Bow down before me
I am your
Mentor...
I found this in a collectibles store near where I'm staying, and if it weren't for space issues I'd definitely buy it...heck, maybe tomorrow I'll go back and buy it anyway.
Posted by Deadron on Saturday, May 03, 2008 05:49PM
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The best logo in human history
This was to be the logo for the UK's Office of Government Commerce. Can you see what makes it one of the most significant pieces of art in human history?
Posted by Deadron on Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:05AM
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Who says the poor need to eat? Oh, these people do
In my first post on the biofuels question I was accused of "truthiness" (truthiness is the new Nazi of arguments -- when someone says it, you know you've won). And maybe the accuser was right -- after all, I know I'm often wrong about things.
But then, as
this article shows, so are a few other people who oughta know better...
However, the scientist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore, Rajendra Pachauri of the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, has warned that climate campaigners are unwise to promote biofuels in a way that risks food supplies. “We should be very, very careful about coming up with biofuel solutions that have major impact on production of food grains and may have an implication for overall food security,” Mr. Pachauri told reporters last month, according to Reuters. “Questions do arise about what is being done in North America, for instance, to convert corn into sugar then into biofuels, into ethanol.”
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A Harvard professor of environmental studies who has advised Mr. Gore, Michael McElroy, warned in a November-December 2006 article in Harvard Magazine that “the production of ethanol from either corn or sugar cane presents a new dilemma: whether the feedstock should be devoted to food or fuel. With increasing use of corn and sugar cane for fuel, a rise in related food prices would seem inevitable.” The article, “The Ethanol Illusion” went so far as to praise Senator McCain for summing up the corn-ethanol energy initiative launched in the United States in 2003 as “highway robbery perpetrated on the American public by Congress.”
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In Britain, some hunger-relief and environmental groups have turned sharply against biofuels. “Setting mandatory targets for biofuels before we are aware of their full impact is madness,” Philip Bloomer of Oxfam told the BBC.
So, truthers unite!
(Do read the full article -- it also covers people who feel that biofuels are not a big reason for food prices going up, though I find their claims pretty unpersuasive.)
Posted by Deadron on Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:14AM
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Don't try anything
We're watching you, bub.
Posted by Deadron on Friday, April 25, 2008 09:06PM
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Spam, I delete thee
I have been defeated.
Back in the day I could deal with manually deleting a few dozen spam messages a day. When it reached hundreds a day, I moved to filtering likely spam to a Purgatory mailbox which I would review every few days or once a week.
For a while I would scan through all the mail subjects in Purgatory before deleting them, to catch the occasional real message. At some point there were so many to review, I gave up on this, and I'd simply delete all the messages, knowing I was occasionally deleting something real.
Recently, as the spam count has reached ten or more thousand a week, I found that the mere act of selecting all of them and deleting them in my mail application was bringing my system to its knees for a while, making it hard for me to do other things (woe was me if I didn't check Purgatory for three weeks...)
So I have been defeated.
Now I only receive white-listed messages, or messages sent to a sekret non-spam-found mail address. All others are simply deleted by a mail rule the moment I receive them.
To all the people I will never meet because of this, I salute you.
To the spammers of the world, I fart in your general direction.
Posted by Deadron on Friday, April 25, 2008 10:33AM
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