That's what they're doing with the new maglev shinkansen in Japan. (Also because of the mountains, you'd have to dig a bunch of tunnels anyhow). The problem they have is that one of the prefectures t… (View Post)

Are you sure that's what it means? I read it again and it doesn't seem like it. As far as I can tell that only applies to Cressida Dick. (View Post)

They're popular for longer than 9 months. Even when you screw them up they're popular for that long. Some nice polling data from Wikipedia on the Bay of Pigs debacle: "Only 3 percent of American… (View Post)

"The dilemma: if every convicted subpostmaster in the last 25 years applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (“CCRC“) to have their convictions reviewed and referred to the Court of Appea… (View Post)

For comparison (different pollster but) Obama was about 12 points underwater in Aug-Oct of 2011 despite getting Osama Bin Laden just a few months earlier, then he snapped back to parity at the end of… (View Post)