Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits. Here are the results
The LA Times Breaks it down:
Average wait times for the busiest rides in both parks
Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits. Here are the results
Among other findings since 2015, the data show:
- The shortest wait times are typically on Thursdays.
- Saturdays have the longest average queue times, 25 minutes.
- September and January are the best months to avoid long lines at the resort. On Jan. 22 of this year, the average wait time for the most popular rides was the shortest, only 7.6 minutes
- The longest average wait times have been at the end of December and July as well as mid-May, around the start of spring break for most area schools and colleges.
- Over the past two and a half years, the day with the longest average wait times was May 20, 2017, when it took 42 minutes on average to get on a ride. The park hosted one of several graduation night parties on that date.
- Only one of the popular attractions had a wait get shorter; that was Splash Mountain (down by about 11 minutes).
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Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan
Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan
serious doubts now surround the film’s premise after a Tokyo-based blogger unearthed the same photograph in the archives of the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library.
The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.
(via The Guardian)
Slab City: What an abandoned city with no laws full of “crazy” art looks like
“Slab City or The Slabs is largely a snowbird community in the Sonoran Desert located in Imperial County, California, 156 miles northeast of San Diego within the California Badlands, and used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America.[1][2] It took its name from concrete slabs that remained from the abandoned World War II Marine Corps barracks of Camp Dunlap.
Several thousand campers, many of them retired, use the site during the winter months. The “snowbirds” stay only for the winter before migrating north in spring to cooler climates. The temperatures during summer are unforgiving [as high as 120 °F (48 °C)]; nonetheless, there is a group of around 150 permanent residents who live in “The Slabs” year round. Some of these “Slabbers” derive their living from government programs and have been driven to “The Slabs” by poverty. Others have moved to “The Slabs” to learn how to live off the grid and be left alone. Still others have moved there to stretch their retirement income.
The site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, and there is no charge for parking. The site has no official electricity, running water, sewers, toilets or trash pickup service. Many residents use generators or solar panels to generate electricity. The closest body of civilization with proper law enforcement is approximately four miles southwest of Slab City in Niland where the residents often go to do basic shopping. As a result, the site is described by its inhabitants and news outlets like Vice News as a miniature de facto enclave of anarchy.”
How ‘Despacito’ Became The Song Of The Summer
I don’t like this song, but I cannot get it out of my head. CBS does a good job of breaking down why.
Monday
Don’t let your Monday start out like this!
Tractor Hacking
Motherboard takes a look into the now common practice that many of America’s farmers are getting into, Tractor Hacking.
To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America’s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that’s cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums.
Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular because John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform “unauthorized” repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty and quite possibly an existential threat to their livelihood if their tractor breaks at an inopportune time.
The main argument comes down to ownership. Once a farmer turns the key, they have agreed to John Deere’s TOS.
A license agreement John Deere required farmers to sign in October forbids nearly all repair and modification to farming equipment, and prevents farmers from suing for “crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment … arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software.” The agreement applies to anyone who turns the key or otherwise uses a John Deere tractor with embedded software. It means that only John Deere dealerships and “authorized” repair shops can work on newer tractors.
Many do not agree with this and they end up turning to unlikely sources for an answer.
“If a farmer bought the tractor, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it,” Kevin Kenney, a farmer and right-to-repair advocate in Nebraska, told me. “You want to replace a transmission and you take it to an independent mechanic—he can put in the new transmission but the tractor can’t drive out of the shop. Deere charges $230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize the part.”
“What you’ve got is technicians running around here with cracked Ukrainian John Deere software that they bought off the black market,” he added.
Think of your cell phone, smart tv, car… do YOU own it? Who should have permission to control what goes on it?
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