We have them here in the USA too, especially in California. We use them both for rail and express buses. We need more rail, and more park & rides.

These are in fact already a thing, and as you surmise, a good one. It lets you only run catenary wires where they are convenient.

They did finish Debian to use a single init system, it is called systemd and it sucks. If you install another init system you have to do a shitload of work to un-systemd it, which is why Devuan exists. They do that work for you. Debian USED to use a single init system (init and compatibles, you could switch between them freely without having to do anything else) but then they added systemd support in the name of GNOME support, at a time when GNOME popularity was waning and while systemd was particularly terrible software. This was frankly insane. Many of the gigantic bugs in systemd have been fixed but many others are wontfix, like early boot logging which doesn't work and forces you to use a debugger to figure out why your system won't boot.

TL;DR: They did exactly what you wanted and it was a terrible decision that set Debian back years and led to the creation of yet another Debian derivative to restore it to do things in the Unix way.

Well, gee, thanks for defining the facts so now it's clear that everyone who disagrees with you can be nothing but wrong.

Facts have a way of existing and being right whether you like it or not. Trans people literally exist. This is a demonstrable fact. It's not a matter of opinion. You can think it's stupid, which is a matter of opinion, you can wish they didn't exist (also a matter of opinion), and you can wish harm on them (again a matter of opinion), you can wish they were excluded from society and denied rights (also an opinion), but none of those change the fact that such people exist.

Likewise being gay is not a choice. Conversion therapy has been proven to be ineffective. You can choose to hate gay people, wish they didn't exist, want to force them into hiding, advocate to ban relationships etc etc, those are all opinions. But the fact, one for which there is no counter evidence, is that it is not a choice.

And so on.

It is opinion culture like yours that makes the world dislike lefties

Reality has a well know liberal bias. Disliking reality will naturally make you right wing.

My roommate tried that patch with my help, and iTunes stopped being able to sync purchased music to her iPhone.

I researched online and found these limits:
- iTunes app for Windows uses a driver called Apple Mobile Device Service to sync to an iPhone, which (like other drivers) Wine cannot run
- libimobiledevice for Linux can sync files but cannot update the music library
- The Music app included with iOS can play only music from the music library and cannot import files
- VLC app can play music from files but cannot play rented music from her Apple Music family plan, making it impossible to mix the two in a playlist

about how epically f*cked the UK is.

Trust me, as a Brit, I'm surprised about quite hoe fucked we are. I mean Brexit was obviously going to be a disaster. But somehow given the choice at every point we have ended up with the worst decisions. And we have a PM with zero moral compass who's completely shit scared of even mentioning the elephant in the room. Instead he thinks pandering to the obvious racists will somehow help.

I agree with you. The only place roadway charging maybe makes sense is on interstates, but you have to build an awful lot of it to make it worthwhile. I also agree that it by far makes the most sense to put charging on parking lots, and I've been preaching that here for a lot of years. They are obvious places to put solar farms, and we should focus on parking lots until all the convenient ones are covered.

Newton spent his last years looking for something that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense
Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon
Josephson seems like the least batshit of these so far, but he's had to retract claims he made about new kinds of energy made with the mind repeatedly.

Smart and capable people can fall for stupid bullshit and become obsessed with it.

Of course they are. Look at how many people are still defending him. You're betting against human stupidity, which is classically stupid.

Good thing Bill Clinton signed the TCA in 1996 and allowed Fox and Sinclair to do a media consolidation. That rapey fuck actually claimed it would increase competition, what a slimy piece of shit.

#inb4 some clown brings up the Fairness doctrine that never worked.

Carpentry 102: Guillotines
Mechanical Engineering 303: How to implement full-auto sears
EE 202: Designing face recognition attack quadcopters for fun and profit

I've been seeing a lot of people saying they ditched redhate recently, some of them even over their abuse of the GPL. I wonder what the numbers look like.

It's not that the they had nothing, there's plenty of evidence. It's just it turns out voter suppression isn't illegal.

Gerrymandering? Legal. Closing polling booths in predominantly-other-party areas, causing immense lines? Also perfectly legal. And so on and so forth. If you are for democracy, you ought to be against anything that biases the vote.

I'm just pondering what kind of university would not teach physics.

Not in in good shape that's for sure.

If there is any kind of medical instruction, like nurses and dentists, then they'd need some kind of physics education. Right?

That's not how it works in the uk system: here departments are responsible for their own teaching. For example, I did engineering and all courses were taught by the department.

We didn't go to math(s) to get math(s) classes, we were taught engineering maths by professors from the engineering department. Mathmos got their groups and semi rings and whatnot, we got a lot on second order systems, and spectral techniques, etc. We learned programming in C, MATLAB, and some FPGA one I can't recall, computer scientists learned Haskell and how to prove properties of binary heap trees on paper.

Would not even a law school, business school, teaching school, seminary, or whatever need to have physics classes for things like meeting degree requirements for accreditation?

We don't have minor options. You go to uni to do the subject you signed up for, and do that, and the department is basically responsible for it.

No, I've been a bit lazy about that, if I'm honest. And I usually am. But you'd start from city centers and push out to where you can put cheap parking, which you'd combine with solar farms of course. I don't envision eliminating cars from everywhere ever and I also don't expect it would make sense to do all at once. I guess I'll have to go looking for papers on this soon. It's so tedious when you don't have institutional access...