This Made Me LOL

[Mr. dB]

Ahhh... the all-mighty space program. Know those space shuttles they retired a year or so ago? They were based on 80286 technology. Do you even know what an 80286 is? It's NASA leading the way.

So? Do you think that the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were running at a similar level of technical obsolescence?

Of course they'd improve their products and services without government intervention. Why is a single Prius on the road? Why does organic food even exist? What about row after row of items labeled "all natural" and "fat free"? Why is antibiotic meat and free range chicken even available? I can name billions and billions of allegedly green/clean/health industries that exist even though the government hasn't mandated their existence.

Those are new products that did not supplant other, less "green" options. And they are still minority "feel good" stuff, not mainstream.

Detroit was dragged kicking and screaming with every safety and emissions standard. We had industrial waste being pumped straight into the river, and up the smokestack, before the EPA. Regulation has played an important role in improving the quality of our workplaces and our lives. Perhaps you're just too young to remember what things were like before...

 

[digimon7068]

So? Do you think that the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were running at a similar level of technical obsolescence?






Those are new products that did not supplant other, less "green" options. And they are still minority "feel good" stuff, not mainstream.

Detroit was dragged kicking and screaming with every safety and emissions standard. We had industrial waste being pumped straight into the river, and up the smokestack, before the EPA. Regulation has played an important role in improving the quality of our workplaces and our lives. Perhaps you're just too young to remember what things were like before...

you and i frequently have opposing views on stuff...but, one needs to look no further than pittsburgh...

then...

now...

 

[redsamurai]

So? Do you think that the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were running at a similar level of technical obsolescence?






Those are new products that did not supplant other, less "green" options. And they are still minority "feel good" stuff, not mainstream.

Detroit was dragged kicking and screaming with every safety and emissions standard. We had industrial waste being pumped straight into the river, and up the smokestack, before the EPA. Regulation has played an important role in improving the quality of our workplaces and our lives. Perhaps you're just too young to remember what things were like before...

Much like his choice of PED's, plunkeys memory is also selective...lols. He's well old enough to remember when rivers in this country caught on fire cause of what was being dumped into em.

 

[mrplunkey]

Detroit was dragged kicking and screaming with every safety and emissions standard. We had industrial waste being pumped straight into the river, and up the smokestack, before the EPA. Regulation has played an important role in improving the quality of our workplaces and our lives. Perhaps you're just too young to remember what things were like before...

Detroit was ok when safety was a Volvo speciallty. Then Mercedes and BMW got into the act. Then the Japanese cars embraced it. That's what drove Detroit into safety -- consumers -- not the government.

 

[digimon7068]

Detroit was ok when safety was a Volvo speciallty. Then Mercedes and BMW got into the act. Then the Japanese cars embraced it. That's what drove Detroit into safety -- consumers -- not the government.

well...not to hop in bed with the lefties but, didn't the government force the manufacturer's to act because of public pressure?? i mean that's kind of the way our system (is supposed to) works, yes??

 

[Spartacus]

I dunno. Anthropology does matter to me, if it doesn't matter to you then maybe you're just not very curious?

what was that show in the 70s?
Korg 70,000 BC
I loved that show
not the one with the sleestacks or whatever

 

[mrplunkey]

well...not to hop in bed with the lefties but, didn't the government force the manufacturer's to act because of public pressure?? i mean that's kind of the way our system (is supposed to) works, yes??

On safety, consumers wanted safer cars and politicians ran to the front of the parade and acted like they were leading the way.

Anti-lock breaks were an exotic feature decades before being mandated by the government. Yet according to DB, they shouldn't exist until the government forces their use.

 

[redsamurai]

Yet according to DB, they shouldn't exist until the government forces their use.

no that's actually not what he's saying idiot. Once again your lack of analytical comprehension is astounding to me. And no,left to themselves Detroit would still be making cars that catapult you out of the cabin upon impact with anything over 20mph. It wasn't until govt studies came out that stuff like airbags and seatbelts skyrocket your survival rate in a crash that people started thinkin hmmmm.....the auto industry knew this for years but they weren't going to unneccessarily increase their cost unless the govt forced the entire industry to adopt those measures.

Do you seirously not realize this? are you this stupid? You probably over 30 when these measures went in so how does someone who was still in diapers at that time get this?

 

[Spartacus]

fuc
smurfy help me out

 

[Spartacus]

a sensible woman to come along and tell you boys to go to your room
shit