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You laugh but think about how much thinner an iPad or Mac Book Air could be if the screen doubled as the battery.

Though on the other had it would be like a small bomb if you broke the screen then.

So... more of the same, then? http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+explode&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=pDs&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QIcwTrmJCMrx0gG7jrWGAw&ved=0CBgQsAQ&biw=1109&bih=604

The problem with Paypal is they're established and they have a 800# call center and they're in the US. I call this a "problem" because I don't like them but these problems make them the only half-way legitimate solution. There's tons of alternatives, Bitcoin, Google Checkout and something called AlertPay, but Bitcoin is not established and they have no customer support, AlertPay is in Canada (no US laws) and too new to know if they're legitimate, and Google Checkout has it's share of complaints and they don't even have a 800 number.

If Google can't seem to come up with a decent Paypal alternative there's no way in hell anyone else will. Paypal's been around 10+ years and they're linked to eBay, it would take a miracle for a reputable alternative to spring up and become dominate because the alternative would have to convince millions of businesses and customers who are accustomed to Paypal to switch. Also it's important to note that Paypal has never been hacked in 10+ years which is very important for a company that stories credit card and bank account info.

The problem with Paypal is they're established and they have a 800# call center and they're in the US. I call this a "problem" because I don't like them but these problems make them the only half-way legitimate solution. There's tons of alternatives, Bitcoin, Google Checkout and something called AlertPay, but Bitcoin is not established and they have no customer support, AlertPay is in Canada (no US laws) and too new to know if they're legitimate, and Google Checkout has it's share of complaints and they don't even have a 800 number.

If Google can't seem to come up with a decent Paypal alternative there's no way in hell anyone else will. Paypal's been around 10+ years and they're linked to eBay, it would take a miracle for a reputable alternative to spring up and become dominate because the alternative would have to convince millions of businesses and customers who are accustomed to Paypal to switch. Also it's important to note that Paypal has never been hacked in 10+ years which is very important for a company that stories credit card and bank account info.

Duplicity is handy if you're just wanting the same rsync experience, but with encryption.

If you need a nice Duplicity-like tool with a user friendly GUI, there's also Duplicati.

Too bad I don't have any mod points right now. Duplicati is awesome. You set it up, and it just runs on schedule. It doesn't overconsume resources, either.

Highly recommended for Windows if you only want to backup certain directories. (If you want to do a full system backup, you should just use Windows's backup tool).

Duplicity seems great too, and I'll definitely check it out if I ever run a Linux node outside of Amazon EC2.

Link to common name policy.
Link to pseudonym plans.

(Google hasn't required "real" legal names, I guess people assume that because Facebook does? They just have been trying to combat spam accounts and impostors.)

Link to common name policy.
Link to pseudonym plans.

(Google hasn't required "real" legal names, I guess people assume that because Facebook does? They just have been trying to combat spam accounts and impostors.)

Performance and ideological issues aside, one problem with Bazaar is marketing and support.

I've never heard of Bazaar before, and just now from this thread I finally realized what those bzr checkouts were for. I just never associated the two together.

Git is used for the Linux kernel, and heavily pushed by Linus. He wrote the damn thing, and he's the primary market spokesperson. When he talks about needing to merge 8600 commits, people pay attention to what SCM he's using even if he's not explicitly pushing it.

I had to Google for "Who Uses Bazaar?". While I recognize a lot of those projects, this is the first time I hear Bazaar mentioned.

Git has gotten popular enough that Google Code decided to add Git support despite already supporting Mercurial, which brings me to another point.

GitHub is the Facebook of online source control hosts. They have neat tools and a great social system built in.

I looked up source control hosts for Bazaar. There's Launchpad (no surprise there) and Sourceforge. I must have missed the memo, because I thought Sourceforge only supported Subversion. It feels like Bazaar has no marketing whatsoever (to be fair Sourceforge also supports Git).

That is why all performance items being equal, I don't see Bazaar overcoming Git anytime soon. Let me know when they get some publicity like Linus' Git presentation at Google Tech Talk.

The basic "cloning a commercial service is easy" tone of this article used to be ok up to a point - realtime push notifications. All clients need to know when items were dropped, not just what. For Android, up until version 2.2 this was a pain - you had to implement long poll http battery-draining lookup schemes. Not so nowadays - 2.2+ gives developers C2DM - cloud to device messaging - which should put the nail amongst the pigeons, to deliberately mix my metaphors. Now any app/server can basically push to any handset (that's running your listening software, natch), so it's hello to IM'ing every app etc, and a genuine worry for those previously in this exclusive space.

Disclaimer - I wrote the drop.io Android client before Facebook bought them out and I never heard from them again.

Duplicity is handy if you're just wanting the same rsync experience, but with encryption. If you need a nice Duplicity-like tool with a user friendly GUI, there's also Duplicati.

Although offtopic, because not DIY, the answer, for now, for me, is "Wuala". http://www.wuala.com/ High quality java software, all content fully encrypted, sophisticated neatly designed access rights management (cryptree). It's not open source, but otherwise really close to perfect. I am in no way associated with the company (originally "Caleido", now merged into "Lacie").

See the answer straight from the horse's mouth: https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU.

I think think it's weird to put my real name on the net. I come from the olde worlde, when the internet began, and nobody used their real name, everyone was happy to correspond with pseudonyms.

This "real name" thing is Facebook's fault, but I do have a FB account with a pseudonym. I don't like being forced to use my real name, as Google is indicating. I don't see the value in it for me.

People I don't know, I don't care if they're called Frank Johnson or Petal Fruitwisp. My friends, I know what name they use because they're my friends. I don't need to "find" them.

And I don't want people to "find" me. I don't want something I join or do or say on the internet being misinterpreted by an employer or whatever.

Pseudonyms are a mark of personality after all, which is what a social profile is all about. It should be a choice, not a requirement. Anonymity was what the internet was all about, until fucking Facebook came along and demanded accurate demographics for their precious advertisters.

That's what social services are all about, advertising, otherwise they wouldn't be developing them on such a scale. I resent having my choices curtailed to please corporates. That's what real life has been about, while the internet has been a haven away from all that.

But now, thanks to huge companies running increasingly integrated, coalescing services, we will end up with no choices anymore but what they choose to give us. Apple's iUbiquity is an example of that. They want to know everything about us, crying foul if we protest, while themselves remaining unanswerable.

Whether it's Rupert Murdoch, Sony, Apple or Google, powerful institutions should not demand we be transparent to them. That is far too much knowledge and power to give to people who are driven mainly by the profit motive.

Meh, call me when there's tortoisegit, and by then it will be too late.

You missed the call, it was a while ago. I considered TortoiseGit mature enough to use around V1.3, which was January of 2010. The upward spike in downloads shown on their page, which really took off around V1.2, shows quite a few people agree.

"figuratively speaking that's what the future holds for those kids, as their future has already been eaten by their great grandparents and grandparents and parents, who voted themselves a system, that promoted bread and circuses, income transfer from the young and unborn to the old and the dead."

True enough, sadly, especially when you consider social security and medicare, and if ou assume the money on schooling is mostly misspent like John Taylor Gatto or John Holt suggest. Still, with robotics and other automation, 3D printing, better design, voluntary social networks, and accumulation of infrastructure, and so on, the future may still be bright. Stuff like Social Security or the US debt may become meaningless when money has less value (like Iain Banks says, "Money is a sign of poverty.")

I like the Peter Schiff video you link to (even as I can quibble that he may ignore some issues like the USA having the only intact major economy after WWII allowing expansionism, or ignoring an explanatory reason the chinese made stuff for the USA as a way to gain access to US technology to bootstrap themselves and gain political advantage, as a sort of tax on Chinese workers).
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8rMwdQf6k

Here is a video on 21st economics economics I made that can help understand how our kids may still have a good future:
    "Five Interwoven Economies: Subsistence, Gift, Exchange, Planned, and Theft"
    http://www.pdfernhout.net/media/FiveInterwovenEconomies.pdf
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY

I put together a knol on the deeper issues, and why the kind of business cycles and bubbles Peter Schiff talked about are only some of the trends, where deeper trends of rising productivity in the face of limited demand are createing permanent structural unemployment (without other major changes) -- so his explanation is incomplete, like he ignores no net job growth in the 2000s and flat real wages for three decades in the USA despite productivity increase during those decades by a factor of two to three times.
    http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html

This essay could be considered supporting Alan Kay's suggestion that
"the computer revolution hasn't happened yet".
http://squeakland.org/school/HTML/essays/face_to_face.html

Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools
by Paul D. Fernhout
January, 2007

Educational technology has been a big success at homes, in libraries, in
museums, and in business.

Let's say you have an interest in, say, Aardvarks. At home and want to
know the weight of a typical aardvark right now? Google it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aardvark+weight
Want to buy one? :-) Try Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Safari-Aardvark/dp/B000H6H4VK
Want to sell one you no longer need? Try ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Aardvark-Direct-Pro-Q10-PCI-Audio-Interface-w-CubaseLE_W0QQitemZ270076288454QQihZ017QQcategoryZ64446QQcmdZViewItem
Want to collaborate with others on making one better? Try sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aardvark
Want a 3D simulation written by an aardvark?
http://flyawaysimulation.com/article746.html
Want to make your own educational simulation about aardvarks? Try one of
the tools linked here:
http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html
An endless variety of information related to just one arbitrary topic,
easily accessible using Google or another search engine.

At the library, want to find a good book on, say, Zebras? Use an online
library catalog system:
http://leopac.nypl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=basic&npp=10&ipp=20&ri=&index=GW&term=zebras

Want to make a museum kiosk showing protein folding in action in 3D? Write
a simulation with Python:
https://simtk.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=&topics=18+307

Does your business need to know more about "quality control" to prevent
customer complaints? Lots of online resources:
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=quality+control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_control

So, at home, library, museum, or business, technology is delivering the
goods (physical or digital) and making these places all a lot better.

With all that technological success in other areas, why are schools still
considered a problem area, see:
"To fix US schools, [bipartisan] panel says, start over"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1215/p01s01-ussc.html
Or in other words, why has technology failed in compulsory schools?
Clearly something is wrong here -- technology is helping make these other
places more productive and more flexible -- but in schools, there is not
much change, despite a huge expenditure in technology and training.

Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting
"learning on d

Providing Microsoft Bing on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices is pathetic? you're absolutely right.

By the way, would you like to install Google Chrome and make it your default browser when you install Google Earth?
http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

How about installing Google Chrome when you install Adobe Flash?
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Perhaps installing Google Chrome when you install Piriform CCleaner?
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

I don't think there's anything particularly 'pathetic' about it. They could have made it possible (without dev unlocking and mucking about) to change the default search engine when pressing the hardware search button within the IE environment, though, I agree. Then again, there's plenty of Android devices that are locked to Google / Bing / Yahoo and also can't be changed as the cell provider locked that down.

On the up side, all of the devices let you put a shortcut to Google right on the home screen, and Google even made a WP7 google search app that does pretty much the same thing but provides a nicer icon - just as Microsoft offer a Bing search app for Android.

You want a "sports" sedan? Take up kitesurfing. Cars are transportation, and the climate is frying,

Smug Alert!

Carbon dioxide is plant food. The world is a long way from frying...it's been hotter in the past, and it's highly questionable whether human activity has anything to do with temperature anyway...a much bigger factor is that big fusion reactor in the sky which has been running a bit cooler lately.

Except for the part where they closed accounts that didn't use a real name

They never did this. What they did do is suspend accounts of both real names, and pseudonyms, and then reinstated those (in both categories) that conformed to the guidelines.

the post you linked contains nothing that argues that real names are no longer required.

Correct, since they never were, it would be ridiculous to argue against a condition that never existed. As I said, I didn't link the naming policy, it's not hard to find. But for those of you completely lacking reading comprehension, or totally making stuff up, here is a quote from the post I linked, "common name policy" (third paragraph, first line). Nowhere in the entire post does it say "real name", "legal name", etc.

All it says is that they give you a warning before they close your account and a chance to enter your real name.

I'm sorry, but that is an outright lie.

And what the hell is a "common name" anyway?

To quote their policy, "the name that you commonly go by" (end of first paragraph), hence my referring to it as one's "common name".

Well Anonymous Coward, I apologize for not seeing your comment before answering a nearly identical one below yours, so let me just copy paste my response to theirs since it merits the same exact response:

I was going for just a general search of "TF2 wiki", my bad for implying the search was for the official one. Look up that one and see what I mean. Look, I'll even give you the url for that very search: http://www.google.com/search?q=tf2+wiki

As for the windows phone remarks, I say with confidence that I don't like either the iOS or Android interfaces, and the Metro interface is a very attractive design alternative to me. The UI is intuitive, and the keyboard works great with my enormous, manly hands. It does exactly what I want it to, with no extra crap and clutter. I waited until the full NoDo update to pick it up, so I didn't even have to "suffer" through the travesty of not having copy+paste. To me, a smartphone is a smartphone, they all do the same basic functions at this point. The only distinctions are the trappings, and my history with the two main schools of thought leave a bad taste in my mouth. Why should I care the masses want me to buy one phone over the other when I know exactly what I want?

In short, I love my phone, so deal with it.

Actually that was suboptimal. The optimal solution for keeping your coffee warm puts out only about 20 watts. Those Pentiums were dumping on the order of 200 watts into the air. You could brew coffee on that.

Now it's no longer necessary, of course. I have two quad-core boxes stacked by my side, here, and have to lean over to see the lights to know they're running. Fan noise is a thing of the past.

I was going for just a general search of "TF2 wiki", my bad for implying the search was for the official one. Look up that one and see what I mean. Look, I'll even give you the url for that very search: http://www.google.com/search?q=tf2+wiki

As for the windows phone remarks, I say with confidence that I don't like either the iOS or Android interfaces, and the Metro interface is a very attractive design alternative to me. The UI is intuitive, and the keyboard works great with my enormous, manly hands. It does exactly what I want it to, with no extra crap and clutter. I waited until the full NoDo update to pick it up, so I didn't even have to "suffer" through the travesty of not having copy+paste. To me, a smartphone is a smartphone, they all do the same basic functions at this point. The only distinctions are the trappings, and my history with the two main schools of thought leave a bad taste in my mouth. Why should I care the masses want me to buy one phone over the other when I know exactly what I want?

In short, I love my phone, so deal with it.

They never have required your real name (check out their naming policy rather than assuming you can't use your 'common' name), but given the backlash they've received from their over-zealous attempt at restricting fake and spam accounts, see how they are changing their response to naming policy violations.

You can type misspelled words into Google, and it will suggest what it thinks you mean. He might have done that:

Google search: http://www.google.com/search?&q=homofone

The top item is "Did you mean homophone"?

Actually G+ has never required "real names", I used to link their naming policy which requests "common" name, but it's gone beyond that now, as they have explained in this post on how they are changing their response to fake and spam accounts.

Google read your comment and liked it so much, they went back in time and did it just as you said!

How does +1 affect search results?

+1 helps people discover relevant content—a website, a Google search result, or an ad—from the people they already know and trust

[+1] will only increase the ranking of sites that people in your circles have +1'd.. so unless you plan on following a bunch of spam bots on Google+ I really don't see how this is an issue

But the +1 button was around before the Google+ field trial began. In addition to Google+ circles, +1 also uses Google Contacts, Google Talk chat contacts, Google Reader, and Google Buzz to determine social connections. But how can these be gamed?

[+1] will only increase the ranking of sites that people in your circles have +1'd.. so unless you plan on following a bunch of spam bots on Google+ I really don't see how this is an issue

But the +1 button was around before the Google+ field trial began. In addition to Google+ circles, +1 also uses Google Contacts, Google Talk chat contacts, Google Reader, and Google Buzz to determine social connections. But how can these be gamed?

This is why "crowdsourcing" consistently fails as a method of business ranking. It's too easy to spam. Google was burned by this late last year when they were counting reviews on Citysearch and Yelp. That backfired badly. Local search results were polluted with junk entries. Google got a lot of bad press over this. Since then, they've stopped counting "likes" on competing sites, but they still count their own.

Google's ad customers have been complaining local spam for years,, and Google hasn't been able to fix it. It's become worse since Google combined local results with web search results, and the value of local spam went up.

I'm talking about private debt, not the federal debt.

An introduction to how this works:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Money_multiplier

I think everybody has their own quasi-religious convictions about "how this works" - my personal spin is that private wealth outweighs government wealth by a large factor (on the order of 10:1), and whether intentionally, or by their whim, private money decides the fate of the economy the rest of us live in far more dramatically than the Fed or any other governmental controls.

I always felt that .com bubble #1 was a dramatic example of what happens when the rich get excited about something - the Dubai construction boom is probably another good example. Of course, at some point, the euphoria wears off and the conservative rich pull back in a power-play, giving those who pulled back first a leg-up in the next round.

I also feel that life is too short to worry much about how all that "really works" and what I might personally do about it, there's enough smoke, mirrors, indirection, and personal caprice built into the power structure that you might as well just identify how the gross contours of the current economic landscape affect your life and go with it. By the time you've completed a root cause analysis, you will have expended a lot of resources that could have better been used enjoying your life and/or improving the life of your children.

The only way you can get a full Google-wide ban is if you're caught breaking a Google-wide policy such as spamming or illegal activity. They've also changed their policy so they give you fair warning to change your username before they lock your account, and there's an appeals process in place to get your account back if you do get banned for using a fake username.

They also won't ban you just because your name doesn't match your birth certificate. They're only locking accounts for people who are using obviously fake names.

There's a long blog post from a Google VP that goes into a lot of detail on the issue here: https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU

You are missing his point though.

It's my point as well.

It's kinda like losing your license cause you did something
stupid with your car and now you can't make money cause
you needed a license to make money.

ie, there is no point using G+, which has no significant
value, RIGHT NOW, at the potential cost of losing what most
would call "everything"... if they used Google services for
"everything".

And regardless of WHAT explanation ANYONE gives from
Google. I haven't seen where any of the 'lost' accounts have
easily been gotten back, in what I would call a timely fashion.

Until the EXACT nature of bans and account losses is found
and a reverse is created... I'm probably not going to use my
G+ account at all. (coff, either of them)

-AI

The main developer of SporkHack has been busy and the second (the same that also admins NAO) doesn't code game changes only level compiler and UI improvement.

This one also said a while ago that "SporkHack is in hibernation" on RGRN.

So, SporkHack's developers are surely still around (if there's some security issue they'll react) but at the moment SporkHack is effectively not being developed.

You don't lose access to Gmail (or Docs, Calendar, Blogger, or any other Google service that doesn't require Google+) if you're banned from Google+. The only way you can get a full Google-wide ban is if you're caught breaking a Google-wide policy such as spamming or illegal activity. They've also changed their policy so they give you fair warning to change your username before they lock your account, and there's an appeals process in place to get your account back if you do get banned for using a fake username.

They also won't ban you just because your name doesn't match your birth certificate. They're only locking accounts for people who are using obviously fake names.

There's a long blog post from a Google VP that goes into a lot of detail on the issue here: https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU

Right, because no one in the history of the Wikipedia has ever made up a reference. As I pointed out in my response, I don't really care whether or not he was correct in his post, I was just pointing out that Wikipedia is a great place to get a little bit of information about a subject and a really great place to be easily mislead if someone really wants to.

see:
this this this this and this

Also, saying that "he cut and pastes the wikipedia article" doesn't refute my point, it only makes it stronger (and apparent that you are exactly the type of person that needs to be told). DON'T TRUST WIKIPEDIA, READ THE SOURCES. and even at that, only rely on sources that you can really trust... that's a much more difficult task.

Just saw this link: https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU

Mod parent up. Very informative reply by google.

Proper link

This was my immediate reaction to Google + as well.

My Google+ Prediction. It'll have a small impact on Facebook. It'll destroy twitter.

Here is why I think Google+ isn't a facebook replacement and never will be: you can follow people without their permission. So that means people will be scanning your profile waiting for you to "slip up" and accidentally post to the wrong circle. Inevitably like Weiner Gate someone will.

With Facebook there is one privacy setting for who can see your posts "Friends", "Friends of Friends", "Everyone" (or you can setup a custom privacy per-post. As a result I pretty much only see friends' posts on my news feed. On Google+ I'm already getting celebrity and industry semi-celebrity wall posts. Sure you can in the back of your mind know that your post is only going to your inner-circle. But it just feels so vulnerable sitting out in a sea of very public posts streaming onto your Google+ wall. You set that post you just made to "inner-circle"... right? Riiiiightt!?

At least with Facebook you know the score. If you don't want them to see it. Don't friend them. If you didn't friend them and your defaults are setup so that only friend see your posts... you're golden. With Google+ your brother's new Baby announcement is going to be mixed with Perez Hilton's daily gossip. Perception is everything. As soon as people start using Google+ like twitter (and they will, who doesn't want to follow Steve Martin?) the perception of privacy will be gone.

Google+ is Twitter+ and it's a welcome replacement to the rediculous and archaic monster that is Twitter but you're one Weineresque DM away from never using it for anything personal ever again.

Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?

https://plus.google.com/106339468652977106822/posts/NEPcKejKv2b

I'm talking about private debt, not the federal debt.

An introduction to how this works:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Money_multiplier

It's actually much more insidious than that. With fractional reserve banking, you can actually have substantially more money out on loans than you ever originally had in cash deposits. With the 10.3% reserve in the US, you can have nearly a million dollars generated in loans from $100k in deposits. That sounds insane (and I agree), but it's deeply rooted in how banks originated.

Here's a good introduction to how it works and the history of how it got to be this way:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544

From ways to deal with joblessness: http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery
"Increased schooling expectations (for example jobs that once done by people without even a high school diploma like child care now may require a graduate degree as a qualification) have led to an increased number of jobs in teaching as well as kept young people out of the labor market. Professor David Goodstein in his "The Big Crunch" essay suggests an exponential growth trend in academia also continued into the 1970s, but has ended now, leading to an oversupply of people with PhDs and other advanced degrees relative to the needs of academia. This has led to some of the inflation of academic requirements for various jobs given the oversupply of people with degrees, which in turn has led to even more schooling to get a degree, as a form of academic certification arms race."

The phone hacking of a dead girl is bad, but isn't a possible murder with highly suspicious timing even worse?

Take Google Plus: Don't Be Evil - Be Racist. Read it--If yer not a rich white guy, they don't want you on their service.

I tried Netflix before...I was able to fake the browser User Agent & OS, then Netflix video successfully streamed...perhaps it'll work for Blockbuster or whatever too. I can not remember the Firefox addon I used, perhaps this one...use it until it displays Windows or MAC OS...maybe it'll still fool into streaming. https://code.google.com/p/randomuseragent/ cheers!

No. There isn't one because Linux market share on desktop is so incredibly small that no one wants to put up with the cost of supporting those few users... (snip)...companies don't want to support it.

You mean like Hulu and Amazon video ?

A few years ago I worked at a power plant that had at one time the worlds tallest smokestack (now fifth) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Power_Plant.

It's about half the height of the proposed tower. The smokestack had a massively wicked updraft at the ground level without any additional heat gathering skirting. There were signs on the doors into the stack warning you to not put you hands near the edges of the doors. The suction made the heavy metal doors slam shut and would take your fingers off if you weren't careful.

Overhead view: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cresap,+3,+Marshall,+West+Virginia+26041&hl=en&ll=39.829961,-80.815859&spn=0.010596,0.016029&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.52365,65.654297&geocode=FVD2XwIdi9Uu-w&t=h&z=16

When the power plant was built the answer to air pollution concerns was to build giant smoke stacks so you sent the smoke so high into the atmosphere it would be someone else's problem.

I remember an old comic of God standing in front of a stove, cooking "the world" and takes a spice shaker labeled "morons" while thinking "Oh heck, just to make it all a bit more interesting".

Sadly I can't find it anymore.

The Far Side. It was actually a shaker labeled "Jerks."

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1095&bih=850&q=god+shaking+jerks&gbv=2&oq=god+shaking+jerks&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=983l5019l0l5171l17l16l0l6l0l1l290l2131l1.2.7l10#hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=far+side+god+shaking+jerks&oq=far+side+god+shaking+jerks&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=11646l14541l0l14853l17l16l2l0l0l10l400l3165l0.5.8.0.1l14&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=798fd89d4bc06f6f&biw=1095&bih=850

The various solar power projects need technical people.

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I think you need to look at how your state's charter laws are written then. Here in Minnesota we do have some issues with charter schools but generally they have done well given what they have to work with. The biggest is that they are used as dumping grounds by the other public schools for low achieving, or misbehaving students and pushed on parents as a place where they can get more personal attention. Typically charter schools have a higher percentage of special ed and special needs students. We do have some mismanagement issues and some fraud but it is getting better. The biggest issues that has raised concerns is that they can't own their buildings so they have to rent them. This is where the money laundering issues come up is that a non-profit group called "friends of " is formed and they go and get a mortgage for a building and then use the rent aid to pay the mortgage. Problems arise when this money ends up being funneled to an individual who owns an existing building like in the TiZA academy case or someone is skimming off the top at the "friends of " non profit.

I think you need to look at how your state's charter laws are written then. Here in Minnesota we do have some issues with charter schools but generally they have done well given what they have to work with. The biggest is that they are used as dumping grounds by the other public schools for low achieving, or misbehaving students and pushed on parents as a place where they can get more personal attention. Typically charter schools have a higher percentage of special ed and special needs students. We do have some mismanagement issues and some fraud but it is getting better. The biggest issues that has raised concerns is that they can't own their buildings so they have to rent them. This is where the money laundering issues come up is that a non-profit group called "friends of " is formed and they go and get a mortgage for a building and then use the rent aid to pay the mortgage. Problems arise when this money ends up being funneled to an individual who owns an existing building like in the TiZA academy case or someone is skimming off the top at the "friends of " non profit.

For the time being, it never hurts to make backups regularly, as with any other data on your systems. I believe in addition to that, GMail has it's own exporting. I agree with your statements though.

Public option; abortion; environment.
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Public option; abortion; environment.
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