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no vote: never understood the love of Roxy Music. They bored the hell outta me "back in the day"

The Schoolhouse Rock people said they were embarrassed by this vid and would make it differently today. I still love the song, even if its got a bit of ignorance in it. OTOH, "manifest destiny" is in fact what they called it back then so in a sense, its merely reporting the facts of how people viewed western movement.

I don't believe that is the main (or even incidental) problem addressed with this design. I don't think that was even submitted as an issue with this design. This design was probably invented for efficiency and safety reasons. Not having to wait on the train was just a bonus. And so far as not waiting on the train goes, you wouldn't, because according to the design, the boarding cart would ALWAYS be in the station, thus there's only the main train to wait for, but as I stated, this design could make it so there's a train running every literal minute.

If you only have to stop because it's YOUR stop (by going upstairs to the boarding cart) then your trip will technically be non-stop.

your question was "Someone please tell me how this solves any problems. - And for that matter, how it won't create new ones."

Even though it was alrady stated, I'll give a go here:

1) it solves the problems that trains encounter when stopping in the station. This has to do with friction, heat, traffic coordination etc. Not having to stop allows for MUCH more traffic. Could conceivably run trains every minute without difficulty. If you only have to wait one or two minutes for a train to pick up the boarding cart, you won't have TIME to complain.

2) as stated in the description of the video (and as explained by several other people) the common complaint is not in the waiting for the train itself, but the constant delays once because of the stops once you board the train. If you rode public transportation, you'd know what we were talking about. Trains are generally on time. When they aren't, its because the train is delayed in other station at a stop. With this system, that won't (or rarely) happen because the train itself never stops.

People will complain about something, sure, but it won't be the train delaying them.

As to your second question, it doesn't create any more problems than already exist so far with train transport; the system is merely adding an element that erases several known problems. Believe it or not, sometimes problems CAN be solved and no new ones created. It happens.

eventually developed the bad characteristics of that which it replaced.

uh, more than 200 years later. Considering context of time, I think your point is a bit errant and very debatable.
what July 4th stands for is independance from the British. That's it. Any other meaning is personal. If you want to romanticize American independance just so you can bemoan its dilution... have fun.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
I never said "Americans" hate "The British".
I suggested the founding fathers hated the way the british ran the colonies and founded a nation of their own, that eventually developed the bad characteristics of that which it replaced.

Americans aren't big on subtlety? So now I have to adjust every post on the internet to take this into account?

Every country has "royalty" and propaganda parades... and yes it is shameful, especially in the context of 4th July and everything the young america was supposed to stand for.

Hope that clears things up for you.


In reply to this comment by smibbo:
1) We Americans do not hate the british. I don't think you know much American history.
2) What is this video supposed to "show"? If you've got something to say, spit it out. Most Americans aren't real big on subtlety.
3) Every country has its "royalty" regardless of their title. People like a bit of pagentry. Is that supposed to be shameful?

oh and, QM? I'm a tree-hugging liberal but that doesn't make me a socialist. Get a new insult, that one's tired and INACCURATE.

the reason some of us Americans get annoyed with the constant "yah yah America suxorz" is because hey, wow, a lot of Americans feel similarly! That's right, WE aren't thrilled with the way things are going either and to hear outsiders bitch at us left and right gets a bit too much to bear. WE have to live here, deal with the problems and try to fix them, all ya'll have to do is sit there and be smug. And its not as simply as "amerikkans sux"

Change the record already.

1) We Americans do not hate the british. I don't think you know much American history.
2) What is this video supposed to "show"? If you've got something to say, spit it out. Most Americans aren't real big on subtlety.
3) Every country has its "royalty" regardless of their title. People like a bit of pagentry. Is that supposed to be shameful?

I am same position as djsunkid:

Tatchedogbe - Angelique Kidjo
Cyberia - afro celts
bull in the heather - breeders
the day after - flash
if you want my love - depeche mode
9:45 - PM dawn
Solitude - Billie Holiday
Western Eyes - Portishead
his wife refused - talking heads
the poison mouth - skinny puppy
all star - smash mouth
doin the shout - john lee hooker
its only love - Nick cave, scott walker
let go - frou frou
sweet dreams - eurythmics
Jackie's strength (remix #1) - tori amos
cop - swans
21 things - alanis morrisette
antenna kraftwerk
kalimba - EWF
stand back up - sugarland

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