Comment Re:Fascist? Expecting consistency is "fascist"? (Score 1) 503
Do you even know what "fascism" is???
Probably not. In common usage, it's been watered down to the point where it means little more than "not nice."
Do you even know what "fascism" is???
Probably not. In common usage, it's been watered down to the point where it means little more than "not nice."
The remaining route is pointless. There isn't a lot of commuter traffic between the two endpoints (Merced and Bakersfield). The majority of traffic along that axis is between Los Angeles metro and the SF Bay area. To use the remaining planned rail for that route, you'd have three about-equal-distance segments: drive from LA to Bakersfield, train from Bakersfield to Merced, then drive from Merced to SF. As a time reduction, the rail's benefit would be negligible, since the traffic it would be bypassing would be reasonably free-flowing rural, not freeway-as-parking-lot urban.
I'm generally not a fan of government rail projects, but if they're going to build it, they should at least build it where it will do some good. A line running from the Sacramento metro to the nearest outlying BART station (SF's metro rail, for those unfamiliar) would actually be useful and probably reduce a lot of commuter traffic. It would also be much shorter: about 60 miles from downtown Sacramento to the outlying BART stations, as compared to 110. As for the Merced-Bakersfield line, they should just admit that their sunk costs are sunk, and ditch it.
Professional... MacBook??? Bwahaha!
About half the development team I work with uses Macs. Not the folks doodling in Photoshop, but the folks writing code. I was surprised at this (shared your viewpoint, I think) but since the advent of OS X, Macs have become much more respectable to devs.
I originally used the name ‘slashdot’ on my desktop a year earlier when I got my first static IP in the Voorhees Hall dorm room
Voorhees Hall? Did the dress code include hockey masks?
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr