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Comment Re:They will regret it (Score 1) 117

Hayes' real problem was that clones got cheaper, as they usually do. Hayes tried to stay ahead of the curve by making ever faster modems, but when the ISP ceiling that you mentioned hit, they couldn't use that curve anymore, and were stuck competing on price alone, the clones' forte. The premature "56" model mistake was just icing on the death cake.

Comment Re:Honda is cooked (Score 2) 117

China's R&D into EV's has paid off and now they are the lowest-cost-producer and have the most EV IP. China even invested in factory robots, making it hard for Japan to compete on labor costs by using robots.

Yes, the Chinese gov't subsidized much of the R&D, but it appears to have worked.

Detroit is also probably F'd. They can live on gasoline laurels for a few decades, but will probably gradually shrink. Most small cars will be EV such that gas stations will gradually close shop, making gas cars ever less practical. (Diesel might be slower to fade.)

The US is putting up big trade barriers to Chinese EV's right now, but that can't last forever, because when Americans see how cheap EV's are getting in the rest of the world, they will be frustrated with high car prices at home. EV's are cheaper to manufacture because they have about half the parts of an equivalent ICE engine. The batteries have been the bottleneck of costs, but get roughly 5% to 10% cheaper every year.

Sorry gas lovers, but gas looks doomed. Detroit & Japan have a hard road ahead, pun half intended.

Comment Re:Fucking Christ Trump put us into a recession (Score 1) 31

Are you implying the stats are being rigged?

I am so sick and tired of fucking pretending we are not in a deep deep recession.

It's arguably a "white collar recession". General employment is generally in a "C+" mode. White collar-ers are just going to have to get blue collar jobs until the economy normalizes.

Comment Re:Definition of "communism" (Score 1) 102

You don't stay socialist indefinitely, you either transition to communism (usually at the barrel of gun) or perish as a state.

Do you have statistically reliable numbers for this claim? Let's see your tallies. Otherwise, I'll consider it a Slippery Slope Fallacy.

Note that ALL nations or empires eventually fall, so your claim has a tautology.

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