Article about AMD's lawsuit against Intel
Long article about AMD's lawsuit against Intel. Apparently, the key allegation will be predatory pricing.
Whem I run for president, part of my platform will be that all public and private predatory pricing suits should be prohibited.
The other part: that those huge $#@!*#@# SUVs have to have their own roads and parking lots.
You'd get my vote just for your stance on predatory pricing. But when it comes to SUVs, why not consider some whonking huge Pigouvian taxes?
Posted by: EclectEcon | September 27, 2006 at 07:38 AM
Predatory pricing gave us Microsoft with their monopoly control over dozens of software categories. Microsoft removed competitors from the market by giving away their software. They could do that as almost all software costs are sunk costs.
The lack of competition left us with operating systems, networks, program languages, that are unreliable, hard to use, hard to program, easy to penetrate and inefficient.
Posted by: Jake | September 27, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Craig, you should go to Montana where the SUVs virtually have their own roads and parking lots. Why is that so? Few people drive cars. Pickups and SUVs rule in Montana.
Posted by: Jake | September 27, 2006 at 11:11 AM
At a minimum, people who drive large SUVs should know how to drive them. Many of them don't, as you can observe in any parking lot--many drivers seem to have no understanding of their own size or their turning radius, or for that matter how slow they have to go to make a 90 degree turn without turning over.
Why not something like a "type rating," as used in aviation: a special exam for the class of vehicle the individual wants to drive?
Posted by: david foster | September 27, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Hell, I'd settle for Land Whale drivers actually being able to make a left turn.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | September 27, 2006 at 06:57 PM