The Peoples Republic of California wanted it all. The ultraliberal elite demanded zero emissions. They wrote a rule that required automakers to make 2% of their vehicles electric by 1998. They did not, however, write a law to make people like the poor range, drivability, and high cost of electric cars. Did automakers oppose the rule? Yes, they all told CARB that zero emissions was stupid, that they should instead focus on hybrid, near-zero emission vehicles that people would buy. Rather than working on hybrids, automakers were forced to build the monument to stupidity that is the EV-1.
If original web browsers had stubbornly rejected malformed HTML, the web would not have taken off like it did. Stodgy perfectionists would have been happy though.
Lotus stepped, no, danced on their own dick. They had the number one by far DOS based spreadsheet then sank their entire future into an OS/2 version, stodgily ignoring the direction the market was going. Microsoft didn't drive Lotus out of business, they simply ate the lunch Lotus handed them.
We cannot avoid the incontrovertable fact that we will convert all the available fossil fuels into carbon dioxide sometime in the near future. 200 years from now it will not matter if this happens in 50 years or 100 years. Which will happen first, the inevitable energy crisis or the postulated environmental crisis? Hand wringing and fingerpointing should be replaced with a worldwide focused effort on safe nuclear, renewables and conservation.
because liquid petroleum fuel has been the best energy source for motive power for about 100 years now and this won't be changing even with higher fuel costs.
The problem with communism is that everyone must agree or it won't work. The practice in recent history has been to have a totalitarian authoritarian goverment that methodically murders, imprisons and otherwise crushes dissent. I'm not against communism as a concept, I'm just against the practice of killing people who disagree with you.
We are going to oxidize all of the available fossil fuel on earth back into CO2. This is an inescapable fact, not a theory. Even if we slow it down by a few years, it's still going to happen.
A name is about branding. I can't think of any successful brand that highlighted what it was not. For that matter, I think anyone who knows something about marketing would say it was stupid to have your product branded with a cryptic acronym. GNU is LAME.
Hydrogen is an energy storage media, not a particularly good one, it is not an energy source. Maybe if this was taught in high school we wouldn't have politician types falling over each other throwing fistfulls of money down the toilet on the 'hydrogen economy' just so they can appear to be environmentalists.
Until those communistic norms have been established, any communist state would collapse
Unfortunately, communistic norms have meant murder or imprisonment for dissent. Ask the victims of Tiananmen Square or the Cultural Revolution about norms.
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Apple has 100% of the Mac market
Planets are not round, they are sphereoidal
You didn't happen to notice that most companies in the Japan rail system are bankrupt?
The Peoples Republic of California wanted it all. The ultraliberal elite demanded zero emissions. They wrote a rule that required automakers to make 2% of their vehicles electric by 1998. They did not, however, write a law to make people like the poor range, drivability, and high cost of electric cars. Did automakers oppose the rule? Yes, they all told CARB that zero emissions was stupid, that they should instead focus on hybrid, near-zero emission vehicles that people would buy. Rather than working on hybrids, automakers were forced to build the monument to stupidity that is the EV-1.
If everybody just agreed with everybody else we wouldn't need lawyers
Also, you can't wear a wristwatch
If original web browsers had stubbornly rejected malformed HTML, the web would not have taken off like it did. Stodgy perfectionists would have been happy though.
Good thing he is not swarthy looking. Everyone knows that swarthy looking people are bad guys.
The only thing missing is the phrase "As Seen on TV"
Lotus stepped, no, danced on their own dick. They had the number one by far DOS based spreadsheet then sank their entire future into an OS/2 version, stodgily ignoring the direction the market was going. Microsoft didn't drive Lotus out of business, they simply ate the lunch Lotus handed them.
Americans are free to oppose the war. Iraqis who opposed their wars of agression against Iran or Kuwait were killed, tortured or imprisoned.
They have been working on stuff like this ever since Godzilla
We cannot avoid the incontrovertable fact that we will convert all the available fossil fuels into carbon dioxide sometime in the near future. 200 years from now it will not matter if this happens in 50 years or 100 years. Which will happen first, the inevitable energy crisis or the postulated environmental crisis? Hand wringing and fingerpointing should be replaced with a worldwide focused effort on safe nuclear, renewables and conservation.
because liquid petroleum fuel has been the best energy source for motive power for about 100 years now and this won't be changing even with higher fuel costs.
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There was no spec for the first airplane
I agree they have too much money but this story is a complete and total load of crap.
The problem with communism is that everyone must agree or it won't work. The practice in recent history has been to have a totalitarian authoritarian goverment that methodically murders, imprisons and otherwise crushes dissent. I'm not against communism as a concept, I'm just against the practice of killing people who disagree with you.
This would be part of the Delight the Competition (TM) initiative
Just curious. Why do you care what other people do?
We are going to oxidize all of the available fossil fuel on earth back into CO2. This is an inescapable fact, not a theory. Even if we slow it down by a few years, it's still going to happen.
A name is about branding. I can't think of any successful brand that highlighted what it was not. For that matter, I think anyone who knows something about marketing would say it was stupid to have your product branded with a cryptic acronym. GNU is LAME.
Free as in blow job (it's free but you probably had to buy her some jewelry)
Hydrogen is an energy storage media, not a particularly good one, it is not an energy source. Maybe if this was taught in high school we wouldn't have politician types falling over each other throwing fistfulls of money down the toilet on the 'hydrogen economy' just so they can appear to be environmentalists.
Until those communistic norms have been established, any communist state would collapse
Unfortunately, communistic norms have meant murder or imprisonment for dissent. Ask the victims of Tiananmen Square or the Cultural Revolution about norms.