I was referring to high speed rail that has any part of itself in California. The Acela has been a pretty successful venture in high-speed rail, but there has been no plans discussed to expand Acela service.

...will they actually build this one? There isn't a good precedent of these kinds of high-speed rail projects ever getting to any point close to done, or if they actually DO complete it - its got so many stops, its not high speed anymore.

Fats are generally removed from the contents of pills and caplets because it can go rancid unless precautions are taken. Easier to just take the oils and fats out, the remaining proteins will keep a lot longer on the shelf?

What we allow is what will continue. I guess we need to see people dying in the cold, hungry and destitute for us to change, or at least - charge tickets for it. The question I have is - have we had enough yet?

...there are business customers who have NOT learned that you never depend on Google services/products for anything you care about?

Come on guys, its not that bad. Flying into a hurricane? I can tell you from experience... Flight Simulator 2020 is just a little rough around the edges, Microsoft will release a patch for it soon, I promise you. It's not that bad, you don't need to take drastic actions like that...

Easier to cancel them out further than needed than to go into the system repeated cancelling events as the pandemic might require?

Samsung really needs to not partake in this practice - it makes people think they didn't make a good choice when they purchased a Samsung whatever. I know I already have that feeling about buying HP printers ever since they started removing features to sell newer network-attached printing devices.

One cannot really keep an economy shut down for long, certainly not 18 months like the White House was throwing out there. You wouldn't have an economy (or country) to return to - literally there would be no production left, no economic worth left - no one but a very sliver of society would have the purchasing power to buy anything (and even fewer still would have survived up to this point). Sure, you might wait out COVID19, but the starvation, rampant crime, disorder and sociopolitical chaos would likely consume the nation - killing tens of thousands of people. Without jobs, people have no purchasing power, without purchasing power, they can't acquire necessities without stealing it from others, those who won't or can't out-muscle the haves will die. Handing money to the businesses doesn't really solve the problem - they will just store it and wait. Without consumers, most companies won't survive - they'll die out. All that production going idle will mean supplies will dry up. It would make Detroit look like a summer vacation on Fantasy Island comparatively. Think Somalia or the world of Mad Max - except without all the hope.

Reduced price? That's like double the price of most tickets around here - forget that, I can survive on 2nd runs - sorry Hollywierd. No way I'm gonna pony up THAT kind of money without a job anymore thanks to everyone being stuck at home.

When I was using them a long time ago in a galaxy far far away - they were the WORST on rolling out services. They just wouldn't (not couldn't, just chose not to) compete with Charter Communications on internet connectivity. Where you could get decent connectivity through Charter (if you didn't mind their tech support being utterly worthless), Frontier was still offering ISDN at hundreds of dollars a month for a metered connection, and their phone service was run like they were Ma Bell in the 1950s. Perhaps this is karma catching up with them?

D-Link has the problem (like Cisco, Belkin, Linksys and others) that they seem to EoL a lot of things right after they come to market. Saves on support when you tell people they are on their own with something they just buy. I saved myself the headache a long time ago by moving to more business-focused vendors, like Ubiquiti or Cisco's business end gear. Much better support offerings and less engrish translated firmware problems (I'm looking at you TP-Link..) not to mention that they tend to be a bit more robust. Worth the extra money - at least in my case.

I am totally shocked - really, I am. Changing your Terms of Service constantly, charge people when your service is shut down, make it so they have to agree not to sue you when they log back in. I am only shocked it took this long before people said, Fuck This Shit, and left.

...because humanity is too stupid to read the directions. The 'autopilot' in the Tesla is meant to assist the AWARE driver in lane control and keeping up with traffic, not driving while they are too busy sleeping. Cool technology seems to always die when people won't use it properly, so it ends up getting banned or abandoned as 'too dangerous' for regular use.

Sure, you can *technically* fly without an ID... but plan on getting to the airport about a day ahead of time if you want to stand a chance of making your flight - which WILL happen once the TSA gets a hold of you. Only other way is to charter your own flights - but then the FAA and DHS have your name from the passenger manifest - fat lot of good it will do them though as by the time they do all the investigative work, your flight will have already departed, arrived, and you will be long gone.