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Monday, March 22, 2004
Why "broadband over power lines" Internet access has failed elsewhere. It was not just due to radio interference problems either ... [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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>Wonder who is moving their jobs to India? Take a look. Watch the term "offshoring" to soon disappear and be replaced by "services production in global production chains" (spotted in WSJ). [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 1:05:50 PM
>This is what your taxes are paying for. Amazing. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 1:05:27 PM
>If you believe that we can just innovate ourselves out of this mess, then this may cause you to lay awake at night. For many nights. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 1:05:02 PM
>How physicists are spending your tax dollars on important scientific investigations of critical importance to national security. Whose national security, I'm not sure. Make sure you turn up the volume really loud :-) [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 7:31:07 AM
>The BBC persists in silliness:"Climate change could drive a million of the world's species to extinction as soon as 2050, according to a study published in January." Nice headline and one of the most widely appearing "facts" now published everywhere on the Internet. For a differing perspective, visit this web site and page down to the title "Species Extinction - One Million, or Just One?" for some background on serious errors on this report (hint: in the recent past it was hotter in some of the study areas than it is today, and nobody died). Undoubtedly, the speculative theory is correct and the real world is wrong - again. Oh, and that would require that nearly 22,000 species go extinct every year between now and then. Which is a teeny bit greater than the estimates of 2 to 2,500 species extinctions (most of which are insects, bacteria or viruses) per year for the last 400 years. (By the way, that same university web page starts with an estimate of a loss of 40,000 species per year, but amusingly includes facts showing just a few per year. Odd. Did anyone bother to proofread this academic paper?). [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 7:30:32 AM
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