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Comment Re:Hard and expensive (Score 1) 167

It likely means demolishing a lot of existing houses and businesses to make room for the train

It doesn't. What it means is cutting through a lot of big parcels whose owners have big money, so they can be big impediments. There has to be a happier medium than this between respect for individual private property ownership and the needs of the many, but we are clearly uninterested in finding it in this country.

Comment Re:Science self-corrects (Score 0) 29

The whole point of the label "Dark Energy" is it's a filler for an unknown that still needs to be explained.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

Comment "Year of Linux" was 2010 for me.. (Score 1) 108

After a 20+ year career of supporting Windows, starting with 3.11 in 1990, and ending during the XP to Win7 migration at my last company, when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with using Windows on my personal systems. Since I became aquainted with Linux around 1995, it was now my go-to OS. After seeing the "shit-show" that Windows has become, since Win7, I couldn't be happier with my choice of switching to Linux. Oh I still have some specialized software that Wine does not run, so I have a heavily castrated Win10 LTSC VM that I keep around for those programs..
I feel sorry for those who, for whatever reason, keep using Windows..

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