Because every broom closet, subway toilet and dumpster in town is now an AirBnB.

Use of airships as a sky-crane would allow large structures, such as long sections of maglev viaduct, to be built in factories rather than laboriously assembled on site. Quality would be much higher and build time shorter.

A dirigible, tes - and if it were remotely controlled and unmanned, you could even use cheap, available hydrogen as the lifting gas.

But it's China, so they don't care.

I live next to a roundabout myself, and we have the same problem - in rural Arizona. And it's not just clueless tourists from non-roundabouted parts of the US, but tourists from places like France, where traffic entering a roundabout has right of way. Our rule is that right of way goes to traffic already in the roundabout.

Wow! For a long time now, thirty has been the age when HR sends you off to get your dentures and hip replacements. Magically, this occurs just before your options vest.

This is an old story. Barry made this move several weeks ago. I know because I subscribe.

I subscribed to Wired from the very first issue until early this year. It was a great publication when Louis Rossetto was in charge, publishing articles about new tech with an overall attitude of "critical optimism." In recent years I lost interest as it slid into woeness. So now we know why.

Perhaps conditions are better in the Northeast corridor, where Amtrak owns its own trackage. My experience is almost all west of Chicago. And yes, I have seen some California stations where there is a ramp on the platform that allows wheelchair passengers to self- board at one specific place.

Everywhere else in the woe world, train doors open at the same level as the platform, allowing passengers to quickly step or roll on and off the cars. Amtrak doors open two feet above the platform, like the steamers in old movies. When a fat old person boards, station personable have to fetch a little plastic stepstool and delegate two employees to assist that person on or off the train as she teeters like a circus elephant on that tiny stool. Wheelchair passengers require a crane.

This single factor means a dwell time of several minutes at every minor stop. After a few statins, unanticipated extra dwell time means tha the train falls out of its contracted time slot on the line, after which it has to be sidelined for every single freight train to pass by. Because of this, some trains are routinely twelve hours late.

It's called metonymy. In this case, the evil company that everyone here hates. No, not Monsanto, the other evil company.

Furthermore, they will now be competing for the longest streaks of grooming days. Hide your daughters now.

And besides, we're the folks with most of the guns.

Cool! Now in line with the site's identity woeness, what's the Welsh for "Fuck your speech code with a rusty razor!"

Shouldn't Massimo's hell-comparative fury be with the Patent Office, rather than CBP?