What do we expect them to do? Publish when, where, and how each one will be launched, where it is in orbit, and what its function is? Obviously you can't hide a satellite, just like you can't fully hide any military base, but you can conceal the purpose so you don't if it is a laser from sky that can kill a person instantly, or just a decoy satellite that just beeps like sputnik.
Well first they could say:" Yes, they are spy satellites. Of course we have spy satellites. They cost roughly $153 million each, and there are 170 to 190 of them. We would like to keep their capabilities secret." At least then they aren't lieing like little children with stolen chocolate bar. Also then there can be some semblance of accountability. As it stands there is zero accountability. Zero accountability + huge military budget = dictatorship. Dictatorship!!??!! no no no, that's ridiculous: you say. Given the publics disapproval other "secret" government actions, like extraordinary rendition and wiretapping, I would say that most secret programs don't reflect the will of the people at all. Given that if there are in fact 180+ different spy satellites in the sky, then there have been more spy satellite launches than manned NASA missions. I don't think that is an appropriate way to spend my tax dollars, but I gave no way to challenge that spending, even if my Congressional representative wanted to help me, because no one will even admit that these satellites exist. That makes every tax dollar spent on a "secret" project fall into the category of Taxation without Representation.
No the telepresence driving wasn't a joke, I think it will be heavily combined with automated accident avoidance programs like those coming out of DARPA's robot vehicle programs. Heck, the outsourced driver might be managing several vehicles at a time. Real life effectiveness has to get pretty bad before it starts to overrule cost effectiveness. All priorities to quarterly profits!
It seems to me that there is was a great deal of oversight, balance, and accountability built into the early constitution because those things are one of the things that enables a truly democratic/representative government, as opposed to a democratic shell over a oligarchic government that holds the true power. That accountability has steadily eroded since the dawn of the Cold War and thus so has belief in our government. I'm not saying that voting does nothing, but I am saying that there a lot of very powerful, very well funded segments of our government that are untouchable (even indirectly) by the voting public. That is not government for the people, by the people; that is government in spite of the people. That is what the Left and the true Conservatives are complaining about when they bitch about government secrets.
If jobs were very exciting and fulfilling in and of themselves, we wouldn't need to pay people to do them.
This is also true of many non-profit or social work jobs. By and large social workers get paid dirt, but they are so aware/fufilled-by of the need for someone to what they do, that they do the job anyway. Until they burn out, but by then the next crop of social work grads is ready to fill the gap.
Most IT jobs aren't so complex that you have to start right out of college. You can do something else and change jobs.
True with a caveat or two, you will still start at close to the "just out of college" salary, and it jobs have to exist here in this country. If Americans find it too boring, then companies will have to find somewhere else that really wants the jobs. It happened with customer support, it now looks like it will happen with IT, when telepresence robotics takes off it will probably happen with garbage collection, taxi driving, and long haul trucking.
So apparently the liberal blogger in question is a politician because he's doing what's best for his candidate, not what's best for the country. Making it hard to find the best information (even if it's not information the liberal blogger wants people to see) about a candidate
The validity of you statement depends strongly on the quality and accuracy of the articles in question. If the articles are mostly just "noise" then yes you are quiet right, but if the articles contain information pertinent to gaining a better understanding of the true character of a presidential candidate, information which might otherwise get buried by the whims of Big Media, then these bloggers are providing a service where our "free press" has failed us.
As to whether this is smearing or not, is again dependent on the accuracy and relevance to the qualification and quality of the candidate. If Obama had pushed an earmark through that funded eugenics research, pointing that out loudly and repeatedly would not be smearing. If someone wearing an Obama '08 shirt threw a brick off an overpass at McCain's motorcade, trying to proclaim that as a gauge of Obama's character would be a smear.
They said that homebrew save files will be deleted, publicly, prior to providing the update link; they basically said "We're going to eliminate anything that could cause system instability, so if you want to keep it, transfer it to an external device. We really don't want to brick your console."...All in all, Nintendo generally seems intelligent about this sort of thing. They're trying to balance the happiness of the power-users and modders with their corporate interests
Nintendo is still keeping in mind what makes the Wii so successful, fun. They know that modding is fun, they know that bricking a console in anti-fun.
DIY hack = take apart consumer stuff.
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I know a bit about solar from the perspective of a cruising sailboat, in that scenario you would take a 12V solar panel, some deep cycle 12v batteries (car battery would work) and a charge controller, connect solar panel thru the charge controller to the batteries and you are done. Everything on a boat is 12VDC lights, radio, etc so running straight from battery power is easy. You could get a inverter for regular 120VAC, but it consumes your battery charge fairly quickly. For learning the parts and functions on the cheap (solar stuff can be expensive) I would suggest taking apart a solar sidewalk light and extending the wires to put the light inside your shed, and the little solar panel on the roof. To make good use of a larger solar panel you will need a larger battery bank, and probably a better charge controller. What is the output of the solar panel you want to use?
It has been posted on/. before, but you might be interested in the Read the Bills Act.
"America was founded on the slogan, "No taxation without representation." A similar slogan applies to this situation:
"No LEGISLATION without representation."
We hold this truth to be self-evident, that those in Congress who vote on legislation they have not read, have not represented their constituents. They have misrepresented them.
And since Congress has repeatedly committed "legislation without representation," strong measures to prohibit these Congressional misrepresentations are both justified and required.
To this end we have created the "Read the Bills Act (RTBA)."
Obama will try to get the immunity provision removed, but failing that will vote for the overhauled wiretapping bill anyway.
This is just another case where multiple issues are stacked into one bill, forcing legislators to either support something they don't want or vote against something they do want. Yes there is supposed to be a solid connection between all the parts of a bill, but legislators can't vote yea on one line item and nay on another and often time the connections between items on a single bill are tenuous. Tagging unpopular items to otherwise popular bills is one of the more common forms of corruption in our legislative process.
Nonetheless, they can't just let this go with a "slap on the wrist" either.
Given how fucked up our "corrections" system is, a slap on the wrist is the only chance this kid (and society) has of not becoming a life long criminal and drain on taxpayers. If this kid does even one year just out of highschool, what will have learned from his fellow inmates about life as an adult? Certainly not the kind of lessons that will lead to him being a productive member of society. What was the kid's motivation to commit these crimes? He wanted to get into a good school. Why would he want to do that? So he could learn the skills to be productive member of society.
Sure he needs something like a suspended sentence over his head to enforce the idea of that this is not acceptable behavior, but he also needs to has his non-trivial talents and efforts used to pull this off channeled into a job or college major that will make him a useful part of society.He is at a crossroads where he will either contribute to or detract from our mutual society, depending on how we react to his crimes. Punishing him out of spite will harm us all in the end.
as they talk to their "nice" guy friends about how they wish they could just find a "nice" guy, all the while ignoring him to chase the guys they constantly complain about...
Speaking as someone who was a "nice guy" all through highschool, it's the fault of the nice guy as well. Why buy the cow if the milk is free? If a "nice guy" is going to be a "good friend" and supply emotional support/fulfillment then the cute girl doesn't have to have that need met by her conceited prick boyfriend. Girls who date pricks will always want to have a nice guy friend, because girls need emotional fulfillment in the same way that guys need sexual fulfillment. So all you nice guys out there stop giving it away for free, get your needs met as well or get out of that relationship. When they say "you're so nice, why can't the guys I date be more like you?" point out that emotionally they are dating you, they just happen to be fucking someone else.
As long as we stick to the antiquated "one man, one vote" system we will only every have a two party system. Of course the party bigs know this and would never dream of letting the US transfer to to something like instant runoff voting or range voting. If we had instant runoff voting there would be no "spoilers" like Nader or Perot when a third party is forming. That is why Ron Paul is staying Republican, because he might change the party from within but he will never be able to start a successful third party. Our only hope of ever having a better voting system is to change it first at the State level through referendums, until a majority of States use it and develop viable third parties.
I don't think drug runners or terrorists are going to be using DRMed boats or planes.
Given how often tasers are used as pain-forced compliance devices as opposed to an alternative to an actual deadly force situation, I don't think non-lethal disabling technologies do anything but provide the government with media friendly ways to suppress dissent.
You don't want or need to deal with huge amounts of material to tell what compounds are in the soil.
You also don't want half of the contents to sublimate by leaving them exposed to sunlight and friction/heat from a vibrating screen. Considering how important it was to land where there was ice (polar landings are tough) you think they would be a bit more careful to preserve that ice since that is where they hoped to find the organic compounds.
Perhaps the porn was there as a benchmark (no pun intended). Anything freakier than what the judge had is obscene, anything less exotic is simply porn. Even if that wasn't it's intended purpose, it would make an interesting point to argue. After all as a judge, Kozinski is a moral compass, and he is sharing this material with his friends whom we can also assume are pillars of the community, so by them accepting this material,we can conclude that it is not "Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty." because the standard-bearers of our society have already show to find it acceptable.
To prevent future moral failings, we must first as a country acknowledge the failings of the recent past. To hide our heads in the sand and pretend that US hasn't earned the animosity of the terrorists and insurgents we fight is to ensure our failure both in the battles we fight and in our rapidly eroding position as a world leader. Ignorance is unpatriotic.
Not just heat energy, but insane amounts of radiation across the spectrum.
The tech they develop for radiation protection for this sun probe should be a great asset for any man on Mars mission. Cosmic radiation and solar storms will be as major hurdle to extended manned space missions outside of earth's magnetosphere. I should hope that the solar probe has magnetic shielding, just to get a high stress test of tech.
Continued attacks on coalition forces (UN Security Council surrogates, no less), continued WMD research, terrorst training camps, continued research into theater missiles and biochem delivery, cash payments to terrorists, no evidence of destruction of huge stockpiles of WMD, etc., etc., etc.
Is that a valid criteria for invading a sovereign country? Let's rephrase the semantics for a comparison: Continued attacks on any country we want (whether the UN approves or not), continued WMD research, BlackOps and CIA training camps (Google Iran Contra for a historic example), continued research into theater missiles and biochem delivery, cash payments to terrorists (we used to fund Saddam's regime and worse), the world's largest stockpiles of WMDs including chemical and biological weapons, etc., etc., etc.
So by your criteria any nation on earth not allied with the USA would be justified in a pre-emptive strike to help defend against our potential threat. Is it any wonder that Iran is developing nukes as fast as they can? It is the only way they can hope to stop us from invading. America is the most violently aggressive government on earth.
The attempts to address Rove and Cheney are over a year old, but they have been ignored by our failed Big Media "press". I would like to see the charges upped to treason for War Profiteering. Creating false pretenses for a war for the purposes of profit should qualify as levying war against the United States, a treasonable offense.
Dubya has gone on record that stress positions are not torture, I believe the GP is just requested that our illustrious Commander in Chief be treated according to his own policies. After all moral relativism is quite the thing these days.
...too much NIMBY. I think it is going to hurt us even more in the future.
It might hurt us a bit economically, but it will be the kind adveersity that builds some much needed character here in the US. The NIMBY problem is a perfect example, instead of taking pride in their community providing something very useful to the rest of the country, communities get all upset because every American thinks they should live comfortably settled between a golf course and a national park, let someone else have the steel mill/nuclear plant/new railroad run through their town. Of course this attitude starts from the top with Uncle Sam. When our government can just spend and spend and spend, favoring convenience over consequences, why should any American worry about consequences? Loss of buying power will be good for us. Maybe as Americans realize that we are no longer a superpower but are now competing amongst our equals, things that now suffer from NIMBY and other "I'm too good for that" attitudes will give way to an interest in strengthening our entire nation.
One of the big stumbling blocks in making profitable passenger rail is the low max speed forced on the trains by having to share the rails with the (profitable) coal/freight trains. France has proven that to don't need MagLev to go 200+ mph in a passenger train, but you do need dedicated rails. NYC to Philly in 20 min. instead of two hours, or NYC to DC in one hour instead of four, would be entirely possible in a TGV style train. No need for new technology, just build the tracks and buy the trains. Penn Station to Union Station in one hour, would have no trouble filling seats. But it will never work as long as Amtrak has to share the track with coal trains going from PA coal mines to the Norfolk Navy bases.
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What do we expect them to do? Publish when, where, and how each one will be launched, where it is in orbit, and what its function is? Obviously you can't hide a satellite, just like you can't fully hide any military base, but you can conceal the purpose so you don't if it is a laser from sky that can kill a person instantly, or just a decoy satellite that just beeps like sputnik.
Well first they could say:" Yes, they are spy satellites. Of course we have spy satellites. They cost roughly $153 million each, and there are 170 to 190 of them. We would like to keep their capabilities secret." At least then they aren't lieing like little children with stolen chocolate bar. Also then there can be some semblance of accountability. As it stands there is zero accountability. Zero accountability + huge military budget = dictatorship. Dictatorship!!??!! no no no, that's ridiculous: you say. Given the publics disapproval other "secret" government actions, like extraordinary rendition and wiretapping, I would say that most secret programs don't reflect the will of the people at all. Given that if there are in fact 180+ different spy satellites in the sky, then there have been more spy satellite launches than manned NASA missions. I don't think that is an appropriate way to spend my tax dollars, but I gave no way to challenge that spending, even if my Congressional representative wanted to help me, because no one will even admit that these satellites exist. That makes every tax dollar spent on a "secret" project fall into the category of Taxation without Representation.
No the telepresence driving wasn't a joke, I think it will be heavily combined with automated accident avoidance programs like those coming out of DARPA's robot vehicle programs. Heck, the outsourced driver might be managing several vehicles at a time. Real life effectiveness has to get pretty bad before it starts to overrule cost effectiveness. All priorities to quarterly profits!
how loudly and how often they scream about censorship, the very act of which disproves their claims.
That would only hold true if they where screaming about complete censorship. For example, we know that at least 30,000 National Security Letters are issued every year since 2003, but we have no real idea what they are about because they all come attached to gag orders. So we know that the NSLs exist, but the content is censored, so oversight and accountability is impossible. In the case of the spy satellite photos, we know that they cost millions, if not billions of dollars, and that they exist, but that's it. Again no oversight, and no accountability.
It seems to me that there is was a great deal of oversight, balance, and accountability built into the early constitution because those things are one of the things that enables a truly democratic/representative government, as opposed to a democratic shell over a oligarchic government that holds the true power. That accountability has steadily eroded since the dawn of the Cold War and thus so has belief in our government. I'm not saying that voting does nothing, but I am saying that there a lot of very powerful, very well funded segments of our government that are untouchable (even indirectly) by the voting public. That is not government for the people, by the people; that is government in spite of the people. That is what the Left and the true Conservatives are complaining about when they bitch about government secrets.
If jobs were very exciting and fulfilling in and of themselves, we wouldn't need to pay people to do them.
This is also true of many non-profit or social work jobs. By and large social workers get paid dirt, but they are so aware/fufilled-by of the need for someone to what they do, that they do the job anyway. Until they burn out, but by then the next crop of social work grads is ready to fill the gap.
Most IT jobs aren't so complex that you have to start right out of college. You can do something else and change jobs.
True with a caveat or two, you will still start at close to the "just out of college" salary, and it jobs have to exist here in this country. If Americans find it too boring, then companies will have to find somewhere else that really wants the jobs. It happened with customer support, it now looks like it will happen with IT, when telepresence robotics takes off it will probably happen with garbage collection, taxi driving, and long haul trucking.
So apparently the liberal blogger in question is a politician because he's doing what's best for his candidate, not what's best for the country. Making it hard to find the best information (even if it's not information the liberal blogger wants people to see) about a candidate
The validity of you statement depends strongly on the quality and accuracy of the articles in question. If the articles are mostly just "noise" then yes you are quiet right, but if the articles contain information pertinent to gaining a better understanding of the true character of a presidential candidate, information which might otherwise get buried by the whims of Big Media, then these bloggers are providing a service where our "free press" has failed us.
As to whether this is smearing or not, is again dependent on the accuracy and relevance to the qualification and quality of the candidate. If Obama had pushed an earmark through that funded eugenics research, pointing that out loudly and repeatedly would not be smearing. If someone wearing an Obama '08 shirt threw a brick off an overpass at McCain's motorcade, trying to proclaim that as a gauge of Obama's character would be a smear.
They said that homebrew save files will be deleted, publicly, prior to providing the update link; they basically said "We're going to eliminate anything that could cause system instability, so if you want to keep it, transfer it to an external device. We really don't want to brick your console." ...All in all, Nintendo generally seems intelligent about this sort of thing. They're trying to balance the happiness of the power-users and modders with their corporate interests
Nintendo is still keeping in mind what makes the Wii so successful, fun. They know that modding is fun, they know that bricking a console in anti-fun.
I know a bit about solar from the perspective of a cruising sailboat, in that scenario you would take a 12V solar panel, some deep cycle 12v batteries (car battery would work) and a charge controller, connect solar panel thru the charge controller to the batteries and you are done. Everything on a boat is 12VDC lights, radio, etc so running straight from battery power is easy. You could get a inverter for regular 120VAC, but it consumes your battery charge fairly quickly. For learning the parts and functions on the cheap (solar stuff can be expensive) I would suggest taking apart a solar sidewalk light and extending the wires to put the light inside your shed, and the little solar panel on the roof. To make good use of a larger solar panel you will need a larger battery bank, and probably a better charge controller. What is the output of the solar panel you want to use?
Obama will try to get the immunity provision removed, but failing that will vote for the overhauled wiretapping bill anyway.
This is just another case where multiple issues are stacked into one bill, forcing legislators to either support something they don't want or vote against something they do want. Yes there is supposed to be a solid connection between all the parts of a bill, but legislators can't vote yea on one line item and nay on another and often time the connections between items on a single bill are tenuous. Tagging unpopular items to otherwise popular bills is one of the more common forms of corruption in our legislative process.
Nonetheless, they can't just let this go with a "slap on the wrist" either.
Given how fucked up our "corrections" system is, a slap on the wrist is the only chance this kid (and society) has of not becoming a life long criminal and drain on taxpayers. If this kid does even one year just out of highschool, what will have learned from his fellow inmates about life as an adult? Certainly not the kind of lessons that will lead to him being a productive member of society. What was the kid's motivation to commit these crimes? He wanted to get into a good school. Why would he want to do that? So he could learn the skills to be productive member of society.
Sure he needs something like a suspended sentence over his head to enforce the idea of that this is not acceptable behavior, but he also needs to has his non-trivial talents and efforts used to pull this off channeled into a job or college major that will make him a useful part of society.He is at a crossroads where he will either contribute to or detract from our mutual society, depending on how we react to his crimes. Punishing him out of spite will harm us all in the end.
as they talk to their "nice" guy friends about how they wish they could just find a "nice" guy, all the while ignoring him to chase the guys they constantly complain about...
Speaking as someone who was a "nice guy" all through highschool, it's the fault of the nice guy as well. Why buy the cow if the milk is free? If a "nice guy" is going to be a "good friend" and supply emotional support/fulfillment then the cute girl doesn't have to have that need met by her conceited prick boyfriend. Girls who date pricks will always want to have a nice guy friend, because girls need emotional fulfillment in the same way that guys need sexual fulfillment. So all you nice guys out there stop giving it away for free, get your needs met as well or get out of that relationship. When they say "you're so nice, why can't the guys I date be more like you?" point out that emotionally they are dating you, they just happen to be fucking someone else.
We need a real third party in this country.
As long as we stick to the antiquated "one man, one vote" system we will only every have a two party system. Of course the party bigs know this and would never dream of letting the US transfer to to something like instant runoff voting or range voting. If we had instant runoff voting there would be no "spoilers" like Nader or Perot when a third party is forming. That is why Ron Paul is staying Republican, because he might change the party from within but he will never be able to start a successful third party. Our only hope of ever having a better voting system is to change it first at the State level through referendums, until a majority of States use it and develop viable third parties.
So why do so many people mistakenly apply it to Spore?
Because Spore was originally slated to be released in late 2006.
I don't think drug runners or terrorists are going to be using DRMed boats or planes.
Given how often tasers are used as pain-forced compliance devices as opposed to an alternative to an actual deadly force situation, I don't think non-lethal disabling technologies do anything but provide the government with media friendly ways to suppress dissent.
You don't want or need to deal with huge amounts of material to tell what compounds are in the soil.
You also don't want half of the contents to sublimate by leaving them exposed to sunlight and friction/heat from a vibrating screen. Considering how important it was to land where there was ice (polar landings are tough) you think they would be a bit more careful to preserve that ice since that is where they hoped to find the organic compounds.
Perhaps the porn was there as a benchmark (no pun intended). Anything freakier than what the judge had is obscene, anything less exotic is simply porn. Even if that wasn't it's intended purpose, it would make an interesting point to argue. After all as a judge, Kozinski is a moral compass, and he is sharing this material with his friends whom we can also assume are pillars of the community, so by them accepting this material,we can conclude that it is not "Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty." because the standard-bearers of our society have already show to find it acceptable.
No they are all facts. ...5. The projectile of claim 4, wherein the aerosol composition is further selected from the group consisting of smoke, crowd control agents, biological agents, chemical agents, obscurants, marking agents, dyes and inks, chaffs and flakes.
The US has the worlds 2nd largest stockpile of chemical weapons. We have less than Russia now, because we have been slowly destroying our supplies, but only since 2006 have we dropped into second place.. We still have 15,000 metric tons of nerve agents and mustard gas.
The CIA has been training terrorists since the 1950s. Most of the anti-American sentiment around the world can be traced to CIA operations attempting to influence foreign politics.
In 2006 the US Army patented A rifle-muzzle launched payload delivering projectile
The US government ignores the UN whenever it is convenient. The US has used it's military on foreign soil 70 times since 1980.
To prevent future moral failings, we must first as a country acknowledge the failings of the recent past. To hide our heads in the sand and pretend that US hasn't earned the animosity of the terrorists and insurgents we fight is to ensure our failure both in the battles we fight and in our rapidly eroding position as a world leader. Ignorance is unpatriotic.
Not just heat energy, but insane amounts of radiation across the spectrum.
The tech they develop for radiation protection for this sun probe should be a great asset for any man on Mars mission. Cosmic radiation and solar storms will be as major hurdle to extended manned space missions outside of earth's magnetosphere. I should hope that the solar probe has magnetic shielding, just to get a high stress test of tech.
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Continued attacks on coalition forces (UN Security Council surrogates, no less), continued WMD research, terrorst training camps, continued research into theater missiles and biochem delivery, cash payments to terrorists, no evidence of destruction of huge stockpiles of WMD, etc., etc., etc.
Is that a valid criteria for invading a sovereign country? Let's rephrase the semantics for a comparison:
Continued attacks on any country we want (whether the UN approves or not), continued WMD research, BlackOps and CIA training camps (Google Iran Contra for a historic example), continued research into theater missiles and biochem delivery, cash payments to terrorists (we used to fund Saddam's regime and worse), the world's largest stockpiles of WMDs including chemical and biological weapons, etc., etc., etc.
So by your criteria any nation on earth not allied with the USA would be justified in a pre-emptive strike to help defend against our potential threat. Is it any wonder that Iran is developing nukes as fast as they can? It is the only way they can hope to stop us from invading. America is the most violently aggressive government on earth.
The attempts to address Rove and Cheney are over a year old, but they have been ignored by our failed Big Media "press". I would like to see the charges upped to treason for War Profiteering. Creating false pretenses for a war for the purposes of profit should qualify as levying war against the United States, a treasonable offense.
Dubya has gone on record that stress positions are not torture, I believe the GP is just requested that our illustrious Commander in Chief be treated according to his own policies. After all moral relativism is quite the thing these days.
...too much NIMBY. I think it is going to hurt us even more in the future.
It might hurt us a bit economically, but it will be the kind adveersity that builds some much needed character here in the US. The NIMBY problem is a perfect example, instead of taking pride in their community providing something very useful to the rest of the country, communities get all upset because every American thinks they should live comfortably settled between a golf course and a national park, let someone else have the steel mill/nuclear plant/new railroad run through their town. Of course this attitude starts from the top with Uncle Sam. When our government can just spend and spend and spend, favoring convenience over consequences, why should any American worry about consequences? Loss of buying power will be good for us. Maybe as Americans realize that we are no longer a superpower but are now competing amongst our equals, things that now suffer from NIMBY and other "I'm too good for that" attitudes will give way to an interest in strengthening our entire nation.
One of the big stumbling blocks in making profitable passenger rail is the low max speed forced on the trains by having to share the rails with the (profitable) coal/freight trains. France has proven that to don't need MagLev to go 200+ mph in a passenger train, but you do need dedicated rails. NYC to Philly in 20 min. instead of two hours, or NYC to DC in one hour instead of four, would be entirely possible in a TGV style train. No need for new technology, just build the tracks and buy the trains. Penn Station to Union Station in one hour, would have no trouble filling seats. But it will never work as long as Amtrak has to share the track with coal trains going from PA coal mines to the Norfolk Navy bases.