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You make me sick. Nuke the country? Saddam WAS NOT A RISK TO AMERICAN SECURITY HE JUST HAD LOADS OF OIL.

People like you should have your vote taken away. genocide is a minor thing to you isn't it?

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?num=10&so=0& q=cia+duration%3Along&start=0

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?num=10&so=0& q=iraq+duration%3Along&start=0

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=chatthe planet

how about you do some research into what is actually going on in iraq and what your country has done in its 'great history of supporting freedom and democracy'

For the paranoiacs, Paronamio has been acquired by Google this week (more info here).

"if companies like Flickr keep an e-mail address for those seeing their photos online"
You haven't mentioned it, but I guess you already know about FlickrMap. Flickr is part of Yahoo!, and they're not going out of the competition vs Google / Microsoft and alternatives on the mapping stuff and photos.

There is more and more long distance transmission as high voltage DC lines get installed. One could start by balancing the East Coast with the West Coast: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. This works without super conducting transmission. George Monbiot points out that wind generation far off shore can be economical owing to new HVDC cables.
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There is more and more long distance transmission as high voltage DC lines get installed. One could start by balancing the East Coast with the West Coast: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. This works without super conducting transmission. George Monbiot points out that wind generation far off shore can be economical owing to new HVDC cables.
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A lot of the high ($400K) price tag was for hydrogen storage and use in a fuel cell. The sola power portion was much less than this.
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At curent (15%) efficiency, you can, most of the time, cover 100% of your electicity use by covering most of your south facing roof. And, when you see smaller systems it is becuaue installer often sell systems that do not cover 100 % of electricity use because customers can't afford that much. You don't actually see much in the way of lower efficiency (few pecent) panels on roofs because then there is not enough roof space and installation costs go up as efficency goes down for the same amount of power. The lower eifficency panels tend to be ground mounted.

Here is the other constraint on system size: In many states with net metering laws, once you've covered 100% of your use and start to go over (on an annual basis) the utilites stop using a kWh-for-kWh exchange and either pay what is called the avoided cost (less than wholesale) or they just confiscate the power. This leads to an economic limit limit on system size which ususally means that 5x5 m^2 is about as large as you want.

So, a portion of your observation that roof space is left unused is owing to people not having the money to do more, and a portion (typically using less that 60% of available space) is owing to net metering policies.
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RCTV getting round censorship laws is great, companies in general being above laws is just plain scary... I've elaborated on my blog so I won't do it here.

MacForensicsLab

http://www.macforensicslab.com/

http://www.macforensicslab.com/mfl_analysis.html

If you are a super criminal you have state protection, See:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 16/0137205

http://tedscolumn.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-from-d epartment-of-injustice.html

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

But if you've got something [below] this insidious, you're just screwed:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?c=a rticlecomments&op=display_comments&ArticleID=11372 &expand_all=true&mode=threaded

You'd need Fred: [site is run off a locked volume - DVD]

http://all.net/

He also has, White Glove Linux, LE is for law enforcement only. [click "prices" on left]

http://all.net/WG/dist/index.html

Fred's, The Man(TM)

I'm going to write a journal entry about this, my first ever, /. story. Wow! Executive summary: you're wrong. Everyone's wrong. I'm not interested in this woman. I not only have a sexy gal of my own (five years now), but she would even let me play around with the woman for whom I wrote the tutorial (if I wanted to).

As for the "Let's be honest..." part, I wrote another blog in response to another (male) friend's request for advice. I think that was on Monday, only a day or two before the one for the female friend. Wow. So much relationship advice for someone who doesn't even need it.

What I love about Slashdot armchair lawyers is their naive faith in the criminal justice system.

So you go to trial. So you're acquitted. But by the time you get acquitted, you're front page news in all the local newspapers. You're getting death threats. Your family is shunned. You get let go from your job because you're bringing too much controversy. Your life, not to put too fine a point on it, is fucked.

You may want to look into Wen Ho Lee, Steven Hatfill, Richard Jewell and John De Lorean, all of whom had this exact thing happen to them.

Hatfill has never been charged. Jewell was totally exonerated, as was De Lorean. Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty to a minor count just to make the madness stop, and received a profuse apology from the bench for how he was mistreated.

Also, have you been following what happened in Durham, North Carolina recently with respect to prosecutorial misconduct in a rape case?

You really, really need to acquaint your beliefs on how the law works with the reality of how the law works.

What I find fascinating is the fact that there exists tons of evidence of your goverment involvement to the 9/11 attacks - and still the intelligent folks at Slashdot make intelligent looking arguments only about terrorists. It just proves how powerfull force denial is. I guess it does not matter much, if your parents are insane, or your "country's parents" are insane, it easy for even the intelligent ones to fall into denial. And before you flame me, please do your homework. It took serious research for me to become convinced ("it can not be true"). In fact I claim, that anyone with a brain will have to notice that the official story simply can not be true, if he/she spends just couple of days _really_ studying the hard facts.

http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/05/psych iatrists-and-psychologists.html

There is also an audio interview with Joseph Kong:
http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/05/bsdtalk113-des igning-bsd-rootkits.html

Perhaps we all need to complain Blogger about that...? (Although they have a domain name, the site is hosted on blogger, username warriorsforinnocence - unfortunately the "Flag as Objectionable" button isn't visible, and I'm not sure how to do that for them...?)

### This can be easily observed. The unrealistic humans in "the incredibles" seem much more human than the children from "Polar Express," even though Polar Express uses a much more realistic rendering style.

Polar Express looks crap, because they have done a bad job, not because its more realistic. Final Fantasy: Spirits Within looked better, so did Advent Children and Gollum even more so. I mean what do you expect if you use crappy looking 3D models and then map the motions of a 50 year old guy to 8 year old boy, without doing much or any fix up. I'd be surprised if you could ever get good looking results out of that setup, but that has nothing to do with Uncanny Valley, you can do cartoons that look just as crappy and creepy, see for example the Donkey Kong Country 3D cartoons or many other low-cost 3D cartoons. Some nice examples on why Polar Express looks bad and how to fix it can be found here.

If there is any doubt in your mind about who your "representatives" are really representing, watch the vote for cloture on the immigration bill today - or, as I like to call it, the "Unexclusive-ing of United States Citizenship" bill.

Judging from LJ's response to the Nipplegate controversy (a troll started complaining about images of breastfeeding mothers and LJ/6Apart started deleting these accounts on the basis that they were sexually explicit) I think its very unlikely that they'll respond to users' complaints. LJ/6Apart has demonstrated itself incapable of responding to user complaints once a 'policy' has been set in spite of evidence and argument to the contrary. If you want to set up a support group for the victims of rape, incest or other abuse, LJ is not the place any longer because they can't (don't want to?) tell the difference between opposition and advocacy.

Well, a quick search on Google turned up this page, and I guess she's sort of cute, but, well, hardly supremely compelling or anything like that. Perhaps it's enough to give a vague idea? I found a little more with the other search, but it's really more 'terrible, pathetic art' than 'sexy'.

Most of the arguments for in depth comments are actually tell tale signs that code needs to be refactored. I don't think this article gives too good examples on how to comment you code, and it seems the author doesn't have too much experience in team programming with a fluid code base.

Some code will always require a comment, but if you can write code that doesn't require one, then IMO that's better than masking unnecessary code complexities with comments.

Let the market decide? How about this. We have laws against how monopolies work. There are a few companies legitimately providing broadband and define what you are purchasing (companies such as Verizon and Cox Communications for instance). My issue with his logic is companies such as Comcast don't define what acceptable use is, you get a call then you are disconnected from the internet for a year. If you don't have alternatives then you are screwed.

I'm sending letters out to these guys. Companies such as Comcast can't be trusted to be the "guardians" of the Internet. If so then it becomes privatized and we put up and shutup or forget joining the 21st century.

It's sad these guys are in office and yet don't see the problem.

It looks like some 40% of the Linux kernel is GPL v2 or later.

How much Linux kernel code is GPL v2 only?

That is not to suggest that parts of the kernel can be distributed under the GPL v3. That would require some careful study of the licenses to work out whether it would be consider just an aggregation of parts.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

Don't forget Zumastor (http://code.google.com/p/zumastor/).

It's kind of like a homegrown subset of ZFS, but
it already has online remote replication, which
is one of the key features of Netapp NAS boxes.
(People are starting to add that to zfs; see also
http://milek.blogspot.com/2007/03/zfs-online-repli cation.html )

http://milek.blogspot.com/2007/04/hw-raid-vs-zfs-s oftware-raid-part-iii.html

my domain was hosted by them and i got it xfered on the first round to Enom. I have a defunct hosting package and money setting with registerfly and i cant get those assholes on the phone or email or via fax. They suck ass!!! http://renigade.blogspot.com/

It has been noted that Google chose not to recognize Memorial Day with an altered logo, as they do with many other holidays.

A reader forwarded the following reply from Google, about their continuing failure to mark Memorial Day; it's the same reply they've given for at least three years running.


        Thank you for your note. We appreciate your interest in seeing a Memorial Day Google logo. If we were to commemorate this holiday, we'd want to express reverence; however, as Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature, this would be a particularly challenging design. We wouldn't want to create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful in any way.

        We have a long list of holidays that we'd like to celebrate in the future. We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage. We really value your feedback regarding the Google logo, and please be assured that we're actively pursuing ways in which we can acknowledge Memorial Day and other such occasions in the future.

        Regards,
        The Google Team



By "in the future," they apparently mean sometime in the next century or so.

As for their claim that they want "lighthearted" logos, how "lighthearted" were those melting glaciers they used on Earth Day?

Here was Google's reply in 2005 when people asked why they didn't mark Memorial Day.


        We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage.

        Furthermore, Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature. If we were to commemorate Memorial Day, we would want to express reverence, rather than mirth. This would be a particularly challenging design. We would not want to, in any way, create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful. In light of the mail we have received about this, we are actively considering designs we could display on this day next year. We welcome any suggestions you may have.


To show you how transparently false this excuse is, here's the logo Google used for Australia & New Zealand's ANZAC Day, the Aussie/Kiwi equivalent of Memorial Day.

And here's their logo for Canada's Remembrance Day, which they've been running for several years:

And here's the British Remembrance Day logo from 2004:

In truth, Google is willing to honor the fallen of every country--except their own.

And how many of these Firefox parameters are like SL:BB?

Your search - "study questions temperature proxy data" - did not match any documents.

Your search - canada "climate proxy is wrong" - did not match any documents.

By the way, which little god of mine are you talking about? The one Nietzsche "killed"?

"But simply "runas /user:xxx cmd" is not the best way to achieve process separation. If you have a look at the process tree you will see: system->smss.exe->winlogon.exe->services.exe->cmd. exe->iexplore.exe. A better way is to use the method described in Joannas blog http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/run ning-vista-every-day.html, see section: Do-It-Yourself: Implementing Privilege Separation. Using the psexec tool as described results in a "clean" process tree where iexplore.exe will show up directly under the root avoiding beeing a child process.

This is my runopera.bat which runs opera as user internet:
psexec.exe -d -u internet -p p4ssw0rd "cmd" "/d /D /c start /b Opera.exe"" - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29, @02:46PM (#19312139)

Very, VERY nice!

(I state that, mainly because I am an Opera user (and, a Joanna R. fan too))! /. mods - mod his reply UP!

(His/her technique is probably superior to the one I posted, based on his explanation I quoted above, because it makes 100% sense)

However - Either way, EITHER way: Both SHOULD do the job for folks worried about this stuff & help protect them more!

APK

P.S.=> Now, onto .rtf files being hijacked (man, what's next) -> Rich Text Malware

http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2 007/05/25/rich-text-malware/

Heh, & I use these like mad (to avoid infecting others, & it is as pretty as WORD .DOC types imo, but lacking the macro virii possible in them), but it is appearing more & more that .txt IS "THE WAY" to be safe @ a 110% level! apk

It has been noted that Google chose not to recognize Memorial Day with an altered logo, as they do with many other holidays.

A reader forwarded the following reply from Google, about their continuing failure to mark Memorial Day; it's the same reply they've given for at least three years running.


        Thank you for your note. We appreciate your interest in seeing a Memorial Day Google logo. If we were to commemorate this holiday, we'd want to express reverence; however, as Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature, this would be a particularly challenging design. We wouldn't want to create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful in any way.

        We have a long list of holidays that we'd like to celebrate in the future. We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage. We really value your feedback regarding the Google logo, and please be assured that we're actively pursuing ways in which we can acknowledge Memorial Day and other such occasions in the future.

        Regards,
        The Google Team



By "in the future," they apparently mean sometime in the next century or so.

As for their claim that they want "lighthearted" logos, how "lighthearted" were those melting glaciers they used on Earth Day?

Here was Google's reply in 2005 when people asked why they didn't mark Memorial Day.


        We have to balance this rotating calendar with the need to maintain the consistency of the Google homepage.

        Furthermore, Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature. If we were to commemorate Memorial Day, we would want to express reverence, rather than mirth. This would be a particularly challenging design. We would not want to, in any way, create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful. In light of the mail we have received about this, we are actively considering designs we could display on this day next year. We welcome any suggestions you may have.


To show you how transparently false this excuse is, here's the logo Google used for Australia's ANZAC Day, the Aussie equivalent of Memorial Day.

And here's their logo for Canada's Remembrance Day, which they've been running for several years:

In truth, Google is willing to honor the fallen of every country--except their own.

...this is exacly the way I do (but with opera and other internet related apps as acroread, mail, ...). But simply "runas /user:xxx cmd" is not the best way to achieve process separation. If you have a look at the process tree you will see: system->smss.exe->winlogon.exe->services.exe->cmd. exe->iexplore.exe. A better way is to use the method described in Joannas blog http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/02/run ning-vista-every-day.html, see section: Do-It-Yourself: Implementing Privilege Separation. Using the psexec tool as described results in a "clean" process tree where iexplore.exe will show up directly under the root avoiding beeing a child process.

This is my runopera.bat which runs opera as user internet:
psexec.exe -d -u internet -p p4ssw0rd "cmd" "/d /D /c start /b Opera.exe"

Something tells me the bonfire didn't include anything current from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, or Prentice-Hall PTR. Also unlikely to have included any popular (or vintage) RPG material, any collectible graphic novels, anything that has ever been on any high school required reading list, or anything that anyone acutually buys. I'd be willing to bet the contents of the bonfire are limited to overstocked books that were published as the extension of the writer's ego (e.g., I see large stacks of books by current politicians that nobody is expected to buy -- the value is in the perception that a stack of hardcover books generates), or various kinds of craft, collection, or coffee table books that tend to sit in the bargain aisle for years, that even the used bookstores won't take.

Now, if you told me the guy was burning a specific list of books that indicated a certain political statement, I would take a little interest. If you told me that the local government sanctioned this burning -but stipulated what books may and may not be burned- I'd pick up the torch and lead the protest. If you told me that the bookstore owner was burning somebody *else's* books without that person's consent, I'd expect civil and criminal action to follow.

As it happens, I'm merely amused that the bookstore owner got a ticket for having an unpermitted fire in a place where open fires of that type are illegal. It would have been ironic (but very unfunny) if the fire had gotten out of control and burned anything the owner considered "inventory."

I would support a law that required recycling in a situation like this. But all the comments that charity and libraries "should" take these books, don't come from a point of view that seems to understand just how useless a waste of space the sort of books that even a bookstore owner would destroy, really are.

Of course, no book is ever really useless

And it's sad to realize that paper was once considered so rare, that this was even conceivable.

There is now a small, but growing movement within the psychological profession to abolish the concept of adolescence. All I can say is, IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME! Teenagers are not children. They are physically closer to adults both in terms of their physical/sexual maturity and the ability of their brains to function. In other words, a 14 year old is physically capable both in their brain and the rest of their body of assuming a position as a young, but real, adult in modern society. We just don't let them do it!

Our ancestors knew this. That is why even the advanced societies of the classical age regarded teenagers as adults, rather than as children. Even our own legal system on some level recognizes that teens are capable of functioning identically to adults because it allows them to be tried as such in violent crimes cases.

Here's a hint.

http://anotherlolcatzblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/pro zacs-i-has-it.html

Seriously, if you feel like that about music it's SSRI time.

http://ideasinwiring.blogspot.com/2005/06/writing- parallel-programs-in-labview.html

CC.

Blaming people for the early extinction of megafauna in North America has been trendy, and also has some circumstantial evidence behind it. But, there is a new theory covered recently on slashdot http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/2 2/2023212 that might have legs. This one looks at a carbon rich layer deposited 12,000 years ago that contains siderophile materials. Here is another link http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Clovis_Age_C omet_Impact_Theory_999.html since the New Scientist link seems to be dead. I wonder if there is any connection with Hopi kiva traditions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva.
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Your example of fusion is a poor one. Fusion research has had steady funding since the 70's oil shocks. The funding level was set to get fusion at about the time oil was estimated to run out. The progress has been pretty much on track and fusion is expected as a power source in about 20 years now. The problem is that the estimates back then did not account for oil companies over estimating reserves or the rapid growth in demand for oil that has occured. Problems with global warming were not known to be crucial at that time either http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/knowing-warmin g.html. Democracies are capable of taking prudent long term action, much more capable than systems that rely more heavily on personalities. Your technocrats would be so swayed by their egos that policies would change rapidly based on petty rivalries and would leave long term projects wastefully abandoned. Collective wisdom, harnessed by democracy, does much better than ephemeral expertise when it comes to instituting policies to enhance the gerneral welfare. The philosopher king http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king has never worked out the problem of succession and thus is the most disappointing form of government of all.
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Your example of fusion is a poor one. Fusion research has had steady funding since the 70's oil shocks. The funding level was set to get fusion at about the time oil was estimated to run out. The progress has been pretty much on track and fusion is expected as a power source in about 20 years now. The problem is that the estimates back then did not account for oil companies over estimating reserves or the rapid growth in demand for oil that has occured. Problems with global warming were not known to be crucial at that time either http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/knowing-warmin g.html. Democracies are capable of taking prudent long term action, much more capable than systems that rely more heavily on personalities. Your technocrats would be so swayed by their egos that policies would change rapidly based on petty rivalries and would leave long term projects wastefully abandoned. Collective wisdom, harnessed by democracy, does much better than ephemeral expertise when it comes to instituting policies to enhance the gerneral welfare. The philosopher king http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king has never worked out the problem of succession and thus is the most disappointing form of government of all.
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Actually, no, our energy use is miniscule compared to the energy coming from the Sun so the small change in how the atmosphere retains heat that is the reradiated energy from the Sun is much more important than any extra heat we produce. It is in fact the greenhouse gasses that are important, not our energy use.
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Actually, if you look at the numbers http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/emissions/bra.dat (not the abstract http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_bra.htm) Brazil is reducing its CO2 emissions. At a conference I attended last week http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/05/juicing.html I found out more about why. Their renewable fuels program is really taking off.

Well, i did it for the exercise. I was not over weight or in bad health. my heart was like 67 at rest and my blood was 132/67 and colestrol is like 189 total. i have not been back since my last physical, but i need to so i can see progress. Because of my work schedule, i need to get exercise as i work a compressed 12.5 hr shift and 3 on 2 off 2 on 3 off workweek. It plays hell on sleep and stuff like that. So, to use your words, simple danger is me busting my ass in the park like i did a few weeks ago, but i dont worry all the time as it is inherent part of the biking pleasure. I am at work once again, 1 day off this week due to staffing issues...complex concerne. http://renigade.blogspot.com/ is my blog.

Just who are you trying to dehumanize with that statement?

You are so simple.

Of course, you can't dehumanize anyone with a statement.

It takes bombs and bullets and all of the other excrement we rain upon these people in the name of your rat monkey God and your rat monkey nation to truly dehumanize a person.

As I said, you are a monster. People who speak of other people as you do are monsters. It isn't the entirety of the slashdot community, or the entirety of the American electorate to be sure, technologies like megaphone and vote fraud see to that, but you do seem to carry the day and see to it that villainy triumphs over virtue and fraud supplants reason.

Don't worry. You'll win.

I just want it to be understood that I have nothing to do with you or your ilk. Permit me that small concession, please, as I am moderated into oblivion by the sheer weight of rat monkeydom.

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It is difficult for me to understand how paying your electric bill is an investment that you profit on so I wonder why you insist on profiting on solar personally. It is just a switch at the same cost (or less http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/stor y;jsessionid=2CF573B3AE8AC8D63C2FB2045CEA992F?id=4 8624). At least with coal, we are operating fairly close to extraction costs http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/05/three-cornered -ghost.html so I don't see your argument about price competition as having much strength here. What is more likely is that energy prices will fall low enough that coal won't be extracted. On liquid fuels, I think you might have a point, but there is limited capacity to produce them because your argument about land area does apply here http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html so oil prices will likely be sustained.

In your calculations, I think you are not taking account of net metering so you should be including some negative numbers is your seasonal breakdown. Further, you are mistaking the cost of building a plant for the cost of operating a plant. Building a plant is a big investment to be sure, but it comes out to be a small fraction of revenue. The key is that a large plant is about four times less costly than a small plant to operate on a cost per panel basis, so you need to divide your roughly $10/Wp installed figure by more than 2. The $4/Wp figure I use is likely conservative since installation labor saving are likely with large volume. SunEdison and others routinely use cranes and other labor saving devices in their commercial operations. Large scale at the residential level will justify investment in similar kinds of equipment reducing the need for a larger workforce.

But, if you are feeling down on owning solar, you might want to consider renting it at close to what you pay your utility now. Click on the map at the bottom of one of the links found at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html with your utility bill available and see if the offered rate is attractive. If so, the first installations for this deal are anticipated for the first quarter of 2008 and if you are OK with that kind of timing, go ahead and sign up.

It is difficult for me to understand how paying your electric bill is an investment that you profit on so I wonder why you insist on profiting on solar personally. It is just a switch at the same cost (or less http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/stor y;jsessionid=2CF573B3AE8AC8D63C2FB2045CEA992F?id=4 8624). At least with coal, we are operating fairly close to extraction costs http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/05/three-cornered -ghost.html so I don't see your argument about price competition as having much strength here. What is more likely is that energy prices will fall low enough that coal won't be extracted. On liquid fuels, I think you might have a point, but there is limited capacity to produce them because your argument about land area does apply here http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html so oil prices will likely be sustained.

In your calculations, I think you are not taking account of net metering so you should be including some negative numbers is your seasonal breakdown. Further, you are mistaking the cost of building a plant for the cost of operating a plant. Building a plant is a big investment to be sure, but it comes out to be a small fraction of revenue. The key is that a large plant is about four times less costly than a small plant to operate on a cost per panel basis, so you need to divide your roughly $10/Wp installed figure by more than 2. The $4/Wp figure I use is likely conservative since installation labor saving are likely with large volume. SunEdison and others routinely use cranes and other labor saving devices in their commercial operations. Large scale at the residential level will justify investment in similar kinds of equipment reducing the need for a larger workforce.

But, if you are feeling down on owning solar, you might want to consider renting it at close to what you pay your utility now. Click on the map at the bottom of one of the links found at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html with your utility bill available and see if the offered rate is attractive. If so, the first installations for this deal are anticipated for the first quarter of 2008 and if you are OK with that kind of timing, go ahead and sign up.

It is difficult for me to understand how paying your electric bill is an investment that you profit on so I wonder why you insist on profiting on solar personally. It is just a switch at the same cost (or less http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/stor y;jsessionid=2CF573B3AE8AC8D63C2FB2045CEA992F?id=4 8624). At least with coal, we are operating fairly close to extraction costs http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/05/three-cornered -ghost.html so I don't see your argument about price competition as having much strength here. What is more likely is that energy prices will fall low enough that coal won't be extracted. On liquid fuels, I think you might have a point, but there is limited capacity to produce them because your argument about land area does apply here http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html so oil prices will likely be sustained.

In your calculations, I think you are not taking account of net metering so you should be including some negative numbers is your seasonal breakdown. Further, you are mistaking the cost of building a plant for the cost of operating a plant. Building a plant is a big investment to be sure, but it comes out to be a small fraction of revenue. The key is that a large plant is about four times less costly than a small plant to operate on a cost per panel basis, so you need to divide your roughly $10/Wp installed figure by more than 2. The $4/Wp figure I use is likely conservative since installation labor saving are likely with large volume. SunEdison and others routinely use cranes and other labor saving devices in their commercial operations. Large scale at the residential level will justify investment in similar kinds of equipment reducing the need for a larger workforce.

But, if you are feeling down on owning solar, you might want to consider renting it at close to what you pay your utility now. Click on the map at the bottom of one of the links found at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html with your utility bill available and see if the offered rate is attractive. If so, the first installations for this deal are anticipated for the first quarter of 2008 and if you are OK with that kind of timing, go ahead and sign up.

The beauty here is that, I don't need to do anything to you. You're doing it to yourself.

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No, it was under another username, I went in having excellent karma and an active accout, indeed, I had donated to slashdot under that account, and then when I posted on the subject of TWA 800 the moderation was so violent up and down that I ended up with shit karma and so I had to create a new account.

But I scored the coveted -1, Insightful moderation. You don't see that very often.

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What I think or what I feel is irrelevant.

The fact is we've now killed millions of Muslims and for no reason whatsoever and the efforts by those who seek to minimize or excuse these atrocities need to be called what they are.

And if in so doing I am modded as flamebait or censored by the search engines, then so be it.

At this point I have no reason to believe we recover from this madness. I'm in this for my own karma only.

Most of you are monsters. And I judge the feedback I receive accordingly.

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Perhaps if you stopped watching Fox News or drinking out of the toilet you'd know this already.

Lancet had Iraqi casualties at 655,000 and that was over a half year ago and doesn't count military.

And of course, that doesn't count what we did in Afghanistan, where we spent months bombing civilian targets that lay along the pipeline routes, bombings that took place long before we went after Tora Bora and bin Laden. And missed.

Add the sanctions under Clinton responsible for at least a half-million Iraqi dead. Add the millions dead from the Iran-Iraq war, which we clearly instigated. Or the Gulf War, which we probably manufactured (see April Glaspie). The depleted uranium getting into everything, including the mothers breast.

Most of the Bush White coming out of Afghanistan since the invasion is destined for Iraq as well, so we need to consider that too.

It is genocide and in truth the number is way over a million, it's in the many millions.

Your saying otherwise is no different than the "good" Germans denying the "Holocaust".

Please, have the heart to become human again, and stand against this atrocity.

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t's the whole religious nut aspect where the pentagram is supposed to actually have some evil spiritual meaning...

I sympathize, but I wonder, how do you feel about the use of symbols like the Christian cross or the American flag to justify every manner of barbarity.

It isn't just the Pentagon. It's also the star in our flag. And it's what we do around the world.

The symbols are important, only because our population is comprised mainly of poor fools who know how to respond to nothing else.

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I take your point.

Under a different username, I once got modded -1, Insightful for speaking the truth, and it trashed my account (I went from excellent karma to, um, terrible or awful or whatever it's called, in just one post.)

As my fake sig might suggest, I have little patience for words used to justify my speech being deleted/censored/moderated/whatever.

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You're attacking my blog, so that is a different subject altogether.

The comment about Sifry being Jewish makes no sense unless you read this and this post.

My only intent in the first post is to mock this thing we call Memorial Day. I'm sure the Nazis had their version of Memorial Day as well. I see no reason to celebrate either.

I find it difficult to honor people for committing atrocities. To be sure, America fought wars for freedom but that is once upon a time stuff. Today we are fighting wars for greed, racist hatred, and just because we're really good at it.

I'm not celebrating this shit, and so I think my comments are appropriate.

Wave your flag, just don't do it in my face, OK?

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http://holocaustnow.blogspot.com/2007/01/mad-rip-p art-2.html