MG, for example, there is a bullet train between Kyoto and Tokyo that makes several minor stops at towns along the way, but 90% of the passengers go the full distance from Tokyo to Kyoto. Eliminating those minor stops would reduce the duration of the trip by 5-10% for those 90% of the passengers going the full distance. This system allows that speedup without abandoning service of the small towns. That's the whole point of it.

ditching this one for the guy suction cuping himself to a bullet train
http://www.videosift.com/video/Suction-Cupping-Yourself-to-a-Bullet-Train-Good-Idea
*discard

It's not just "powerful individuals" who favor "globalism".

NAFTA is good. A highway from Mexico to Canada sounds great to me. Super-duper highspeed gas-free bullet train would be even better! Why are Mexicans dying in the desert to get to America? Because some people insist on halting capitalistic opportunity at the southern border to the exclusion of the other, whose mere existence allegedly "threatens our sovereignty".

Wealth is created when capitalism is permitted to function, and it is destroyed when barriers are erected to impede it. The ambiguous term "globalism" seems to me a xenophobic term of attack on equal-opportunity capitalism.

Would Paul maintain price controls on milk that subsidize US farmers, in the name of US sovereignty? Because there are plenty of people south of the border interested in producing milk at lower cost, at actual honest market value and without government intervention, whose utter exclusion exemplifies the real cause of the "border problem".

We pay more to US dairy farmers for their products than the products are worth. Then we pay to police the border. If Mexico was permitted to participate in the market in the first place, we'd pay neither, and we'd actually be addressing, finally, the real "border problem": the problem of anti-capitalism, the problem of exclusion and control.

I am a long-winded f'er. But wow, Paul suggested a NAFTA train would make immigration from Mexico worse, and I see the opposite. It would mean more jobs in Mexico, more participation and thus more wealth in the world, while addressing the true immigration problem, which is economic closedness rather than physical openness.

And ice cream would be cheaper. Mmmm...

...I hope this was real, no actors cept' her,...you'd think, from their TV shows, the Japs would have been in stiches??? But Noo! Everything must have a context and an acceptable place....hence, the file-out, and away from the crazy woman...from the individual will.... taller than everyone else, and female...all aspects screaming "Not Right" to the Culture....this rocks!!!

Now I know how to clear a subway in Japan, faster than a Guru with Ricin!

Shave my pubes on the Bullet Train!!!

great things about eight man

3: he can run faster than a bullet train without moving his upper body
2: he looks off to both sides even when he's facing straight
1: he's weak. his arms and legs are easily dislocated. when he gets tired he smokes cigarettes (this part was edited later on).

from 1953