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    The "truth" behind Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attacks on Jews?

    The original article was bullshit, you know. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm...adinejad-jewish-family
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    Norway is best place to live, China moves up

    When I read an article about this, they stated that the data they used to make their determinations was gathered before Iceland's implosion, so its placement should be viewed in that context. As well as the study itself, even. A snapshot of the world of yesterday...
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    Ahmedinejad wins in a landslide

    Polls close at 8 where I vote. Determined local results are in the 11:30 pm news, and that is after they have been reported in the national coverage. Knowing who won in my riding and the regional ones usually takes an hour or two. Same timezone. As I said, there was a further item to...
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    Ahmedinejad wins in a landslide

    In Canada we have paper ballots, and results are largely in in that sort of time frame. Sometimes the votes have been counted, and sometimes even the election decided, before polls had even closed on the Western parts of the country. What matters is that there are adequate amount of...
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    Canada: Possible fall of government

    It's not every day that a man rejects the confidence of the house, but there you have Mr. Ignatieff.
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    Largest Israeli strike on Gaza just days after truce with Hamas ends

    1. The UN Charter explicitly forbids and delegitimatizes the acquisition of land through armed force by it's signatories. This concept was created to remove an incentive to wage war in the aftermath of the Second World War. Israel voluntarily signed the Charter when they became a member of the...
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    Sigh, I am really starting to hate Obama now

    The entire premise of this thread is flawed. 1. Obama is not seeking to gut NASA, but rather is performing due diligence ahead of assuming power. 2. Ares is not the moon program, or NASA's manned spaceflight program, but an *implementation* to achieve those objectives. 3. The looking into...
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    Obama tells NASA "Don't reach for the Moon"

    This is the originating report about the conflict between Griffin and the transition team that spawned this story. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.c...2/nasa-has-become.html
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    Obama tells NASA "Don't reach for the Moon"

    The space elevator is a fantasy at this point; you could spend more than a hundred billion on it and achieve nothing.
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    Obama tells NASA "Don't reach for the Moon"

    Actually, I wouldn't say that heavy lift is a necessary component. Most of what comprises a lunar mission is propellant; the defueled components can easily be lifted into orbit on existing boosters. Then launch your propellant on separate flights and fuel them at a fuel depot. No need for new...
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    Obama tells NASA "Don't reach for the Moon"

    Here's a good rebuttal of it: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=15333
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    Obama tells NASA "Don't reach for the Moon"

    This article is inaccurate; a very poor piece of one sided reporting. One, Obama and his transition team are not seeking to cancel moon missions, but are simply looking into the state of affairs at NASA before they take command and appoint a new administrator. The problem is that this Griffin...
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    Canada: Possible fall of government

    That the Conservtives have the largest single block of voters is irrelevant. We elect Members of Parliament; to form government a party must have the confidence of the House, which means a majority of those members must support it. The Conservatives do not have that confidence, therefore they...
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    Investing in space travel?

    The space elevator isn't as technically feasible as you might imagine, and is a poor solution to the problem of cheap access to space. It ain't cheap. I'd recommend space tethers and reusable vehicles to reach them, as well as a pipeline type transport method like laser launch or light gas gun...
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    Canada: Possible fall of government

    An interesting day in the House of Commons. A few years ago, the funding of elections was changed to forbid the contributions of corporations and unions to political parties. To maintain adequate funding, public financing was introduced, to the tune of 1.95 per vote received in the most recent...
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    Free PC Games

    Not sure if its been posted, but for a FPS multiplayer game similar to Counterstrike there's a Wolfenstein Enemy Territory mod called true combat elite that's pretty good. Has both CS style plant the bomb/defuse mission layouts as well as that respawning type game mode I forget the name of...
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    Interesting interview with Bruce Coville

    Him and Gordon Korman were my favourite authors growing up. The Search For Snout I read repeatedly and was my favourite of his; ebooks are getting close to the 'every book at your fingertips' book Rod received in it, they just need a vast digital library to go along with them. I also loved the...
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    List your top near-perfect albums of all time.

    NOFX - War on Errorism NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip Tenacious D - Tenacious D Adema - Insomniac's Dream Midnight Panic - Midnight Panic Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge Metric - Live It Out...
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    ***OFFICIAL*** Canadians: Federal Election Thread

    The green shift policy excludes gasoline; there is no carbon tax on it. I personally favour a more strict policy that would encompass gasoline. Even if it did, the green shift wouldn't tax gas to spend on public transit. The increased price of gasoline would comparatively make using public...
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    ***OFFICIAL*** Canadians: Federal Election Thread

    If the liberals form government, then Iggy will be a part of it, a senior cabinet minister. There is more to the liberals than just a single man at top. The NDP voted in support of the Conservatives against a motion that would have set 2009 as the end date for Canada's mission in...
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    Joe Biden: Tehran's favorite Senator

    Perhaps the Iraqis should be making decisions about their country, rather than arrogant foreigners.
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    ***OFFICIAL*** Canadians: Federal Election Thread

    I completely support this policy position. Beware entangling alliances. As for the election, Harper inherited a 12 Billion dollar surplus and blew it on the gimmicky GST cut. His authoritarian nature is enough for me to be passionately opposed to him, but that he's incompetent too makes...
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    Hezbollah prisoners freed in exchange for dead Israeli soldiers

    Israel concluded that they were dead some time ago, and the exchange was made with that as the working assumption. The IDF Chief Rabbi had already started the process where they declare a soldier dead when the body is missing, although that was put on hold due to the exchange taking place...
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    For those who oppose any action against Iran

    Well, first and foremost the Israeli strike was on a facility that was a part of Iraq's civilian nuclear power program. Some more points: 1. The design of Osirak was not well suited for plutonium production. 2. It was to be continually monitored throughout operation so that plutonium...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    Well, low level and intermediate level nuclear waste are still such, and there you have a deep geological facility approved to be built by the community it will be built in.
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    http://www.opg.com/power/nuclear/waste/dgr/index.asp "OPG, with the support of the local community, has proposed the construction and operation of a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for the long-term storage of low and intermediate level nuclear waste on lands adjacent to the Western Waste...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    I disagree completely with the extent that you find nuclear waste dangerous, both in a present sense and in the long term danger and burden. Because I don't see it the way you do, I measure the impact of nuclear power in positive terms, for it has displaced coal generation and the real and...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    I don't set American policy. If Yucca mountain fails, then the waste will be stored in the same manner it is now until long term placement is enacted, which may indeed be an attempt in another state. Or it may get built. I would suggest trying out the foreign method as the next option. The...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    The cat is out of the bag, Moonbeam. Nuclear waste exists. No amount of solar will eliminate it. Therefore it has been and will continue to be stored. Now the present storage methods have taken something that had the potential to harm and have isolated it to the point that it poses little to...
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    9/11 Third Tower Mystery solved

    Not all buildings are built the same. Perhaps the design and construction of those ones contributed to their robustness, whereas in this case the reverse occured. To say nothing of the complexity and uniqueness of the fires that consumed them.
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    Waste is already being safely stored. Further storage in a geological structure that will last longer, and has lasted longer, than it will take for the radiation to subside does not stretch the mind. And that's not true, nuclear power plants are dense for the amount of power they generate...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    Moonbeam, from what I can gather, a report was prepared in response to determine the behavior of the shipping casks in a Baltimore type fire after the issue was raised by the state of Nevada. I should point out that even if the outcome was the same as in the article you posted, an event of that...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    My argument is with the presumed apparent lethality and danger of something that has never killed anyone. The language you have used about nuclear waste throughout this thread has been of hyperbole, a hyperbole that hides the simple truth that nuclear waste does not kill people, has not killed...
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    McCain calls for 45 new Nuclear Reactors

    The handwringing about nuclear waste is much ado about nothing. The waste is kept isolated. No one has died from it, no one is in danger of being harmed by it. Contrast that with the known results of current energy practices that man accepts as the course of daily business: the tailpipe...
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    Israel Negotiates with Hamas--reaches truce

    I have to hand it to Olmert for committing to negotiation, and not sticking to the fruitless status quo. The Israelis deserve credit for going this route. As does Hamas, although I'm one to believe that they've been ready to come to terms with the Israelis since they were elected, and have...
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    What if Al Gore had won 8 years ago...

    The Republicans would have moved to impeach Gore after 9/11.
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    New budget build replacement for 5 year old Dell

    Thanks for the offer, but I like that Gigabyte board at this point. In the course of the day, I decided to try the fan gear out before I make the decision to build. The questionable power supply issue is a good point that I'll be aware of; the case in question has a Fortron Sparkle 300w which...
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    New budget build replacement for 5 year old Dell

    To update, I've come across this board and it looks like a contender: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H. Better sound it seems, lack of a riser card for HDMI. Yea, I'm going to 4200+, I'll need that extra 15 bucks for the SATA DVD writer then. You've served me well, Pioneer 111. I do have in mind one...
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    New budget build replacement for 5 year old Dell

    My going on 6 year old Dell blew a gasket over the weekend, and now its noisy fan is running at full blast; can't fix it through the bios. I was going to purchase a replacement Nexus fan and a fan controller(under $20), but I spec'ed out the replacement parts for a new comp and its cheap enough...