November 2008

Why Detroit (and soon the rest of the auto industry) Is In the Crapper.

I'll be as short (Yeah, right, sureeee, I'm angry!) as I can about this. They say that Detroit has run out of ideas... baloney.

Detroit has plenty of ideas, and they have rejected all of them! Why you ask?

COWARDICE!
(and of course, the pointy haired boss)
(with apologies to the great S. Adams)

For years and years, the best and brightest minds in Detroit, the engineers and designers, have been dreaming up the most fantastic, yet attainable cars. They were capitalizing on Americas greatest power, our power to invent!

But then, as usual, some pointy haired boss who couldn't grasp the new car, or even the concept of the new car any further than the fact there was a "concept" in there somewhere...

Slapped the label "concept" on it, showed it to his friends, and relegated it to the dumpster.

Cars that could break 200 miles an hour and hold it for as long as you like.

One seater commuter cars that had room for you, your briefcase, and the ability to go 300 miles on a 3 gallon tank.

Cars that would parallel park themselves at a push of a button.

Electric cars that could run 40 miles on a charge. (For getting back and forth from work, that's all most people need)

Cars that would last for 1,000,000 miles. (Semi tractors do it all the time)

I could rabbit on and on, but the truth of the matter is, since the higher ups in the companies couldn't appreciate how much the public would want one of these vehicles, since they were afraid of the risk in them, they never allowed any of them to reach production. No, they would say something like "Let's take last years model, and raise the trunk, and make it boxier... and we'll call it the Capri EX, as in s.E.X., and that will make people want it!" Then, because people buy it, for they have no other choice that stands apart from the rest of the cookie cutter cars, they think that it was wanted. WRONG!

Now, allot of you may be saying "Man, he's got it all wrong." Oh, have I? Why not talk to the American powerhouse in Milwaukee? Yes, none other than Harley-Davidson. Take a look at the V-Rod if you like, it's a living, breathing concept motorcycle in production. Sleek, fast, good looking, better handling, safe, everything a motorcycle should be! And it sold like mad! Now, Harley-Davidson pwns the world motorcycle market, and all it took was one truly original bike to bring them to light, and then innovative upgrades and redesigns on their big twins to keep them there.

Detroit, you've been a bunch of haughty fools following Japan, and doing nothing original. As a matter of fact, Japan never really goes outside the box either, they just slowly improve on what we've done. You even took the mighty HMMWV stripped it down to a Tahoe with a boxy body (HII) and then castrated it back to an early 80s S-10 Blazer with a less rounded shape (HIII). You have no idea the value of testosterone. I see more women driving HIIs and HIIIs than men. and Even our pickup trucks, once mighty and rugged symbols of manhood, the pickup truck, has become more smooth, soft, bubbly, and slick... just like a minivan! You even tried to marry the two in Excursions and Expeditions!

Enough of this for now, but you will be paying the price and living on the street soon, unless you streamline the path between concept and production post haste. Oh, and try asking the people what they want too.

Zap.

Added Digg, let's see how it does.

Well, I've drank the Ghoul-Aid and added Digg to my blog. Let's see how it does.

If you remember a story, one that you liked from time past, please search it up, and if you can find it again, nail it with a digg please. I am sure others will agree with you.

Why am I so late into the digg game? Well, it used to be that stories on digg would get digged way up by botnets. Now, they've taken steps to clean things up. I don't think any of my goofiness will ever see the front page of digg, but, maybe someone will dig a little deeper.

(I am almost certian my server would bomb with a front page digg anyway!)

New Filetopia 4 name and logo leaked!

Wow, I never thought I would see anything new out of them, but here it is...

Amazing isn't it?

Actually, it's not, it's a bad, somewhat inside joke based on this software in development forever. Sure hope it doesn't make for too much bad karma. But on a REAL NOTE...

BeTaGuRu has released a bugfix patch for Filetopia being run under Windows Vista, you can get it HERE.