[Ipg-smz] The train from hell?

[Stephen Satchell]

+1

Actually, I would like all of Washington DC to adopt a telecommute
model.  Have all the elected representatives stay home, and
teleconference for everything: legislative sessions, committee meeting,
hearings, the whole nine yards.

There should be a diaspora of the various departments of the Executive
to the four corners of the CONUS, so that the workers are closer to the
people they serve.  The Department of Agriculture has the right idea.

How may New Yorkers really need to be in tiny boxes within big boxes.

We have the technology.  I currently work (mostly) that way now.  My
desktop computer at $DAYJOB sees very little of my physical person,
although that's one of the places I back up my work, via VPN.

On 10/29/19 12:05 PM, James Gaskin via Ipg-smz wrote:
> Another question could be why are we moving people like cattle to trap them
> inside the buildings of the most high-tech companies on the planet? Why
> take the train when you can telecommute? Maybe David's wife is a doctor or
> a plumber so she has to put hands on things. Otherwise, reduce rush hour
> traffice. Dallas' downtown is almost all white collar knowledge worker
> companies - financials, legal, accounting, software, PR, management, etc.
> If those people worked from home all or most days, rush hour traffic
> would be cut in half.
> 
> No more train from hell, or in Dallas, traffic jams from hell.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> 
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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
> 
>> "Public transportation needs to get to the level where an event like
>> this brings out the 60pt headlines, or electronic equivalent."
>>
>> One morning shortly after I moved to NYC in '69, there was a subway
>> accident that resulted in a full page headline and photo on the front
>> page of the Daily News. The headline proclaimed in huge type above and
>> below the photo - "Forty Thousand Delayed!" Below that, along the bottom
>> of the page, in much, much smaller type - "Two People Dead"
>>
>> That was quite an education on priorities for this 18-year-old kid who'd
>> just moved to the big city.
>>
>> Christine Hall
>> Publisher & Editor
>> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
>> http://fossforce.com
>>
>> On 10/29/19 1:58 PM, Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>> And the high-brow left want us to shift to public transportation.  No
>>> thank you.  The good news is Uber was still working...at least until Jan
>> 1.
>>>
>>> Public transportation needs to get to the level where an event like this
>>> brings out the 60pt headlines, or electronic equivalent.
>>>
>>> On 10/29/19 10:51 AM, David Needle via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>>> My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the
>>>> train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in
>>>> Mountain View!  people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in
>>>> Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5
>> hours...
>>>
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