Posts by Armando 123 1116 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2011
"So is there anything his death hasn't opened the doors of then?"
Sponsoring a NASCAR team. Just can't see them doing that.
They did, however, partly sponsor the 1996 Indy 500 car of Arie Luyendyk that set the still-standing lap record of 237.9. But then most Indycar fans brush their teeth, so there y'are.
The American car companies have upped their game in the last seven or so years. My wife would NEVER have considered an American marque but she likes the Cadillac CTS, loved the Potiac Solstice, has seriously considered a Ford when we talk about replacing a VW Golf, ... Besides, when all the components are made in China (and those components include Toyota's bad brakes and BMW's bad fuel lines) and Honda, Toyota, and Subaru have assembly plants in Indiana, ...
Might I just say, in defense of America, that for four centuries, the world has sent its idiotic religious loops to North America, and it's rather sad when the world mocks the religious lunacy in the US given that they're the reason for it.
Having said that, well, yeah, it's hard to disagree.
Most years I get passes to Gasoline Alley through a friend who works for Firestone. Luczo was once a partner in Dragon Racing (which was then Luczo Dragon Racing) and I spoke to him for a few minutes on pole day. Nice guy, but preoccupied with downforce at the time, for some reason.
Stop press shocker! I know the wind farms on I-65 north of Lafayette, IN, cause more accidents as people from out of state try to take pictures of them while driving at 50-95 MPH. And such distractions of drivers at a wide range of speeds has been a boon to the collision repair business in the area.
And American cops carry guns. That will get a brat's attention.
Plus think about how cops are portrayed on American tv. It creates an image that, though not entirely accurate, is effective at getting a kid's attention.
Besides, maybe he associates police with his "uncles" being taken away and not seen again.
Parents and educators have been building up to this sort of thing for YEARS. Now that they've put all these restrictions in place, and now that you can't punish kids like this in an effective way, they've painted themselves into a corner.
We had our kids in a private school then, for various boring reasons, moved and have them in public school. The difference is tremendous, and we moved away from a "gauche blue collar" area to a well-to-do suburb. The boys keep asking why the bothersome kids, who are always causing trouble and bullying, can get away with it. One of our sons got in trouble for hitting BACK. (I think the fact that he used martial arts knowledge worked against him within the system.)
When you get called out of work to defend your son because he was blindsided by the class bully and had the gall to defend himself, ... It's a sorry world.
Greedy would be if they held a gun to people's head, colluded with other tech companies, bought influence from the government, etc. In a free market, what people can/will pay depends partly on the production of the product, the value people place on it, and their available money. (I'd love a new Maserati, but around here I can get rental property for that.) Apple having that kind of gross margin shows that they are making something people want and do it pretty darned efficiently.
Of course, we all know that things like this don't last; other companies influence the market, market leaders get lazy or incorrectly guess the future, tastes change, etc.
Voluntary reductions mean the best people leave because they can find work elsewhere. Layoffs mean you can get rid of deadweight.
I would guess the latter would make things better, the former would make things worse.
Personally, I would consider anyone released by the CSC bodyshop to be lucky. They pay crap and treat people like crap and produce crap work.
The US government has been doing this for decades, at least since 1932 (check out some of the controversies around FDR's New Deal's legality at the time), probably during Woodrow Wilson's administration, and in all likelihood, longer. Seriously, other than Jefferson and Coolidge (and possibly Reagan from certain statistics), has there been an administration & congress that actually REDUCED the government?
Around the time the Berlin Wall fell, IIRC. It's like a lot of hippies and commies got caught with their politics round their ankles and had to take their idiot civilization- and technology-hating elsewhere. (I was living in Boulder, CO, when this happened; I saw it daily.)
Now now, without these people and their stereotype, would The Young Ones have been as funny? As such, I plan to release rattlesnakes in their HQ instead of hungry wolves and bears. Much more humane, although the wolves and bears might think twice about such smelly food.
Mine's the one with the P.J. O'Rourke book in the right pocket
Funny thing. He's going to find that being a guy who builds a company from scratch is WAY different from being a CEO. Look at Jobs: built Apple's business, the suits got him fired, and he learned his lessons in the wilderness before he returned. And EVEN THEN he set up a culture of secrecy and need-to-know that is rare (or rarely as effective & successful).
N-body systems (where N >2) tend to be unstable except under certain conditions (lagrange nodes, resonant orbits, one planet WAY far away from two stars). So I expect these "rogue" planets are fairly common, having been kicked out by gravitational dynamics.
And I would nominate Hollywood as a place that originated in an alien system and got kicked out. Especially if that system had taste.
... because our credit cards are at risk, and other parental type reasons, we set our kids' iphones and ipods to require a password that WE have for ANY purchase. We also told them about in-app purchases: if they accidentally do make a purchase to come to us. If they hide it, they're in trouble. If they didn't realize it, we invoke the "if you can't handle it you can't have it" Clause of the Geneva Parenting Convention of 1973. (Works a treat with things like knives, axes, and my tools that do not get put back in the toolbox.)
Personal responsibility: it's not the government's job. In fact, they really hate it.
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