Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary, The railroads were and are viable transportation especially for heavy loads and long distances to the same place. Trucks and containers make more sense for a diversified and widely scattered society. It really makes no sense for a 100 car train to drop of a car here then there. As to moving people, it made sense when people sensibly lived near the stations which were near the places where the real cargo was dropped off. Interstate highways killed off trains as transportation in the U.S. Reasons why cars work(ed) in the U.S would include a domestic source of fuel in the beginning, a strong automobile industry, societal desire to go their own way instead of on the tracks, general affluence so that even poor people could afford a car and I could go on. Digital is killing off the traditional photography business because people are now in charge of their images and mostly have no clue. Either they are of a generation that is suspicious of computers or they are of a younger generation that does not appreciate impermanence; by the time they realize that things break or something might be valuable it is already long gone. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 3/21/06, Gary Todoroff <datamaster@northcoastphotos.com> wrote: > > > Possibly, it is because the advent of digital has mostly > > > been disastrous to the photographic industry. > > > > > > Don > > No, it's caused major changes in the photographic industry. > > > > Similar to the "major changes" recent weather events brought to > > New Orleans? > > Sonny > No, similar to the change that airplanes brought to railroads, when > railroads thought they were in the "railroad" business instead of the > transportation business. > Gary T > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.6/287 - Release Date: 3/21/2006 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >