Heck, if they had landed in NZ at a linux conference the following things would have happened: 1. There would have been a considerable progress in ZFS+ file system for Linux and all other OS except Vista, which would have WinFS. 2. GPL 4.0 would be written by Pentagon and managed by NSA. 3. Google's cluster os linux boxen would be running alien code; really. 4. Holographic storage memory would be a reality implemented as a device driver for Ubuntu. 5. Red Hat would do a LBO of Microsoft and sell off WIndows to carlyle while changing focus for Office team. 6. iPhone would be made tamper-proof with all these tamperers sent to another dimension instantly upon opening the phone forcibly. 7. The Alient craft would be able to withstand more than 6,000 celsius, nuke attacks, artillery shells from Big bertha, yet would succumb to a hit by a pine cone tree and crash. 8. US military standard weapons would move away from M-13 rifle to handheld blaster capable of recharging by handpress and a differential external engine that exploits temperature difference between hand and outside. 9. Wildest Alien Craft Crashes would be the staple on TV: 7 PM. 10. ---can't think of anything at 4.18 AM.---
The AT&T would not allow even a non-AT&T phone to be connected to your home phone socket as they claimed it would disrupt their network somehow. And phones were rented to you at $4.85 per month. Yes they were brutally efficient. If you want lock-in, they are the man to go.
I doubt it is even a conscious attempt by google as a whole. If you read it, it is a generic letter sent as a template to everyone who wants their reputation overcome.
Google has two distinct parts: 1. Search Engine: This is omnipotent, not game for random changes unless approved by the management itself as in China's case. 2. Ads: This is a spinoff from search. This is highly configurable, and google can game the system in your favor if you pay them enough.
What the staffer offered was option 2. Google is earning money off 'sicko' to polish over the tattered reputations of many a HMO.
But if it is option 1 (which is highly unlikely), we need to be terrified and the next democratic president needs to sick google with anti-trust and break them up.
I work for the world's second largest bank. We tried this approach of blaming the customer whenever he lost money online. We ended being sued and settled for 10 times the value. We then implemented the SecurID.
Our website now carries the slogan that says if the customer loses their money while transacting with us, we will repay them in full.
NZ banks are a bunch of pussies. We knew then, and we know now.
St. George Bank in australia was the last bank to implement revolutionary banking in 2001. Now they too have succumbed to the quarterly reports
Fines should be based on wealth, not income. Income is just earnings excluding expenses. Wealth is what remains after you deduct expenses from income. Fine as percentage of total wealth is bound to make sure even BIG corporates stop and think before committing another infraction. But then the congress and senate is owned by corporates. Our senate would end up passing a law that fines a salary employee 10% of his annual wealth over 35 years of service and exempt corporations from such a fine as they are not people.
I mean come on. Corporates should not be allowed entry into a town if they have criminal convictions against them, just like the old day sheriff refused entry into a west town to a convict.
We used to have such laws in 1880s what happened to them?
slashdotters said to RIAA then: Go after individual pirates through a due process of law. They did not say: Sue us all. slashdotters too hate music piracy as much as anyone. It is not RIAA they hate. It is their strongarm, debt-collection techniques of RIAA that they hate. Add to the fact that if challenged in court , RIAA puts tails between its legs and bolts after biting a significant chunk of flesh from me. I would either want RIAA to pay for new flesh or repair the damage plus any out-of-action charges i may have earned.
If RIAA can stand like a man and apologise for wrongly suing someone and paying her court dictated fees to prove they too are honorable[?] am sure people would respect them a little. However RIAA tends to be a one-way traffic for money. They think they can sue anyone they like, force them to pay for not committed crimes, and if questioned they will make the litigant spend more money on lawyers and then drop the suit and run without paying for expenses caused.
Then its bound to fail like Newton. AT&T is a greedy corporate that will stop at nothing to suck you dry. Unless Apple allows free purchase of iPhones at its stores at $499 and allowing you to use it on any network it is doomed to fail. By SIM locking it to AT&T, Apple risks losing all that it gained so far with iPod.
Leopard needs to be able to run WINE and enable it to run XP programs natively. This will allow Apple to sell Leopard as a serious competitor to XP and Vista. For this, Apple needs the continuing revenues from iPod and its successors.
By screwing up majorly in iPhone by tying with AT&T, Apple risks its success.
The market size of just pre-paid cards exceed 180 Billion dollars.
Americans hold 2.6 Billion credit cards in their wallets.
As of June 2007, more than 50.5% americans pay their bills by card.
Websites like amazon accept only cards, not cash.
And increasingly, even grocers who typically make sale of items less than $25 have begun to accept contactless cards as means of payment.
Although none of these will replace cash ever, the incentive for totalitarian governments (like our Cheney-led US) to track even the last dollar will be huge.
After all a cold greenback is untraceable (except maybe the funny RFID), while a card can be traced and you can then be branded as drug smuggler for buying "hash" in Sweden, even though in Sweden Hash means a type of food, just like Spam refers to meat.
So are they claiming osama slipped by while they were paying 70% of their money to contractors supplying pens and PCs? It is high time we cut back the payments to KBR, Halliburton, and start taxing Exxon, oil cos and pay the NSA to keep us safe.
Unexplained affluence = Many possibilities; some esoteric ones: I would have sold my forehead on ebay for advertising, sold my pack of 1950s archie comics for a good price, scrounged some more money from my parents, working at a McJob (ok, that's not good , but hey $50 is a LOT of money).
failing to report overseas travel= Especially if am going on something like on EuroTrip and making out with my..., Driving to mexico to enjoy corona at Point of Manufacture, Drinking so bad that i end up in Canada.
showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope = Yup. Very true. Especially if there are hot chicks in Anthropology or Investment Banking classes...
keeping unusual work hours = HEY ! Am 19. OK?? I wake up at noon after a night of binge drinking.
unreported contacts with foreign nationals = Yup, the czech chick contact nos WILL need to be pried from my cold dead hands, especially since she thinks am the only one for her.
unreported contact with foreign government = Ya, its her dad's henchmen who paid me a "polite" visit to tell me she has a fiancee in Czech republic and her dad BTW is a FieldMarshall.
military, or intelligence officials = Ya, like i said earlier her dad was a fieldmarshall, i always wondered how could a beast like that spawn a beauty like her. I made the mistake of blurting it out to his henchmen and...
attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know = WHAT??? Attending anthropology classes to meet up with the chick is now prohibited?
unexplained absences == Oh Yeeaahhhh !!! I likeed that one...
And the hammer in question was a Modal Impact Hammer costing $1,000 originally. Have you bid on government, especially military contracts?
The military *did* pay $600 for a device that had a handle on one end and a striking surface on the other, but that was a 'hammer' in the same way that a mainframe computer is an 'adding machine'.
The specs for an Ashtray are similar to specs for an F-22 Raptor (the spec book outweighs the ashtray) because the military is so exact in its specs. To make them, contractors often have to specially have special plates/machines which can't be used for anything else often.
Yes i agree that there are wastages and contractors earn a lot. But it is limited to KBR, Halliburton variety, the majority of other contractors are mom-and-pop variety with sales less than $2.5 mil annually and actually struggle.
The hammer in question was Platinum. Because only platinum does NOT produce sparks [of fire] when struck against other metals in a flammable environment. The congress critter who displayed the hammer for all to see conveniently failed to mention it was platinum. Now since platinum looks more or less like highly polished steel from a distance, people took it as ripping off.. The military may be an idiot in many ways: Paying contractors and money? I don;t think they are that dumb. And the toilet seat incident? It was a bolt-down toilet for a transport plane with ability to prevent automatic regurgitation when the plane does a hoop-a-hoop (throwing poop on crew is NOT advisable in war]. Yes, the military was overcharged. But not to the degree you think. The contractors overcharged by 15% on platinum and 12% on toilet seats. And the military got the money back.
I agree. Hackers today are not ParMasters of yesteryears. I guess they were just looking to recruit more zombies for their credit card scams and by mistake they stumbled upon the DoD unsecure network. Heck, half the jokers (who call themselves hackers) can't even expand the acronym ICBM in full. And i bet $100 that one of the words in their expansion would be either International or Business.
The DoD is fretting unnecessarily. A whole generation has already been dumbed down by McDonalds, Pepsi and KFC, not to mention Desperate Housewives, Paris Hilton, Britney's head antics etc. So the worst these jokers can do is to filch the CC numbers of some DoD officials and buy some "close massage services" or buy fle$hlight.
Today's jokers are more interested in earning serious money quickly and buy a Lamby or an Aston-Martin or an iPhone atleast.
Lameduck attacks against a lameduck department.
Its like one ant colony waging war against another ant colony 10 yards away while humans watch it amusingly...
ya i agree... the doctor showed me some slides with pixelized pictures (supposedly) and i was able to identify only 2 out of 12 shown... He said i can't make flight school and i stopped reading after that.
Once the doctor disqualified me, the local airline would not even talk to me.
As a pilot, you should know that airplanes fly based on rules about 60 years old when mail planes flew by flaming torches lit on ground. Plane routes are NOT optimized for fuel savings. They are optimized for:
1. Access to airports in an emergency (max fly time is 2 hours from any airport).
2. Beacons on ground and sea which show the planes the "way" and which are not exactly short cuts.
3. Altitude and Distance regulations which force how many planes you can pack into a silo of sky. Each silo is a straight box from point A to point B at a particular altitude. The distance between two planes (any model) needs to be atleast 10000 feet minimum. Two boxes need to have atleast 1000 feet difference between other such box routes. So there is only a fixed number of planes, altitudes they can fly.
4. As per FAA regulations (also EU and Asia directives) planes are handled in the way they appear and each plane has an queue-based system to land. So a Two-Seater Fokker or a Learjet carrying 8 CEOs can potentially hold up a 320-passenger Jumbo Dreamliner aligning for landing.
5. Take offs and runways were originally meant to be two straight runways criscrossing each other. Hence a takeoff and landing still cannot happen at same time in many medium/small airports.
6. Crumbling infrastructure of airport facilities (like ATC systems, outdated protocols, dependence on beacons rather than GPS contribute to planes burning up more fuel).
I studied all this 12 years ago when i wanted to be a pilot...Bugger my genetics, am color-blind and my doctor laughed me out of his door.
Instead of paying RIAA money by the shovel, the labels should wake up and realize the utter futility of RIAA and stop paying their lawyers. Instead the labels can put more effort into a more generous licensing model, pay artists slightly more, and release tracks as MP3 in iTunes. They could also try to identify real talent (Nor Ashlee) and promote them free of cost until the artist wants to sign an agreement.
The labels should wake up to the reality that paying lawyers shitload of money does not mean they win every lawsuit.
Spend on the money on identifying new lines of operations, and promoting music (schools concerts, etc) and STOP insisting on getting paid each time i sing a tune in the bathroom.
Labels: The more your RIAA goons try to restrict us, the more customers you are losing to emusic.
I agree with you. But 80% of the people are office goers working from Mon-Fri and commuting 1-3 hours daily. These people fill gas at stations, go on long drives for the weekend or to Costco or Walmart. These people are the ones i was talking about. The internet was never imposed on people. There are still people without internet.
While i agree with you, the change can't be overnight in peacetime. It will need to be optional.
And they also lose the government subsidies funded by our tax. Next year same time, i expect a class action suit filed against AT&T, which they will settle and continue going on. The TOR proxy gives us a better option.
Will not work: Because as a driver i expect to drive up the Gas(recharge) station, expect to pull out a pipe/hose/tube and insert it into my car's a$$, twiddle for a few minutes and make small talk with other drivers, then leave.
The max time spent: less than 15 mins. Max effort spent: Lifting up the hose and inserting it into my car.
Anything beyond this effort is NOT likely to succeed because for 50 years that's what we have been trained to do. Humans are loathe to accept change especially when it drastically changes daily routines.
Tesla can't succeed much more because it expects a garage with a power supply for overnight charging. Not many have their own garages.
I live in CT in a huge apartment complex where we have to park our cars outside on the road every night. Although i love to buy a Tesla, i can't because it expects overnight charging.
Now, two things need to happen: 1. Cars need to be recharged in a max of 4 mins. 2. Gas stations should have one more tower called "Power" for electric cars where cars arrive and recharge and leave.
Until both happens, Tesla will remain on the fringe.
Nice point though. Am 32 with a kid and after 3 years i fired up Rise of Nations to battle against PC itself on Easy mode. Was soundly defeated and shell-shocked. I agree with you.
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Heck, if they had landed in NZ at a linux conference the following things would have happened:
1. There would have been a considerable progress in ZFS+ file system for Linux and all other OS except Vista, which would have WinFS.
2. GPL 4.0 would be written by Pentagon and managed by NSA.
3. Google's cluster os linux boxen would be running alien code; really.
4. Holographic storage memory would be a reality implemented as a device driver for Ubuntu.
5. Red Hat would do a LBO of Microsoft and sell off WIndows to carlyle while changing focus for Office team.
6. iPhone would be made tamper-proof with all these tamperers sent to another dimension instantly upon opening the phone forcibly.
7. The Alient craft would be able to withstand more than 6,000 celsius, nuke attacks, artillery shells from Big bertha, yet would succumb to a hit by a pine cone tree and crash.
8. US military standard weapons would move away from M-13 rifle to handheld blaster capable of recharging by handpress and a differential external engine that exploits temperature difference between hand and outside.
9. Wildest Alien Craft Crashes would be the staple on TV: 7 PM.
10. ---can't think of anything at 4.18 AM.---
The AT&T would not allow even a non-AT&T phone to be connected to your home phone socket as they claimed it would disrupt their network somehow.
And phones were rented to you at $4.85 per month.
Yes they were brutally efficient. If you want lock-in, they are the man to go.
I doubt it is even a conscious attempt by google as a whole. If you read it, it is a generic letter sent as a template to everyone who wants their reputation overcome.
Google has two distinct parts:
1. Search Engine: This is omnipotent, not game for random changes unless approved by the management itself as in China's case.
2. Ads: This is a spinoff from search. This is highly configurable, and google can game the system in your favor if you pay them enough.
What the staffer offered was option 2. Google is earning money off 'sicko' to polish over the tattered reputations of many a HMO.
But if it is option 1 (which is highly unlikely), we need to be terrified and the next democratic president needs to sick google with anti-trust and break them up.
Damn. You made spit out coke on my keyboard you insentitive clod. Now i need to get a new keyboard....
I work for the world's second largest bank.
We tried this approach of blaming the customer whenever he lost money online.
We ended being sued and settled for 10 times the value.
We then implemented the SecurID.
Our website now carries the slogan that says if the customer loses their money while transacting with us, we will repay them in full.
NZ banks are a bunch of pussies.
We knew then, and we know now.
St. George Bank in australia was the last bank to implement revolutionary banking in 2001. Now they too have succumbed to the quarterly reports
Fines should be based on wealth, not income.
Income is just earnings excluding expenses.
Wealth is what remains after you deduct expenses from income.
Fine as percentage of total wealth is bound to make sure even BIG corporates stop and think before committing another infraction.
But then the congress and senate is owned by corporates.
Our senate would end up passing a law that fines a salary employee 10% of his annual wealth over 35 years of service and exempt corporations from such a fine as they are not people.
I mean come on. Corporates should not be allowed entry into a town if they have criminal convictions against them, just like the old day sheriff refused entry into a west town to a convict.
We used to have such laws in 1880s what happened to them?
slashdotters said to RIAA then: Go after individual pirates through a due process of law.
They did not say: Sue us all.
slashdotters too hate music piracy as much as anyone.
It is not RIAA they hate. It is their strongarm, debt-collection techniques of RIAA that they hate.
Add to the fact that if challenged in court , RIAA puts tails between its legs and bolts after biting a significant chunk of flesh from me.
I would either want RIAA to pay for new flesh or repair the damage plus any out-of-action charges i may have earned.
If RIAA can stand like a man and apologise for wrongly suing someone and paying her court dictated fees to prove they too are honorable[?] am sure people would respect them a little.
However RIAA tends to be a one-way traffic for money. They think they can sue anyone they like, force them to pay for not committed crimes, and if questioned they will make the litigant spend more money on lawyers and then drop the suit and run without paying for expenses caused.
No Voice dialing and No Cut/Paste?
What's that about?
Even my ancient Motorola V3 RAZR has voice and cut/paste functionality.
Maybe iPhone 2.0 will have them...
Then its bound to fail like Newton.
AT&T is a greedy corporate that will stop at nothing to suck you dry.
Unless Apple allows free purchase of iPhones at its stores at $499 and allowing you to use it on any network it is doomed to fail.
By SIM locking it to AT&T, Apple risks losing all that it gained so far with iPod.
Leopard needs to be able to run WINE and enable it to run XP programs natively. This will allow Apple to sell Leopard as a serious competitor to XP and Vista.
For this, Apple needs the continuing revenues from iPod and its successors.
By screwing up majorly in iPhone by tying with AT&T, Apple risks its success.
The market size of just pre-paid cards exceed 180 Billion dollars.
Americans hold 2.6 Billion credit cards in their wallets.
As of June 2007, more than 50.5% americans pay their bills by card.
Websites like amazon accept only cards, not cash.
And increasingly, even grocers who typically make sale of items less than $25 have begun to accept contactless cards as means of payment.
Although none of these will replace cash ever, the incentive for totalitarian governments (like our Cheney-led US) to track even the last dollar will be huge.
After all a cold greenback is untraceable (except maybe the funny RFID), while a card can be traced and you can then be branded as drug smuggler for buying "hash" in Sweden, even though in Sweden Hash means a type of food, just like Spam refers to meat.
So are they claiming osama slipped by while they were paying 70% of their money to contractors supplying pens and PCs?
It is high time we cut back the payments to KBR, Halliburton, and start taxing Exxon, oil cos and pay the NSA to keep us safe.
As long as iPhone is available only for Cingular, am not buying.
If they ever introduce on Sprint, i will freeze in the cold to buy it.
Where i live, Sprint is the only phone with 4 bars inside the apartment.
Not verizon, not cingular, not T-mobile. Only Sprint.
Unexplained affluence = Many possibilities; some esoteric ones: I would have sold my forehead on ebay for advertising, sold my pack of 1950s archie comics for a good price, scrounged some more money from my parents, working at a McJob (ok, that's not good , but hey $50 is a LOT of money).
failing to report overseas travel= Especially if am going on something like on EuroTrip and making out with my..., Driving to mexico to enjoy corona at Point of Manufacture, Drinking so bad that i end up in Canada.
showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope = Yup. Very true. Especially if there are hot chicks in Anthropology or Investment Banking classes...
keeping unusual work hours = HEY ! Am 19. OK?? I wake up at noon after a night of binge drinking.
unreported contacts with foreign nationals = Yup, the czech chick contact nos WILL need to be pried from my cold dead hands, especially since she thinks am the only one for her.
unreported contact with foreign government = Ya, its her dad's henchmen who paid me a "polite" visit to tell me she has a fiancee in Czech republic and her dad BTW is a FieldMarshall.
military, or intelligence officials = Ya, like i said earlier her dad was a fieldmarshall, i always wondered how could a beast like that spawn a beauty like her. I made the mistake of blurting it out to his henchmen and...
attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know = WHAT??? Attending anthropology classes to meet up with the chick is now prohibited?
unexplained absences == Oh Yeeaahhhh !!! I likeed that one...
Search for hammer or toilet seats at http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/
Read the story at http://gutrumbles.com/archives2/001873.php
And the hammer in question was a Modal Impact Hammer costing $1,000 originally.
Have you bid on government, especially military contracts?
The military *did* pay $600 for a device that had a handle on one end and a striking surface on the other, but that was a 'hammer' in the same way that a mainframe computer is an 'adding machine'.
The specs for an Ashtray are similar to specs for an F-22 Raptor (the spec book outweighs the ashtray) because the military is so exact in its specs.
To make them, contractors often have to specially have special plates/machines which can't be used for anything else often.
Yes i agree that there are wastages and contractors earn a lot. But it is limited to KBR, Halliburton variety, the majority of other contractors are mom-and-pop variety with sales less than $2.5 mil annually and actually struggle.
The hammer in question was Platinum. Because only platinum does NOT produce sparks [of fire] when struck against other metals in a flammable environment.
The congress critter who displayed the hammer for all to see conveniently failed to mention it was platinum.
Now since platinum looks more or less like highly polished steel from a distance, people took it as ripping off..
The military may be an idiot in many ways: Paying contractors and money? I don;t think they are that dumb.
And the toilet seat incident? It was a bolt-down toilet for a transport plane with ability to prevent automatic regurgitation when the plane does a hoop-a-hoop (throwing poop on crew is NOT advisable in war].
Yes, the military was overcharged. But not to the degree you think. The contractors overcharged by 15% on platinum and 12% on toilet seats.
And the military got the money back.
A small lake will never reflect such blue light. I mean look at the sky and the water. They are both different shades...
I agree. Hackers today are not ParMasters of yesteryears.
I guess they were just looking to recruit more zombies for their credit card scams and by mistake they stumbled upon the DoD unsecure network.
Heck, half the jokers (who call themselves hackers) can't even expand the acronym ICBM in full. And i bet $100 that one of the words in their expansion would be either International or Business.
The DoD is fretting unnecessarily.
A whole generation has already been dumbed down by McDonalds, Pepsi and KFC, not to mention Desperate Housewives, Paris Hilton, Britney's head antics etc.
So the worst these jokers can do is to filch the CC numbers of some DoD officials and buy some "close massage services" or buy fle$hlight.
Today's jokers are more interested in earning serious money quickly and buy a Lamby or an Aston-Martin or an iPhone atleast.
Lameduck attacks against a lameduck department.
Its like one ant colony waging war against another ant colony 10 yards away while humans watch it amusingly...
ya i agree... the doctor showed me some slides with pixelized pictures (supposedly) and i was able to identify only 2 out of 12 shown...
He said i can't make flight school and i stopped reading after that.
Once the doctor disqualified me, the local airline would not even talk to me.
As a pilot, you should know that airplanes fly based on rules about 60 years old when mail planes flew by flaming torches lit on ground.
Plane routes are NOT optimized for fuel savings. They are optimized for:
1. Access to airports in an emergency (max fly time is 2 hours from any airport).
2. Beacons on ground and sea which show the planes the "way" and which are not exactly short cuts.
3. Altitude and Distance regulations which force how many planes you can pack into a silo of sky.
Each silo is a straight box from point A to point B at a particular altitude.
The distance between two planes (any model) needs to be atleast 10000 feet minimum.
Two boxes need to have atleast 1000 feet difference between other such box routes.
So there is only a fixed number of planes, altitudes they can fly.
4. As per FAA regulations (also EU and Asia directives) planes are handled in the way they appear and each plane has an queue-based system to land. So a Two-Seater Fokker or a Learjet carrying 8 CEOs can potentially hold up a 320-passenger Jumbo Dreamliner aligning for landing.
5. Take offs and runways were originally meant to be two straight runways criscrossing each other. Hence a takeoff and landing still cannot happen at same time in many medium/small airports.
6. Crumbling infrastructure of airport facilities (like ATC systems, outdated protocols, dependence on beacons rather than GPS contribute to planes burning up more fuel).
I studied all this 12 years ago when i wanted to be a pilot...Bugger my genetics, am color-blind and my doctor laughed me out of his door.
Instead of paying RIAA money by the shovel, the labels should wake up and realize the utter futility of RIAA and stop paying their lawyers.
Instead the labels can put more effort into a more generous licensing model, pay artists slightly more, and release tracks as MP3 in iTunes.
They could also try to identify real talent (Nor Ashlee) and promote them free of cost until the artist wants to sign an agreement.
The labels should wake up to the reality that paying lawyers shitload of money does not mean they win every lawsuit.
Spend on the money on identifying new lines of operations, and promoting music (schools concerts, etc) and STOP insisting on getting paid each time i sing a tune in the bathroom.
Labels: The more your RIAA goons try to restrict us, the more customers you are losing to emusic.
I agree with you. But 80% of the people are office goers working from Mon-Fri and commuting 1-3 hours daily.
These people fill gas at stations, go on long drives for the weekend or to Costco or Walmart.
These people are the ones i was talking about.
The internet was never imposed on people.
There are still people without internet.
While i agree with you, the change can't be overnight in peacetime.
It will need to be optional.
And they also lose the government subsidies funded by our tax.
Next year same time, i expect a class action suit filed against AT&T, which they will settle and continue going on.
The TOR proxy gives us a better option.
Will not work: Because as a driver i expect to drive up the Gas(recharge) station, expect to pull out a pipe/hose/tube and insert it into my car's a$$, twiddle for a few minutes and make small talk with other drivers, then leave.
The max time spent: less than 15 mins.
Max effort spent: Lifting up the hose and inserting it into my car.
Anything beyond this effort is NOT likely to succeed because for 50 years that's what we have been trained to do.
Humans are loathe to accept change especially when it drastically changes daily routines.
Tesla can't succeed much more because it expects a garage with a power supply for overnight charging.
Not many have their own garages.
I live in CT in a huge apartment complex where we have to park our cars outside on the road every night.
Although i love to buy a Tesla, i can't because it expects overnight charging.
Now, two things need to happen:
1. Cars need to be recharged in a max of 4 mins.
2. Gas stations should have one more tower called "Power" for electric cars where cars arrive and recharge and leave.
Until both happens, Tesla will remain on the fringe.
All will be done, if you can cough up $1.75 million as campaign funds for about 50 senators or congressmen.
Nice point though.
Am 32 with a kid and after 3 years i fired up Rise of Nations to battle against PC itself on Easy mode.
Was soundly defeated and shell-shocked.
I agree with you.