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Valid point, but let's not forget that 720p is a significant increase in quality over 1080i as 720p is progressive scan and 1080i is interlaced.

A simple explanation taken from http://ezinearticles.com/?720p-Vs-1080i-HDTV&id=91443

Most of the time interlacing works fine, but for fast moving images, such as sports like baseball and hockey it can cause problems which manifest themselves as a 'stepping' effect on-screen. Progressive scan signals don't have this problem and so are better suited to sports.

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"Just think about it logically, most places have some sort of criminal speeding law, there is no way any piece of tech could be the primary piece of evidence in a criminal trial if it had such a huge margin of error."

The accuracy of laser guns for speed tracking has not been established in court. As a result many courts will dismiss a ticket if a laser gun is used. See this:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Beating-a-Lidar-Speeding-Ticket---How-Lidar-Laser-Accuracy-Has-Been-Legally-Questioned&id=3242955

There is more to the error rate than the gun. If you know your speedometer is broken then its on you but something like a tire diameter change can cause the reading to be off.

And your blind dismissal of anything based on the fact that it's posted on dKos makes you an irrational fool. Plain and simple.

Tell you what, genius. If you're afraid to visit dKos and fairly consider what's posted there, try these:

http://www.desmogblog.com/search/node/oregon%20petition

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine

http://ezinearticles.com/?Debunking-the-Oregon-Petition-Project&id=1675285

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P8mlF8KT6I

Every one of the links above details what's wrong with the "petition". Or, if you lack the courage to visit anything that forces you to think, try the petition itself:

http://www.petitionproject.org/frequently_asked_questions.php

...where you can see 1) many of those on the petition are not scientists and 2) the petition mentions nothing about Al Gore.

I know, I know. Facts have a liberal bias. Sucks to be you.

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Bollocks. The US could build rockets if it wanted to. The US used to spend 6% of GDP on the military during the cold war. Britain spend 50% of GDP on the military during the second world war.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are small drops in the ocean compared to such ventures.

Also, remove 100 billion $ from the trial lawyers.

And drill, baby, drill!

It could also have done as Harding did in 1920-21 recession. He cut the budget in half between 1920-22. And the national debt by 1/3. The result turned out to be the roaring 20-ies. The recession disappeared so quickly that nobody remembers it now.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Warren-G-Harding-and-the-1920-Depression---Learning-the-Right-Lesson&id=3121606

During the space race, 400 000 people in the US worked on the Apollo project.

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Controlling DC motors for electric vehicles is still a complex operation, even if it is simpler than AC motors (depends on the type of DC motor). They are also typically less efficient unless one goes for a brushless motor, which is expensive since it requires a large permanent magnet. The brushes also wear out over time. They also generate a lot more EMI and are not as efficient. They also generally aren't that great at regenerative braking compared to an AC motor. AC motors work quite well in this respect. Controlling the speed of an AC motor is much simpler since it is simply a matter of the AC frequency.

There are many reasons not to put the motors in the wheels. For one, there's not much space for gear reduction in the wheels. Low speed electric motors are typically much less efficient. Two, there's the extra mass in the wheels which causes a lot of handling issues. Think of going over bumps, where now you add all this extra mass to the wheel. This puts a lot more stress on the tire and all the extra inertia will have a negative impact. There's a reason for alloy wheels other than just looks. Third, keeping dirt and water out of the motors is more complex, particularly if they're air cooled. This is much less of a problem if the motor is located in the body of the vehicle. If water cooled then one must run coolant hoses to the wheels. It's just a lot cheaper and easier to use axles to provide power to the wheels with a single motor and differential. A differential works quite well without any complex control mechanisms to try and distribute the power evenly.

DC motors are typically used by DIY electric vehicle builders, but commercial builders typically opt for AC.

http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/electric-car-motors-ac-vs-dc.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor#Comparison_of_motor_types

http://ezinearticles.com/?Electric-Vehicle-Motor-For-Conversion---DC-Motor-Or-AC-Motor&id=2892806

http://www.zeva.com.au/tech.php?section=motors

eBay feedback

They'll nix feedback just like other sites nix reviews, if they determine that in their judgement, they think the item was bought for the sole purpose of entering negative feedback, for example.

And an expansive, ever increasing list of reasons.

sellers will no longer be able to leave negative/neutral feedback for buyers

And a comprehensive feedback removal policy.

Examples:

• they removed my feedback to him even though it was the truth
• eBay now removes feedback automatically from buyers

But at least they are honest enough and tell you (somewhat) what they will remove.

Most people casually browsing the site however (just as most people browsing retailers sites) have no idea that sites provide policies that allow negative ratings to be stricken from the record, and their effects on "stars" and rating score to be removed, at the whim of someone whose interests are in more sales.

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Really? I don't know where you live, but I haven't heard of many people who are born into families with money and then end up broke.

There are however many stories of people ending up broke after winning the lottery.

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Heirs aren't nearly as powerful these days as in the old aristocratic tradition. Some people aren't leaving as much money to their children (yes I know 2 people != a trend but that alone is $80 billion) and there's the effect that people who get their fortune without hard work tend to lose it very quickly.

ok. Correction. Your marketing strategy is sound, it's the pricing strategy that can be improved :)

Just FYI, pricing is one of the 4 Ps of Marketing. So you were correct the first time as there is far more to Marketing then just sales and advertising.

IMO many Marketing departments and their companies need to learn that too. Would make things easier all the way around.

You seriously think that growers fill their greenhouses with a higher concentration of CO2 to keep their plants warmer - and you think that's why CO2 is called a "greenhouse gas"? Well uh, that's not only wrong, it's just plain silly.

Yes, growers do pump greenhouse gases into greenhouses to warm them. And it's not silly or wrong, you are wrong and ignorant or trolling. Here are some controller and timers that control CO2 in greenhouses from the Horticulture Source. This page in the CO2 Generation section says:
"Carbon dioxide also known as CO2 or CO2 (sometimes people write CO2). Plants breathe in carbon dioxide while making food via photosynthesis. As such elevated levels of CO2 should only be present during light hours. Blue buring flames, our exhaled breath, and the digetion of sugar by yeast, etc. creates CO2. Where a commercial CO2 generator is used (burning propane), the area should be vented and fresh air be periodically blown in, e.g. generate CO2 with intake and exhaust fans off and maintain CO2 levels for 45 minutes, then stop generating CO2, vent CO2 outside and draw in fresh air, and repeat utilizing a controller. This ventilation will also help maintain temperature and humidity levels. At very high levels, 30,000 ppm and above, CO2 can cause asphyxiation as it replaces oxygen in our blood."
This article on "Hydroponic Vegetable Gardening Indoors" says "Hydroponic plants may be grown in a greenhouse. The correct mixture of carbon dioxide in the air is necessary in order for these plants to flourish." It then lists ways carbon dioxide can be added to the greenhouse.

You are obviously ignorant about the subject, or you're trolling.

Falcon

It's great most of the time, but sometimes you need an air conditioner. We can't all live in perfect climates.

I dunno, Queensland is pretty hot to me.

Why do you buy carrots from a local farmer when you could do the same in your own yard and not have to drive to his market?

But you do (accidentally?) raise an excellent point -- many people have a garden full of more or less useless plants -- some of them are ornamental, but someone somewhere is allergic to most of those. In this economy, gardening is becoming more popular, so indeed you are being silly.

Most people, not everyone because some like me love to garden, would only garden because they feel they need to due to a bad economy. The last tyme a lot of people in the US grew food crop gardens, they grew Victory Gardens during World War II, the first lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged people to plant them. That's what I like about the current first lady, Michelle Obama, she recently did the same.

Though I live alone last year I grew enough tomatoes and tomatillos to make sauces and salsas to can so I could have a jar of each every week for a few months. The greens were enough to have salad for lunch every day for a few weeks, as it is I gave most of them to my next doors neighbor. I also gave them a lot of rhubarb. And like the greens, a jar of squash a week could have lasted a few weeks. Other than carrots, Purple Dragons, onions, and peppers, I'm not sure what annuals I'll plant, I've still got about 3 weeks until last frost date here. Besides the rhubarb I also have blue berries and strawberries for perennials.

Falcon

Can you give a specific example of this? I couldn't find much information except for this article which claims that the old system (which is being phased out) is that the deduction limits are lowered at a rate of 3% of whatever your income over the AGI limit is. So gaining $2000 would lose you $60 in deductions. Even if that's $60 per specific deduction, you'd still need 33 of them to make up the difference. This year the phase-out was reduced to 1%, and next year it's gone. So if even if there was a (small) problem, it sounds like it's gone now.

I could be totally wrong, of course. Please feel free to enlighten me if I am.

Another example is the Lincoln Electric Company. They have a pay-per-parts model where employees are paid by amount of work they do, not seniority or title. They were made famous by a series of Harvard Cases (which are all unfortunately for-pay). They are very largely employee owned and the employees have chipped in to rescue the company more than once (also they were the highest paid in the world for a while)
One free write-up is here http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Case-Study-of-Lincoln-Electric&id=513953

I wonder would Chrome have prevented such a hack?

'Google Chrome is implementing support to run native x86 code from within the browser'

So convince me that in selecting the "perfect" health gene and high intelligence gene we are not also potentially removing other genetic traits that might appear to be useless at the moment but which may offer resistance to some future virus or similar threat?

You've got it backwards, if you want to make something illegal you need to convince me it is inherently dangerous.

Not to mention the social problems of trying to find a road sweeper or janitor when we are all giving birth to baby Einsteins.

Who says everyone wants to be an Einstein? I worked as a janitor and whie some I worked with wanted more than to just work as one, others liked the work. I was in college myself before, during, and after. But in case you haven't heard there's this thing called the Rumba vacuum as well as other cleaning aids.

Falcon

"In this paper, we introduce Gazelle, a secure web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS. Gazelle's Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals"

Is this similar to Googles Chrome and its ability to run native X86 code, and what's Microsofts' definition of 'multi-principal', and is a working copy of Gazelle out yet?

I'm reminded of a study over a decade ago which linked bras to breast cancer. It was published in a book with complete data on about 4700 women, roughly half with breast cancer and half without. What it found, in brief, is that women who wore bras rarely or for very short periods had about the same breast cancer rates as men (who also don't wear bras). Here's an article about it:

http://www.007b.com/bras_breast_cancer.php

It is not a strict, peer reviewed study. There's a criticism of it here:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-underwire-bras-cause-cancer

However, notice that there's no evidence presented against the idea, only vague dismissals of "unlikely" or "far-fetched". The book's original authors admit that it's not definitive, but meant to be a basis for further investigation.

http://www.selfstudycenter.org/doctor.htm

What strikes me as odd is that there's been no followup studies at all. Even if the idea of bras causing cancer is wrong, that study stumbled across something which may be the cause of over 99% of breast cancers, and I would be very interested to find out what it was. And I'm sure a lot of women who's lives have been devastated because of it would like to know that too (those who died from it probably would have also been interested).

But not only is preventing breast cancer not profitable, the prevention itself could cost a fortune, if it's that simple. Much like the fight to prevent the prevention of lung cancer has been fought to absurd lengths by the tobacco industry. Here's an article by one of the original authors of the bra/cancer study on the opposition to even presenting the idea and (scant, but growing) evidence to the public.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Bras-and-the-Breast-Cancer-Cover-Up&id=795041

This certainly supports the view that the money is all in the treatment after the fact, not in the prevention, so prevention will never get the same effort put into it as both promoting the disease (McDonalds) and treating it (cholesterol reducing drugs). Billions of dollars are deafening even when they whisper.

As a HAM, I have met a few who have nifty gear able to tune into cell phones and their 'pings' or tower replies (from post-911 US cellphones) and a few of them have told me that there seems to be more than just pinging or tickling the towers going on. More than is needed to keep up the TX/RX channels open or for simply switching towers based on cell tower capacity and range to the handset.
Others hinted that the removal of the battery does not fully prevent (post-911 US cellphones) from receiving radio frequency energy and replying uniquely (just like RFID tags do but cell phones have Much better antennas).
Links that touch some on this topic:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8068
http://jya.com/cell-track.htm
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/gen/37748res20081112.html
http://allgpstracking.net/gpstracking/index.php/gpstracking/2006/03/12/how_gps_works_gps_tracking
http://ezinearticles.com/?Cell-Phone-Location-Tracking-Information&id=782355
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21442821-Cell-phone-location-tracking-without-telcos-help
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081116-foia-docs-show-feds-can-lojack-mobiles-without-telco-help.html
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/digital_fortress/cell_phones.html
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3945496.ece
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but because RFID tags cost only a few cents each, why would similar capability NOT be incorporated into the chips of modern cell phones. Tear down an RFID tag, it is just a very very small semiconductor chip paired to a set of antennas between layers of opaque plastic tape an a sticker backing.
(NOTE: In college, we had fun by carefully removing discovered RFID tags and 'repatriating' them onto different and unrelated merchandise at our local Wal-Mart Supercenter... good times..... not to be confused with the old tried and true bi-metallic strips that loss control departments use which set off the door antenna loops that we all walk through. But sticking one of those to your buddy's jacket made for a good laugh...)

So antivirus software, even Microsoft Office itself, is not even close to ready for (l)users by your metric. Hell, fixing the registry should apparently be part of normal system maintenance.

Hell, an obscure text file is easier to walk someone through editing than the registry is, and a LOT lower chance of completely hosing the entire system while you're at it.

You seem to not realize that you're comfortable with Windows and the dumbness that goes into administrating it (do you even think twice about downloading and installing drivers on a brand new PC, and uninstalling shitware?). When it's different, you all of a sudden think that this makes the new software somehow "unsuitable" for the general user. That is patently false... the people who have the hardest time switching to Linux are those who consider themselves "power users" of Windows.

How about the waiting list for maternity wards? Last I checked it was over 9 months...

That's a great headline, but in reality, it was in one city during a population explosion due to booming economy.

I've had 2 kids in the last couple years in Vancouver, we had no issue whatsoever getting access to a delivery room nor pre or post care in either case. The overloaded maternity wards was a temporary and localized problem due to a rash of babies being born at once, that could have just as easily happened in the states, and it has.

Indeed...

"The UC Davis Medical Center declared an internal state of emergency Wednesday morning and began turning away all but the most seriously ill and injured patients from the trauma center and emergency room because the hospital is completely full.

Elective surgeries are being postponed to free up operating rooms for patients with life-threatening conditions.

UC Davis -- and other local hospitals -- have been operating close to capacity for much of the year. The rapidly growing population in the Sacramento region, a growing number of uninsured patients who crowd emergency rooms because they cannot get care anywhere else, and a critical shortage of nursing staff are causing the strain. "

http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2003/03/17/daily25.html

Sacramento? Where is that again? Oh... right.

These headline grabbing anecdotes however aren't representative of either system.

I've never seen anyone die in the street because he didn't get his surgery. Get real.

Probably, because "didn't get his surgery" can't be listed as a cause of death on a coroners report.

But this comes pretty close:

"A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being dumped in the street by a Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center van, police said."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/02/la_hospital_all.html

Or this:

In Baltimore, Maryland, on July 27, 1998, a 70-year-old man accompanied his daughter to the hospital with a sick child. When they arrived, the man told his daughter he didn't feel well and would wait outside the hospital. Passersby noticed something was wrong and called security. The security officer's log stated: "911 notified intoxicated male ... ER notified (refused)" An emergency medical technician with a private ambulance leaving the hospital initiated CPR while the officer contacted the emergency department for assistance. The emergency department again refused assistance. Another ambulance arrived and transported the man to the ER. About one-half hour after the man was first seen lying in the grass, he was pronounced dead of cardiac arrhythmia.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/dump-n07.shtml

or this:

"In Chicago, Illinois, a 19-year-old patient came to the ER of Provident Hospital of Cook County with symptoms of threatened miscarriage. The hospital sought HMO approval, which was denied. The young woman was not given an exam or treatment. Because of the delay, she began to deliver a nonviable fetus as she waited for a taxi to take her to another hospital."

again from:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/dump-n07.shtml

or:

"In 2006, criminal charges were filed against Kaiser Permanente after one of its hospitals was caught on tape dumping a 63 year old women on the street, wearing nothing but a hospital gown, and still very ill."

http://ezinearticles.com/?Crack-Down-on-Patient-Dumping&id=100321

Ebay holds a fully locked down monopoly, and they need to be regulated as such.

eBay is not a monopoly. There are plenty of online auctions, even Amazon has auctions.

Falcon

Is there anywhere else? Ebay used to be 'the garage sale to the world'.

There are plenty of online auction sites including Amazon. That's why it doesn't mean much if eBay wants people to use PayPal. If people don't like it they can go to another online auction service.

Oh, and as for "garage sales", I'm pretty sure there are people who do what my sister used to do. She'd go to garage or yard sales to see if she could find things to buy she thought she could sell for a profit on eBay.

Falcon

By moving down the path towards requiring only Paypal - and nobody can argue that's not where they're leading - they're just trying to take a bigger cut of each sale while eliminating competition at the same time. I guess eBay doesn't want me as a customer anymore.

Both buyers and sellers are free to try other auctioners, heck Amazon also as auctions just as there are other online auctions. If eBay tries to get everybody to use Paypal, then like you others may stop using eBay.

Falcon

http://ezinearticles.com/?Jimmy-Carter---The-UFO-President&id=890042

You know, the "beach-bum from Hawaii that made a pile of cash on the Internet?"

He tells us in his latest radio ad that we have "only two years before they change the Internet, and you won't be able to make money like I did any more."

We'd probably better get to his website and sign up, before it's too late!

I mean, would a beach-bum from Hawaii steer you wrong?

I had always given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt. That they weren't really all that bad, just unusually incompetent and maybe a bit greedy with a touch of power-hungry. Now I'm fully convinced that there is some kind of rotten fucking evil permeating that organization.

I went through this transition, now comes the powerlessness associated with knowing there is little you can do stop them, none of your friends will even understand this - of course, where you can you try to fight the man, the man will eventually bludgeon you into submission.

The sad reality is that the market will slowly be corralled into accepting Vista and all the requisite DRM baggage that it carries. The key here is that the frog is heated very slowly in the pot and the market will accept, like sheep, what is fed to them. Of course the ardent Microsoft supporters will say Vista ain't so bad, and sure their products are nice to work with, but they are also a nightmare of interoperability when you try and work with anything else.

I don't want to encourage purchase of their products because when you dig deeper into the behavior of Microsoft the 'evil' conclusion is consistently reinforced. A corporation has the same legal rights as an individual in society it begs the question "What sort of individual is Microsoft", I found this and made the comparison.

HOW TO SPOT A PSYCHOPATH - 5 WAYS TO AVOID HIRING PSYCHOPATHS COPYRIGHT 2008 MICHAEL MERCER, PH.D.

1. Pre-Employment Tests - especially certain test scores

From my research on pre-employment tests, there are specific test scores that may indicate a job applicant is a psychopath. Specifically, psychopaths may get low or high scores on certain measures/scales in pre-employment tests:

* low scores on two measures - (a) Truthfulness and (b) Following Rules

Check , Check

* high scores on two measures - (a) Aggressiveness and (b) Power Motivation

Check, Check

Lesson: Be cautious with job applicants who get such scores on pre-employment tests.

2. Job Interviews

If you suspect a job applicant may be a psychopath, then you can ask questions to elicit answers revealing if the applicant threatens or intimidates people. Reason: Psychopaths get a huge thrill from intimidating through (a) real or implied threats, (b) verbal hostility, and (c) manipulation.

threats, hostility, manipulation, manipulation, manipulation.

3. Reference Checks

Call the job applicant's ex-bosses at home, and ask for a "personal reference." Obtain specific examples of how the applicant "handled difficulties and friction with other employees." Listen for warning signs of threats, intimidation, anger, or ridicule.

intimidation, anger,

Could be worse. According to this the worst song to have stuck in your head is the Baby Back Ribs one.

All together now, I want my...

I don't see any purpose in continuously raking the telecoms through the courts simply because they did what their government asked them to do.

They knew what they were doing was illegal and unconstitutional and deserve to be raked over hot coals.

would hope something like that happens in the future when the stakes are high too.

Would you want el Duce, Hilter, or Stalin to have the same power? How about Pol Pot? Idi Amin?

They already have this for going down from above.

Fuck Ford. I'm buying Japanese next time.

Yeah! Get a Mazda

...given all of the other hardware-related problems that Xbox 360 has had with overheating, brittle solder joints, optical disk scratching, and general instability.

I didnt bookmark that one.. but here are a few:

DEEP GEOTHERMAL DRILLING ON THE REYKJANES RIDGE...

Or

From: http://ezinearticles.com/?Producing-Energy-From-Geothermal-Resources&id=243735

Or

http://www.crest.org/geothermal/geothermal_brief_geothermal_resources.html

Which shows the hot side very close to the magma layer, with the injection well being farther away...

So, it's either close (drill to) or on/in (drill INto) it depending on which article/method...

The article speaks of using that method to find suitable locations that are "deep down" (from article)... not as a method of creating power... which still requires drilling and a geothermal plant. A conventional Geothermal Plant *is* a deep drill plant... check out all the large scale ones around the world. The depths are different because the magma layers are at different depths... but they all drill to really close - or into that layer.

I think you just misread the article. The title sums it up nicely though... "Helium isotopes point to the best sources of geothermal energy"

...(blah blah blah... but can now find what is deep below using this new Helium Isotope method... etc... etc...)...

"This suggests that, as deformation increases, fluids circulate more deeply into the Earth, thus scavenging up more of the mantle helium," van Soest says. "Areas where we can sample fluids near the surface provide a way of getting a relatively cheap and easy indication of what's happening deep down. Applying what we know about the helium ratios makes the exploration for geothermal resources cheaper and faster."