This probably won't help anyone outside the UK, but http://www.novatech.co.uk/ sell systems (including laptops) without any OS at all, and these seem to go for about 50GBP (100USD) less than with the cheapest MS OS (currently XP).
My chemistry teacher would have some kind of apoplectic fit looking at the way this article has been described.
The "Greenhouse Effect" is actually a good thing. If the greenhouse effect wasn't working, Earth would be exactly like Mars (the main reason Mars is so cold is the lack of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere).
What is a *bad* thing, is "Global Warming" - i.e. the unintentional heating of the earth by the release into the atmosphere of an *excess* of greenhouse gases.
If there wasn't any water vapour or CO2 (the biggest contributors to the greenhouse effect) in the atmosphere, the earth would probbaly be a sterile rock.
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Who says we have to eat lamb or beef or pork if it's grown in a vat? We could finally ethically try Long Pig!
Oh the marketing possibilities of celebrity meat products...
Sounds more like a lemming to me...or was that caused by hydrogen?
I suppose it would explain the subsequent explosions.
This probably won't help anyone outside the UK, but http://www.novatech.co.uk/ sell systems (including laptops) without any OS at all, and these seem to go for about 50GBP (100USD) less than with the cheapest MS OS (currently XP).
My chemistry teacher would have some kind of apoplectic fit looking at the way this article has been described.
The "Greenhouse Effect" is actually a good thing. If the greenhouse effect wasn't working, Earth would be exactly like Mars (the main reason Mars is so cold is the lack of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere).
What is a *bad* thing, is "Global Warming" - i.e. the unintentional heating of the earth by the release into the atmosphere of an *excess* of greenhouse gases.
If there wasn't any water vapour or CO2 (the biggest contributors to the greenhouse effect) in the atmosphere, the earth would probbaly be a sterile rock.