Just one more edit.
As Nissan prepares to build New York’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” fleet, New York City must insist that the horn sound, in a tamper-proof way, equally loud inside the driver’s area as outside the vehicle. This would help persuade drivers that they should sound their horns only to signal imminent danger, as the law already mandates.
It’s time.
As the authority notes, the bump in satisfaction may not be due to better service or cleaner platforms. Rather, the countdown clocks are driving the perception of better service. As the authority noted in the survey presentation, “All 54 subway service and station attributes were rated higher by those with countdown clocks in their station than those without a countdown clock in station.”
In other words, Walder will still be saving the MTA’s butt long after he left out of disgust with the state’s indifference to its transit authority. I mean… countdown clocks. Duh.
Censorship and Authoritarianism
The internet allowed people around the world to express themselves more freely and more easily. With the App Store, Apple reversed that progress. The iPhone and iPad constitute the most popular platform for handheld computerizing in America, key venues for media and software. But to put anything on the devices, you need Apple’s permission. And the company wields its power aggressively.
This opportunistic click-baiting piece is surprisingly well informed on the issues of technology, power, freedom, and creative expression that are intertwined with Jobs’s spectacular successes of the past decade. If you’re going to read any of the gazillion death-profiteering pieces cranked out this week—my least favorite category is the mundane five minute encounter between a Regular Human and S.J. that is somehow an illuminating vignette—it may as well be one that has a point to it.
It was the successful launch and orbit of Vostok 1 in April 1961 — with first-ever cosmonaut/astronaut Yuri Gagarin aboard — that pushed Kennedy to announce a manned moon landing by the end of the decade. So, it was a Vostok moment, not a Sputnik moment. Go to hell, Obama. (We are younger than you and lack your millions of dollars and Predator Drones to kill poor people and yet we know these things. But all you did as a child was watch teevee sitcom shows about idiots, and this is according to your autobiography.)
Complaining about the cost and expense of navigating the red tape necessary to feed at the government trough? That’s rich.
This may seem like sour grapes.
Or it may not seem like that, at all? No one is bitterly pretending that something they can not have is rotten, at least not in this terrible article.
But if you still want to read about how three people in the tech industry are “outraged” at Obama because they were expecting lower taxes (for themselves) and higher subsidies (for themselves) AND a pony, The Economist has published this not-at-all-stupid trend piece just for you!
The presumption behind the bill — that there is something inherently suspicious about using a prepaid SIM card rather than having a “normal” postpaid phone contract — shows once again how out of touch Congress, and the USA in general, sometimes is with the world.
This might help explain why the Senate’s leadership doesn’t consider it an issue worth addressing: none of these rich old people use ATMs.
