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Er elbiler en god investering?

Computerworld har udgivet en del artikler om Jens Mobergs ambition om at få danskerne til at køre i elbiler. 

Jeg er ikke overbevist om det er den rigtige måde at reducere udledningen af co2, hvilket jeg beskriver i min kommentar (gengivet nedenfor) til en af artiklerne.

Fra et forretningsmæssigt perspektiv synes jeg dette lyder interessant. Hvorvidt Jens (og alle de andre ansatte) vil få held til at gøre dette til en god forretning ved jeg ikke. Det lyder som en ekstrem kompleks forretning.

Det jeg dog synes totalt mangler i denne debat, og jeg synes det er en falliterklæring, at journalisterne ikke stiller dette spørgsmål.

Hvor er beviserne for at dette kommer til at gøre en forskel for miljøet?

Det er et upopulært spørgsmål, da det ikke er moralsk acceptabelt offentligt at stille spørgsmålstegn ved sådan noget som elbiler.

Jeg synes dog det vil være rimeligt at vide om det gør en væsenlig forskel inden vi investerer store summer (via skatfritagelse og andre ting).

Nedenstående artikel fra den tyske gren af WWF har eksempelvis gennemført en analyse som viser, at ambitionen om at have 1 million elbiler i tyskland vil reducere bilernes udledning af co2 med 1 procent, og det vil påvirke det samlede co2 udledning af tyskland med 0,1 procent.
http://www.wwf.de/downloads/publikationsdatenbank/ddds/30496/

Er det virkelig forbedring nok til at gennemføre massive investeringer?

Jeg vil gerne fastslå, at jeg ikke er i mod elbiler - Tesla fra USA er da en superfed elbil. Jeg gad da godt køre i en, særligt hvis jeg kan få den uden afgift. Jeg synes blot at det fortjener noget undersøgelse inden vi investerer vores skatteyderes penge i dem.

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Olympia Snow, us congress woman
iPlate
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gitmo nation
Four Square
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www.jungledisk.com
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Predictably Irrational
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Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Kasper Retvig
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DK: +45 3698 1060
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75% of all Land Rover are still on the road

I heard somewhere that 75% of all Land Rovers ever produced are still
on the road. If that is true its extremely imprrssive.

Here is a picture taken in Copenhagen trafic of what looks like a
really old one :)

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Tim Ferris, 4 hour work week
www.Tonchidot.com
www.Dimdim.com
Noscript plugin for firefox
www.Superduper.com
www.Drivesnapshot.de
www.Alice.org
www.Sqeeck.org
Python
How to think like a computer scientist
www.Handbrake.fr
www.Blackviper.com
www.Howstuffworks.com

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Ghanaian food

Old school

Copenhagen trafic

Close one lane on tuborgvej and this is what you get!

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Podcast notes from This Week in Tech and Leo Laporte The Tech Guy.
Check out www.twit.tv interesting websites and software:
www.phonetech.com
The Shadow Factory, book about NSA
The wayback machine
Daylisourcecode.com
Webkit.org
Tonchidot.com
Zoho.com
Umail.com
Gist.com
Cdburnerxp
Monoprice.com
Siig.com
Techguylabs.com
Trailjounals.com/bchavez
Malwarebytes.org

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Jamed in SAS seat

I was sitting totally jamed in my seat with SAS today and even though
there completely empty rows right in front the stewardesse would't let
me move since it was economy extra seats!

Testing mobile blogging

Santa & homeboy snowman :)

The San Francisco network taken hostage

This is an very interesting article if you are interested in the story behind Terry Childs taking the city of San Francisco network hostage.

As usual there is more to the story than what first meets the eye.

There is no doubt in my mind that there is blame to be place on both sides (both Childs and his superiors). However, I feel that it is a case of bad leadership and management gone out of control. So often leaders and managers fails to know that you need different strategies to lead different kind of employees. We are all different people who need different kind of management and unfortunately this is an area that are very often not acknowledged.

The sad thing is that in a case like this everybody looses. The city will presumably have problems getting control over the network without Childs and loose what seems to be a very gifted employee. What is even more sad is that Childs might be ruining his career and posibly his life for many years to come. Sad very sad.

Top 10 Productivity Secret of Highly Successful People

Top 10 Productivity Secret of Highly Successful People

How to write a Winning Sales Proposal

This list of questions to ask yourself when writing a Sales Proposal from Sales Machine looks a lot like the strategy in Solution Selling:

• What does the customer want to happen?
• What does the customer believe that they need?
• What is the customer’s problem or issue?
• Why is this problem important to them?
• What parts of the business are affected by this problem?
• What corporate goals are not being achieved?
• How will they measure success (financially, technically, other)?
• Which success measurement is most important to them?
• What will we propose?
• How will we do this work?
• What proof can we offer that we are qualified and competent?
• What is our value proposition?
• How can we demonstrate that the value we propose to offer is credible?
  

I'm certainly not suggesting that anybody is stealing anything from anybody. Its more of a note to self kinda post.

All blogger should be registered and montitored?!?

If it wasn't so scary it would actually be funny!

The Estonian member for the EU parliament Marianne Mikko is actually suggesting that all bloggers in the EU should be registered and monitored. She claims that the blogging universe is so popular that it attracts "less principled people" and she feels that they should be registered so the public knows who they are and what they are saying.

Not only is this one of the more facists suggestions I have ever heard from a politician it is also pretty stupid. Quite clearly she knows nothing about what she is talking about.

From a practical perspective it will be a challenge to register all bloggers. Of course it can be done if she is lucky to pass a law that says that all bloggers in the EU should be registered be the companies that provide the bloggingsoftware. Basically I gues this is already done since the blog must be registered to work in some database. However, nobody demands that you release your identity. If that is what she want I am courious as to how she suggest this is accomplished... should we will a form and send it to the EU before we can open our blog? If so good luck dealing with all the applications!

And since she is only able to get a law passed in the EU ((thank god) which she is not even really since all laws for the EU are born in the Commision and not the Parliament), how will she prevent me from registering a blog say in the US or India?

Ok lets assume that she gets us all registered - unlikely but hey for the sake of argument. Does she have any idea how many bloggers there are in the EU and how many posts they create? In my view she will have a heck of a lot of work if these should be monitored. If she wants human power to do this she will have to hire people in the 100's of thusands - I think. Good luck getting the budget for that through the EU parliament. The only other option is to have a piece of software scan all the blogs for cirtain words or frases. And basically since all blog are on the internet that should already be posible - scary but posible.

Being somebody who has actually worked in the EU parliament, I can comfort everybody that this is a suggestion that will never ever be approved neither in the parliament, the commision or the counsil.

None the less it absolutely freaks me out that we have politicians in the EU that believe that such a suggestion is a good idea. I pray that it is only a grotesk example of lack of knowledge.

Oh yea and before anybody starts to think she is a member of some wierd extremist party I have to add that she is a Social Democrat - how this suggestion is within the frames of the social democratic paradigm I have no idea!

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