I have no intention of ever boarding a train, so I shouldn't have to pay for it. I'm all for removing the regulations on trains, but that doesn't mean I want my money to go to something I'll never ever use. If high speed rail were so good, and those pesky regulations were removed, then it would stand or fall on the free market. People forget that the NYC subway system was created by a private company. Maybe, just maybe, there's a reason that Amtrack is billions in the hole.

Public projects are not about success or failure (see: the longest American war). Do we really want to see more of the same, but with railroads? America once had massive, transcontinental, government-funded railways. They were terribly unprofitable on the net (although the elites walked away with quite a bit of taxpayer money), and most of the railway companies behind them went bankrupt even with their massive government support.

The cool thing about private companies is that if I don't want or use what they're selling, then I don't have to pay for it. If high speed rails are so great and truly would improve the lives of millions of people, then let those people vote with their own dollars, and not mine.

I hate the United States government. Who are you arguing with?

Within the current infrastructure in America, they are mutually exclusive.
1. There are no passing lanes on long stretches of railway.
2. High speed rail cars wouldn't even be able to function on the current railroad tracks in America, because they use special tracks.
3. Therefore, a whole new rail infrastructure would need to be built to support high speed rail.

There are some conclusions that can be drawn from this.

The reason big-shipment railroading is so cheap is because it goes through the middle of nowhere, where land is cheap. High speed rail attempts to bring people to dense areas, where land can become 10x, 100x, or 1000x more expensive.

To build one mile of high speed rail in America costs about 87 million dollars. To build one high speed rail track from NYC to LA would cost over 243 billion dollars. That's an extreme example, but you can see how the cost balloons and why no entrepreneur has attempted to do this, especially since America is more "spread out" in general than other countries.

Fun fact: Trains in America run slower today than they did in the 1920s. One reason for this is because of government weight regulations on train cars that make them slower.

That being said, China is in an infrastructure bubble right now. That's why there are vacant cities*. Debt spending on infrastructure like railroads and entire cities makes up a larger part of the Chinese economy than the American economy.

Europe's far higher population density than America might explain why there are more transport railroads there. Europe has around 111.739 people per square kilometer, whereas the US has around 33.27 people per square kilometer.

Despite its history and lack of high speed rail, I think the system in America right now is pretty decent. America has the most miles of railroad out of any country in the world*. There are lots of railroads in use in America today, just not high speed ones. Railroad companies here simply make more money by shipping hundreds of transport containers on one train at a slow speed, than by shipping a small amount of passenger carriages at a high speed.

* https://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-chinese-ghost-cities-2010-12?slop=1#heres-chinas-biggest-ghost-city-zhengzhou-new-district-4
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size#cite_note-3

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NEW PC, no longer playing on a rock

I'm looking to play combo scout in adv s11. Thanks to my previous teammates for a good run. Playing at the highest individual level I have ever been.

• will maincall
• lots of free time over the coming months

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It's a common misconception that men and women are forcibly separated in video games. As far as I know, there are no rules at all in most competitive video games saying "the main league is for men only." It just so happens that the top level of esports is generally or totally populated by men. As a result, some women-only leagues are created, which do prevent men from playing in those leagues. But the main, top-level leagues, which are generally populated by men, do not disbar women from joining.

Without even getting into the biological differences between men and women (as in reaction time), some simple statistics can explain why there are fewer top-level women than men in most video games.

If we define "top-level" as within the top 1% of players for a population, then of course there will be more "top-level" men than women. This is because 1% of the male TF2 population greatly outnumbers 1% of the female TF2 population. All else equal, the difference in size of the male and female populations in TF2 will be reflected in the difference in size of the male and female populations in competitive TF2.

Why more men than women play TF2 is perhaps a question for another rahThread.

American version: Fork in left hand, knife in right hand. After cutting, put knife down and switch fork to right hand before eating. The pointy bits on the fork should face up.

European version: Fork in left hand, knife in right hand. Turn the pointy parts of the fork upside down when you bring the food to your mouth.

I wonder if the "invisible barrier" theory will come into play now.

For example, before Roger Bannister ran a sub-4-minute mile, people were saying it was impossible, etc, and it was a barrier for runners since the late 1800s. But after he did it, the floodgates were opened, so to speak, and a bunch of people started getting sub-4 minutes within a short period of time. Getting under 4 minutes was more a psychological gap than a skill gap.

Perhaps the same will happen now for the gap between Froyo and other teams.

Skilled player, laughs at ur jokes, talks in funny voice and eliminates soldiers like anti-aircraft gun

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Banned for doing nothing wrong, smh. Only insane people complain to admins about non-cheaters. If you don't like somebody, you can, I don't know, ignore them.

My school cancelled classes for no reason today.

I'm not racist ..