HoHummer commented on The Lost Decade

"In 1997 I finished college, moved to San Francisco, and caused the dot.com crash."

HoHummer commented on Power Girls Commandeering Private Jets a Trend, in Fantasy World

"At one stage, I had a job that included chartering 4-5 flights a year, and actually going places, instead of just posing for photo-shoots in parked planes. This is how I know it's no problem at all to drop $180k on a G-IV going from LA to Paris and back again, with NYC stops in both directions."

HoHummer commented on Riding GM To The Poorhouse

"@FriendlyFloyd: Probably because they weren't contending with a CEO who went on record saying 'global warming is a crock of shit' like old Maximum Bob at GM did."

HoHummer commented on Riding GM To The Poorhouse

"@Dave J.: 'extraordinarily difficult' = 'fatal'."

HoHummer commented on Riding GM To The Poorhouse

"@ADismalScience: so what you're saying is that there's too much shit that looks like shit that's for shit that's getting the shit kicked out of it by a bunch of shits? Damn."

HoHummer commented on Angry Congress Yells At Poor Neel Kashkari

"Oh, and Neel?"

HoHummer commented on There Are Layoffs

"Hey Mikey, I think my ice cubes are getting dry."

HoHummer commented on Kreepie Kats Present: 'How To Save Print Media'

"Putting the KY in CMYK, are we?"

HoHummer commented on Nick Denton: "Publishers are sleeping their way to extinction"

"Gawker plans to remain solvent by continuing to reach the creative, and now unemployed underclass by packaging their rage into nice, bite size pieces for advertisers to choke on. Oh, wait, that doesn't sound very viable."

HoHummer commented on Apple's new green scandal

"Also, given the extreme durability of these machines, and their high resale value, it's safe to say they have (at least) twice the life expectancy of POS plastic computers, so when you add together the impact of making two computers, plus all the energy consumed is shipping and selling both, along with the waste and disposal, does it really make environmental sense to say "cheap throwaway crap is superior to something well-made and solid"? No, I didn't think so either."