Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Why Tobacco only? Cars are are more harmful

Consumers are suing Tobacco companies again
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6140857&ft=1&f=1001

Why the hell we do not sue Car manufacturers which (mis)lead us to believe that bigger cars are better and that commuting every day to work is a cool thing?

If we just try to estimate harmful consequences of our addiction to [bigger] cars:

- pollution caused by cars and gasoline production causes us to get ill;

- roads take away valuable land out of ecosystem to which we belong;

- commute eats out lives and separates us from our children (and inhaling heavily polluted air in the street is not beneficial to our health);

- general population now accepts Global Warming as a fact and cars are big contributor to that very dangerous trend;

I think we all need to join California’s lawsuit http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20450337-661,00.html

Friday, September 15, 2006

VIsta to create 50000 jobs, huh?

This article claims that MS Vista will create 50K jobs and will be boon for European economy. Hmm, it means that Vista is LESS usable than previous OS from MS and require more folks to keepo it running and rewrite applications for this generation of OS.
I would not call it progress, however it is a great way to keep folks busy...