Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (59463)	4/15/2008 6:36:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542024

isn't that like hysterical people yelling at you to stop because you are near the edge of a cliff? No, it's like them yelling at you to stop when you're a foot from the edge and moving at 40 mph. It's too late. If there's a bomb an a plane cruising at 36K feet set to go off at noon and it's 11:57. Yelling at the plane to stop will do no good. Calling the bomb squad will do no good. Any hysteria definitely will do no good. It's already too late for that plane even though it won't blow for three minutes. If you were in the control tower and someone yelled "call the bomb squad," what would you think? This the guy is hysterical? Loony maybe? If what it takes to avoid the tipping point will take, say forty years years and the tipping point is ten years away, those ten years can be better spent. Where is the logic? The logic lies in factoring in the lead time and recognizing that it's already too late.