Archive for August, 2007
Enemy Collaborator U.S. Congress Passes Bush Domestic Surveillance Bill
August 5th, 2007Imagine my shock. Via: Reuters: The Congress yielded to President George W. Bush on Saturday and approved legislation to temporarily expand the government’s power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order in tracking foreign suspects. Civil liberties groups charged the measure would create a broad net that would sweep up law-abiding U.S. citizens. But […]
German Physicists on the Carbon Theory Behind Global Warming
August 5th, 2007Comments on this post are open only to university physics professors. If you are a university physics professor and would like to comment on this paper, send me a private email from your university email account and I will be happy to post your comment. These will be on-the-record comments. Your name will be included. […]
The Chinese “Miracle” Will End Soon [sic]
August 4th, 2007Yesterday wouldn’t be soon enough. Via: Spiegel: The world has been dazzled in recent years by the economic strides being made by China. But it has come at a huge cost to the country’s environment. Pollution is a serious and costly problem. Pan Yue of the ministry of the environment says these problems will soon […]
The Coming Water Wars
August 4th, 2007Chart from Princeton.
Low Power HHO Fuel Generator for Off Grid Energy Needs
August 4th, 2007Electricity costs in New Zealand are absurd. A criminal cartel just bends us all over a barrel here. Wolves are in charge of watching the chicken coop. Take your pick of descriptive metaphors. Oh well. But that’s not the point of this post. I started looking at ways of dealing with the situation myself by […]
Jim Cramer Goes Nuts Live on TV, Talks About Armageddon
August 4th, 2007This is funny, unless you plan on relying on fixed income securities for something besides toilet paper. Cramer is like a smack addict, locked in a padded room, who will do anything for another hit: MORE CREDIT!!! MORE CREDIT!!! MOOOOOOOOORE CREDDDDDDDIT! Pulling out the last strands of hair on his head, clawing out his eyeballs… […]
U.S. Robots Deployed for Ground Combat in Iraq
August 3rd, 2007It’s not quite up to ED-209 standards (from Robocop), but it’s getting there. Also see, Deal of the Century. HAHA Via: Wired: Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the machines are carrying guns. After […]
U.S. ‘Loses’ 190,000 Weapons in Iraq
August 3rd, 2007Wait a minute, remember Pentagon arms its enemy’s enemies in Iraq: The US military has embarked on a new and risky strategy in Iraq by arming Sunni insurgents in the hope that they will tackle al-Qaida operatives in Iraq. The US high command this month gave permission to its officers on the ground to negotiate […]
Unpaid Teens Bag Groceries for Wal-Mart
August 2nd, 2007Always low prices. Via: MSNBC: Wal-Mart is Mexico’s largest private-sector employer in the nation today, with nearly 150,000 local residents on its payroll. An additional 19,000 youngsters between the ages of 14 and 16 work after school in hundreds of Wal-Mart stores, mostly as grocery baggers, throughout Mexico—and none of them receives a red cent […]
DARPA’s 42.8% Efficiency Solar Cells
August 2nd, 2007Do you get it yet? Via: Treehugger: Narrowly edging out the previous record set by Spectrolab late last year, two scientists at the University of Delaware have just created a new device that can convert 42.8% of the light striking it into electricity. The solar cell, built by Christina Honsberg and Allan Barnett, splits light […]
