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Interesting that AT&T joined in. They are moving against Google to support their Net Neutrality position. But let us look at how much money there really is in this market and then see whether an almighty Google might actually be able to hurt AT&T. Google currently makes 10 billion a year from 281 million broadband users worldwide. That's is $35/broadband user/year or $2.90 a month. Just look at the price of AT&T's offering and you can see that Google's ARPU is no more than a few percent of AT&T's ARPU (Average Return per User). Google's ARPU is supporting various content offers through this businessmodel, more than 40% of the ARPU flows to the content owner. So at the moment AT&T can beat up Google for a maximum of $2 per month per customer.

So how big could Google's ARPU grow? In a country like The Netherlands 5.7 billion a year is spent on advertising to about 7 million households. This makes 67/household/month (and this number isn't growing too much) This is the total advertising expenditure on the national market and includes all major media: Newspapers, television, direct mail, cinema, magazines, billboards, internet etc etc etc. If Google can get part of that on a global scale, it amounts to a major amount of money. But now look at it from ARPU point of view. It would be hard for Google to get more then 10-15% of this market space ($6-$10/household/month) because they would have to replace all the existing ways of doing advertising and these are still powerful and sustain many content business models)

  If a telco can his hands on google's revenues, they might be able to knock a few dollars of the price of a broadband connection. But $6-$10 isn't going to pay for the line and the costly upgrades. Just go and look up the financial information of telco's to see how big they are and how much money they spend on a yearly basis. Google is dwarfed by that. (Broadband reports said that telco's would spend $41 billion on network upgrades just this year, Google made only $10 billion last year) Odlyzko was right when he said: "Content isn't King" and we can add to that "Advertising will never be king".

So when AT&T says that Google is making money over their networks. We are talking about change compared to what AT&T is charging its customers.

Will Google get a dominant position? Only if they offer content providers the most money for showing a banner and advertisers the greatest amount of clickthroughs. That is why Microsoft and Yahoo are loosing out. The offer less adviews per day, that generate less clickthroughs per thousand adviews and pay less per click and offer advertisers less conversions. Why would you use them? Nobody in the equation is getting better by using Microsoft and Yahoo not the content provider and not the advertiser.

Now lets hope Google pays some attention to my pitch for Adsense for Charity. The idea is that anyone using Adsense can designate a percentage of their Adsense revenues for good causes or open source projects. Even if we are only talking about a very small percentage of Adsense users doing this, we still would be talking about millions of dollars per year) So please help out in spreading this idea, by linking to it or spreading it onwards.

Not saying cell phones don't pose some major risks

Magnetic Fields

The Earth's magnetic field changes on a daily cycle. It is suspected that this cycle is used by bees to maintain their internal clock. Sensitivity to the magnetic cycle would be especially useful to bees who remain inside the hive and are unable to detect sunrise and sunset. It has been experimentally shown that subtle magnetic disturbances can disrupt the bee's time-keeping abilities.

I thought it was because of his African heritage - he has no slaves in his bloodline.

They'd lose a lot of power, but it says nothing about America being racist. We are still racist in places - the KKK can sell tshirts about how they're the original boys in the hood - but we're much better than most other places.

I think by Google you mean Microsoft and Yahoo. If you remember, Google was the only large search provider that fought the Department of Justice on handing over customer data.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/judge-tells -doj-no-on-search-queries.html

And they won! But not before Yahoo and Microsoft eagerly capitulated.

What generates more revenue a $600 phone or a $200 pussycat? I don't know the margins on these 2 product but I have to believe that they will get more dollars back from the iPhone

http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

Here's a congratulations. You have no idea how much that read like a Fake Steve post. Or maybe you do. Either way. Congratulations.

Maybe for once your partisan republican ass should stop making blatant lies?

Here's an analysis of your "% burden % income earners" statement that shows it is clearly propaganda or ignorance at best with that prattling truism.

On Taxes

That said, there needs to be a way to collect from the ever increasing proportion of economic activity that does not fit into what used to work in the 50's. However, it should be a discourse free of likes like the parent poster offers above.

Official Google Blog: Next Step In Google Advertising

Here you go. The PDF FAQ they put there confirms the terms: $3.1 billion. Apart from that, I second/third/fourth the previous comments: zero impact here, DoubleClick has been on my blacklist for years now, by any means available.

In terms of carbon exchange, the plants have it easier because they don't have to chew: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html.
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In terms of carbon exchange, the plants have it easier because they don't have to chew: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html.
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So, is this the real-world "Memoirs of a Monster" ?-)

I'm not exactly a anti-government nutcase, but I do recognize where a legislature + bureaucracy routinely fsck up. Hell, even smart people screw up security assessments.

I agree with Richard Bejtlich's assessment: FISMA is a jobs program for unskilled "security consultants" who can not themselves 'operationally defend' system or network assets. That is to say, it's a boon for paper pushing drones wasting the time of the geeks at the sharp end who can actually make a difference if let alone.

Bejtlich writes it up here: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/04/fisma-dogf ights.html

The right assessment metrics assess 0wn4ge, not comprehensiveness of policy documentation.

John McCain? The same man who doesn't know condoms prevent STDs? Who wanted to send even more troops than Bush in his surge? The John McCain that walked around in a Iraqi market with a huge security force to "prove" that it's safer? The same guy whose plan for a solution to Iraq is to send 100,000 more troops there? Are we talking about the same person?

On a more serious note, Ron Paul seems to be a good match if one really cares for liberty.

According to this site, you can you use Jinzora to stream MP3s to your Wii. Haven't tried it myself though, since I'm running AMPache on my server, which I haven't gotten to work with the Wii Browser so far.

The typical warranties for panels say that they will produce within 80% of their rated power over 25 years. The main cause of the degradation is defects in the crystal structure of the silicon created by cosmic rays. There is a very strong after market for solar panels because they can be used where there is plenty of land, say at a dairy or ranch, where ground mounting is not a problem.

I like your comparison of EROI. I recently calculated the relative burden on transportation infrastrcuture for solar and coal: On the other hand, installed silicon produces about 200 kWh per pound before it needs to be recycled while coal only produces about 1 kWh per pound for a one time use so there are additional substantial savings on the transportation infrastructure side with solar. here:http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/saving-no t-borrowing.html#comment-4164085150001376667.

I'm assuming 42 lbs for a 250 Wp panel and a 25 year life. If the panels don't move far in the after market, then the solar number probably goes up.

The EROI for hydro is pretty high as can be seen from it's very low price.

Actually, boosting the current is just the wrong way to go since they are having trouble with resistance. So, they do want to get the voltage up (not churned out) to help reduce the Ohmic losses (I^2R). With detectors, you usually put on a bias to help get the defects that are causing the resistance filled up, but for power generations you need to rely on the dopant gradiant alone which is probably pretty ragged after they fabricate their nano-posts.
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They are actually going to use the concentrated CO2 from flu gas http://www.greenfuelonline.com/. The free energy source is, as (almost) always, the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html.
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They are actually going to use the concentrated CO2 from flu gas http://www.greenfuelonline.com/. The free energy source is, as (almost) always, the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html.
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Usually rain takes care of this. A long dry dusty period could reduce the efficiency. Snow cover can also be a problem.
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Rent solar and only pay for what the system produces: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

The choice on cost (so far) looks to be between 50 square meters and maybe 100 square meters. Nanosolar will likely come in cheaper (per unit power installed) than standard silicon but it may not have the efficiency so you either need more roof or you need yard space that you don't want to use in another way. Because it takes work to install, the materials would likely have to be nearly free to make your $2000 price point, unless you want to do the installation yourself.

On the other hand, if you are not borrowing, you can usually match what you pay your utility in most parts of the country using silicon over the life of the system and the system will likely fit on your roof. It is a close calculation and in some cases utility rates are high enough that even borrowing can break even or save you a little. Usually you can't beat what you'd end up with if you invested the money elsewhere, say on efficiency. If the up front cost is a problem you can rent a solar power system instead. In this case, you match your utility and fix your rate for up to 25 years. This can lead to savings over time if utility rates go up. This also leaves your equity available for other uses.

You can explore this option at http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html

> I'll check his blog, which didn't exist (afaik) until after the TSA started messing with him.

This is not correct.

My blog existed for a year before the TSA affair.

It's just that very few people read it :)

Check the site, http://paranoia.blogspot.com/ and you'll see that it goes back quite a bit. Hundreds of posts before the FBI came to my house.

Actually, even the reckless use of power doesn't cut it. There has to be a high crime or misdemeanor. But, it sounds like these guys have talked themselves into a theory that there can be no enforcement of the law regarding preserving records since there can be no individual penalty (from TFA). So, if no one can be held accountable, in the end (they think) there can be no crime.

But, under this kind of theory, it is the boss who must take responsibility for violation of the law. I'd say that at least counts as a misdemeanor. So, maybe they should start thinking twice about the no individual penalty thing.

I think it quite possible to "legally" use power recklessly and impeachment is not a remedy for that.
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• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more, regretfully...
  
  

I'm in the opposite boat. I hate Tiger--no use for Dashboard; can't stand Spotlight--but there are some features in 10.5 that'll make Spotlight's severe shortcomings worth living with and I've been holding off on buying a Mac Pro until 10.5 comes out. I was hoping to get a Mac Pro this summer with 10.5, iLife 07 (?), and better performance/lower cost/both than the current lineup (I'm thinking 2.66 GHz for less than $2000 with my company's discount) but it looks like I'll have to wait a little longer. Just enough to make the wait annoying--my new home "office" is almost done and I was hoping to replace my G5 and my wife's PC (and a few other computers) with a nice Intel Mac and Parallels. Looks like I'll have to live with a crowded desk a little longer.

And for all those who are saying "Ooh, delayed, ZING! Just like teh Vista!!!!!11" I have only this to say: Compare ~4 months to ~4 years. Leopard is only 1/12 like Vista. :-) And I bet they won't use the delay to strip out half the new features, either. Also, unlike MS, they've got a pretty good track record of making their dates--unlike the comedic farce that was the Longhorn saga. I'm sure El Jobso did the math and figured out they'll make more from a gorgeous $500 phone than a nice-but-not-world-changing $130 OS. What's MS's excuse--they just had to ship two generations of Xboxes first?

As for the iPhone, it's pretty, and I'm lusting after one, but I have no use at all for it. I've got a 60 GB video iPod that I don't watch movies on, so the widescreen video playing isn't a selling point for me. I don't use coverflow in iTunes so that's another non-point. I don't SMS so much that I need my conversations stored in a pretty manner. I get so little voicemail that the visual aspect will be worthless to me. (I rarely have more than unheard 1 voicemail, and since my phone shows 'missed calls' before 'new messages' I pretty much always know who the new message is from.) I'm interested in the Internet features, but if it doesn't come with a reasonable data plan, I'll never use it when I'm not in 802.11 coverage. The automatic screen rotating is a nice feature but not exactly something I need to shell out five bills for. And while the sliding and two-finger-zooming interface is nice, I'll need to see it in person to see if typing on a virtual keyboard is better than the QWERTY layout on my Nokia 6820. But man, it looks nice. I'll probably get one in late 2008/mid 2009 when they're $249.

No, they replaced the new images because the old ones were higher resolution. The new images are still available. Here's an explanation on Google's blog. It would be nice if they had it show the old images when you zoom in and otherwise show the newer ones, but that would probably be a pain to implement.

"....Whoever...
in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch
...covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact...
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or both."

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more...
  
  

The last time I tried Linux, it was a major bear to install. I tried multiple distros. SuSe wouldn't set up my internet, Fedora gave me a black screen (not even a command prompt), Ubuntu gave me a command prompt, but no GUI. Oddly enough, Debian Sarge came the closest to working (but no sound & no printer).

Under Windows, all the above worked except the printer (but it did work with my iBook). Windows has a large number of problems, bugs, and annoyances, but most of those aren't showstoppers. Linux, IME, has far fewer problems, but the ones it has often ARE showstoppers.

I had the same problem trying to install a retail copy of Windows XP on a Sony Vaio laptop. Nothing worked, the video was screwy, no network. I had no choice but to use the Sony OEM install, which had all their customized drivers. Linux (Fedora) on the other hand mostly worked (I needed to download and setup a video driver for 3D acceleration, but 2D was OK).

The point is that an anecdotal success or failure on an individual machine does not really tell you anything. End users rarely if ever perform an installation. If Dell's were available with Linux pre-installed, would end-users have a problem? I doubt it.

Well, to be fair it is listed fairly prominently on the "community support" section of ubuntu.com. They also tell you how to access the IRC server ("If you are very new to Ubuntu, and haven't used IRC before, find the application 'gaim' from Applications->Internet on your Ubuntu desktop. Then login to irc.freenode.net and join the #ubuntu channel."), and give you access to a number of other documentation sources (presumably for people like me who are having issues getting their wireless card to work, although I know IRC so logged on and got directed to the correct place - am meant to be getting started now but went to check my email... Then I ended up on /.).

Ah well, rabbited on too long

Jeb
http://mathmo.blogspot.com/

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/03/interesting-use s-for-old-cd-dvd-discs.html

Wonderful for "clean room" hardware software.

"Whether Torrellas's technology will make its way into commercial computers, however, is uncertain. "Their analysis of where bugs occur is excellent," says Wilson Snyder, a principal engineer for the high-performance computer-hardware manufacturer SiCortex, based in Maynard, MA. "It provides a good, detailed look at signals that should be analyzed to discover bugs." Hardware manufacturers could learn from the basic research behind Phoenix, Snyder says, and use it to eliminate hardware problems before chips hit the stores. But he questions whether manufacturers would ever implement Phoenix itself. Adding Phoenix onto an existing chip would take time and money, he points out."

For your Sister's computer ... not so much:

Joanna Rutkowska:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006/06/int roducing-blue-pill.html

Black Hat Conference:

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-federal-06/bh-fed- 06-speakers.html#Heasman

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-07/bh-dc-07-spe akers.html#Heasman

[sarcasm]
You can then just bypass the need for virtualization and just run a straight Malware OS(TM), saving us the bother of even using the web's intertube pipes for work - hell, you might even get a cut of all that "Bank" action from our new Overlords, which, of course, we'd welcome.
[sarcasm]

This has been done all over the place. From cooking oil to mineral oil. I did my mineral oil project back in 2005 and it still works today. The mineral oil hasn't been changed at all. It's a great idea and I'm suprised that it has taken this long for people to see it as an option. I agree that upgades are a pain but it is possible. I upgraded memory in my machine and I changed it just like I would in a case that didn't have oil in it. It booted up just fine and read the memory. http://multimediapcs.blogspot.com/2005/07/computer -cooled-with-mineral-oil.html:That is my mineral oil computer. http://oilcooled.blogspot.com/2006/10/oil-cooled-c omputer-links.html: That is some oil cooled links.

This has been done all over the place. From cooking oil to mineral oil. I did my mineral oil project back in 2005 and it still works today. The mineral oil hasn't been changed at all. It's a great idea and I'm suprised that it has taken this long for people to see it as an option. I agree that upgades are a pain but it is possible. I upgraded memory in my machine and I changed it just like I would in a case that didn't have oil in it. It booted up just fine and read the memory. http://multimediapcs.blogspot.com/2005/07/computer -cooled-with-mineral-oil.html:That is my mineral oil computer. http://oilcooled.blogspot.com/2006/10/oil-cooled-c omputer-links.html: That is some oil cooled links.

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more...
  
  

• Election staff convicted in recount rig in Ohio 2004 presidential election that gave President Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry
  
  
• Bush signs landmark executive order increasing White House power over federal agencies
  
  
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
  
  
• Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant
  
  
• Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
  
  
• US Attorney General Questions the Right to a Fair Trial
  
  
• The White House is replacing U.S. Attorneys throughout the country
  
  
• Attorneys for the District of Columbia argue that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals
  
  
• U.S. citizens to be required "clearance" to leave the United States
  
  
• plenty more regretfully, see Part II
  
  

Patents last 20 years in the U.S., IIRC.

This OCR is a refined version of HP's Tesseract, which HP handed over to UNLV some time ago. The original code was developed starting in 1985, so there is a good possibility patents are not valid.

"You might wonder why Google is interested in OCR? In a nutshell, we are all about making information available to users, and when this information is in a paper document, OCR is the process by which we can convert the pages of this document into text that can then be used for indexing."

  Charles

This is due to information problems caused by the hierarchical structure of corporations. It's like that classic joke on how the engineers say "It is shit, and has a terrible stink" but by the time it reaches the CEO's ears, it's been turned into "they say it causes the flowers to grow, and is truly powerful." By splitting decision-making off into an isolated corner of the business entity, decisions end up being made on erroneous information.
  Mutualist Kevin Carson has some excellent work about this problem over at http://mutualist.blogspot.com/ -- especially this: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/03/economic-cal culation-in-corporate_6360.html

  If that's a little-over-your-head technical (it's pretty close for me) there's a more accessible post here: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-can-bos ses-know.html

This is due to information problems caused by the hierarchical structure of corporations. It's like that classic joke on how the engineers say "It is shit, and has a terrible stink" but by the time it reaches the CEO's ears, it's been turned into "they say it causes the flowers to grow, and is truly powerful." By splitting decision-making off into an isolated corner of the business entity, decisions end up being made on erroneous information.
  Mutualist Kevin Carson has some excellent work about this problem over at http://mutualist.blogspot.com/ -- especially this: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/03/economic-cal culation-in-corporate_6360.html

  If that's a little-over-your-head technical (it's pretty close for me) there's a more accessible post here: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-can-bos ses-know.html

This is due to information problems caused by the hierarchical structure of corporations. It's like that classic joke on how the engineers say "It is shit, and has a terrible stink" but by the time it reaches the CEO's ears, it's been turned into "they say it causes the flowers to grow, and is truly powerful." By splitting decision-making off into an isolated corner of the business entity, decisions end up being made on erroneous information.
  Mutualist Kevin Carson has some excellent work about this problem over at http://mutualist.blogspot.com/ -- especially this: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/03/economic-cal culation-in-corporate_6360.html

  If that's a little-over-your-head technical (it's pretty close for me) there's a more accessible post here: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-can-bos ses-know.html

Google didn't release it under the Apache License Version 2.0, HP did, through ISRI. There is also the additional license for the Aspirin/MIGRAINES system (see the Tesseract readme). This is probably because HP uses Apache code frequently in its products and is familiar and satisfied with the license.

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/an nouncing-tesseract-ocr.html

http://www.isri.unlv.edu/ISRI/Software#Experimenta l_Open_Source_OCR

Google would have had little choice in the matter.

I had the same question. Google dug up this answer. You won't like it.
Summary: we're being saddled with yet another boneheaded 'standard' by penny-pinching, buzzword-driven morons.

(and just when I was considering buying a 1366x768 TV to replace my ancient PAL CRT)

Now, with that said, I prefer working in /etc. It is very easy to work with and understand. But, when I try to explain to my father why he wants squid AND how to configure it, it is impossible. I simply do not put him on squid (really a shame). Now, if somebody could explain HOW to properly update windows via their KV DB ....

Webmin can administer squid.

On OSX you can use SquidMan.

WPM claims to administer Squid.

I'm currently installing a new program (March 1 '07) called Internet Cache Setup that claims to configure squid with a wizard. I guess I have to restart firefox, so I'll come back and let y'all know how it worked...

Sorry. Enter "1080p" in the search box on the upper left and you'll get lots of trailers.
Here they are.

Joining in name calling does not make it better though. Gore certainly caveats that no one hurricane can be attributed to global warming so the question is are Gray's cycles overlaid by the effects of warming? The data are begining to look convincing that this is the case http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/01/europe/E U-GEN-France-Climate-Change-Hurricanes.php. Now, we could call Gore prescient and Gray out of touch or something but so long as we are entertaining the notion that the question is not settled, our bad manners are also less than helpful on making progress since they add to prejudice.

Most if not all Step it Up http://stepitup2007.org/ event will be followed up with meetings with representatives so you may have a good chance to get involved there. I hope the packing goes smoothly. Perhaps the move gets you out of the inversion?

Being more persuaded, I do use strong language myself http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/.

Try these trailers...

Some aspects of being fit to survive extinction events seem to be being low on the food chain and being either aquatic of land-based depending on the circumstances. To me, fitness arguments are really about the competition between species. Those that are better adapted to their niche tend to do better, over time than those in a similar niche that are less well adapted. Erasing many niches over a timescale shorter than the adaptation timescale is not really about fitness.
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Hummm... First you claim that the debate is not settled, then you say one side is alarmist. This is clearly ad hominem but more importantly is is not logical. If you are reserving judgement, as you claim, you have no reason to know if Gore is alarmist or correct in every particular.

If there is a chance that he may be correct, then you might want to do something about it. This Saturday, April 14, there will be 13 Step It Up 2007 actions in Utah http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/search/state /UT. Pick one to suit your taste and get together with folks who will help you solve your problem.
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