Yeah why the fuck does everything have to organize your collections?
I use Darktable for editing pictures; I have my own organization system and do not need Darktable's help with that...why does Darktable feel the need to be my collection organizer, too? (Because other photo editing programs do it, that's why, and apparently some people do use that feature. I just don't need it.)
Reminds me of the guy that built that sub that got crushed. There are standards in place for good reasons and ignoring them is a bad idea.
Well, keep in mind some of those cities are thousands of miles apart - New York to Los Angeles is about 2,800 miles (4,500 km). While I believe we should have a robust rail network, it's tough to justify it for that kind of distance given that planes are so much faster.
In my mind we'd have a three tiered approach - cities would have subways, busses, and commuter rail options. Nearby cities, say, less than 500 miles (800 km) apart, would have high speed rail connections. Longer trips would be handled by airliners. Because, lets face it, no one is going back to land transportation between New York and LA - even at 250 km/hr, a train would take 18 hours - and that's nonstop, whereas a flight is 6 hours. Few people are going to be willing to triple the travel time like that.
So, in my world we'd have a cohesive transportation plan that focuses each mode for what they are best at. I'd still want a good nationwide rail network as a fallback (in case of, say, a 9/11 type event where the airline network is shut down), but I think it has to be bigger than just rail.
This would reduce the issue of a busy air traffic network as well, by removing short haul flights in favor of trains.
We call those "eggballs" for that reason. Gotta hand it to Hershey for finding a second use for that pattern like that.
There are spots where it's much brighter - for example, between Boston and Washington, DC, there is quite a bit of rail service, with departures frequently from each endpoint and cities in between (Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc.). It's higher speed than most passenger rail in the country, but not "high speed" in the sense of Europe or Japan.
I've gone from Baltimore to Philly that way a few times, and it's pretty nice...and it's busy.
A private company recently introduced service in Florida with semi-high speed trains that runs from Miami to Orlando. That seems to be pretty popular as well. And some cities (New York and Chicago, for example) have an extensive network of commuter rail.
With a high enough spin rate, it'd be like having a much larger monitor.
Not arguing, but one thing I want to note: I've never had a new car cost more to insure than an old car (well maybe a few dollars, but not a significant change). Most of the time the premium is essentially the same, though one time it went down significantly because the safety features were better - that was going from a 2001 Saturn to a 2012 Honda. Going from a 2012 Honda to a 2020 Mazda did not significantly change our insurance premium.
Wish I still had that 2012 Honda. Alas, it was totaled in a crash. :(
We do, it's just very limited. Actually in Austin I think you could have pulled it off. You could have taken the Texas Eagle to San Antonio, then the Sunset Limited to New Orleans. It would have taken 27 hours and the Sunset Limited only runs 3 times a week, so if you departed Monday at 6:30 pm you'd be in NO Tuesday at 9:40 pm. Bon Voyage!
Just kidding. As a rail fan, it bugs me, too. My wife and I spent two weeks in Germany, visiting multiple cities, and we used a private car once (a relative gave us a ride) and a taxi once. Otherwise it was all trains and the occasional city bus, plus one motorcoach that took us to Neuschwanstein. It was pretty nice.
So he could order a hit on Trump without repercussions? Is this really what Trump and his fans want?
The typing thing is interesting. I'm old enough that I learned to type on an IBM Selectric typewriter in the early 1990s (we had Apple IIs in the "computer lab" - but there were two rooms full of typewriters for this class). I did well in general in high school, but I took typing much more seriously than many other classes, because I hadn't yet learned it on my own, and I knew how useful it would be in life. My classmates thought I was nuts (again, I'm sure). But that was one high school class that definitely did help me in "the real world".
So now, despite the ubiquity of computers, it seems they aren't teaching typing.
Dude just likes his clothes to sparkle, don't shame him.
Very possible. I like how Jellyfin and Plex are like, "We'll use your collection where it sits and try to figure out show name, season, and episode number from your filename convention!" And it mostly works.
Unfortunately when I installed Jellyfin, it put a lot of metadata in my /var partition, which was low on space. Oops on that one. So I had to shut down Jellyfin and delete the data until I get that situation resolved (that partition needs more space anyway).