Hence my point re: greed. In an enviromentally-minded egalitarian society, the good of all would supercede the profit of the few.
Being cost-effective is the flip-side of making more profit. Not that it is bad, just that hind-sight is often far-sighted, while forward looking vision tends to be near-sighted. Tom C. >From: "Matthew Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? >Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:47:40 -0800 > >On 12/27/06, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fascinating. I stand corrected. > >Steam-driven cars also attained higher levels of sophistication back >then than most people remember. A Stanley steamer held the world land >speed record for almost a year in 1906, at over 120 mph. The Doble >steam car overcame most of the limitations of previous steamers, with >a range of 1,500 miles on a tank of water, a top speed as fast as >desired at the time (up to 110 mph was recorded) and a start from cold >in 30 seconds, instead of the lengthy raising of steam required on >earlier ones. Price and complexity were worse than the >internal-combustion engined car, however, and not many were built. > >-Matt > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
