And, yet, 75% are single rider or motorcycle at fault. Which is, at least, 'mostly'. I mean, that's the same percentage required to amend the constitution and people view that as being borderline impossible. It's more than is required to defeat a filibuster, which has basically prevented congress from getting anything done lately.
Without wanting to derail too much, I'm curious whether these numbers are just accidents or fatalities. If it's accidents, then it's going to include people laying down their bikes, losing control after wheelies, and other such tomfoolery. I suspect (without evidence, I admit, but from some experience) that the serious injuries and especially fatalities are rather more likely to involve another vehicle being a primary causal or at least significantly contributory factor. I also wonder if there is some element of tending to assume fault of the motorcycle rider, similar to the way in which "pilot error" is a catch-all for accidents without an obvious mechanical mechanism.
But it's the rich people who are going to work for DOGE for free that *own* those office buildings. Of course they're not going to support remote work. They want those office towers filled.
I live in the Daytona Beach area. Some call it the motorcycle capital of the world. I have personally seen many accidents. All of the serious ones did indeed involve another vehicle. Cars often pull out in front of oncoming motorcycles and are technically at fault. But IMNSHO, most of those wrecks could be avoided if the motorcyclist had been paying attention and driving defensively. It doesn't matter at all to the coroner if you were in the right. When you are approaching an intersection and there is a car there that obviously wants to pull out, assume he doesn't see you and WILL pull out. Slow down, be ready with the brakes and be looking for an escape route. Assume you are the prey and drive that way.
Precisely, and I think that goes to the point made by StraightnLevel, which is that the FAA leadership (especially the medical department) has very little incentive to take risks, and some perverse incentives to avoid innovation. The FAA budged essentially because the responsibility for the risk of BasicMed was shifted from them to Congress. An action such as increasing the ability of AMEs to issue a broader range of issuances will require either another outside intervention or someone in FAA leadership who is willing to take that risk on behalf of the pilot community. To her credit, Dr. Northrup is probably the most likely candidate of any of the Federal Air Surgeons in recent memory to advocate for such a move, but she still answers to the Administrator.
Spot on. The 9-5, five-day, in-person work-week is suboptimal and we have the data to prove it. Wildly expensive facilities are a waste of time when much of the work can be done virtually, at no cost to the government in terms of facilities and virtually no cost (perhaps a laptop and VPN access) regarding equipment. Productivity (and necessity for that position) can be measured in meeting goals/metrics and who gives a damn if you're doing that work at 9am or 9pm as long as it gets done. Workers don't waste time or money on commuting. Sell the buildings or lease out the majority of the space. Smaller facilities are easier to secure, cost less to maintain, and in-person requirements can be met with group meeting/working spaces. There's an odd sense that if you're not driving in and grinding out work at a desk, you're somehow not working "properly". That view is style over substance, and I hope we can someday get away from that old-fashioned thinking for administrative positions which genuinely don't require in-person presence.
Fine, as long as you don't need to physical access to the equipment. You're probably OK if you are the end user, but for developers like me, it's a lot easier if you have the equipment close to hand.
Sure, horses for courses and all that. There's a large contingent of people who need to be in-person to do their work. I'm usually one of them. There's also a large (probably too large) contingent of people who genuinely don't need to be physically present and in fact may do better work for less cost to the employer. I'm temporarily one of them, and hate my hour-long commute in DC traffic. Haha!
I support IT systems for a division within my agency. I occasionally need physical access to specific resources and can go in to the office when needed, and absolutely do so when it helps any of my users. But I certainly don't need to be there five days per week.
Ensuring your procedures are all documented and up-to-date, lots of Teams meetings with screen sharing, and a lot of QC of the new hire's work
And when the rider hasn’t been drinking and doesn’t treat the road like a race track, the chances of a crash are way less. When they wear a full-face helmet the chances of a fatality drop sharply. Adding a jacket and gloves greatly increases quality of life after a crash.
If you're going to quote the wiki, please post all the relevant parts:
Whoops. Read that one wrong.
New hires-have them drive in for a month or whatever while there is still available space.
Especially since the USD hasn't been "the" world's reserve currency for a long time. It's currently about 59%, which is a lot. But others, especially the euro, are traded in large enough amounts to have plenty of liquidity and demand.
Having worked at a company using a new-to-me technology where we started working remotely first and eventually got an office, I can say that my skills improved quicker when I was within earshot of the rock-star guy and could ask him for ideas on how to approach something that was giving me trouble. It was also nice to be able to help the newer guys out and to be around people.
More realistically, companies will use AI to drastically reduce head count, which will lead to extreme levels of unemployment. Hopefully we can figure out how to fund UBI before that (and actually do it), or the resulting economic collapse is going to be catastrophic.
Not necessarily. They need a different approach, maybe, but if you look at the $1.7B above and the $1.9B it cost SpaceX to really get to the finish line (below), it's not that far off.
Yulp ... a lot of fatal motorcycle accidents involve alcohol, speeding, no license, and a lack of proper safety gear. For those interested in the alcohol numbers:
hlalawfirm.com
Perhaps this will clear up my POV on the subject:
www.thegatewaypundit.com
so you agree that falcon 9 was only $300MM produce. Falcon 9 2.0 was more, but I guess by not stating which segment specifically there is some confusion.
As long as long-term effects are understood. Cutting the budget by ~50% sounds good, but if it's only executing 33% of its needed function three months later, that's not really an improvement. Someone can get a lot of press by claiming the elimination of waste and large cost savings, but six months later the agency is down the tubes and they've long ago switched to another job. No hair off their behind.
By definition , if a company sells for X then it is not undervalued but it is worth exactly X- at least at the moment.
Yes, I can come up with many ridiculous examples.
Hah, if you think something so ethical as conflict of interest implications matters to any of these people, then I have some memecoins to sell you.
If you think these guys and the people working 80 hours/ wk “for free” won’t be protecting THEIR sacred cows from being sacrificed, well, that’s cute.Perhaps this will clear up my POV on the subject:
Pack Up, Bureaucrats: Vivek Ramaswamy Reveals How Trump With Help from DOGE Will Abolish ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES and Crush the Administrative State (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger
If the incoming Trump administration has its way, thousands of deep-state bureaucrats who have lived off the U.S.
Provided it doesn't get me perma-banned. The process is to go after exec controlled, and exec managed functions that the exec and now DOGE knows are wasteful. I won't bother with an example, but we all know the exec has been rubber-stamping wasteful spending for years because they can. Now, the cuts planned are those that the exec has unfettered control over.
No. Falcon 1 was part of the program, so you have to combine the two. IIRC you first claimed that the 9 was a clean sheet in 4.5 years for 300m. It wasn't. It was part of a larger program that took ten years and more money.
As part of my job duties all of my financial interests have to be disclosed yearly to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest with my job duties. And there are tons of rules by which I must abide to ensure that I'm not either a) trading on insider info, or b) acting in my own self-interest in my sphere of influence at my job.
The question that needs to be asked is which of these functions are actually necessary.
I feel like we should all be able to participate in some sort of a system where we can hire some people to figure that out while representing our interests and holding them accountable every few years if they aren't doing their jobs properly...
And which 1% also. If the 1% notice because they are made homeless, or starve, or get blown up in because our military doesn't have the right gear, or die due to lack of access to health care, or die because of pollution being pumped into their water, or a bunch of other things that exist because we, as a nation, decided we didn't want people starving/dying/etc...
If you do that correctly, by the time you get to the “slowest possible speed,” stalling won’t change the outcome much.
