Flight capacity. Consolidating flights into bigger planes isn’t going to win any friends; people like having options when it comes to departure times. They’d be happier with CAHSR, now that I think about it.

What do you mean by reduced? It’s still LA to SF in one seat, and it’s still 2 hours and 40 minutes to go from LA to SF, just as it was promised on the ballot back in 2008:

Mutual Defense Treaty provisions are triggered by armed attack and confirmed through formal protocols. They do not come into play just because of some dredgers. And they certainly don’t suddenly grant the U.S. standing in an international court.

Previous estimates were for Phase 2 to be completed 10 years after completion of Phase 1. Maybe the system would be completed sooner if anti-HSR activists didn’t keep trying to block construction... the same activists who turn around and say, “Look at all these delays! You can’t trust these guys!”

When you say anime, are you referring to the the original animated movie, the Stand Alone Complex series, or ARISE? Because she looks different in all three, and you’re kidding yourself if you think she looks white in all of them, especially when she was a kid.

How will they handle it? They won’t. Look at what happened to All You Need is Kill. As for the romance, well, Batou having an unrequited love for the Major wouldn’t be entirely without precedent...

First, this isn’t new. The delay was known and reported before your last HSR post.

Sacramento is part of Phase 2.

HSR is not ideal for extreme long distances. What it’s good for is replacing 200-400 mile segments, especially when the airport is way out of town. In fact, HSR pairs very nicely with airports: many major airports are already operating near or at capacity. If/when HSR takes over shorter routes, airports can free up…

I read the original. They didn’t look white to me.

the Major is a synthetic human, and to my knowledge it is never clearly stated that she is of Asian descent.

The Major is a cyborg.

Nope. She was 100% human before the plane crash. ARISE is the only adaptation to claim that she never had a real body.

The students clean it up after the graduation ceremony. The students at the school have been doing it for a decade.

More like a Neato Botvac. Roombas just bounce around pseudo-randomly.

it’s from San Andreas

It wasn’t even his sentiments. It was about the power of the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s authority to collect taxes to pay for frontier defense. The Penn family was trying to buy off the GA with a lump sum—literally purchase!—so that the GA wouldn’t come after them any more. The liberty Franklin spoke of was…

Don’t misquote Benjamin Franklin. What he wrote was this:

“While it is true online shoppers can search and find options for tax-free purchases, in most cases, these amount to the seller failing to collect the sales tax.”

Forget betting on the Super Bowl. The January 9, 2016 Powerball drawing didn’t produce any winners, and the jackpot was $900 million.