[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based

[P. Sture]

In article <$Ek+g9Y$TH5m at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <0051fffa$0$1998$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei 
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > Red is also a marketing campaign (I think ot was started by Bono of U2)
> > where companies make a spacial "Red" version of a product where some of
> > the proceeds of the sale go towards funding AIDS research/support.
> 
>    Yeah, but the red Dodges had to go.  I actually had a red car once,
>    and I know why they have lower resale value.
>    

Going back to the early '90s, a UK insurance company reported that red 
cars and black cars had the worst accident statistics, though I have no 
idea why.  Certain colours are harder to see at dusk, and I noticed the 
difference when I switched from a dark car to to a white one at a time I 
was doing 400-500 mile round trips every week.

I was once told that traffic police used to play "snooker" when 
selecting cars to check. One red one, one black one etc, and then work 
up the colours :-)

-- 
Paul Sture