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We actually know what is a good CO2 concentration: the Holocene level. What we don't know is how far we can push up this level without entering a positive feedback. The current concentration could already be at this level given the permafrost melting that may lead to quite a lot of CO2 release. So, preindustrial CO2 concentrations are known to be safe and the conservative approach would be to control the concentration at that level.
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Lackner favors sequestration through mineralization, converting silicates to carbonates. This is exothermic and provides carbon storage time scales of 10^5 years. It closely mimics the geological carbon cycle which we are out pacing with our carbon extraction. I find his giude to CO2 sequestration http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/300/ 5626/1677 to be quite useful.
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The reason for this is that the concentation of CO2 on the atmosphere is pretty low so you'd need to cool a whole lot of air to get a little dry ice.

This is what you do when you want dry ice, if you want to use dry ice for sequestration, you might start with air that is already cold and use a natural means to cool it further. The brightness temperature of the antarctic night sky is probably cold enough to do some of this using reflectors. But, storing the dry ice may be a problem since eventually the sublimation rate is going to match the production rate even if it quite buried.

In discussing this some years ago, Lackner mentioned to me that others had been working on possibly stabilizing glacier based by injection cooling that looks a little like this. So, there may be some aplication, but likely not sequestration.
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This article points out that carbon can be sequestered in soil with the right mix of plants. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314 /5805/1598. Those plants can at the same time be used to make fuel.
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Read this page to know why charcoal is not only better than paper, but actually a viable way to solve CO2 emission problems:

http://ergosphere.blogspot.com/2006/11/sustainabil ity-energy-independence-and.html

The story isn't about viruses. It's about exploits. See the blog post from the security researcher at Exploit Prevention Labs who discovered this: http://explabs.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-sponsor ed-links-not-safe.html The technology is out there for Google to prevent this.

There's more. Definitely read the blog section at Webmaster World linked above, which is being updated rapidly. Apparently it really is a virus. "It spreads by installing the activex on the computer that clicks the ad and looking to see if the infected host uses adwords, then does the same to their account." The pay per click people are panicking, because they're billed by Google for the ads. "The daily budget was increased to a number that would have produced a 7 figure Monthly payout." The details of exactly how this all works are still sketchy, though. Here's an early technical analysis.

It just hit the mainstream press, in the Washington Post

What I've noticed is that math and sciences are a little bit immune to grade inflation. I think this is because the teachers know the meaning of the ditribution function and set their exams to get an actual spread. So, only a few people should actually do very well on an exam and most should end up missing a third or so of the questions. This means that grades can be meaningfully assigned from quantitative information. Perhaps the problem is not that these subjects are too difficult but rather that assessments in other subjects have become less meaningful.
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Solar power with no exam: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

"MyISAM is faster than InnoDB" is certainly the conventional wisdom. It's also wrong.

[...] thus we have released the changes with a GPL license for the MySQL community to use and review.

Slashdot is a perfect example of a loosey-goosey "good enough" MySQL application, where speed is important. The data accuracy isn't that important.

+1, Informative my foot. what about adwords? oh wait, you were talking out of your ass like all MySQL bashers.

OTOH you wouldn't want this behavior for your corporate accounting ledgers, so there you'd be safer using a "real" database

yadda-yadda-real see link.

Here's a blog entry explaining in detail what they released.

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/go ogle-releases-patches-that-enhance.html

Oh well, the webmaster has shut down the VCSY - A Laughing Place at ProgrammersHeaven site. We've known for quite some time he intended to shut the site down and now he's made good on it. Oh well, we would be stupid to not plan ahead and we're not stupid. May I introduce to you VCSY - A Laughing Place #3 http://vcsy.blogspot.com/ It will take a bit to get the place in shape but we got time.

guess pretty soon we'll find out precisely to what extent a company can bend it's customers over before their objections become too loud for them to take. I'm betting it's pretty damn loud.

About this loud, it would seem...

I was just stating the obvious: with Democrats in control of at least one house (or the Executive), no seriously flawed pro-telcom anti-consumer law would pass. Telcoms overwhelmingly contribute to Repbulicans. I'm not bashing, just stating a fact. It's one of those things they forgot to mention in the Contract with America. The net totally backs me up here. Just google "Time Warner political contributions" for example. Here's the top link: http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2004/10/chief-execut ive-officer-of-time-warner.html

Is it me, or should this post be modded "troll"?

Most of your complaints stem from the fact that Linux isn't Windows (big surprise there!) -- it does things differently, but you only notice since you're used to another OS.

Slow booting and no tutorial? You already said that you were using a Live CD. Can you run Windows (officially) in a "live cd" enviornment? Perhaps you should compare the boot times on an Ubuntu install when it's actually installed on your hard drive, like every copy of Windows you have used. No tutorial? The last version of Windows that I can think of that had a tutorial was Windows 3.1 -- and that was a long time ago.

Basic things like "where stuff is in the file system" and "how to install programs"? How many Windows users do you know that dig around in the filesystem anyway -- neither OS is particularly friendly to users in this regard. Most people just stick to the "Start" menu, just like most users will stick to Ubuntu's "Applications" menu. This is probably the wrong audience to ask, but what do you hope to accomplish by digging around in the filesystem of any modern OS? You can't really play with settings, or configure applications; those are mostly tasks that have special areas in the OS. The "how to install programs" is also pretty hilarious -- in my install of Ubuntu, I click on "Applications" and choose "Add/Remove" -- it's a top level menu, for cryin' out loud.

You not being able to use Python to program in is also pretty funny -- you want to program in Python, but you don't want to do a simple google search to find out how it may differ from your Windows way of doing it? I'm sure Windows came with a full Python development kit and runtime libraries, and you didn't have to learn how to do anything -- it was just there and it just worked, right? I typed in "python ubuntu" into google and came up with this as the first result -- now how hard was that?

The same can be said of your firewall complaint -- you may have something here, and in fact, I am going to request that a firewall be listed (or available) in the next version of Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon). But this can also be remedied by simply doing a google search... I found a very nice tutorial that requires no touching of a command line at all, that helps you install Firestarter.

Not detecting your flash drive seems to be an anomaly -- I've had no issues mounting removable media at all.

Perhaps the advice you recieved wasn't the most amazing (but you don't always get great advice from Windows "wizards" either), but if you had simply taken some incentive in learning the new OS instead of expecting it to bend over backwards to allow for your expectations of how your computer to run, you may have found that Linux isn't so hard at all... it's mostly just different.

Note: I use Mac OS X as my main OS, and I am referring to my brother's Ubuntu install in this post -- he prefers Ubuntu over Windows (something that surprised me), and has no issues at all using it. This is coming from someone who has used Windows for probably seven years before even trying Ubuntu, and he was sold after a few weeks.

You sound like the same people that say "Mac OS X is hard" -- when they really mean that it's different, and they don't want to learn how to work differently. I'm sure that if you put a complete newbie in front of Windows and Ubuntu, they would have no issues using either one.

I'm back from coaching and the kid's rehearsal and the other story is persistent above all of the front page stories. As a green, I don't really approve of the smarmy attitude towards the green party in the linked story and it was, after all, the greens and libertarians who requested and paid for a recount in Ohio in 2004 that has since led to convictions in court. But I don't see why the link is not at least added as an update to the current story.
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This is poor reporting on CNNs part, not a real story.

No surprise there. CNN has been on a crappy headline writing binge today.

here are a couple more sources: BLS.gov

And an article interpreting that government report: article
"Look at the jobs we are creating. Yes construction (higher paying jobs) rebounded but much of the real growth is in leisure and hospitality, which are very low paying jobs."

But when the Court's final decision fixing the amount of fees is issued, the details will probably be in the decision.

And if the RIAA appeals, then the underlying papers will be filed as part of the appellate record, and it is highly unlikely that the appeals court would keep them confidential.

I agree with you about the maintenance issue and I'd also be concerned about grit blown in the wind, but I'm not so sure you are correct about the issues with power transmission over long distances. The Pacific Intertie does pretty well bringing cheap hydro to LA, and I think that if we took a longer view, we might invest in lower resistance lines (by making them thicker). Here is a senario where you'd do that anyway: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. While you're reading, checkout the grounding arrangements for the Pacific Intertie. They are pretty amazing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Intertie.
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I agree with you about the maintenance issue and I'd also be concerned about grit blown in the wind, but I'm not so sure you are correct about the issues with power transmission over long distances. The Pacific Intertie does pretty well bringing cheap hydro to LA, and I think that if we took a longer view, we might invest in lower resistance lines (by making them thicker). Here is a senario where you'd do that anyway: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/03/coast-to-coast .html. While you're reading, checkout the grounding arrangements for the Pacific Intertie. They are pretty amazing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Intertie.
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It's not just the power lines, transportation infrastructure takes less of a hit with solar as well. The amount of mass that has to be transported is about 200 times less for solar than for coal. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/saving-not-bor rowing.html#comment-4164085150001376667.

At the 15% efficiency of silicon, quite a lot of roofs have enough area to cover what a building uses. Orientiation comes into this as well as the height of the building. Taller buildings have less roof per unit floor space which tends to track electicity use. At 7% efficiency, the number of roofs that can cover 100% of the building's use goes down a lot because we're at the edge of feasability at 15%. So, cheaper, lower efficiency solar panels, can turn out to work better where surface area is not at a cost premium. This tends to be in rural areas rather than where most houses are.

Commercial buildings can often benefit from lower cost, low efficiency panels because they are gaining from using space that they otherwise would not and they are more bottom line driven and can't cover they're full electic use under either senario.
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The link to the situation with plants shows how plants work at the quantum level but just a bit of thought shows that we are more efficient than (rooted) plants at collecting solar power. A small area, say all of the roof tops in the country, can cover all of our electric use and more using 15% efficient silicon solar panels. On the other hand, all of the arable land in the US is not enough to cover our transportation needs through biofuels. Plants may be efficient for their own purposes, but in terms of energy harvesting we do better on our own http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html. And, as the article points out, we are on the way to doing even better.
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Sprout Silicon Leaves: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

The link to the situation with plants shows how plants work at the quantum level but just a bit of thought shows that we are more efficient than (rooted) plants at collecting solar power. A small area, say all of the roof tops in the country, can cover all of our electric use and more using 15% efficient silicon solar panels. On the other hand, all of the arable land in the US is not enough to cover our transportation needs through biofuels. Plants may be efficient for their own purposes, but in terms of energy harvesting we do better on our own http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html. And, as the article points out, we are on the way to doing even better.
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Sprout Silicon Leaves: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

The MIDI issue seems to be getting actively worked around with third party software (a new development that I was unaware of until I went to get you a link), but the source is the Vista README file itself.

There are thousands of articles about downscaling for non-HDCP monitors on the web, including a few on Slashdot. Here's the first one from Google:

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/12/vistas-co ntent-protection-badness.html

Again, there are thousands of articles online about the inability to do automatic echo cancelation on Vista. Here's the first result from Google:

PC World - Vista crippled by content protection

THIS IS A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ONLY. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME OR ANY PLACE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER.

Set a sizable nuclear bomb to go off in, say an hour plus or minus a random 10 minutes. Make sure no one else is observing the device. Leave the room and go about 100 yards away where you can't observe the device. Relax in the assurance that "reality" doesn't exist if you aren't observing it. Stay there for at least 75 minutes; and kiss your ass good by anytime between fifty to seventy minutes as the reality of a nuclear explosion makes itself real while you are not observing it.

For a hypothesis to be a hypothesis it must be falsifiable. I strongly suspect that the above test falsifies the "quantum mechanical" nonsense of the article. It's too bad that such supposed educated scientists can't falsify their own theories with such simple tests provided by common sense "reality".

Best to do this in the desert so as to minimize the damage. Oh yeah, let the physicists who proposed the hypothesis in the article be the one(s) to conduct the above experiment in person in the room above. I bet they won't carry it out as they know very well that they'd be toast for a fraction of a second before they disintegrate. At least their sense of preserving their own life would be "proof" of the falsehood of their hypothesis.

The point is that the "explanations" of Quantum Mechanics don't carry over into the larger world. Stop the silly metaphors which are easily falsifiable.
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Also see my other posting on this: Nonsense QM explainations.

Perception, Nonsense, Flaws and Human Beings:

As like most articles and books on Quantum Mechanics (QM) it's difficult to really know what the heck the physicists are actually talking about because it makes no sense. Human language is likely the fault here. Mathematics may enable someone to comprehend with some ability to connect to what they are saying. For me it's all incomprehensible drivel and the ravings of a mad man, err, mad men who propose it.

Another problem with this sort of article on QM is how those of us predisposed to non-reality connected beliefs such as belief or faith in God(s), ghosts, magic, superstitions, and all other silliness of the belief-stricken tend to interpret such articles. A good example is the very silly and goofy "new-age" nonsense of the film "What the Bleep do we know" which twists the ideas of QM till it's just funny yet a truly sad comment on humans and how "well" (in a sarcastic sense) equipped we are too deal with the "real reality" (or as the author of that article might prefer, the "real unreality").

Anyway there is a distinction between what is real verses what is fantasy and how what is real is somehow connected with the "real reality" and what is fantasy is simply connected to a thought in your brain - the difference between these two distinguished notions is crucial in that what is real has a connection to the universe, and while the "thoughts" of fantasy (e.g. God) you have might be real the actual universe simply doesn't care about it and goes on about it's godless accidental meandering way.

The reality we perceive is just that, the reality we perceive. The properties of a ball, such as "round", "bouncy" or "red" are real in perception. Perception is a different realty than QM for sure. The QM universe is the universe we live in (from what we can tell). However, it's a big stretch to think that "red bouncy balls" don't bounce on a "hard" flat surface oriented perpendicular to the N dimensional curvature of gravity of the Earth.

Too many of the QM explanations allow for leprechauns to pop into existence one moment and then, after taking your wallet with $200 leave you with the $100 of gold you asked for as they pop away into non-existence. (By the way, that's a rule of leprechauns, always make a profit.)

Anyway the QM rules which operate at the levels "below" the resolution

He is suing "little" people as well. There's several lawsuits filed. Myself, I was served last month over a link on a wiki I helped run, and over some re-posts in a private Yahoo group for Green Party of Canada members.

The idea may be to get Google and Wikipedia to get fed up and simply delete the content. Google may do so if there's a court order, though should Google be obeying a court order from BC over a matter which would never result in a court order in most of the rest of the western world? Is BC to set the standard of free speech for us all?

Oh, precendent in BC says that linking to defamatory material is not easily libel. What's hard is that libel can be hard to detect in Canada. There's so many obscure rulings. It is in bad need of reform, else the world will start to forum shop to BC.

Crookes' lawsuits would likely not fly in California, for example.

Mark Francis
http://section15.blogspot.com/

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The REAL reason Ralphie hates open wireless

Here's a curious thing. During the recent CP80 hearings in Utah, Ralphie proposed cracking down on local Utah ISPs, and anyone who offers open wireless access. The one witness in opposition quoted in the media was one Pete Ashdown, CEO of XMission, a local Utah ISP that would disproportionately bear the brunt of Ralphie's proposal, since it's a local ISP, and offers open wireless access in the Salt Lake metro area. It seemed odd at the time that Ralphie and the legislators would be so hot on the proposal, since ISPs based out of state would be unaffected by the proposed law, so the law would have no effect whatsoever on the pr0n "crisis".

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660213162,00 .html

Pete Ashdown's name sounded vaguely familiar, but I didn't connect the dots until today. In addition to being the founder & owner of XMission, Mr. Ashdown was also the Democratic challenger to Sen. Orrin Hatch in last year's general election.

http://formaline.blogspot.com/2006/05/im-with-pete .html

Recall that Ralphie donated quite heavily to Sen. Hatch's reelection campaign, with donations arriving in his name and the names of his kids as well. Which isn't technically legal, but hey. Oh, and Hatch's son is one of SCO's top lawyers, of course.

So maybe this is all one big incredible coincidence. Or maybe it's political payback time, with Ralphie trying to buy a few more favors in the process.

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Re: The REAL reason Ralphie hates open wireless

[Or maybe it's political payback time, with Ralphie trying to buy a few more favors in the process. ]

I'll pick door number two - payback time. If Mr. Ashdown had any other political ambitions, they are history now. From here on out, Mr Ashdown is going to labeled as, at best 'soft on child pornography' and, at worst, a purveyor of child porn. Child porn is everybody's favorite campaign issue because nobody is for it and, once you get elected, you don't actually have to *do* anything about it as it is already against the law and vigorously prosecuted. From here on out, thanks to Ralph 'Spoilsport' Yarro, Mr. Ashdown is on the wrong side on an issue that creates a very powerful gut level reaction. Mr. Ashdown could cure cancer, bring world peace, stop gloabl warming, and eliminate poverty world wide and he has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected dog catcher.

He has all kinds of lawsuits! See http://uncrooked.pbwiki.com/ he has soooed little people like this http://section15.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-am-being-s ued-by-wayne-crookes.html he got very involved in politics, and made many mistakes. People write things about him. They do not say that he eats babies, they say that he made mistakes that hurt the Green Party. Like what he is doing now. Instead of saving the earth, all these green people have to find money for lawyers, and spend time fighting the silly libel laws of Canada. In Canada, with libel you are guilty until proven innocent, and there are no penalities for bozos with lots of bucks who try to make people apologize for telling the truth. he is soooing this little worm for writing this: http://greencompostheap.blogspot.com/2006/08/blow- it-out-your-tailpipe.html and yet it is all true! You do not want people to be able to soooee you in British Columbia under their really old libel laws, do you? You do not have to live there to be soooeed.

He has all kinds of lawsuits! See http://uncrooked.pbwiki.com/ he has soooed little people like this http://section15.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-am-being-s ued-by-wayne-crookes.html he got very involved in politics, and made many mistakes. People write things about him. They do not say that he eats babies, they say that he made mistakes that hurt the Green Party. Like what he is doing now. Instead of saving the earth, all these green people have to find money for lawyers, and spend time fighting the silly libel laws of Canada. In Canada, with libel you are guilty until proven innocent, and there are no penalities for bozos with lots of bucks who try to make people apologize for telling the truth. he is soooing this little worm for writing this: http://greencompostheap.blogspot.com/2006/08/blow- it-out-your-tailpipe.html and yet it is all true! You do not want people to be able to soooee you in British Columbia under their really old libel laws, do you? You do not have to live there to be soooeed.

The chart caption says fish are not affected. You might want to restart the old Soviet program that aclimated people to living in the water from birth.
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For sea level and above: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

We have an extinction rate which is higher than rates which have been associated with previous mass extinctions but we have not yet put that large of a dent into the current biodiversity so that we can not be sure that this is a mass extinction event or something more moderate. I think it is kind of up to us to decide.
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http://section15.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-am-being-s ued-by-wayne-crookes.html
Mark is also being sued, and will blog about it if you want to follow the story from the side other than Crookes'.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2005/04/freedom-of- speech.html post http://johngalt.joeuser.com/articles.asp?AID=88160 Bottom of page Admittedly, not a lot, but they are out there.

>>What else can people do?

Skip Wal-Mart is a good start

http://dotnetsamplechapters.blogspot.com/

It freaks out if you do that? Since when do the internets get stupid about a trailing slash?

http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/02/ beryl-tricks.html
br Okay, there, no slash.

I've been writing a bit about my personal experiences with Criminal Identity Theft. It's something quite a bit different than your typical identity theft. I'm wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the states to do much about theft of personal data on their own. They didn't even bother to notify me when they found out some jerk had been using my names to commit crimes. I've come to the conclusion that the government just doesn't give a rats ass about these things.

I'll be writing something to these guys. If you're interested in what I've been dealing with, my story starts here:

http://g27radio.blogspot.com/2007/04/think-youre-s afe.html

You didn't by any chance try using the System > Admin > Networking since then, did you? Doing that will break NM.

I still want to know what the guy who wrote TFA (seriously, it's so short, it's practically a blurb itself) was doing. There's nothing in-depth at ALL. He didn't even review any of Beryl's features. My blog post of Beryl tricks is much more informative. I did that based on Beryl 0.2. I don't like that they got rid of snow between 0.1.9999 (or whatever it was) and 0.2 though. I liked the snow. I also call BS on the OOo Writer thing. On Edgy and Feisty with Beryl, OOo has never failed for me.

I've been thinking about getting the carbon out and am wondering if ammonia is a better working material that hydrocabons. Here is my blog entry on this: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/04/smelling-salts .html. See what you think....

For tabletop stuff, getting to market may not be all that difficult. But it sounds as though he has to scale up to get energy positive. In that case you have to weigh the cost of abandoning the current technology against adopting the new technology since it will occur in the same sector. Investors don't like to see their cash cows shut down without seeing a very positive alternative so adoption will be pretty conservative if they can act as gate keepers and want to protect the return on investment in sunk costs.

This seems to me to be the reason why most of the examples of disruptive technology are shifts to smaller scale wider deployment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology #Examples_of_disruptive_innovations. The barrier they are overcoming is the economies of scale that big investment allows and subsequently tries to protect. So, to get a distuptive technology to actually disrupt an industry, you usually want a privately held company that is dedicated to the mission of making a fundemental change and most likely working at the consumer level. It will get a lot of flak as entrenched (heavily invested) interests feel threatened but it might not be bought off before establishing the benefits of adoption.
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Disrupt Peabody! http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/04/false- report.html

Same site ... same report about this not meaning any money. So this is a fake.

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/04/false- report.html It was a false report. The only good news I heard in a long time, this guy seemed so promising. But it is incorrect, the guy that posted the news piece took it down.

None of which is to say I'd like Iran to go nuclear, nor do I believe their claim of only being interested in power generation (after watching what happened to their neighbor, there's simply no way Iran could not want that protection).

Seems to me that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty basically requires the sharing of nuclear know-how. This is not the method to do it, but sharing the way to run a plant should be pretty basic under the treaty. The trouble is that everyone feels so threatened by the prolifereation and the lack of serious progress on arms reductions that the fabric of the treaty is very frayed.
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Sun Beams for Peace: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

http://kiloseven.blogspot.com/2007/04/operation-di ce-drop-live-from-iraq-its.html
has the list of games they want, a link to a postal cost calculator , deadlines for timely arrival of parcels, and the e-mail address for the Con Chair.

Linkage for I-285 video:
http://cut-to-cure.blogspot.com/2006/03/cant-drive -55.html
Direct to video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-536655206 7462745475&q=%22meditation+on+the+speed+limit%22

If anyone wants to look up that case it's UMG v. Lindor.