Google should have never wasted their time trying to convince the mass market to accept this thing and spent their time aiming at professionals. Doctors, lawyers, law enforcement, accountants, anyone who could immediately benefit from having pair of glasses that can look up and record information. These are the sort…
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High speed trains are just a money pit for tax dollars and will never, ever return on investment. Let us hope it NEVER comes to America.
“High-speed trains—which can hit 300 miles per hour or more—are the ultimate example of how futuristic engineering can solve real-world transportation problems.”
It take’s me about 3.5 hours door to door when I take a flight from Oakland to San Diego (yes, I get a ride to/from the airport) and will cost me about $80. Southwest Airlines even makes a slight profit on this. This would never happen with HSR.
Something I’ll never understand is why people think you can pick arbitrary parts from one society, slap them into ours, and expect it to work. We don’t have fast trains because fast trains are pointless in the US.
This guy goes on one cruise and thinks he is an expert because of what he reads on the internet? Stick to tech ( which you also suck at talking about) and leave travel to the professionals. I have been on 20 cruises and they are safe. No more dangerous than visiting any other place. FYI Disney Cruises have lifeguards.…
Hmm.. Can’t decide if I should file this under “carnival barking”, “click bait” or “alarmist extrapolation”.. We’ve been on 2 cruises, a Viking river cruise along the Rhine and last year on the Cunards Queen Elizabeth to Dubai. Both were flawless reference point vacation adventures we’ll never forget. So when you cry…
Most of this sounds like FUD. Sometimes cruises don’t go so well, but the vast majority of the time they do.
I’m not discounting your warning, but I do want to push back on the kid drowning thing. If there’s no lifeguard, the drowning is the parent’s fault, not the cruise line. People need to stop blaming someone else for their own carelessness.
I hate to call this article stupid, but I can give you just as many reasons to not go on any type of vacation. Seriously. Have you been on a cruise? If so, did you pay for more than the cheapest budget stateroom? I love articles with advice on how someone should not do something the author has never done himself, or…
Hmm, I have been on 17 cruises. I have never gotten ill on board (or immediately afterwards), there were no mechanical failures, I was never raped (sigh), I was never robbed (apart from being in the casino, damn slot machines) and nobody ever died on the ship. Cars crash all the time, better not ride/drive in one of…
"Anecdote anecdote anecdote, grammatical error, anecdote, therefore completely abandon this entire industry."
Conclusion not supported by presented evidence. Author is requested to revise article and re-submit for publication at a later date with more evidence, less errors, and a less alarming conclusion.
The data doesn’t lie. Cruise ships are dangerous places. Stop paying money to spend your vacation on one of them.
Indeed, considering more than 14 million people go on cruises from the US each year alone I don’t think statistically these “dangers” are really any more of a concern than any other kind of vacation. There are reasons some people might not enjoy cruising, but none of these are among them. Personally I love cruising…
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I think most of the dangers that you mentioned can occur on any vacation in general. That’s it. Cancelling all vacation plans. Just going to stay in this room and vacation on the internet. What could go wrong?
Without providing the comparative rates for any of these problem areas, how does the author come to the conclusion that cruises are worse than any other form of travel?
“The data doesn’t lie”