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Incredulity

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  1. 18 hours ago, honolulu horn said:

    Hawai'i will pay around $12 billion for Oahu's Skyline rail system. It runs at a top speed of a screaming 55 mph and travels the unfathomable distance of 20 miles. It looks like a sad cousin of Newark Liberty Airport's monorail system. At one point, after they built the rail, they brought in the train cars and realized they didn't fit on the tracks. Also pretty fantastic that it doesn't go downtown, to the university, to the city's shopping and business core of Ala Moana, or to the tourist core of Waikiki. All aboard! 

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    Honolulu: image.png.25aed13eec039d31c611f4f036dc3198.png

    Y’all slipping

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, horn4life said:

    I am super confused? What does this have to do with, with incredibly stupid decision making by this FAA?

    In this instance the only decision made by the FAA was to inflict the maximum possible economic damage to the economy.  Nothing more nothing less. Maximum economic damage for the American taxpayer. THe damage was the goal, not avoiding the damage.  The good news is the second dumbest policy I have ever seen implemented from an economic perspective.  

    But it would be nice to codify something into law so future incompetence at the highest levels of government can be muted in the future.  What a strange world we live in today.  When supposed public servants choose the paths of maximum economic damage as the "smart choice" for the American taxpayer.

    did you read the, "businesses only exist to squeeze pennies from customers" post directly above it?

  3. 1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    Not from Beaumont 

    But once left natchitoches dropped off roommate in shreveport. Picked up gf and drove straight to El Paso. Other stopping at a chilis (or applebee or something. Don't remember) I don't think we were stopped for more than ten minutes for gas and restroom breaks. 

    I want to say that I left after my final exam for college at noon. And got El Paso around 5 or 6 the next morning. 

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  4. 31 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The other problem with running a government agency entity as a business is "putting the public first."

    Sure, private businesses are decentish, better than government, at squeezing a penny until it screams.  

    But they fucking suck at serving any constituency but shareholders, and the customers/public gets the shaft.  Take shareholders out of it, with a non-profit, and they start serving themselves.

    There are many private businesses that BOTH deliver a great product to customers and profit to the shareholders.  It’s not mutually exclusive, even though thats the narrative many here love to promote.

  5. how have companies like Lime not been sued to Bolivia given the litigious nature of America, the obvious risks associated with electric scooters in high traffic areas and propensity of juries to award astronomical judgements against "evil corporations"?

  6. 21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Feels like if they won't do their job, the last budget should just roll over with x% increase for inflation.  And it stands until congress does their job

    That is actually more spending than a "clean" CR.  So what motivation would they have to start doing their job?

    Withhold their pay,  if they don't accomplish a few basic tasks.  make them ineligible to serve or something

  7. 9 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    So if you were managing a business, say the FAA, your first move would be to put the most productive and income producing flights at a 4,5,6% cuts? Then you would look at the least income producing flights carrying the fewest people?  From a business, or putting the public first perspective, it's a strange starting point for me? 

    well you see its not a business, its the government so its not ever going to be managed like a business.   NO CR

     

    I agree with Your Mom above.  Paying everyone during a shutdown makes a shutdown even more completely non-sensical.  

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