Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe ... all » there's no need to feel bad. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it. We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming.

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Good counter to the man made global warming theory. 1hr, 15min, recently aired on Channel4 in the UK.

If you've seen An Inconvenient Truth, you should see this as well for balance.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Ouch. Nice way to flush $1 million.

In Pictures: Bugatti Veyron Crash

This is what happens when you hire idiots that get their on-air graphics from a Google Search without even looking at the results.

WOW! Just, WOW.

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k wrote:

Wow. I love Top Gear.

Agreed. I wish we could purchase old seasons on DVD. Just have to suffice with Google video.

Favorites: The Bugatti Veyron episode where they raced a plane vs. a car across Europe. The Pagoni Zonda test drive. The jet car crash. Replacing clays with cars for target practice (that episode was insane.) And the Ariel Atom test drive, watching Jeremy wig out in an open air car was priceless.

RE: Top Gear builds, launches Space Shuttle car - Engadget

SierraNightTide wrote:
Haven’t we all heard that romance at the office is a bad thing? Well, a high profile South Korean bank has put new meaning into office romance.
...why can’t American corporations take notice and start offering some "full life service" to they’re employees?
Date My Co-Worker!

Interesting concept. My employer offers discounts on things like movie and themepark tickets, auto sales at select dealerships, and gym memberships. Makes sense that other companies may offer discounts on things like dating services. Definately a different twist though with the subsidized airfare. I'd think of that as a perk, but it's probably not viewed that way since obviously not all employees are single. Wonder if the company will also offer subsidized airfare for married individuals under the auspices of "relationship strengthening" to be balanced.

RE: Romance At The Office

Meme'd the original copy of 9/11 Mysteries a few days ago. The guys who debunked most of Loose Change already went to work on 9/11 Mysteries.

Good deprogramming material.

Screw 9/11 Mysteries

[Blu Ray vs HD-DVD]

They both use the same laser technology. They both support the same audio and video codecs. They both support 1080p. I can only discern two major technical differences:

* Blu Ray discs have a higher capacity than HD-DVD discs.
* Blu Ray offers an extra copy protection layer beyond AACS.

It seems to be a marketing game at this point. What's really funny to me is how the sales staff at the major retailers spin Blu Ray over HD-DVD. I usually politely avoid sales staff. Nowadays I make an effort to hang out around the DVD player section and wait. I have a 100% track record of having the staff recommend Blu Ray. This is non-scientific, but comprises at least 15 different occasions among 4 retailers in 3 states.

At an FYE in Missouri over Christmas, I wanted to purchase an HD-DVD for a friend who just got the Xbox HD-DVD add-on as a gift. When I asked where they were, one salesperson went so far as to say, "HD-DVD is over there, but if you want to step up to the better technology, I'd go with Blu Ray." When I said, "It's not really better, they both use the same codecs and support the same resolution, Blu Ray just has a higher capacity," he didn't respond. I guess if you are running a tit for tat counter based purely on tech specs and avoiding cost, Blu Ray would seem to have the photo-finish edge thanks to the capacity. But that isn't compelling enough to me to state that it is unequivocally a better technology.

I can't prove it, but based on looking through ads from the major retailers each week, and based on the consistent recommendation of Blu Ray over HD-DVD in person, Sony must really be paying big dollars to mold perception. I don't think it is wrong for Sony to directly pay retailers to train their staff to recommend Blu Ray over HD-DVD, it's just a very interesting play. Some may call it marketing. And I believe they are winning the game for mindshare at this point.

Tis a shame really. I loathe Sony after the rootkit debacle. I've been on a personal Sony boycott since that time. It's easy not to buy Sony consumer electronics. I even replaced a perfectly good DVD burner in my computer just to say that I have divested myself of Sony products. It's not as easy to avoid Sony's media presence. I've forgone a few good movies I wanted to see because it was either put out by Sony or one of their subsidiaries. Same with music. But principle is principle. I am not going to support a company that approved and implemented the surreptitious installation of software on consumers' PC's, then played the spin game and drug their heels on rectifying the situation when they were caught.

If Blu Ray "wins" the format war, I guess I will just be waiting for the VOD / direct download future to arrive before I get to enjoy HD content on a regular basis. I'm not very hopeful about that future either based on some of the early incarnations of video download I've seen. More and more I see the consumer being perceived as criminal by the content producers. With that view comes the mechanisms of control.

I hope Steve Jobs' "heart is pure" in his attitudes towards DRM that he recently expressed. It is strange to see Jobs and Gates fundamentally agreeing that DRM is a broken/flawed solution for the problem of piracy. If the industry visionaries and leaders such as these two say it is so, maybe the content cartels will listen.

This happened summer of 2001. 23 people killed, 100's injured. Building in Jerusalem was built using a building practice that was banned. Too many people on the dance floor.

More info:

BBC

CNN

Dance Floor Collapses

From the Truth-Is-Stranger-Than-Fiction department:

No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability

Two more ground zero emergency rescue personnel are on the record as stating they were told Building 7 was going to be brought down on 9/11 hours before its symmetrical implosion, completely contradicting the official explanation of accidental collapse.

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Also wanted to recommend checking out 9/11 Mysteries on Google video. Very good focus on evidence implicating controlled demolition.

And as always, WTC7.Net has a great focus on WTC7. It's odd that the official 9/11 Commission Report didn't even mention WTC7.

For the record, I'm not recommending this to anyone except Rattle since he said he recently lost his 120 gig collection of conspiracy documentaries. Figured he'd be interested in it just out of general curiosity.

If you see this pop up on your radar, please feel free to discuss. I've thought there was more to 9/11 than is generally known since day one. I have read the 9/11 Commission Report, the FEMA report, the NIST report, the Popular Mechanics 9/11 Myths article, and even most recently, the Skeptical Inquirer article about 9/11 Conspiracy. I try to stay balanced.

If you want to just attack me like other people on Memestreams have before, lumping me in with holocaust deniers, people who think the planes were holograms, or people who think there wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon, feel free to send your attacks to /dev/null.

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