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Having driven that route many times over taking the train I can tell you this is false. The prices of Acela is more then double what is normal in Europe for similar length train routes and better service. It is cheaper to rent a car and drive even for a single person and if you have 2 or more people it is significantly cheaper.
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/...
Even not looking at those numbers saying that amount 'wouldn't accomplish anything' is ridiculous. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year is a huge amount in any sector of the economy, even for the US. You can try and defend it as much as you want but that is a hyperbolic statement completely disconnected from reality.
That is the sort of belief we're talking about, a serious investigation with the assumption the person reporting it is not lying. The investigation itself could of course result in not sufficient evidence being found. It's really not that complicated.
"White House officials said the Administration is ending the contract for Open.gov, the Obama-era site that hosted the visitor records along with staff financial disclosures, salaries, and appointments."
As to your extra claim that visitor logs will be submitted to the national archive, do you have some reference to back that up? Regardless there are a number of ways that could make access more difficult. For example, you have to physically go to the national archive to look the records up, national archive of the logs aren't made available until much later after the visits occurred, etc. I'm really not familiar enough with it to know the implications, but I highly doubt multiple organizations would be suing over this if it wasn't an important difference:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328058-dhs-sued-f...
Will he go back on something that he'd supposedly do in the first day? Let's hope so, it's crazy.
http://www.recode.net/2016/10/5/13181704/disney-twitter-buy-...
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day for TWTR.
It would seem full driverless with nobody in the car is the big deal here. It doesn't really matter is someone will be behind the wheel later, you already had the thing driving around with no human to intervene in case it does something crazy. Don't see how that's an intermediary step.
I don't think they made any such statement.
> We applaud the one out of five charter schools that are truly centers of innovation, fulfilling their original intent.
> I suggest they all take a deep breath and read the resolutions again. The NAACP does not want charter schools shut down. It wants a pause on new, privately managed charters.
And yet that's exactly what you are doing in your entire comment, drawing parallels that are not equivalent and then sweeping under the rug the racial issues as nonexistent. You are discounting the experience of the vast majority of black Americans.
The history of people being scared and unprepared for technological change is pretty thorough:
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/12-technologi...
Parts of the linux kernel or glibc or any other critical C code gets replaced by rust code little parts at a time, which is also calleable from C (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ffi.html)? That way these libraries could be made safer in a controlled and incremental manner.
And to reiterate I'm asking for technical limitations, not political or dogmatic.
Even with that in mind, your claim that even the poorest households in the US have access to computers at home is simply not true. The digital divide is still a very real issue within the U.S.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/share/heres-what-digital-divide-l...
Overall I think it was a well balanced article highlighting an impressive achievement, not sure why you felt the need to diminish it as not significant?
No, you really are a powder puff white guy with too much money. You think because you can hire some goons to watch someone that makes you 'tough'? That's the very epitomization of some powder puff rich white dude that thinks he can buy himself into being a tough guy. Let's see how tough he'll be once he's sharing a jail cell.
I applaud SpiderOak, but they are much different from most other sites. They have privacy conscious customers to begin with, this is something that is good press for them and probably a net positive on their bottom line for doing it, not the case with most other sites. Also it's something they are doing after having a very mature product for many years, clearly not the first or most important thing they needed to tackle as a company.