I am not of fan of poseurs who live in 10,000 square foot air conditioned multi-vehicle families who drive a Prius and then claim to be "Concerned". Real concern must translate into action. We aren't going to survive unless we all make real, and for some, very painful, changes to the way we live.

I know that this is heresy, but I doubt very much if there is anything out there that can replace gasoline. Batteries are fine, but until electricity is clean we are only shifting the problem around. Ethanol is a fucking joke, if it weren't so evil.

A bicycle is the most efficient form of transport ever devised by man, and it keeps you healthy too.

I don't buy the argument that the Prius looks kludgy because it has too, last time I checked the F-15 and the Concorde were reasonably "aerodynamic" and they look cool. They are making a design statement with the Prius, a statement that says, "look at me, I'm green, I'm clean and my owner is like, really cool and environmentally conscious".

Only $12,700.

India's largest automaker is set to start producing the world's first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine's pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008.
[www.popularmechanics.com]

When Apple comes out with a ebook, I wonder what they will call it? The iBook is kind of taken...

I am sorry man, but I can't support blowing people away like that. It's wrong. Maybe this woman's kids were crying in the back seat, maybe she didn't see the signs. There has to be a better way than that. What if your mother was approaching a police shootout in your home town, and for whatever reason didn't clue in, and the cops just vaporized her? Would that be okay with you?

I understand that in a war, "shit happens" as I am sure you would say, but that does not make it right. What is America trying to accomplish in Iraq anyway? What have you accomplished? What's the mission?

How many Americans were killed by Iraqis prior to the invasion? How many people have been killed in Iraq? When will you leave and under what circumstances?

I have no idea what secret you are talking about? I don't want soldiers to die in Iraq if that's what you mean. The best way to accomplish that is for you guys to leave. America will actually be safer that way.

And if you want to understand why they are shooting at you, just look at the Iraqi body count, 600,000 low number, 1.2 million high number.

"And they briefed this to the general," Millard said, "and they briefed it gruesome. I mean, they had pictures. They briefed it to him. And this colonel turns around to this full division staff and says, 'If these f---ing hajis learned to drive, this sh-t wouldn't happen.'"

[www.salon.com]

I hardly ever print anything anyway? Why?

The French win! Sorry Koreans.

A widespread research done by Dr. Gomez de Diego, director of the medical company Andromedical specialised in andrology, in 2001, took into consideration several studies by physicians of different nationalities. He concluded that the average erect penis size for adult men is 14 cm, confirming the aforementioned research carried out by Dr Eduardo Gomez de Diego. The studies of average erect penis length conducted on adult men worldwide included France 16 cm, Italy 16 cm, Mexico 15.9 cm, Germany 14.48 cm, United States 12.9 cm, Saudi Arabia 12.4 cm, Brazil 12.4 cm, Greece 12.18 cm, India 10.2 cm and South Korea 9.7 cm

[en.wikipedia.org]

"Stop crying about nanotech?" Try to stop crying about my crying. I am not against tech, and I am not against nanotech. I simply said that we should be careful.

The number of civilian deaths due to firebombing in Japan or Germany is a complete non sequitur.

My comment about nuclear technology relates to the risks, not what has actually happened. We can and probably will wipe the planet clean, this was not something the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project even considered until it was too late and the genie was out of the bottle.

As far as drugs go, how did that thalidomide work out for you?

You obviously are not informed beyond the cartoon level on nanotech.

Remember that splitting the atom seemed a good idea at the time. But don't tell that to the Japanese.

"In March 2004 tests conducted by environmental toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, Ph.D., with Southern Methodist University in Texas found extensive brain damage to fish exposed to fullerenes for a period of just 48 hours at a relatively moderate dose of 0.5 parts per million (commiserate with levels of other kinds of pollution found in bays). The fish also exhibited changed gene markers in their livers, indicating their entire physiology was affected. In a concurrent test, the fullerenes killed water fleas, an important link in the marine food chain."
[www.wisegeek.com]

[www.badastronomy.com]

Then in 2005 NASA compared images from 1999 with images taken in 2005 that clearly showed flowing water.

[www.msss.com]

Having said that videos/photos "prove" nothing never have and never will.

I saw pictures of fairies...

[en.wikipedia.org]

As for flying, in 5 years the price of fuel will be so high, that only rich people will fly.

In 10 years we'll keep our UMPCs in our noses or some other likely body cavity.

I want to believe, I just can't...

I tried the gel rests, but I found that they compressed my ulnar tunnel more efficiently than before. Not a big fan. I had bad problems too, but 'fixed" it by taking frequent breaks (I work on my own - so screw you midget tyrant boss) so I can get a way with that. Stretching exercises really help too!

You definitely want to avoid the "test" where they put an coil around your fingers, and then insert needles in your neck and then run current through it. ouch!