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How thick are the tubes?

Half inch high strength steel plate with internal reinforcements.

hoist the coil into a waiting boat/truck

After removing the four-ton coil from the steel casing that it's firmly embedded in. From the bottom of the ocean, if it's offshore. Probably deep in a pile of debris if on land. They'd need a crane either way. Who is this turbine looting team, Ocean's Eleven?

Look, crooks lost control trying to loot a 30 foot turbine, and you're expecting them to loot 300+ foot turbines? (that's the only case I can find of attempted turbine copper theft). It's just not realistic. 80 tons (in tower alone) falling from hundreds of feet isn't exactly silent. That's the impact force of a bomb going off. There's going to be pieces of blades and tower flying everywhere. It's just a stupid notion. It's like saying people are going to loot skyscrapers by toppling them for the copper wiring. These things literally are the size of skyscrapers.

On the question of Muhammad marrying a young girl - it is worth pointing out that the notion of the 'child' is in many ways a relatively recent invention in many cultures - before the Victorians started to develop the idea they were in many ways considered just small adults. It wasn't a distinct stage in the same way it is now. They didn't have toys, were expected to work etc.

Don't you think it might be worth taking into account the fact that the situation with Aisha was 1500 years ago - if the girl had reached puberty (which may not have been uncommon at that age at that time, then in a different culture this might not have been seen as an act of pedophilia. If Muhammad was a pedophile then how come most of his wives were very much older than Aisha? How come he waited till she was 9 and had reached puberty.

I would say that if you want to do something 'for the children' then you might turn your attention to the U.S., which is one of the only countries in the world to execute them (in the current legal definition of the word children BTW.)

Have a look at http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/Us.htm & http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-67554306.html
Now that's what i consider to be SICK, and it is is happening in a christian country, IN THE PRESENT DAY!!!!!!

Important to point out that I'm not at all religious, - i find all religions almost equally ridiculous and poisonous. Its just I really don't like to hear complete ignorance fueling the (often racist) bonfires of outrage that build up around this kind of issue - just because the west is trying to create a bogey man to justify all the wars and the military spending, doesn't mean you have to buy into it!

Not if you want to think clearly and see stuff as it really is.

Does anyone deserve to be menaced by a gun?

Yes, there are plenty of reasons that would cause me to "menace" you with a gun...

Proof of claim of aerosols caused famine in Africa in the 80's? It's called google! Maybe if you have been using this internet thing for a while you should try it. But since you are too lazy I guess I will do it for you. How about:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2002/07/22/aerosol020722.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-54622826.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0721-07.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2002/2002-07-22-africandrought.htm
Basically all over the freaking place. I also saw it once on nova on pbs, here I think:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/

The government is superior in this regard to a charity

Citation needed.

Did you know that Mother Teresa tried to open a homeless shelter in New York City? She dropped the plan after NYC insisted an elevator be installed in the 2 buildings? A private group wanted to help people but then government came and stopped it.

Falcon

yes, god forbid the crippled be able to take advantage of the facility.

The government is superior in this regard to a charity

Citation needed.

Did you know that Mother Teresa tried to open a homeless shelter in New York City? She dropped the plan after NYC insisted an elevator be installed in the 2 buildings? A private group wanted to help people but then government came and stopped it.

Falcon

When there is more CO2, plants do better.

Some plants grow better with higher CO2 levels, like poison ivy. However other plants grow slower. There are winners and losers wherein some plants grow faster and others slower under high CO2 levels. The same is true under higher temperatures.

Oh, BTW, "The jolt of carbon dioxide also boosted the most-toxic forms of poison ivy's rash-raising oil".

So, please, stop trying to insult the intelligence of people on slashdot until AFTER you have educated yourself about how the world works.

I suggest you do the same.

Falcon

You mean like this study. Let me quote from it:

"Most studies have looked at the effects of carbon dioxide on plants in pots or on very simple ecosystems and concluded that plants are going to grow faster in the future," said Field, co-author of the Science study. "We got exactly the same results when we applied carbon dioxide alone, but when we factored in realistic treatments -- warming, changes in nitrogen deposition, changes in precipitation -- growth was actually suppressed."

In other words, higher levels of CO2 really did cause all plants to grow more, until they started screwing with other environmental variables based on what they THINK a future atmosphere (and temperature) will be like. In other words, they screwed with the gas and baked the plants in the oven until they stopped growing so they can say, "See, GW is bad!"

So when you say, I should do the same, I already did.

When there is more CO2, plants do better.

Some plants grow better with higher CO2 levels, like poison ivy. However other plants grow slower. There are winners and losers wherein some plants grow faster and others slower under high CO2 levels. The same is true under higher temperatures.

Oh, BTW, "The jolt of carbon dioxide also boosted the most-toxic forms of poison ivy's rash-raising oil".

So, please, stop trying to insult the intelligence of people on slashdot until AFTER you have educated yourself about how the world works.

I suggest you do the same.

Falcon

Judge refuses to keep jurors' names secret

I think if we want freedom of speech we have to deserve it. I had a security job closely working with the UK police, so I know what they are dealing with and why it is so easy to sell to them idea of police state.

If gang of teenagers can burn 5 cars in a year on our street and nothing can be done, then it is easy to understand why general public and police will welcome police state. If our lives concentrate on making money and pursuit of things that money can buy, why we are surprised when we notice that we have brought up a generation that is a good excuse for introducing a police state.

I was brought up living under a totalitarian regime, and crime was not a big problem. And to me it doesn't make difference if I am oppressed by the state or by local gang, some self appointed animal right activists or somebody else.

India in the past has limited corporate fraud. It has usually been much more open power grabs or cash grabs by the promoters of the company -- but they were never secret. They were more like Boone Pickens operations in the US in the 80's.
As a result (or just laziness) the reporting standards in India are lax even compared to pre-Enron USA. You can fit in a whole quarterly report in less than 10 pages ( here for example ).
This fraud by Satyam is the perfect storm - it involves largely foreign held company, it is dual listed on NASDAQ and involves undeniable fraud and falsification. I hope this provides an impetus for India to adopt something like Sarbanes-Oxley.
And about PWC messing this one up, they have been involved in all sort of corporate frauds on both the good and the bad side. Look up the fight for Gazprom in Russia between Britishers the Russian stockholders -- Britishers hated PWC in that case. (or for a case where russians think PWC is bad look up TNK http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-53194732.html). I don't think PWC is unable to do its job -- just that they are too big and that ones in a while they have a few bad apples.

You were: I worked for a company that produced one of the first commercial browsers for Windows, and which predated anything commercial for Macintosh AFAIK:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17043026.html
http://skypejournal.com/blog/2005/12/skype_status_report_part_3_by.html

It was built on a license for Spyglass' Mosaic, just as was Internet Explorer, but preceded even that to market; it may have even beat Netscape to market, I can't recall for sure. Note that Quarterdeck's browser also had "tabbed browsing". I don't think the Macs got a commercial browser until later.

Quarterdeck also had the Sidebar product, a paradigm which has often been copied in the decade and a half since.

Or how about hookers on deathrow giving you aids?

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8979344.html

I did a little research on Anysystem just now, and they seem like a pretty shady dealer. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-125495220.html Apparently the owner of Anysystem, John R. Butler, stiffed his vendors (like QSGI ), moved money into other assets and then went back into business right after his bankruptcy. I'm personally staying away from them!

Some background on Bob Bagadonuts and the KTMA Watermelon Drop for the curious. Good times. I watched MST on KTMA so many times I have ads for Davani's pizza and Brandyderry's burned into my brain.

Christians have learned all about timers:

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2719258620070428

They're also quite fond of guns:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E7DC1630F934A15757C0A962958260

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16035695.html

Every ethnic group, including white people, were given these awful loans. There's no actual evidence to support your argument that the sweet, innocent lily white banking community was *forced* to give a disproportionately high number of horrible loans to awful dark people, who unlike their snow white brethren, were unable to pay them back, as a function of them being not white.

So called "equal opportunity" legislation is usually passed because of inequality in banking lending practices, regardless of actual financial data regarding those people. Logically, if a wide spectrum of people defaulted on loans, you can't blame only a segment of them because you desperately want to.

If you want to push your "teh democrat is teh reverse racist" agenda, go hang out on /b/, I'm sure they'll be a bit more accepting of it.

No more feeding the troll.

I couple of years back, I did a lot of reading on Mad Cow. There were so many examples of it jumping the species barrier...and some of them many, many years old.

Here is an example from 18 years ago:

-=-=-=

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-111779850.html

  WASHINGTON -- Eighteen years before last week's first confirmed case of mad cow disease in the United States, investigators concluded that an epidemic of a brain-wasting disease on a Wisconsin mink farm was probably caused by a malady similar to mad cow disease.

The Wisconsin farmer had fed his mink a steady supply of "downer" cows -- too sick or injured to move on their own -- like the one that tested positive for mad cow disease in Washington state last week. On Tuesday, the Department of Agriculture banned such animals for human consumption.

Long before the USDA action, the mink industry began discouraging farmers ..

-=-=-=

It is basically that anyone who did a little study would know that it could jump the species barrier...but it just can't do that until some people in white coats tell us it can do that...then it can.

transporter_ii

That would be the Parisians. But the French fishermen would blockade the harbours, the French truckers would blockade the ferry ports and oil refineries, while the French farmers will blockade strategic locations such as the trains, the tunnels, and Disneyland.

People who live in land $X are the only true witnesses of what is happening there.

This I must call bullshit on. Do you truly think that the citizens of North Korea are any more informed about what their government is up to than the people outside of the country? Kim Jong-il claims to have invented the hamburger of all things, and who are the North Koreans to suspect otherwise, seeing as how all forms of media are censored and controlled by the government.

Actually C-Span went off too. They don't have control of the cameras.

But I've got to love it--we've got a hacker in the bunch:

The Politico reports, "Also, Republicans can thank Shadegg for turning on the microphones the first time. Apparently, the fiesty Arizona conservative started typing random codes into the chamber's public address system and accidentally typed the correct code, allowing Republicans brief access to the microphone before it was turned off again."

And PULEESE let's not pretend that Dems haven't done these stunts too. They've all run out to the steps to protest medicare changes, travelgate report and other times when they were in the minority and things weren't going their way.

Our Congress is tame when you compare it to other countries. Just try watching the PM speak before the UK parliment or legislation in places like Taiwan, India, S. Korea, etc. where they break out in fist fights.

The full story is somewhat worse that that flagrant error. As the article notes, this yellow cake has nothing to do with the bogus claim of yellow cake imported from Niger, which did not exist. This is the yellow cake that was genuinely *known*, which makes what happened to it so odd.

The true weirdness is the way that even though the reason to invade Iraq was ostensibly in search of "weapons of mass destruction" such as illicit nuclear materials that could be fashioned into a bomb, even though Tuwaitha was well-known to be a nuclear site since the 1980s and that this yellow cake was stored there, even though the military had to roll past it on the way to Baghdad, was it secured as one of the first priorities of the military during the invasion?

No. Instead, local people looted the site and they were rolling out the drums and emptying the yellow cake out on the ground in order to use the drums for water and food storage. Thank goodness no genuine terrorists were looking for the stuff, or they could have gotten truckloads of it for free.

This is what you call a failure of leadership, a failure to adhere to stated priorities, or a sign that the stated priorities had little to do with the actual priorities.

What was secured promptly and securely as a top priority? The oil fields in southern Iraq.

Detection of dioxins by laser:

Real-Time Monitoring of Dioxins and Other Ambient Air Trace Organics

Dioxins in ambient air, bonfire night 1994

Rechem in Scotland was extremely popular with their incinerator, which they were reputed to run at a lower temperature at night, which didn't completely destroy the dioxins. By using a laser/gas chromatography, the environmentalists were able to prove that the furnace was being underpowered.

Those deserts are much better off being used for solar power generation (which does use water, but in a closed loop).

Algae can use water in a closed loop for algae as well. And those deserts? Imperial Valley, CA is a desert. Yet because water from the Colorado River is diverted there it has created America's Winter Salad Bowl. During winter 90% of the US's produce come from there.

As for whether desert should be used for algae or solar, I see no reason why it can't be used for both.

SSDs are really old hat... the earliest ones that I remember were made by DEC for the PDP-11 and VAX. They had at least one that sat on the Unibus. I believe it was 2MB in capacity and intented mostly as a swap device. That would be the late 1970's.

They also made some for VAXes, such as the ESE20 and ESE50 (120MB):
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-7294324.html

late 1980's...

New nuke design: If you have the resources to make it, getting a design for free is just a little bonus, so who cares.

There is no "little" clause in the "aiding and abetting the enemy" law...

Plans to invade Iran/Korea: The US has plans when it invades places?

Of course it does! As well as Canada and Italy, etc. Militaries world-wide develop this plans and keep them up-to-date so that, should the government decide to do it, they can execute quickly. They also must be able to report to the government, how long such an invasion would take, what the casualties would be, and what it would cost. Leaking such plans is treasonous in any country...

seriously tho if the US invades Iran or North Korea, that would be bad and wrong, I hope any plans are exposed, the US shouldn't do it.

Well, and I think, we should — if we can. But see, we can debate this as civilians, and vote accordingly. Should our civilian government decide to do it — in accordance with the Constitutional and/or voter-approved procedures — a peacenik revealing the plans to the enemy jeopardizes thousands...

Defense of Taiwan plans: lets be brualy honest, the plan is: fuck 'em, let the chinks take it.

The Chinese military would love to know this for sure, but they don't. A high-level revelation would help them suppress Taiwan's liberty.

What would you prefer:

• Scallywag gives Tiawan defence plans to wikileaks, controversy ensues, generals get kicked in the balls for poor security, plans are rewritten, security tightened. US happy.

OR

• Traitor gives Tiawan defence plan to Chinese, US doesn't know, wallows in self satisfaction, US gets pwned.

I would prefer WikiLeaks to forward such information — along with the information about the leak — to the FBI and/or CIA. Then disclose the fact, that it has it without disclosing details. Newspapers and other media have dealt with such questions for decades and centuries...

Personal secrets, now theres a lamo one. Do you think this stuff wouldn't be published by newspapers? If the government is going to stick thier noses into our lives they should expect the same. Don't want it to get out out you banged your secretary? shouldn't have banged her then. Personally, I like to hear about it when politicians fuck underage kids, or if they have a secret diary full of racist comments. I think its generally a good thing to know if the people who make our laws are liars, or racists or paedophiles.

So, you don't think, a CEO has a right to privacy? What about those of small businesses — like myself and millions of Americans? Of course, you'll agree, that we deserve it — you wouldn't be saying, it is only for file-sharing, would you? So, somewhere between a small business and a large corporation, the person at the helm loses the right to privacy — in your opinion, that is... I'd like to know, where exactly do you draw the line... At a certain number of employers? At a certain level of annual revenue?..

Also, may I add, one final note, warning someone the pigs are after them is not obstructing justice.

Of course it is. You just happen to think, drugs should not be illegal and that the police should not, therefore, prosecute the dealers. What if I asked about an anti-mafia raid? Grow the fook up, in other words...

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

However, I really wish you had actually read what I said before ranting. So, I will take the time to respond to you:

1.

Yah, for SOME "professionals", and are you saying that those same professionals couldn't do their job with earlier version than CS3 when there wasn't such options in photoshop?

a. What I am saying is that people who work in publishing NEED CMYK to do their jobs. Some couldn't do their jobs without it.
b. According to this article, adjustment layers have been around since 1998, and I know cmyk and layer grouping have been around for a while too. So, professionals could do their jobs with versions prior to CS3. However, I'm sure some of them couldn't do their jobs with 1.0, as certain things change as the industry standard changes. So, I'm sure that certain people can't do their jobs once you get older than a certain version.

C'm, grow up and start huggin that photoshop as it would make it's users talent image editors.

I'm professional and i get lots of feedback how talent i'm and i dont use Photoshop. I use Gimp and Krita.

However, gimp is good enough for many amateur and some professional uses.

Now, back to you:

ps. When did you last time use Gimp for real and not just "yah, GIMP dosn't look like a photoshop, it's not a flexible enough for professinals like me"?

While I like the gimp for what I do, my father who does photo retouching prefers photoshop.

Sorry for the delay in posting, I just got home. Please try to read what I say next time though before getting righteously indignant at something I didn't say or imply. Best of luck in your profession which doesn't need photoshop.

We have reason to believe that at least one defendant used your service to post allegdly tortious content regarding out clients on AutoAdmit.com and/or to email that content to third parties. That defendant posted or sent that information on March 7, 2007 at 5:23 p.m. EST after using your service to access an article titled "Ex-World Bank Official Disappears From Trial," which is found at http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-915261.html.

We hope that, given the egregious conduct that is alleged in this case, HighBeam will disclose certain information that may allow us to determine the identities of the named defendants in this lawsuit. To that end, we request that HighBeam provide us with information that identifies the person(s) using your service to locate the above-identified article, including but not limited to first and last names, present or last known mailing addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and all logs containing the source Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses of all access to the location or file "1P2-915261.html", "915261" or other variants thereof between 12:00 a.m. EST on March 1, 2007 and 5:23 p.m. on March 7, 2007.

We spent a fair bit of time determining whether it was technically possible to comply with this request. We have determined that our system simply does not allow us to obtain the information you are seeking about the identity of a person accessing a particular story at a certain time.

I cannot begin to explain to you the complex technical reasons for this. However, if you have a technology consultant working with you, I will be happy to put that person in touch with our CTO for a complete explanation.

As the child of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens who bothered to obey the laws, learn English, and not expect a handout, I find it wholly offensive that anyone should propose that we do not deal with stopping people from sneaking across the borders and illegally taking up residence here.

Being part Native American Indian I find it offensive that those, or their descendants, who invaded the Americas and massacred those already here now seek to stop others from also immigrating.

First things first, however... it has to stop with sealing the borders... stop the influx before dealing with who's here.

The first question that needs to be asked is why people would risk their lives to "illegally" immigrate. For many, if they can earn a living where they are from they will stay there. And yes, the US is partially to blame. Because of the billions of dollars large agribusinesses like ADM and Cargill get in subsidies, corporate welfare, and NAFTA these businesses can export corn to Mexico and sell it there for cheaper than Mexican farmers can grow corn.

And Cargill is the poster child of corporate welfare.

that's interesting and all, but locally, i remember paying $1 for 12 ears of sweet corn to cook. last year, it was about $1/ear - that's 100% increase in about 3 years. what's going on with my local farms? are they not subsidized?

No, small farmers don't get much in subsidies. Big agribusinesses like Archer Damiel Midland, ADM, and Cargill get the subsidies. The Libertarian Freemarket CATO institute has a policy analysis on "Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare". And: "Largest farms and firms get subsidies; Cargill among beneficiaries, list shows."

titanium dioxide can be used as a photocatalyst for hydrolysis, as mentioned on wikipedia:

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

it can even work efficiently if doped w/ carbon:

    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110587279.html

kieran

See Doomsday Fears at RHIC in particular the reference Review of Speculative "Disaster Scenarios" at RHIC

Cryogenic Incarceration anyone?

Sounds like a version of Cryonics that might actually work. Anyone remember seeing news items on those vaults full of corpses frozen in liquid nitrogen since the 60's?

I think you mean suppressed :) although I still disagree and I think you've picked a bad example.

- Although $10K was a lot of money in 1970 dollars, based on what I've read $10K was a wild under-guesstimate
- Only one prototype was ever built, so most claims seem to be based on regurgitated marketing specs rather than hands-on experience
- In the late 90's Mr. Ramirez was eventually convicted of 12 counts of fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison after he swindled his electric car investors out of millions

http://www.crest.org/discussion/ev/199811/msg01517 .html
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1 :62578997
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/1999 /01/04/daily12.html

He doesn't exactly sounds like the kind of chap who deserves to be lauded by electric car fanboys.

Researchers at Purdue developed a way to use sound to dry stuff like molasass and lemon juice.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID= 1G1:15511368&ctrlInfo=Round20%3AMode20c%3ADocG%3AR esult&ao=

If I recall, they used something like 180dB.

Become a ... doctor, whatever

Umm, no.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4946229/
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2- 13-1443_1824893,00.html
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/04/very_rem ote_rob.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:143341452/Long-dis tance+doctor~R~(usage+of+robotics).html?refid=SEO
etc.

"Mr. Wallace [the NTP lawyer] maintained that Mr. Goodfellow was retained because he had been mentioned in news articles from the early 1990's "regarding a product called RadioMail" -- his effort to commercialize the wireless e-mail idea -- but that Mr. Goodfellow "could not locate any documentation beyond these articles regarding the product.""

Wow, it's a good thing google wasn't around at the time to help.

Sheesh, I knew that RIM was getting some of their own medicine, so I was only partially sympathetic (both companies deserve a good legal slapping for pursuing such ridiculously obvious patents), but I had no idea NTP was THAT scummy. They knew about prior art. They hired the guy that was practically the embodiment of that prior art -- a guy that didn't merely have something on paper, but actually once ran a business on the principles NTP claimed to be a novel invention at the time of its patents. And they paid him to sign a contract to shut up.

Can this Mr. Wallace be disbarred for such unethical behaviour?

It seems like it would be even harder to obtain than pure plutonium, and it's not clear from public information whether a neptunium-based gun bomb would work.

Saying that this "helps the bad guys" (not that you did) misses the point. We know there are bad guys out there. This becomes an awareness campaign.

There are several documented cases of stuff like this happening. Both ATI and nVidia (the graphics card companies) added code to their drivers to cheat -- take "shortcuts" when certain benchmark programs were running -- so the reported frame-rate looked great, while the resulting graphics quality silently fell. Detroit Diesel and six other companies were fined millions of dollars for tuning their engine management code to recognize the operating conditions that were specified in the emissions test -- some combination of RPM, time and load -- and adjusted the timing for minimal emissions and fuel consumption under only those conditions. The rest of the time they optimized for maximum power. It was discovered only when they failed to certify their engines in Europe, where the test conditions were different.

Closer to open source, just a year or two ago an unknown person checked in a subtle change to the kernel source that would have granted root access in the case of a certain error condition. It was caught during a review.

These are real-world hacks. Denial doesn't solve the problem. Only awareness can help smoke them out.

Vista should have been either released much sooner or it should have been a revolutionary change as far as operating systems go.

They wanted both, but got neither. Vista is turning in to MicroSoft's Copeland ( meant to be out in about 1994, but finally abandoned in 1996.)

So who's OS will MS end up buying?

I'm afraid i can't point you to the specific patents that gemstar owns but i just quickly googled "gemstar tvguide patents" and got a lot of references to suits filed by gemstar. Here is a small selection of news stories, most of which seem to be from around 2002 (i would investigate further, but this tends to wind me up ;)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2002-01-31-gem star.htm
http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2003 /06/09/daily7.html
http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0002006.html
http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_110.html

And an example of them losing:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:87727511/GEMSTAR-T V+GUIDE+LOSES+PATENT+RULING+OVER+INTERACTIVE+TV+PR OGRAM+GUIDES.html

You need to get your backspace key fixed. Filibusters are not limited to the liberal party. Remember how the republicans went as far as blocking the nomination of surgeon general in the clinton administration. You know - the same thing that republicans were saying that only the evil doer democrats do. http://static.highbeam.com/a/atlantainquirer/july0 11995/republicanfilibusterkillssurgeongeneralnomin ation/

Or the kudzu in the southern United States.

http://overstated.net/photos/kudzu/kudzu-car.jpg
http://images.google.com/images?q=kudzu

That sort of thing can happen in under a year. This stuff grows fast and it was imported from Asia because of that for use in erosion control. It turned out to absolutely love the climate down here and it exploded out of control.

It actually is not that bad of a plant. It isn't poisonous and doesn't cause allergic reactions nor does it have thorns. You can make tea out of the leaves, and jelly from the flowers and vines. Also the vines are useful when dried for basket making and for animal fodder.

The best method to control kudzu is herds of sheep or goats. In fact there are a few groups of people down here who rent sheep to people to clean the stuff away.
http://static.highbeam.com/n/nationalgeographic/ju ne012002/weedwhackingsheeptestattackskudzuinfestat ioninflor/

They would only buy such rights from us if they were concerned about violating the treaty, which they have not signed.

Tearing tufts of hair from skull Ow!! Why do so many americans seem to believe that the haven't signed?

China and India have both not just signed but also ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and 2.5 years ago already!

However, they are both "Annex II" (developing) countries and as such they do not need to curb pollution.

However II, Annex II countries will be upgraded to Annex I status (Industrialized) when certain criteria are fullfilled, and will then have to cut emissions.

And why isn't the US participating? Please tell me since I'm getting very mixed messages here (Sweden):

1. Might hurt the economy a little.
2. $FALSE_STATEMENT_CHINA, so we don't have to do squat
3. There is no $DANGER, there is only your mind
4. Europeans are all gay
5. The Kyoto Protocol does too little, too late. Therefore, we should do less, and even later.

There's been plenty going on in the field of fusion. The first experiments which investigated sonoluminescence were thought to include fusion. These were disproven. Since then, however, sonic experiments have been conducted with heavy acetone and evidence of fusion has been certain.

And yes... people are always trying to disprove it.

Actually, placenta-eating is not unknown in parts of Asia.

Summary of article about the health risks of eating raw human placenta.

Her style reminds me a lot of Charles Kuralt.

That's a good point. Charles Kuralt was a liar too.

Just goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. It has happened before. Rather annoying and shameful for Apple that is should happen again in one of the most popular powerbooks.

named after Giovanni Domenico Cassini

False. Everyone involved in the pursuit of emergency medical-care vehicles knows that NASA illegally named it after fashion designer Oleg Cassini to infringe on his intellectual property. The rings of Saturn clearly owe him royalties.

Shame to hear that the Chernobyl story is probably fake, even more so that Elena has a husband!

Website was featured in The Mail on Sunday - so much for background research.