Letters to the Editor
wiredog
Published Letters: 10 Editor's Choice: 1
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Abolish CAFE
[Read the article: How to lose jobs in Detroit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and raise gas taxes. Then stand back and let the market do its job. If gas is over 3 to 4 $/gal then there is a strong incentive for people to buy more fuel efficient cars, as we saw last spring and summer. Reduces regulation, brings in a little more to the federal exchequer, also reduces (eventually) greenhouse gas emissions.
Sure, the poor (who can't afford new cars), and those with more than one or two children get screwed for a decade or so, but in the end we have higher fuel efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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What? No ELO on the list?
[Read the article: The definitive 200?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How disappointing.
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Have any of these people been to VaTech?
[Read the article: Virginia Tech: "Domestic" not dangerous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have, and the idea of immediately locking down (or, worse, evacuating) the campus is not terribly realistic. It's a hugs campus, the size of a small town, with 30,000 students, faculty, and staff, the population of a small town.
How do you communicate with everyone? Not everyone is listening to the few radio stations there, not everyone is online all the time, and I certainly hope the students have their cell phones, 802.11 cards, and other connections, turned off during class. Certainly you can do all these things, but not in a hurry.
Besides that, the police had a suspect. In custody. So why would they push the panic button?
Good lord, people, don't you remember the over-reactions to Columbine? Are you /trying/ to get the current government to take away still more rights in the name of "security" and "protecting the children"?
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You want the Truth? You can't handle the Truth!
[Read the article: Java panic: Starbucks closing all stores Tuesday evening]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The truth: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28657
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Slower processors
[Read the article: World smallest camcorders = world's most-limited camcorders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Freddie,
We don't care as much about the speed because pretty much any modern processor is Good Enough for most things. Spend the money on memory.
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shockingly young?
[Read the article: City of lost children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's so shocking about their ages? Perhaps it's because I was in the Army in the 80's, but I don't see why someone would be shocked that lots of 18 and 19 year olds are working on the ship. No more shocking than the number fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or, for that matter, the number of teenagers working at Walter Reed.
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Fallows Also Has A Blog
[Read the article: Hope in the midst of Chinese pollution?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At The Atlantic http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/ he reports (http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/seventy_three_days_to_go.php) on the efforts to get the air clean for the Olympics.
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powerful Washington insiders getting fondled by
[Read the article: The joys of being a friend of Angelo Mozilo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right. Well. Thanks for the visual.
I'm just going to go and scrub my mind's eye out with Bon Ami now.
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5:00 a.m. in the morning
[Read the article: How my vendetta against the Benetton family was born ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As opposed to 5 p.m. in the morning, or 5 a.m. in the evening? ;) Sorry, couldn't resist.
That goes on so much that I don't even notice it anymore. I just tune it out.
But I have noticed that Starbucks doesn't seem to do that sort of thing.
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<AOL>Me Too!</aol>
[Read the article: A note on the blog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not the reviewing, the vacation. Off to Ocean City MD for sun 'n' surf!