Posted by
Dennis Pemberton on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:54:33 PM
I remember reading a story years ago about the last Apple IIE to be sold. Macs were already on the market, in fact, I think the MacPlus or Fat Macs were already on the market. Technology had long surpassed the IIE, but there was a ready market, so Apple kept selling them until at last it said enough. And who was the buyer of the last IIE, a computer which out of the box was obsolete?
Why, a government school, of course.
Which reminds me of the anthropogenic climate change issue. Scientists the world over are publicly doubting its scale or even its foundations. So, of course, the US Government is ready to jump on the issue with both feet, ready to land on our necks and slowly choke the life out of us. There is really nothing to stop it. The EPA is bound to regulate CO2 emissions, since the Supreme Curt ruled that substance a pollutant. Unless the mandate of the EPA is changed legislatively, the Administration is poised to destroy our country to save it- from a threat which doesn't exist. The good news is that if it doesn't happen in two years, and the Republicans grow a spine, there can be a legislative fix. The bad news is that, after a public comment period, it could happen a lot sooner than that.