Also adding to the cost of rail: Air travel: FAA: government agency dispatching planes Airports: built by government agencies using tax-exempt bonds Planes: development subsidized by military designs Subsidies: many small airports have a government subsidy equal to or greater than the ticket price Roads: Built by government agencies using tax free bonds paid for by tax on gasoline. Rail travel: Dispatching and traffic control: paid by railroad Right-of-way: originally given for free to build the transcontinental railway; now paid for by railroads Track maintenance: paid for by railroad Roadbed: taxed as an asset Is there any doubt that auto, truck and plane are winning and rail is losing as a transport mechanism, despite using the least fuel and Co2 emission (other than barges)?

No, killing vast numbers because of their nationality or race is genocide.

For example, the US Civil war killed vast numbers of Caucasian Americans, but it was not genocide because they were Caucasian ^B^B^B^B^B^B white ^B^B^B^B^B I mean because they were killed for attempting violent overthrow of the US government.

Likewise, the Japanese were not killed because they were Asian. They were killed for starting a war of conquest and including the United States when we imposed sanctions on them for that war of conquest.

What part of it did I miss?

Genocide? Interesting viewpoint.

Let's see:

Japan invaded China and Manchuria, killing 300k in Shanghai alone.

The US tried the darling of the left, sanctions.

Then, while the Japanese were in Washington, in negotiation with the US on resolving the conflict peacefully, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor one Sunday morning. That afternoon, the Japanese ambassador delivered the declaration of war.

Along the way, there was the Bataan Death March (definitely genocide).

On Saipan, the US had translators and loudspeakers trying to convince the Japanese civilians that they would not be harmed. The Japanese military told them the Americans would kill them. They jumped off a cliff into the sea. Can you have genocide within the same racial group.

Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we asked the Japanese to surrender. Sound of crickets as the Japanese, with their custom, killed the peace proposal with silence.

Then the B-29s were sent out, not with bombs, but risking flak, etc., to drop leaflets telling everyone in town to get out or face a new and powerful bomb. They chose to stay, working in the Mitsubishi Torpedo Works, the shipyards and other armaments plants.

After the first bomb, the US waited three days. Still the sound of crickets from the Imperial Palace.

So, your definition of genocide is striking back in force after an unprovoked attack? Interesting definition.

And, once the Japanese surrendered, we spent millions feeding their people. Genocide?

We can cure deafness with technology (cochlear implants). Some in the deaf culture world think this should not be done, since, if widespread, it will end 'deaf culture' and people will no longer learn sign language and expect the deaf to get an implant. I think it's a crime not to cure it if we can.

Sort of like the Christopher Columbus mythology... not a lot of market or other profit reasons to sail that long, dangerous, expensive way from Portugal to the New World. Not going to be any future in it, so everyone would be better off staying home in Europe.

The US only entered the war after Japan attacked the US without warning one fine Sunday morning, firing the first shot of the Pacific War. Japan could have surrendered at any point and saved themselves from the atomic bombing. Instead, they were arming women and children with sharpened stakes. The nuclear bombing saved more lives, both US and Japanese than it took.

And in the countries the US hasn't gotten to yet, they just stone women who've been raped for adultery, sell daughters into marriage and generally work against any sort of progress.

Yeah, like sacrificing virgins at the Solstice....

Microsoft actually has people who will talk to me about the problems I have with their software and systems. They, in many cases, will work with my company to fix the problems, or at least provide a workaround. I've never been able to talk to anyone at Google about a problem or have them acknowledge it, much less work with me to fix it.

Because if the only classification were "human" then smaller subgroups could no longer claim discrimination or disadvantage for special privileges.

So you're very concerned about Apple, and prefer the Microsoft ecosystem?

Yes

Does anyone know how they identify the commercials? Do they have software that can identify them in the stream? Or do they pay someone to watch the shows and mark the time code to create an index to download?

This is hosted in the US. It's at the poster's and the hoster's risk. I can sue you if it's true. I can sue you if it's not true. I can sue you if I'm blind and you don't have captions on the images. I would not sue for these, but plenty of other operators have been sued for just this kind of thing.