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Is it? Why is lake Shasta at 42% capacity then ( looks like this)?

This article says "swerve". Place your bike at somewhat of an angle to the lane to present a larger profile to the camera. Does that help?

PETA will demand a monument to the billions of microbes that died when the pools dried up. It's kind of their thing lately.

A store that distributes stolen goods would be a better one.

No, such a store would be charged with crimes related to theft:

http://www.redding.com/news/2011/jan/21/redding-motorcycle-owner-arrested-chop-shop-charge/

Garyâ(TM)s Motorcycle Services Center owner Gary William Kenerson, 61, was arrested Thursday on drug- and theft-related charges.

On the other hand, Megaupload was charged with:

1. Conspiracy to commit racketeering
2. Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement
3. Conspiracy to commit money laundering
4. Criminal copyright infringement
5. Criminal copyright infringement by electronic means

As anyone who bothered to read the actual indictment would have known:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

I think I remember that; but I don't remember it being a coal mine

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It was coal, "".

Well, roofing is one of the more dangerous jobs in the USA, if you go installing solar panels on all the roofs in the USA you're bound to get some accidents.

Solar panels don't need to be cited on all roofs, though I'd more roofs with them. SciAm's "A Solar Grand Plan" details how PVs can be cited in the deserts of the Southwest. There'd be few if any roofs to climb.

As for the semiconductors, the main use for a nuclear plant would be control computers - and a single roof's worth of solar panels would be far more silicon than is needed in a nuclear plant.

However neither solar nor wind genies need much concrete and steel whereas nuclear power plants require vast amounts of both. And they are high in embedded energy.

GenIII plant will be something like 1.2GW vs You need a lot of steel/concrete for 300 some odd 198 meter tall towers and 126 meter wide blades.

First off, maybe you typed the first link above wrong, I get "requested URL not found". As for the DailyKos link, I'd like to see where those numbers come from. Footings for wind turbines might take up more space than a nuclear power plant but they can be spread around. With big enough backyard, you can put one in your backyard, which I'd like to do, along with PVs on my roof.

Oh, there's one more thing I keep on forgetting. I read an article I think in SciAm that nuclear power plants need more water than any other type of power plant. Throughout the world aquifers are being depleted faster than they can be recharged. Where is the water need to run nuclear power plants going to come from? However it is, nuclear power would not be profitable and Wall Street would not pay for it if government did not subsidize it.

Falcon

On the Internet no-one knows you're a dog

and it could easily top $3B. Don't sell yourselves short - remember, it's not your money you're spending! After all, he mangaged to make the $3M Sundial footbridge into a $23.5M masterpiece!

(Who is Santiago Calatrava?)

The poll shows Bush losing to both Kerry and Edwards in hypothetical matchups. Kerry would beat Bush 53-41 percent among registered California voters, while Edwards would defeat the president by a margin of 51 percent to 42 percent.

Voter disapproval was highest on Bush's handling of the budget deficit -- 67 percent said they disapproved of the job he is doing, while just 27 percent approve. A majority also disapproved of his handling of other key areas, including illegal immigration, health care, the economy and the war in Iraq.

Remember that Ah-nold is a quite different political beast than Bush, for one thing, Ah-nold is not an extreem right wing kind of guy. Beside, the guvenator came to power because the guvenor didn't manage to handle the budget, and who trusts Bush to manage any budget?

But if you want to insist on guns for a riot, are you trying to say Democratic supporters don't own guns? What about the criminal element, they own guns right? Even illegal weapons. Criminals likely don't vote, but they sure as hell favor liberals over tough-on-crime conservatives.

This is just stupid. So criminals support democrats so that they don't end up in jail? If there is a correlation between criminals and democrates, isn't it more likely that people from poor and neglected areas vote for someone who actually wants to improve their lifes instead of someone who cutes taxes for the rich and cut programs that have negative effect on the inner cities.

Yes, you and me should be free to speak as we wish.

Nike shouldn't.

Great, now you've made it harder for "Joe Blow" to send spam. That's dandy, but over 70% of the spam in the world is accounted for by 20 or so people. Those 20 people also happen to be located offshore, and if they're not they'll be moving there shortly. I read an interesting story a couple of weeks ago that discussed the governments inability to stop spam from offshore. I don't know exactly what the answer is to spam but I know it's not legislation.

On a side note, as an end-user, I've experienced success with a service called Shadango.com. I started using it after my hotmail address became practically useless due to the amount of spam I was receiving. It has kept my inbox junk-free, and it allows me to check both my hotmail address and students address all from the same interface.It's definitely worth checking out.

Like I said this will only momentarily stop the hemorrhaging!

Brian Jensen

Feh! Home Despot employs mostly part-time henchmen and won't accept government contracts (and don't let anyone tell you otherwise). Plus, their web site is little more than a home page with links to blank pages, and worst of all, they don't have a favicon.ico! How can you take a site seriously without a favicon?

But seriously, folks... I did *not* expect villainsupply.com to be a real link! Too cool... in an evil sort of way, that is. Wonder if Amazon.com knows about their "Evil Amazon.com" link?

Some pitchers are really mad about it. Curt Schilling was fined earlier in the season for destroying a QuesTec camera in Bank One Ballpark, his home park in Arizona.

This, of course, is the same Curt Schilling who gave up two homers to a fellow player he abandoned in "Everquest," allowing said player's character to die.

Cable prices went up and I (along with many others) don't have any choice in selecting a cable provider.

Companies like Clear Channel now own 1,200+ radio stations rather than the previous limit of 40.

Clear Channel stopped playing Dixie Chicks for making a political statement that management did not agree with.

Stop being a liberal or a conservative: be rational and exercise common sense.

Not quite sure where you got that idea. See Here for info. Note "patent" in title. Copyright wouldn't be a problem unless the code went in completely unchanged (which NEVER happens with the linux kernel), and would be easy to fix - gut it and re-implement it "cleanroom." Since it's a patent though, it doesn't matter how it's implemented, it's a violation if it has the same functionality.

SCO's patents on UNIX have long expired

The original ones, yes. But there are numerous follow-up patents dealing with multi-processor design which weren't part of the original Unix. It is these patents that are under discussion, and they are under the time limit. This is stuff, some developed in cooperation with IBM, that was worked on in the last maybe 5 years. Definitely not old and expired.

For what it's worth, if it were a matter of copyright, we'd be more screwed timeline-wise, as they last a VERY long time. What is it up to, 80 years or something? And even if it were copyrights, those DO NOT have to be defended either. The only thing that does is trademark, which, as you point out, has no relevance here.

To reiterate: you CANNOT lose patents OR copyrights by not defending their use.

http://www.redding.com/news/state/past/20030201sta te059.shtml

Here's a case of felony conviction for a man found growing
over 100 pot plants as allowed under California's Medicinal Marijuana
statutes.

The only right that appears to have been infringed here is that of the defendant
to evidence favoring the defense, and that of the state to its own standard of
citizens rights lawfully voted into place.

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And not to take a poke at the parent post, but I'm surprised that "efelony" has not
gotten picked up as a buzzword for the new media so far.

We in the US take water for granted. It's basically free -- cheaper than all other utilities, our water bill is about $15 a month, tops.

And America is just the tip of the aquifer.