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Roast is over rated... Production method is where it's at.

As long as it comes out of a cat's back end, it's good.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSS YD8159120070516

My bad, the iPhone hasn't been delayed. I'm sure that by now if they were to delay, it would have to be something very serious. AppleTv was.

Since the original link seems to have been /.'ed, here is the Reuters story on it.

Hmmm. I read TFA, and looked up the Reuters original from which the quotes from the mouthpiece were drawn, and all he says is: "By [the time we reach our sales goals of 1 million hybrid units annually], we expect margins to be equal to gasoline cars" and "There really hasn't been that much of a difference in margins [after the government stopped giving incentives for hybrid purchases]. In a sense, you could say things are finally normalizing now. The Prius will soon enter its fifth year, and all this time we had no incentives on it." The 100% hybrid by 2020 statement appears nowhere in the article. That crap in TFA is just speculation.

Original Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTKX002763 20070510

Not to mention the fact that Toyota is already producing biofuel cars for the market in Brazil. I wouldn't say that hybrid is the only trick they've got up their sleeve.

Nothing that can't be fixed!

I'm not supposed to tell you this, but the poppy coins were just a decoy. The real tracking devices are embedded in these:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUK N0328796820070503

We're still working on the miniaturization issue.

We do it because everyone bashes the French. Even themselves, according to Reuters: "French outpace Americans in French-bashing"

OK, let's see if they'll get to keep Flickr then...

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN042225 3620070504?feedType=RSS

When will India offer you the right to make a public display of affection without a warrant issued for your arrest? I think Gere is a shitty actor too but they were actually burning effigies of him and this chick for kissing in public. I know this is offtopic and I expect to be moderated accordingly, but Jesus. Anyone who was thinking of a vacation in India should give it a miss, even if they do have internet access :)

When will India offer you the right to make a public display of affection without a warrant issued for your arrest? I think Gere is a shitty actor too but they were actually burning effigies of him and this chick for kissing in public. I know this is offtopic and I expect to be moderated accordingly, but Jesus. Anyone who was thinking of a vacation in India should give it a miss, even if they do have internet access :)

Check it out twitter: Micro$oft Corp. posted a 65 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, topping Wall Street estimates due to better-than-expected demand for its new Windows Vista operating system.

A net profit of $4.93 billion for the last 3 months, stock up 10% in after hours trading, rocketing Vista sales..yeah "M$" is really dying twitter!

More info here: http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSWE N717320070427

"The SEC Is Getting Closer To Jobs"

Oh, really? SEC won't file stock options case against Apple; cites company's 'extraordinary' cooperation

Sorry, Apple-haters.

I recall hearing about:

"In re Epson Ink Cartridge Cases Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4347 Los Angeles County Superior Court"

from various places on the web, including: "Have an Epson Printer? File for a $45 Settlement" but being as I have never owned an Epson printer I didn't dig around to see what this was all about. If this was for real and someone knows more about the issue, please post here about it.

Aside from that, related news: "Epson wins initial ruling in ink cartridge suit"

link. My question/concern is why did the police not lock down the campus after the shooting in the residence hall. 2 hours later, the SAME shooter went into classrooms and started killing students. If this is indeed the case, I believe it was gross negligence on the part of the police and I would be very disturbed if I was a family member of one of the students killed in the second shooting.

I understand that MS put in a bid for DoubleClick. Does that mean if the had suceeded, they would have reported themselves for antitrust violations.

'Online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. is exploring a sale and is in talks with Microsoft Corp'

I am sure they are sour

Since Vista has proven to be absolutely no competition to even the current OS X, what's the rush for Leopard? Get the iPhone right and they'll have a HUGE winner on their hands. A million people have already queried AT&T about the iPhone through the notification list at Cingular, so who's your daddy?

No he's not, go away.

I almost laughed, then I realized you actually believe in that myth.

So that means he's getting paid by George Soros?

I don't know, but apparently in canada, you can throw poo at children.

The argument against ethanol because of corn is going to be off the table in relatively short time. Cellulosic ethanol is coming commerically viable now and it will turn your green-waste trash into fuel. The US Department of Energy gets this and has formerly denounced corn as the future of ethanol. So when you use corn as a reason against ethanol, consider the other sources of it.
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN28 30990020070328

A cellulosic ethanol company who was recently awarded a $40M grant from the DOE in February:
http://bluefireethanol.com/

Reuters and the Wall Street Journal are already reporting it.

Forget poisoning your lunch. As of today, if you're in Texas, you can legally just shoot him dead. I think this is a huge improvement.

Monsanto's kind of like the MPAA of grain. They are even pushing "Terminator" seeds, which are sterile, forcing farmers into purchasing seed from suppliers every year instead of keeping their seed for the next crop.

"Terminator" was not developed by Monsanto, and is not owned by them. It was actually made by Delta & Pine Land Company.

Monsanto is in the process of acquiring and merging with Delta & Pine Land but so thus far the two are still distinct companies, and the merger may yet be blocked in court.

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/. is late. Commissioner Kuneva has already softened her statement (linky here.

She's already soft-pedalling on her comment. http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNe ws/idUSL139204020070313

Reuters reports, "Meglena Kuneva told a news conference there was no reason to talk about legal action against the U.S. computer and technology company and that she merely wanted to raise questions. 'I would like, really, to start this debate. What is best to develop this market and to have more consumers enjoying this really very important, very modern way of downloading and enjoying the music?' she said of Apple's iTunes."

At least George Soros likes Halliburton enough to buy 2 million shares of Halliburton.

Wasn't it always Microsoft that accused competitors of fighting in the courtroom because they were not able to win in the marketplace?

The worst case scenario according to IPCC is only a 1 inch sea level rise in 100 years, how is that going to cause a 20% drop in GDP?

No, it's not. They're predicting 4-30, and they've been widely criticised for being too conservative on the issue - ignoring unusually fast melting in Antarctica and Greenland, for one thing.

Sure if sea levels rise 6m it will displace quite a few people, but I still don't think it would cause that much upheaval.

10% of Bangladesh would be under water with a 1 meter sea rise. That's about 15 million refugees in one nation alone, and you can be sure Bangladesh can't afford to pay 10% of their population's land just to let it get eaten up by the ocean.

A 6 metre sea rise would also destroy Miami and a number of other major cities on the East Coast of the US. We're talking about pretty huge repercussions with that big of a sea rise.

The Stern report isn't just pulling numbers out of their asses.

As far as the asteroid is concerned what would your recommendation be?

You're missing my point. The OP stated that the Earth had seen much higher CO2 in the distant past. My point is that just because it has happened previously doesn't mean it'd be fine if it happened again - after all, the Earth started up molten and airless, but that wouldn't be conducive to human survival today.

That is what you environmentalists don't get, you never factor in risk/reward

Again, read the Stern report. For a 1% cost of GDP we protect 10-20% of GDP. How is that not factoring in risk and reward?

On the CO2 front I guess Scientific American got it wrong then I'm just quoting their article verbatim... So either they are lying, or you are, but whatever.

If you have the article in front of you to quote from, surely you can provide a citation?

I'm reasonably sure I'm not lying, and so is NOAA: Vostok's 420,000 years of data and EPICA's 650,000 years of data, for your perusal

The IPCC did not state anywhere any sort of statistical probability as you state.

http://www.google.com/search?q=IPCC+90%25+certaint y&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:off icial&client=firefox-a

" The scientists said it was "very likely" -- or more than 90 percent probable -- that human activities led by burning fossil fuels explained most of the warming in the past 50 years.

That is a toughening from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) last report in 2001, which judged a link as "likely", or 66 percent probable." - http://in.today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx? type=worldNews&storyID=2007-02-02T212335Z_01_NOOTR _RTRJONC_0_India-286068-7.xml

How does that not support my statement, quoted as follows: "there's a 90% certainty that human activity is causing warming at least in part"?

I don't see #1 - the 60% chance figure - in the 2006 IPCC report. Sure you're not looking at the 2001 report?

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No, I'm not mixing anything up. Earlier this month, Iran claimed it had a cure for AIDS, with no proof (naturally).

But then, so had North Korea.

I'm surprised you haven't noticed this kind of behavior from Iran under Ahmadinejad.

This would also mean that even more personal info is available (obviously no way for it to be 100% secure) to the terrorist for identity theft purposes.

This is the part that's seems to be forgoten throughout most debates. Not only will a heap load of (mostly useless) data be collected, but it will be stored and handled by private companies (ISPs, Telcos...) in whatever location they feel fits those needs. Who will be responsible for data theft/corruption/manipulation that happens there? Who can assure the data is consistent and not tampered with? Who will protect me from false accusations? Just a couple of days ago 22 million german credit card holders had their transactions screened for child porn (the number two reason, besides "fight terrorism", to get any law through) purchases.

That can be applied to sightings of many other things.

The problem is, how does one determine which patterns indicate something and which patterns are just convincing illusions?

For whatever reason, the summary links to page two of the article. Page one is here

FTA: But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge.

Your Comment: This was not mentioned at all in the original Reuters article to begin with, but all other details (how long, power setting) were included.

From the ORIGINAL Article: "...they soaked sponges and scrubbing pads in raw wastewater..." (fourth paragraph). Seems to me that the Reuters article stated this step quite clearly.

If one lacks the judgment to realize that putting a sponge in the microwave without water is going to burn it then their experience should be their lesson. Lazy-ass people. Stop blindly following every silly little thing you read and take some responsibility for your own stupidity rather than whining that someone else 'told you to do it.' I seem to remember my mother teaching me the 'if your friends told you to jump off a bridge...' lesson when I was freakin' five years old.

Original story

Correction, posted 2 days later

Original story

Correction, posted 2 days later

Related Warren Ellis article for Reuters.

Before the arguments about the effectiveness of this drug compared to the patented one, the morality of patents on medicine and the soviet russia jokes break out; I'd like to show my respect for these people. It's great to see this effort!

A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.
This actually already happened late last year.

Digg holds out for a big payday but ends up like Friendster (i.e., no friends).
This point should perhaps come with the disclaimer that Digg-competitor Reddit.com is owned by Wired.

Deutsche Bank fund bets on patents as asset class

Boycott Novell.

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?stor yId=0e4daf2c9503387b6a614482bc1d5d8a4ae79972&rpc=2 3

After the video ends be sure to watch the video of super-electricity man and the new Swiss jetpack

Injured man wins damages for sex overdrive - LONDON (Reuters) - A devout Christian who said an accident at work boosted his libido and wrecked his marriage as he turned to prostitutes and pornography was awarded more than 3 million pounds ($5.89 million) in damages Tuesday. Stephen Tame, 29, from Suffolk, suffered severe head injuries in a fall, transforming him from a loyal newlywed into a "disinhibited" character who had two affairs. He was in a coma for two months after falling from a gantry while working at a bicycle warehouse shortly after his marriage in January 2002. Doctors said it was a miracle he survived. Awarding him 3.1 million pounds in compensation at London's High Court, Judge Michael Harris said: "His life and the life of his young wife were shattered." His former employer, Professional Cycle Marketing, of Essex, had argued through their lawyers that his injuries were not as bad as suggested in court. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-12-19T162740Z_01_L1 9309213_RTRUKOC_0_US-HUSBAND.xml&WTmodLoc=OddNewsH ome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-2

This should solve the pricing argument. If anyone knows, it's probably NORML.

Did anyone find it funny that underneath the article on Mozart's year long birday party that there's an article of Paris Hilton defending Britney's "party ethics"? I think those over-sexed party girls need some Mozart to calm them down.

I keep wondering why nobody stands up to these clowns.

I've been wondering about that too. Not that I'm a fan of any political party but I can't wait until January when the Dem's take over Congress. Here is one reason why: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=topNews&storyid=2006-12-13T194751Z_01_N12380628_ RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-SECURITY-RIGHTS.xml&src=rss

I'm just hoping that this change in government doesn't ridiculously swing too far back to the left. At least this attitude is moving in a better direction.