Commuter flights from NYC to DC are 1 hour 10 minutes, tarmac to tarmac, this service will cut that to 29 minutes - but it will retain all the TSA delays, ticketing issues, etc - this will not be an interstate subway system where you just walk on/walk off...
Of course, if it has to stop in Philly and Baltimore, each stop adds at least 15 minutes to the travel time, and there goes your time savings.
if the government has no specific and articulable facts that would lead a REASONABLE person to believe that you are involved in criminal activity, then the government has no right to even ask your name, let alone look you up in a database, run your license plate, or google you.
The Trump campaign, transition, and administration all heartily agree - now can we stop the witch hunt into supposed 'Russian Collusion' since we have no specific and articulable facts To support the investigations?
All the while our dear commander in chief keeps his own tax data private.
As it is his right to, just as it is your right to keep your tax records private.
The tradition of sharing tax forms is just that, a tradition - just like getting a White House dog or granting a reprieve to a turkey in late November.
Your desire to see his tax forms doesn't obligate him to share them.
I left my wallet at home one time a couple years ago, the airline prevented me from getting a boarding pass without ID. In your case you likely by-passed the airline and checked in and got a boarding pass before you left home.
Yes, you are in public, but there is a qualitative difference between randomly noticing someone's face in a public place, and a systemic collection of everyone's biometric data in a single central government database.
Really?
Let's take the example of a lone police officer and a face in the crowd.
The officer can spot a face in the crowd accidentally (meaning not specifically looking for it), that's OK, right?
Now, what if the officer is actually looking for the face in the crowd? That's still OK, right?
What if that officer uses a security camera and chooses to review the tape off-line (not in real-time), is that OK?
What if the officer and a friend are going to go thru the tape off-line, is that OK?
What if the officer employs a computer to draw his attention to likely matches in the video tape, is that OK?
It seems like your issue isn't really privacy, but instead efficiency... or fairness - facial recognition gives the police an unfair advantage, makes it harder to hide in public.
True, but NASA seems to have taken the position "We're not even going to bother looking to see if there is anything of significance."
No, they gave the items away decades ago, and they don't regret the decision.
Or do you believe the engineer simply snuck into a gov't facility with a crane and a flatbed truck, and snuck two priceless treasures out the back door with no one looking?
People are acting like the engineer stuffed them in his lunchbox bad walked right past the guards with his treasures.
The unlabeled tapes are most likely what are called 'scratch' tapes, tapes that are used and reused over and over again.
Travelers are required to produce photo ID to board a plane, and that requirement has morphed into a need to produce photo ID to enter the terminal.
"The Government" already knows you are there, they saw your ID, if they see a face that is supposed to be there, either a face that slipped past security or a known face of a wanted/watched individual, that is something they need to know.
You gave up your right to annonynimty when you showed the TSA worker your driver's license/passport.
Amazon is not the problem - as noted in the article EVERY parcel USPS carries is subsidized by 1st class postage.
"An April analysis from Citigroup estimates that if costs were fairly allocated, on average parcels would cost $1.46 more to deliver... "
It isn't just parcels from Amazon that are subsidized, it is also the birthday present you send your nephew or the item you bought from an eBay seller and every other package shipped via USPS.
China, the world's biggest car market, has somewhat of an aggressive ZEV mandate that would force automakers to have zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) represent 8% of new car sales as soon as 2018 and quickly ramp up to 12% by 2020.
Perhaps the issue is that auto manufacturers can't control what consumers buy, only what they offer consumers to buy?
What percentage of cars sold last year in China were electric? How will the removal of the subsidy cause more electric cars to be sold?
When Ford first came out with the Expedition, in order to comply with CAFE (Corp. Avg. Fuel Efficiency) standards they forced every dealer to take into inventory one high-mileage Ford Escort for every Expedition they took in to sell, which caused a lot of Ford Escorts to be sold (at a loss) by the Ford dealer, offset by the profits on the Excursion. I envision a similar market distortion as the only way to meet these targets.
BTW, environmental emotions aside, lets not forget that 2018 is only 6 months away, and the new models for 2018 will roll-out in about 3 months...
This tax applies to INCOMES of $250K/500K depending on filing status, all this discussion of households earning slightly less than $250K are irrelevant, they would need to more than double their household income before they paid a penny of this new tax.
Most people earning that kind of money (mid six-figures) typically has the ability to shift compensation to avoid taxes, and many do.
Social security is a SUPPLEMENT, only intended to provide for 40% of a persons needs. It's not intended to provide for 100% of your needs.
This is the same stupid argument people have about SNAP payments (formerly know as Food Stamps) - the very first letter in SNAP belies the intent of the program "Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program."
"The Seattle City Council estimates that the tax would bring in an additional $140 million each year,"
No, it won't, these 'soak the rich' schemes always over-promise and under-deliver. For example, the State of Connecticut thought their wealthy would happily absorb ever increasing state income taxes, then GE left the state and The Hartford is working on it's exit strategy... and the Gov. is worried.
Down in NJ they have one taxpayer that personally pays so much in state income taxes that if he were to move out of NJ they'd have to reconsider their state spending.
The rich aren't stupid, and they typically have the ability to re-arrange their finances to avoid tax increases like this.
We did not build out the electric power grid to "every household", nor did we build out the telephone network to "every household" in America. We did build out both to "nearly all" households, and this initiative hopes to address the gap between "nearly all" and "every household" for internet service.
It's not uncommon for a person building a house in ultra-rural America (miles away from their neighbor) to have to invest upwards of ten thousand dollars to run power and wired telephone service to their house... some houses are simply unreachable due to the terrain and distance involved.
The government should be nudging (gently at first, then onto a hard shove) the private sector to deliver high speed internet to rural areas. Not private companies.
I'm pretty sure Google wanted to float balloons over Africa and create a mesh network, so that neighboring tribes in rural Africa could "like" each others Facebook postings...
Seriously, they do have a Project Link to tie cities together with fiber optic cables and yet another plan to use vacant TV spectrum for wireless internet in a very select region of Africa...
The current corrupt government would need one hell of a lot of lobbying (bribes) to convince them to let their buddies the telephones monopolies face any sort of competition.
You can't be serious.
Where do you live that the telephone companies have no competition?
Telephone companies provide:
wired phone service - seriously, ever heard of cell phones, internet phone services, satellite phone service?
wired internet - I have internet access on my cellphone, I can get satellite internet access, and my cable TV company offers internet service as well.
Cable TV providers offer all the above services and face the same competitors, but for television service they also compete with streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) and satellite TV.
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Commuter flights from NYC to DC are 1 hour 10 minutes, tarmac to tarmac, this service will cut that to 29 minutes - but it will retain all the TSA delays, ticketing issues, etc - this will not be an interstate subway system where you just walk on/walk off...
Of course, if it has to stop in Philly and Baltimore, each stop adds at least 15 minutes to the travel time, and there goes your time savings.
Show me a continuous, buildable line between those three cities...
It's under ground - no need to have a right of way in the conventional above-ground manner.
I can't imagine any actual civic leader giving a "verbal" green light to a project and having it mean ANYTHING.
Tell me though - exactly what is the show stopper you envision that makes you think this won't work?
Transmission lines.
The concept to me at least is so simple that the only thing left is the scaling.
Yes, scaling up the plan is the problem. You lose massive amounts of electricity as you ship it from PA to NYC.
if the government has no specific and articulable facts that would lead a REASONABLE person to believe that you are involved in criminal activity, then the government has no right to even ask your name, let alone look you up in a database, run your license plate, or google you.
The Trump campaign, transition, and administration all heartily agree - now can we stop the witch hunt into supposed 'Russian Collusion' since we have no specific and articulable facts To support the investigations?
You think that perhaps it is time to do away with the drivers license? At least for non-commercial drivers.
No. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
All the while our dear commander in chief keeps his own tax data private.
As it is his right to, just as it is your right to keep your tax records private.
The tradition of sharing tax forms is just that, a tradition - just like getting a White House dog or granting a reprieve to a turkey in late November.
Your desire to see his tax forms doesn't obligate him to share them.
The TSA disagrees with you:
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/sec...
The TSA disagrees with you:
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/sec...
I left my wallet at home one time a couple years ago, the airline prevented me from getting a boarding pass without ID. In your case you likely by-passed the airline and checked in and got a boarding pass before you left home.
Yes, you are in public, but there is a qualitative difference between randomly noticing someone's face in a public place, and a systemic collection of everyone's biometric data in a single central government database.
Really?
Let's take the example of a lone police officer and a face in the crowd.
The officer can spot a face in the crowd accidentally (meaning not specifically looking for it), that's OK, right?
Now, what if the officer is actually looking for the face in the crowd? That's still OK, right?
What if that officer uses a security camera and chooses to review the tape off-line (not in real-time), is that OK?
What if the officer and a friend are going to go thru the tape off-line, is that OK?
What if the officer employs a computer to draw his attention to likely matches in the video tape, is that OK?
It seems like your issue isn't really privacy, but instead efficiency... or fairness - facial recognition gives the police an unfair advantage, makes it harder to hide in public.
True, but NASA seems to have taken the position "We're not even going to bother looking to see if there is anything of significance."
No, they gave the items away decades ago, and they don't regret the decision.
Or do you believe the engineer simply snuck into a gov't facility with a crane and a flatbed truck, and snuck two priceless treasures out the back door with no one looking?
People are acting like the engineer stuffed them in his lunchbox bad walked right past the guards with his treasures.
The unlabeled tapes are most likely what are called 'scratch' tapes, tapes that are used and reused over and over again.
You are seriously debating basic physics concepts with a guy with the name 'Gay Boner Sex'?
Why?
"The two computers are so heavy that a crane was likely used to move the machines."
I'm wondering how the former engineer was able to sneak a suitable truck and crane past securityto 'sneak off' with these two machines.
They are most likely worthless 40+ year old mid-range IBM somputers, like a System/38 machine, and who cares about them now?
I suspect they are nothing more than computers that logged data sent back by probes, nothing more than that.
Travelers are required to produce photo ID to board a plane, and that requirement has morphed into a need to produce photo ID to enter the terminal.
"The Government" already knows you are there, they saw your ID, if they see a face that is supposed to be there, either a face that slipped past security or a known face of a wanted/watched individual, that is something they need to know.
You gave up your right to annonynimty when you showed the TSA worker your driver's license/passport.
Amazon is not the problem - as noted in the article EVERY parcel USPS carries is subsidized by 1st class postage.
"An April analysis from Citigroup estimates that if costs were fairly allocated, on average parcels would cost $1.46 more to deliver... "
It isn't just parcels from Amazon that are subsidized, it is also the birthday present you send your nephew or the item you bought from an eBay seller and every other package shipped via USPS.
The US dropped 2 nukes on Japan when 0 would have done because they had not yet been bombed to shit like everyone else involved in WWII.
What a delightfully BS rationalization about something you don't understand...
China, the world's biggest car market, has somewhat of an aggressive ZEV mandate that would force automakers to have zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) represent 8% of new car sales as soon as 2018 and quickly ramp up to 12% by 2020.
Perhaps the issue is that auto manufacturers can't control what consumers buy, only what they offer consumers to buy?
What percentage of cars sold last year in China were electric? How will the removal of the subsidy cause more electric cars to be sold?
When Ford first came out with the Expedition, in order to comply with CAFE (Corp. Avg. Fuel Efficiency) standards they forced every dealer to take into inventory one high-mileage Ford Escort for every Expedition they took in to sell, which caused a lot of Ford Escorts to be sold (at a loss) by the Ford dealer, offset by the profits on the Excursion. I envision a similar market distortion as the only way to meet these targets.
BTW, environmental emotions aside, lets not forget that 2018 is only 6 months away, and the new models for 2018 will roll-out in about 3 months...
The complainants imagine high-level officials are busy reading everyone's replies to Trump's tweets...
Twitter isn't built for 'conversations', it's built for monologues.
This tax applies to INCOMES of $250K/500K depending on filing status, all this discussion of households earning slightly less than $250K are irrelevant, they would need to more than double their household income before they paid a penny of this new tax.
Most people earning that kind of money (mid six-figures) typically has the ability to shift compensation to avoid taxes, and many do.
Social security is a SUPPLEMENT, only intended to provide for 40% of a persons needs. It's not intended to provide for 100% of your needs.
This is the same stupid argument people have about SNAP payments (formerly know as Food Stamps) - the very first letter in SNAP belies the intent of the program "Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program."
"The Seattle City Council estimates that the tax would bring in an additional $140 million each year,"
No, it won't, these 'soak the rich' schemes always over-promise and under-deliver. For example, the State of Connecticut thought their wealthy would happily absorb ever increasing state income taxes, then GE left the state and The Hartford is working on it's exit strategy... and the Gov. is worried.
Down in NJ they have one taxpayer that personally pays so much in state income taxes that if he were to move out of NJ they'd have to reconsider their state spending.
The rich aren't stupid, and they typically have the ability to re-arrange their finances to avoid tax increases like this.
We did not build out the electric power grid to "every household", nor did we build out the telephone network to "every household" in America. We did build out both to "nearly all" households, and this initiative hopes to address the gap between "nearly all" and "every household" for internet service.
It's not uncommon for a person building a house in ultra-rural America (miles away from their neighbor) to have to invest upwards of ten thousand dollars to run power and wired telephone service to their house... some houses are simply unreachable due to the terrain and distance involved.
The government should be nudging (gently at first, then onto a hard shove) the private sector to deliver high speed internet to rural areas. Not private companies.
It does.
Private companies will place their own ends above what's best for the public.
Then why not outlaw private corporations, since they only serve their own needs? Then everything will be great, like in Venezuela.
I'm pretty sure Google wanted to float balloons over Africa and create a mesh network, so that neighboring tribes in rural Africa could "like" each others Facebook postings...
Seriously, they do have a Project Link to tie cities together with fiber optic cables and yet another plan to use vacant TV spectrum for wireless internet in a very select region of Africa...
Oh look, Microsoft trialed this technology in Africa a couple years ago.
The current corrupt government would need one hell of a lot of lobbying (bribes) to convince them to let their buddies the telephones monopolies face any sort of competition.
You can't be serious.
Where do you live that the telephone companies have no competition?
Telephone companies provide:
wired phone service - seriously, ever heard of cell phones, internet phone services, satellite phone service?
wired internet - I have internet access on my cellphone, I can get satellite internet access, and my cable TV company offers internet service as well.
Cable TV providers offer all the above services and face the same competitors, but for television service they also compete with streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) and satellite TV.