hungary and Brazil.
Donald Trump will wave his magic wand and force all American multinationals to keep jobs in the US.
FTW!