Comments by "Günter Zöchbauer" (@GunterZochbauer) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

Trains are the dumbest thing imaginable. They are expensive to build and to run. They only go to locations nobody wants to go to because stations need so much space. You have to wait hours to find a train in the general direction you want to travel. If you don't want to travel between train stations of big cities at preset times, trains are complete shit. Trains are run by inefficient greedy monopoly in most countries.
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@LordWaterBottle We probably have a better train system than most countries in Austria. If you want to go anywhere else than the train stations of Vienna, St. Poelten, Linz and Salzburg, then it completely sucks. People arguing for trains do so because they are brainwashed by their leftist bubble and have never tried to think for themselves or they pay so much rent in the city center that they can't afford a car and just want to harass those who can. I have seen enough of those people arguing hard for trains and public transport in general only to then later complain a lot how much it sucks once they actually tried going on vacation by public transport themselves.
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Public transportation sucks everywhere except a few big cities. Self-driving could be better in every way if they don't butcher it, for example by allowing monopolies.
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@favourmiracle7094 How else would you get there in the US? We in Austria have one of the better railway systems and it's mostly a money pit and is only convenient for the people in our 4 main cities if one of the other 3 cities is their destination. We have a lot of rail routes in rural areas that cost an unbelievable amount of tax money to keep them running because they are empty most of the time. Trains are exceptionally stupid because they can only go where the rails go. They only run at fixed times that may or may not match when people want or need to travel.
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@favourmiracle7094 For the money trains cost, there are better solutions. Not all people live in cities and not all destinations are in cities. Here the green parties demand trains to everyone's driveway and want to ban cars and completely ignore that trains are not viable outside of high capacity connections between big cities and even there many prefer flying because it's cheaper and faster. That's the effect of competition and competition doesn't work with trains. This is one of the reasons trains are run by sluggish and bureaucratic monopolies. People who want more trains either have no clue what they are talking about or are lobbyists of wannabe train monopolies.
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Not providing value for money worked quite well for MS and HP in the past, so why change.
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Google drive lost me a long time ago
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 @aygwm When was there anything good about trains?
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@Mudmoto_Marine Perhaps public transport never became viable because it's just a shitty idea.
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@favourmiracle7094 Japan consists of a lot of huge cities which each has great public transport. In the US few have that. Local train companies won't work because there will be very few routes that can be profitable and all others with less traffic will need lots of subsidies. Someone will need to build and maintain the rails and rent it to companies that run the trains. Multiple companies will need to be able to use the same rails to get competition. Without competition it will just be an inefficient and expensive monopoly. Someone would need to coordinate the trains from competing companies. Nobody would want to do and be responsible for that nightmare job. While some countries like Japan are disciplined enough to make it "work", the US is definitely not one of these countries. Also nobody wants to live near rails or even less train stations, this is why there is always a lot of space for parking lots.
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@favourmiracle7094 You are contradicting yourself in one post. The state would need to regulate, but that doesn't even work in heavily regulated Europe. It's just corruption that decides who gets the big money and the tax payers and travellers are paying the price. It just doesn't work. A few exceptions don't count.
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@twangyyy18888 Trains are never where they are needed. It's a shitty idea from the start and people push it because they are envious and love to make other people's lives miserable. With self-driving cars we have some great opportunities ahead, but people who want to create monopolies will fuck it up again.
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@allthe1 Still much better than public transport for a lot of people. Instead of feeling lucky to live where public transport gets them where they want to be, they keep harassing people who aren't that lucky and try to force them to use public transport no matter how bad it works for them.
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@allthe1 That's what I'm doing. Stop wasting money on public transport where nobody uses it. Self-driving cars provide much better options
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@allthe1 Public transport makes sense in bigger cities and to connect those cities, but in less dense populated areas it's just a big waste of money. The green movements here pretend that banning cars completely and forcing everyone to use public transport is possible and important. To me these are complete nutcases.
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The problem with buying content is, that is has often severe drawbacks as well. Often you don't even own the stuff you bought, then it comes with copy protection that makes it cumbersome to consume. There are country restrictions and with BluRays it's often hard to even buy them or only with dramatically overprised shipping cost
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Linux is the most secure OS because everything that's not secure counts as an addon and is not part of the OS itself. Windows NT was even more secure (certified) but only when no network was installed and physical access was prevented. I'd count every general statement about security of a system as intentional misinformation.
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