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Gestures are non-inclusive.

Well, I dunno, I think this gesture pretty much sums up everything I need to say about Google's constant fscking with the Android UI.

You have to be even more dim to not understand how MANY would have to be added to serve a world with only electric cars.

Let's say that 2016 is the 'year of the electric' because they manage to figure out a battery that acts like LiIon but holds 10x the charge, using sodium chloride and carbon, so it's also 10x cheaper. ;)

However, cars today are living to 13 on average. Even with such a cheaper battery, it would normally only make sense to upgrade to EV when you're looking for a new car anyways.

Tesla managed to build enough supercharger stations to cover all the major highways in about 3 years, and it's still a relatively small company.

I'm not going to deny that in such a scenario that the electricians wouldn't be busy, but you'd only have to build around 10% of the capacity necessary a year.

Also, I figure you'll still sell quite a few gasoline vehicles, as the price per gallon drops through the floor as demand decreases. They'll still be useful in many locations. Though in my scenario the electric vehicles would actually have more range than gasoline. Without the extra energy gasoline vehicles might be a common rental/road warrior/rural/remote/field item.

from http://www.cheesecakefactorynu...?

A slice of cheesecake from the cheesecake factory has an average of 384 calories (min 210, max 700, SD 106), which is roughly 1 hour of jogging*. As such, if you order randomly from the cheesecake menu, you will most likely (68%) get something between 278-490 calories, which will require an EXTRA 40-70 min of exercise.

The numbers bear out: you are correct. On average, a WHOLE HOUR of EXTRA exercise will be a roughly even trade for a slice of cheesecake.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles...

wouldn't a device like this with a fitting attachment solve some of the issues involved with this equipment?

King of the Forest, they don't live in.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/lion-habitat-where-do-lions-live.html

steganographic kitten photo placement service

Stuff the photos, I want the steganographic kitten itself- it's going to be the next must-have pet for geeks!

Here's one with an *extremely* rude message encoded within its stripes! See if you can tell what it says...

Well, your comments are slightly uneducated, seeing as the "Wild West" was largely a myth http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-wild-west-of-myth-and-reality.html

Late 80's: there were a lot of skilled trades and professional labor in the US. Cars, Steel, Mass production, Agriculture, skilled trades, software development, science, NASA, everything was going pretty well compared to today.

mid 90's: NAFTA took root. Companies began leaving in droves to offshore labor to the far east and Mexico. Many companies who wanted to keep the labor at home, had no choice but to follow the leader because they couldn't compete with such cheap labor.

Late 90's Early 00's: software development, tech support and engineering started heading for India and other regions. Workers were told "too bad" and laid off in huge numbers. Corporations were swimming in revenue.

Today: Michigan, the hub of manufacturing in the US has no economy to speak of. Detroit is the most dangerous city to live in. The US no longer has much of a Scientific community. It's all been sold off or off-shored. We have no manufacturing to speak of. Most of what people buy now comes out of a Chinese shipping container.

The industry is crying that we have no engineers, software developers or scientific professionals and act like they have no idea why. Now companies want to float a boat out in international waters so they can ship in more cheap labor and not have pay for visas and probably skirt a shitload of tax revenue that would otherwise go into the US economy? Yeah, great idea.

Botanically tomatoes are fruits - I have never argued this, and it is in fact part of the point that I initially raised - but here are just a few sources that back me up. As you can see, legally and culinarily speaking, there are a whole hell of a lot of people who consider a tomato a vegetable. This is a fact. This is inarguable. All of your "technically"s aren't going to change this. This is the point that I initially made, this is the point that I have continued to make, and this is the point that you have continued to deny in the face of overwhelming evidence. My ego is not particularly connected to what people think of tomatoes. Maybe you, on the other hand, should consider why yours is so connected to putting on blinders and denying simple facts as they are.

As it stands there's something like 8 games due on the PSP in North America in the next 6 months; most of them are being published and/or developed by Sony. The only place PSP game development is still alive is Japan, where a number of games still come out every week.

Er... no? I can list of at least 20 games that are coming out just by April: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/upcoming-psp-games2011.html

In my opinion, 2010 was the best year the PSP's had so far. I've had a PSP since around 2007, but I know I bought more games for it last year than any year up to that.

I think the sentiment that ALL home schooled children are retarded or stupid or whatever is worse idiocy than believing in something that may or may not exist, simply because the evidence shows that many (most??) home schooled kids are better educated (on less budget) than the progressive union munged public education system we currently have.

From http://www.buzzle.com/articles/results-homeschooling-vs-public-schools.html

The simple fact of the matter is that there are many, quality studies which show that, on average, home schooling produces superior students.

see also the charts here (yes, citing wikipedia, bastion of liberalism that it is)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homeschool_academic_scores.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homeschool_grades_chart.gif

But hey as long as it was good for a giggle it must be true (Jon Stewart school of facts). Who's the real idiot?

Many in the pro-life crowd believe that rape does not justify abortion. But those who believe in abortion have forced a compromise. Arguing against abortion is an uphill battle; arguing against rape-justified abortion is like going up Mt. Everest.

If there are 46 million abortions per year in the world, and only 1% are due to rape (or incest), can you blame the pro-life crowd from trying to stop the 45.5 million needless abortions, or as they would put it, needless murders? I can't.

Besides, you call keeping the baby "punishment". Isn't that exactly how abortion supporters view it?

You should read this

Read this for the reality of the wild west.

1 in 100? You sure? That's terrible.

Maybe should outsource to a bunch of Indians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala#Supply_Chain
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-24-2002-20997.asp

"Forbes awarded the humble dabba-wallahs a 6 Sigma performance rating, a term used in quality assurance if the percentage of correctness is 99.9999999 or more. In other words, for every six million tiffins delivered, only one fails to arrive. This error rate means in effect that a tiffin goes astray only once every two months."

That said, Forbes' percentage of correctness isn't that high, so they might have got that wrong ;).

Quickly realized it was a bad idea . Have fun India :|

Then try googling east german border guard trial and learn something instead of lazy comments like that. Surprise surprise there have been prosecutions. Are we learning history yet?

The game punishes the border guard retroactively.

That doesn't honestly reflect why he was chosen for a station on the wall or the choices he was likely to make at the time.

Projecting your fate and that of East Germany 40 years into the future scarcely seems probable.

There were prosecutions.

But the outcome of these trials seem both morally and legally ambiguous.

The verdict set a legal precedent, establishing that officials from what was once the Communist state of East Germany could be punished for actions that were not only legal under East German law, but which were compulsory for them to carry out. 2 East German Guards Convicted Of Killing Man as He Fled to West

This was the last fatal shooting at the wall. (February 1989)

One conviction was on a manslaughter charge, the other a suspended sentence for attempted manslaughter.

Wilfried Tews, who was just 14 years old at the time of his escape, was hit eight times as he swam through a canal under the Berlin Wall in 1962.
West Berlin border guards provided covering fire for a passerby who pulled the boy to safety. In a statement from East German records that was read to the court, a border guard who has since died said he heard shouts from the West of "Stop shooting! You are Germans too, aren't you?"
An East German border guard, the 21-year-old Peter Göring, died in the firefight and the communist authorities turned him into a secular martyr. Schools, streets and barracks were named after him.
Hundreds of former East German border guards and officials have been convicted since 1990 for shootings at the former border. Most have received suspended sentences. 40 Years On, Boy Shot at Berlin Wall Faces Attackers

It's an Apple so you know the margins are very much in their favor.

If you pay attention you'll find iPad margins are less than other products, Apple is gunning for pure marketshare in this space.

According to the numbers I found:

----Version-----+Retail+--Cost---+-Markup-
16 GB WiFi only | $499 | $229.35 | 117.57%
16 GB WiFi + 3G | $629 | $257.65 | 144.13%
32 GB WiFi Only | $599 | $258.85 | 131.41%
32 GB WiFi + 3G | $729 | $287.15 | 153.87%
64 GB WiFi Only | $699 | $317.85 | 119.92%
64 GB WiFi + 3G | $829 | $346.15 | 139.49%

Source

Ian Copeland, the brother of one of the world's greatest drummers Stewart Copeland, got into business as a promoter. Riffing off of Stewart's band "The Police", and his other brother Miles' company the IRS (Illegal Records Syndicate), he decided to call it the FBI - Frontier Bookings International.

He was soon visited by a couple of FBI agents who told him he'd have to change the company's name. He basically laughed them out of the office, and then discovered REM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Copeland

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/5-30-2006-97810.asp

As a side note, all three brothers were fond of names that played with stern authorities, because they found out later in life their father was actually a covert agent for the CIA.

Violent football hooliganism is primarily an English rather than specifically a German tradition.

O Rly?

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/117669.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,646723,00.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-serbia-fanviolence

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=406446&cc=5739

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1565414,00.html

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1369951620070313

http://sfcu.com.au/smf111/index.php?topic=5427.175;wap2

Cut the "holier than thou" bullshit.

That the end of the hamster wheel as we know it.
Pity of all the effort, science and passion others put into it... So long to you, deep and hamster-wheel inspired phylosophy of life...

how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...

I like your idea, and think it could work, but I object to your blatant racism. The US has blown up lots of non-brown people since the end of the cold-war.

Also, it's not just a matter of being better global citizens, we are dealing with people who object to our way of life, our 'immorality' (think of Katy Perry). Consider some of the things Osama Bin Ladin wants from America:

What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? ......
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam......
We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator.
You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants.
You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object. Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office?

They want us to return to prohibition, and arrest Bill Clinton. They want us to get rid of homosexuals. But obviously that's not going to happen. So fixing the problem is a little harder than just being better global citizens (incidentally, why do you think we only deal with China, Canada and Mexico? Even saying that makes you sound a bit ignorant).

MOD PARENT UP

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/greenhouse-gases-list.html

"The capacity of methane to trap heat is 20 times more than that of carbon dioxide. "

"Water vapor, approximately constitutes about 33 to 66 percent of greenhouse gases, thus becoming the most prominent constituents of greenhouse gases list."

No other search engine can beat Google. As Google is the best. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/automated-forex-trading-system-does-automated-forex-trading-work.html

At least one pepper sauce company has been offering pure capsaicin since 2006. It seems like more of a publicity stunt than a product, but it's not fabulously expensive. Another company offers a 7,000,000 Scoville unit for $90 an ounce. Capsaicin was synthesized in 1930. I don't know whether it's cheaper to synthesize it or purify it from natural sources, but either way it doesn't seem as if military uses would depend on finding any particularly hot natural peppers.

Equally as bad as the scent producing peripheral devices from 2007 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/day-smelly-computer-has-arrived.html

Single Payer

Citation needed.

Then citation is needed for where the Constitution of the USA authorizes federal government interference in medicine.

I asked for citations, so here's my own. Western PA Coalition for Single-Payer Healthcare lists 5 polls taken this year. Of them the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll says 58% favor and 38% oppose single payer health care. A Time Magazine poll says 49% favor and 46% oppose single payer insurance. None of the 5 polls say 60% of the people polled prefer single payer health care.

What is needed to reduce the cost of medicine is not socialized medicine but competition. While normal or average health care costs have gone up in markets where there is competition cost have declined. Look at Lasik eye surgery, in "1999 the average price of LASIK was well over $2,000 per eye." By 2001 1 in 5 surgeons were offering Lasik for under $1000 per eye. Costs have also dropped for cosmetic surgery. Costs were driven down too because of Medical tourism.

Falcon

Why do you think people are told not to smoke around hard drives?

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/smoke-damages-and-hard-drive-recovery.html

Feeling like you don't have the illness doesn't get rid of an illness.

1. It does if the illness is that you are in pain, and the pain goes away.
2. It does if the illness is that you are depressed, and you become happier.
3. It does if the illness is you are always tired, and you have more energy.

I won't say any of the treatments we're talking about consistently cure these things. But it is false to say these changes never occur in response, or to say that they occur to the same extent without treatment.

So? all this has been studies over and over again, never with any effectivness.

Repeating false statements over and over again does not make them true. E.g. random counterexample Acupuncture for low back pain is cost-effective and works, according to medical researchers.

Digging deeper on that one reveals that sham acupuncture works just as well for low back pain. Still, either is better than none.

More interesting (imho) is a German study of 'laser acupuncture' (which frankly I am skeptical of), because that can be double-blinded far more effectively: The German researchers concluded, "that laser acupuncture can supply a valuable advantage for children with headache, with active laser therapies being clearly more effective than placebo laser treatment."

By all means, dispute that conclusion, but by looking at the research or doing your own, not ignoring it and repeating the same unchecked statements.

Specifically, it is false that (1) there are no controlled, double-blinded studies, and it is false that (2) such studies never show a significant effect.

What's an icon?

Really! I shouldn't speak too tech to the users...

Example icons: Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, even The Namesake Carl.

Curt Schilling (Major Leage Baseball Pitcher) plays(ed) EverquestEverquest2. http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/16/curt-schilling-looses-the-mitt-for-the-ole-mouse-and-keyboard/

Dave Chappelle the comedian plays Warcraft. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/2-23-2006-89653.asp

Eric Bloom from Blue Oyster Cult plays Warcraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bloom

The prolific fantasy artist Ruth Thompson plays Warcraft (and I can tell you she is CERTAINLY not wanted in the attractiveness category) : http://www.tarnishedimages.com/

I've also read that that author Michael Moorcock plays WoW. I've heard rumor of Steven King. I know with certainty about 4 semi-pro hockey players, and rumor of 4 more pro hockey players.

This list could continue indefinately. And these are just the ones that I knew of offhand that were easy to find evidence for. The point being that there are plenty of very successful, influential, wealthy and talented people who find the escape of an online fantasy world to be not only entertaining, but also a healthy distraction from the pressures in their every day lives.

I'm sure there are hundreds of household names that could be added to the list, if not thousands. But would you make it public knowledge if you knew you'd be judged, or worse, stalked, in the one place you might be able to socialize regularly with total anonymity? Especially if you literally couldn't leave your home with people taking photos of your every step?

The IP of the authors is what costs the most money.

close, but wrong, between $.20 to $1.06 goes to the author, $3-$6 is the printing cost: To calculate the royalty you earn per book sold you multiply five percent, or .05, times $20. The result equals $1. So that's the royalty you earn for every book the publisher sells.
the Publisher eats the majority of the remaining profit. Straight to ebook should remove that overhead and I think reduce the cost by at least 60%.

Eventually, towards the end of 1966, two and a half years after they began, they were finished. "We produced a short document that described precisely, in engineering terms, what we proposed to build and what materials were involved," says Selden. "The whole works, in great detail, so that this thing could have been made by Joe's Machine Shop downtown."

Agonisingly, though, at the moment they believed they had triumphed, Dobson and Selden were kept in the dark about whether they had succeeded. Instead, for two weeks, the army put them on the lecture circuit, touring them around the upper echelons of Washington, presenting them for cross-questioning at defence and scientific agencies. Their questioners, people with the highest levels of security clearance, were instructed not to ask questions that would reveal secret information. They fell into two camps, Selden says: "One had been holding on to the hope that designing a bomb would be very difficult. The other argued that it was essentially trivial - that a high-school science student could do it in their garage." If the two physics postdocs had pulled it off, their result, it seemed, would fall somewhere between the two - "a straightforward technical problem, but one that involves some rather sophisticated physics".

Finally, after a valedictory presentation at Livermore attended by a grumpy General Edward Teller, they were pulled aside by a senior researcher, Jim Frank. "Jim said, 'I bet you guys want to know how it turned out,'" Dobson recalls. "We said yes. And he told us that if it had been constructed, it would have made a pretty impressive bang." How impressive, they wanted to know. "On the same order of magnitude as Hiroshima," Frank replied.

Oh yee ignorant /.ers...

Here's a beginner's introduction to 'soils', i.e. dirt, of which there are actually many, many types:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-types-of-soil.html

Oh, heck, there's even soil taxonomy, for pete's sake (for those of you who are truly twisted enough to find out more):
http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_class.html

In other words, there ain't no such thing as just plain 'dirt!'...:-)

Enjoy, and have another closer look at that dirt that's all around you, and what it may (or may not) contain...

Personally, I'm very excited to learn more about the undoubtably unique characteristics of Martian dir...er, I mean, soil.
I wonder how it compares to various Earth and Lunar soils, etc.?

Actually this is incorrect. A lot of nations are getting fatter including the UK and even Greece.

http://www.pezh.gr/english/obesity.htm
http://www.alternative-healthzine.com/html/0103_1.html

Look at that first link. It would appear that almost half of greek women are lardasses. There goes that image of Mediterranean women down the drain.

The middle east is getting fatter too. All the people getting fatter have one thing in common and that is that they're taking on the American fast food lifestyle and they're wealthy. Being poor is the best diet plan you could ask for!

This is all to be expected though. What did we really think would happen when computers and personal vehicles took off along side the growth of fast food industries? People simply don't move as much as their ancestors. That is why this rarely affects poor countries. Though Mexico is an exception what with them being dirt poor and fat.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-11-2003-44103.asp

I understand where you're coming from, but I think there's plenty of evidence to show that is simply not how it works. The old west is an example of it not working: everyone was ready to kill and yet things were not peaceful.

Ah, yet another case of people believing the movies. Yes, violence occured in the west, but on average it was actually much more peaceful than the east coast. The Violence was overstated

Pretty much any inner city where lots of people have guns would also serve as an example of this failing. All the shootings don't seem to stop further shootings. Pretty much any war zone or terrorized area shows the idea that violence stops violence to be false.

I consider war zones a seperate concern; requiring seperate solutions. But I consider 'terrorized' areas in desperate need of additional arms - in the hands of the right people, preferably those being terrorized.

As for gang violence - I view much of that in terms of warfare and law enforcement - The gangs are like miniature tribes operating seperately from legal law enforcement. I mean, how do you punish somebody who steals your drugs? You can't report them to the police, about the only option remaining is vigilante justice. On seperate note, drugs are big business in inner cities. They're divided up into territories, and territories shift by what's essentially warfare. They can't get much in the way of stability(like some of the old mobs), because their leaders are often removed by the police.

Legalize drugs and work on some economic enrichment and I'd bet on crime dropping like a rock.

That is a nice sentiment, but unfortunately untrue. People make snap judgments on based on everything they encounter: websites, each other,and even their politicians. While this is a behavior that can be manipulated pretty easily, it is absolutely necessary for people to be able to function in the world. There is too much going out there for a person to be able to logically weigh each action, and there is usually a lack of compelling evidence for any given action whatsoever. So, we rely on superficial indicators to guess with a fairly high degree of accuracy exactly how to react to any given situation.

While one could argue that we should try to rise above this behavior in regards to our elected officials, I really doubt that it is possible. The only way you could honestly divorce yourself from those snap judgments is to never ever see the politician, which just is not going to happen. Besides, there is a lot more to a politician than decision making. The person has to be able to manage, build consensus, and lead, all of which are things that repugnant people typically have a hard time doing.

It is spurious to claim that such trivialities do not influence you. They influence everybody.

It dies and dies, but it people keep Frankensteining it.

The history of odor-enhanced experience is outlined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-o-vision

True to dot.com refuse-to-learn-from-history hubris, one company (TriSenx) is planning to release a stinking computer peripheral, priced variously according to different sources as $269 to $369 US. One source claims it's available now http://www.buzzle.com/articles/day-smelly-computer -has-arrived.html .

Another (DigiScents) has been making claims they will do so for at least 7 years http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/05/26/great -moments-in-dotcom-history-digiscents/ . It belatedly made PC World's Worst 25 Tech Products Of All Time http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,8/ar ticle.html

It was supposed to be a joke when it was in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It still is. Unfortunately an iSmell may eventually exist. Start petitioning now for the killing of a cubicle mate for using one of these to be considered self-defense.

In 20 years, we'll smell our avatar's farts. Huge advance. As a result, we'll all be having sex in 3d virtual worlds instead of the real world. For the first time in human history, recreation will be fully separated from procreation.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/day-smelly-computer -has-arrived.html/ + http://www.fuckingmachines.com/ + http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html/ = http://www.3d-sexgames.com/

Probably won't take 20 years. All the pieces are there, just waiting for some shameless pervert to assemble and market them.

No, he refers to Projects 501/503: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-1-2005-80383.a sp

Oh, the EU has fined so many companies for price fixing, I don't even know where to begin--Bayer & Chemtura, Siemens, Dow, escalator firms, Heineken, Aventis, animal feed companies, the Deutsche Post, many vitamin producers, Nintendo and, of course, the well known case of Microsoft.

I'm not saying that none of these fines are unjustified but I am saying that, if I may opine, the EU has been issuing a lot of fines. With this recent Apple one, it does seem as though Apple had no choice and if they aren't given an alternative to losing their contracts with record companies for the sake of running one Europe encompassing store, then I don't blame them. On the surface, the EU Commissions seem to be discouraging big businesses from selling things like XBoxes, PS3s or iTunes inside all of the countries. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I guess time will tell ...

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/harvard-university- undergraduates-study-religion.html

Here's a few more:

• Rapping Ruling: Eminem Wins a Summary disposition.
• "Something" in the Way He Rules: George Harrison song parody.
• Dr. Suess goes to Court

And yeah, they're pretty bad.

His work on sound waves have been used in IPod. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-23-2006-91762.a sp
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,173 8511,00.html

I think it was Archimedes who said that about lifting the Earth. But would it be possible at all ? Maybe this article http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-30-2004-57259.a sp answers that question.

How would you implement your idea? DNS is just a way for your computer to find the one you actually want to talk to - i.e., when you visit a website like slashdot, the DNS server converts the domain name to an IP address like 123.45.67.89 and lets the magic of Internet Protocol handle it from there. All DNS is the "www.google.com equals 72.14.203.99" part of the internet.

The second problem lies within the nature of an address of any kind: they must be unique. That means that there has to be a way to prevent two people from having the same/conflicting keyword. Five people couldn't have www.google.com just because they voted it that way. And right now, the system may not be democratic, but it is free market - if you want a domain name, it'll cost you $5 a year to take one that hasn't already been taken. If you want one that has been taken - well, talk to the owner. It's his. There are also laws (enforced by the United Nations, no less!) that can arbitrate between people in the case of a domain name dispute. Bill Cosby, for example, recently won the rights to FatAlbert.org because some doofus bought it just to put pr0n there.

And, here's the biggie: how is a keyword different from a domain name? How is keyword:google different from www.google.com?

As the adage goes - if it ain't broke, don't screw with it. (And it ain't'nt not broken at all - I mean, it brought you to slashdot.org successfully without fees or taxes (other than those of your local ISP and country) and let you suggest that a knock-off of AOL keywords(which uses the same system, except keywords are registered with them and point to another domain name registered with the others) would somehow be better. And, without any censorship at all! I mean, seriously, it works great, costs you nothing, so what's wrong?

I'm still waiting for my fake/real diamonds! $5 a carrat my ASS!

There are people working very hard on this. I think the show Nova did on creating diamond synthetics is one of their best.

DeBeers purposely hoardes diamonds to keep the price up ala OPEC. In fact, none of their executives can step foot inside the US as they would likely be arrested.

Sadly, the Bush administration may let them off the hook on this.

Only if there is honest and real competition in the diamond market (even with the synthetics) will you see $5/carat diamonds As it stands now, many of the synthetics seem to cost as much as the real.

Weatherbug is very different from Adaware. In fact, Adaware from lavasoft.de is a program which has identified Weatherbug as spyware. While Adaware is not perfect, i don't find it to be annoying. Adaware is not to be confused with Ada software.

• The firm, in which BAE Systems has a 20% stake, was given £250m aid by the Department of Trade and Industry in 1985 to help launch the 150-seater A320 jet which has spawned a family of aircraft and sold 1,800. The aid, partly used to set up manufacturing facilities to build A320 wings at Broughton, north Wales, plus interest at less than commercial rates, was repaid by the end of 1999.
  
  Airbus is still repaying up to £100m a year of the £450m UK launch-aid for the wide-bodied A330/340 series of planes which was given in 1988. It was awarded a further £530m in 2000 for the A380 superjumbo.
  
  Source (including unwarranted inflamatory title)
• All European government loans for Airbus programs have been made entirely within the letter and the spirit of the 1992 US-EU Agreement on Trade in Large Civil Aircraft since its entry into force and this will continue to be the case for all future Airbus programs. The US have not disputed this fact.
  * Of the eight Airbus aircraft launched since 1990, only three programs have been launched with government investment.
  * Airbus pays royalties to governments over the entire life of the aircraft programs. Interest and principal is repaid on deliveries, even before the programs break-even and irrespective of the sale price
  
  Source
• "When you consider that the A320 Airbus launch development funding has been repaid twice over and with interest and that revenues from the A330/40 will have tripled the original investment by 2017, even Gordon Brown must be smiling. When you add corporation tax and the revenue generated from aerospace workers taxes he must be breaking out into a broad grin."
  
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A planned 1 km tall tower in Australia will house a set of turbines that will not be powered by wind, but by convection. The air will be heated by a sort of huge greenhouse skirt at the base of the tower. Planned output could be up to 200MW. More info at http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text8-18-2002-247 01.asp