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You have a point there.. the spending table does not seem to include indirect costs for cutting spending. But imo the whole thing cannot be taken seriously anyway - who wants to trust a 20 year forecast of cost development. I could ask a person with a crystal ball as well whats going to happen in 20 years.
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2010-11-15, 03:34 | Link #9862 |
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Going through that game, I got this:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...oices=43bpd5qv I'm thinking of spending the surplus on some badly needed upgrades to US infrastructure, with the exception of new roads. |
2010-11-15, 04:22 | Link #9863 |
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Cocoa genome 'will save chocolate industry'
Well at least it's good to know chocolate won't be going extinct.
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2010-11-15, 04:33 | Link #9864 |
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Smoke in cockpit forces Qantas plane to turn back
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1798856/ Third problem in this month for Qantas...
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2010-11-15, 04:52 | Link #9865 | |
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2010-11-15, 05:10 | Link #9866 | |
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Qantas is a company, Concorde was a non-profitable airplane that was only still used by the national airlines of its home countries. (Air France and British Airways). Quantas is a national airline, so there is no way they are going to disappear. |
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2010-11-15, 05:22 | Link #9867 | |
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2010-11-15, 07:00 | Link #9868 | |
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Anyway, no airline has a trouble-free week. Just depends on the press really.
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2010-11-15, 09:00 | Link #9869 | ||
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You can't really blame Qantas for any of this unless their air mechanics and inspectors were negligent. This is "warranty problems" from the engine and component manufacturing. Rolls-Royce makes a huge portion of jet engines for the entire world so everyone is sweating a little, not just Qantas.
Totally separate news item -- a bit of science on food allergies (rather than the usual hyperbole, gossip, hearsay, and just plain uninformed-on-the-facts nonsense): http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010...es?ft=1&f=1001 Quote:
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2010-11-15, 11:39 | Link #9870 | |
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Honestly speaking, the "allergy scare" amongst parents may be common, but on a logical POV it is certainly ridiculous. What is next, starting a drive to ban castor beans from being sold on the market just because the skin contains ricin?
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2010-11-15, 12:21 | Link #9872 |
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Navy’s Super-Laser Hunts for Cosmic Energy Secret
"The Navy has lots of plans for the “Holy Grail” of energy weapons, from burning
enemy missiles out of the sky to helping aim a ship’s traditional guns. But the Navy has a more expansive use in mind for its Free Electron Laser: find the basic power source of the universe." "Find dark energy, figure out how to make it an applicable power source, and humanity enters a new era. Hydrocarbons become irrelevant against a theoretically unlimited power supply. And that’s just the start: imagine sending emails to the furthest reaches of space. Theoretically, “dark matter particles can go through entire planets with no degradation, so we could communicate through suns, planets and stars,” Baker says. “They have all kinds of applications if we could prove their existence. Energy is just one of them.”" See: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010...r-dark-energy/ |
2010-11-15, 13:10 | Link #9873 |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Video of man refusing body scan at airport becomes internet sensation
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1799470/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7txGw...layer_embedded I do wonder if more peoples will react ton those security mesure?
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2010-11-15, 16:01 | Link #9874 |
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/15/m...-might-tailor/
"Microsoft's Dennis Durkin voiced an interesting idea at an investment summit last week -- the idea that the company's Kinect camera might pass data to advertisers about the way you look, play and speak. "We can cater what content gets presented to you based on who you are," he told investors, suggesting that the Kinect offered business opportunities that weren't possible "in a controller-based world." And over time that will help us be more targeted about what content choices we present, what advertising we present, how we get better feedback. And data about how many people are in a room when an advertisement is shown, how many people are in a room when a game is being played, how are those people engaged with the game? How are they engaged with a sporting event? Are they standing up? Are they excited? Are they wearing Seahawks jerseys? So, buy a kinect, and let Microsoft take pictures of you, regarding what you say, do, eat and drink, and then sell that to advertisers. Or anyone else with a couple of bucks, really. |
2010-11-15, 20:09 | Link #9875 |
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wow
legal immigrants and citizens from other states just got shafted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_783817.html this makes me wanna break some laws (so I can get in-state tuition) Spoiler for :
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2010-11-16, 04:51 | Link #9876 |
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Haitian protesters blame Nepalese UN peacekeepers for cholera outbreak
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1800366/
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2010-11-16, 13:54 | Link #9877 | |
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2010-11-16, 14:47 | Link #9878 | |
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2010-11-16, 16:49 | Link #9879 |
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What needs to be done, is a foreign power needs to roll in, take control of the entire country and build it up, probably with the aid of martial law. Then later hand it off to the locals once they've been suitably educated. And this is a process that will take at least 20 years, but it's not PC.
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2010-11-16, 16:54 | Link #9880 |
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Iran starts "biggest" air defense war games
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNew...6AF4P320101116 I don't know how much we should take this as a capacity demonstration and how much bluffing .
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