Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:39 PM Sunday 4/27/2008, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: >Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > > Which brings us righ back to the dirty little secret of the > > environmental movement: that the real underlying problem is that > > there are by about an order of magnitude just too darn many p

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

2008-04-27 Thread William T Goodall
On 24 Apr 2008, at 19:08, Dave Land wrote: > If only because nobody makes money from vi, it hasn't been fscked- > around with over the years. If you learned to use vi on a VT-52 > hooked up to a PDP-11, as I did, then today's Mac OS X copy of Vim > ("VI iMproved") is as familiar as you'd want it t

Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > Which brings us righ back to the dirty little secret of the > environmental movement: that the real underlying problem is that > there are by about an order of magnitude just too darn many people > already, particularly darker-complected ones with no money who don't >

Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:48 AM Sunday 4/27/2008, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: >Charlie Bell wrote: > > > >> Seriously, if we want to save the planet, domestic solar power should > >> be banned! People should live and work in the smallest possible area, > >> and it means packing families in huge buildings.

Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Charlie Bell wrote: > >> Seriously, if we want to save the planet, domestic solar power should >> be banned! People should live and work in the smallest possible area, >> and it means packing families in huge buildings. > > Solar hot water, not solar electric. Black pipes in a glass cabinet on > th

Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Charlie Bell
On 28/04/2008, at 12:36 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Charlie Bell wrote: >> >> Yeah. The point of solar hot water is it's so cheap, and pays for >> itself very quickly (3 - 5 years) if it's installed in a new house. >> So >> while it'll never amount to a huge percentage, it's st

RE: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Pat Mathews
Great idea! I'm looking forward to meeting your extended family in your new tenement apartment. Especially the little kids. http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: brin-l@mccmedia.com > Subject: Re: Adressing Global Warming > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:36:53 +

Re: Adressing Global Warming

2008-04-27 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Charlie Bell wrote: > > Yeah. The point of solar hot water is it's so cheap, and pays for > itself very quickly (3 - 5 years) if it's installed in a new house. So > while it'll never amount to a huge percentage, it's still an > inexpensive way of saving a significant amount of energy. So, like > ma

Re: Adressing Global Warming---L4

2008-04-27 Thread Russell Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote lots of interesting stuff which raised a couple of quick questions for me: 1. Why the time limit on nuclear energy? Even if every capable nation ramped up plant construction enormously (and I hope they do), there is enough uranium in Australia alone to supply their react