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• Congratulations to Burt Rutan and the great visionary and world hero: Richard Branson and to all those bold enough to seek out individual ascension into space. God speed VSS Enterprise. In reply to: "Virgin Galactic unveils rocket plane thrill ride"

  December 7, 2009

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• Patent infringement, especially by a big company, should be a criminal matter. The offending executives and corporate attorneys should be punished with many years of jail time. The criminal culture that set this thieving in motion must be crushed.
  
  Business people should set examples of honesty and integrity, not wrong doing and perfidy. B&N obviously sent out the Alex design to a Chinese manufacturer as soon as they saw it. The Alex people should take over B&N from the bandits who now run it and do with it what they will. Nothing else will serve justice. In reply to: "Spring Design seeks injunction barring Nook sales"

  November 3, 2009

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• Intellectual property theft should be a criminal offense and violators should be punished according to the seriousness of the offense. From the Alex complaint, this looks like a capital rape case. Barnes and Nobel, book sellers without technical expertise of their own, obviously just turned over the Alex concepts to a Chinese manufacturer. So what is fair punishment for Barnes and Nobel?
  Well, Alex should get all the assets of Barnes and Nobel in an eye for an eye world. All Alex assets were in their reader, after all, and now they have to go to trial? The executives of Barnes and Nobel should do jail time for this, several years each I should think. Then they should never be allowed to run any business in the USA forever. Being a businessman requires honesty and trustworthiness, criminals have no place in American commerce and should be expelled. In reply to: "Barnes & Noble hit with suit over Nook"

  November 3, 2009

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• Electricity does not need large engines. Several small generators can be put into the trunk to run an electric car across country, IF the electric's trunk or other space allows proper venting (easy to do). Honda would be the natural for this design since they already make great small generators, but of course, they're late. Using several generators to power a car would be enough to get it across country, while a single generator could be carried around town for security purposes to be used if the battery fully discharged.
  
  Way to go Ford! In reply to: "Ford charges electric, hybrid strategy"

  November 2, 2009

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• I provided the story for 'Vanilla Sky' and even I don't remember what it was about. (They got the Beatle to write a song for it, though.) In reply to: "Apple fanboy's twisted zap at Droid TV spot"

  October 27, 2009

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• I own an electric car now that I bought from various sources and cobbled together myself for $10,000. It is downright unreliable because the chief mechanic (me) is so inexperienced. That being said, it does get about 2000 miles per gallon equivalent running on a small electric motor at speeds up to 35 mph. There is plenty of room for improvement, but electric cars should be smaller and simpler vehicles, and we should get used to it. Driving around in our living room furniture should stay in Spielberg's Minority Report.
  
  We do need to see that externalities costs of the petroleum industry are carried by that industry instead of by all of the people as is now the case. When everyone benefitted from internal combustion engines and without viable alternatives, allowing oil producers to escape bearing the full costs did make sense. Gasoline makers and sellers should pay for the damage that their products cause the environment, which in turn cause so much human sociopathy, illness, incapacity and death. We need that tax on coal and oil dirtiness to allow the market to make wise decisions. If we continue to allow them to 'get away with it' we will never progress, we will atrophy, we will die. In reply to: "Barriers loom on road to plug-in cars"

  October 23, 2009

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• Tesla demonstrated this technology more than 100 years ago, but robust chargers must be imbedded in the roadway because costs increase with the square of the distance. We are about 14 years away for this given the rarity of electric vehicles on our roads today. In reply to: "Utilities vow to prep infrastructure for plug-in cars"

  October 22, 2009

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• Try making the big gas engine optional. Make the electronics flexible enough to allow solar recharging, generator recharging. In reply to: "GM exec: Volt not yet cost competitive"

  October 20, 2009

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• Apple just added $400.00 to the cost of my Snow Leopard update. Why couldn't they just port all the old drivers over, too? In reply to: "Apple releases Epson Driver update; how to change printer drivers"

  October 11, 2009

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• My next car will be electric. In reply to: "Honda CR-Z concept inches toward production"

  September 30, 2009

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