Re: Ethanol Significantly Increases Greenhouse Gases

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Grosset
Like a 100-year flood, spring wheat prices have risen relentlessly all winter, obliterating every record in sight. At the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, wheat fever pushed prices to $19.80 a bushel in trading Friday - nearly triple the record from 1996..That has pushed corn and soybean

Re: Speaking of Stargate SG1 - we've got this friend...

2008-02-16 Thread Cameron Childress
Awesome pics - very cool! Interesting to see some of the actors in such routine environments and situations... -Cameron Jim Davis wrote: > that is, in an utterly cool way, marginally involved in the upcoming > movie! > >

RE: Toshiba ending HD-DVD operations, Sony Blu Ray wins the HD Format war!

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Toshiba ending HD-DVD operations, Sony Blu Ray wins the HD > Format war! > > Wow. Toshiba throws in the towel. That's...huge. > > Sony may have lost with

Re: Toshiba ending HD-DVD operations, Sony Blu Ray wins the HD Format war!

2008-02-16 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>Wow. Toshiba throws in the towel. That's...huge. Wow, indeed. I personally was holding off on even looking at either format until a clear winner emerged, just wasn't expecting it this soon! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8

Muslim world makes big strides to "modernize"

2008-02-16 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7244579.stm They have been repeatedly accused of "living a thousand years in the past". Well, they are catching up, and fast. Stoning witches to death brings them right up to the 17th century, doesn't it? This line from the story kills me (sorry, bad

Toshiba ending HD-DVD operations, Sony Blu Ray wins the HD Format war!

2008-02-16 Thread Vivec
Wow. Toshiba throws in the towel. That's...huge. Sony may have lost with Betamax, but they've won big time with Blu Ray format. A lot of early adopters of HD-DVD drives now have bricks on their hands though, land fills will be filling up! http://blog.islandgamers.com/?p=317 "It's official. Tosh

Re: WOW - PhotoSynth

2008-02-16 Thread Dave l
So how is this going to look and work when they have to use real world images that they didnt take and the photos are of different quality (aka some good, some bad) and different settings. Is the program going to color correct each one so they match, is it going auto match setting such as apertu

Re: could you just imagine... for one minute...

2008-02-16 Thread Greg Morphis
I read the other day that China did it a few years ago and we "comdemned" the action.. whatever the hell that means (in political terms). On Feb 16, 2008 12:46 PM, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let me be VERY CLEAR > > im so into it, i couldnt imagine when i first heard about it > that they we

Re: [Travel] Stockholm Trip Report

2008-02-16 Thread Gruss Gott
> Vivec wrote: > do you think there's a reason they're all deserted like that eh? > He he, well that was Hawaii last year. One really neat thing about Stockholm (this time anyway) was the true international nature of the tourists. We took a boat tour with about 50 people and we were the only one

Re: could you just imagine... for one minute...

2008-02-16 Thread Tony
let me be VERY CLEAR im so into it, i couldnt imagine when i first heard about it that they werent throwing this solution at it... no pun intended. i think its fantabulous. however, imagine if some other 'evi'doer' would come up with an idea like this... would our political crapshot of a presid

could you just imagine... for one minute...

2008-02-16 Thread Tony
the UPROAR and malicious intent we would be spraying around the world if lets say, iran happened to be the country that was responsible for this... http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1587228120080215?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=22&sp=true would we expect the same quiet resp

Re: Make St Patrick's Day an Official Holiday

2008-02-16 Thread William Bowen
> when OktoberFest is made offical... > feckin irish "How about the Germans get Oktoberfest to actually happen in Oktober rather than September, and whittle it down to a day rather than a month and we'll talk," says the 3/4 non-German me... The 1/4 German me says "führen Sie das Bier, während wir

Re: could you just imagine... for one minute...

2008-02-16 Thread Greg Morphis
Would you rather have it crash down in a populated area? They estimate a 1% chance of it hitting an area with people in it. Would you take those odds? Can you imagine the backlash we'd get if we did nothing and it landed smack down in the middle of Iran and killed civillians, or North Korea and kil

Re: could you just imagine... for one minute...

2008-02-16 Thread William Bowen
> would we expect the same quiet response to this > we are seeming to get? I'm happy to see we're planning to abide by the terms of a treaty we signed. I'm also interested to see the results of the missile firing... seems a nice proof of concept for the silliness of the missile defense shield. If

More Expelled nonsense...

2008-02-16 Thread William Bowen
>From the ID Playbook: Hold a press conference decrying the ability to speak freely on matters of Science but don't allow anything except pre-approved questions? LOLZ! http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3463 -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and th

Re: Make St Patrick's Day an Official Holiday

2008-02-16 Thread Paul Ihrig
when OktoberFest is made offical... feckin irish On Feb 16, 2008 12:02 PM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HYPERLINK "http://proposition317.com/"http://proposition317.com/ > > > > c'mon sign it… I dare ya.. > > > > -- > > Scott Stewart > > ColdFusion Developer > > > > SSTWebworks > > 4

Make St Patrick's Day an Official Holiday

2008-02-16 Thread Scott Stewart
HYPERLINK "http://proposition317.com/"http://proposition317.com/ c’mon sign it… I dare ya.. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (919) 874-6229 (home) (703) 220-2835 (cell) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by

Re: [Travel] Stockholm Trip Report

2008-02-16 Thread Vivec
Sounds like a great trip! I knew Europe was expensive but...gosh! 400US a night. Is that a 5 star Hilton? But ...umm... http://flickr.com/photos/grussgott/159565517/ do you think there's a reason they're all deserted like that eh?