Creating new rail corridors is very expensive. It's not like when the original lines were laid down and we can just upgrade their paths. There are right of way issues that would displace millions these days.

But yes, rail is ideal where it is available. That's why we have a multi-modal delivery infrastructure.

What we will eventually see are convoys or "road trains" of many trucks heading down the interstate; possibly, but not necessarily, with one human in the first rig. They will then be broken up as they peel off for regional routes which will initially mean a human driver will take them over for those last mile deliveries in a city.

I'm assuming all gig work setup is done online. Why does it matter where the company is located? Their corporate headquarters could be anywhere.

This is why I wish Google would get rid of the "Report Spam and Unsubscribe" option in gmail. If I'm reporting spam, I certainly know enough not to follow a link in the body that will supposedly unsubscribe me from the list. That's just daft.

I wish what3words would have taken off. It's a great way to communicate your location using common words that are easy to pronounce and understand.

They should have named it Scorange so we'd finally have a word that rhymes with orange! Why don't they think of these things?

I use the solution for contacting on-call personnel from within monitoring apps. You can't just tell everyone to switch providers.

According to the internet, SiriusXM is paying him $120 million dollars a year. Maybe not the "King" but certainly good money if you can get it. I wouldn't mind it.

I'd prefer a Babel Fish, personally.

SecureCRT for iPAD is great when I'm on call and don't want to have to carry around a laptop. It's saved me many times. VPN in and boom.

Back in the day, I worked in many school districts in East Texas. This brings back memories.

We sold a device that was basically a router that you can get for $50 today. That wasn't the case back then.

We developed a solution built into a rack mount case with multiple ethernet cards in it. We ran linux and controlled everything with iptables. It cost the school district $10,000, but it did everything they needed and was much cheaper than a lot of the other options out at the time.

Then the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) money dried up and they couldn't afford to pay anyone to help. I did free work to help these high school lunch districts keep these running for years until I could tell them to just go buy a consumer device.

It would be interesting if one or more of these fraudulent studies by chance turned out to contain a major breakthrough in the field it was written about.

I remember the MCSE boot camps.

"Must Consult Someone Experienced"

I'd be interested in an EV, but as one of the many who live in an apartment, I don't know how I'd pull that off.

As a C-Net Commodore 64 BBS Sysop from â85 forward, I must tip my hat to this man. However, Punter Protocol was far superior to XMODEM! ;)

Yeah. It doesnâ(TM)t matter at all these days. Other than to point out that we had options. Thatâ(TM)s my message.

PP Rocks!

The type of certifications you are describing here have absolutely nothing to do with this post. These are mindless certifications that you watch YouTube videos, probably download a cheatsheet of the questions, and maybe read a book.