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“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916 “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.” — The...

1. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977. 2. “Lee DeForest has said in many newspapers and over his...

Here are ten predictions that Earth-bound experts made that didn't come true: 1. “Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the...

Yes, a stupid Chinese pilot wound up causing an accident and they demanded the US apologize

The US manufacturing $$$ value is still worth twice what the Chinese manufacture

How much exactly did China donate to the US after Katrina? Or other hurricanes? I was under the impression that the $200 billion surplus that China runs with the US employs a hell of a lot of Chinese...

Yes, trader28

SouthAmerica is only about whining, not solutions

That depends on what is called "evidence." There is little evidence for > 99.99% of those who ever lived.Projecting current requirements for evidence back then has no basis. There is sufficient evidence from Roman and Jewish sources and Christian writings that he existed is, and is without...

True. I never understand living in a city and owning a $100K/performance car. You worry about it all the time, and who cares about performance when the speed limit is 25-30? Even in a lot of the burbs, it is 40MPH on many roads. If I lived in the country or mostly took interstate/etc., or...

Why get a mini cooper when you can get a civic for less money, similar mileage, legendary resale/reliability, better looking, more room and MUCH safer.

precisely, although I don't see the point of the smartcar or emini cooper. They are deathtraps. And their price/MPG is not much better than a base civic.

yes - they are good for printing out and lining the bottom of the bird cage. He is the Jack Hershey of his thread

Yes. People who declare that the market is going to change do not last long as traders

generally, wealthy people covet privacy and secrecy wannabes trumpet their self-believed abilities (see for example, stock_trad3r and a few others...)