| Thursday, May 8 2008 |
Good.
Looks like Toyota's practice of building people-movers and hippie-haulers is beginning to catch up with them.
Toyota Motor stunned markets on Thursday by posting an unexpected 28% drop in fourth-quarter profit and forecasting a decline of similar magnitude in annual net profit in the current fiscal year.
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"Although we expect overall steady growth of the world economy to continue mainly in resource-rich countries and emerging countries, we face a variety of risks in the future business environment, including further slowdown of the economy in the United States, fluctuations in exchange rates and the stock market, and higher energy and raw material prices," Toyota stated. The car giant acknowledged it would also have to "pay close attention to higher downside risk of the Japanese economy whose recovery is at a standstill."
Yeah, sure, blame the economy and market, sure. Doesn't have a
thing to do with the fact that you haven't built an interesting car in a decade, no.
News flash, guys. You ate the big three's lunch in the 90's because you built innovative, fun, reliable cars, and in some cases, really quite technologically advanced
fast ones. You recruited a lot of die-hard domestic fans who would no longer put up with the shortcomings of old in a sports car, or pickup truck. You even fostered a rather large scope of motorsports development, which earned you even more fans around the world in all sorts of demographics.
And then what did you do? You alienated
every single one of them by dropping every single interesting vehicle from the lineup, and closing up shop in every racing effort short of snob-central F1.
I'm both amazed it took this long to catch up with them, and heartened that it did.
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Figures.
So lets say you're a MSM producer with an agenda, and can't find any worthwhile evidence with which to pedal said agenda. Why, you can just make stuff up! Nobody will notice, right?
15-year old Camilla Hempleman-Adams went to the North Pole to ski...specifically to become the youngest woman ever to ski the North Pole.
Unfortunately, she's also been drinking the global warming Kool-Aid, so MSNBC thought it would be the perfect story to further push their "green" garbage:
Uh...did you catch that footage about 45 seconds in? Are those...penguins?:
Someone might want to remind those stupid penguins that they are at the WRONG pole! Sheesh!
It gets better, as you might imagine.
(Via Mike)
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| Saturday, May 3 2008 |
Heh.™
Can't really sum up the current oil politics any better than this:
Barack Obama wants to slap a big giant tax on oil companies.
What the hell, it’s not like they’re going to use those big profits to drill for oil in this country — we won’t allow it.
Though, perhaps I can cause a bit of bacon to become airborne, as I finally agree with Hillary Clinton on
something.
Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs.
Is it just my imagination, or did she just get real smart real quick? I have no doubt that this particular mask is being held on with a fairly cheap chinese glue, and the good 'ol socialism is never far from the surface as evidenced thus:
Clinton has proposed making up the lost revenue by imposing a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
...but it'll certainly make things a bit more interesting in the short term.
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| Tuesday, April 22 2008 |
As is my way.
So, you might well ask yourself, what does Mr. Lion do on Earth Day? Of course, if you ask yourself that, you haven't been reading this for very long.
So far, the count is: Two tires, three gallons of engine oil, a half gallon of brake fluid, and untold pounds of hydrocarbons lovingly returned to the wild in part of my observance of Earth Abides Day.
As I don't really have a huge amount of time on my hands just now, a pictorial of the last week and change of my life.
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| Monday, April 7 2008 |
Go figure.
I knew, eventually, the NY Legislature would do something right. Apparently that time now.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says his chamber is rejecting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to charge a fee to help reduce traffic and pollution in Manhattan. The decision comes after days of closed-door negotiations. It means the city will forfeit $354 million in federal money for kick-starting the initiative.
Suck it, Bloomy.
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Amazing.
We have standards, however low the bar in some cases, for damn near everything of consequence in this country. Driving. Owning firearms. Blowing stuff up. Attending College. Building things. However, there's still no education requirement, unfortunately, to be a politician.
Case in point: The utter lunacy of Ace Jesse Ventura, the latest troofer to burrow out of the woodwork.
I won't even bother quoting any of the usual mindless asswitery he babbles about. However, the response linked above is certainly worth it.
And please don’t get started on the “falling in its own footprint” as a justification for your cockamamie theory that it was a “controlled demolition job” either. Just where the fuck should it fall? Again, we’re talking about 500,000 tonnes, that’s 5 with five zeroes behind it, of building dropping down. It’d take quite a bit of a push to tell that kind of inertia to go anywhere but straight down. Not even your considerable heft leaned against one of them would suffice.
There are times I wish I could apply general physics and sciences to politicians with a clue bat.
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| Saturday, April 5 2008 |
Love it.
Well, at least Apple's legal department isn't run by tofu muching hippies
Apple Inc. is not at all sanguine about New York City's efforts to go green, at least when it comes to the logo the city is trying to trademark. Cupertino, CA-based Apple Inc. has filed a challenge against a federal trademark registration effort by GreeNYC, saying the logo (see below) the nonprofit is trying to trademark is too similar to Apple's own logo, which has been in use since 1977.
What's that I see in my future? Cinema displays and quad-cores? I do believe so.
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| Saturday, March 29 2008 |
Teh stupid.
It's no small wonder these days that Google is leading the charge of irrelevant idiocy.
Google users in the United Kingdom will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.co.uk homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display. However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.
Uh-huh. Well, fear not! We here at the evil, entirely bright lair of CapLion Enterprises will do our part to promote sanity in the face of the assininity these complete morons seem to feel the need to run up the flagpole. So, of course, we urge all of our
sane readers to turn every frickin' light you own on this Saturday between 2000-2100 hours in your local time zone.
Not for any making-a-difference cause, no, but simply to announce to whatever alien species may be watching from orbit that not all humans are completely stupid, and hence the spots to vaporize would be the dark ones.
'course, should some internal combustion engine in your driveway just
happen to idle for an hour, say, an hour tomorrow evening, we'll just accept that as a happy coincidence.
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