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"Surely if you are using Arch you can just stick to Gnome2 / MATE packages ? Isn't Arch all about getting Linux just the way you want it ? I love linux mint with mint menu, gnome 2, compiz and docky it's the perfect desktop. Just the right balance of features, performance, usability and configurability. Tried unity, gnome shell, LXDE, XFCE and KDE but am always disappointed and end up back with this setup." - Adrian

"I don't think this is how economies work ? You only see shortages i.e. empty shelves if prices are being fixed by the government e.g. bread shortages in the soviet union or petrol shortages in the 70s. In a competitive free market prices rise and this reduces demand and signals to suppliers to increase production. Thus you see prices rise to a new higher equilibrium and consumers switching to alternatives or cutting back but not empty shelves. Even in hurricanes as long as the government doesn't act to stop 'price gouging' the shelves don't stay empty for long. The high prices mean the effected area can place high bids with national wholesalers for batteries and 2x4's etc. Thus things in high demand flood into the effected area and race to the stores where there is most demand i.e. the highest need signaled by the highest prices. This is very different to a government controlled system with low prices, empty shelves, starving people and full FEMA warehouses trying to guess where to..." - Adrian

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need to download and burn a special osx iso. Mac dvds will not work - Adrian

need to download and burn a special osx iso. Mac dvds will not work - Adrian

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Tonido allows you to access and share your content directly through a web browser without uploading or worrying about storage limits. Share files, music, photos and calendar, download torrents and even manage your finances straight from your desktop. Free. - Adrian

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Every idiot on TV and the internet won't shut up about Steve Jobs' new thing you need to spend $800 on (though we'll take a free one if anyone's offering!), which means its a great day to release inconvenient news. - Adrian from Bookmarklet

The director of a company which sold a bomb-detecting device to 20 countries, including Iraq, has been arrested. - Adrian from Bookmarklet

"There are two types of 'free market' people: a) The evil main stream republican/Ronald Reagan/freshwater/Chicago school/neo-classical/monetarist now 'rational expectation'/big government/bomb Iran/inflation works/borrow and spend/Goldman Sachs is doing God's Work/the great depression was caused by a collapse in the money supply/the boom is healthy and the recession is a problem that needs to be fixed by increasing the money supply people b) Our heroes the austro-liberatrian/gold bug/Barry Goldwater/don't bomb them first/end the FED/destroy the department of education/deflation makes you rich/main street first/savings and production/ the great depression was a normal recession till Hoover tried to prop up prices and stimulate the economy/the boom is the problem and the recession the cure crackpots Type b) believes that the only regulation that you need is the fear of failure and ruin that you get in a real 'free market'. This is the only thing that can check greed because regulation..." - Adrian

"There are two types of 'free market' people: a) The evil main stream republican/Ronald Reagan/freshwater/Chicago school/neo-classical/monetarist now 'rational expectation'/big government/bomb Iran/inflation works/borrow and spend/Goldman Sachs is doing God's Work/the great depression was caused by a collapse in the money supply/the boom is healthy and the recession is a problem that needs to be fixed by increasing the money supply people b) Our heroes the austro-liberatrian/gold bug/Barry Goldwater/don't bomb them first/end the FED/destroy the department of education/deflation makes you rich/main street first/savings and production/ the great depression was a normal recession till Hoover tried to prop up prices and stimulate the economy/the boom is the problem and the recession the cure crackpots Type b) believes that the only regulation that you need is the fear of failure and ruin that you get in a real 'free market'. This is the only thing that can check greed because regulation..." - Adrian

"There are two types of 'free market' people: a) The evil main stream republican/Ronald Reagan/freshwater/Chicago school/neo-classical/monetarist now 'rational expectation'/big government/bomb Iran/inflation works/borrow and spend/Goldman Sachs is doing God's Work/the great depression was caused by a collapse in the money supply/the boom is healthy and the recession is a problem that needs to be fixed by increasing the money supply people b) Our heroes the austro-liberatrian/gold bug/Barry Goldwater/don't bomb them first/end the FED/destroy the department of education/deflation makes you rich/main street first/savings and production/ the great depression was a normal recession till Hoover tried to prop up prices and stimulate the economy/the boom is the problem and the recession the cure crackpots Type b) believes that the only regulation that you need is the fear of failure and ruin that you get in a real 'free market'. This is the only thing that can check greed because regulation..." - Adrian

"After all the financial engineering we have had over the last 10 years do you not think Wall Street could have got around Glass-Steagall or any other set of regulations some way ?" - Adrian

"After all the financial engineering we have had over the last 10 years do you not think Wall Street could have got around Glass-Steagall or any other set of regulations some way ?" - Adrian

"After all the financial engineering we have had over the last 10 years do you not think Wall Street could have got around Glass-Steagall or any other set of regulations some way ?" - Adrian

"Regulation will not solve anything. Madoff had regulators breathing down his neck all the time ! If you are really looking for a solution you have to look to the people who were complaining about what was going on before the crash. The only people who seemed to have a problem with the wall street/fannie mae/freddie mac /AIG/Federal Reserve/congress axis of evil were the austro-libertarian cabal of Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell et al. i.e. the ultra right wing gold bug fruit loops ! The bailouts started in 1990 with savings and loans, moved into high gear with long term capital management in 1998 and what we just had was the final blow off. The debt/bubble (rather than savings/production) based economy started in the 90's with the FED leasing gold to created a carry trade to drive the price of gold down and stocks up, it moved into high gear in 2001 with the FED/Bush plan of ultra easy money combined with massive deficit spending to create a 'permanent stimulus'. The current..." - Adrian

"Regulation will not solve anything. Madoff had regulators breathing down his neck all the time ! If you are really looking for a solution you have to look to the people who were complaining about what was going on before the crash. The only people who seemed to have a problem with the wall street/fannie mae/freddie mac /AIG/Federal Reserve/congress axis of evil were the austro-libertarian cabal of Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell et al. i.e. the ultra right wing gold bug fruit loops ! The bailouts started in 1990 with savings and loans, moved into high gear with long term capital management in 1998 and what we just had was the final blow off. The debt/bubble (rather than savings/production) based economy started in the 90's with the FED leasing gold to created a carry trade to drive the price of gold down and stocks up, it moved into high gear in 2001 with the FED/Bush plan of ultra easy money combined with massive deficit spending to create a 'permanent stimulus'. The current..." - Adrian

"Regulation will not solve anything. Madoff had regulators breathing down his neck all the time ! If you are really looking for a solution you have to look to the people who were complaining about what was going on before the crash. The only people who seemed to have a problem with the wall street/fannie mae/freddie mac /AIG/Federal Reserve/congress axis of evil were the austro-libertarian cabal of Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell et al. i.e. the ultra right wing gold bug fruit loops ! The bailouts started in 1990 with savings and loans, moved into high gear with long term capital management in 1998 and what we just had was the final blow off. The debt/bubble (rather than savings/production) based economy started in the 90's with the FED leasing gold to created a carry trade to drive the price of gold down and stocks up, it moved into high gear in 2001 with the FED/Bush plan of ultra easy money combined with massive deficit spending to create a 'permanent stimulus'. The current..." - Adrian

Nuclear energy is not a reasonable solution because plants take too long to build and cost far too much. Actually, it's been so long since one has been built in this country that no engineering firm will even provide an estimate on the cost, but it's safe to say that each new plant would run to several billion dollars. Because lenders aren't willing to put up the money on such a risky investment, the nuclear industry is looking to Uncle Sugar. The last time there was a wave of nuclear construction in the United States, it took an average of nine years to build a plant, meaning we wouldn't see the first one until at least 2018 -- too late to play any significant role in meeting the Senate climate bill's goal of cutting emissions 20% by 2020. - Meryn Stol

Thanks for your input, Adrian. Giving cost estimates of new nuclear plants seems to be hard because currently almost every plant built is of a new design, tailor-made based on the purchaser's requirement, and current state of technology. Together with often violent opposition and sabotage during plant built, this also explains building delays and cost overruns. I think we could consider... more... - Meryn Stol

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"The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science, their willingness to go to any lengths to defend a preconceived message, is surprising even to me. The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering. And, as Christopher Booker argues, this scandal is not at the margins of the politicised IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] process. It is not tangential to the policy prescriptions emanating from what David Henderson called the environmental policy milieu [subscription required]. It goes to the core of that process." - Adrian from Bookmarklet

"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building." - Adrian from Bookmarklet

"In the waning weeks of 2009, planeloads of scientists, politicians, and assorted climate wonks from 192 countries will blow through a few million tons of CO2 to jet to Copenhagen, one of the world’s most carbon-conscious cities. The occasion is the much-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka Kyoto 2. Speeches will be made. Goals and targets will be hammered out. Limited victory will be declared. Set a Google News alert for “Last Chance to Stop Global Warming.”" - macroron from Bookmarklet

It’s worth keeping in mind that the planet we inhabit has always been fundamentally out of control, driven by fantastically complex, chaotic systems we scarcely understand. With or without our help, dear Mother Earth is capable of producing circumstances highly inimical to human life. Pick whatever black swan you like—how about the next asteroid or an avian superplague or that Yellowstone volcano? Climate change could end up being just a side note. - Adrian

"Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen." - Adrian from Bookmarklet