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Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?
zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner.
As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."
The gap between rich and poor is just getting w-i-d-e-r.
So what is your solution to prevent that from happening? Is it....
Or, would you rather...
The real reason that the so called "gap" is getting wider is because of socialist/liberal policies that make the average joe-schmoe think he deserves everything. They think "they deserve" the Federal government to use it's mighty powers to regulate the decaying power situation in California. They think "they deserve" to have Company XYZ release product WJK under the GPL just because they want it, can't afford it, etc.
The people that make money are intelligent, ambition driven and don't expect jack squat from anyone. If they want something, they find a way to do it-- and I'm not talking about getting together with 9,000,000 other "soon-to-be-rich" people and petitioning Steel Company R to ship their orders at a discount; they use whatever resources they have, make deals/contracts/etc (however shady they may be), pull every string they can think of and get it done.
I don't need a private supersonic jet, I have a very large penis.