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  • Tracks are owned buy companies that are moving goods, not people. Goods that mostly don’t need to be anywhere in a hurry as long as a lot get delivered. So you get mile long trains.

    The US is big and populations aren’t concentrated. Trains wouldn’t stop where people need to go.

    The us had coasts and inland waterways so moving things along the water was cheaper than rail.

    The US is young compared to other countries and don’t develop rail for moving people like Europe and Russia.

    We built an interstate road system, and had cheap gas and vehicles. No need for rail.

    Do we need bullet trains? Yes. But labor is too expensive now. Linking the west coast cities together and getting to Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico somehow makes the most sense. We need a big push from the feds to make it happen though.

    If it were me as pres I would make it a matter of natl security and have the military do most of the work.










  • Win95 was trash for a while. ME was always trash. OSX wasn’t great on release. Every Linux distro has had its time in the darkness.

    I think 11 is going through some significant structural changes at a faster pace than before, while at the same time the natural greed of capitalism forced MS to get rid of things like large QA teams and support.

    If MS were really interested they would begin open sourcing a lot of the things that don’t make them any money (calculator, clock, notepad, UI) and focus on the major items.


  • Outlook classic is one of the better examples of a legacy app with tons of integration capabilities that should have been overhauled years ago. The way plugins work is probably related to your issues.

    The modern Outlook app is significantly more reliable but has its own quirks that are pretty painful when coming from classic.