Publication of the Antiplanner’s views on high-speed rail in the Denver Post and Iowa City Press-Citizen has naturally produced both positive and negative comments. Most of the negative ones fall into two categories:
1. Ad hominem attacks on the Cato Institute; and
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It may be a testament to the quality of our public schools that the analytical skills of Americans smart enough to use a web browser have reached such depths of sophistication.
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Isn’t this post just one ad-hominem against people who may have gone to public schools?
Huh. Didn’t see any comments in the Fishwrap….er…Post when I looked. Still don’t. And the ‘con’ comments in Iowa are not Ad hom-ing at all – they are wondering what will happen to autocentricity when Peak Oil hits and the highway subsidy thing.
Someone really needs to learn how to read, or else readers need to constantly check someone’s assertions.
DS
The Denver Post site is a bit odd. Clicking on the links it says this:
“The website at http://www.denverpost.com contains elements from the site extras.denverpost.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for extras.denverpost.com.”
Antiplanner wrote:
“Ad hominem attacks on the Cato Institute”
You would have thought that this blog would have inoculated Antiplanner against this problem.
““Don’t you know we are running out of oil? Running Diesel-powered trains that consume more foreign oil per passenger mile than the average automobile is the only solution!—
Trains can run off electricity, whereas cars can’t. The question is whether it makes sense to electrify all that track…
highwayman wrote:
“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Kandersteg02.jpg”
Better still if the system used smart cars, which could be loaded sideways. More vehicles could be carried that way.
Francis, looks like you have some sort of virus and/or adblock software that doesn’t like all the corporate ad cr*p running on Flash or some such platform on the Post site.
DS
Antiplanner wrote:
“It may be a testament to the quality of our public schools that the analytical skills of Americans smart enough to use a web browser have reached such depths of sophistication.”
The same is true of the UK. Sarkozy has started on the burqa, and so this has started a whole sequence of stories about Islam in the press. One after another, a self-appointed expert does a story about the burqa, illustrated, since they don’t know the difference, with a picture of a lady wearing a niqab.
Then, more opinion pieces on Sharia Law. Sharia means street in Arabic – I guess they mean Shari’ah, spelt differently in Arabic, and pronounced very differently. If you point out that the word isn’t correctly spelt, next week another opinion piece, with exactly the same misspelling. It’s a sign of the times. An idiot armed to the teeth with Google is still an idiot.
Dan wrote:
“Francis, looks like you have some sort of virus and/or adblock software that doesn’t like all the corporate ad cr*p running on Flash or some such platform on the Post site.”
I’m using Google Chrome. It is a lot tougher against hacking in general, since it is built better than the competition, including running every web-site in it’s own little space, which it cannot get out of. Opening http://ti.org/antiplanner in Firefox allows me to go straight to Denver Post without any warnings. I’m sticking with Chrome.
Hm. I use Firefox with a bunch of add-ons that obviate these issues and doesn’t kill processing speed. How do you use it and what for?
DS
I do think that when clearly correct positions (the excess cost of high-speed rail) fail to convince, a near metaphor is needed.
I don’t have one, yet, but I’m working on it.
Dan wrote:
“Hm. I use Firefox with a bunch of add-ons that obviate these issues and doesn’t kill processing speed. How do you use it and what for?”
It’s a web browser. It’s a bit odd to use at first, since it doesn’t have things in the places that you expect them, but after a while it feels odd to go back to Firefox.
Compared to other browsers, it is as much an advance as Windows 95 compared to Windows 3.1. http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html
I meant, Francis, do you just fart around with it or do you do work with it? Does it hold up to pounding?
DS
Francis King said:
highwayman wrote:
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Better still if the system used smart cars, which could be loaded sideways. More vehicles could be carried that way.
THWM: Hey, it’s good to have options.