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Power companies are putting in smart meters that will allow them to turn off your power at their command for unpaid bills but the kicker is that they also will be allowed to turn off your air conditioner when they think it's best for them do to so. Forget if you have an old person living with you that can't take the heat outside. http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2013/02/18/tep-wants-to-control-your-air-conditioner-this-summer/

See: http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2013/05/18/cooking-consensus-on-climate-change

If the first sentence of this article is accurate, Mars should be a primary target for off-world fission fuel. It even tells you where to mine.

On the other hand, lots of really smart people seem to agree that it beats out a hotter sun, too much pavement, some other natural or manmade aerosol, God's wrath, "natural" climate change, whatever that might be, and angry space bunnies as a cause for the planet changing its average temperature.

I think your right. Our CO2 emissions have had such a great effect they even affect Mars And Neptune as well. We really need to do something about our CO2 emissions affecting Mars, because it obviously can't be the sun because of your and your expert's opinions.

Of course I assumed you made it all up and decided to do a quick check myself and almost instantly found factual scientific evidence disproving your claims. Of course by using actual facts and scientific evidence I am anti-science according to the AWG movement, which is really the problem.

There's a good recent book about the history of meteorite collecting (and dealing), if you're really interested. The Fallen Sky by Christopher Cokinos. He chronicles the activities of a couple of very active meteorite dealers of the 20th century - they would mostly rush to the sites of recent falls and look around or buy pieces from local people who find them.

That sounds about as interesting as a history of the now legendary Keswick Pencil Museum.

There's a good recent book about the history of meteorite collecting (and dealing), if you're really interested. The Fallen Sky by Christopher Cokinos. He chronicles the activities of a couple of very active meteorite dealers of the 20th century - they would mostly rush to the sites of recent falls and look around or buy pieces from local people who find them.

Any why should we trust peer reviewed articles?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/220201/studies-suggest-massive-increase-in-scientific-fraud
http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2012/07/11/peer-review-of-scientific-papers-does-not-guarantee-good-science/

Any why should we trust peer reviewed articles?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/220201/studies-suggest-massive-increase-in-scientific-fraud
http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2012/07/11/peer-review-of-scientific-papers-does-not-guarantee-good-science/

And if you think I'm blowing hot air (haha), first check out Berkeley's OWN description of the state of the study, and then check out Judith Curry's discussion of Muller's comments.

This man and his sprawling NewsCorp media empire have almost single-handedly ruined/corrupted objective journalism, and done so across multiple countries where NewsCorp is active.

How can that be true? The BBC is as objective as ever.
The idea the Murdoch has corrupted the entire media is silly

This man will just try to spread his twisted, f^cked up neocon-ultra-jingo-conservative values to school children, given the chance.

You apparently missed the part where it states this is about software to track student performance, not curriculum or instructional materials?
But I can understand your concern - no schools should permit any deviation from "progressive" messages and practices, or "progressive" programs like racist curriculum .

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canadians+targets+sexpionage/5793483/story.html
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2011/12/01/sexpionage-are-chinas-hotel-rooms-bugged/

Sexpionage is standard MO for many world governments and large corporations. What happened to Assange looks very similar, but with lawsuits instead of blackmail. Read the first article; it can be very hard to combat this kind of attack, especially when all the immediate parties are unwitting at the time of the event.

In response to an accusation that the mentioned statements by Muller's colleague and collaborator, Judith Curry, are "lies" promoted by one biased newspaper, I offer the following:

http://junkscience.com/2011/10/30/curry-damage-control-mullers-oversell-a-mistake-not-a-new-scandal/

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/280948/Is-global-warming-over-">Curry says no warming "for 13 years".

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100114292/lying-cheating-climate-scientists-caught-lying-cheating-again/

http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2011/10/31/berkeley-temperature-study-update-colleague-says-claim-was-huge-mistake/

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41840

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=65364f00-802a-23ad-4994-117066e014ea

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/10/climate-change-scientist-accused-of-hiding-truth-by-colleague/

As I mentioned in the beginning, the graphs shown in some of these articles are misleading, because the time scales are completely different:

In addition, if you really need more convincing, you can go to Curry's own blog and read her comment yourself.

I was born and raised in Tucson, this type of crime rarely happens. Most people usually hear about crime in Phoenix. Anyways, appears there were multiple suspects in the shooting. 4+ people dead, local sheriff reports that Giffords was gravely wounded, some reports that she's dead, others that she's in surgery. Local newspaper has story up now, http://tucsoncitizen.com/mark-evans/archives/389 No matter what your political affiliation, murder is still murder. I've heard one report that Giffords was shot point-blank in the head. I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war...

Outside of the very visible Day Laborers lined up outside the Home Depots waiting for an installation job from a home owner or a Day job from a contractor, it's very very hard to exist or work without a valid SSN and having taxes withheld from your wages; it just not likely that the valid SSN is going to be yours as it is unlikely that you'll be able to reap the benefits, fro the withholdings or to receive a refund of any excess withholdings! Approximately 18 million people in the US are using a valid SSN that is used by multiple people, people that will never receive a dime of benefits for the labors. So it's not about financial drain on the federal part, they're probably making a profit off the illegal immigrants.
Open the boarders up, yeah right, there is a war going on down there in Mexico, there are website like El Blog del Narco that report on the fighting like American websites report traffic accidents.
Time to pull your head out of the sand there cupcake; Narco-Terrorism in Mexico is far more deadly than what's going on in Afghanistan. A little waterboarding offends your sensibilities, hese will show you how the real pros do it. Right now. Ciudad Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico, is just across the Rio Grande from El Passo TX, as many as 5,000 Women have been murdered in the last 10 years. Mexican Prisons have become Safehouses for criminals who come and go as they please and to top it all off, Mexican Drones are crashing in the United States. Opening our boarders isn't an option and securing them isn't xenophobic, it's due diligence. You know things are getting bad when war correspondents who have cover wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the Orient are returning to the US after years overseas because the US SW is where the action is going to be real soon.

Actually, MySpace IS making their own database that supposedly contains every profile removed due to matching the various sex offender registries and is turning that information over to authorities. Please se here and here.

I am sure you would NOT enjoy having your name and address provided to the local DA along with an implicit statement that I believe you (daveschroeder) to be the very same (daveschroeder) that is a registered sex offender in another state. You might even feel falsely accused. While due process should get the whole mess straitened out, it may not do so until after you have been taken in for some highly inflamitory questioning (perhaps, in part, due to a DA who also needs some good tough on crime press).

If a vigillante group got their hands on my "not an accusation" report, you would get no due process.

The list and reports are not an accusation in exactly the same way as "I'm not sayin' nothin' but buildings burn down and people get hurt all the time" said by the local "protection" salesman is not a threat.

He promises to be a tough customer in global trade talks, saying Europe should only open its markets to those that open theirs. He wants an EU-wide tax on goods from countries - he has singled out China - that have not agreed to cap their greenhouse gas emissions.

[ 1lus10n wrote:] 1. There are no major tech schools, as such there is no major talent pool to draw from.

HIGH-TECH BLUEPRINT: Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas, college town and state capital, can teach Tucson a lot about creating a vibrant, 21st-century economy.

By TEYA VITU
Tucson Citizen


San Diego and Boston, like Austin in the Texas hill and lake country.

Why?

Because high-tech means high-paying jobs and a growing economy.

How did Austin, that sleepy college town, become a high-tech darling, often called "Silicon Hills"?

As recently as 1980, Austin and Tucson had uncanny similarities: smallish metro areas nearly identical in size, liberal bastions in strongly conservative states, university dominated, unnotable economies.

Then in 1983, Austin started to shed its national anonymity and capture the attention of America's major cities. A decade later, Austin and a handful of other cities landed on the cover of Newsweek magazine under the label "high-tech hotbeds."

Now Austin's more than 2,200 high-tech companies employ about 95,000 of Austin's 700,000 strong work force.

Tucson has about 1,200 high-tech companies employing 50,000 people, according to the Southern Arizona Tech Council.

The Old Pueblo is in the second fastest growing state in the union, but metro Austin has boomed to 1.4 million people while Tucson's fast growth has reached only 900,000. In 1970, Tucson had a slightly larger population than Austin.

Austin's vaunted status is built upon two high-tech consortiums that chose to locate there in the 1980s after highly publicized nationwide searches involving all the major high-tech cities.

The Microelectronic and Computer Technology Corp. looked at 57 cities before selecting Austin as site of the first high-tech consortium in 1983. Dell Inc. started in 1984 and Sematech, an 11-company semiconductor research consortium, picked that city after considering proposals from 33 states.

Before then, Tracor, IBM and Texas Instruments put Austin on the high-tech path in the 1950s and 1960s. Samsung, Motorola, Advanced Micro Devices and three division headquarters for 3M came later with about 2,200 smaller high-tech companies.

MCC and Sematech spun off dozens of companies and attracted hundreds of high-techs to Austin.

Dozens and dozens of cities across America have sent people to learn the quirky city's secrets. Tucson's economic development community takes note of Austin's achievements, too.

"One of the things Austin has done is they have made a long-term commitment for the private and public sector to put in the infrastructure for education and research to make sure to build a top-quality product," said Steve Weathers, chief executive at the Greater Tucson Economic Council.

Part of the current act is that public schools are mandated to turn over personal information about students to armed forces recruiting so that no child will miss out on the oportunity to die in bushes fucked up war for oil. Parents who dont want their childern contacted must opt-out in order to keep their childerns from being inundated with calls and glossy pamflets.

The effort to create this database may be in response to the recent judgement that universities can deny access to military recruiters because of discriminatory practices against gays. This overturned a 1994 a defense authorization bill that allowed the goverment to withhold funding from public institutions that denied access to recruiters.

The hopeless war in iraq is making it more difficult to recruit a new generation of jarheads. Retention is down so they were forced to make do with a back door draft in order to retain enough personel to maintain our insufficient forces in iraq & afganastan. If bush starts a third war against Iran(with large oil and natural gas reserves), launched from our spiffy new bases in Iraq, we will need to dramatically increase the number of military personel beyond what can be build using volenteers. This new database will come in handy when the National Freedom Expanders Act is passed to compel military service unless you happen to be in a rich an powerful family in which case reporting for Patriot Duty is optional.

Yeah, it's not like they ever do that.

Too bad other game manufacturers won't follow suit and make their older titles available for (legit) download.

Well, there's a good reason:

For an analysis of game companies & financing in general.

There's an article here about local game companies in Tucson releasing old games for free.

So I could either increase the price of my white bread, to compensate for the lack of additional sales. But that's a dangerous route to take

This is exactly the plan the MPAA had this year. Less movie ticket sales and higher ticket prices. Gee I wonder if the less ticket sales was from Napster too. I wonder how much more sales would have been without the increase. You just need to find that fine balance. The RIAA has not and they are blaming it on something else. HINT: Maybe its the economy stupid!!

AC, you are missing the point. The U.S. weapons makers sell weapons to both sides. The U.S. weapons makers sell weapons to both the U.S. government and to the other side of many conflicts. The U.S. government itself always pays far more. If a poor country has a billion dollars of weapons, the U.S. government fights with 10 billion dollars, or a hundred.

The selling to both sides is about money. It is similar to the situation where Robert Moses paid billions of dollars to destroy New York city neighborhoods. Sometimes rich people support powerful politicians because it is profitable, even though it is destructive to their country.

The U.S. weapons makers sell weapons to both the Israelis and Arabs. Somebody posted a message earlier saying that U.S. weapons makers were still selling weapons to Saddam Hussein during the buildup for the Gulf War between the U.S. government and Iraq.

This is a lot bigger than you seem to realize. If you are a U.S. taxpayer, you pay your share of $3.2 billion to Israel every year so that Israel can buy weapons made in the United States. Then you pay so that the U.S. government will be able to fight conflicts due to political instabilities in the region.

Everything I've said is meant to be conservative. Most people don't realize how many people have been killed by the U.S. government, so I added links to the number of people killed in three countries to the article, What should be the Response to Violence? Search on "Vietnam". The numbers are greater than I said earlier, because I was not counting all the countries, or deaths due to Agent Orange, or other civilian deaths.

The article is just a part-time, unpaid effort. I will try to post more links to sources for weapons expenditures later. For now, here is just one: See the Oct. 6, 2001 Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service article by Paul Richter, Stingers old but could pose threat. "Stingers" are very expensive missiles made in the United States. The Taliban has them.