How pathetic that Zuckerberg is the best they could come up with. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I mean really... with all that is happening in the world, they pick the creator of a social networking site, and one that is possibly most notable for playing fast and loose with people's info which they thought was not for sale. If he's Person of the Year, then we really are swirling in the pot.

Obviously, very few developers study economics, and perhaps of those who did, they bought into the Keynesian theories. Most of the comments here demonstrate massive ignorance of economic reality. The Volt is yet another of those "we do it because it makes us feel virtuous" projects. And the sign of another government bailout to come.

These massive battery packs present massive problems, none of which will be resolved at tolerable cost by forcing production. This is another technology whose time has not yet--and may never--come. Buy high, sell low, and make it up in volume plus government handouts. At this rate, with more and more of our income taken to prop up failures, none of us will be able to afford a Volt anyway.

If even a tenth of those who have developed skills in software would spend a little time on the study of economics, there'd be less nonsense here.

Taxes on corporations are hidden taxes on consumers. End of story.

This is about idiocy. Now, at least, I have excellent cause to shun Rackspace.

I have also learned that expecting competent reasoning from a bunch of software geeks is only going to bring disappointment. Along the same lines as trying to explain to a bunch of coders why English syntax is as important as the syntax of their favorite programming language.

Freedom of speech is a right. Freedom from being offended is not. When Obama pulls the plug on the Internet, you may finally get it.

Well, if the world rose or fell on the status of the Internet, you might have a point. But as his prowess in economics is much less certain (and given his endorsement, open to grave doubt) I'll stay with my own judgment, and not entrust such weighty decisions to those whose expertise is doubtful.