The previous Google Pay app was definitely killed off and you had to install "GPay" instead. I /think/ Google Pay may have been a rename of the original Android Pay app, but not sure.
Generally that's true, but Hertz specifically does have a few classes of vehicle that only contain one model, and they advertise those as something like "guaranteed make/model" / "reserve this exact car".
And while they do run out, most of the time you will receive what you booked, and at larger airport locations they'll typically substitute something close in size and nature to what you booked if they do run out of your specific class.
Except that these are “actual Nazis” who have shown up. We’re talking about publications that, in some cases, use terms like “national socialist” and “reich” in their name and/or bio.
Not so. Look at my post that goes through their examples, which HN being the bastion of well moderated tolerance that it is, is now at -1 and flagged. Only one meets your description and it's suspended for ToS violations. The ones that aren't suspended are just ordinary US politics that's being described as Nazis by the left.
> One of the problems with labeling your political opponents Nazis is that no one believes you when actual Nazis show up.
That's certainly true, but it sure is weird when a certain political leaning causes one to minimize the fact that actual Nazis showed up, which casts a hefty shadow on this perceived boundary between "actual nazi" and "not actual nazi". At what point does one stop imagining that enablement isn't a real thing? Shrug emoji, though, I guess.
Actually what's happening in those examples is that issues DO happen on the weekend, the customer just suffers or calls someone else to patch things up till it can be addressed correctly. Difference with tech work is that your employer typically suffers.
No, the reaction by truck manufactures (Ford, etc.) was to switch from a "passenger car" chassis, which is regulated under CAFE, to a "light truck" chassis, which isn't. Remember that the PT Cruiser was classified as a "light truck". I think we can all agree that in no way shape or form would the average person believe the PT Cruiser was a truck.
> Under CAFE, vehicles can be labeled “passenger cars” or “light trucks”, with the latter category required to meet less stringent standards for fuel economy and CO2 emissions. A decade ago, the Chrysler PT Cruiser was the most egregious example of this.
> Big trucks and SUVs are often more comfortable for larger people.
This plays some part in it. I am fairly tall, and have longer legs, and there are sedans that I simply cannot fit into because they do not have enough room for my legs. Nevermind a coupe of any kind.
I do have a pet theory that part of the problem with bad drivers, especially inattentive drivers is that they're far too comfortable in their cars. They sit in a big cushy drivers seat with gods-knows-how-many adjustment zones, in-seat heating, cooling..massage even. Driving becomes a time to relax rather than a time to concentrate.
Connecting to airports as transportation hubs is interesting and makes a lot of sense - gives you access to 24/7 rental cars, air travel, and often rail connections to downtown areas. One thing with traveling on Amtrak in most of America is it plops you in a downtown with few options for getting anywhere.
The problem is that you get stuck in a local maximum.
Nobody really wants to be at an airport. They are located on the outskirts of cities due to noise issues, and you still have to spend quite a lot of time traveling to downtown or even the completely opposite side of the city. It is also extremely difficult to actually build things near the train station due to all the space being required for the airport itself.
Compare the Orlando terminal[0] with a train station like Amsterdam Zuid[1], which is going to be the terminus for high-speed trains in the near future. Orlando has rental cars and taxis. Amsterdam Zuid has 32 semi-local trains per hour, 3 metro lines each serving 6 trains per hour in either direction, 9 bus lines with similar frequencies, and 2 comparable tram lines.
The Orlando terminal is within walking distance of Orlando Airport terminal C. Amsterdam Zuid is within walking distance of a major hospital, a major university, and offices for multinationals like Google, Accenture, and the European Medicine Agency.
When you have to rent a car to get to your destination anyways, why bother taking a train?
To get an answer your question, consider the PI on a grant who's located in, say, Champaign, IL, or Carbondale, IL, and who needs to fly internationally to attend a conference. (Or, perhaps more direly, needs to attend some family emergency.)
With rail alignments going, say, STL-CHM-CHI and STL-CDL-NVL, and with those alignments being wallclock time-competitive with just driving, the opportunity exists now for those PIs not to have to worry about, e.g., the roadworthiness of their cars or whether they'll have to account for traffic for the two- or three-hour commute to the airport.
Extend this to cover other folks who live away from major metropolises but who could be served with better airport access, or college students from those metropolises (or even internationally) whose schools are in places not particularly conveniently served by air, and this plan might start to appear to do measurable good.
To compare this with Europe, flying into FRA out of ORD (after a cramped puddle jumper flight out of STL and several hours' layover) and taking the ICE to Offenburg to visit family for Easter was a thing I did for years, and I found the German side far less agonizing. There were some years when I never even bothered to purchase my Bahn fare until I could get to the DB Reisezentrum in the basement of FRA because the frequency of the trains made it certain I'd not have to wait long.
Local public Lynx buses with red color at front - are located At Terminal A, level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38-A41 and serve the following areas: (current bus fare is $2):
- To Downtown Orlando (40 mins): Lynx bus 11 via Orange Avenue; Lynx bus 51via Conway;
- To International Drive (60 mins): Lynx Bus 42 .
- To Forida Mall /Sea World (45 mins): Lynx bus 111.
- To new Sand Lake Road SunRail Station* (3 miles from Airport): take the local Lynx bus stopping at Terminal A, level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38-41.
Local buses are also available to Winter Park/ Maitland; Lake Buena Vista, Kissimmee, Disney's Maingate, & Walt Disney World.
(Not counting all of the hotel buses or cruise ship buses)
* Uber and Lyft near infinite transport in addition to taxi’s
By Train:
* The SunRail runs between DeBary (northwest of Sanford) and Sand Lake Road) For more information on SunRail service call 1-855--RAIL-411 or visit: sunrail.com/default.aspx. NOTE: The Lynx bus located on the A-side of the Terminal, at level 1, commercial lane spaces A38-A41 - connects to the Sand Lake Road SunRail station.
For Amtrak service located at 250 Columbia Street, Orlando - 12 miles from the Airport - you can take the Lynx bus 11 to Orange Avenue & Columbia Street - taking a total of 30 minutes. The Amtrak station is about half a mile from the bus stop, down Columbia Street, then left onto Sligh Blvd.
- this is in addition to the new BrightLine
* By Car
- Personal travel, rental car, guests picking you up or local parking lots both on premises and off premises (private lots)
I don’t think Orlando and Zurich compare.
Are you going to walk off the Orlando airport to somewhere else without being on some sort of transportation? No. But you aren’t going to do that at Oslo airport either. You need to take a train or bus for example to Oslo Central Station or elsewhere - similar to Zurich.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like the bus and train stations are that close together. Local buses stop at Terminal A, while the train pulls in to the new intermodal station off Terminal C [1], almost a mile away. At least there's an automated people mover connecting them, but it hardly seems like a convenient interchange.
Buses are not even marked on the airport terminal map, which is split into separate maps for terminals A & B [2] and C [3]. That's going to make things more challenging for people to figure out.
I mean train has to stop somewhere and Terminal C made the most sense. It’s external to the main airport. A and B are near identical.
Walking to it isn’t a big deal. Not sure if you have been to the airport or any in general but walking is generally accepted. There’s the airport internal shuttle to save you walking an additional mile. It’s a busy airport.
Having to walk for 10 minutes through the airport when your flight leaves in an hour isn't a big deal.
However, it's a different story when you don't even want to be at the airport. At a lot of airports you can step out of a train, walk through the airport following a huge sign saying "BUSES THIS WAY", and step into a bus less than five minutes later. Having a short and well-signed intermodal connection is essential if you expect people to actually use it. Hiding it in an unmarked corner two walks and a people mover ride away isn't exactly what I would call convenient.
Interesting! I found https://www.orlando-international-airport.com/, which only mentions car rental and undefined "Airport Shuttles"/"Hotel Shuttles"/"Taxis & Limos", and they did not show up on Google Maps. That's indeed quite a lot more.
The Lynx buses at 30/60-minute intervals seem quite usable for most purposes, too bad they don't have a convenient transfer from the train.
Why not do both? Have the train have stops both downtown and at an airport?
If you just want to do stuff downtown that doesn't need a car, take the train to that stop. If you are going to need to rent a car, take the train to the airport.
If stopping at the airport adds 15-20 minutes to the trip to downtown, it probably isn't worth it and you want to run separate trains.
On the other hand, the high-speed train going to Amsterdam Zuid via the shortest possible route literally passes through the airport Schiphol already - a stop only adds 2 minutes or so and is therefore a no-brainer.
Every train station I've been to in the Northeast has been within a few minutes walk of a subway station, light rail station, bus hub, or taxi stand. What you mean by "few options" is "no car rental", which is an unfortunate consequence of our auto-centric psychology.
Well, yes, Amtrak in the Northeast is convenient if you want to go downtown at a stop. It’s mostly a poor choice if you want to rent a car and go somewhere else in which case you’re probably better flying or just driving in the first place.
Not sure about car-centric philosophy. It’s about the destination for a given trip. No judgement about it.
When I was in my early 20s, I flew into Providence, RI. I was too young to rent a car, and too poor to take a taxi all the way to my final destination, so I had to take it to the place downtown where the busses all crossed paths. I only learned later that where the taxi dropped me off was about a 5-to-10-minute walk from the Amtrak station. If I'd taken the train, I could have eschewed a leg of my trip (and embarked from a station closer than my local airport).
This was, in fact, one of the experiences which informed my previous statement.
I've made the same trip by car and train. Train is by far the most convenient and relaxed. I would drive about the same distance from home to the local station (those exist) as I would in order to get to the airport, park for free 10 minutes before boarding, and do it at an hour that was not ungodly (which was a necessity for flights for pricing reasons). Every minute dealing with TSA and arcane terminal navigation is worth 10 sitting in a large, seatbelt-free Amtrak seat. I am happy to judge: your characterization sounds like someone who doesn't actually have much experience riding trains - and, specifically, walking out of a train station and navigating to their destination. This is frustrating because you seem rather assured.
I have plenty of experience riding trains and they’re great if e.g. I’m going to midtown Manhattan. They’re far less of an advantage if I * have to* rent a car and go out to visit a company in a suburban office park as is often the case.
Do you really rent cars in that case, rather than use a taxi?
I occasionally have meetings at similar places in Europe. If I'm alone and have time, I generally prefer to take a bus if it's reasonably convenient (at least every 20 minutes, not raining too much, easy to pay for, up to 10 minutes walk at the other end). I quite like the 'thinking time' of walking the last bit.
If a bus isn't reasonable, or (usually) if I'm with a colleague, I'll take a taxi. It wouldn't really occur to me to rent a car.
I rent cars all the time going to suburban office parks and even more so if I’m also going to do a hike in some state park or whatever—where there may not even be cell phone reception. I might be marginally more inclined to get an Uber than do a rental than in years past but only marginally.
In a few weeks I’ll be going to a conference in Monterey and will be doing some other activities around the conference in some parks and I’ll definitely rent a car.
To be clear I won’t generally rent a car if just within eg SF but I’m often going places outside the city where I’m not even staying somewhere I can walk to my destination. And typically I wouldn’t in Europe.
Do mind that it's often more cost effective to take the train and you have more rental options. I've taken the train from WDC to NYC at times because there were better rental options there when travelling further north.
There is absolutely no way I would take a train into NYC for a cheaper rental option requiring me to drive out of the city. Driving to NYC is already my fastest option but I hate doing it so I basically drive an hour in the wrong direction to catch a train.
This is legit the first time I've ever heard someone being in favour of going to an airport outside a city by train rather than going to the city centre. If I am ending at the airport anyway I might as well fly there.
There are a few airports in Europe with a high-speed train station in the airport, like Roissy in Paris (sadly the trains don't go to Paris, wouldn't be French enough) or Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. It can be extremely practical to take the train to downtown wherever in the country instead of waiting 5 hours for your connecting flight to an airport 20 miles away from civilization.
You connect to proxy 1 and ask it to set up a tunnel to proxy 2 (the tunnel to proxy 2 rides inside the tunnel to proxy 1).
Proxy 1 knows your source IP, its own IP, and the destination IP (proxy 2). Proxy 2 knows the incoming source IP (proxy 1), its own IP, and the destination IP (the website you're accessing). Neither proxy knows both your IP and your destination IP.
Ah, I was thinking "share" more technically... yeah, the fact that they're operated by distinct entities makes that less likely but it's not guaranteeing anonymity, anyone tapping both proxies (NSA) could probably correlate your connections pretty easily too, but it's an improvement over a direct connection or a single proxy.
I don't think that's what a social network is necessarily - many people use Facebook entirely as a "friends only" sharing tool, and indeed almost all Facebook activity appears to be between people who know each other in real life. There are social networks that are primarily between strangers (Twitter, TikTok, etc) but that's not a defining feature of all social networks.
To clarify, the state didn't override those specific ordinances. They passed a law severely limiting the ability of cities to make ordinances in general; my understanding is that these specific ordinances seem to simply be the ones the news media has latched onto to create a narrative.
So it’s worse than what the media is saying? Because the state has exerted even more control over local authorities? Not sure what you’re getting at here.
Correct. The “small/limited government” state legislature took away all sorts of rights from individual communities’ self-determination - involving things like running elections (but only in counties above a certain population size, meaning that exactly, uh, one large, diverse county was actually subject to this law) or mandating standards for animal shelters.
As far as animals go the Texas law says up near the top where it is saying what it covers that it:
> does not, except as expressly provided by this Act, affect the authority of a municipality to adopt, enforce, or maintain an ordinance or rule that relates to the control, care, management, welfare, or health and safety of animals;
so it at least gives the appearance that it isn't going to allow people to just do whatever they want with animals.
But then much farther down in the miscellaneous provisions section it says:
Sec. 229.901. AUTHORITY TO REGULATE ANIMAL BUSINESSES.
(a) A municipality may not adopt, enforce, or maintain an ordinance or rule that restricts, regulates, limits, or otherwise impedes a business involving the breeding, care, treatment, or sale of animals or animal products, including a veterinary practice, or the business ’s transactions if the person operating that business holds a license for the business that is issued by the federal government or a state.
(b) Except as provided by this subsection, a municipality may not adopt, enforce, or maintain an ordinance or rule that restricts, regulates, limits, or otherwise impedes the retail sale of dogs or cats. A municipality may enforce or maintain an ordinance or rule adopted before April 1, 2023, that restricts, regulates, limits, or otherwise impedes the retail sale of dogs or cats until the state adopts statewide regulation for the retail sale of dogs or cats, as applicable.
