Comment Re:How fast is too fast for a train? (Score 1) 185
1. You have no clue what I think, stop assuming you asshole.
2. No, it is not.
1. You have no clue what I think, stop assuming you asshole.
2. No, it is not.
Yeah, there's a lot of lamenting, but face it, it's tantamount to complaining that the Beef Wellington isn't exactly medium on point where everyone around you is starving to death.
Compared to the problems you face, we're actually, I hate to say it, pretty well off.
You are aware that the replacement rate of young people is not up to what it used to be, yes? For every 5 people you fire, you can only hire 4 new ones.
Mainly the legal system protecting land owners.
US and UK have a similar legal system that is different from almost everywhere else in the world.
Isn't there that California HSR line from LA to San Francisco? Isn't it well along under construction?
What am I missing?
Indeed. Rail done well amortizes over decades and centuries. Obviously, short-term thinkers do not need to apply. Same as with all infrastructure, really.
Do not forget that in the UK, they are now scraping the bottom of the barrel regarding political "leadership". Apparently anybody non-stupid does not want political office in the UK anymore.
Obviously, countries that cannot do infrastructure do not have a bright future.
And how often, exactly, does that happen compared to distance travelled?
It is. SBB you can mostly depend on. DB? They are a joke these days, nothing else.
In a red state, the money would just be embezzled and then some semblance of the project is realized, preferably in a way that nobody can or would ever use, so nobody notices it's unusable.
You have to drive them horizontally. Not vertically.
Of course you're breaking ground if you slam a high speed train right into it. Jeesh.
We are talking about an IT person getting fired for being "too old". The athlete is something that was compared to.
What makes you think that someone who is considered "too old" at 35 for an IT job would get some other job?
Do I really have to explain how analogies work?
At that time, the Republican party had not yet become completely corrupted, unlike today.
Non-competes are a prisoner's dilemma. An individual company benefits from a non-compete but is harmed even more when other companies do the same. They are collectively better off if none of them do it. But the only way to enforce that, is a legal ban.
Tragedy of the commons. People are short-sighted, greedy and stupid and CEOs are decidedly not an exception.
Well, that history ended when IBM bought them. Anybody expecting anything else is naive. Well, maybe they will do the occasional PR project, but do not expect anything substantial.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
