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What does technology choice matter when we (in the US) propose to only cut CO2 to 2005 levels by 2030? And we can't even agree on that. We will have to get very aggressive with every technology and efficiency improvement available, and many countries won't have the resources to help much.

http://www.denverpost.com/news...

1. EPA is trying to ban wood burning stoves. With that type of trend, in thirty years you will end-up in jail for having a barbecue in your backyard.

2. EPA actually polluted rivers by letting industrial waste/poison to them. 1 million gallons... http://www.denverpost.com/envi...

3. EPA is a money stealing organization, waste of taxpayer's funds. http://www2.epa.gov/sites/prod...

4. And lastly, EPA is cool with fracking. I am not. But because EPA is cool, you are also ok.

EPA is completely incompetent agency, 100% wast of taxpayer's funds, should have been closed. All they do is pretend to be working. And you must be one of those who says more government and more taxes is the best answer to every issue. Perhaps you should leave to North Korea.

Actually you're incorrect, you would be required to turn over a key - http://blogs.denverpost.com/cr...

There have been previous stories on Slashdot where this was the justification someone would have to turn over an encryption key.

Makes one wonder if these guys could then be charged with destruction of evidence for encrypting data.

Bullshit ass-hole. You like Condoleezza Rice should have known terrorists would hijack a plan and crash it into the Trade Towers.....

You mean the terrorists who hatched that plan and were working on it under the Clinton administration? Those terrorists? The ones who were answering to Bin Laden, a person that the Clinton administration let slip through their fingers more than once, even after his group and associates had already killed hundreds of people, including US Navy personnel? Yeah.

Or do you mean the Bin Laden family who have long ties with the Bush family?

• Bush ties to bin Laden haunt grim anniversary
• Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden
• Bush-bin Laden family links

Or how the Bush family wealth comes not only from partnering and or owning everything from banks to Halliburton and selling or financing arms to the Bin Laden family as well as Hitler?

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

How War Made the Bush Family Rich

You mean *those* terrorists?

At least they never bust anybody trying to bring back pot.

http://www.denverpost.com/news...

Give him hell Martin Espinoza!

By the way, is this you? http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25564786/martin-espinoza-face-attempted-murder-arson-charges-judge 10 counts of attempted murder, 31 of arson and four counts of third-degree assault. Way to go, man. Fuck da police!

Like send the Colorado congressional delegation to attack SpaceX for no particularly good reason. ULA has a large operation in Denver and they pay Colorado Republicans handsomely.

Why do I hear so many cases of eminent domain being used to build malls and WalMarts, or indeed to *block* Walmarts?

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Indu...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.denverpost.com/head...

http://bizwest.com/eminent-dom...

Not so sure the US is all that different to China in that regard...

That only Muslims are terrorists.

It's not a lot better, but some: http://www.denverpost.com/news...

http://www.denverpost.com/news...
"They harden themselves to survive inside prison, guards said in recent interviews. Then they find they can't snap out of it at the end of the day. Some seethe to themselves. Others commit suicide. Depression, alcoholism, domestic violence and heart attacks are common. And entire communities suffer. ... Prison work "bleeds over into your private life. You go into restaurants, you sit with your back to the wall. You want to see all the entrances and exits, and you notice if somebody is carrying something bulky. You can't turn these skills off," said Matthew von Hobe, 50, a former manager at the four-prison federal complex in Florence. He knows of two colleagues who committed suicide."

So, like you imply, looks like a tough road to rehabilitation for many prison guards...

Good to see so many comments mentioning the lead connection to violent crime. There are nutritional connections too.
"Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat: Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive behaviour"
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...

The problem is, of course, the prison is one of the main social safety nets in the USA, and also that putting people in prison boosts the employment rate (jobs for guards, prisoners off the unemployment roles). We need to rethink our economy, like with a basic income that a person does not get while incarcerated?

Also related to show how bad it could get:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
"The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers."

Here is am excerpt from a related satire by me regarding expanding prisons for copyright violators that I sent to the US DOJ a dozen years ago in response to a slashdot article, but sadly sometimes it seems people may be taking it more as a blueprint than a cautionary tale: :-(
http://www.pdfernhout.net/micr...
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My fellow Americans. There has been some recent talk of free law by the General Public Lawyers (the GPL) who we all know hold un-American views. I speak to you today from the Oval Office in the White House to assure you how much better off you are now that all law is proprietary. ...
First off, we all know our current set of laws requires a micropayment each time a U.S. law is discussed, referenced, or applied by any person anywhere in the world. This financial incentive has produced a large amount of new law over the last decade. This body of law is all based on a core legal code owned by that fine example of American corporate capitalism at its best, the MicroSlaw Corporation.
MicroSlaw's core code defines a legal operating standard or OS we can all rely on. While I know some GPL supporters may be painting a rosy view of free law to the general public, it is obvious that any so called free alternative to MicroSlaw's legal code fails at the start because it would require great costs for learning about new so-called free laws, plus additional costs to switch all legal forms and court procedures to the new so called free standard. So free laws are really more expensive, especially as we are talking here about free as in cost, not free as in freedom.
In any case, why wou

your average Boeing 737-800 (this is what southwest flies) has a total of 8 Exits that can be used in an emergency, two front two back and 4 over the wings. These can empty out a plane in an estimated 90 seconds. This is optimal conditions with all exits open and available for use. Now how many entrances are used when boarding? only 1. that is why.

Now if they were able to add a double Jetway (that didnt break jetway breaks) we could load from the front and back at the same time. Again this does not help with Southwest as it is a first come first serve seating arrangement.

> Can you be compelled to open a safe?

Probably not, if it has a combination lock. With a warrant they can always break open a physical safe. But that method does not compel the owner to do anything.

Interestingly that article seems to imply you can be compelled to hand over a physical key, but not a combination as it is "contents of the mind." So if the key is stored on physical media it may not be considered "contents of the mind." And if it's stored in your mind, it can probably be brute forced fairly quickly.

> Can you be compelled to open a safe?

Probably not, if it has a combination lock.
With a warrant they can always break open a physical safe. But that method does not compel the owner to do anything.

I once made the effort to read the document dump on the investigation of the SEC's failure to detect the Madoff ponzii scheme. It's sitcom material. The SEC staff is a clutch of lawyers livin' la vida loca while they hone their ability to avoid responsibility to a fine point. Madoff was the biggest fool in the whole thing; he lived in terror that these mopes might actually discover something and follow up on it. But for the credit bubble popping he would still be rolling and on his fifth or sixth SEC audit.

A few years later I read about the wide spread porn habits of SEC lawyers on their government computers and it makes perfect sense. Yet every time some new fraud surfaces the statists cry for more funding; "none of this would have happened if bush/reagan/nixon/whomever hadn't cut the budget!!1" Like paying for more of this pathetic nonsense is going to help.

Bailing out GM was at least as big a waste as our ongoing funding of the SEC.

Why mandate it though? I'm generally much more pro-gun control than your average slashdotter, but I don't see a point. Most gun deaths are suicide, which smart guns won't prevent.

According to this webpage (maybe not the best source) most guns possessed by criminals appear to be handguns from friends or family. The fingerprint method, if it can't be reset, might be able to make a dent in those if it couldn't be easily disabled or updated, but that doesn't seem likely. The watch version (where a wristband needs to be close to the gun to fire) would of course be totally useless for that, they'd just hand the watch over with the gun. I assume the watch method would probably the more preferred by most gun makers and owners, a fingerprint scanner seems more expensive and more finicky (especially with sweaty fingers).

Smart guns seem mostly useful for preventing someone from grabbing your gun from you and using it against you. That seems to happen a lot in movies and extremely rarely in real life. So I see very little reason to mandate it aside from "Gun makers want to sell you new, more expensive guns." And maybe to try to pacify gun-control advocates without actually giving them anything.

A liberal administration isnt going to crack down on porn; it would alienate huge parts of their base.

You mean like how the DEA is still going after medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver despite Obama supporting legalization? http://www.denverpost.com/news...

Well perhaps you could show me ONE "local, legal definition" that says you can't ONLY follow someone on public property.

Well, I'm not going to honor your new goalpost location of "ONLY... on public property," since that was never a criteria, but here's an excerpt from Ohio's anti-stalking law:

A person commits the crime of "menacing by stalking" by engaging in a pattern of conduct that the stalker knows will cause another person mental distress or cause that person to believe that the stalker will cause physical harm to her or him. R.C. 2903.211

Further down the page, "menacing by stalking" is given a few definitions:

What types of behavior are examples of “menacing by stalking"?

Ohio’s menacing by stalking statute does not define what types of conduct may constitute "menacing by stalking."

In effect, any actions that the stalker takes to frighten or cause mental distress to his victim—as long as there are two or more actions or incidents reasonably close together in time—will fall within the legal definition of menacing by stalking. Examples of stalking-type conduct include:

        Following the victim.
        Repeatedly driving by her home.
        Making harassing phone calls; sending threatening or harassing letters.
        Hurting the victim’s pets.
        Vandalizing the victim’s property.
        Trespassing or burglarizing the victim’s home or business.
        Leaving threatening notes or objects for the victim.
        Orally threatening the victim.

There are no doubt many other types of conduct that could be used by a stalker to frighten or cause mental distress to his victim.

Note the emphasized statements; also note that they do not specify whether the stalking behavior occurs on public or private property. Basically, if I catch you following me twice "within a reasonable amount of time," and I feel like the action of you following me is threatening, I can have you arrested for stalking.

As another poster pointed out, private investigators would be filling up our jails under these supposed statutes.

In some cases, they are. But most states require private investigators to be licensed, putting them in a different class than regular, non-licensed persons. It's basically the difference between practicing medicine with or without a license - one is legal, the other is a serious infraction with consequences to match.

Now it's 2014 and the President is using the IRS, EPA, and ATF to harass and attack his political opponents.

Yeah, using the IRS, the Secret Service, the FBI, and perhaps the CIA against political opponents isn't a good thing.

We had this last month. But the second it hits the East Coast, everyone loses their shit and the weather services start screaming about wind chill.

I imagine the SEC would care if they are falsifying data.

You have a remarkable imagination then. My imagination has a mathematician standing in a room in the SEC's Washington headquarters with an analysis that proves Twitters claims violate the very Laws of Thermodynamics, and nobody is interested. The meeting ends and they resume browsing porn back in their offices.

Of course, since my scenario is based on mere history, instead of your immense imaginative powers, I'll defer to you and take it as a given that the SEC has this well in hand.

You can in Colorado...

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24259474/colorado-farmer-harvests-first-u-s-commercial-hemp

Here.
That STEM school is about a mile from where I am typing this. But I dont know much about it.

The tax is on medical devices like pacemakers, not the band-aids and q-tips in the article you link to. For little things like that the cost of labor is going to far exceed the actual cost of the item anyway. The structure of the tax, and the industry segment it targets is most unfortunate.

What’s All This Federal Fuss Over An Obscure Medical Device Tax?

First, it’s a tax on sales, so even companies that are losing money have to pay it. This means the tax disproportionately harms young, innovative start up companies that are building the medical technologies of the future. It takes a ton of money to bring a new medical device to market, between the regulatory hurdles at FDA and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Service, legal bills from protecting patents and intellectual property, manufacturing costs and challenges of building a highly specialized sales forces. Medical device companies generally don’t achieve profitability until they hit at least the $100 million in sales mark (if they’re lucky).

Second, the tax is costing the industry thousands of jobs. In 2012, publicly traded medical device companies cut 10,000 jobs, in part, to brace for the impact of the tax, although it’s impossible to determine how much the tax actually added to those job loss numbers. Still, the amount of money that companies are paying is substantial. Massachusetts’ own Boston Scientific has kicked $35 million back to the feds in the first half of the year; Mansfield, Mass.-based medical device giant Covidien has dropped $30 million; and every company has felt some pain in the wallet investing in the IT systems and tax experts necessary to comply with paying a tax on every single product you sell every two weeks....more

Medical-device companies say new excise tax will hurt industry

The tax is "incredibly punitive," said John Ray, executive director of the Florida Medical Manufacturers Consortium. "It targets one of the most successful sectors in our country."...

The tax would amount to $230 on the sale of a $10,000 medical device. While that may seem small, opponents say it has a larger impact because it is a tax on sales — not profits. The tax could result in less spending on research and development and lead to job cuts, medical device companies say.

"The biggest issue for medical device industry is the excise tax — 2.3 percent tax on sales, not on net income — to companies like Mako," said Dr. Maurice Ferre, founder and chief executive of Mako Surgical, a Davie, Fla., maker of surgical systems used for knee- and hip-replacement procedures.

If you don't understand the implications of taxing sales versus profits, you should look into that.

Gnip's our downstairs neighbor. The building is right across the street from Boulder Creek and hasn't suffered any outages so far. We got notification yesterday the building manager was deploying flood gates in front of the building (and here I thought they were funny-looking sections of sidewalk). The office has been closed for two days now but I can still get into the servers at work -- most of us have been working from home, as funny as that sounds.

On a side note, I used to do IT for Boulder County and installed several systems at the Boulder EOC, which contrary to a comment above is actually on the top of a hill in the floodplain and conveniently situated directly adjacent to Boulder Airport. They are absurdly overprepared for this flood, and have been planning for it for decades. All homes within what they have determined through extensive USGS surveying is the "hundred-year floodplain" (statistical probability of a flood this size occurring once every hundred years -- last seen in 1919 -- this is how good their planning is) not only know they are in the floodplain they are also required to know evacuation routes and register with the county for reverse 911 purposes. I don't envy my former co-workers, they're probably camped out in the datacenter in the basement of the EOC running tech support for hundreds of emergency services personnel. At least they have bunks down there.

It will be Level 3 equipment/network instead of AT&T for this deal.

So much that could be said.

An end to slavery

Two hundred years ago, in 1807, Parliament abolished slavery in Britain. In 1833, all slaves in the British Empire were set free. It took a civil war, Abraham Lincoln and the 13th Amendment, passed in 1865, to end slavery in America.

Even though the British have been commemorating this auspicious occasion, there's little remembrance of it in the places where African slaves came from: Sierra Leone, Senegal, Gambia, etc. Sadly, the African tribal enmities that made the slave trade possible have not disappeared. The tribes' children, sold to the British, Americans and Portuguese slavers, are not commemorated in the lands where they were seized and forced into bondage.

Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888 and a little later in other South American countries. But more than a century later, blacks still live in slave-like conditions all across South America or - at best - as second-class citizens. ...

When slavery is mentioned, our minds gravitate to Europe and America. But I must also mention the enslavement of black Africans by Arabs. Arabs have bought and sold blacks for a thousand years; and even though Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962, in reality, blacks are still traded and treated as chattel in most Arab countries, even at this late date in human history. There seems to be no international will to confront this Arab trade in human beings.

Saudi Offers “Castrated African Slave” for Sale on Facebook

Men should have sex slaves, says female Kuwaiti politician

Coffee futures are down, supplies are up.

This is true

This is just another warmist scare story.

The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.

For the curious, the AC is referring to Rep. Diana DeGette's statements at a forum, where she said

“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those know they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”

The Denver Post has an article and video. http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/04/03/as-lead-sponsor-in-house-on-gun-legislation-rep-diana-degette-appears-to-not-understand-how-they-work/93506/

Yes, there actually is a difference. In the United States, the consensus of the Supreme Court appears to be that there's a distinction between producing a physical object in one's possession (such as a key) and divulging information in one's memory. Among other things, giving up an encryption key or a combination to a safe is an admission that you did in fact have access to the contents, whereas a key might have been planted in your office.

Entire? Not quite. It's been discussed here plenty for you to already know that there are states that have enacted legalization.

Colorado even just recently approved the regulatory structure for stores selling pot products.

You may certainly continue to believe what you want to believe, it's just fictional.

So - a 'masked man' allegedly committed this crime - no CCTV footage whatsoever, of ANYBODY entering the cinema through the normal, front entrance, the police ALLEGEDLY found Holmes sitting in a car - in a DRUGGED STATE, out the back of the cinema, and in the car were some weapons.

Idiocracy rules.

In introducing photos found on Holmes' cell phone, prosecutors showed that on June 29, July 5 and July 11 Holmes took photos that included the interior of the theater, door hinges and back doors.

In other photos introduced Wednesday, Aurora police detective Sgt. Matthew Fyles showed images Holmes took of himself the night of the shootings.

In one, marked 6:22 p.m., Holmes was wearing black contact lenses. His hair was dyed red under a black cap, and he stuck out his tongue at the camera.

In another image, he is seen smiling with the muzzle of a Glock handgun in the frame.

Prosecutors told the court they introduced the self photos because they help show Holmes' "identity, deliberation and extreme indifference."

An image Holmes took of himself on July 5 shows him posing with an assault rifle and "a majority of the tactical, ballistic gear" he had with him when he was apprehended, Fyles testified.

Another photo shows all of the gear used in the attack --- the guns, the body armor, helmet and gas mask --- arrayed neatly on Holmes' bed.

When officers searched Holmes' car in the parking lot, they found "road stars" --- the spikes thrown on the ground to stop vehicles. They also found a used tear gas can, a Glock with a holster, 2 cases for long guns, an iPhone and a carryall bag.

Fyles testified that police they found four gas masks, although only two belonged to Holmes.

It was also revealed that Holmes used a clip for securing a tablecloth to prop open the door to Theater 9.

James Holmes preliminary hearing: Holmes took photos of Aurora theater in advance

In through the front door, prop open the back. It's a very old trick.

Is it necessary to add that in a real-life crime scene is like the jigsaw puzzle in the back of your closet? Some pieces will be missing and others mixed in.

Not really. Having a plane go down and THEN having a grounding is as bad as it gets.

Having a plane with a structural failure is far worse than having a subsystem failure like this. Like the time back in 2005 when an Airbus 310 rudder came off over the Caribbean.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/mar/13/theairlineindustry.internationalnews

Or the cracks in the wings of the Airbus 380:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16452878

Or engines blowing off the Airbus 380 in 2010.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1104/Airbus-A380-fleet-grounded-after-Qantas-jet-engine-blowout

Or a cockpit electrical failure on the Airbus A320 during take-off.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_21378229/airbus-a320s-cockpit-problems-continue-since-faa-order

There are many things that are much worse than a battery fire.

Man, where do you guys get these stories? As a Canadian, I and most other non-elite persons, are very happy with the medical service here. I was diagnosed with kidney disease a while back, so I'm not looking from the outside in, I have first hand experience. They found a problem with a routine blood test, and within a month I saw a specialist, had a biopsy and was diagnosed, and continue to be treated.

You want to see a doctor, there are many options from walk-in clinics, family doctor, or emergency room - neither will have a wait of more than a few hours. The emergency room might take a little longer if your problem is less severe than the guy coming in with his fingers in a bag or something.

Also, taxes are not that different in Canada than they are in the US

Can you put two and two together looking at this graph?

(Numbers and graph Courtesy of the non-partisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities).

The bad thing about the right's ideological radicalization over the past decade is that there is no such as thing as "non-partisan" anymore. Anyone who puts forth numbers, facts, arguments, etc, against them is automatically part of the liberal media conspiracy.

The example of the hour, of course, is the right's attack on Nate Silver. To be fair, Nate did support Obama in this election, but his analysis was based on raw number crunching, not wishful thinking (like these eight conservative pundits who predicted a Romney win), which is why he was able to correctly predict the outcome of all 50 states (assuming no FL surprises). Meanwhile, the Red States guys were predicting a 3.5% win for Mitt the day before election. (Not to mention their hilarious exit poll that favored Mitt 5.4% with a 1.44% margin of error!)

They just stripped away all statistical corrections that professional polling organizations normally use in order to get the result they want even when the underlying reality was completely different . Now that the cold light of day has shown them wrong, we'll see if an apology, methodology change, or indeed any indication of humility or self-growth is forthcoming, but I'm not holding my breath.

Unfortunately, most complex things (global warming, taxation policy, etc.) aren't resolved simply and quickly like this polling "controversy". Right-wing ideologues will continue to manufacture misinformation and attack anyone who disagrees with them, and because of that: truth is dead, in a sense. (This can apply to left-wing ideologues too, but it's right-wing ideologicalization that has been more prevalent over the past decade.)

I find it interesting that a google search could have turned up whether the article was legit or not. Yet you wanted to dismiss it out of hand because your google finger was broken.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/02/problems-pop-up-as-election-day-draw-nears.html

http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_21909715/gop-cites-voting-machine-errors

http://greensboro-nc.com/news/article/more-folks-report-selecting-romney-on-voting-machine-but-choice-displays-obama-wbtw-myrtle-beach-and-florence-sc

The secret ballot where a ballot cannot be attached to a specific person after it has been cast is a fundamental part of our electoral system.

I always thought that the secret ballot was a legal requirement in the US. Then I saw this article, which prompted me to look into it. Apparently, it's more of a convention.

Maybe it's feeding trolls here but this is correct. The budget wasn't the president's, it was put forth by an Alaskan senator. We're all civilized people here, perhaps we should check that our sources aren't from far left news sites next time. Here's a source from a local newspaper, not some dreadfully slanted news site. http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20640869/senate-rejects-budget-passed-by-republicans-house

Wow. You manage to bring in one thing to explain this thing and get it spectacularly wrong. As someone else pointed out, the Columbus Day weekend is the traditional ramp down time for refineries in the U.S. as they rejigger their formulation for fall (You didn't know refineries changed formulas for the season?). Also, several major supply routes got messed up:

From California gasoline prices soar amid refinery and pipeline shutdowns By The Associated Press:

"Among the recent disruptions, an Aug. 6 fire at a Chevron Corp. refinery in Richmond left one of the region's largest refineries producing at a reduced capacity, and a Chevron pipeline that moves crude to northern California also was shut down. There also was a power failure that affected an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery in Torrance, but the refinery has resumed normal operations."

As for Krugman and this being all the fault of QEx: there's a reason gas is not part of the core measure of inflation. Last I checked, we aren't in an inflation cycle yet. Gas is a volatile price (no-pun intended) that jumps way up and down responding to things like, you know, refineries having fires and pipeline shut downs. It's left out of most inflation conversations among economists.

Anyway, thanks for playing! Here's a home version of the game "The Eeeevil Fed Is Coming For Your Savings!!"

It varies with local laws. Here is a link from the state of Utah: Girl, 13, charged as sex offender and victim.

It's a common part of the legal process while you're in it. For example, there's a gag order around the Aurora, CO shootings that prevents many people involved from discussing the case.

Ultimately, of course, this is all just a bunch of people being brave in hindsight. We know that guns are effective at deterring normal crimes, however an insane shooter obviously offers a different problem. At some point a shooter is going to run up against an armed citizen, and then we'll find out for sure just how effective they will be.

yes, someday,

perhaps in the far-flung future,

we'll see what actually happens

when armed citizens

confront crazed mass shooters.

surely, such an event will irrevocably alter the dialog on armed self-defense from that day forward.

I think it's even worse than that.

Let's suppose there are *no* accidents, no groundwater contamination, everything works perfectly.

Fracking requires enormous quantities of water, which is then contaminated with, as you point out, a proprietary blend of chemicals (at least one of which is benzene).

And, while methane, when burned, produces half the CO2 that coal does, 'fugitive' methane which inevitably escapes during the drilling process is of concern because methane is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.

So, at precisely the time when the global temperature curve seems to be at its exponential bend and thus water and greenhouse control will both be increasingly vital, we're about to use enormous quantities of water so that we can release a more potent greenhouse gas.

That money was wired to Colorado, where the Vasseurs allegedly collected it, took their 10 percent and wired the remainder back to Nigeria, according to a Colorado state Grand Jury indictment handed down today.

searching google there are millions of results saying the same thing

Modern CFLs still take a few minutes to warm up before they reach their full brightness.

here is the article and another...

and some people just leave them on all day because it takes so long for them to warm up. that seems to defeat the purpose a little if you are trying to be "green"

half a second is acceptable...a few minutes is not. i have had a few CFLs that seemed to come on faster than that, but then after a week or 2 of use, seem to fall back to taking a few minutes. That just isn't acceptable, and i don't think it is an unreasonable complaint.

In the United States at least, there are recent well documented cases of this exact tactic:
2008 Democratic Party Convention
2004 Republican Party Convention
Older uses of the same tactic are included in the reports of the Church Committee.
But yeah, that's all wild conspiracy theories.

One of the basic rules of political protest: If you're at a peaceful demonstration, and somebody starts suggesting violence, (A) don't listen to him and certainly don't take his advice, (B) identify him as likely police, and (C) make sure protest organizers are alerted to what's going on.

Yes it does. Ever seen Beijing?

No, and neither has anyone else lately.

You mean the Saddam Hussein that the US installed and armed and only decided to kill when he wouldn't play ball with our oil companies? Were you referring to the Taliban that was headed by Bin Laden? Is that the same Bin Laden family the Bush's had ties to? http://www.denverpost.com/rodriguez/ci_4319898

Who's the "Dipshit"?

People like you, who spout mindless platitudes like "Support our Troops" have the blood of innocent men, women and children on your "Dipshit" hands.

Your half ass, intellectually dishonest (half-truths, simplifications, exaggerations) post isn't much less "Dipshit" like than the parents. Thanks for nothing.

Yeah, because that's our purpose — to "main and kill brown babies". They're perfectly fine, and will no doubt reach their fullest potential as humans, under the likes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban. I hear that poisoned water goes well with Afghan schoolgirls' education. In fact, I hear there is no actual tyranny and oppression in the world — unless you count the US, of course.

Dipshit.

You mean the Saddam Hussein that the US installed and armed and only decided to kill when he wouldn't play ball with our oil companies? Were you referring to the Taliban that was headed by Bin Laden? Is that the same Bin Laden family the Bush's had ties to? http://www.denverpost.com/rodriguez/ci_4319898

Who's the "Dipshit"?

People like you, who spout mindless platitudes like "Support our Troops" have the blood of innocent men, women and children on your "Dipshit" hands.

Your perception is much different than the reality of the situation. http://www.denverpost.com/perspective/ci_5982482